The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

Last night after I got home...sucked. Badly. I hate Verizon with the heat of a thousand suns. I'll just leave it at that.

Round Two of the Elfen Lied game was yesterday - I managed one lone correct guess for Jessica Boone, who I really, really wanted to be in this. I'd be thrilled to win, but with 1:14 odds and my luck, it isn't really likely. Ah well - there's always Netflix.

If you're not reading it, Firefighter is one of the best dramatic manga series currently being released in the US. It has an odd premise (a rookie firefighter's experiences), but even when the situations get outrageously over-the-top (tiger?), the story remains so compelling that it doesn't seem to matter. Good stuff.

Fu-Master has earned my justified wrath over the past couple of days, because of his rather...unique way of...presenting information. Yea. It's almost impossible to describe, a strange melange of yes-man-itis, senseless babble, and annoying incomprehension - it really has to be experienced, but with the help of Hamlet, I'll try to give you a general idea of what a conversation with him is like.

Fu-Master's lines are in italics, spoken rapidly and loudly, and are spoken over Hamlet's.

HAMLET: To be, or not to be--that is the question: Question! Yesyes, the question!
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Outrageous!
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles An entire sea, in a boat! A big boat, like this one! *waves hands in air*
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-- Sleeping, uh, is just like, err, dying..
No more--and by a sleep to say we end NO MORE!!! *gesticulates wildly*
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation Consumption, yes, consumption of dumplings!
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-- And then, errr, with the thing, err, YEA!
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, Yes, yes, the rub *nods vigorously*
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, With the coil, there's a charge, and it's related to the...
Must give us pause. There's the respect RESPECT!!!
That makes calamity of so long life. *nodnod*
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Whips! We'll use whips to get this done...quickly...with the...time....
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The law's delay!
The insolence of office, and the spurns Insolent! We must put a stop to this!
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, The merit is that there are pangs, and it's a calamity, and...
When he himself might his quietus make Absolutely, absolutely.
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, And the bodice, on the dress...
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death, YES! DREAD! YES!
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will, Puzzling, yes, it's just like that...
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of? Know not! *gesticulates wildly*
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, All cowards. *nods vigorously*
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, Pale cast!
And enterprise of great pitch and moment Absolutely, absolutely. *nods vigorously and gesticulates wildly*
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now, SOFT!!
The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons She's like a nymph, in the water, and there's a tree...
Be all my sins remembered. ABSOLUTELY!

Yes, the trailings off and the incomplete sentances (and thoughts) are a trademark of Fu-Master's fighting speaking style. This was hysterically fun to put together.

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I will have no internet access from my house for at least ten days, after which point I may or may not have DSL. I don't believe that I'll actually be able to get DSL.

In the meantime, I thought it would be prudent for us to sign up for dial-up through Verizon as well, so we would have internet access, and a backup in case we can't actually get DSL once the equipment gets here. Both Verizon dial-up and Verizon DSL give you the first 30 days for free, so it's not like we'd be charged for both services. Erik think's I'm being insanely unreasonable.

Oy, why do things have to be so difficult? Is it too much to ask that I be able to access the freaking internet from the comfort of my own home?

Israeli Army grants lower security clearance to people who have played D&D

I think "..." says it all.