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While it's fine to have a third mode that's legless (i.e. BMac Jetstorm and Thrust molds), if there's no official mode in which the robot can stand unsupported, It Is Fail. That's why Sideswipe got knocked down to Mildly Recommended, by the way...he can barely stand.

Coherent Super Stories #17 - "Dear Diary" featuring the Forgotten Man: A reprint of a 1930s pulp story written in the form of diary entries in which a woman encounters that most mysterious of mysterymen...the Forgotten Man! (Written as part of the "High Concept" contest on rec.arts.comics.creative.)

A local car dealership has a radio ad in which they sing, "Will you buy a Ki-i-a" to the tune of Green Day's "Do You Know The Enemy". And then the voiceover goes on about how high prices are the enemy.

(I prefer Peacemaker off that album anyway, but still....)

...a tornado missed my apartment by about a mile, and my office by about a hundred feet. The grass is still patchy outside where the stand of trees next to Cardwell Hall got knocked down, but all the windows around campus seem to be replaced now and most of the obvious scars are healed. The hole in the budget will take longer to scab over, though.

( Book of note: Booster Gold #21 (Blue Beetle backup) )

   Dave Van Domelen, "But...instead of robbing banks, why didn't he just market and sell his INCREDIBLY SOPHISTICATED ROBOT?" "Who can say? It was a different time and he's long dead, so you can't ask him." - Brenda and Doctor Alan Von Neumann Jr., Booster Gold #21

Okay, now everyone I've ever roomed with for more than a couple months is now a friend of mine on Facebook. Okay, so that's just three college roommates and my brother (I've lived alone since graduation), but still. College Roommate 1 (CR1) has been friended for a while. Yesterday, CR3 friended me, and a mutual friend saw me show up on his friends list and also friended me. This mutual friend is married to CR2, so I found him via her friends list this morning and friended him. Ah, small world.

Also, thanks to CR3 I now know that Holsapple & Stamey have put out a second album and have ordered it. Mavericks was one of the first CDs I ripped for my iPod. ;)

ETA: Okay, I have had one other college roommate for more than a couple of months. More like three or four. A jock whose name I don't even remember, he moved out halfway through the year without a word to move in with some guys who was pledging a frat with. And good riddance. I'd already been talking to CR2 about rooming together the next year, so he just moved in right away, having been in one of the 1.5-person rooms and eager to get some more space.

When I first heard of bacon salt, I thought, "I must have this thing." Sadly, at the time, it was only available in the northwest. But thanks to woot.com, a few months ago I got some.

Unfortunately, the "salt" part of "bacon salt" turned out to be the problem. By the time I add enough bacon salt to clearly taste the bacon, it's just too salty (at least, in most of the stuff I normally eat). There's one or two "once in a blue moon" dishes I eat that can benefit from it, but the bottles I bought will expire long before I use them up.

And today I spotted bacon salt in the spice section at the local Dillon's (a regional chain that became part of the Kroger Collective a while back). Thus, I can now buy it easily...but no longer want to. Sigh.