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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
(3 comments | comment on this) Saturday, December 19th, 2009
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10:23p Recent acquisitions...
Good luck has been with me on my recent thrifts:
In an attempt to increase my rotation of shirts, I have been searching ebay. Luck would have it that I stumble upon a wonderful black self stripe double cuff shirt. I have never heard of the company International Concepts before now but I do enjoy the cut of this shirt of theirs. The sleeves aren't too long for my arms, which is a rarity for most ready to wear garment I buy. And now I have an excuse to wear my cuff links more often. I think that this shirt has replaced my H&M black striped shirt as my favorite shirt.
And locally, I have added 2 ties and a handkerchief to my wardrobe. While not a fan of skinny ties, a black paisley tie seemed like something I couldn't pass up on for daily wear. The other tie, also black, is dotted with tiny white diamonds. Hopefully this will help wean myself off of my beloved solid black wool tie. The handkerchief was initially bought to serve as a pocket square. But after a couple of attempt to fold it for such usage, it was found to be too bulky to fit in a front chest pocket. So I guess that it'll stay a handkerchief and become my default one.
current mood: happy current music: The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
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motorcyclechris
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1:02a FNM 12/19/2009
Well it was a productive night at FNM. Ended up splitting for Top 4. Got 7 packs and the DCI promo Sakura Tribe Elder. Here's how I got there.
Round 1: Vampires Game 1: My opponent arrived late, so the first round was an auto-win Game 2: I duressed twice, getting a Sign in Blood and Needlebite Trap. She played a guy, then unholy strength, and I bolted him. A blightning stripped her Malakir Bloodwitch, and my Plated Geopede with two fetchlands came in for the kill.
Round 2: Spread 'em (The guy who beat me when I played him against my previous R/B deck a couple weeks ago) Game 1: He mulligans to 5. A first turn Duress reveals two lands, Convincing Mirage (discards), and Baneslayer Angel. I get Plated Geopede down, swing and pump with a Teetering Peaks, then swing with a Fetchland and double Lightning Bolt him. Game 2: He mulligans to 6. I get triple Bloodghast, and that takes care of that.
Round 3: Jacerator (U/W Turbofog) Game 1: He mulligans to 6. I Duress an Angelsong and follow with a Plated Geopede and 2 Vampire Nighthawks, and he gets a Wall of Denial down. I swing for a few turns until he Wraths. I get down another Nighthawk, then Ob-Nixilis, and his landfall ability wins it. Game 2: I duress a Flashfreeze first, then get in with a Peaked Bloodghast. I then get another Bloodghast down followed by 2 Lightning Bolts. He sacs a Sunspring Expedition to go back to 18. He plays a Howling Mine and I Shatter it from the sideboard. I get in with random swings from the Nightkawk, then get Ob-Nixilis down, and his ability does the rest.
Round 4: Intentional Draw
Round 5: Intentional Draw
Top 8 Round 1: Jund Game 1: He mulligans to 5. I start off with a Plated Geopede, then a Bloodghast, then a Hell's Thunder. He played a Terminate during that entire game. I managed to Duress a Blightning too. Game 2: He played a land, I played a swamp, he played a land, I played an Arid Mesa. He played a land, Blightning'd me, and I discarded 2 Bloodghasts. EoT I sac'd the Mesa, bringing the Bloodghasts back into play. They are joined by a 3rd Bloodghast. He cast a Putrid Leech, Blightning and Mind Rot that game.
We decide to split the Top 4, and I'm home early enough to get a decent sleep before work tomorrow. Good night!
current mood: accomplished
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(1 comment | comment on this) Friday, December 18th, 2009
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jwz
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3:05p Today in Sodomy news
Eighth Graders In Oral Plea A pair of Georgia eighth graders this week copped to public indecency charges after they engaged in oral sex while a substitute teacher was helping other students at the front of the classroom. [...] As part of the plea, sodomy charges against both students were dropped, and a probation violation count leveled against the boy was dismissed. After being held at a youth detention facility, the girl was released to her parents's custody. The boy, however, remains locked up, according to a law enforcement official.
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(comment on this) Thursday, December 17th, 2009
jwz
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6:41p Playstation and Facebook: unclear on the concept.
I saw that in the latest PS3 OS update, they added Facebook integration. Now, there's one and exactly one thing that could possibly be useful for, right? You've already thought of it in the time it took you to read that sentence. The one useful thing would be to unify your friends lists, so that your PS3 can automatically know which of your Facebook friends are online without you having to search for and then manually enter all of their Playstaion Network IDs. Guess what, it doesn't do that. All it does is make it so that the PS3 can spam your Facebook Status every time you buy a game, and every time you upload a trophy. Who would ever, ever want it to do either of these things? I'll bet a "Social Media Consultant" was involved.
current music: Say Hi To Your Mom -- But She Beat My High Score
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jwz
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6:14p tap
current music: Depth Charge -- Shaolin Buddha Finger
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supeoples
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7:26a
I told Steve I would post, so here ya go !
By the way, Steve if you read this I hope your having a safe drive up north to Maryland. I will keep you and your family in my prayers!
Just wanted to let everyone know Merry Christmas!!! one more week !
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jwz
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1:48a Your tax dollars at work.
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter. The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said. Today, the Air Force is buying hundreds of Reaper drones, a newer model, whose video feeds could be intercepted in much the same way as with the Predators, according to people familiar with the matter. A Reaper costs between $10 million and $12 million each and is faster and better armed than the Predator. General Atomics expects the Air Force to buy as many as 375 Reapers.
current music: A Place to Bury Strangers -- Keep Slipping Away
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(45 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
jwz
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12:33p Repository of All Human Knowledge - In Anime.
Our work here will not be complete until every Wikipedia page contains an "In Anime" sub-section. Is there a blog that highlights the stupidest Wikipedia events? I subscribe to the RSS feed of the Lamest edit wars article, but I find that insufficient.
current music: The Juan MacLean -- Human Disaster
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1:32a LANDMARK TOMATO Replaced by FESTIVE TOPIARY.
This can't be a coincidence, right? | Exhibit A: | Exhibit B: |  |  | You can't really tell from the photo, but the topiary is not hanging from the building where the Historic Tomato once reclined: it's a tree on the curb side of the sidewalk. |
current music: Jessy Moss -- Beat to a Pulp
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(1 comment | comment on this) Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
suroidic
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11:13p
Hello visitors, strangers and the curious.
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