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Check this out: Nightcrawler and Wolverine are fans of This American Life. I've always thought that Nightcrawler had good taste!

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I'm listening to a piece on NPR right now, as I work on uploading pictures and catching up on money and doing a little Christmas shopping, about sewer systems nation wide, and in New York City in particular. This is fascinating stuff. I love sewer systems and storm drains.

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And speaking of uploading pictures, I'm finally working on the set from the last day of Kiddieland, a small independent amusement park in Melrose Park, Illinois, that Moira and I visited just before it shut down forever.



The Kiddieland Limited Engineer


One of the locomotives that pulled the small gauge passenger train around the grounds of Kiddieland was an honest-to-goodness steam engine. I'm so glad I visited and got to see this beautiful piece of machinery in action. Look at the beautiful enameled metal! Look at the shiny chrome! Look at the streamlined, Art Deco-esque styling! I have so much love for this locomotive. I hope she found a good home.

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We went and visited a couple apartment complexes in Kenosha today that we've been eyeing. Our preference for one over the other was reinforced. I like Westchester a lot.

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On a Goodwill trip today, I picked up a few Playstation games: among them, a couple of Gran Turismos, and Twisted Metal 3. GT is a little more in depth than I really care to be, though for a couple bucks a piece I figured why not. But the Twisted Metal series is one I spent hours and hours playing with my brothers. I had to grab that one!

Tonight, after hauling a few things out of the basement for a freecycle guy who'll pick them up on Monday (The Intellistation server, my Athlon XP with hand-cut windowed and modded case *sigh*, and a couple of wall mount touch screen systems running Windows NT that I scored from work) and taking a shower, I gave it a try.

It took a few plays to resemble decent at it, but it came back to me and it's a fun mindless distraction. But what really has me is the music. This version actually had some mainstream music in it. The first level's background sound is Rob Zombie's Superbeast. The second though, makes me chuckle every time I get to it. I have no idea what song it is, but there's a repeated part that I can only interpret as "Because we're gay! Gay! Microwave!!!" So of course, I'd loudly join in every time the music got to that part. Unfortunately a Google search for 'we're gay gay microwave' did not turn up anything related, though are are some interesting results.

(And of course, now that I've written this, I had to look the music up. It is microwave! The track is Microwave by Pitchshifter. The lyrics in question are "because we're cut, dried, microwaved".)

So, who wants to play some Twisted Metal with me?