Long walk for a short cake

For those of you who don't know, I'm playing City of Heroes. It's a super hero online game, and they give you badges for doing things--I got a badge for reaching tenth level, I got a badge for patrolling the city a set number of hours, and I'm fairly certain there's a badge for flossing.

So earlier tonight one of my heroes (Chains of Love) is sneaking through a warehouse with some crates that explode if you punch them too much, and I got this peach of an idea. Punch a crate until it's on the verge of exploding. Go find a bad guy and slap him in the back of the head. Then run away, leading him back to the crate, which I blow up from a distance.

This was an awesome and clever plan, and it worked like a charm. Except for the part where CoL tripped over the crate, or got distracted by some bubble wrap, or stopped to text somebody, or something, I don't exactly know what. All I know is that suddenly she was getting the crap kicked out of her and I couldn't see what was going on or get myself oriented. And so I went to attack the bad guy, forgetting that the targeting system was locked onto the crate. Which was apparently sitting right next to me, because I went ass over teakettle and sprawled on the warehouse floor in the resulting explosion.

At which point, the game informed me that I'd won a new badge! I managed to blow myself into qualification for the Tough badge, which you get for taking a hundred thousand points of damage.

Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles

One last thing. Ray twigged me to this:
People in chicken costumes will not be allowed around Nevada polling places. You may remember the story of millionaire casino executive, senate candidate, and former beauty queen Sue Lowden, and if not then you can click through. (:

Hunh.

You know what would explain the handful of symptoms I've been seeing over the past couple of days?

KIDNEY STONE.

We're just about the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet

Link from Will Shetterly:
According to the RIAA, the Pirate Bay has stolen 46 times more dollars than actually exist on Earth.

No matter how you cut it, The Pirate Bay is ultimately just a collection of thieves. However, its chief rival is the RIAA: An even larger and more vicious collection of thieves.

Quick review of How to Train Your Dragon

Predictable and still good. Three wags.
( Slightly more in depth, but not much more )