Tomb of Zodiacula

Chris Sims put up his response to the Zodiac restructuring up at ComicsAlliance, and it should surprise no-one that I'm a Dracula.

That mans that you draw on others to an almost parasitic extent, and while it's a good thing to rely on your friends for strength, you're not exactly what we'd call a "giver." Instead, your very presence leaves those around you feeling drained, and while they might resent it, they find it awfully difficult to get rid of you once you've got your hooks in.

Even worse, your default mood hovers somewhere between "smarmy" and "pompous," constantly fueled by the fact that you actually have been around a while and learned a lot -- though probably not as much as you think. You consider yourself to be better than most of those around you, and while it's true that you have some talent, it all just makes people want to punch you right in the face.

(Also, I'm a cusssp Cobra Commander, you foolssss.)

Seal of the Demon BORGES

BORGES grants conversation with the dead, and aids in the navigation of Libraries and Labyrinths. BORGES will also give knowledge of fictional locations, and books that have not been written, have yet to be written, and will not be written.

(Blame Klint.)

I'm kinda worried about that 15

The figure is known as "God's number" because an all-knowing entity would know the optimal number of steps needed to solve the puzzle.

"We now know for certain that the magic number is 20," Professor Morley Davidson, a mathematician from Kent State University, told BBC News.

The results suggest that there are more than 100,000 starting positions - of a possible 43 billion billion - that can be solved in exactly 20 moves. However, the majority of solutions take between 15 and 19 moves to solve.

Happy Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!

Man, I don't know what got the internet so worked up over Mohammed Ali, but here you go.

Excellent timing, gentlemen

After the earthquake Wednesday morning, (still unexplained), I remembered something from my feeds.

Defense personnel plan for midwestern earthquake - Jan 30, 2010

You probably didn’t notice, what with the disaster in Haiti, but a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Illinois at 10 a.m. last Tuesday, at least in the cyber-world.

Cairo was the epicenter, but the Crowne Plaza hotel on South Dirksen Parkway in Springfield was the nerve center, the place where more than 30 Department of Defense personnel gathered to practice how they would respond in case of real disaster.

While it’s Weimar’s job to design catastrophes, he is reluctant to go against the laws of science. Fulton knows full well the geography of the New Madrid fault, so buildings crumbling too far afield would raise his eyebrows. No problem — there are plenty of faults to play with.

“If I want to give him some more problem sets, I’ll bring up the Wabash fault,” Weimar said. “If we say that building collapsed, it collapsed. If we need to, we will create some aftershocks to create more problems.”

With a playbook that includes plague, chlorine tank explosions, terrorist attacks and myriad other badness, things could always be worse. Take the 10-kiloton nuclear device scenario, complete with a 40-mile radius of destruction and radioactive fallout.
“We’ve blown up Kansas City and Indianapolis twice,” Weimar said.

Nothing troubling about the timing or location at all.

Blue Oyster Cult - Les Invisibles

  BLUE OYSTER CULT lyrics - Les Invisibles

Along the world axis
The Empress lay sleeping
To the rhyme of the, of the, of the star clock
Seven sleepers
Seven sages
Seven ladders to the, to the
Seventh heaven

Seven stars
Had Ursa Major
Tables turning, turning
And rain maker
While the seven
The visitors
All went, all went
A drumming

Dance a Don Pedro
Do the Don Pedro
Games after death
Night dances 'round
Samedi and Petre
In Alchemy

Salute the Four Quarters
Before I leave your eyes
Twinned in the mirror
Les Mesteres come
End me adoration
Before I leave your eyes
World in the mirror
Waters of amnesia come

Do you know (do you know), do you know (do you know)
Do you know (do you know), do you know (do you know)
The court of Eve
Beneath the Polar Mountain
Rose cross and crosser there
Symbols of the swan
Aerial races
In rotation over
The magical casement
Visions of a parallel world

Dance a Don Pedro
Do the Don Pedro
Games after death
Night dances 'round
Samedi and Petre
In Alchemy

Am I Ra's Al Ghul yet?

I genuinely don't understand why some people refuse to believe that I am actually Batman.

- Warren Ellis, 11:09 October 29.

Pat // Jun 23, 2009 at 8:54 pm

Red Hair, Wheelchair, Computer…So Ellis is the Batman?

- Me on Zoetica Ebb's Biorequiem

No-one in Moscow has seen GI Joe:Resolute

Porkchop Sandwiches! Get the Fuck Out!


(You can skip to 5:16 here)
 

Happy Birthday to me

Killer, Achiever, Hard Fun Agon

Your BrainHex Class is Conqueror.

Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Conqueror-Socialiser.
You like defeating impossibly difficult foes, struggling until you eventually achieve victory, and beating other players as well as hanging around with people you trust and helping people.

Your scores for each of the classes in this test were as follows:

Conqueror: 17
Socialiser: 16
Daredevil: 14
Achiever: 11
Survivor: 10
Mastermind: 9
Seeker: 5


Go to BrainHex.com to learn more about this player model, and the neurobiological research behind it.

Skeletoriental Adventures

It takes the Bollywood magic of Nafrat Ki Aandhi to make me realize I've been setting my sights too low all these years. Why settle for a Throne of Skulls when you can have a Throne of Skeletor?

Also, bonus points for Orko being just as useless, but less annoying.

Tropical Storm Andras?

This will work out great!

• He can give advice on how to kill, and he can escalate quarrels and discord.
• His Office is to sow Discords. If the Exorcist have not a care, he will slay both him and his fellows.
• He can give advice on how to kill, and he can escalate quarrels and discord.

Thanks to ABC for pronouncing it out loud, and Delirium's Realm, for helping lazy Daemonologists everywhere.

Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb

Courtesy of Covers Etc

Finals: Finalized

Finally done fretting  over finals, and final projects. Carmen, this one's for you:

Of course it doesn't have a clear beginning and end, it's a program. It begins when it runs, it ends when it eof. 

Seriously...

I've been out of town for six months now, and you're just now finding all the placentas?

What do you know,

It was Swamp Gas.

Who handles your briefings Mr. Gates?

Foes warned off 'testing' Obama

Did you not notice Kim Jong Il "disappearing" from the scene?

Have you noticed Mr. Ahmadinejad is suffering from "exhaustion"?

Knock off the primate shit.

Call ME a Rational Mastermind, will you?

Your Type is  INTJ

Introverted	Intuitive	Thinking	Judging
Strength of the preferences %
78	75	69	1

Courtesy of Humanmetrics (which technically disqualifies me.)

and because Stuff Geeks Love doesn't allow commenting.

Just sayin'

Beneath the freeway at the cloverleaf junction
The symbol of good luck eminates darkness
The shadow will grow to cover California
Somewhere on the road from San Bernadino
Its future is stirring the past from that pass

... From San Bernadino these angels are racing this night to your city
The host of angels, Los Angeles

Shopping List: Wasp Knife

Wait, I can stab someone, and make their internal organs Freeze AND Explode?

You're the best knife Ever!

My enemies can thank Gizmodo.