So lach doch mal

"Would that I could move my heart;
And laugh just once! Feel joy just once!
Already the lark strikes out at the heavens,
And the nightingale comes out in the wood,
At what do you stare in the evening gloom?
The flowers smell sweet in the grass, the birds sing overhead,
Yet you stay still and pale."

- old German folksong, ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL O'DWYER!

On this day we commence with the time-honored tradition of DESTROYING ALL LIFE!!!!!

...And we have a little help from Longcat.


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Yes, Mortiis now has an official LiveJournal:
papajuju

Let the mayhem begin!

Elsa and I met Liv Kristine tonight! We got her autograph and talked with her for a minute after Leaves' Eyes played at the Meridian -- they are currently touring in support of Blind Guardian.

For those of you unaware of this bit of Eric trivia, Liv Kristine is my absolute favorite female vocalist. I have been a big fan of hers since c215 ( Read more... )

AAAAAIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!

I think I am going stir crazy here at work.

Urge to DESTROY ALL LIFE rising....

In the spirit of the day, I am going to introduce the O'Dwyer-Jacklitsch scale of Killer Robot Ambition. This is a scale of 1-13 as follows ( Read more... )

[I decided I needed to post this old email, because some of you (like Elsa, for example) do not understand my obsession with meteor showers. I have a feeling that I may not live long enough to ever catch another one that is comparable to the Leonid storm that I saw back in 2001, but... well, after reading this, can you blame me for trying?Nov. ( Read more... )

I will be organizing an outing to view the Leonid meteor shower this coming Saturday night. It looks like it is scheduled to peak at 10:45pm [Central] (should be 11:45pm for those of you on the East Coast.) So, we would probably want to gather for the viewing at least an hour or so in advance ( Read more... )

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"...Forests may fall, but not the dusk they shield;
So on the spot where that proud city stood,
The shuddering dawn no single stone revealed,
But fled the blackness of a primal wood."

"The Wood" - H. P. Lovecraft

A Shrewd Proposal: For Preventing the Rock-throwing Poor Peoples in Iraq and other Arab Nations from Being a Burden to Our Country, through the Transgenic Engineering of the Soricidae Family ( Read more... )