Greetings Earthlings!

From savageplanet

( I am Great Cthulhu! )

I am not getting my normal Saturday morning sleep today because I am attending a funeral today. I imagine I will crash very soon after I return home.

In other news I got a lot done at the guard shack working on my C&C game. Beware my players my renewed evil knows no bonds! BWHAHAHAHAHA

After enjoying watching the first season of dueSouth I tracked down the two CDs that were were produced with music from it.

On the first disc they have a nice mix of of things scored for the show and songs from the likes of Sara McLachlan, The Guess Who and Klaatu with a few artists I have never heard of before. Out of the scored music Dief's in Love is my favorite although it it nice to hear the full version of the dueSouth theme.

The second disc is made up of music from the third season. The song I like the best is a very cool version of Take Me Out to the Ballpark by Trevor Hurst.

Both discs each have a song by Paul Gross (who plays Benton Fraser) who has a nice voice but unless you like country/folk sounding music you wouldnt like probably.

By the way Diefenbaker was played a dog named Lincoln in the first two seasons and by a pup named Draco in the final two seasons.

Just finished watching Due South season 1 on DVD. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this show. The chemistry between Paul Gross and David Marciano is great and the little lines they throw in.

Ray Vecchio: So this is how they punish Mounties in Canada; they make them dress like Americans?

Ray Vecchio: Please tell me this doesn't involve sub-zero temperatures or Inuit legend.
Fraser: No, it does not.
Ray Vecchio: Of course it does. It always does.

And of course you could base a drinking game around this oft repeated line. Fraser: Thank you kindly.

Now to get DVD of Season 2.

Between my work schedule, real life stuff with myself, and my usual gang of suspects I havent run a game in a long while. I need to run something soon. We were getting a real good groove going with my C&C game and I would like to keep it going.

Working Friday nights from 6 pm to 6 am and then Sunday from 6 am to 6 pm puts a crimp in things because I have a hard time staying up late when I have to be up for work at 430 am. OY!

I am thinking on doing something of a one-shot with Feng Shui this weekend. We shall see.

So sometime on Sunday the keybaord went *bamf* and only enough money for gas in the cars until we both got paid today meant creative cut and paste to use the eMac at all. So I get up early today to go buy a new one.....NOW THE ONE I JUST BOUGHT IS FUCKING UP! The space key among others isnt working. *SIGH* More creative cut and paste just to have spaces....

Then work sent my paycheck to the wrong site so if I wanted it before Monday I would have to run and it before 4 PM. *SIGH*

Now its after four so time to get ready to make the doughnuts....

From rickj As set to one of my favorite (and chadu agrees) songs Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" I present the Firefly music video!!

Snagged from warrenellis.com

Dragons in the Tibet Sky

A photo of two peculiar dragon-shaped objects taken from a plane flying over Tibet’s Himalayas piqued many users’ interest when displayed on a Chinese website. The photographer is an amateur.

On June 22, 2004, the photographer went to Tibet’s Amdo region to attend the Qinghai-to-Xizang Railroad laying ceremony, and then took a plane from Lhasa to fly back inland. When flying over the Himalayas, he accidentally caught these two "dragons" in a picture that he took. He called these two objects "the Tibet dragons."

Looking at the photo, these two objects appear to have the characteristics of crawling creatures: The bodies seem to be covered by scales, the backs have spine-like protuberances, and also they have gradually thinning rear ends. Although the photo caught only a portion of the entire scene, it was sufficient to create the appearance of two gigantic dragons flying in the clouds.

This photo, shown on some websites such as post.baidu.com and other forums, aroused the website visitors’ curiosity. One person commented, “No wonder that China is the homeland of the dragon! Nature is truly mysterious and powerful, it can always produce spectacular sights beyond people's expectations.”

“Is it really true? Is it possible there is an ancient civilization that we don’t know about preserved in places that are sparsely populated?”

“It really looks like the dragons in fables, and I really hope it is.”

Certainly, most website visitors hoped that someone could confirm the authenticity of the dragons in the photo.
Photo of dragons taken from an airplane above the Himalayas. (www.dajiyuan.com)

In Chinese fairy tales, the dragon is a kind of rare heavenly creature. Fables say that it can conceal or reveal itself. It ascends to heaven in the spring breeze and dives and hides in deep water in the autumn wind. It can promote clouds and bring about rain. It also became the symbol of imperial authority later on; all emperors of previous dynasties self-designated as dragons, utensils were also decorated with dragons.

Culturally, the dragon is the Chinese ancestors' totem. Nearly all races in China had fables and stories with dragons as the main subject, such as dragon boat races, the dragon lantern dance to celebrate holidays, sacrificial offerings to the dragons to implore timely wind and rain for good crops.

Whether this kind of creature really exists is still an unsolved riddle. In the previous dynasties in China, there had been many documents recording eyewitness accounts of magical dragons. The most amazing events are the various "falling dragons," dragons that suddenly fell to the ground under peculiar circumstances, and were witnessed by many. A relatively recent tale occurred in the puppet Manchuria regime in August, 1944. A black dragon fell to the ground at the Chen Family’s Weizi Village, about 9.4 miles northwest of Zhaoyuan County, on the south shore of the Mudan River (the old name of a section of Songhua River) in Heilongjiang province. The black dragon was on the verge of death. The eyewitness said that this creature had a horn on its head, scales covering its body, and had a strong fishy smell that attracted numerous flies.

The records from previous dynasties also mentioned the connection between the emergence of these kinds of mysterious creatures, “dragons,” and the transition of dynasties on earth. The appearance of Tibet’s magical dragon invites our curiosity and imagination.

pictures here and here