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What should I do? 1. Wear the old Homestar Runner costume of 2003. Homestar seems a bit passe these days. 2. Head to Party City and get whatever dregs they have in my size. 3. Carve a pumpkin, give out candy, dress up mini-Elbeno as a dragon and be done with it. No costume for… Continue reading Halloween is almost here…

(For the non-Californians: Prop 86 proposes a hefty tax increase on tobacco with 100% of the raised money going to various health concerns, and Prop 87 proposes a $4bn tax on oil companies to fund alternative fuel development. The oil companies are not allowed to pass the tax on to the price at the pump).… Continue reading Propositions 86 & 87

Time Warner Cable takes over Comcast in Socal. So I am being forcibly relocated to Roadrunner. They sent me a letter about it and told me to go to the appropriate site to switch over email etc. I went to the site. It said: We're sorry, we are unable to proceed with the Activation Wizard… Continue reading my new ISP

I already got the flyer/catalogue from Party City. My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul elbeno goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as an anti-pirate. _skye_ gives you 11 teal vanilla-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. arielerilrondil tricks you! You get a wad of paper. auntysarah gives you 18 orange cola-flavoured wafers. editor tricks you! You get a used tissue. greatbiggary… Continue reading halloween is coming

OK. So I got the new Weird Al album from and I've been listening to it for a few days. This album is better than previous WA offerings, and some songs are really good, but there are some lingering niggles. First, the good. The lead track, White and Nerdy had several laugh-out-loud moments for me.… Continue reading What's up with Weird Al?

Thank $deity that's over for another year, and I missed it at work because I was on holiday. Quite apart from my dislike of the pirate meme, I think Edmund Blackadder said it best: “Yes it is” not “That it be”. You don't have to talk in that stupid voice to me. I'm not a… Continue reading Talk Like a Pirate Day

I don't know what you did, moron, but you sure screwed everything up good. What's going on with Livejournal lately? I'm warning you now, LJ, if you go “Best viewed with Internet Explorer” I'm outta here.

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27th August, 1883, 10:02am local time. This was when Krakatoa last erupted – and what an astonishing event it was. I'm currently reading Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded and it's a fascinating read. Allow me to share with you some quite astounding details of the event. The final explosion (Krakatoa had been erupting since… Continue reading On this day in history…

“It shoots a chimp when they think [ ] are the bad guys.” I can't remember what word was in the [ ]. Do you have a good suggestion? AOAP.