From http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/25/dead.witness.ap/index.html:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a convicted killer deserves a new trial because jurors heard testimony that should have been excluded. His ex-girlfriend made the ( Read more... )

The Word was said.

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There are definitely some very major updates i need to post here -- regarding such things as crushing and nearly amputating a fingertip at work and all the Ensuing Medical Drama (Tuesdays at 8 / 7 central).  My typing skills are frankly a little lame for that right now, and humans would do best to give me a call (and if you don't know the number, ( Read more... )

 Ladies and Gentlemen!   We ask you again!  RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU JUST LOST YOUR JOB!

*raise!*

Yes, as of May 3, I will no longer be working for the IU Opera Stage Crew.  HR just won't pay the wages for more than 300 work hours this summer, and the bosslady has 500 hours worth of people who wanted to work.   And so the axe had to come down here and ( Read more... )

Oh no, it's another Lolosopher!


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Lo and behold -- a Muppet blooper reel. I've gotta say, I never expected to hear such things from a Muppet's mouth.   |

...Okay, I apparently suck at embedding, so Observe!

I, alas, did not get to celebrate much of the Holy Week -- thanks to a 14-hour-a-day Hell Week for the ballet, plus new workboots that weren't broken in and tore off quarter-sized patches of skin from the back of both heels.  I was not so much keen on walking anywhere, and that's my only means of transport.  So.  Much suck.

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First Gary Gygax, and now Arthur C. Clarke.

Geek Death trifecta is, sadly, in play.

Who's next?   Patrick Stewart?   Dr. Demento?  Shigeru Miyamoto?!

Sigh.

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