We watched Soylent Green over the weekend…  Terri had never seen it, so she queued it up and Netflix delivered.  Even if you haven’t seen the movie you probably know the basic plot – soylent green is people!

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Slashdot | Sci-Fi Writers Join War on Terror

Looks like the Department of Homeland Security is asking for suggestions from science fiction writers. I guess they’re going with the whole “failure of imagination” approach and asking more imaginative people for help… Seems like yet another empty gesture to me though.

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Made it up to friendly with the Netherwing tonight.  I got a trinket that lets me summon a tiny little Nether Drake to assist me in combat, and a new quest became available.  Nothing amazing so far, but I am making progress…

I spent most of the weekend playing around with the new content in 2.1, and I’m very impressed. Lots of good stuff for anyone with Burning Crusade – not just the folks with the time and inclination to raid the big dungeons.

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Slashdot | Bookstore Owner Burns Books

Interesting…  Looks like some kind of PR stunt to me.  The guy managed to sell a bunch of old books for $1 a piece that he was otherwise unable to sell.  Got him some sales, some publicity, a spot on the front page of Slashdot…  Not too shabby!

The Slashdot story has some interesting discussion about what makes a book “literary” or “classic” too…  Always fun.

Never did get to try out the 2.1.0 goodies last night…

I fired up WoW when I got home, patched, and then found something else to do for the rest of the night.  The servers were up and down and malfunctioning all evening.  My wife, who’s been waiting for this patch so she can get a rat pet during Children’s Week, kept trying to connect for several hours.  Eventually even she gave up around 10:00.

Hopefully the servers will be back up and running correctly tonight.

Yesterday we got a very odd letter in the mail… It included a paper “bible faith handkerchief”. I’m really not quite sure what to make of it…

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