Today's Get Fuzzy (one of my favorite comic strips) displays the effects of video game addiction.

While Rob is playing Rugby in the strip, that was me with Halo just a few months ago.

Hmm. Wonder if there's a Rugby game for Xbox? Yes. (Thanks, Amazon). Maybe I'll have to check that out.

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I've seen this charming toy at several sites, but most recently at the Llama Butchers' place.

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Which Princess Bride Character are You?
this quiz was made by mysti

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Via Catallarchy, a funny video of a skateboarding dog. (Click the picture to open the video).

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Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

(Hat tip: The Llama Butchers).

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Fred Kiesche at The Eternal Golden Braid seems to share many of the same passions as I do - space, SF, Legos, and models.

Late last week he linked to a page of assembled paper models that look nothing like paper (see, e.g., this version of the M-41 pulse rifle from Aliens).

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OK, Mr. Sandefur has done it, as have the Llamabutchers (tho' their quiz had to do with page 1 .

Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

As with Mr. Sandefur, we have many books in the study here, so I grabbed the first one at eye level to my right off the bookshelf: "It is this exhaust steam blowing up through the stack which makes the familiar choo-choo-choo-choo sound of a locomotive." Morgan, Alfred. The Boys' Book of Engines, Motors and Turbines. (1946, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York).

Let's try again, but this time off the left bookshelf: "No wonder Tep had taken them north so slowly!" Rutherfurd, Edward. Sarum. (1987, Crown Publishers, New York).

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Via Popular Science, a car that's a boat.

Very cool.

(Hat tip: Gravity Lens)

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I just read this article at Slate about Bob Dylan's new role as Victoria's Secret pitchman.

Seems familiar, no?

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As a lawyer, I am accustomed to some good lawyer jokes.

But I never knew there were actuarial jokes.

Enjoy.

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So Bob Dylan is the new pitchman for Victoria's Secret.

In the new ads, his face is intercut with shots of Brazilian model Adriana Lima cavorting in a bra and the [ridiculous] VS trademark angel wings. You can watch a video of the ad here.

Bob Dylan's voice and face are two things I'd rather not associate with sexy lingerie, thank you very much. I much preferred the "What is Sexy" campaign (about which Jonah Goldberg had a few entertaining words).

I also think they got the wrong Brazilian supermodel. They should have gone with this blog author's previously-noted favorite, Alessandra Ambrosio, who looks a lot cuter and lacks the awful collagen trout pout that so many models and actresses, including Lima, have these days.

(Confession - I cribbed the title of this post from this Swiss article -- Bob Dylan kennt Victorias Geheimnis -- about the Dylan spot. Don't you love the Internet?)

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You are a GRAMMAR GOD!


If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!


How grammatically sound are you?
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