My feet are wet.

I just spent 6 hours in the cold, trying to get a friend’s diesel volkswagen running. Once we replaced the fuel filter, we got it started and celebrated in a manly fashion.

It came after a day of intense self-loathing. I had been flirting pretty heavily with an old friend, one who had made advances toward me often in the past and suddenly her affection seemed to be waning. Since I am seeing someone right now, it should not have been a blow. But having no clear place at this workshop and feeling old and slow has made me feel barely alive. The car work fixed that for a few glorious moments before I returned unsung and almost unwelcome.

My feet are cold.

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First, Amazon.com has a fantastic deal on the greatest American comedy in years. Well worth the purchase for the man or woman of taste. Caw cu-caw! Caw cu-caw!

And then, of course, this. I post it knowing full well that it’s been Dugg, Reddedited, twittered, FaceSpaced, Mybooked, Filtered by Metas, Piled by Filers and all other manner of internet euphemism. Still there are those who have not seen it, strangely.

The 20 Stupidest GI Joe Vehicles Ever | Cracked.com

Felicia Day tells you how to woo in WoW.

10 signs you drank too much in hilarious pictorial format.

Was he snowed into giving the shocker? Photoshop, you say, and I reply with, “This photo is on whitehouse.gov. Not .com where it’s a porn site, but the actual White House site.” He’s a dingle. Now if Clinton had done this, you’d know it was on purpose.

Give Up and Use Tables

I wanted to try a really long headline. Like my resume site, ChristopherElst.com, this site will be getting an overhaul shortly, both in design and usage. I intend to make my blog more amenable to the passing user, although I doubt I will be able to resist the LiveJournal-ly overly personal diary entries now and again. I’ve been making most of those private, so that only my hacker friends are bored with me.

But in the interest of the burgeoning Steelbuddha community web 2.0 sharing experience (or some equally obtuse marketing name), I post this delectable little article about trolling. If you can stick to the text and ignore the Cracked.com shell, there’s actually a point to be made in there, particularly toward the top of the list — which in our times comes at the bottom of the article. The interwebs inverted our inverted pyramid, Journalism majors!

5 Ways to Stop Trolls From Killing the Internet | Cracked.com

See also: Malwebolence – The World of Web Trolling – NYTimes.com, for a more learned and researched perspective.

Just in time for NaNoWriMo. Get on it, my writer friends. I’m not going to submit myself to this torture, but you most certainly should.

Write or Die : Dr Wicked’s Writing Lab

Video on Springsteen’s page for Halloween. Pretty boss, if you don’t mind me saying.

Bruce Springsteen News: brucespringsteen.net