The Reverse Cowgirl has made me laugh twice today with her Thanksgiving themed posts. Martha Stewart fisting a turkey is the best. I’ll never be able to cook a turkey without thinking about it now.

A few of my friends on LJ have been talking about this site where you make your own nation state. You too can get one at http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi . Here’s mine:

The Rogue Nation of Snoozeville

“Sleep is for the week!”

UN Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Civil Rights: Average Economy: Strong Political Freedoms: Very Good

Location: the Pacific

The Rogue Nation of Snoozeville is a tiny, devout nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The small government juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defence. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7%. A robust private sector is led by the Basket Weaving, Soda Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing industries.

Crime is a serious problem. Snoozeville’s national animal is the sloth and its currency is the breath mint.

It is also a game. So far the first issue for my nation is that the nudists are demanding time in the sun. Hey, I’m all up for more nudity, I think I’ll let them have it!

mm… i probly shouldn’t mention that the second dvd of X TV is out now 😀
and in a pretty black slipcover case with blue foil X logo.
~drools~ gimme my Yuzuriha. i happy ^^

personally, i like the tv series a lot. and it does have a definite ending
even though the manga hasn’t ended in japan, yet. it is close though,
seeing as they only have 3 more tarot cards to go through if i recall
correctly. the story is supposed to end there, and it is drawing together
like it’s preparing for the final climax.

if Viz hadn’t dawdle so much on the X manga, more of the tv series
would make sense. the only character beef i have is with Hinoto.
goddess knows i admire and luv Hisakawa-san’s seiyuu ability, and she
is excellent for Hinoto, but damnit, her lips SHOULDN’T BE MOVING!!
augh!! >.< she's deaf, blind, and mute damnit because she is so old and such a powerful seer. being d, b, and m gives her powers of seeing full potential. she can communicate psychically which more than makes up for her not being able to physically see, hear, and speak. but they have her talking in the TV series. augh!!! >.< ok. rant over. hehe... poor Hinoto has issues too }:D something Pioneer did for the r1 X dvd release is what they did for the Hellsing release. i don't approve of it in both cases as it messes with the original video source, but they used a sort of softening program to soften the overall image. having seen the r2 Hellsing the difference is very apparent; though i grudgingly admit on a level that it helps the overall smoothness of Hellsing's presentation. i still wish they hadn't done it. for the X tv series though, it makes an already soft picture too soft in areas, especially when it comes to somewhat distant shots of characters and detailed images. *sighs* i doubt they'll change methods now, but i hope they don't use it for Snow Sugar. mm... X vol. 2 is in my box awaiting my droolage, er, watching ^_^

The blogging world will never be the same. That’s right, Barbie has a blog. Here’s a sample entry:

11/6/2002 Play It Cool — But Look Hot

So Robbie finally called. His band is playing downtown tonight. I probably should play hard to get, but he is just such a hottie. No girl worth her credit cards could resist him. I must go fabulize.

So does this mean Barbie gave in? Did Robbie have his way with her after the show? Unfortunately (fortunately?) we never find out. Thanks to Boing Boing for the link.

I woke up just a few moments ago and needed a glass of water, was I was walking back to bed i suddenly realized that it was white outside. The snow has started. Pretty cool. I’m so glad I’m not driving up to NH today, hopefully traffic will be lighter tomorrow. That’s assuming that most people don’t put off driving till tomorrow.

I love how quiet the snow makes everything. I may have to try and slip outside in a few minutes and take some quite nighttime snow pictures, or maybe some just as the sun comes up. I hope the weather isn’t so bad that I can’t slip out for morning coffee.

If you’re worried that you are looking at too much pr0n on the internet, then I’ve got the place for you. Fires of Darkness is A ministry for pornography addicts and the people who love them. They have all kinds of resources here, including ecards for porn addicts and the people who love them and straight answers to porn addicts along with instructions on how to (gasp!) destroy the sources of porn in your life.

This site was discovered thanks to the wonderful reverse cowgirl.

Back at MacWorld New York, Apple showed a great ad spoofing their switch ads staring Will Ferrell. They’ve now posted two new ads staring him. They’re pretty good, I just wish they’d post the “Hi, I’m Will Ferrell and I’m a porn star one.” Anyone have it sitting aorund online? These were good, but that one was better.

My friend Lukas is mentioned in an article about TiVo in the Wall Street Journal. Pretty cool. I know someone famous for a few moments. He’s also the person who, a while back, was blogging about having his TiVo online.

It’s good to see TiVo getting more press. I love mine and couldn’t live without it at this point. The pause button is my best friend.

I’ve gotten into this weird habit lately of having the TV on muted. I’ll have on some music, but for some reason I like having the visual stimulation. Plus sometimes it’s fun to make up your own versions of what is happening on screen.

(my god I need a life, someone please hire me now)

Well, I finally broke down and ordered the first volume of the X TV series… several months ago. However, a slight backorder, long shipping times and a messed up order mean that I only got the thing about a week ago. Here’s some impressions:

I already know far more about X chronology than I particularly want to (although I don’t know how most people die or how it ends (has it even ended yet? I know the TV show has, but I’m not sure about the manga… help, anyone?)) thanks to curiousity (the kind that killed the cat) and Lyn (well, mostly Lyn), but there’s not much plot development this early anyway, so it doesn’t hurt or help. In general I thought it was pretty good, especially as a warmup for the real meat of the series, but not spectacular. Not that I really expect it to be groundbreaking by the third episode, especially since it needs one whole episode just to introduce the (massive) cast.

In the surprise category, TV Kamui is an even bigger jerk than movie Kamui (or what I was led to believe manga Kamui is like, since I haven’t actually read the manga). For some reason though, I don’t feel the need to rip TV Kamui’s head off though. I’m not sure why, but here’s some posibilities:

1) TV Kamui is more badass. I’m not sure how to quantify this, but it’s true: not only has TV Kamui kicked more ass in the first three episodes than movie Kamui did during the whole movie, movie Kamui kept crying over trying to help Fuuma and Kotori, and that hurt his badassness. If you’re going to be an apathetic badass, you have to be apathetic to everyone, you can’t pick and choose. Speaking of which…
2) TV Kamui is more apathetic. Movie Kamui made himself look like a big idiot by saying “I wanna protect these two specific people but if I have to protect the rest of the world while I’m at it, I don’t wanna.” On the other hand, TV Kamui is satisfyingly apathetic to everyone, even Fuuma and Kotori. He wants his sword and he wants out, and everyone else can kill each other for all he cares. Just give him his sword. It’s still annoying, but it’s much less annoying.
3) I’ve been told that TV Kamui (or at least manga Kamui) turns into someone far more likable after he gets a metaphorical slap-in-the-face-and-stern-talking-to during the infamous glass-impaling scene. I dunno if it’s true, but it would sure be better than movie Kamui, who got better for about… the last sixty seconds. If it is true, then it would make this asshole Kamui a lot more tolerable.
4) It doesn’t matter so much what Kamui is like, since the main character is, of course, Sorata. Really. He gets the first real Dragon-to-Dragon fight and a female love interest who intitially dislikes him and everything else a main character needs, not to mention coolness oozing out of every pore, which is what every main character wishes they had. Silly people, thinking that Kamui’s the main character. Silly, silly people. La la la la la, I can’t hear you silly people! Stop disagreeing with me! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!