Home of the Soul Cookie

(Forgot to publish this one back in December.)

Playing favorites again: http://www.fridayfive.org/

1. List your five favorite beverages.

• Cherry Coke
• chocolate milk
• Diet Coke or Pepsi
• hard apple or pear cider (I have Noelle to thank for that!)
• water

2. List your five favorite websites.

• Craigslist
• GamingReport.com
• Google
• Monte Cook’s site
• Whedonesque

3. List your five favorite snack foods.

• beef jerky
• gummy worms
• popcorn
• garlic bread
• cheddar cheese

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.

• Fluxx
• Chrononauts
• Ra
• Magic: The Gathering
• Lord of the Rings TCG

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.

• You Don’t Know Jack
• Jedi Knight
• Driver
• Starcraft
• Super Mario Bros./
  Sonic the Hedgehog (tie)

Aragorn

Putting your appointed path ahead of any inner conflicts, you make your own rules for the benefit of all.

If my life or death I can protect you, I will.

(Lots of possible outcomes to this quiz.)

Sanitized for your protection. Except for the last one. I don’t know what’s up with me there. http://subliminal.lunanina.com/

1. Warning:: label
2. Aspirations:: hopes
3. Starvation:: famine
4. Lid:: on it
5. Sketch:: doodle
6. Interrogate:: the prisoner
7. Credit:: debit
8. Scotch:: whisky
9. Confused:: but hopeful
10. Paris:: Hilton (damn it!)

Go.
Now.
Watch.

Also sprach the Washington Times:

Officials who attended a world Internet and technology summit in Switzerland last week were unknowingly bugged, said researchers who attended the forum.

Badges assigned to attendees of the World Summit on the Information Society were affixed with radio-frequency identification chips (RFIDs), said Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Stephane Koch and George Danezis in a report issued after the conference ended Friday in Geneva. The badges were handed out to more than 50 prime ministers, presidents and other high-level officials from 174 countries, including the United States. [more]

Courtesy the B5JMS mailing list:

Thanks to a series of industry screenings, I’ve had the opportunity to see the final Lord of the Rings movie…and for those wondering, it’s spectacular. I loved the first one and considered it a masterpiece; wasn’t quite as happy with the second one, which I felt (and despite some corrections made via the extended cut, still feel) that it suffered where it diverged from the book, and where it replaced story logic with movie logic.

But “The Return of the King” is magnificent on every level. There are times you feel you’re looking at some forgotten history come to life, the imagery is almost painfully beautiful at times, breathtaking and awe-inspiring other times. I remember sitting there, thinking there are some things one feels priviliged to have lived long enough to have seen. This is one of them. It’s brave, heroic, tragic, moving, funny, inspiring and wistful all at the same time.

So for those who were hoping for the best…your hopes will be realized. It’s just freaking magnificent.

jms

(jmsatb5@AOL.com)
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I will now blog for thee, bah-rump-bum-bum-bum: http://www.fridayfive.org/

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?
The cold weather? Yeah, mostly. Especially having been in the desert for the last few years, I really enjoy being able to wear long-sleeve shirts and sweaters and whatnot come wintertime.

Snow? I enjoy it when I go visit my parents and it’s snowy out. And then I enjoy it even more when I come home.

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?
I dunno. Why worry about “mak[ing] things perfect”? Spending a stress-free day of joy with friends and loved ones would pretty much fit the bill for me.

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?
Not any more. Back when I was married, we’d watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas every Christmas Eve. Not so much with that these days.

And then earlier, as kids, my sister and I always got to open one present on Christmas Eve. We of course spent so long trying to pick out the perfect present to open. Fortunately, Mom and Dad helpfully steered us away from the not-fun-to-play-with gifts (such as presents of clothes).

4. Do you do anything to help the needy?
Yes. Let’s leave it at that.

…except to mention the following two organizations:

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Alzheimer’s Association

5. What one gift would you like for yourself?
I’d like the people I love to be happy. That would be the best gift possible.

I am 50% Internet Addict

I am pretty addicted, but there is hope. I think I’m just well connected to the internet and technology, but it’s really a start of a drug-like addiction. I must act now! Unplug this computer!

Take the Internet Addict Test at fuali.com

This witty statement for rent. http://subliminal.lunanina.com/

1. Blizzard:: Warcraft
2. J:: K
3. Control:: system
4. Blood:: vampire
5. Mysterious:: alluring
6. Annoying:: noise
7. Throat:: cough
8. Condom:: rubber
9. Search:: find
10. Heartfelt:: condolences