Crimson needs

A meme of sorts, which turned out to be mildly entertaining, from Gidget casts on. How? Google your name + needs.

• He *knows* what Crimson needs, and if they won't provide it, he'll subvert or betray his own playing style to try and fill the gap.
• CRIMSON NEEDS TO FUCKING GO. Yes. Correct. Affirmitave. That's right. I agree. How many times must we say it?
• But Crimson needs a contribution of power and even more extra feeling.
• THIS is where the Crimson needs to concentrate.
• Crimson needs to develop a few more levels to get this game going or have a conversion tool for KQ1 games.
• Crimson needs to hurry up and pull someothing out of his hat soon, and that turns out to be Gryphons.
• That damn Crimson needs to get over the fact I'm old enough to know what I'm doing.
• And Crimson needs someone to keep her outta my hair.
• Crimson needs a land where she is able to have intellectual conversation, but also be free to frollick and be silly if she chooses, without the fear of being attacked.
• I think Crimson needs to reinstall steam so me and him can knife.

Last but never least ...

• Crimson needs to get its goddamn priorities straight.

Damn right she does.

Fall has fell

I got woken up from a nice warm slumber this morning because my mom wanted me to take pictures at church. She's crazy, but I did it. Got all cold, too.

I have to say that the festival isn't nearly as exciting as it used too be; it seems that a lot more vendors than usual are just food vendors. (But I had a lamb burger yesterday, so that's something, at least. It wasn't as good as the ones at the state fair, Beth.)

Hopefully I'll hear from Brie sometime soon so we can hit the square. I think I'll have a gyro for lunch, as there's a gyro booth. My mom got one yesterday and spilled it all over her shoe. The dog licked it up, though. I think I'll get a giant pickle, too.

I'm going to take pictures of the parade, because my brother's marching. I'm excited to see him all fancied up with a plume on his head. I want to laugh at him.

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I just found a pretty fabulous snake game. It's three-dimensional and addicting, which is excatly like I like my snakes.


Peace out, girl scout.

Romanes eunt domus

I woke up all frozen this morning due to lack of warm bedding, which I'll remedy when I go home tomorrow. I decided to thaw by watching a little Life of Brian, but I lost interest just after the 'Romanes eunt domus' scene. (To those of you who know Latin but haven't seen the movie for some ungodly reason, Brian's mis-declination gets corrected by one of the very Roman soldiers that he's telling to 'go home'. For those of you who don't know Latin or the movie, the correct phrase is 'Romani ite domum'.)

As time goes by, it becomes more and more apparent to me that e.e. cummings knows many important secrets.

To be nobody--but yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

Oh, if you suddenly feel the urge to bid on something over at eBay, I've got just the thing. (Thanks to KL for emailing it.)

And after four years of missing the Covered Bridge Festival due to Luther's homecoming, I finally get to wander around our town square and explore crafty booths and, hopefully, find a giant pickle on a stick. (And hang out with some friends and stuff, of course.) Whee!

A small list

"My country tis of thee, sweet land of hypocricy", via Lick My Sticks.

1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction and air conditioning.
2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
9. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

Sad server

Sometime after noon today, we realized that the server here at the MADhouse was full. No problem! we thought. We'll just delete a few files and make more room. I'm sure there's a bunch of old stuff around here that we can toss ...

After a brief server restart, we were back in action, or so we thought. Two of us were left here to answer phones and such -- everyone else had gone to lunch. But we couldn't open some of the pages after restarting the server. Despite trying other computers, we just couldn't get some pages to open at all. The program actually quit! (The nerve.)

To make a long and trying story very short, we decided that the five pages that wouldn't open were lost and corrupted, and now are currently rebuilding them. Thankfully, there were a couple of printouts of some of the pages floating around.

And I thought I wouldn't have to do much today.

The usual

During my weekly tour of southwest Iowa this morning, I was stuck behind a semi and a piece of large farm machinery at the same time. We're in the thick of fall, folks. (Or maybe I'm just in the thick of the Midwest.)

Daydreaming on Paper is an interesting site about paper journals, inspiration for them, how to make them, etc. It goes on the "browse occasionally" list.

But now I'm going home, for I'm hungry and done for the day.