Douglas E. Berry

Well, I went to "work" this morning after having yesterday off, and found that I had a warehouse day today.  When there is a ridiculously low number of jobs, one of us gets to stay at the warehouse and help John.  Some days, this can be hectic if we have a large number of pods to pull, or several flatbeds show up wanting/delivering BX containers.

Then there are days like today.  Other than changing five containers to BX containers (which involves putting the stickers with the new number over the old number) and organizing the pod we use to store office supplies, there was nothing much to do.  We also finally put together our air compressor, so now we can top off the eighteen thousand tires on our truck at the warehouse.  Yay! Now we just need to get some of those digital tire pressure gages so we can check the pressure quickly. I was out of there by 1000, and got clocked out at 1550.  :)

Got home, and noodled about the net for a while.  kshandra has fallen in love with iTunes, and is teaching me its more nifty features. Looming in the near future is a massive "go through all 9 gig of music and make sure we have them correctly labeled" epic. Once that's done, I'll probably do a post where I put up my list and offer copies to folks.  File-sharing uber alles! It's amusing.. the party shuffle feature brings up music from both our play lists.. so while I'm dealing with occasional invasions of 80's pop, she's being suddenly assaulted by heavy metal and punk.

We had to go out to pay our late rent, and since Kiri is feeling a bit off-center, I went with her.  I was not impressed by the new property management people.  The office looks awful, and the one guy working there took several hundred dollars in money orders without offering a receipt.  I had to ask for one. Of course, he didn't have an actual receipt book.  Not very promising, and another entry in the "Why We Should Start thinking About Moving" book.

Got home from that, took a very hot shower; which is really the only way I can get warm quickly anymore. My post-cancer body does not handle cold that well.  Which explains why I'm sitting here in a Sharks jacket with a blanket over me.

I've gotten into a playtest of  Steve Jackson Games' version of UltraCorps.  Damn, I'm having fun.  I realize that I made a severe error of strategy in the first few turns that has doomed me to eventual absorption by my rapidly encroaching neighbors, but I've played a few solo games to refine strategies for the release version.  What I think I'm going to do is build up a strong fleet of cargo carriers (which are cheap as dirt) and then start conquering near-by neutrals. Once I have them, I'll take all the population and  Ultranium (the magic substance that is both building material and power source) back to the home world.  This will allow me to build up fleets faster; which will allow quicker conquests.  As I get several worlds under my control, I can switch product of the "small, fast" builds to colonies, and concentrate on the world-beaters at home.  Also, I can build planetary defense units and ship them to the worlds I stripped to serve as a sort of defensive wall.  I'd still strip minor worlds of as much  Ultranium as I can carry to feed the gaping maw of my war machine, of course.

Coming up, more work.  Sunday I expect to knock out the rest of the kitchen clean up ("including the dishes" he said glaring at the monitor in hopes of making a point to the next person to use it.) And start on clearing a path to the door.  I canceled the paper (I was barely reading the damn thing.. I get most of my news online these days) and we've decided that getting the cable back is going to happen very soon.

Teeth continue to bug me.  I think the tax refund is going to be mostly set aside for the Tooth fund.

Pointing this out without making one mention of how cool a permanent account would be, nor mentioning how I need the money for my new teeth.

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From Daily Kos

Golden Gould Awards for 2005

10. I know you think you have fossils that proof stuff, but those fossils are all fake, they're made out of tar and stuff, this is fact not theory. They have factories in China mostly making the fossils.

9. If people came from monkeys, why are there still people?

8. If the strata layers were true, the missing links would be the dinosaurs because they came way before other evolutionary stages. But no, we are finding dinosaur bones left and right. We have over 35 kinds of dinosaurs and we have more than one for each. Is that a problem. How long have they been digging now?

7. then perhaps you can explain how A fish crawled out of the sea and evolved into a mammal with lungs without dying before he evolved. You scientists make up something to explain all of your theories without ANY proof. You are fools living a lie. And being as Satan is the father of lies, he is your master. Turn or Burn boys!

6. hey, i get so confused when i hear about all this evolution nonsense. was it once upon a time,lifeless matter came to life. became a mything link. then a boy.or was it.once upon a time, a lifeless chunk of wood came to life.became a talking puppet.then a boy. please clear up my confusion.....yo momma

5. DS I'm hoping you won't be like the others and we can have a nice two-way discussion were we each listen to the other persons. As long as you understand that evolutionists have no proof and just the tail on an amoeba is proof of intelligent design and that's my view and I don't really care to read yours.

4. Evolution? Isn't that what Osama ben Laden believes in? Isn't that what the Taliban teaches in their madroseos? Nice company you keep, terrorist.

3. You have to ask yourself though, why are evolutionists so vile and disgusting and rude and why are scientists like DR Hovin so polite and courteous? [What makes this e-mail ironic and worthy of nomination is that just a few hours after I opened it I received an unsolicited Instant Message which read in part] "You baby-killers make me sick with your slime are poeple bullshit and your jew teachers telling our kids they're nothing but monkeys. I know you're all gonna brn in jew hell but I hope first we round you pigs up and execute you first, s lowly and painfully.

2. Most mammals contain DNA similaities because mammals eat other mammals.

( IMHO, our winner from 2004 deserves a renomination, below: )

Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie - The Lost Scrolls of Frosty

Long, but worth it!

The new trailer for V for Vendetta is out.

Holy Freaking Shit.

Playing around with a facial recognition site, and it matched my picture with that of a famous person.

Guess who it picked?

Found, in all places, sci.astro..

( HAPPY XMAS SEASON TO YOU ALL BASTARDS )

I need someone more talented than I am to make an animated icon for me. No flashy effects, just a simple text progression.

We are GURPS.

You will be assimilated.

We will add your distinctive setting and
background to our own.

Resistance is futile.