Looks like it’s true. Scripting News has already started a page for info on the capture of Saddam Hussein.

I must have been tired. I went to sleep around 2am Saturday morning and woke up at 1pm only to go back to sleep 2 hours later. Now I’m back up and my sleeping schedule is all screwed up…

Whoa… It looks like US troops “may have” have caught Saddam Hussein. Ok, I guess I’m staying up to watch some conference at 4am now. Be back later…

It was a nice rainy day in SoCal, so I went out and took this quick pano of the courtyard in my apartment complex. There are some stitch errors I still need to get rid of, but the larger problem is I don’t know why they’re there. Something to troubleshoot I guess. It’s good enough for now, though.

You can see other panos in my panoramic VR gallery.

Here’s a festive AIM conversation I was having with a friend that we can all learn from this holiday season…

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font color=”red”>roguegeek: We went over this before. Chaunaka and Chanukah are both right, right? Which one do you see more?
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: heheheh
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: I see Hannukah more often… but it doesn’t matter
font color=”red”>roguegeek: k
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: Channuka is probably the closest…
font color=”red”>roguegeek: wait wait wait. There are 4?
font color=”red”>roguegeek: You bastards just pick one and stick with it!
font color=”red”>roguegeek: It’s not Kristmas
font color=”red”>roguegeek: Or Christmus
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: right… well hannukah isnt an english word there’s only one spelling in hebrew but you dont know hebrew, do you, asshole?
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: anti-semite
font color=”red”>roguegeek: lol
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: nazi skinhead fuck
font color=”red”>roguegeek: DON’T BELITTLE MY PEOPLE ASSHOLE!!!
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: heheeh
font color=”red”>roguegeek: I’m posting this conversation.
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: hahaha ok
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: btw, you forgot xmas you white bastard
font color=”red”>roguegeek: nice
font color=”blue”>jew-friend: well i gotta crash, so i can sleep well and plot the final solution for your christ-loving sheeple/td>

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About a year and 8 months later, the 500th post is created on this site. Wouldn’t ya know it. Just when you think it couldn’t get less interesting, it does. Good luck to us all…

DP Review: “Nikon today announced that it is ‘working on’ a new budget priced digital SLR, the D70 and a new complementary DX lens… Considering it’s ‘budget price’ and considering the current competition I will make a wild guess that the D70 will be based around the D100 engine with the same six megapixel sensor. Styling hints however do appear to be taken from the D2H. Body only price of the D70 is expected to be $999…”

I will buy this camera when it comes out. I’ve been so tempted lately with the release of Canon’s EOS 300D and the D70 looks to be its direct competitor. If they are using the D100 engine (as the editor believes), I’m gonna keep my fingers crossed and hope they’re doing some sort of tinkering to improve that system because Canon’s 6MP CMOS is definitely superior to Nikon’s 6MP CCD. You know what this means now? It means I can continue to be a Nikon whore. Gimme gimme gimme.

The 4 day weekend was a nice break from the stressful weeks we’ve been having at work lately. The rest of the year is scheduled so tight, though, and there’s little room for any delays. It’s back to hell tomorrow but until then I can tell ya about the Thanksgiving weekend.

Thanksgiving is always one of the nicer holidays where I just deal with the family. Every year it’s pretty much the same deal. I arrive at my Uncle’s place in a separate car from the rest of the family. The car is key later on in the night when you want to leave early. I immediately find a place on the couch where I can stretch out and stuff myself full of cocktail shrimp and deviled eggs. After about an hour of being courteously awake, I lay out in front of the fireplace and go to sleep until we’re ready to eat. I’m awoken usually by my Mom telling me to get to the table. This is where I actually wish I had a lot more family living around me so there just wasn’t enough room at the table and I could go and eat in front of the TV. After dinner I head on back over to the fireplace to work off the turkey coma I throw myself into every year. Another hour passes until I awake and leave. Thanksgiving done.

Friday rolled around and I get up very late. Very very late. I’m bored so I do the stupidest thing anyone could do the day after Thanksgiving. I go shopping. Call up a friend and we’re off to the mall for a couple hours. Did I mention how much I hate people, especially people in groups? We’re practically boxing our way through mall. Don’t let the little old white ladies fool you either. Their intent to rush is far greater than mine. Mr. Reaper knocks on their back door and they have no problem whacking your feet out with their walkers if it’s gonna get them out of the food court faster. Those tricky bitches.

Saturday comes up and it’s about that time I’m thinking, “I need to buy a lot of Christmas decorations I really don’t need and throw them all over the lawn of my parent’s house.” Head on over to Osh and pick up tons of lights, cables, fake deer, etc… I get to the rent’s place and turn on “festive mode”. I was gonna decorate the place up with a bunch of Jew stars, Hannukah (Channuka, Chaunaka, Chanukah, whatever) candles, and dradles, but I don’t think my super white, super Republican, super Christian family would have found it as amusing and I might have. A friend told me to just throw in a bunch of subliminal 666 references and penis’, so I’ll see what I can do next weekend.

Sunday is here now and I did pretty much nothing. It is the day of rest after all. Went to Ikea with my Mom to pick up a nice stand for the bad ass TV they bought for the living room and that’s about it. It’s just a TV so I’m thinking I’ll get them the DVD player and home theater system for Christmas or something.

That’s it. Anything interesting happen with anyone else?

Strong Bad e-mail #90 came out last week. Learn how Thanksgiving came about in Strong Badia.

Happy Turkey Day to all. Now go throw yourselves into a turkey coma.

Since I hadn’t really updated my photo album in a while, I decided to start catching up this week. Unfortunately, it’s kinda gotten out of hand so I’ve started to move everything over to a new gallery system using Gallery. It makes updating so cake now. You can check out my new gallery at http://gallery.roguegeek.com. There are a couple new things in there already. I will no longer update the old photo album.