Alright, can you help me resolve a dispute I’m having with my good friend in Second Life (and slightly crazy pixie) Koko?

It’s really simple.  I say pixies are fae (also known as fairy or faerie folk), Koko says they’re not, they’re a species all to themselves.

So I was curious as to what everyone else thinks.

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• February 19, 2010, Kokoro (1 comments) writes: Pixies are much more than Fae.. Fae are all the pretty ones that humans lump together. Pixies are chaos and chocolate combined.. So there.. :P

A long time ago I posted a link to the Mean Kitty Song from YouTube.  Replying to a tweet by Yasmine Galenorn on Twitter this evening had me go back to refresh my memory and enjoy the Mean kitty Song for myself again, and to my surprise I found out it’s been cleaned up into HD and stereo on YouTube.

So, here’s the updated version

Here we go again.

Mega snowstorm coming up from the south, they say it’ll turn into a Nor’easter, and they estimate we’ll get up to 24 inches of snow.

Now, the title for this post isn’t what I said when all this started heading our way – I do however get the feeling it’s a scream of anguish heard across the entire DC region a lot today.

Why?

Because DC grinds to an almighty halt the moment more than 3 snowflakes appear!

I bet Florida or Hawaii could handle snow better than DC.

It’s not so much the DC Government’s response that I’m talking about, but the response of the DC residents themselves.

They act like they’ve never seen snow before!

This is perhaps best explained by going into what I call the “Driver Dinosaur Syndrome”, to sum up DC drivers at times like this.

The dinosaurs, you may recall, died out because, effectively, they couldn’t adapt to intense climactic change.

DC drivers seem to have the same problem.

Consider this: They wake up in the morning, the sun is shining, all is well, they drive to work.  Then they come out for lunch … BUT … it’s raining.

For some totally incomprehensible reason this stuns a good number of drivers.  They continue to drive as if they were in dry conditions – end result, they crash.

Those that don’t (Darwin at work) manage to return to their work places, and over the rest of the afternoon make the gradual shift into driving in the rain modes.

But when they leave work – the sun is shining again.  This totally confuses them – end result, they crash.

Driver Dinosaur Syndrome.

Give the DC Driver Dinosaurs some snow to contend with, and they go into a total blind panic, because neither dry- nor wet-weather driving modes work for them – end result?  You get the idea.

The real danger is that being anywhere near the DC Driver Dinosaurs is a little like being a small mammal in the primordial rainforest just as one of those prehistoric behemoths keels over from the weather and lands on top of you.

Then there’s the town’s Department of Public Works.

They’re great people, make no mistake!

There’s just one slight problem.

When they plow our little street, the blade angle shoves all the snow into a huge four or five foot berm by the side of the road.

Right across our driveway.

Which effectively traps us in the house.  There’s no way to get enough room in that berm to start shovelling our way through.

Thankfully, there’s Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a great bunch of volunteers who usually can get someone here to help break a path sufficient for us to get out there and finish the job.

So in that respect at least, the “Onoes” is coming from us.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure if this is a “What the Frak??” post, or simply a humorous one – which do you think it comes under?

On tonight’s news, there was a segment about a firearm found inside the D.C. Jail.

It was about 30 seconds into the segment when I cracked up totally in uncontrollable laughter as our local newsdrone Derek McGinty, with a perfectly straight face, mentioned that the firearm was related to an incident in the D.C. Jail from 2003.

Why was this funny?  I’m glad you asked me!

It transpired that the firearm was used in the shooting of four inmates back then.

Gang violence, you wonder?  A drug debt?  A hit?  Just someone was bored?

Nope.

Apparently it was part of a grand plan – they shot themselves so that they could – get this – then sue the city for failing to protect them in Jail.

The plan apparently failed when it didn’t go as hoped – my guess is the one inmate who it seems didn’t actually want to be shot figured he stood a better chance of getting actual protection if he came clean.

The best part is how this part was reported with a totally straight face.  I guess it’s the segments like that which make for an anchordrone

OK, the fangirls are out in uber-force again for New Moon, the latest in the Twilight franchise, so it’s time to dust off an old favourite and wait for the screams and cries of heresy!  (Click the image below the fold for the full sized version)

Just Say No ...

This is your brain on Twilight

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• November 29, 2009, @Trollgodfather (1 comments) writes: Ick. Very good art, but ick.

I should start a section of my blog just to point out how many badly written headlines and stories are in the media.

Except it would take all my time and energy, and I have much better things to do.

So I’ll just mention my latest find in the “Dumb Headlines” category, from CNN’s website.

24 corpses found shot in Mexico

Hmmm.  This is some new kind of serial killer, perhaps, who goes around shooting dead bodies?  CNN goes on to reinforce this particularly wonderful example of headline murder in the very first paragraph of the story:

Twenty-four corpses were found bound and shot execution-style in the Mexican city of Atlapulco on Friday, according to Humberto Benitez, secretary-general of government in the State of Mexico.

So not only did this new kind of serial killer shoot dead bodies, he also tied them up!

I’m just waiting for some pshrink to decide this is some new form of psychosis and write a paper, then they all demand to include it in DSM-V (if they ever get around to releasing it), all based on one really bad headline text.

So Tropical Storm Hanna is busy making its way up the coast towards us – if the predicted track is anything to go by, it’ll be a few miles to the east of us in about four hours time.

DC, as usual, is losing its mind in panic mode. We’ve already seen the panic buying at the local grocery store. Like people didn’t have a clue this might be coming while Gustav was still ambling around the Gulf Coast!

The DC area is really weird when it comes to inclement weather conditions – especially the local drivers. I call it “Dinosaur Syndrome”.

Think about it. The dinosaurs all died out because, at the end of the day, they couldn’t adapt to changing environmental conditions.

Now think about DC area drivers.

They wake up in the morning, it’s a nice day. They drive off to work – most of them, despite years of first-hand-experience, still using the parking-lot that is the Capital Beltway parking lot (I-495).

They work for a few hours (in theory), then comes lunchtime.

And it’s raining.

They’re totally flummoxed by this, and drive as if it was still great weather – they haven’t managed to switch over to “driving in the rain mode”. The end result, there’s accidents.

Those lucky enough to avoid anything major then return to work, and spend the rest of their work day trying to kick their brains into “driving in the rain mode”. They do so, come out of their offices to drive home, and are flummoxed once more – it’s sunny again.

So they try to drive home, but they’re in “driving in the rain mode” and haven’t switched back. The end result, there’s accidents.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Hence, Dinosaur Syndrome.

This is, after all, the DC area – everything is done according to government specifications on a government timetable. It only stands to reason that this extends to people’s ability (or lack of) to adapt to the weather

I wonder why people accuse me of being a cynic?

Here’s to the area first responders, and the utilities crews when they come out for the aftermath. May they be safe from the weather – and DC Dinosaurs on their way to their work!

[UPDATE 1750 EDT]

Well, Hanna’s gone past us – and it was relatively anti-climactic.

It’s on its way to New York/Philadelphia now, as you can see from the snapshot I’ve ‘ported over from Google Earth.

Since everyone appears to think they’re somehow experts on the subject, here are my predictions for the upcoming Presidential Elections pre-game rally – the conventions.

• Hillary Clinton will try to steal the nomination for Democratic Presidential candidate at the convention.
• John McCain will announce Joe Lieberman as his running mate at some point.

There. With a side note that it’s a pity there isn’t a Paris Hilton/Stephen Colbert ticket. The political system is a joke, so the pair of them are far more qualified!!

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• August 16, 2008, hank_reardon (3 comments) writes: Here is my prediction, There will be a cyanide attack during the dmc Bush will declare martial law bush will stay

I was looking at the comments spam my system has blocked recently, and noticed this wonderful comment posted:

This is similar to comment spam but avoids some of the safeguards designed to stop the latter practice.

Umm … Wrong on both counts.

Almost as hilarious to see are these comment spam attempts:

I have always wanted a compendium of novena prayers. Thank you for sharing all these prayers with us. It brings joy and happiness to everyone. I know, I do feel that way.

I like this website. This website helped me with prayer learning. Good job. Thank you. Please provide more French prayers. Bye-bye.a

I think their prayers of being able to link to their crap sites have been proven to be ignored. Maybe they just went to the wrong church – the same one this guy does?

I thank the Lord for giving us the gift of brilliant preachers!l

Finally, there’s this gem:

Thanks so very much for taking your time to create this very useful and informative site. I have learned a lot from your site. Thanks!!t

And thank you for taking your time to send a spambot on a wasted mission. Hopefully, you’ve learned that you’re really just wasting your spambot’s time and energy. Have you considered learning something marginally useful instead – such as sticking your head in a bucket of water whilst parking cars at the Restaurant at The End Of The Universe?

More proof that the universe has a sense of humour:

The State of Georgia has passed a law banning the sale of “pot candy”, marijuana-flavoured sweets.

The name of the man who is the main driving force behind the bill?

Senator Doug Stoner

Tempering the hilarity factor of this are the reported death threats sent to State Representative Judy Manning, apparently tracing back to the UK.  What idiot who isn’t even affected by this thinks banning a candy is sufficient justification to send death threats over?