Dear God, the Salt and Pepper shakers are -armed-.

Vatican is investigating Martyrdom for JPII.

On the one hand, I know this is probably being fueled by a need to beatify him as soon as possible to satisfy a lot of the 3rd world nations.

THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S RIGHT.

He died in bed. He died a tired old man in bed. He did some good things, he did some terrible things, and he survived everything the world could throw at him. I have great respect for what he did in Poland during WWII and the 50s, and he didn't die when shot. Good for him.

Should he be canonized? I don't know. I think that really is a question for history to ponder, and I think we need at least 20-30 years of hindsight before anyone starts calling him St. Karol. I certainly don't think that calling him a martyr's appropriate, because that would imply he gave his life up for the faith by his own free will, or that he died at the hands of the wicked.

Given that he was in a coma when he died, I think the former's sketchy, at best, especially with how tenaciously he fought to cling to life, and while I know we occasionally enjoy a spirited game of "Bash the Ratzinger", I think calling him "The Wicked" and implying he helped to kill JPII might be a bit much.

Gaaah...

Microbes able to produce nanowires suitable for transmitting electric currents/constructing nanotech hardware.

Shadowrun, anyone?

Oh, my.

It's Bloomsday.

And I'm in a poker tournament tonight.

Can I play good poker after my religious observance of a whisky?

HMMMM.

I suppose that I should write about the weekend, given that it did, in fact, occur.

Went to Pittsburgh to celebrate bredmold's birthday and met a metric fuckton of people. Took on all comers at Poker, Halo, and Crimson Skies, had many interesting conversations, watched some bad ass SSX Tricky, failed to play Katamari Damancy again (I suspect the Prince of the Cosmos is rolling up copies into his Katamari any time he hears I might get a chance to play it...) and ate much yummy food. Also had my brain broken by ixx several times.

I need that damn Bugrom video. And the song used for it. Can't get it out of my head today.

We took Lisa to Eat 'n' Park before we left Pittsburgh, got our smile cookie fix (made with crack!) and ended up driving around the downtown area for a bit to sightsee before realizing, "Hey, weren't we planning to be back in town by 3, and it's currently 2:15?". Cue hitting the road. Much XM was listened to. The "Lucy" station is godlike awesome.

Got home, ate food, got groceries, cleaned some house, and mini-celebrated Alex's birthday, with more celebration on Wednesday to follow. Talked a bunch of CoV with Chris and Jamie over IM and Teamspeak, plus saw her pimp new micro-ATX computer plan.

I'm seriously thinking that if Lisa's PC keeps being a piece of crap, saving up and building her a similar box would be fun.

Iron Chef, Family Guy, and similar things were watched, and now today I am back at work and wondering why the weekends can't last 3 or 4 days...

Oh, and I think that Tekkoshocon owns the rights to Alex, Lisa, and I.

Looks like the HAL-5 team perfected the arms to go with the legs.

Strap some armor weave and repulsors on it, give it a sonic sword coming from the forearm, and I'll drive it off the lot today.

Note:

Anyone in town on Sunday should call me. We're going to be having an all day BBQ sort of thingy. Come by. Get fed.

Also: I have a 14 day trial code for CoH. Anyone like it?

Nevermind - code's been given out. :D

My God. It's full of Stars.

Why are we praising this? Newsflash, kids. Living in a plastic box where you drink only water and exist in your own vomit and filth is not "magic". It's not even praiseworthy. It's someone being publically unsanitary and starving himself for attention.

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