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Friday Night Open Thread

Dean

Since there is no more Battlestar Galactica on Friday nights, the Friday Night Open Thread hereby returns.

Tell us all something interesting. Or share a link. Or tell a joke. Or just spout whatever's on your mind.

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Martin L. Shoemaker (www):

First!

Anyone looking for a .NET/Tablet PC/UML guru? I'm starting to look for new work, preferably West Michigan. Working three hours from home sucks, and it's sucking me dry.

12.29.2006 6:45pm

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Sandi (www):

How about some bees and a little redneck engineering to get rid of them.

Don't try this at home.

12.29.2006 6:51pm

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Dean Esmay:

Do you think they're really going to execute Saddam tonight??

12.29.2006 8:26pm

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HokiePundit (RDB) (mail):

What I want to know is what ever happened to the whole "Cylon Resistance" idea from the end of Season 2. Boomer identifies with the humans, then sides with Caprica Six, and then tells Athena that Hera is still alive. What, D'Anna didn't reincarnate and tell anyone that Boomer had crushed her head in with a rock? Did I miss an episode? Seriously, what the frak?

12.29.2006 9:01pm

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jaymaster (mail):

Oh yeah. My bet is he'll be swinging within the hour.

And I feel kinda bad for smiling about that.

But not too bad...

12.29.2006 9:01pm

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Scott Kirwin (mail) (www):

Just a reminder that we need to support independent journalists with our cash.

I'll be out of a job soon, but it didn't stop me from putting my money where my mouth is by kicking a few bucks to an indy journalist. Just pretend you're buying a couple of magazines.

If you've enjoyed their writing, do so now. Prayers and comments don't feed families or pay for trips to the various hellholes on this planet.

12.29.2006 9:26pm

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jaymaster (mail):

And my wife is pissed at me because I won’t watch a movie tonight.

I just can’t imagine waiting another 2 hours to find out that Sadam is finally dead

12.29.2006 9:27pm

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Martin L. Shoemaker (www):

Dean, we can only hope.

12.29.2006 9:32pm

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jaymaster (mail):

Great point Scott!

I just checked my Paypal account, and I donated $550 to bloggers this year. That surprised me a bit. I didn’t realize it was that much money.

But I don’t feel bad about it, considering the enjoyment and education I have received in return.

I truly believe in the informative power of the blogosphere, and “citizen journalism”, and I’m willing to support it.

12.29.2006 9:38pm

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Martin L. Shoemaker (www):

Fox News is reporting he's at the execution site. Within the minute.

12.29.2006 9:59pm

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jaymaster (mail):

I’ve got my post-Saddam playlist cued:

“Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!” from the Wizard of Oz

“Swingin’” by John Anderson

and “The Stars and Stripes Forever” in the hope of justice and freedom for all.

12.29.2006 10:07pm

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Martin L. Shoemaker (www):

It's done. May this give them some peace.

12.29.2006 10:08pm

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jaymaster (mail):

I didn't think it would make me cry this much....

12.29.2006 10:12pm

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Mordwyn (mail):

2208 hrs EST as per El Arabia news wire.

The bastard's dead

12.29.2006 10:14pm

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Jack G (mail) (www):

Do you think they're really going to execute Saddam tonight??

I have my own thoughts about his recent demise.

Hanging Hussein

He's gone now though.

12.29.2006 10:17pm

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Martin L. Shoemaker (www):

World Court, are you watching? This is how you try a tyrant. Just over three years from capture to execution, rather than five years of endless haggling and the butcher dying of a heart attack.

The Iraqis just demonstrated that in some things, they're far more responsible than the vaunted "international community".

12.29.2006 10:19pm

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jaymaster (mail):

I just added another song to my post-Saddam playlist:

“You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet”

I hope it’s true.

12.29.2006 10:20pm

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Sandi (www):

On a more humorous note. At 10:30 central time on TBS an hour of 2006's wittiest and most entertaining comericals.

I saw this a few years ago and was pretty good, but keep missing it lately. Apparently they don't rerun.

12.29.2006 10:48pm

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Jack G (mail) (www):

The Iraqis just demonstrated that in some things, they're far more responsible than the vaunted "international community".

Or at the very least, the Europeans.

12.29.2006 10:55pm

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Bill Dooley:

His body should be plastinated and put on the base where his monumental statue formerly stood.

12.29.2006 10:57pm

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Scott Kirwin (mail) (www):

Now I've got to retire my Saddam2008 webpages.
I had figured he was the perfect Democratic presidential candidate too...

Oh well. I'm glad he's dead and won't miss him.

Remember: Pay for content by supporting your favorite indy journalists.

And that includes Cox and Forkum and Day By Day.

12.29.2006 11:17pm

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Jack G (mail) (www):

His body should be plastinated

There's a certain irony to that remark.

12.29.2006 11:51pm

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Bill Dooley:

> There's a certain irony to that remark.

Irony is one of those words, like faith, that I find difficult to comprehend.

Would you kindly elaborate a bit?

12.30.2006 12:15am

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Elisha Feger (mail) (www):

It's part of a balanced diet.

12.30.2006 10:34am

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Elisha Feger (mail) (www):

And helps to prevent anemia!

12.30.2006 10:36am

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Martin L. Shoemaker (www):

Nah, you're confusing the actor with the act, Elisha. As Spider Robinson once explained, if someone who commits a felony is a felon, then someone who commits an irony is an iron.

And from that, he concluded: God is an iron.

12.30.2006 11:33am

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