mushin no shin

so here we go;
sorry I haven’t written much here lately. I have no greater excuse than simply not having been in the right frame of mind.
Well. Don’t know when I’ll be back, but I’m here. And it’s Saturday night, after Christmas. It’s been a decent one. Thursday with the dad, brother, and brother’s family, at [...]

Mike tagged me for the seven deadly sins random things meme. Right-o, lets see what we come up with.

I’ve been known to sometimes (and by sometimes, I mean often) go *weeks* without really talking to anyone, beyond the unavoidable “transactional” speech needed sometimes with a cashier, etc. Weirder, this generally doesn’t bother me, except when [...]

This is pretty cool. Mother Jones told us about The Typealyzer, which probes your blog and computes your Myers-Briggs type based on content:

INTP – The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding [...]

I lack the discipline to get into weekly theme posts like the “feel good Friday” thing, but Halloween on a Friday calls for some celebrating. Perhaps a double shot, even.
It’s just not Halloween without Danny Elfman:

Or that master songsmith of gothic macabre, Weird Al:

(Sorry I couldn’t find a version where the video didn’t sort of [...]

I don’t really have much to add on the new Ted Stevens mess, but Rex pointed us to this Gawker post which introduced us to:

which is just awesome in its own right. Of course I think it’s the lolcats that make it ring true. Well, that and His Noodly Appendage, of course.

Success! I sampled the first bottle of my homebrew tonight, and it turned out quite tasty. Well, the shitty thing is that it’s a standard issue golden pilsner-style lager, since that’s the mix that came with the kit — will have to brew a good stout or something for the next batch. At which point [...]

Except of course “Darkness = 100%” should have been worked in there somewhere…

What Famous Leader Are You?

It seems that even “Socks” Clinton has crossed over to endorse Barack Obama:

Probably at least partially in retaliation for the gross indignity of being named “Socks”.

Well now that we’ve determined that Kate is a Romantic Corporate Goth (I had to rearrange it, “goth” must always be the last word. It’s more depressing that way.), I figured I should try to find out what sort of goth I am. Luckily the internet has about fourteen zillion quizzes ready to judge me.

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