Librarian Avengers
People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise.
Cute.
Last night we dominated Trivia Night.
Going into the final question, where you can wager 15 points, we were ahead of the competition by 14 points. We bet 2 points, got the question right, and got first place by 1 point.
We had a debate over what is the best way to be a poor loser, betting 15 points and utterly destroying the competition by the maximum amount of points, or only betting enough to win, and rubbing it in the faces of the other teams that we didn’t have to do much to defeat them.
I voted for the latter, equating it to taking a knee when you are winning in the last 45 seconds of a football game. Although, I still felt bad when they announced the final score. It was like the other team tried so hard, but they just couldn’t do it because we tripped them. Then we got the $50 and I didn’t care about the other teams’ feelings anymore.
Grand total winnings in house cash to date: $200. We are saving it up for a big blowout.
ESPN.com – NFL – Louisiana meets payment deadline to keep Saints
NEW ORLEANS — The state handed the New Orleans Saints a check for $12,415,267.53 Tuesday, its annual multimillion dollar payment to keep the team in Louisiana, according to Louisiana Superdome official Bill Curl.
Poor Louisiana. They still have to pay this back, and where is it going to come from? They can’t take it from education, there’s nothing left to take? I guess you LA folks will start seeing some new taxes. What they should do is tax auto dealerships.
What the hell is going on in New Orleans? Sure, he’s 34 years old. He was also one of the more effective CBs we had. Who do they plan on replacing him with?
Also, since we like players with injury problems (such as the OT we took in the first round), why aren’t we going after Peter Boulware?
And what about Ty Law?
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Tomorrow is the day that we worship Will Smith and Bill Pullman for protecting our “right to live” (life) from space aliens who use that evil symbol of homosexuality, the upside triangle as their front door. Thank you Roland Emmerich for showing us that even a stripper can be redeemed if she gets married to a good upstanding soldier moments before the world will end. Oh and also that the first person to die should the apocalypse arrive will be a flaming gay man who is obsessed with his mother.
By now, I’m pretty sure everyone knows that I don’t believe the movie Independence Day is a harmless summer blockbuster, but instead a insidious piece of right-wing conservative propoganda under the cover of an action movie.
Luckily, tomorrow, we also celebrate the fact that Roland Emmerich and Will Smith have the right to make shitty movies, and I have the right to point out that their movie is shitty.
Happy 4th, everyone!
We’re going tubing. Now this would be enough reason for us all to get together, but the real reason, the real cause for celebration are the 30th birthdays of Amber, Day and Kent.
The house is open for partying the entire Labor Day weekend, but we’ll prolly throw a honest-to-goodness, keg in a cooler, Leslie cooks real food, we actually get to use the deck with the tiki torches, party that Saturday. Bring yourselves, bring other people, come tubing in North Georgia with us.
Any questions, let me know here or call or email.
Photos that Amber took during last Mardi Gras were accepted into the 2005 Art + Commerce Emerging Photographers Festival.
In her own words:
“I guess it pays to skip work, spend money you don’t have and drink until you are thristy again. (a la Sheryl Crow). Go figure.”
Way to go Amber, we’re very proud.
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
Lusby, Maryland
10:00 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: I appreciate the Secretary of Energy joining me today. He’s a good man, he knows a lot about the subject, you’ll be pleased to hear. I was teasing him — he taught at MIT, and — do you have a PhD?
SECRETARY BODMAN: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, a PhD. (Laughter.) Now I want you to pay careful attention to this — he’s the PhD, and I’m the C student, but notice who is the advisor and who is the President. (Laughter and applause.)
What an asshole.
I think these sandals are just about the coolest thing in the whole wide world.
I promise to use them only for good, never for evil. Ok, maybe I will use them sometimes for mischeif, but mischief is not like hitch-hiking on Satan’s highway or surfing in the devil’s ocean. It’s more like shooting out the streetlamp of blind faith with a holy BB gun.
ps I wear a size 9-10.