Revealed here for the first time--William Bazillion's Enemies List!

http://www.williambazillion.com

And big things are in store for at least one of these characters. Stay tuned.

The last twenty four hours from http://twitter.com/mrtonylee

• 15:30 @kellysue - I was in Chengdu and Sichuan only a few years back - it's just... No. I can't actually frame the reference. Just numb, numb. #
• 16:58 Damn. 2 part story I've waited my whole life to write? changes in upcoming issues place it on indefinant hold. Ah well. Dust off, restart. #
• 17:41 @warrenellis - We're giving him a false sense of security first. We have armies of clown rapists just waiting for the nod. #
• 17:43 Drunk man as Vader assaults 'Jedi church' members while they film, fined by court. BBC News, including video... tinyurl.com/5t33s4 #
• 19:06 @warrenellis - He don't blame me - there were some BIG CLOWNS in that group. It's not my fault he has a spincter the size of Stratford. #
• 19:09 And suddenly by talking about @bremxjones and his sphincter? I get a dozen new followers. That was more than your magic penis, @templesmith. #
• 19:13 @templesmith - you really think? I worry now that working daily with Ryall is rotting your brain. Magic Penis is ALWAYS for the win. #
• 19:17 @Emmavieceli - What, Elven Hobbit rape? #

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• 07:53 If you could only have 1 Pixies album, which one would it be? Can't decide so I've decided to let the Interwebs decide for me. #
• 09:47 Am I a bad person if I still kinda want to catch a matinee of Speed Racer? #

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Was American Idol excruciatingly boring tonight? Hih.

All the same, David Cook has my vote, and I hope he wins.

David Archuleta doesn't even hold my attention when he sings.

Syesha who?

*snore*

Tags: american idol
Current Mood: blah

Brave, the person who first thought to eat a lobster. Cracking the claws, breaking the legs, and prying the flesh from reluctantly shattered chitinous casings turned red from being dropped in boiling water while still living is an indelicate process. We've gotten to the point as a society where there are whole schools of utensils manufactured and marketed to embark upon this miniature carnage in a way that is considered polite at fine dining establishments. Thank goodness! Expensively silver rimmed dishes over tea lights for melting butter sit tensely alongside chrome-plated nutcrackeresque implements of torture and wee forks pronged with needle sharp points, all carefully laid out to minimize your exposure to any muss, fuss, or potential embarrassment in front of important people.

Of course, you can just whack the lobsters with the back of a spoon and pry the tenderly sweet lobster bits out with your fingers and teeth, butter running down your chin... But there isn't any way to market that.

Tags: extended metaphors, ordinary days
Current Mood: amused

Ok I ahve to ask.

I've not read TRwilight. In fact I've not heard of it outside Makani's comments and the linked places about the net. neither had any of my friends.
This either means my friends and I have good taste or we are old. I'm gonna go with option A.


ANYWAY
What occurred tome though, just now, was this.

If Harry Potter had been a girl, would we all have screamed MARY SUE and forsworn the Potter books? I think there was a conferences essay on this once.
Shoulda gone to it.



Oh also related, it also occurred to me that in the A-Team movie there is no way they can make Face a girl because the feminist would go nuts.
Seriously. Would Face not be the most stereotypical annoying female caricature ever?
Ok, well I think so. I think, as a girl, he'd be everything I *don't* want to see the one woman in the group shown as =P (I covered this in the A-Team community, but what the heck it can go here too)

Tags: fandom: a-team, fandom: harry potter

Title A Change of Heart
Characters ToS Starbuck and Apollo + a TNS Centurion
Rating G
Show Tos and TNS
Summery Starbuck jumps shows, Apollo doens't buy his reason, and a Centurion Dresses in Drag.
Notes Sloppy coloring on this. I'm sorry. My markers are dying.
didn't budget for new ones >( Unrelated to art, this one my possibly have a sequel. Kara is kinda demanding it and you know, she is crazy with the demands 0.o


( A Change of Heart )



Previous Comics In This Series (TOS=Original Show TNS=New Show)
Daddy Issues Tos/Tns
Guilty by Association ToS/TNS
Entrapment TOS
Trapped TOS
Mood Adjustment (slash) TOS
Friendly Advice TNS
Reasons Not to Think Out Loud ToS
Nobody's Perfect Tos/Tns

Their Happy Home on Deviant Art


PS: If you haven't noticed, these are kinda being posted on Tuesday now.They go up on DA on Monday still but not LJ.

Tags: fanart: battlestar galactica, fanart: comics

Me: Did you see the photos of the eruption in Chile?
Amy: No.
Me: They're amazing. The ionization caused an electrical storm.
Amy: Oh.
Me (waving arms): Lightning!

Tags: nature

 
Stolen from atpaw...

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The Large Hadron Collider is already bending space/time.

http://www.lhcountdown.com/

The countdown timer says that activation is in 17 hours time if you're in Australia on the East Coast...

33 hours time, says triggur

26 hours time, says wruf

One presumes that it's meant to go off of local time for the LHC (+1 hour from wruf), which would put it at 25 hours to go.

Well, just in case a black hole does form inside the LHC - you've all been great friends, and I appreciate that.

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Maybe the LHC guys should stick to high energy physics and not venture into web design. :)

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: FC2007 Fursuit Dance

In years past, I used to have much more involvement with email and spam issues, and did my share tracking down the source of spams that came into my mailbox, and reporting them to the sender's ISP. During that time period, I came across my share of broken autoresponders that sat on abuse@ and postmaster@ mailboxes, that would improperly "report" spam complaints as spam, get into mail loops, or worse.

Eventually, the volume of spam, and more specifically forged spam hit such high levels that enough admins got the clue that since email is easily enough forged, having autoresponders that blindly trust the email message and send out an autoresponce based on that aren't such a hot idea. As the level of clue grew, autoresponder usage pretty much fell about the wayside.

Clearly the dumbasses at npgx.com.au missed that memo.

For your amusement, I present:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2961223/postmasternpgxcomau-broken-autoresponder-part-12

and

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2961305/postmasternpgxcomau-broken-autoresponder-part-22

As best I can tell, the following events happened:

1) Someone at npgx.com.au received a spam from a RoadRunner user (rr.com).

2) They reported this to abuse@rr.com.

3) abuse@rr.com responded with a standard auto-responce.

4) postmaster@npgx.com.au responded to that auto-responce with one of its own. Except that it parsed the message it got from abuse@rr.com, saw other domains there like spam.abuse.net and haltabuse.org, and decided to CC about 20 odd admins of those domains, as well as admins of their mailservers. That's how I got that email -- I am also postmaster@haltabuse.org. (That's the first message linked above)

5) I repsond to their postmaster address, pointing out that their autoresponder is broken.

6) I get the same autoresponce, flagging *my* message as spam, and CCing my mail server admins. (Second message linked above)

7) ???

8) Profit! Whoops! I really meant to say: npgx.com.au fails spamfighting 101.


Looking back at the above chain of events, I'd say that #3 was mildly questionable, but not unreasonable. But #4? That kind of automated "we'll email everyone who is remotely connected with this message" is just plain stupid, and I don't recall seeing it at least the last 5 years. If that is how npgx.com.au deals with messages that they perceive as spam, I do not think they will be in the email business for much longer...

Tags: dumbasses, spam, stupid