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Sight: The Two Towers, The Punch

Sound: best of Willie Nelson, best of Bond Films

Touch: Mark of Kri, Roadside Rescue

Taste: Mountain Dew

Smell: smells like Back to Work

Virtual: Fark, TMOL

Book List 2002

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Live From New York, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller

Batman: Bruce Wayne Fugitive, Greg Rucka and Ed Bruebaker

Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco, Brett Forrest

JLA: Tower of Babel, Mark Waid et al

The Archer's Tale, Bernard Cornwell

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Narcissus in Chains, Laurell K. Hamilton

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, Anthony Bourdain

** A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle

** A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle

** A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

The Leper of Saint Giles: The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

** Halloween, Curtis Richards

Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain

** Animal Farm, George Orwell

Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, Martin Gardner

Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, Anders Henriksson

What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained, Robert L. Wolke

Would You Rather?, Justin Heimberg, David Gomberg

The Descent, Jeff Long

St. Peter's Fair: The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

** The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien

Monk's Hood: The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

A Kiss of Shadows, Laurell K. Hamilton

Best of H.P. Lovecraft : Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, H.P. Lovecraft

Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Michael Moore

Detachment Bravo, Richard Marcinko

Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World, Walter Mosley

Eric, Terry Pratchett

The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkein

The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy

Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
** -- previously read

Book List 2001

I found a billion Shatner links today, but this one takes the cake:

SHATNEROIDS!
posted by dwinn at 3:25 PM

Parappa 2 is coming out at the end of this year!

posted by dwinn at 1:36 PM

Mitch Hedberg is damn funny.
posted by dwinn at 4:20 PM

Monkey Man: Mass Hysteria -- So there's really no monkey man with steel claws and the ability to change into a cat with glowing eyes?

MonkeyFishing -- Thanks to Ian McLaury

posted by dwinn at 5:56 PM

I broke the law this morning.

I was driving up US-23 on may way to work, driving along in the right-hand lane, when I saw a car being loaded onto a tow truck on the shoulder. Just in front of said truck was a police officer, who pointed angrily at the left-hand lane as I drove by. Looking in my rear-view mirror, the officer seemed to not be pleased that I did not make an effort to get over into the other lane.

When I got to work, I confirmed my transgression -- just recently a law was passed making it a ticketable offense to not try to get over into the lane opposite that of an officer/people on the shoulder of the road. I'm pretty sure that this is the end of this episode, but it's not impossible for a ticket to be sent to me in the mail, especially if Johnny Law took the time to get my plate number and call the ticket in.

I guess I'm guilty. I don't feel horrible about it, since these people were way off the road, and the cop really didn't point at me until it was too late for me to do anything, but I will admit to not following the letter of the law. Book me, Dano!
posted by dwinn at 1:34 PM

posted by dwinn at 4:27 PM

Finally got a look at the 80-odd pictures I took in Vegas and am deciding to just retire my camera and let Jules run the show with the digital. Not that my camera is a piece of crap, it's just that I get too many blurred shots, crookedness, too dark or visible flash, etc with my stuff -- plus it cost about twenty bucks to get my stuff returned.

With perspective I now see why my folks love Vegas so much. I'm feeling a great need to get back there soon than five years from now, which was my pre-trip estimate. Money is always the issue, though, after talking with Allen about funds and buying houses and listening to what his planning and experiences entail.

Bonus factoid of the day: Rockwell (singer of "Somebody's Watching Me") is the son of Motown Records owner Berry Gordy -- it was the only way he'd actually gotten his record made as well as enough pull to get Michael Jackson on the track.

Did some more Geocaching this weekend -- makes just plain walking that much more fun. Gotta use this warm and good weather to get out, be active, get healthy.

OK, One more thing: the excellent Tom Tomorrow
posted by dwinn at 1:30 AM

Finally, Bourque now has it all
posted by dwinn at 1:24 AM

I'm thinking that we should go eat at the Dynasty Buffet (or the Nasty Buffet, as we've called it) tonight, but then I saw this and wonder which one would win.
posted by dwinn at 3:47 PM

Hello, f*ckface

posted by dwinn at 1:50 PM

Back from Las Vegas where a great time was had by both Jules and I. I'm sure I'll write up a little travelogue about the trip eventually...

In terms of computer gaming, Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games are the latest craze, with EverQuest setting the pace. Here are two new products ready to launch soon. Even though I know which one is fake, I don't know which one is more ludicrous.
posted by dwinn at 4:01 PM