Oh, Erika, I was thinking about you the other day - I was killing time while watching tv doing that amazon turk thing. I really don't quite get the point - you look at a bunch of crappy pictures of building exteriors and check off ticky boxes, and apparently that's worth some tiny amount of money to someone. Anyway, one of the options was Baltimore and I got a real kick out of some of the shots. Cool way to see some bits of a city that don't make it into the tourist books, that's for sure.

How to Refuse Alien Abduction A pdf, so I can't copy the more... interesting parts and post them.

It's very interesting. It starts with a list of the various alien races, including the Mantises (which I've never heard of before), who apparantly look like Zorak.

The thing is from a Christian perspective. Basicly, you can call on God to help you resist alien abduction.

eta: The site where that pdf came from: [link]

Did you ever think that the UFO phenomona and spirituality were interlinked? Who is the Commander and Chief of the Positive Aliens?

Although I think that site loses a lot of credibility, as they use the <blink> tag....

Ok, ita. Keep sending money to netflix. Feel good about it.

My mom doesn't drive and she loves movies, as do many of her friends. For $20 a month, she gets films delivered to her door, including obscure foreign and classic films she could never have seen otherwise. She has friends over to share films on a regular basis, and because she knows what's coming, instead of depending on what might be on the shelf at the rental store when she walks in, she can invite folks over in advance. These once a week movie nights are one of her favorite social things she does since my dad died, so I think Netflix rocks.

Gus, try picking on Sony instead.

And a belated Happy Birthday! to DX.

Thanks, aurelia.

Though come to think of it, Rolf the Dog is already based on Waits.

Seriously?

Yep. 70s Tom Waits, though.

Nope, he can't possibly be. Rowlf first appeared on the Jimmy Dean Show (yes, the sausage guy used to be a singer) back in the early sixties, ten years before Waits's first album came out. Waits was only 14 when Rowlf started pounding away on his piano.

I was just coming to post that I really wish I wasn't awake.

Still wish it, but at least now I know about the Jimmy Dean show and Rowlf, which is cool.

HEY! Perkins, yet again, we're awake at the same time. Though I don't feel like ass today. And I went to sleep early last night due to raging headache.

But I got to see Alibelle (all of you should be jealous x 10) and I bought tickets to Florida and am looking to see if we should, in Feb, fly from Dublin to London for 2 days or from Dublin to Brussels.

Thoughts anyone?

I got to see Alibelle (all of you should be jealous x 10)

I'm jealous x 17, for the record.

if we should, in Feb, fly from Dublin to London for 2 days or from Dublin to Brussels

Why not?

You people who are (already? still?) awake make me question my timezones calculations.

already, not still in my case. I actually have slept 8 hours.