I had an epiphany last night, I thought I had one of those V8 ideas.  You know the kind that slaps you in the forehead and makes you think, why hadn’t I thought of that before.  This was one of those ideas.  Unfortunately it does not solve any of our societies great problems, the only thing it does is help me get cool stuff.  I wanted to create a ‘universal’ wishlist.  A one stop shop for B-man gift oddities that spans the entirety of the internet and is not confined by an individual e-tailor.  This way I won’t have to maintain a separate wishlist for each of the internet retailers that has what I want.

As is typical with my ideas, they aren’t original.  My wishlist prayers are answered with wishlist.com . When you register, you can collect items from all over the internet to put on your list.  You can set priority (how bad you want it) and quanity for each of the items.  You can even create ’sub-lists’ or categorize your items into separate lists.  When someone buys, or intends to buy one of your chosen treasures, it puts it in ‘reserve’ so that you will not get more than what you asked for.  Once you’ve received it, you can mark it as appropriate on your list.  The thing that make the whole site usable is their ‘wishlist bookmark’, it amounts to a Java Script that collects pictures, prices and details about the items you desire for your list.

Now that I have my own wishlist.com account, there is no product, no matter how obscure that I cannot wish for.  Everthing is within my grasp now!

Just a quick thought but, do you think the Sith realize they are the bad guys?  I mean maybe they think they’re saving the galaxy or something and everone else just doesn’t get them?

Just a thought.

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I guess it’s about time I added this to the buffer. For a little over a year now I’ve been playing an RPG with my kids and their friends called Holy Lands. We are playing the ‘Light Edition’ of the game, which I believe, is still freely available as a download from the publisher. The ‘Light Edition’ is a revised set of rules from the Second Edition rules. This is to give you a taste of what is to come within the 3rd Edition currently in production. The main attraction to playing this RPG opposed to the plethora of well-known secular games is the fact that this game system is Christian based, not to mention it’s currently free. I’m sure there are many that would turn their nose up at such a prospect to Role Play as a Christian. Without climbing up on my religious soap-box, I’ll just say don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. For me, the leap to Christian Role Play was not a hard one. Many of my characters throughout my Role Playing career have taken whats easily called the “Moral High Road”.

The backdrop for Holy Lands is the Dark Ages, a period of history where the lines between fact and myth are blurred. This is the same time period that gave life to the Arthurian Legend and the epic poem Beowulf. The game is populated with a full compliment of monsters, demons and a sundry of pagans or devil worshiping humans. (more…)

Resistance is futile…
The Borg Collective

At some point back in the last millennium, there was this pop-culture phenomenon called Star Trek that invaded most every part of a normal American’s life. So much so that the culture could not escape the effects of some of the social commentaries that occasionally saturated the scripts of this Sci-Fi diversion. It was during this time a menace was revealed. A race of one mind, one thought that worked and acted in perfect harmony, outside of the influence or concept of individual thought, THE BORG.

Once the evil was conceptualized in fiction, it did not take long for internet to answer with the real-world identity of this ultimate bogey-man, one William Henry Gates III. His singular mind, that drives the cube-ship known as Microsoft, was almost instantly recognized for its nefarious process of assimilating technology and re-branding it Microsoft. Their steamroller tactics were almost directly from the play-book of the world smashing Borg of fiction. If it were not for the brave actions of some overly-litigious free thinkers, I would probably be blogging with Microsoft WordPress, and paying for the pleasure to boot.

Apparently, the MS Borg plans for universal digital domination have ceased or slowed in direct proportion to the ratings of the Star Trek franchise. We can all breath a heavy sigh of relief. The worst is over now and Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) is beginning to flourish.

Or is it? (more…)

I mean Come ON!  It’s 08 for cripes sake.  We should be long past this sort
 of thing.  I can forgive not having a flying car, I can look past not having
 my own personal jet pack, but the fact that the human race has progressed
 this far and not eliminated Mustard Pee, then to me, it’s all waisted.
 You know what I mean.  You have a sandwich all set, you have crafted a work
 of culinary art, and you upend the mustard bottle for that shining yello
 topper and you get a stream of water that’s come from god only knows!  You
 sandwich is awash inj mustard pee. You watch as the bread gets mush, the
 meat kind of slimy, the lettus weird, and you can almost hear the musicians
 on the deck of the titanic.

 It’s the bain of human existance as far as I’m concerned.

 Mustard Pee.

Damn you Frenches.