Happy Birthday to Me.

Today is my birthday. w00t.

Well, off to school...

Books of 2010: The Last Centurion

"The Last Centurion," by John Ringo, was very interesting. It was a Baen free download onto my kindle, which is always good. I started this one before Monster Hunter Vendetta, took a break from it for a day to read MHV, and then finished it a couple days later.

It was a very interesting read--the style is non-standard, kinda "bloggy," actually. It follows a soldier through a global flu outbreak and cooling event. You can just hear John Ringo ranting on his soapbox, which I love. Actually, you can hear an interview with him about this book where he rants a little bit here.

I found it very entertaining, and it had some very good points about modern society and science (in other words, if you are a regular reader of Borepatch you'll want to read it).

Good stuff. Rated 9/10

Shower Gremlin: Second Most Annoying Thing in the World

I swear there's a gremlin that lives in the wall in our bathroom. You start out with fantastic hot water pressure, but as time goes by it just gets lower... and lower... and lower...

Then, when it gets to a certain lowness, the shower head starts squealing, which is about the most annoying sound in the world. Oh wait, no, this is the most annoying sound in the world:

WHY   SO   SEWIOUS?

But the squealing gremlin in my shower who keeps turning down my hot water pressure is probably second.

In other news, apparently we as a country want to get involved in another land war in Asia, thus proving that no one in our government or military has ever watched Princess Bride. I'm just sayin'.

HOOOOO-LEEEEE CRAP.

And they call ME racist?

This is filled with such a gross, biased, and crude misrepresentation of the facts that I honestly don't have any idea where to begin.

Aye ye freaking ye.

Uh... wow?

I just noticed that I put up 90 posts last month--beating the old record of 72 from June. That's 3 a day. Three posts a day of what I can mostly describe as mindless, inane chatter. And weird music videos.

But you know what, I seem to enjoy doing it, so... whatever! I just hope I haven't set myself up for unrealistic expectations.

But now I think that I should make another label that is more than the "wasting time" one that I have already. Because this is truly wasting time on an epic scale.

Bond

I don't know where they got the name "Bond" from--spy or otherwise--but I know that I like the music.  It's like... classical dance music.  This video, though, is so cheesy it's fun:



Anyway, there's your music education for the day.