Offline today

I'll be mostly offline today, as I'll be accompanying my wife to a medical procedure.

That said, I leave you with three nifty (and one dubious) DVD deals at Amazon:

Boogie Nights -- $12.97 (52% off)
Gilmore Girls Season 4 -- $29.97 (50% off)
Gremlins (best Xmas movie ever) -- $7.97 (60% off)
Cats and Dogs (like The Island, for kids) -- $7.97 (60% off)

And, for your amusement, courtesy of leonardpart6: The world's wrongest Batman.

Things accomplished today

As I mentioned in my post early this morning (which also links to cheap DVDs and the wrongest Bat-license evar), I was away from the computer for most of the day.

Things accomplished and noted:

1. Taking shadesong in for her endoscopy (and, more importantly, picking up and driving the anesthetized shadesong afterwards).

1.5 Finding a Jack Chick tract (this one) in the waiting room while waiting for 'song. Evangelical comics are fun!

2. Seeing Elayna and her school band perform at North Dekalb Mall during lunchtime. They were so much fun to watch. This was their first real concert of the year.

3. Eating lunch with Elayna and shadesong. Just something that doesn't happen very often on weekdays, for obvious reasons. The child had Chik-fil-A nuggets, the wife had a Wendy's Baked Potato (she was told to have mushy food), and the me had chalupas from Taco Bell. Mmmm, chalupas.

3.5 Taco Bell (sometime in the three years since I last ate there) has taken a cue from Caribou Coffee's napkins and started putting slogans and jokes on their hot sauce packets. That said, Taco Bell still has very little understanding of what makes something "hot."

4. I attempted to get a nap in earlier, but Max decided that my chin (and the two days of stubble on it) required licking and nuzzling. Cats have strange priorities.

5. shadesong is currently asleep, and unlike most of her afternoon naps, I'm letting this one run for a while, as she needs the rest.

More nifty Nowhere Man stuff

I've already linked to the nifty media player that they've set up to promote the upcoming DVD release of this show.

But there's now also a Nowhere Man Blog. And a Nowhere Man Podcast.

If any show was meant to use these technologies, it's this one.

Great advice

I love the final answer on this page. :-)

Texans: Playing to win or not?

James Alder at About.com raises the issue that's hard to ignore, when looking at how the Texans have narrowly lost their last two games, about whether they're tanking on purpose to score Reggie Bush.

Peter King claims that when he asked the Texans GM, such a question "insults him and the players."

Well, sure it does. But here's the thing -- there are two types of people who give indignant responses to questions like that. One is the truly innocent and offended. The other is the one pretending to be offended to cover it up.

Of course, nothing will ever be proven (sports cheating has come a long way since the 1919 White Sox, and since we're talking about internal pressures, as opposed to gamblers or others influencing events, there's less of a trail). But sometimes it's really hard to distinguish between a team that really blows, and a team that mostly blows, and fakes the rest.

Best Holiday Display Ever.

Articles here and here.



Links ganked from metaphorge.

Attention, anyone selling, well, anything!

murnkay has been running a quite nifty ongoing guide of Holiday Gift Suggestions. He wants to close it out by highlighting products created and sold by folks on LJ. All the info is in this post. If you want some nice LJ promotion, go read that post and send him your info!