+ 1 - 1 | § ¶Blogger's Bash, 2007-05-29
Another Blogger's Bash tonight! This time, I'm actually liveblogging.Bill Dennis (The Peoria Pundit, http://www.peoriapundit.com/)
Brad Carter (former candidate for Peoria city council, http://blog.carterforfreedom.com/)
John Arussa(?) (PeoriaIllinoisan, http://peoriaillinoisan.blogpeoria.com/)
Mike Tietjen (Peoria County Politics, http://peoriacountypolitics.blogspot.com/)
David Henderson (Omphaloskepsis, http://www.psiphi.org/cgi/blog/)
Diane Vespa (Peoria Rocks, http://peoriarocks.blogspot.com/)
Laura "Eyebrows" and Garth McGee (http://eyebrowsmcgee.blogspot.com/)
C.J. Summers (Peoria Chronicle, http://peoriachronicle.com/)
At One World
Twitter evangelism from Bill
PeoriaIllinoisan taking a trip to D.C.
Discussion of lawyering tasks.
Computer rejecting Microsoft products. Keeping the user safe!
[7:48]
Discussion of Main Street traffic forum
Second ambulance in 30 minutes
"I'm going to flush your DNS cache."
"Are you sure you should do that in mixed company?"
-- Bill (to Diane), David
[8:04pm]
Food arrives for them what ordered some.
Bill's site going faster now
John McCain discussion, someone called him a nasty name, lectured him on what is and isn't torture
[8:17pm]
Diane reads my site, calls my liveblogging "cute". ["reads" is present progressive, not present simple.]
Joined Twitter http://twitter.com/psiphiorg
City council member Gary Sandburg rode by on his motorcycle a while ago, presumably on his way to either attend the Main Street traffic forum, or go drinking. Peoria State Senator Dave Koehler was in the restaurant, but didn't stop over to say hi. We are all sad. I guess.
Scary videos on YouTube... stereogram where you get your face up close, then zombie jumps in with scream!
Everyday videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvDxUoadG6A
[9:14pm]
I've been nudged to start commenting again.
[9:27pm]
Later in the evening, after many had left, things got more interesting...
"Mike Bailey is an annoying little popcorn fart." -- Bill Dennis
"Brad's Bootylicious Badonkadonk Blog" -- Brad Carter
"The word of the day is titillating." -- Brad Carter
Nancy Grace video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWPY7b35vF4
Talk about wanting to widen Wisconsin Avenue, or Northmoor.
Peoria's "new" city buses are just old buses from Champaign. Discussion about how poor Peoria's public transportation system is.
"One Word" is where Bill said the Bash would be held. One World is the name of the place.
Discussion about whether men or women benefit more from getting married. Going to other related issues. Rather quite interesting, but I'm going to skip over the details.
"You write this down-- No! Just kidding." -- Name withheld.
+ 1 - 1 | § ¶"Heroes" spinoff announced
In addition to a second season, we're also going to get a spin-off, Heroes: Origins. The two series will total 30 episodes next season, though it has not been announced how those 30 will be split between the two series. (A report from an NBC insider said Heroes will get a regular 22-episode season, and that there will be 8 Origins episodes, but that hasn't been confirmed yet.)
Read the original press release from NBC, or The Futon Critic's copy.
The key passage:
NBC "bulks up" with 30 combined episodes of Heroes and Heroes: Origins, an innovative new spin-off that each week will introduce a new character—one of whom will be chosen by viewers through the Heroes website on NBC.com to become a cast regular the following season.
davidh
+ 2 - 0 | § ¶Election results
Captain: Adam Morand (his second consecutive semester)First Officer: (left open, to be elected during the New Member Meeting next semester)
Grand Nagus: Mike "Baby Seal" Niiro (his first semester, formerly First Officer)
Communications Officer: Ashley Miller (her second consecutive semester)
Chief of Operations: David Henderson (my twenty-fifth total semester, eighteenth consecutive)
Constable: "Anti-"Mike Watson (his second total semester, also formerly Communications Officer)
So three of the five elected positions kept their current officers, one re-elected a former officeholder, and only one has someone new to the position. A rather stable transition, especially for one that occurs between school years.
davidh
+ 2 - 0 | § ¶End of the Semester Party, May 2007
Tonight's the Psi Phi End of the Semester Party. There are 16 people here at the moment; at least five others have been here at some point.Among the movies we've watched tonight (or rather, that have been shown tonight): Bubba Hotep (Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) fights zombies who invade his nursing home; John F. Kennedy (Ossie Davis) also lives there, having been dyed black as a disguise), Plan 9 From Outer Space (almost starring Bela Lugosi), and The Gamers (a movie about role-playing gamers).
The parties have changed in character over the past few semesters. Originally, we watched a couple of movies from roughly 8pm to midnight, held the final meeting of the year from midnight to about 2am, then watched one more movie starting at 2am. But for the past few semesters, movie-watching has been a minor part of the evening... in fact, at the moment, I am the only person watching the TV (and even now, I'm blogging as well). Other things that are going on: Three people are watching some sort of video on someone else's computer screen, a couple of people are role-playing from a book, five people are playing RoboRally (another couple are watching), somebody's sleeping under the pool table, and someone's updating the treasury.
The officer candidates are interesting... there are eight people running for Captain, which is a lot more than usual. Since current Grand Nagus (treasurer) Ryan is graduating this semester, there is no incumbent, but only two people are running (one who's also running for Captain, and one who was nominated in absentia and hasn't confirmed whether or not he's actually interested in running). So we might need to re-open nominations for that position (which will likely use up all the runoff ballots I printed off).
More later...
davidh