Jason Griffey

Arrr, in case you warn't aware, today (Sept 19th) is Talk like a Pirate Day.

Aye, me parrot concurs.

Savvy?

Have you seen this bike?

Giant Sedona 2003
Maroon and White
Seat and wheels have quick releases
Front shock, as well as shock on the seat
It currently has an Aluminum water bottle holder

If you see this bike around Chapel Hill or Carrboro, let me know.
It was stolen from me on Sept. 16th
griffey@email.unc.edu

Fuck.

Some fucking assface stole my fucking bike last night.

FUCKER.

As always….Bruce rocked. Just freaking amazing show. The fact that he's been rockin' with the E-Street band for over 30 years and can still feel and emote and put on a show like he did last night.

Highlight: opening with “I Walk the Line” from Johnny Cash.

This is from Neil Gaiman's blog, after seeing an exerpt on Librarian.net.

I'd LOVE to have a Lucien figure…I'd keep him on my desk, to help me be a good librarian. 🙂
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Speaking as a librarian who is surrounded by librarians at work who are offended by this new librarian action figure, I can only say that perhaps it's time librarians across the board discovered the value of a good custom repaint on an action figure….
Hoping to make mine look rather delirious and get a Shakespeare one to go with so the two of them can have interesting conversations,
Anita

I wonder if they ever had this trouble when they did the Diskworld Librarian statues. (“We are not all orang-utans.”) It certainly makes me wish that DC would do a Lucien the Librarian Action figure for librarians everywhere.

Of course, if the whole point of the offended librarians is that librarians can, and, wisely, do, look like anyone, then any action figure would do. (“Isn't that a Gandalf toy?” “Nope it's a librarian. One with a hat and a beard.” “And he's next to a… Bettie Page toy?” “Nope. Just a cute, half-naked librarian with a big smile and a Bettie Page haircut.”)

The Man in Black is dead.

Interesting story from the Washington Post concerning the rise of the “adult strategy board game.” It talks about Settlers of Catan and Puerto Rico, two really great games…Settlers some of you have played, Puerto Rico is one that I've been meaning to buy for a year now. For those of you who want to explore some good games, I suggest:

Cheapass Games
Looney Labs
and, of course: Raw Deal

I know that I missed this first time around (saw it, but didn't blog it), but for everyone looking for a P2P fix, try Earthstation 5. I haven't tried it, yet, but I will. But anyone who basically tells the RIAA to fuck themselves is ok in my book. Kazaa is not only unsafe, but the company recently fucked with Google results using the DMCA (another BIG no-no in my book). Earthstation looks like a good start, but future P2P software will be better…encrypted, with distributed file a la Bit Torrent, and IP spoofing with anonymity features. The RIAA can't win this battle…they can just prolong the bleeding.