Dave's Rantlets

9:23pm: Review: RotF Scout Wave 2
Dune Runner's my fave of the batch.

10:50pm: K-girl Flo Bose
( Martian menace behind cut )

11:39am: ...and do the other things...
JFK was famously quoted as saying, "We choose to go to the moon, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." But no one talks about the other things. Here's a quote from right before the famous one, taken from WikiSource:

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

Note that the speech was given at Rice. So...how's Rice doing against Texas lately?

6:51pm: Comics for July 15, 2009
( No items of note. )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Harry...really. The grown-ups are talking. Go to your room so I can finish murdering Spider-Man, or I'm going to break your DAMN NECK." - Iron Patriot, The Amazing Spider-Man #599

4:41pm: K-girl Flo Bose WIP
( Phobos-7 K-girl )

8:33am: Mecha musings
Or "Why Robot Jox is one of the only giant robot stories that makes sense."
( Meandering behind cut )

6:57pm: RotF Scalpel options
Turns out there's two mutually exclusive ways to assemble the abdomen (well, thorax) of Scalpel's robot-arthropod mode. Two sets of pegs that can't be used at the same time.
( Ach, mein digits! )

7:38pm: Play CoH? Got an Odd Lots nearby?
Odd Lots has gotten in a bunch of old City of Villains box sets. The codes in them are STILL VALID. So it's $6 for a month, plus you get a CoH Heroclix and the various CoV paperwork (Rogue Isles map, instruction manual if you want one). I only bought one because I wasn't sure the code would work and figured the other stuff was worth $6 for me to get one copy, but if there's any left next time I'm in Topeka I'm cleaning them out.

10:02pm: Review: Target exclusive Superion set
Coulda been decent, but hobbled by low production values.

11:00pm: CoV: Server Wench ladybug armor upgrade
( First successful cape mission without stealth, too )

10:05pm: Kitbash: Teddy Khan
( Adorable 'plush' Terra Khan )

7:52am: /dev/oops
When adding a line to my .procmailrc last night to kill those greetingcard.org spams, I goofed and the result was that everything from about 11PM July 8 to 7AM July 9 went to /dev/null. Granted, almost everything I usually get overnight is spam, but still....

6:54pm: I am Legion, I contain Matter-Eater Lad
Like pretty much everyone, there are contradictions in my nature. But two that are helpful to know are these:

1. Despite my preoccupation with the fantastical and speculative, I am a rather hard-headed skeptic when it comes to drawing a firm line between what happens in fiction and what I accept can happen in reality.
   
2. Despite my finely-honed critical faculties (or, at least, frequently-exercised faculties), I can enjoy something like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, because just as I can distinguish between fantasy and reality, I can distinguish between fun and good when the two don't overlap. ;) RotF is NOT good. But it's fun.
   

5:52pm: Comics for July 8, 2009
( Other-Media: Super-Hero Squad Deathlok/Iron Man 2020; Book of Note: Gold Digger v3 #108 )

   Dave Van Domelen, "As long as you stay inside the white tape you're perfectly safe from any and all ANCIENT DEATH RELICS!" - Gina Diggers, who could probably write a full-sized book of nothing but her own Famous Last Words, Gold Digger v3 #108.

7:22pm: Review: RotF Voyagers batch 1
Starscream, Demolishor, Ironhide, the Fallen. Starscream is pretty impressive.

12:20pm: Idle question....
If a band were to be named The Molten Cheese Incident (and I wouldn't be surprised if one is already), what sort of music would you expect them to play?

3:53pm: CoH: Ethan Eruption
( Do you hear the tick-tock? )

12:05pm: DO try this at home!
Mythbusters science kits!

9:17pm: Kitbash: Neville Esry K-guy
( No one takes him seriously.... )

7:35pm: WIP: Neville Esry K-guy
( Well, Nova ESR's already a femmebot.... )

11:40am: Amusing thought about Michael Jackson
Over the years, one of the running gags about Jacko has been the weird way he dressed his kids whenever they appeared in public, like a mix between burqas and Carnival costumes. A South Park episode even centered on it. Just another piece of crazy in Michael Jackson's life.

Crazy like a fox! In their Secret Identities, his kids got to hang out with the children of MJ's not-famous friends and have probably the closest thing to a normal childhood that you're going to get when your name is Prince Michael Jackson. That's all over now, sadly, but hopefully the few years he was able to buy them will let the kids weather the media and legal storm that now swirls around them.

10:43pm: Yay, scarf!
( Got Splendid Mask up to L20 and changed from valkyrie cape to a scarf. )

4:19pm: Relocated jaw


Totally missed this first time around, I had to use a knife to pry it up into position.

6:47pm: Comics for July 1, 2009
( Book of Note: Gold Digger: Tifanny & Charlotte Second Semester #1 )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Um. Please don't kill me. Now I did ask NICELY for you not to kill me! Poor sport! Poor sport!" - Ragdoll, Secret Six #11

12:03pm: Blurring the line between fiction and reality some more
Nikki Heat (from the Castle TV show) to be published.