Time's person of the year: Me.

Conditions: Sunny.



Well, this is a shock. I have so many to thank. Mom and Dad of course. And God, naturally. Plus all of you guys out there that I stepped on along the way. I'll never forget you guys: we did it together! I will take this award and move forward with it. There'll be no resting on my laurels. I don't want to be some old guy in a nursing home who's only comeback is "Oh yeah? Well I was Time's person of the year 2006, you bastard. Spit out the prunes and suck on that, Hodgson!" Oh no, like the American Soldier, I won't let this honour become a burden. He ignored this honour in order to safeguard middle eastern oil reserves for future generations, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. Bless him and the Humvee he drives, with one foot. I will overcome my POTY to become, well, whatever is next for me. First man on Mars, perhaps. Greatest Human Being To Never Star In Sitcom, maybe. Human With The Most Perfect Liver, certainly. So in closing, I may be the person of the year, but you guys are the audience of the year! Give yourselves a hand!

(Don't believe me? How dare you! Begone, I say!)



Iraq again, some more.

BBC News

The word is that President Bush is going to send in another 30,000 odd troops into Iraq next year. In theory this is a good idea, but it's likely that even more will be needed to truly end the civil war there. 140,000 are already in the country, and the violence spills out of control. Powell has said the extra troops won't make a difference, but what does he know? He's the guy that convinced the U.N that Saddam had WMD, at this point if Powell said the sky was falling, I wouldn't exactly run for cover.



Xmas movies.

Well it's that time of the year, Xmas movie time. What, I hear you say, is on the roster for this years Xmas viewing? Why, the staples of course: Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Last Boy Scout, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. And who knows what may crop up as a special presentation. On that arc, I was asked to purchase Ice Age 2 as an Xmas present for a certain neice (oof, I have a neice). And I note that the film has two commentaries. Is this really necessary? Two commentaries for Ice Age 2? What could they possibly have to say that couldn't have been covered in a documentary? Perhaps a commentary takes up less space on the disk than a documentary. I'll have people look into that. But on the face of it, it seems a tad excessive.



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