Archive for June, 2009
June 12th, 2009 | 
Author: Yesterday I left the world of docsis cable hell hell and entered the New Hotness of Fiber Optic internet service.
For those considering this change, I give my unqualified encouragement to that end. It is a beautiful thing to get what you pay for.
It should come as no surprise that I am doing my best to instruct my children in the Tao of Ganelon. These are the True Things that some weak souled parents will obfuscate from their young, and in doing so make them vulnerable. Of things Import, I have started with the basics: Kill the Zombies.
My 7 year old daughter has been playing Left For Dead for a month or so…and it has changed her. She is some rough new beast that speaks of puppies and Molotov cocktails. She loves Hannah Montana and Zoey, thinking both are perfectly acceptable role models. While some avoid Witches…she goes out of her way to blow there heads off.
True story: We were visiting my grandmother a couple of weeks ago at her retirement community. As we were in the elevator, some saintly gray haired woman joined us and was enchanted by my daughter’s curly hair. As she was doting on her, my daughter mentions, with the sweetest of smiles, that “There is an elevator like this in Left for Dead… but it’s covered with blood!!” Her eyes sparkling on the word “Blood”. The old woman had a look on her face like “Did…did… I just hear what I think I heard from this little angel?”. The awkward silence was equal to any one of the best moments of my life.
Yes, my girl is a new creature… and the Old Ones fear her power.
A cohort at the office is stunned that I let her play such a violent game. He tells me his son, a full year older, hesitates to enter the living room for fear of watching something “too violent” and having the ever warned “bad dreams”. To which I can only reply “When the Zombie Apocalypse comes, be assured my daughter will save your son from the flesh eating hordes.”
Tags: David Carradine died… apparently by accident as he jerked off while choking himself. Can you imagine the funeral conversations?
Watch where you're pointing that thing...
I’ve been preoccupied this week with the humdrum of the last week of school events, so I have yet to be as ambitious in migrating my reviews and such from the Old Ways. I should have all that done by the end of the week.
I’ll then begin a few writing projects that I’ll then have up for your edification.
A passing thought…
The toilet is the invisible wonder of our modern home existence. When something goes wrong with it, you are immediately left with certain knowledge that you are no longer living in a habitable dwelling. The urgency to resolve the hazard overcomes all other thoughts until you are made whole again through the prodigious installation of componants both alien and arcane.
Peace
61 French, 58 Brazilians, 26 Germans, nine Chinese, nine Italians, six Swiss, five British, five Lebanese, four Hungarians, three Irish, three Norwegians, three Slovaks, two Americans, two Moroccans and individuals from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Demark, the Netherlands, Estonia, the Philippines, The Gambia, Iceland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and Turkey.
Give up? These representatives of 30 nations were aboard Air France flight 447. It is completely possible that this tragedy is the furthest reaching of its kind. Every inhabited continent. Countries poor and wealthy; large and small.
I can’t remember such a far reaching tragedy since the World Trade Center collapse.
I have moved all that I care to move from Old Geekery with the exception of Cautious Optimism. Sifting through the 32 articles there and tagging them as appropriate will take sometime. Perhaps I will be able to do it during down time on my upcoming Canadian vacation. I am happy where we (The Geekery) are now. I look forward to bringing more and different and exciting things as time marches on.
- Tholan
