I think everyone here will appreciate this:

( Merry Christmas, Childfree. Picture behind cut. )

Enjoy. 8D

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/news/938/merry-christmas

It's pretty much Christmas and none of us here wish to upload a toon tomorrow for two reasons:

1. Well be opening our prezzies.
2. No one will be online on Christmas day to see it.

So with that in mind we can now show you the Cat Face Christmas episode. It's super festive.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/catface/Cat+Face+18/

It the Christmas Cat Face episode and Cat Face makes a snow cat.

A Dutch newspaper reports:

Shrieking child told to leave Connexxion bus *
DUTCH PRESS AGENCY | Published on 23 December 2009, 18:20 * Last updated on 23 December 2009, 18:25 ALMERE -

A driver of a bus owned by the Connexxion company on Tuesday afternoon in Almere told a little girl of three years old and her mother mother to get off the bus because the child was shrieking.

The transport company confirmed this report on Wednesday. The Connexxion company has suspended the driver pending a research.
"We find it unacceptable if this was done without further reason" a spokesperson for the company said. The bus driver's side of the story is as yet unknown.

A concerned traveller warned the bus company. The woman and the child had left the bus on the last stop before train station Almere-Buiten. According to the witness, the driver said that the woman needed to teach her child better manners.
The identity of both passengers remains unknown. The woman has so far not communicated a complaint.

Hoi! Coulc any of you fine ladies and/or gentlemen please recommend a fine, fly, and whizbang hip club that plays some good music? Tempe/Scottsdale/Phoenix

"Good Music" in a club atmosphere being, imho, something other than top 40's and overplayed hip-hop/pop. Techno, disco, house, scene music (bloc party, de de mouse, etc). Dancible is the (made up) key word!

Thank you and happy holiday stuff ;-)

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MassadAyoob/~3/Ags03dFrLX4/

http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=600

It’s a special time of year.

Time to thank the countless Americans who are overseas, not able to share the family time that the rest of us can at homes and hearths. Time to thank the emergency service personnel stateside who are sacrificing their special time with loved ones to be there to take care of all the rest of us, 24/7.

For some, it’s a deeply religious holiday.

For others, with other belief systems and even for the skeptics and atheists, it is a time American society sets aside for a short vacation, and an opportunity to visit those we care about, in an atmosphere of giving and caring. It’s a holiday that makes people happy, especially kids, and that’s OK too.

Belief systems aside, let’s all take time to make someone feel good. To share a memory or celebrate a personal bond. There’s a reason why secular people still exchange gifts in this society at this time of year, and why you don’t need a particular belief system to drop some green stuff into the Salvation Army pot for the less fortunate.

Celebrate core human values. Love. Not just appreciating others, but taking the opportunity to tell them how much you appreciate them, as we at the Backwoods Home group appreciate all of you. Values that include the strong helping the weak, and the protection of the innocent from evil.  Amidst the Christmas wreaths that adorn this park in Skokie, Illinois, we find the Holocaust Monument…

It is significant that the dominant figure in the Monument, standing tallest, is the Jewish Resistance fighter…note the bandoleer of ammunition across his chest. And remember that when bordering Morton Grove banned possession of handguns, Skokie voted not to.

Whether you have a white Christmas…

…or a green Christmas…

…or even a gray Christmas…

…all of us on this end wish you a peaceful, renewing, MERRY CHRISTMAS.

• 14:32 He arrived 8am yesterday morning. I love him. He is here. He is perfect. He is mine. I am humbled by this kind of joy. #
• 22:59 Preparing an orange honey port glaze for the Xmas Eve duck... #

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I was enjoying a bagel and latte this morning at a cafe when I read this Dear Abby column in the paper, and my blood just about ran cold:

Text-save here, bolding mine: ( Teal deer version = Husband is pretty much trying to entrap his injured wife into pregnancy by cutting off funds for BC and car rides to pharmacy )

Abby recommends "professional mediation now", but Fizzgig in my icon is just screaming RUUUUUUUN!!!

[01-11] Thank You For Smoking
[12-52] Dexter
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Samples:

1. 2. 3.

All at my journal.

- another small optimization regarding drawing invisible walls
- made a change to the level editor's shuffle function which made it skip invisible walls when shuffling room elements
- fixed a position rounding problem when using shuffle
- fixed a bug where the level editor didn't correctly change the colors of objects anymore
- made it so if a nurikabe is hiding other creatures, their life bars / friend bars don't show up (which would give away their position)
- made a new area
- added to the game a few new sprites orchard had drawn recently (new trees and a new mushroom)
- made a new area (pictured)
- added the rest of the sprites orchard had drawn recently to the game (clouds)
- did change to image loading for deco sprites (was mistakenly loading the same sprite into memory when i didn't need to)
- made the text in the beginning of the game have a delay for punctuation etc.
- made theo's portrait appear in the save menu if for some reason you save and quit in that very early part
- resampled the portraits for the smaller size rather than scaling them down, which makes them look nicer and less pixelated

my new target (not a binding vow, but a promise) will be to finish two new areas per day, before i work on coding or bugfixing or new features. exceptions are coding that i need to work on those particular rooms. cause unless i start doing at least 2 new areas a day the game won't even be finished in 2010 D:

( save screen with theo in it )

Here is my plan for the next 11 days.

Thursday, December 24. Work till noon. Head to aunt's house. Xmas Eve with mom's side of the family.
Friday, December 25. Head to folks' place for Xmas brunch with dad's side of the family. Then recover. Watch football.
Saturday December 26. More or less open. Day for chores, and for planning. Maybe go see Avatar.
Sunday December 27. Head out with friends for bender.
Monday December 28. Recover, possibly head to Houston.
Tuesday December 29. If didn't go to Houston on Monday, head there this day.
Wednesday December 30. Everybody loves Hewwwstun (I know I do!)
Thursday December 31. NYE in Houston.
Friday January 1st. NYD!
Saturday January 2nd. Drive home, probably leave midday.
Sunday January 3rd. Recover.

Hmmmm. Could be fun!

Still here. Sitting in my underwear and still here.

Being forced to scrapbook your fertility journey, in the hopes an American surrogate will choose *you*.

ENJOY INDIA, PATRI AND CHOICEFUL ! AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHOICEFUL!

A couple of nights ago, I was chilling at the computer when I heard the loudest, relatively blood-curdling shrieks in the alley next to our place coming from, what I'm hoping was, an incredibly drunk individual. He was going on and on about "FUCK!" and "I'm fucking SUICIDAL" and "FUCK GREELEY" and a bunch of similar, uplifting, time-to-end-it-all shoutings. It really got under my skin. Schwa called the police, and I have no idea what became of it all. I don't think they found him. I'd like to think that a friend gave him a ride home, and that he woke up the next day with a horrible hangover and an even worse case of embarrassment.

I've been more-than-average grinchy and grumpy about Christmas this year. I turn into a child. I hate the pressure of it all, I resent the time that I don't have, and I find it awfully difficult to find cheer in the shitty weather and consumerism. I find it an all-round waste of a holiday. I actually love the family part... i love the over-eating and drinking and cookies and boardgames... I just hate gifts. I hate buying them, and I hate getting them. I'm sorry if my overall yuckiness this year has harshed anyone's buzz. I don't mean to be a scrooge. I just hate Christmas.

Things at work have been crazy. The new shop is amazing. It's more than comfortable, it's damn sexy. I'll have to admit that it makes it even more bittersweet to know that I'll be leaving it in a few months time. I've been incredibly sentimental recently, about the people that I work with. It's weird to think that I won't be working with them forever. It's not even that it's a bad or a good thing, it's just so strange to know I'll be leaving a comfort zone on so many levels. I'm finally working with Ragz, after so many years. He's more or less the guy I can thank for indirectly opening the door for me to this industry. He and Sandy are like family to me. Or they are, actually. If it weren't for them, I literally wouldn't be the person that I am today. Eliaz has been my coworker and close friend for over half my career now. I've never worked with anyone as long as I've worked with this fucker. He's like a permanent fixture in career. Who's gonna tell me to add lavender to the background once I'm not working with him any more? Who's gonna talk a bunch of shit about me not knowing who a certain artist is when he's not there? ha ha.. Fuck. Seriously.

I'm so excited to start my new life in San Francisco. But it's really hard to know I'm going to be stepping away from some of the best people anyone has ever been lucky enough to call friends. I know it's not like I'll be losing these friends, but it's going to be a lot harder to grab a beer when there are a couple thousand miles separating us. I selfishly want to grab all of these assholes and put them in my suitcase and bring them with me. It's going to be weird not having them in my life on a consistent basis. Hope y'all like road trips.

We're having a shop party/grand re-opening/new years eve shindig going on on New Years eve at Katalist. There will be some awesome djing and some beer, and snacks, and great company. And crayons. I hope you can all make it.

They awarded Vick with this year's Ed Block Courage Award. This award is given by each team each to a player who displays "commitment to the principles of sportsmanship and courage."

Seriously. Stay classy, you fucking fuckers. I hope McNabb trips over his own feet and falls on Andy Reid, causing him to suffer painful cardiac arrest and to shit himself with the cameras watching.

I went to see Princess and the Frog today. The movie was great, and the audience was fairly lacking in kids (I attended one of AMC's more expensive 'dinner and a show' style theatres, so the extra price probably kept the average parent away). There was a kid crying when Facilier's friends from the other side were let loose, but it was fairly soft, all things considered, and it didn't last very long.

However, there was one thing that bugged. One of the pre-movie ads was about encouraging children. Fine, whatever, I don't argue that kids need encouragment, especially in the more creative ventures, given the severe lack of imagination the current generation is getting these days. However, the commercial itself involved a kid wandering on stage at a piano recital, you know, the fancy kind where you dress up, and plunking out 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.' The ACTUAL pianist, you know, the one that people actually paid to see comes out and plays with him. And then the audience breaks into applause.

Like I said, I'm for encouraging creative endeavors. And I admit that I'm overanalyzing a commercial with a message that, bottom line, I agree with. But a piano recital doesn't strike me as a place where a kid should be praised and encouraged. Likewise, the parents don't come across too well, since they lose their kid between the lobby and the seats (though they do get points for starting to get the kid before the pianist starts playing with him).

I just found it irritating and needed to share.

Minor clarification edit: When I say that the kid wandered out, I mean that he slipped away from his parents and snuck on stage and began playing, not that he was the one who was meant to perform at the recital.

Originally published at BunkBlog. You can comment here or there.

This is just crazy – the past three days, I’ve been working all day long. This is just unacceptable; my boss is crazy to think I can keep up this kind of pace. Next he’ll expect me to accurately report my work hours.

Seriously, I’ve installed Red Hat on 18 machines in the past three days, and some of them have CPUs propelled by gerbils. Painful.