Science!

Russian scientists have developed a product that can keep a person drunk, Britain’s Daily Telegraph wrote.

The tablet called RU-21 Red was developed in Spirit Sciences, a laboratory based in California but with research facilities in Russia. The same scientists had earlier worked on secret programs for the Kremlin and had made the famous RU-21 product that cures hangovers.

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Fun fact for the day:

The Mexican voice actor for Homer Simpson makes $54.00 an episode.

The Enquirer is obsolete

Here on the Internet, we get our pointless celebrity gossip from the source (not safe for work). Some dweeb hacked Paris Hilton's cell phone/PDA and posted the contents. Looks real to me... um, I mean, people prank-called people in address book succesfully.

Metafilter reacts to this like the bunch of guilty Internet liberals they are.

r.i.p., eeen's involvement with marc's film.

ah, did the blood ever splatter. details will be provided verbally, or perhaps in essay form. on a marginally related note, swrpg will likely be postponed to allow us to pick up an easy win over philly in the baltimore v. philly weekly film challenge. anyone that wants to assist in a evening-long filmmaking effort is encouraged to do so immediately.

Klimas's golf post was oddly ill-timed...

R.I.P. Hunter S. Thompson, 1937-2005.

I guess you could say i'm, "Alone in the Dark"...

Right, so i've got Uwe Boll's latest masterpiece sitting on my hard drive. We should all watch it at some point. Right now, it's only a cam, so the quality's not all that super (content aside), but i'm looking for a better copy at the moment. I'll let you know what i find.

Adaptable HTML

Klimas and/or Joel, is there any way to make the HTML code in the template adaptable to different screen resolutions? I've got my monitor at work at 1280 by 1024, and the blog just seems kindof silly looking as a stripe of text down the middle of the screen...

Last Day?

Klimas, this is your last day at MPT right? How will you make your grand exit? I suggest something involving the set pieces from Bob the Vid Kid...

i, robot

The R Peed unit was suddenly at his side, holding his wrist. "Please take care not to harm this citizen, Detective."

Arturo snarled. He wasn't strong enough to break the robot's grip, and he couldn't order it to let him rattle the punk, but the second law had lots of indirect applications. "Go patrol the lakeshore between High Park and Kipling," he said, naming the furthest corner he could think of off the top.

The R Peed unit released him and clicked its heels. "It is my pleasure to do you a service," and then it was gone, bounding away on powerful and tireless legs.

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What would Solid Snake do?

He'd get the hell out of there, that's what he'd do.

"...being that a lot of people in the mood to play golf are also in the mood to shoot something..."

this is the kind of thing i would expect from hunter s. thompson. but bill murray? uh...yeah, him too.

FeEz in NYC!

So i went to the Christo exhibit in central park on saturday. It was pretty damn cool...not to mention it was the first time i've been to NYC. Had a lot of fun, and made great time getting to/from there. Pictures forthcoming.

death by dishonor.

klemis, i've failed you. in my paltry defense, friday and saturday were added as shooting days for this dang-blasted film, nudging my weekend total to 32 hours. 32 FUCKING HOURS.

Over Time

This is beautiful.

Reverse masher... masheress...?

A Japanese phrasebook on sex... I think. Not work-safe, but here are some tidbits if you somehow ended up having to put in an appearance instead of working in your jammies like always:

"Isn't your boyfriend's like this?"

"Nope. Completely different. It's so different it's hard to believe you're both human males."

...

"Is this also the first time you've been touched here?"

...

"Rumble, clickety-clack."

"All aboard. Here we go."

"Toot, toot. Chug, chug."

fanfare, anyone?

for those of you who pay close attention to the news, you probably missed this development in the race for dnc chair, arguably the key figure in mapping long-term strategy for the democratic party. i know 'the baltimore sun' took care to bury the story on page 5.

Let's put you down for #7, #9... and a little bit of #10

The top ten geekiest hobbies.

Mapquest sucks

Well, it has for a long time. Google just came out with its own service... and it's better! At least more fun. You can drag around the map on the fly and zooming in seems much faster.

You Need Not Be Tainted Forever

From the Jedi Counselor:

Q: Please clarify the core rulebook's statement that, when gaining a Force Point, a tainted character instead reduces his Dark Side Point total by one. Does this mean that a tainted character may not gain Force Points (except when advancing a level), or does it mean a tainted character can choose to lose a Dark Side Point instead of gaining a Force Point?

A: It means the latter. The sacrifice of a Force Point to lose a Dark Side Point is a choice; it's not automatic.

I'm sensing a powerful mind, Captain

In honor of Enterprise's cancellation, I present to you the first draft of the first episode of Next Generation's first episode, "Encounter at Farpoint":

Picard takes another beat to study him carefully, then:



                           PICARD

           One further thing... a special

           favor I have to ask of you.



                           RIKER

           Anything, sir.



                           PICARD

           Using the same kind of strength

           you showed with Captain DeSoto,

           I'd appreciate it if you can keep

           me from making an ass of myself

           with children.



                           RIKER

           Sir?



                           PICARD

           I'm not a family man, Riker, and

           yet, Starfleet has given me a ship

           with children aboard.



                           RIKER

                   (nods)

           Yes, sir. And families...



                           PICARD

           And I don't feel comfortable with

           children. But, since a captain

           needs an image of "geniality"

           toward the little monsters, you're

           to see that's exactly what I

           project.



                           RIKER

           Aye, sir.

Serious political discussion

"And to the Iranian people, I say tonight: As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you."

vs.

"There is another way for the bloodshed to stop and that is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands to force Saddam Hussein the dictator to step aside."

Hmm...

Even though you fuckers don't deserve it....

I'll have presents for you all tonight!