I used to work in the building where the peregrines would nest each year.

It was neat to go down to wait for my ride and look at the monitor at the nest.

• 15:23 Gotta love finding out you're heading towards an accident right after it's too late to de anything about it. #

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Today's a double fun day on Legal Document Sundays! First off, we have a copy of GenCon's bankrupcy filing.

Apparently, the Celebration auction is just the tip of the iceberg. Their largest debtor are the decorators from Celebration IV, who have $750K coming their way. Hasbro is owed $431K.

In slightly better news, if you own an old iPod, Apple owes you money! A class action suit for owners of early gen iPods has been settled, and Apple will owe iPod owners whose batteries crapped out a $45 credit at the Apple Store.

• 01:26 Hmmm... Should I go to sleep, or just watch UHF? #

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Because it's gone up in value lately, and you can do this with it:




Via Torontoist.com

Hirst Arts Fantasy Architecture has a DIY guide to Building the descent board game pieces in a 3D format.

That's just beautiful.

Welcome to the third annual "What comes next in this 20 year old song!"

Huzzah!

Poll #1185198 Don't Forget the Lyrics! Billy Joel edition!
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Please enter your Age, where you live/grew up, and what comes after "Here she comes now sayin' Mony, Mony".

edit: Ah, fuck. That should read Billy Idol, not Billy Joel. Dammit.

I teef this from noizangel

( 47 Random Questions )

• 21:12 @candaceshaw I'm pretty sure your second post wasn't to me. #
• 21:13 I have made fish! And it was easy! And very, very boney. #
• 21:35 While you all are tearing up GTA4, I'm cleaning up the streets in Crackdown. Let's hear it for being a year behind the curve. #
• 21:56 Ah, man. I'm just getting fucking annoyed at nerds right now. #
• 22:46 Dammit, Facebook! #
• 07:29 @adamjury Wait, I thought that was a normal time of night for you to be up? #
• 14:06 Ah, crap. I have the Monkees theme song stuck in my head. #

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Greetings, Bitterites, as we return to the delightful fields of Hoo'd Win! Today's competitors are two of the most beloved figures in Sci Fi history. One, a rakish starship captain, and the other is an... uh... rakish starship captain.

Han Solo has a surprisingly involved backstory, but let it be said that he flies a ship and plays by his own rules. So does Starfleet captain James T. Kirk. Whether it's flying the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs or performing field experiments in "biological compatibility", there's nothing that can stop these two heroes of the spaceways, other than carbon freeze chambers and space syphilis.

So! Which of these solar sailors will reign supreme? You! Make! The! Call!

Poll #1184637 Hoo'd Win; part This Is Even Nerdier than Normal
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Hoo'd Win, Jim Kirk or Han Solo?

edit: Six hours later, and they're tied 26/26.

edit2: 24 hours later, and Han is ahead by a nose. Hmmm, should I close the poll?

Okay, so, apparently Grand & Toy office supplies has decided to rebrand themselves as G&T, counting on alcoholic office managers to send them more business, I guess.

They're a useful store, I guess, if you have some cash to spend and you have some office supplies you need.

But, seriously, that name. It's just MEAN. You know what it's like to be a child and go into one of these brightly lit store and wander around while dad gets a box of pens and wonder "seriously, I see all this Grand stuff, but where's the toys?"

Utter cruelty on the part of the corporation.

• 21:51 Dancing with the stars. I can't believe I'm watching Dancing with the Stars. #
• 22:43 Now it's the post DWTS phone call. I'm certain the vows did not mention this. #

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The third panel is the clincher.

Well, it was pretty much inevitable. After the initial wave of Geekgasm following IM's release last Thursday, there's been rumblings of discontent over the fact that, yes, Iron Man fights 'bad guys' in Afghanistan, and they happen to not be white.

Now I, as a brown man, didn't really care. Iron Man needs to be kidnapped by the enemies of America, and Yinsen has to sacrifice his life to help him escape.

Over the past 40 years, Iron Man's origin has shifted to accommodate the times. In the beginning, it was Vietnam (or occasionally 'somewhere in southeast asia'), and these days, it's Afghanistan (or possibly Iraq). I think for a short, regrettable period in the '80s he was injured during the invasion of Grenada and held hostage by Fidel.

The Ten Rings, the group that's holding him, is pretty much the most inoffensive group of evildoers ever. The second in command is a veritable teddy bear, even if he does take a bit of excessive glee in playing "dunk the billionaire", but who among us?

In any case, the groups methodology and tactics are pretty obviously secular poop disturbers. If you know the character of Iron Man at all, it's pretty obvious what they're up to, especially with the leader's affection for Genghis Khan.

Personally, I'm more offended by the trailer for Zohan than I was by the entire Iron Man film.

For those of you who survived the early '90s, here's some sobering news: Kriss Kross members Mac Daddy and Daddy Mac are both 29.

In other news, this 2 Live Jews wiki entry is rather funny.

2 Live Jews went on to create Disco Jews in 1994 and Christmas Jews in 1998, before quitting-with almost no notice by the media.

So now zenten must go edit it or something.

Jeapordy God King Ken Jennings makes a MODOK joke. That's just awesome.

• 23:18 @TheBrand Let me know when the housewarming is. And if you need moving help, that too. #

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...about the new Batman movies. We're both pretty pleased with the casting that's happened in them, but for some reason I'm just not that pleased with Michael Caine as Alfred. I mean, he's in no way a bad performer, but I just don't think he's right for the role. Who, she asked, would I like to see?

That's when it hit me. Stephen Fry. He should play every butler ever. Or at least Alfred and Jarvis both.

Seriously. I mean it. The feelings he can convey just by pursing his lips in various ways require the entire bodies of lesser actors.

So, yes: Stephen Fry For Every Butler Ever.

She was horrified. Surely, you realise, you'll be putting every English actor over 55 out of work?

But I think they'll be willing to make the sacrifices.

Yes, I shall get movie theatre nachos when the wife & I go see Iron Man agin'.