If you never heard about it, during one of the many air-raids on Japan, two B-29 Superforts collided and crashed in Shizuoka City.  Survivors of the air raid were able to rescue two crewmen from the wreckage, but they later died of their wounds.  Out of respect for the airmen, the two were given proper burials.
But it doesn't end there.
One of the rescuers, a man named Fukimatsu Ito, found a scorched canteen among the wreckage that held not water, but bourbon. Later, after the war, he erected a memorial for the Japanese and Americans that lost their lives on that day, and since then a joint ceremony between Japanese and Americans takes place where American bourbon is poured over the memorial tablet for the bomber crews.
Just another reason why I think the Japanese are so awesome.
Link to an article: http://www.yokota.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123155404
Note to Bob: if this somehow becomes inflammatory, then please move it over into Politics, please.

Okay, with this many top-shelf action stars, how can this movie not be awesome?

I wanna see it! (^_^)

Well, okay, not really. But the principle is the same.

Anyway, I was in a doodling mood, and in an otherwise unrelated email Rob asked me to put together a logo for the L5 All-Stations. And I did:


That got the ball rolling, and when the madness cleared, I had logos for the four founding teams of the astroball league. In order for the wiki page, we have the USAF Fighting Wings:


The Starfleet Academy Cadets:

(This one's based off of an ENT-era Starfleet flag I found at Memory Alpha.)

And last but not least, the Crystal Kyoto Knights:

(This one's kinda cheap, since I dug into my DVD of heraldry clipart to make it. But enh, it's nice just the same.)

..and that's all, for the moment. If any of the rest've you have got ideas for the other un-logoed teams, feel free to play art director.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

The first few acts are actually kind of hard to get through. The final moments? Basically everything after the Bridge Jump... fucking beautiful.
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Epsilon

Doug as a teacher at St. Trinian's

And, um...

Well, damn.  I knew I had a couple more in mind when I started this topic... now they've fled my consciousness entirely.  Gah.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

...when Peggy and I spend a week at a beach house on the Jersey Shore with her family.
In past years I have at this point usually made some comment about how I will try to check in a couple times during the week at the local internet cafe, but this year we have a laptop with wireless.  And everyone agrees that it is very industrious of me to plan on spending every weekday morning in said cafe doing my job search.  Which I will be doing, but I will also take a few minutes to hit my usual haunts as well.  So you probably won't see too much difference in my rate of appearance.
You might see some beach photos, though.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

And it is, somewhat. For sometime in me car there has been a 12V multi-socket adaptor thingy with it's sockets permanently inhabited by a iPod FM transmitter and phone charger with a socket free for what ever additional device needed it. Resulting in a ratsnest of cables strung and duck taped to the center console. I'd been looking on and off for a better solution for sometime and was coming to the conclusion that a new stereo might do the job. Especally after finding out the FM freq I'd normaly use had been taken over by a broadcaster.

After looking at all the available after-market car stereos for some reason I'd decided the ones Alpine had fit the bill, especially the CDE-103/114BTi series.
Then a few watchings of the following later

I'd decided to install http://www.alpine.com.au/showItem.php?item_id=160 myself. Half-hour job my arse! I took more like 2 hours to pull the old one out, fit and test the new and put all back. Even without requiring the use of a soldering iron, don't know why they did in that vid, when prewired harness are available.

So now my car pre-flight is down two steps, me tunes come through clearer and I've a somewhat tidier car. One fun thing is that the radio tunes down low enough to pick up ADF NDB nav beacons so can practice interpreting Morse Code as I drive if I want.

Oh and in these days of removable faceplates why can't I get one that's truly compatible for a RHD car? Every one I've seen's designed for the LHD market.

--Rod.H

And finally a http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Misc_Pics]link to a stack more

--Rod.H

Review of the History Channel
See how implausible it is?

While awesome, I don't really think they are worth an extra twenty dollars with the movies. 
Anyone disagree, or know where I could get the Parallel Works by themselves?
(GL Movie 1 without PW, with PW.)
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.