Personal - Star Trek Meme

Your results:
You are Worf

You are trained in the art of combat
and are usually intimidating.


Worf

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60%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)

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60%
Chekov

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60%
Jean-Luc Picard

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55%
Uhura

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55%
Will Riker

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50%
Deanna Troi

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45%
Geordi LaForge

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45%
James T. Kirk (Captain)

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45%
Data

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42%
Beverly Crusher

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40%
Spock

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34%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)

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30%
Mr. Scott

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25%
Mr. Sulu

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15%


Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character are you?" quiz...

Personal - A Picture Share

Current events - Rocky Anderson

"Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism." - Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson

Media - WTF, SciFi? Why you gotta do that to me?

I've avoided Stargate (all incarnations) since it left Showtime (ok, a bit after season one, really).

So what do the evil bastards at SciFi Channel do? They go out and get Ben Browder and Claudia Black from one of my favorite all time scifi shows.

Ok, I can do this... still not watching.

Not easily swayed, the maniacs have now gone and persuaded the most beautiful companion in the frontier territories, Morena Baccarin who played Inara from another of my favorite all time scifi shows, Firefly.

DAMN YOU, SCIFI! DAMN YOU!

Science - RIP, Pluto

Via AP Wire by way of the Kansas City Star

Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.

News flash: Plutonian scientists have downgraded Earth from "planet" to "annoying bunch of pricks who think they are so important." More on this story as it develops.

Current events - Comprehensive Iraq war timeline

Via Think Progress

We're officially involved in Iraq longer than we were involved in World War 2.

Current events - Eisenhower

A great quote from Ike, via a blog called, Get In Their Face!

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Current events - NSA Wiretapping Program Unconstitutional

But we all kind of knew that, didn't we?

Via Think Progress

Fox News reports a federal district court in Detroit has ruled that the Bush administration’s NSA warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.

No way the shrub will let this stand.

Personal - RIP

I like to get out of the office on my lunch break. It helps break the day up and makes it pass quicker.

Generally, I take my sandwich, yogurt and apple over to a park near the office and just enjoy the alone time.

Yesterday, as I was heading back to work, I saw a really pretty german shepard mix dog walking along the street. He had a collar and tags on and stopped to watch me drive past before continuing his stroll. I noticed a city employee in a truck pulling over and talking on h9is radio while trying to get the dog to approach him. I figure, Ok, hopefully the pup will be back with his family soon.

Not so.

Today at lunch, I found this beautiful animal dead on the side of the road. He was apparently run over.

I can only assume that the city guy couldn't get the dog to come and that animal control didn't get there in time to catch him. Maybe the dog took off into the nearby woods.

I hope it was a quick death and he didn't suffer.

Humor - Why beer is better than religion

Via Brewstraveler.com
Reasons Why Beer is Better Than Religion

10. No one will kill you for not drinking Beer.

9. Beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.

8. Beer has never caused a major war.

7. They don't force Beer on minors who can't think for themselves.

6. When you have a Beer, you don't knock on people's doors trying to give it away.

5. Nobody's ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured over his brand of Beer.

4. You don't have to wait 2000+ years for a second Beer.

3. There are laws saying Beer labels can't lie to you.

2. You can prove you have a Beer.

1. If you've devoted your life to Beer, there are groups to help you stop.

The Web - Is Firefox prefered by aliens?

Via Linux Users Group - Oregon State University

Firefox Crop Circle

Personal - Mr. & Mrs. Beaglebot have a son!

Welcome to the world Logan!

(Check the wonderful world of Fuzzytopia at the link on the right.)

Humor - Are you ready?

Current events - Randi Rhodes asks a great question

Via Hoffmania

"Why did the president cut and run from Afghanistan?"

Current events - Another anniversary

Via Think Progress

"It’s been four years, ten months and twenty-five days since President Bush pledged to capture Bin Laden “dead or alive.”

How's that workin out for you, Decider?

Current events - Cheney

Via Think Progress

From a teleconfrence interview with the biggest Dick (Cheney) on the planet.

The thing that’s partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.

Sweet jumpin Jeebus on a pogo-stick…

al Qaeda knows we won’t “complete the task” because we showed them we wouldn’t when Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld let their collective ADD kick in and they stopped focusing on Afghanistan and bin Laden.

This just shows that the American people, at least those who are in touch with reality, have realized we let the wrong people get a hold of our country.

Games - RPG Motivational Posters

RPG Motivational Posters

Current events - BP knew about their leak months ago

Via Common Dreams
Oil Gushes into Arctic Ocean from BP Pipeline
by Leonard Doyle
Published on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 by the Independent / UK

The first indication of the spill came in early March, when an oily patch was discovered near the elevated oil transmission pipeline, but the full scale of the accident is only becoming clear with time. Environmentalists who vociferously objected to the construction of the BP pipeline may now see their worst fears realised.

Clean-up crews have removed more than 190,000 litres of crude oil and melted snow off the frozen tundra but reports indicate that the leak is the second largest crude oil spill in Alaska - second only to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster.

Humor - Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self

Via The Onion

Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self
"In a decisive 1–0 decision Monday, President Bush voted to grant the president the constitutional power to grant himself additional powers.

President Bush announces announcement of the new power-granting announcement.

'As president, I strongly believe that my first duty as president is to support and serve the president,' Bush said during a televised address from the East Room of the White House shortly after signing his executive order. 'I promise the American people that I will not abuse this new power, unless it becomes necessary to grant myself the power to do so at a later time.'"

Personal - Barbeque!

I'm judging my first official BBQ contest as a Certified Barbeque Judge. It's this weekends Cabela's Bar-B-Que Challenge

As Bozino said: "lucky droid."