Eclipsing Writing: Day Late and a Ring Short

ImageHere’s what I saw the other day: with the help of a welding mask and a not-expensive DV cam thing: in case I fried the lens by being dumb.

[It's actually the "stalker cam" as I've been dubbing it; used to make the grainy images for current layout of this blog.  Who needs HD, right?]

A slight color shift was done to make more like our sun and not the original Kryptonian flare it was snapped looking like. Continue reading

Getting Popular?

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Somehow I got a little attention.  I’m not certain how, but I’m not complaining.  I got a like and a follow all withing twenty-four hours.

This also marks my seventy-fifth “official” post according to WordPress; but don’t try to count it up on your own, since I do a lot of retro-blogging or “ninja posting” as I call it: altering a date to make up for my procrastination or continuity – depending the situation.

I’m in a good/procrastinating/grateful mood, so here’s who I met.

Flamedashes started following me.  Sms|DesiRe is his blog: described as “A site which can fulfill all your desire with fun”.  There is a LOT of posting going on over there and a lot of it is interesting.  Give a peek and maybe you’ll have a quick laugh at one of the musings.

Iodestruction liked a post: author of the blog Inanimate Object Destruction.  It’s pretty NSFW in the language sort of way, but it’s a fantastic blog if you like seeing items getting obliterated.

If anyone else wants to bravely like or follow me that ha a blog, I’ll try to get you back as well.

Weird Al Yankovic Super Bowl Halftime Show?

The National Football League, Nerds Everywhere: Weird Al Yankovic performs the Super Bowl XLVII Half Time ShowIt could happen!  Why not?

I saw this and figured it was too good NOT to post here.  This would be something to keep people glued to the seats.  Or make you Polka Your Eyes Out.

Learn more at the online petition site:  change.org/petitions

Or the Facebook petition: facebook.com/weirdalatsuperbowl

Yes, I signed.  Do you really have a good reason not to?

Random public domain image…

I found this picture while trying to research something in my current Restless submission.

http://public-domain.zorger.com/sabotoge-in-space/18-dark-haired-woman-with-bangs-and-man-with-floppy-hat-obscuring-face-and-a-drink.png

Could it be a deleted storyboard image from Cowboy Bebop?  Or a short story I need to write later?

Actually…

From A TOM CORBETT Space Cadet Adventure SABOTAGE IN SPACE By CAREY ROCKWELL, 1955. ILLUSTRATIONS BY LOUIS GLANZMAN. Project Gutenberg Transcriber”s note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.

I found it here:  http://public-domain.zorger.com

Team Conan or Team Leno?

You can reply to the subject question or this post.

It is MUCH more interesting than Team Jacob/Edward – and these guys don’t take their shirt off either.

Here is the real reason for my question.  Win!

Click the pic for a MUCH bigger version.

Soon(tm) – Defined

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Did you know “Soon” was actually trademarked by Sony Online Entertainment?  Tongue-and-cheek as it was written (to goof on/with gamers who need[n't] to be given satisfactory answers), here is a quote from the SOE Knowledge Database:

Question:When, exactly, is soon?

Answer:
When will <whatever> be back/available/up/open/updated/fixed/installed/removed/nerfed/un-nerfed/patched/rolled back/instituted/upgraded/borked/published/resolved/ and/or generally Made Better™?

Soon™: A broadly generic description of a length of time between now and the fruition of a promise made by the developers of computer software, especially online gaming software. Before being trademarked, the term ‘Soon’ was much more meaningful, indicating that the event to which the adverb is applied is to happen in the near future. After the trademark was applied to the term, however, any sense of urgency or immediacy that the term ‘Soon’ once carried was tossed aside in favor of a term that would serve only to torture the readers of the term, usually subscribers to online gaming forums, hence Soon™.

An enhancement to the term Soon™ was made shortly after, and became known as Very Soon™, also trademarked. Very Soon™ is generally first used by game developers when they realize that they can no longer get away with using the term Soon™ while maintaining a straight face. Very Soon™, however, is not accepted by the gaming public much more favorably than its root, Soon™,as neither term means much at all to gamers who have been waiting patiently for the promised event to arrive.

There is also the recent addition of “Soonish™” which is generally only used by GM’s in chat channels on patch days after being asked 498 times “When will the servers be up?”.

http://help.station.sony.com/cgi-bin…N2PSZwX3NlYXJj

[Link down - possibly due to SWG closing or losing a sense of humor.]