Jon

Godspeed the crew of Apollo 1.

Ad astra per aspera.

Little bit o' LotR fluff for ye...

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
North Central
The West
Boston
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
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Surprising, yet somehow not, at the same time...

...since I know you like DDR. ;)

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Lost in the line of duty, on the Esperanza Fire, outside of Banning, CA.

Mark Loutzenhiser (Lotzi), Engine Captain
Jess McLean, Fire Engine Operator
Jason McKay, Assistant Fire Engine Operator
Daniel Hoover-Najera, Firefighter
Pablo Cerda, Firefighter

*toasts*

...I can't remember who my first grade teacher was.

Still downloading patches. :S

So I'm downloading City of Heroes right now. 855MB through a 3MB/s cable connection. Telling me it's gonna be close to 45 minutes to download.

Sheeeeit.

I can remember back in the day, having to call BBSes to download patches for games and having it take 5-6 hours. For 1.2MB.

Un. be. lievable what we can do nowadays.

...I had to teach a college freshman how to use a tape recorder.

God, I'm old. :S

Fun!

This showed up as a sigquote from a friend of mine, and rather than google, I figured I'd dump it y'all's laps (*cough*angevin2*cough*)

"Licentia quod Veneratio supremus totus"

Any thoughts?

And it's the scene in the bar, at the very end of the movie where Kelly McGillis gets all hot and bothered for Maverick and stuff.

This bar is in downtown San Diego, right near the Convention Center. There's even a sign out front that proclaims its status as the "seedy dive from Top Gun".

So, I'm pondering for SD '06, a trip to this bar. To order ice water. Because, after all, that's what every Top Gun fan needs to drink while making a pilgrimage to said dive.

OR maybe I just need to go to bed...

Good: Listening to Cinemagic on XM radio while at work.

Better: Hearing Patrick Doyle's Battle of Harfleur/Once more unto the breach arrangement.

Batshit insane: Launching into an extemperaneous rendition of said speech, because it's cool, but getting looked at weirdly by customers, coworkers, and the owner of your place of business. ;)

Not that I'm surprised...



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...you've had "Serenity" from the movie soundtrack stuck in your head all day. And are whistling it.

...you ask the new guy if he's familiar with the works of Shan Yu.

...you sing "Hero of Canton", and one of the cashiers says you should sing opera, so you naturally oblige. Except she didn't mean Klingon opera...

Good day today. ;)


On a further note, I'm disappointed in the Serenity soundtrack itself, as my second favorite piece got abruptly cut off, and my favorite piece wasn't included...

Still fun, though, but not as much fun as otherwise would've been indicated.

...with intent to purchase a brown coat.

And since I'm a cheap bastard with a free account, please feel free to leave commentary on how geeky I am. ;)

Apparently, the student body president at Emory has dissolved the student legislature, declared himself Supreme Ruler, and declared war on Washington University.

Link

This sounds like something I would've done had I been elected to student office.

May death come quickly to Supreme Ruler Dhir's enemies.

(Besides, any student cabinet with a Ministry of Propaganda is fecking awesome. ;))

A thought occured the other day, and it was a thought that I think requires further exploration.

I was reading "Gettysburg: The Second Day" not too long ago, and it featured a quote from General Ewell that the Army of Northern Virginia made many mistakes at Gettysburg, and most of them were his.

Which got me to thinking about an article I read not too long ago about General Jackson's death, and how easily it could've been prevented.

Question is: How would Gettysburg have gone were Jackson still alive and in command of the Second Corps?

Personally, I'm of the opinion that a few things would've gone differently, aside from the court-martial of General Garnett:

1) I'd venture Jackson likely would've recognized what Buford's Cavalry for what it was, and committed his whole corps with or without orders. Despite a valiant effort, Buford folds before Reynolds gets there.

2) Culp's Hill would've been taken on the first day. Jackson had enough experience working with Lee to know that "Take that hill if practicable" was Lee's gentlemanly way of saying, "GET YOUR ASS UP THERE!".

3) If Culp's Hill was taken, that would've provided an anchor for the ANV on the high ground, if Longstreet could get there before a Federal counterattack.

4) Would Reynolds have deployed at Gettysburg, or would he have recommended to Meade to withdraw to fight elsewhere? Pipe Creek perhaps?

Thoughts?

Tired of being underappreciated and manipulated by powerful "others," you fight back. Though possesssing a cold, violent outside, you have a soft, scentimental inside. You love your partner, you cherish family heirlooms, and you want nothing more than to be geniunely happy -- but you don't mind having to kill a couple of nimrods who happen to clutter your path. Take the What Pulp Fiction Character Are You? quiz.