Well, bugger

Started feeling kind of icky last night during dinner, and by the time I got home it was a full-blown sense of unwellness. I hoped that a good night's sleep would fix things, but it hasn't. I feel feverish and have a bit of intestinal distress.

So I'm staying home today and hiding under the covers.

As I sit dying..

Of the Creeping Yuck That Will not Let Me Sleep, a meme.

The icon meme (seen in a few places this morning):

Take a look at my icons. Comment with the following:
1. One that makes you automatically think of me.
2. One that you think I should use more often.
3. One that you don't get/needs more explanation/you have no idea why the hell I have it.
Comment using an icon of yours that you LOVE, and tell me why you picked THAT one too.

Also, if I'm missing an icon you think I should have, let me know (or make it for me! ;)

I'm amazed I'm on the chart at all...

You fit in with: Atheism Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people. 40% scientific. 100% reason-oriented.

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Captain America, found at last!

Body found in Sierra Nevada glacier believed to be WWII airman

Park rangers were working with military officials Wednesday in a remote Sierra Nevada glacier to excavate a body believed to be that of an airman who crashed in 1942.

Two unidentified climbers spotted the frozen head, shoulder and arm of body that is 80 percent encased in ice while climbing the glacier on the 13,710-foot Mount Mendel in Kings Canyon National Park, said park spokeswoman Alex Picavet.

A crew of park rangers and specialists will camp on the mountain side, in below-freezing temperatures, for what promises to be long, difficult excavation, Picavet said. The crew includes an expert from the Joint Prisoner of War Accounting Command, which recovers and identifies military personnel who have been missing for decades.

"We're not going to go fast," Picavet said. "We want to preserve him as much as possible. He's pretty intact."

Park officials believe the serviceman, who is wearing a U.S. Army Corps parachute, may be part of the crew of an AT-7 navigational training plane that crashed on Nov. 18, 1942. The wreckage and four bodies were found in 1947 by a climber. This man may have been connected to that expedition, although it's hard to tell until the body's been recovered, Picavet said.

Note WinAmp's ironic choice of music.

(For the non-comic book readers on my list, Captain America disappeared at the end of WWII. Marvel Comics had him found frozen in ice floating around the North Atlantic.)

Roll sound, roll camera, aaand Meme!

This is the Science Fiction Film Canon, 50 most influential (not necessarily best or worst) films as listed by John Scalzi in his Rough Guide to Science Fiction Films. As usual, bold those you've seen; italicize those you want to see and strike those you have no desire whatsoever to put before your retinas.

Modification: Put an asterisk after the ones you own on DVD. (I do own a few of the others on VHS, but I haven't even turned that thing on in three years.)
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