I have this reoccurring dream...

The details change every time, but the jist of it is that I'm desperately trying to tell other people something or warn them, and they can't hear me, and by the end of the dream I'm screaming myself hoarse.

Seeing as the greeks had a whole myth about this, I suspect I'm not the only person who has this dream.

Still, it could be worse. I could be awake. And on TV.

45 Years

It's the 45th anniversary of Doctor Who today.

Who'd have thought 45 years after starting, it'd (still) be one of the most popular shows in the UK?

Today's Wiki article of the day

Doctor Who Missing Episodes. Nice!

WE DIDN'T GET THE HOUSE

They got a "significantly" higher offer than ours according to the listing agent, way over the asking price, so of course they will pick the higher offer. I hate that we won't know what that amount was, I wish I could tell the bank "I call" so I could at least see the hand that beat ours.

Moments like this REALLY suck; thank goodness the rest of my life is awesome!

--HH

NEW HOLIDAY

So on December 5th, we have a new holiday DAY OF THE NINJA!

I expect this to be the new party at the FOA! Dust off your ninja masks and slink over to the FOA for some good ninja fun -- no neck snapping allowed.

--HH

PS> Someone made a comment about how it is sometimes a little dificult to tell G-Unit and my posts apart, hence the sig line.

Well, there it is.

The new design of the Enterprise from the new Trek Movie.

As a more or less recovered Trekkie, I don't really have an opinion about this, but I feel like I *should.*


(Okay, just a little: dig the engines, dig the saucer; but the neck is way to far back.)

Legos!

Holy crap. Look at these insane lego sets on Amazon.

The six year old me would have happily committed murder to get these.

Ninjalistics!

"Combining the ancient arts of ninjutsu with modern ISO-9000 compliance, Ninjalistics Inc. helps enterprise clients solve problems, remove obstacles, and stay competitive."

Thanks, Internet. I needed that.

Also, if you dig a little on the website, it turns out this is written by the same guys that did Paranoia. Tilt!

Web Comic Roundup

You know how it is. You're up late, surfing the inter-tubes, and 57 clicks later you've discovered a new web comic.

Like I did, last week:

This entry of The Warehouse made me an instant fan.

But, it occurs to me that perhaps this means a webcomic round up is in order. So, the wecomic I read on a regular basis (that you should be to0):

Buttersafe
Achewood
Dinosaur Comics
XKCD
Penny Arcade

Feel free to post the ones I forgot in the comments. We'll do a part II once I remember all the ones I should be reading.

Mythbusters vs. Knight Rider

The Mythbusters try to see if you can really drive a TransAm into a big rig on the freeway.

Home Search and Heartbreak

Well, some group of bastard people went and bought the house Gabe and I were putting an offer on today. SON. OF. A. B!TCH.

Am I mad? HELL Yes. At who? Who cares, getting mad won't get me anywhere, which just makes me more mad.

Some say, "it wasn't meant to be." Others say, "there will be a better house down the road." I hope to goddess that is true, otherwise we just dragged our feet too long on submitting an offer and lost the only 2,500 sq. ft. house within spitting distance of the Sacramento co-op with a living room you could park a monster truck in. Did I mention the double-oven in the kitchen and the 4 bedrooms upstairs? I am sick with heartache today because I SAW us living there. I saw our kids in the backyard and I saw 35 people at our house for Thanksgiving. Yeah, I cried a little at lunch, maybe a lot.

Then I remembered, as I sat sobbing in the parking lot, that I also cried with a heavy heart in 2002 when I learned I was a day late getting my airfare to move back to China and couldn't afford to go. I cried all day when I broke up with Mr. Jerk in 2001 for being the Ultimate Jerk, thinking I had lost something worth having. I really cried in 2005 when I lost my job because I couldn't keep my mouth shut about how poorly the department was managed and my superior gave me the boot so she didn't look bad. Looking back I am SOOOOO glad all those painful moments happened, otherwise I wouldn't be living in Sacramento with all my wonderful friends and new family, I wouldn't have the most wonderful loving husband who is perfectly matched with me, and I wouldn't be working with the best coworkers and the best boss a gal like me could ask for.

All of the things I am most happy about in my life were possible because things didn't go my way. Things I thought were the most disappointing moment EVER, turned out to be first steps towards a better outcome.

Maybe that house is haunted, maybe it has structural damage, maybe the neighbors are horrible; or maybe the loan of the people who placed the offer will fall through after they pay to have all the inspections done and we can swoop in. Who knows. Maybe this happened so that anyone out there reading this, who has seen a place for sale by/in midtown, will now let us know that they saw our house for sale :)

PROP 8 = HATE

For the next post I am speaking to those people who voted "yes" to segregation; everyone else, good job...

What the hell California? How can 52% of you be so lame? California is supposed to be the state that shows the rest of the country how it is done. It is also the state that contain SAN FRAN-freaking-CISCO, so I am baffled at how this is so close to passing. Everyone I know, knows a person who is gay or lesbian: friends, family, neighbors, etc. What a way to punch everyone of those people in the face like a playground bully. You don't like people in love being able to marry? That is cold, man. And you are stupid. If it is passed, don't get too comfortable in your closed mind, same-sex marriage WILL be legal someday.

I am hoping that when the absentee ballots are counted, it is shut down by a sliver of the vote. This could happen because the majority of absentee ballots are democrat, and there are supposedly 6-8 million ballots left to count.

When all is said and done, I hope this is tipped in the favor of equality. To deny a gay man bridal registry is cruel and unusual punishment.

Your thought experiment for the day

As of this writing, the most recent numbers I can find have a yes vote on Prop. 8 ahead by about 400k votes, but with votes left to count and the absentee ballots yet to compute. Personally, I find this result disappointing but not surprising- California has a very solid arch-conservative population that only seems to come out to vote when the issue is guys kissing each other.  (If memory serves, the original gay marriage ban here passed by a similar margin.)

However, some food for thought:  what percentage of the people who voted to outlaw gay marriage do you suppose have "enjoyed" lesbian porn at some point in their lives?

ELECTION RESULTS

THANK! THE! MAKER!

That sound you hear is Europe sighing with relief

Ahhh, President Obama.  It's been a while since my guy won.  Feels good.

Wait, Lines?

So I'm thinking to myself, "self, there's probably going to be a pretty decent voter turnout today, so you should get there at a time when there will be less people."

Excellent Idea, self, I think back.  Since the polls open at 7, and I'm still jetlagged from the daylight savings switchover, I figure I can get there 7:45 to 8:00-ish and get it done before work.

So I roll up to the polling place just before 8.  Now, for all intents and purposes I've been going to this same polling place for the last 12 years, and I've never had to wait more than a few minutes to get in.  The only time I couldn't basically just walk in and vote I think I was the second guy in a line of two.

This morning, there was a line of people out the door and down the block.  Never seen that before in my entire life.  AND, everybody in line looked like they were under 30.

Have we finally convinced Americans to vote?  Thank goodness.

Well, it's that time again...

Friggin' daylight savings time.  Not a fan, personally.

I always get jetlagged super-badly the week after the switchover.  The fall switch is always a little better, since at least I'm getting up earlier rather than later, but I'm still going to be a zombie for the next few days.

And really.  It's the 21st century.  We have electric lights.  An information economy.  A global marketplace.  Did I mention ELECTRIC LIGHTS?

How on earth is playing slight of hand with the time a good deal for anybody.

And to head off the usual first thing everybody says to support this particular piece of voodoo temporal mechanics:

Does ANYONE seriously think that anyone who depends on daylight to do their job (farmers are the usual example) woke up this morning and said " thank goodness I've got more daylight.  After all, getting up at a different time each day would have been too difficult."