http://tententacles.com So many arms, so little time. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:03:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new site design. I cheated a little and used an existing design that I modified for my purposes. I like the finished product and, while I may be changing formatting a little in the future, I'm sticking with it. Now for some Chuck. Mmm, hot blonde spy. http://tententacles.com/2008/11/11/slither-sploosh/ Once again, I find myself following the path of the Honorable Reverend Jim. He's been using this new fangled gadget called Ping.FM to update all his social networks at once. I liked it and started using it. I also found a handy-dandy Wordpress plugin, called pingpressfm, that's supposed to update ... http://tententacles.com/2008/11/11/footprints-in-the-aether/ So, I'm driving back from lunch today and I see this billboard with the following, in huge, block type: Every 28 minutes another NC teenager becomes pregnant The first thought that pops into my head is, "Damn, these kids today sure are having a lot more sex than I ever did!" Lucky jerks. http://tententacles.com/2008/11/10/randy-buggers/ I know I said I was going to make regular posts about the surgery and recovery. To be honest the last thing I anticipated about this whole thing was how depressed being almost completely sedentary would make me. I took a few pictures, when the mood struck, but I could ... http://tententacles.com/2008/11/08/hoping-others-keep-their-promises-better/ If you'd like to know what this is about, you can find out all about it here, and maybe join in: I don't really have anything else to say, that hasn't been said better by others, except people suck. http://tententacles.com/2008/11/07/a-finger-for-solidarity/ Well, it's done. Seems I wasn't meant for just the sedation anesthesia. They ended up having to put me under general; something to do with needing help breathing. The doctor's recommended I have a sleep study done to check for possible sleep apnea. Apart from that, the wicked cotton mouth, and ... http://tententacles.com/2008/10/07/its-too-bad-i-only-got-one/ I promised before pictures, and here they are. The first one is without socks. If you know what to look for, it's pretty obvious. The left foot is the problem one. You can see how there's a bump at the head of the first metatarsal and the big toe slants ... http://tententacles.com/2008/09/25/dont-look-at-me-im-hideous/ No one would argue that the most important tool to a Marine is his rifle; this is drilled into us from day one of boot camp, when we are taught the Rifleman's Creed. What movies don't tell you, though, is that a Marine's second most important set of tools are ... http://tententacles.com/2008/09/22/clean-to-the-bone/ You know, I bet you if you do the research, this guy probably donates more money than anyone on the planet: Maybe, Harry Weiner is the bigger giver, though, who knows. ... Yes, yes. I know it's been a hellaciously long time since I last posted. Yes, yes. I know some of you ... http://tententacles.com/2008/09/11/bill-gates-not-top-philanthropist/ The flights were both flawless: on time, smooth, and uneventful. While waiting in DFW we stoped at an Irish pub I hit sometimes where I travel to Dallas on business. Corrie Ann and Devin seemed to enjoy the food. "Dad, my favorite bacon cheeseburgers are from Irish pubs," Devin was heard ... http://tententacles.com/2008/07/20/were-here-were-queer/ Sitting at the airport in Greensboro mooching off some free wireless connection here. We have about another half hour before our plane boards for the first leg of our flight: from here to DFW. There we'll have another hour an a half wait before we take the second and last ... http://tententacles.com/2008/07/18/waiting-to-begin/ Corrie Ann and I have been, for well over a year now, wrestling with a desire to once again have an SLR camera. Having both grown up using Pentax K-1000s and reveling in doing our own B&W prints, we always felt a great void in the features that were available ... http://tententacles.com/2008/06/25/the-one-month-gestation-is-over-babys-home/ So, it's getting better and at a quicker rate, it seems, than I was lead to believe by my Interweb diagnosis. It still creeps me the hell out, and I have had this constant, phantom ache in that eye ever since I discovered the existence of the blood spot of ... http://tententacles.com/2008/05/27/well-thats-never-happend-to-me/ So, last night Devin and I swung by Wendy's to pick up some quick dinner. As we're waiting for our two Mandarin Chicken salads and one Kids Cheeseburger meal to arrive he says, "Hey, dad. What's that red thing in your eye." I didn't really think much of it until ... http://tententacles.com/2008/05/24/holy-bloody-eye-batman/ The last three of my six main toons are now all at level 40 and are all decked out with mounts. Having no Exalted status with any other factions, I went with racial mounts all around. I also, for whatever reason, have hit forty, with all six toons, in Dustwallow ... http://tententacles.com/2008/05/12/kodo-and-nightsaber-and-wolves-oh-my/ Yesterday, working from home, I didn't venture much into the outdoors. Mostly, I left to take The Boy to school, and then pick up my niece from daycare. Both times, though, I heard a helicopter. I couldn't see it anywhere over the woods behind my house, but I distinctly heard ... http://tententacles.com/2008/05/07/imagine-the-zombies-you-could-kill/ It seems The Fates have decided that today is the day I think about feminism. It started with reading this post of Spider's, which for me read as a laundry list of things I do every day ... part and parcel of life in a two income household and spending ... http://tententacles.com/2008/04/28/a-feminist-convergence/ My brother and I set out today to knock out a couple of quests we both needed some help with. After spending the morning killing centaur in Desolace and ogres in Stromgarde, we set out after Fozruk. As you can see below, he and his kobold entourage fell to the ... http://tententacles.com/2008/04/20/have-beanstalk-will-travel/ So, last night I was running around Duskwallow Marsh, like you do, trying to level my Paladin. I was over where the murlocs are, in the northeast, and I was picking off one and two of them at a time and feeling pretty good about myself. I'd just sat down ... http://tententacles.com/2008/04/20/13-murlocs-really/ Yesterday, Blizzard Entertainment announced that in preparation for the up coming Spanish version of World of Warcraft, to be released with dedicated servers throughout Latin America, they were offering the Spanish Language Pack to anyone who wished to download it and try it out. I couldn't resist giving it a ... http://tententacles.com/2008/04/18/sangre-y-turenos/