just john

For your amusement:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-Homosexuality-Should-Be-Banned

I like the tall people bit.

Posted by justjohn at 19:02 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Some days, not a whoe helluva lot. Sad to say I've become somewhat *more* of a geek. One giveaway is the use of emoticons and visually offset text. I download a lot of anime and have learned to enjoy subtitles. Oddly, I can also now recognize a few phrases of Japanese.

Like millions of other geeks, I'm waiting on the game "Spore" to be released. About 4 years in the making, we are now 21 days from availability and I have the creature creator module already installed. So here's what I do some nights:

And last, but certainly not least as this is probably what I'll actually play the game with...

He's named "Do_Not_Publish" because the first iteration got me suspended from the server for a week.

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Keeping in mind, it does take a while to get one of these things created, because it is a true 3D editor with a ton of options and variables.

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and keeping in mind my penchant for overstatement...

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plus I may make changes up until the game actually arrives:

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Posted by justjohn at 22:24 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Yes, it's boring here. I'm on a hiatus between travels and fests, doing laundry and basically having a stay-in tonight. A 17 year old girl's social nightmare brought to technicolor life. The high point of the day was a trip to the grocery store and Obi, where I was informed that I can't return my propane tank without the plastic valve cover (left at home) and they don't have that size anyway. It made the grocery store look positively routine. Still, I do find ways to amuse myself. French red wine starts at 6 Euros a bottle (I spend at least 8) and my business trip to Dresden, though it did not produce a solution for a Belleville spring, did produce a local after dinner liquor that has to be lit on fire before consuming, Grubenfeuer. I got some big bottles as gifts but, of course, they have 2 shot samplers as well.

As a minor update on the tourist thing, Bill and I did get to Heidelberg Castle several weekends back. Probably one of my more favoritist ruins in Germany, partially because it's so big and partially because there's no sense in it being a ruin - the Allies ruined it by bombing. Here's Bill considering all that, or maybe just looking at the river. Either way, I have several of these sneak attack pictures.

Funny how life in Europe has simply turned into life. Normal frustrations, like my washing machine dying a couple of weeks back and having to replace a couch because my neurotic cat is not adjusting to his temporary change of life and is peeing on it. No coffee shop encounters with black-clothes-wearing, bisexual, weird black and white film making Dieters. Just regular old stuff.

I haven't exactly started a countdown clock, but I'm acutely aware that I have just 4 more months here, which is a dwindling amount of time to experience a few more things European.

Posted by justjohn at 21:32 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Why I thought to think this, I have no idea. Just one of those random, drive-by thoughts, I suppose but one I believe to be true. Fortunately, I haven't had the pleasure of speaking with a judge lately but most memories I have of good old boy, southern appointed judges seem to be filled with images of sour-faced, arrogant, old people  whose main pleasure in life consists of speaking down to people from their little wooden bench.

That being said...I have met a couple of genuinly regular person type judges who simply treated their work as a job and not an appointment to pass God's judgment.

But I digress.

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