Thus Spake Russ

Posted By Russ Emerson on November 26, 2012 at 10:00 am

• RT @YourAbreaction: I've know too many River Song's, I need an Amy Pond. ->

My most re-tweeted and favorited tweet thus far:
[tweet https://twitter.com/RussEmerson/status/271127779196694529]

• Sad but true. I stand anyway. / MT @Aspen411: it's hard to #IStandWithIsrael when our idiot #CowardInChief hates them!! ???? ->
• RT @isfullofcrap: Hamas TV proclaims "God willing, we will soon see black body bags." Yes, Hamas, hopefully you will see the insides of … ->
• Why am I still awake? Sominex, take me awaaaaaaay…. ->
• Damn. Lost a contact lens. Well, not so much "lost" as "it made a break for freedom and fell to its death." ->
• Achy Breaky Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Every Turkey Wants To Rule the World #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Pump Up The Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Enter Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Sympathy for the Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey #Ihavenone ->
• (Whiskey For My Men) Beer For Our Turkeys #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Turkeythumping #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Still Haven't Found the Turkey I'm Looking For #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• I Don't Want To Miss A Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Heat of the Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Let the Turkey Run #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Mad Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Turkeys on Film #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Turkey in the Wind #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• The Logical Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Unchained Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Lovin', Touchin', Turkey #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Turkey, F*** Yeah #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTurkey ->
• Spending my Thanksgiving on-call for work. So at least I'm not pinned to my desk. ->
• RT @Ninjababe: What I love about this time of year? Pumpkin pie for breakfast. ->
• I probably ought to think about cable management before I upgrade my home office, rather than treating it as an afterthought. ->
• RT @NathanFillion: Retweet! Nathan Fillion #dramatictvactor #peopleschoice ->
• The funny thing about the Jets score is that the Pats actually scored two of those points. ->
• My day of being on call for work is over – now I get a 10-day break. Yee-ha. ->
• Black Friday has barely begun, and I've already blown the budget without even leaving the house. ->
• New blog post – Thus Spake Russ: Little-known facts about Russ – http://t.co/WAvVtUkt ->
• Watching a documentary on the Chosin Reservoir… takes me back, and makes me glad I never had to go thru that kind of hell. ->
• 36 degrees out… doesn't feel much warmer *in*. Currently hoping there's room in my sweatshirt for my space heater. ->
• OK, now that I'm fully awake and I don't have to work tonight… what am I supposed to do with myself? ->
• Right-o. "Wasting time on the internet" it is. ->

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Posted By Russ Emerson on November 23, 2012 at 10:30 am

In no particular order, just as they occur to me….

• I haven’t had a haircut in almost 2.5 years. I look either like a hippie or like a particularly unkempt Benjamin Franklin. Take your pick.
• I’ve never been married nor had kids.
• I’ve always been a mostly-secret fan of anime, ever since Gigantor back when I was a little kid. Recent favorites include Hell Girl, Kurenai, and High School of the Dead. My “guilty pleasure” is Psychic Squad.
• I generally prefer anime — or indeed any foreign film — subtitled rather than dubbed.
• I’ve jumped out of a helicopter in flight, into a pitch-black night, without being able to see the ground.
• I’ve broken up a bar brawl, by picking up and carrying one or more combatants out of the fight. I’ve prevented a bar brawl, merely by being bigger than everyone else in the room.

  But I’ve never thown a punch.

• I’ve met more than one of my personal heroes, including a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• I’ve watched a firefight, but never changed a diaper. I’m not sure which would be considered riskier.
• I’ve won a drinking contest and walked away under my own power afterwards.
• I’ve broken numerous small bones — wrist, foot, thumb — but I’ve never broken a long bone — arm or leg.
• I’ve had frostbite.
• I’ve never been to Europe.
• I’ve never taken a girl to a drive-in movie, but I have been an extra in a movie that would be appropriate for a drive-in.
• I’ve written a computer program. Quite a number of them, in fact. Sadly, my once-impressive COBOL skills are gone… and probably wouldn’t be worth anything, even if I still had them.
• I’ve flown an airplane, sailed a boat, driven an Armored Personnel Carrier, and crashed a car, but I’ve never ridden a motorcycle.
• I’ve stayed awake for four days straight on more than one occasion (finals week 1981 and Team Spirit ’90.)
• I’ve never been called for jury duty. And now I have a pretty good excuse to be dismissed even if I do get called.

Such an exciting life I’ve led, no?

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