Day: October 11, 2001

Tonight, Whose Line Is it Anyway? was preempted for the President’s press conference on the war in Afghanistan. I think that’s just plain rude. So I’m watching The Color of Money and wandering around online instead, which I guess is just as well.

Anyway, keeping in what is fast becoming something of a tradition, some more photographs of nothing in particular and of questionable quality.

“This must be Thursday,” said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, “I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” – Douglas Adams

When roleplaying becomes identity theft (found via The Obscure Store):

David Dunn of Cleveland has become such a powerful warrior in the Internet fantasy game DragonRealms that others would pay thousands of dollars to assume his character, Bloodwrath. But shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a real-world impostor tried to kill him off and steal his online identity.

When life imitates art (found originally via memepool):

With his oval head, bulbous nose, shaggy eyebrows and tiny tuft of rod-straight black hair, the banana-yellow puppet is a favorite of children around the world. But this week, he shared space with terror lord Osama Bin Laden on posters wielded by anti-American extremists during violent protests in Bangladesh.

When getting from here to there becomes an unecessary ordeal (read at Abada Abada):

I have concluded that the only way Greyhound could possibly be safer now — as you have claimed in statements to the press — than before the regrettable bus crash is if you had been handing out knives to passengers in the months beforehand.

When boredom and no discernible talent collide. Diversions! diversions! my kingdom for diversions!