I was a little surprised, but I’ve had three completely independent requests from people on multiple continents asking for a way to subscribe to The Geek Whisperer email updates.

Well, ask and ye shall receive… especially when it’s an easy request to fulfill.

Where can you subscribe to these magical email updates?

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OK. I really did intend to start regular content updates starting with my last post… but then I got sick. Now I’m mostly better, and feeling fairly human again, so starting today, I will be back on track.

Have a very merry Christmas.

I’ve been insanely busy, but I promise regular content updates will return tomorrow.

In the mean time, here’s a sketch from Gaping Void that really speaks to me.

If you are unfimilar with Gaping Void, I strongly recommend you take some time and acquaint yourself with his work (they aren’t for people who are easily offended).

Gaping Void

Special thanks to Adriana for sharing this one with me

Have a very happy Thanksgiving, and remember that the tryptophan in turkey doesn’t make you tired.

Two weeks ago I went to my parents home for a gathering of their cooking club. Every six to eight weeks they get together with five other couples and cook food from a given region or within a theme. The food is always excellent.

Their last theme was basically Thanksgiving on steroids.

With the help of one of the other cooking club members and former butcher, Nello, my father made a turducken.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with turducken, it is a turkey stuffed with a chicken, that is stuffed with a duck, and three types of stuffing. If you’re keeping score at home, the stuffings are made from andouille sausage, cornbread, and the Spira Family stuffing which is largely crackers and mushrooms.

The meal was breathtaking.

The turkey was the best turkey I’ve ever had.

The chicken was the best chicken I’ve ever had.

The duck was the best duck I’ve ever had.

Together they were perfect.

My conclusion: Duck fat makes everything better.

Yes my friends, that is a sleeping bag that looks like a tautaun from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and this is no joke.

Remember when Han and Luke were stranded in the snowy desert of Hoth. Han used Luke’s lightsaber to cut open a tauntaun and sleep within it’s warm guts. Now your child can experience that awesome moment with the Tauntaun sleeping bag.

It comes complete with a lightsaber zipper, because there is absolutely no other way to open up your tauntaun. It also has a printed organ pattern on the inside for that extra bit of detail.

You can sleep in a tauntaun for $99.99 on ThinkGeek.com.

So you’ve read all of this?

You must be a Star Wars fan.

Here’s a little something special for you. The deeper you get into this video, the funnier it gets.

I love how pleased the guy is with himself. Superb.

That’s not a metaphor, there really is a hole in my bathroom ceiling.

Last year my upstairs neighbor’s toilet leaked in to my ceiling. Awesome right?

The plumber fixed it from her apartment. And there was much rejoicing.

A few days ago, my ceiling started getting wet in the same place again. This time the plumbers opened up my ceiling and found…

drum-roll…

this is going to be crazy…

you’re never going to what they found…

NOTHING!

They found absolutely nothing. It’s bone dry up there.

So I get to wake up early for the fifth straight day tomorrow (two for the conference, and three for this big waste of time). Someone is coming to patch the hole that I apparently didn’t need… but nothing has actually been fixed.

Speaking of the Future of Web Design Conference, I will get my post about day 2 up soon.

I’ve been working all day to upgrade my computer. Backing up, reformatting, installing Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and all manner of software… it’s a bit much.

Moving on… here’s a look at my Halloween costume. I went as an axe murderer.

Since it’s impossible to find toy weapons that look even remotely real, I had to spray-paint my own axe. Do children really need to be feeble and afraid of the world?

"I loves my axe"

Cleanliness is next to Godliness... or so I'm told

And that’s about that.

Johnnie Moore shared this video a couple weeks ago:

It prompted me to ponder the question “what is as moment?” which I think was the goal of the piece.

That in turn, made me think back to an old episode of the Aaron Sorkin show, Sports Night.

In one episode there is a rather geeky discussion about the definition of the word “momentarily.” It turns out, “momentarily” has two conflicting definitions:

• For a moment
• In a moment

That means that the statement, “I will be with you momentarily” could mean, “I will be with you shortly,” or it could also mean “I will be with you for a short while, then I will leave.” I guess it’s also possible that it could mean “I will be with you shortly and then leaving.”

I don’t think any of this ultimately matters, but this kind of inane BS is the stuff that runs through my skull.

I’m taking a couple nights off from writing.

I’ll be back on Monday.