Below are the most recent 7 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, January 7th, 2010
28bytes	10:47p	GOTO 10 I'm thinking of having my LJ posts mirrored to my Facebook account, my Facebook posts mirrored to my Twitter account, and my tweets automatically posted here. Then, if I post something here, it will ricochet throughout the three sites like a magnesium marble in a microwave, until one of the sites collapses under the strain of the bandwidth demands. The only trick would be coming up with a post so unmemorable that no one would suspect it was a repeat until it was too late. I'm sure I have one of those around here someplace. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
28bytes	2:55p	Inevitability vs. Tact A couple of years ago, I noticed Jennifer the cat had a bump near her nose, so I took her to the vet. "Looks fine," said the vet, "but keep an eye on it, and if it gets bigger, bring her back in." It seemed a little bigger last time I looked, so I took her back to the vet yesterday. "Looks fine," said the vet. "How old did you say she was?" "Almost nineteen," I said. "Well, I was going to say to bring her back in to check it a couple of years, but we don't see too many 21-year-old cats, so that probably won't be necessary," he said. "Fuck you. My kitty-cat's going to live forever," I said. Granted, I didn't say this until Jennifer and I were back in the car, but I was certainly thinking it. He's a nice vet, but seriously. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
28bytes	1:50p	Fight! WorldNetDaily, the headquarters of the "Where is Obama's birth certificate?" movement, defends the birthers against the withering assault of... Glenn Beck. Best quote: "Beck caricatured [the birthers] with straw-man arguments reminiscent of jibes made by Obama's apologists in other news outlets." That's liberal ol' Glenn Beck for ya! Always parroting what the Obama folks say. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
28bytes	1:52p	Sherlock Holmes Last night the lovely Jenny and I went to see Sherlock Holmes. I'd never seen a Guy Ritchie movie before (although I do admit to owning a number of Madonna albums.) And it's been so long since I've read any Arthur Conan Doyle that I remember practically nothing of it, so I have no idea what sort of blasphemies against Conan Doyle Ritchie committed in modernizing the characters. Armed with that ignorance I found the movie a right enjoyable action romp. It was certainly among the more intelligent of action movies I've seen in a while, striking a decent balance between blowing stuff up real good and lengthy expositions filled with deductive reasoning. There was one amusing bit where a bad guy was talking about his plans to take over England where he then adds that after that, he's going to retake the civil-war-weakened (former) American colonies, and the theater audience was all, "oh you crossed a line now, talkin' 'bout messin' with the U.S. of A., it's ON now, go get him Sherlock!" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 1st, 2010
28bytes	10:55p	What do YOU think? Now that 2010's here, I thought it would be time to revisit a poll from a couple of years ago. Poll #1506095 Zero one zero one one zero Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14 How do you pronounce the year 2010? View Answers "Two thousand ten" 5 (35.7%) "Two thousand and ten" 2 (14.3%) "Twenty-ten" 5 (35.7%) "Twenty-oh-ten" 0 (0.0%) "Two-zero-one-zero" in a stern robot monotone 1 (7.1%) Something else 1 (7.1%) In unrelated news, I have decided to purchase Jennifer Lopez's New Year's Eve outfit so that I can go to the next Halloween party as a space otter. What kind of noise does a space otter make, you ask? I don't know, but I bet it's auto-tuned. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
28bytes	1:39p	Happy New Year! The lovely Jenny and I exchanged Christmas and birthday gifts last night. One of the things she got me was a Scrabble-based card game. We played a round, then captioned the cats. ( Here are some old-fashioned, uncaptioned cats. ) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
28bytes	12:28p	Up in the Air I just got back from a week in Florida with my folks, and was pleasantly surprised to find my car not covered in snow or ice at the airport parking lot. One of the things we did in Florida was catch a movie, which, as near as we could recall, was the first time all three of us saw a movie in a theater together since I was a teenager. As is my custom, I checked in with rottentomatoes.com to pick a movie, and Up in the Air had the highest rating, so we went to see that after my mom read Ebert's review to ensure it would be something she'd be interested in seeing. I tend to avoid reading reviews of any kind — especially Ebert's — before seeing a movie; I like the experience of walking into the theater with a completely blank slate. I have a feeling I would have disliked this movie had I seen it immediately after one of the handful of times in my life I've been fired or laid off. ( Possible spoilers ) Bottom line, it's a very engaging movie with smart, sympathetic characters, and I definitely recommend seeing it. (Comment on this)