Rise and Shine!

1. What time do you normally wake up?

Since I'm studying for the bar? About 0900.

2. Do you wake with or without an alarm clock?

With. I've got four or five of the things well out of arms' reach.

3. Name the one thing you must have immediately to start your day.

Interaction with my beloved laptop.

4. How long after you wake up do you turn on your computer?

I leave the thing on overnight. Sharon never sleeps.

5. Breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day. Do you eat breakfast every day?

Yes, even though there are times when "breakfast" is served at the middle of the day.

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"Excuse me. I'd just like to ask a question: What does God need with a blog?"

Heh heh heh. In actuality, I couldn't imagine Vulcans (even renegade ones) blogging. Nevertheless, someone's chosen to mine the scorned grounds of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier for their blog name.¹

That's right, there's a blog dubbed Sha Ka Ree. As to why, their explanation is here. I just found this yesterday, courtesy of Right Moment. more...

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This should be my only statement, because there are more important things to worry about:

"Having seen Ana Marie "Wonkette" Cox and Jessica "Washingtonienne" Cutler, a verdict: They're both ugly. I wouldn't chase Cutler for love or money and I'd need toxic levels of grain alcohol in the bloodstream before I'd give Cox a second look."¹

I would suggest that the cultured individual would look down their noses at these two harridans, snort indifferently, and walk away.

At any rate, much thanks to the Commissar for breaking this information. Now to go and have my retinae scrubbed from being fugly-blinded.²

UPDATE: I would, however, like to register a distinct note of protest to the otherwise sensible Michelle Malkin, who labeled these two degenerates as "the female Beavis and Butthead". Two things: 1) I liked Beavis and Butt-head; it was MTV's last gasp of cultural relevance and; 2) the boys never scored. Cutler did, repeatedly and for cash.

Secondly, remember that Glenn Reynolds was one of the early braggarts about Cox. Take that, and his reported contribution to the downfall of Trent Lott, and I'd think it's time to reconsider his usefulness to the "blogosphere" as a whole.

Thirdly, jeers to the Fox News Channel for putting them on television. I would imagine that a "conservative" news service would have ignored the both of them. Of course, what can one expect from a news network whose broadcast parent pioneered Married...With Children and programs like Temptation Island? Conservative network my foot.

UPDATE THE SECOND: It appears that Bill at INDC Journal has similar thoughts, and they were put to electrons before this post. more...

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The Politburo Diktat has another map up; this time, it's the holy city of Kablogh.

The Country Pundit, himself being a Christian guy and therefore unwelcome in the holy sites of Islam, is not represented on the map. This'll make it easier to send a Minuteman III in to flatten the place sooner or later.

Tee hee.

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1. What is your favorite color?

Judging from a quick peek in the closet, it's blue.

2. What is your favorite piece of clothing?

Uh, I've got a sweater that several girls thought was decent looking, but I quit wearing it.

3. Where is your favorite place to eat out?

There's a little steakhouse the next city over from where I live; it's owned by some immigrants---half-century here or more---who've done pretty well for themselves and who serve really good flounder.

4. What is your favorite meal?

One that I didn't have to fix myself.

5. What is your favorite sport or recreational game?

Watching Winston Cup racing on Sundays, hooray.

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1. Is your hair its natural color right now and do you wear your hair long or short?

Yes, and I wear it short, unfortunately! I miss the salad days of high school, when a bit of length was acceptable.

2. Shirts: long sleeves or short?

Ooh, ooh, the perfect law school answer: "It depends." On the whole, I prefer long sleeves. They can always be rolled up.

3. Do you wear a belt?

Yep. Got to have something to keep the pants up and to hang the phone on.

4. Tell me about your favorite bottom wear.

Er, they're khaki pants.

5. How many pairs of shoes do you own?

Let's see: One pair of really dress shoes (but not wingtips!), one pair of "Sunday shoes" which I wear to work, a pair of dilapidated Columbia sandals, a pair of hiking boots, a worn-out pair of Nike running shoes, and that's about it. Viva Imelda Marcos.

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Not that I actually know anything about these off-the-wall contests run by larger blogs, but the folks over at Wizbang have run one, in a manner of speaking.

The aforementioned entry shows us some gal named "Willow", who's ever-so-nicely-reclined and inverted whilst facing the camera. It's a fetching black-and-white shot, or so we're led to believe. While gazing approvingly upon it, I saw something that explained second place.

Yep, that's right. A Starfleet insignia from the TNG era, instead of the much more attractive Bob Fletcher design used from The Wrath of Khan until The Undiscovered Country. (A comparison of the two is available from Spike's Star Trek Site. Look at the third and first images, respectively.)

Had she been outfitted with the right insignia, victory would have been assured. Make that, "had she been kitted out in the standard Fletcher maroon-and-black Starfleet uniform".

Yeah, OK, so Kathryn Jean Lopez would probably crack my skull for a post regarding inanities of Star Trek. So sue me; I'm a sucker for 1960s sci-fi trash, or at least the first six movies made off of it. Thumbs down to the 24th century.

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Everyone has different reactions to different situations. So, what would you do if you came upon the following...

1. A person obviously struggling to keep their head above water in a pool or lake.

Use my ever-ubiquitous Sprint PCS phone to call 911, and then start trying to remember how best to rescue someone from BSA lifeguard classes taken during the Cold War.

2. You find a $100 bill on the floor in a store.

Take it to the service desk, even though I'd really like to spend it myself. Some poor individual has obviously lost it, and probably needs it more than I do.

3. A dog or cat with a broken leash wandering aimlessly in your neighborhood.

Bug the guy across the street, who's really good with pets and so forth. He'd know what to do.

4. A person you don't know knocks on your door in the middle of the night claiming they have an emergency situation and want to use your telephone.

Offer to call 911 for them, while they stand on the porch, and lock the door in the process.

5. You see a car veer off the road and into the ditch.

First, report it via the handy-dandy Sprint PCS phone. Then, drive past (i.e. up ahead) and stop. Walk back to the car, looking for signs of trouble which would indicate that I should get in my car and go about my business.

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to Sunday Brunch.

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There aren't going to be any more Friday Fives. Read this for an explanation. Bother!

Anyone got any other weekly memes to participate in?

UPDATE: It appears that this will serve to satisfy my thirst for memes, and it's apparently got something to do with the people behind the Friday Five.

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OK, this isn't cool:

On the Technorati Top 100 sites linked to, President Bush's website is linked to less than the site of the Massachusetts Merovingian. The numbers as of ~2051 in the East:

Kerry - 1741 blogs 2999 links
Bush - 1427 blogs 2160 links

This is, of course, unacceptable. All of you city types that haven't linked the President's website (georgewbush.com) need to get it in gear, and overtake our version of the oh-so-annoying Merv. Merv's 46th, and the President is 61st.

I'm doing my part; how about you?

UPDATE: I tweaked the wording a bit so that 'Merovingian' might just show up with 'John Kerry' a little more.

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In the vein of the various articles written by Comrade Commissar on how to blog effectively, the following article entitled "INDC Journal Guerrilla Blogging Guide: Comment Spam".

Bill has a three-step method to begin abusing the open comment threads of various blogs to bring your blog to prominence, at the expense of someone else's bandwidth. Inasmuch as I'm also always trying to get more traffic, more readers, and more links, I figured that perhaps this information should be suppressed. However, it's better to share it all in the theory of trickle-down blogonomics. Hooray.

At the same time, it must be noted that it's occasionally difficult to link a guy who paid for a Sekimori Design overhaul; if he's got the bucks like Glenn Reynolds, then maybe he can suffer the fate of Wonkette. I'm kidding! I'm kidding; he's on the Bloggahland map with me in the Analysts section, so the link-love is free, fast, and furious. Or something.

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VIRGINIA - Allegations and period documentary evidence have surfaced showing that The Country Pundit was accessible and known to the world as far back as the Great Bloggah War.¹ A regular KGB purge of State archives located a map made by obscure 19th century explorer Boris Kutznutsov, and made public its findings here.

"The Country Pund", considered part of the "Vast Right Warlike Confederation", was closely affiliated with the "Analyst" group. It is unknown if elements from Pund participated in the actual battle against the Moonbat colony, established by Leftieland. Evidence exists to suggest that the majority of Pund forces remained in the rear, attempting to plan for a post-war system of railroads, the acquisition of Southern accents, and forcible conversions of the conquered populace to Jacksonian thought.

Al Sharpton was heard stating that demands for reparations would be made, since "[T]he blood of many bloggah people is on the lily-white hands of The Country Pundit." TCP had no comment other than to ask if Jesse Jackson ran a blog or not. more...

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I forgot to do this a while back:

Almost all of the buttons displayed on this site come from Taylor McKnight. Without his site, I'd probably be stuck with a handful of non-standard buttons found wherever.

Thanks!

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Where do I get one of those things that goes in the comments box and requires a commenting visitor to type in an alphanumeric code before posting? I'm having to deal with a batch of spammers at the moment, and I'd like some better weapons.

UPDATE: Yay, MT-Blacklist is installed and supposedly functioning well. Party on, Wayne. I culled something like 40 comments out of the list for being objectionable, and that's great. I'm happy that the blogosphere as a whole is useful on this. Hooray!

Additional information: I've tried to get David Raynes' mt-close.cgi working, but it's been fruitless so far. Everything's set right; it's just not closing. I uploaded in ASCII format and CHMODd the file to 755, according to my FTP client.

Also: Once I figure out how to work with a .tar.gz file, I'll implement one of those Captcha things and be better protected. This means that the visually impaired commenters will be SOL if I do the Captcha thing; if you're a commenter and can't read the screen, let me know.

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From Ith over at the re-designed Abinsinthe & Cookies:

1. Grab the nearest CD.

2. Put it in your CD player.

3. Skip to song 3.

4. Post the first verse along with these instructions. Don?t name the band, nor the album title.

Here goes:

Rusted brandy in a diamond glass
everything is made from dreams
time is made from honey slow and sweet
only the fools know what it means

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to Absinthe & Cookies. It's worth noting that the version I'm listening to is a cover.

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