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Christmas List: Mama Likey

I triple dog dare you to come rob my bedrom.

Read this.

radioplaying: Fly Away – Lenny Kravitz

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Chuck Norris – How Cool are You?

This will be an ongoing project to find all the cool Internet features on Chuck Norris.

Here is a list of things indicating Chuck Norris’ abilities. Be warned that there is some vulgar language.

  1. If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, “Two seconds till.” After you ask, “Two seconds to what?” he roundhouse kicks you in the face.
  2. Macgyver can build an airplane out of gum and paper clips, but Chuck Norris can kill him and take it.
  3. Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.
  4. Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
  5. Filming on location for Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris brought a tillborn baby lamb back to life by giving it a prolonged beard rub. Shortly after the farm animal sprang back to life and a crowd had gathered, Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked the animal, breaking its neck, to remind the crew once more that the good Chuck giveth, and the good Chuck, he taketh away.
  6. Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.
  7. There are no disabled people in the world. Only those people who have felt the wrath of Chuck Norris.
  8. Since 1940, the year Chuck Norris was born, roundhouse kick related deaths have increased 13,000 percent.
  9. Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
  10. There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.
  11. There are two kinds of people in this world: people who suck, and Chuck Norris.
  12. Chuck Norris spends his Saturdays climbing mountains and meditating in peaceful solitude. Sundays are for oral sex, KFC and Tequila.
  13. Chuck Norris always has sex on the first date. Always. The only time he didn’t was in 1941, otherwise known as the beginning of the Holocaust.
  14. Chuck Norris can enter up, up, down, down, left, right, left,right,B, A, Select, Start using only his erection.
  15. Crop circles are Chuck Norris’s way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the fuck down.
  16. There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.
  17. When Chuck Norris goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe,and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.
  18. Chuck Norris once walked down the street with a massive erection. There were no survivors.
  19. In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself.
  20. Chuck Norris has two speeds: walk and kill.
  21. Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
  22. When Chuck Norris was born, the nurse said, “Holy crap! That’s Chuck Norris!” Then she had had sex with him. At that point, she was the third girl he had slept with.
  23. Chuck Norris can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
  24. It takes Chuck Norris 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.
  25. Chuck Norris is not lactose intolerant, he just refuses to put up with lactose’s shit.
  26. Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
  27. When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up,he’s pushing the Earth down.
  28. Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
  29. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
  30. Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK’s head exploded out of sheer amazement.
  31. Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn’t stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.
  32. A blind man once stepped on Chuck Norris’ shoe. Chuck replied, “Don’t you know who I am? I’m Chuck Norris!” The mere mention of his name cured this man blindness. Sadly the first, last, and only thing this man ever saw, was a fatal roundhouse delivered by Chuck Norris.
  33. When an episode of Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side.
  34. The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
  35. The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Chuck Norris has been there. In that case the grass is most likely soaked in blood and tears.
  36. Chuck Norris’s girlfriend once asked him how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. He then shouted, “HOW DARE YOU RHYME IN THE PRESENCE OF CHUCK NORRIS!” and ripped out her throat. Holding his girlfriend’s bloody throat in his hand he bellowed, “Don’t fuck with Chuck!” Two years and five months later he realized the irony of this statement and laughed so hard that anyone within a hundred mile radius of the blast went deaf.
  37. If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can’t see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.
  38. Chuck Norris was the fourth Wiseman. He brought baby Jesus the gift of “beard”. Jesus wore it proudly to his dying day. The other Wisemen, jealous of Jesus’ obvious gift favoritism, used their combined influence to have Chuck omitted from the Bible. Shortly after all three died of roundhouse kick related deaths.
  39. To prove it isn’t that big of a deal to beat cancer. Chuck Norris smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and aquired 7 different kinds of cancer only to rid them from his body by flexing for 30 minutes.
  40. Chuck Norris once ate three 72 oz. steaks in one hour. He spent the first 45 minutes having sex with his waitress.
  41. Chuck Norris is 1/8th Cherokee. This has nothing to do with ancestry, the man ate a fucking Indian.
  42. Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother’s womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.
  43. Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse… horses are hung like Chuck Norris
  44. Chuck Norris can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying “booya”.
  45. After much debate, President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima rather than the alternative of sending Chuck Norris. His reasoning? It was more “humane”.
  46. The quickest way to a man’s heart is with Chuck Norris’s fist.
  47. It was once believed that Chuck Norris actually lost a fight to a pirate, but that is a lie, created by Chuck Norris himself to lure more pirates to him. Pirates never were very smart.
  48. When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. Chuck Norris has not had to pay taxes ever.
  49. When Chuck Norris’s wife burned the turkey one Thanksgiving, Chuck said, “Don’t worry about it honey,” and went into his backyard. He came back five minutes later with a live turkey, ate it whole, and when he threw it up a few seconds later it was fully cooked and came with cranberry sauce. When his wife asked him how he had done it, he gave her a roundhouse kick to the face and said, “Never question Chuck Norris.”
  50. Chuck Norris found out about Conan O’Brien’s lever that shows clips from “Walker: Texas Ranger” and is working on a way to make it show clips of Norris having sex with Conan’s wife.
  51. Chuck Norris appeared in the “Street Fighter II” video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this “glitch,” Norris replied, “That’s no glitch.”
  52. Someone once tried to tell Chuck Norris that roundhouse kicks aren’t the best way to kick someone. This has been recorded by historians as the worst mistake anyone has ever made.
  53. Chuck Norris owns the greatest Poker Face of all-time. It helped him win the 1983 World Series of Poker despite him holding just a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoloy card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game UNO.

I would also like to point out a great video I found the other night…
Why Chuck Norris is Such as Badass

iplaying: Into the Sun – Lifehouse – Lifehouse. What can I say? I’m giving Lifehouse another chance at life with their third album which I previously thought was awful.

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Review: Smallville Season One

TV shows on DVD are the devil.

You can get so addicted to watching a show without commercials at any time you wish.

The curse is that you may end up spending a few hours each night trying to watch a few more episodes. Or just take a 5 episode marathon on a Sunday evening trying to complete the season.

Word to the wise…if you can get the next Season of a show, do so right before you watch the season finale…because you know those bastards will have a cliffhanger and then you’ll be just ranting on your blog about how you should have grabbed the second season from Eric.

(very minor spoilers here…I wouldn’t even consider them spoilers but you know how I hate to accidentally read a spoiler. Like when I accidentally read that someone died on Lost) Anyhow…Smallville. I enjoyed the first season. I didn’t know what to expect since my only intro to Superman was the Lois and Clark TV series and recently, the Superman movies. I thoroughly enjoyed the first season as it introduces Clark Kent in a manner which you’ve never seen him – confused, and not in control of his powers. Heck, he doesn’t even know some of his powers that he will end up getting. I also like the constant funny references to the Superman legacy such as Clark saying he never was one to dress in a uniform and save the world. If you only knew…

I really like how Lex Luthor (hey, did anyone know that Lex is short form for Alexander? I just found that out.) is friends with Clark Kent and you can see that it will be very interesting when they end the series to show how they become enemies. Or maybe that happens in Season Two?

I highly recommend the series even to non-Superman lovers. It’s a great show, great cast, good plots (although I was getting tired of the X-Files type oddities showing up every episode) and I cannot wait to grab Season Two off of Eric. That will keep me busy during the holidays.

iplaying: You and Me – Lifehouse – Lifehouse

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Review: First Annual Palmer Christmas Party

I would have to say that I thought the First Annual Christmas Party was a success. Highlights of the night include:

  • Shannon coming to the party dressed as an elf
  • Door prizes galore
  • The guys winning the Christmas trivia match – “Nah nah…nah nah nah nah…hey heyyyyy…goodbye!!!” addition from Trish – plastic kazoos to accompany “hey hey hey goodbye”
  • Way too much rum put into the eggnog by Sam
  • The constant theft of some great beer glasses during the gift exchange
  • The enormous sweater Duncan brought which we straightjacketed Maureen into
  • Great treats brought by some great friends
  • Good times had by all
  • During the Christmas Trivia game, the question “When the did the electric Christmas tree lights first appear?” in which Holly proclaimed “They were around when I was a kid!”. Holly was born in the late 70s.
  • Addition from Trish – Ryan saying the words “this is my FAVORITE part” for every part of National Lampoon’s Christmas

Cannot complain. I am surprised I am living right now as I had to wake up at 6:30, 9:00 and 12:00 to wake people up (for various reasons) while I went to bed at 4:30. Ah well, all in good fun.

Merry Christmas to all.

iplaying: Sleep Now in the Fire – Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles

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Snow Storm 2005


This is what happens when you get dumped on with a ton of snow.

This photo was taken down the street from where I work in Hull.

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Review: Legends of Dune Trilogy

I just finished The Battle of Corrin last night after going on a reading blitz since the book was engaging near the end.

The Battle of Corrin is the final book in the Legends of Dune trilogy.

I shall first speak about the trilogy, then I shall talk about the Dune series as a whole.

Legends of Dune span over a few hundred years which was an interesting concept because they use the characters from who are young (20s) in The Butlerian Jihad (Book One) and then they skip to the age of sixty in The Machine Crusade (Book Two) and then throw everything away and jump a good sixty years in The Battle of Corrin (Book Three). They can manage to do this because a lot of the characters are either robots or people with life-extension treatments. Personally, I liked the first two books the most because they revolved around the same main characters, but then since so much time has passed by the third book, not many familiar faces are around. It was as interesting concept to show that this war that they are fighting against the machines doesn’t just take a few years of a lifetime.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Legends of Dune trilogy as it showed the origins of MANY concepts in Dune such as where the Mentats came from, where the Bene Gesserit were formed, and more importantly, how they fold space. Many questions which were just not questioned in the original Dune series. I felt the characters were dynamic and even though there were probably 15 main chracters in the entire trilogy, they flow from one chapter to the next very well. These books were written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. I cannot speak about Mr. Herbert, but I have enjoyed Kevin J. Anderson’s work on the Star Wars novels and they keep me captivated.

As for the Dune series on a whole, I have finally completed reading them. For a rundown of the series along with ROUGH release dates…can’t seem to find any on the Net:

Legends of Dune (2000)
The Butlerian Jihad
The Machine Crusade
The Battle of Corrin

Prelude to Dune (late 90s)
House Atreides
House Harkonnen
House Corrino

Dune (1965 onward to 1984 when Frank Herbert died)
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune

Essentially, Frank Herbert made the Dune universe and with six Dune novels but then died before completing the final seventh novel. Talk about a cliffhanger. He builds up so many plot points that just never get resolved.

In comes Brian Herbert (his son) who finds outlines of Dune 7 years later as well as backstories for much of the fabled Butlerian Jihad and other characters. He teams up with Kevin J. Anderson to pull off an Episode I like movement and creates not only a prequel to the series, but a prequel-prequel which takes place thousands of years before the series.

In doing so, they have commented that elements from these prequels will lead into Dune 7 (which has now become two separate novels which are being written right now) which I find interesting because there are certain elements which were never mentioned in the series by Frank Herbert that I can see being re-introduced in Dune 7.

It’s been a long ride reading all 12 Dune novels but I must say that the Dune universe rivals the Star Wars universe. In fact, I am going to go out on a limb and say that I enjoy the Dune universe more, just for it’s high end science fiction. I’m not knocking Star Wars…I’m just saying I really like the original concepts found in the Dune universe. I just went on the website and noticed the Dune series is considered the science fiction equivalent of Lord of the Rings. Whoa, that’s a high claim, but totally justified.

Heck, while I’m on a roll, let’s talk about the movies. I was introduced to Dune by renting the movie from…1984 I believe? This movie sucked big time. It was awful. However, it did have Captain Picard and Sting. You cannot go wrong there.

Anyhow, the redeeming factor in the Dune media series was a great mini-series back a few years ago, which followed with Children of Dune mini-series (a combination of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune). I thoroughly enjoyed the Dune mini-series…Children of Dune…not so much. I encourage everyone to watch the Dune mini-series – it’s only six hours long.

I look forward to Dune 7.

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Welcome Newcomers!

I have heard that a slew of people are starting to receive my Christmas card so I thought I would throw up an introduction message to my blog in case this is the first time for some people.

  • There are blog (aka web log) entries updated periodically. There is no structure to them other than the fact that I like to keep a blog for a keepsake (aka, go back through the years to see what I have accomplished) but at the same time, see what I was thinking at the time. This stems from my trip to Europe where I found it interesting to document what I was thinking, what I was listening to at the time, what type of beer I was drinking…
  • Every blog entries allows comments so you’re more than welcome to leave/read one.
  • On the right hand side, you will find a variety of links – to my photo gallery hosted at flickr.com, friend’s blog sites, my webcam based Morning Show episodes (still being updated), random links to oddities, as well as archives of all the posts I have written.

Voila!

iplaying: Rebellion (Lies) by The Arcade Fire – Funeral

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Oh Christmas Tree Part 2


So here is Eric and I carrying out the Christmas tree to my house. I would like to point out that for the first half of the trip I was wondering if Eric was doing alright in the back, but it turns out that I was doing 99% of the worload whereas Eric was holding the stump.

More pictures in the photo gallery!

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Non-Grads Get No License

Hey, I actually agree with this legislation which will prevent dropouts of high school to get a driver’s license.

Read article here.

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Han Solo and Chewie

Last night, I was talking with Vero about famous couples and I mentioned Han Solo and Chewbacca. She replied “Which ones are they?”

Sigh…