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[filkertom]

Have fun, play nice. New Girl Genius today! -- Hey. When the heck did it get to be June?

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I Hate It When I HAVE To Upgrade

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Joy. I've got a couple of recording projects I have to get done today, and my computer speakers have died. At least, that's what it seems like -- sudden volume spikes now and again for the past few weeks, and then this morning everything just went stupidly loud and stayed there. Even when I disconnected them from the sound card, I can hear the loud background hiss on the lowest volume level. And headphones plugged into the card work just fine.

Fortunately, it looks as if the Labtec Arena 675 5.1 speakers are an absolute steal -- good sound quality for thirty bucks. So, off to CompUSA.

[jss]

> When the heck did it get to be June?
Um, yesterday, around midnight local time, I'd wager.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

And June is National Smartass Month.

I begin celebrations with THIS post!

[mneme]

Today?

Aren't comics shipping tomorrow this week?

[(Anonymous)]

And a smart one is better than the alternative!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Now that you mention it, I don't know. And no one's answering at my shop.

BTW, the new speakers work fine. A bit tinny -- the Creative had a really great bass -- but they do the job, for about one-fourth what I thought I'd have to pay.

Hey, Moe! Hey, Moe!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Say, you're all intelligent imbeciles. Here, lean inta this. *smack* *poke* *skran-an-ank* *slappity slap slap slap*

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Dammit, got there before I could!

[braider.livejournal.com]

Please tell me there's not really such a thing as national smartass month.

[jss]

Every month is National Smartass Month!

They ARE delayed

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

The comics'll come... tomorrow....

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Oh, the smart folks hate the dumb folks,
And the dumb folks hate the smart folks,
All the wisecracks and all the fart jokes
Are enough to make a fella spew.

But during... National Smartass Month,
National Smartass Month,
National Cut-No-Slack, Be... a Hard-Ass Month,
Trip light fantastically by
Talking sarcastically,
After all, you know it's them, not you.

And it comes out the same way!

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

I was watching "The 100 Most Metal Moments" on VH1 yesterday, and one of the "moments" mentioned was when David Lee Roth would bring out on stage...

Are you ready for this?

A statue of SATAN that URINATED JACK DANIELS!

This is usually where I'd add a witty comment, but.... How do you top that?

Anyhoo, I was wondering "What would the FILK equivalent of that be?", closest I could come up with was a statue of Gene Rodenberry that sweats JOLT! cola.

Whaddya think?

[andrianna.livejournal.com]

Well, that's when you buy a bass-boost system for your computer speakers.
*evil grin*

[jss]

Bet your bottom dollar that
Tomorrow
They'll be here!

Re: And it comes out the same way!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Snort! Maybe make that J. Michael Straczynski for the younger generation.

[(Anonymous)]

Once again proving your reputation as the World's Fastest (and most clever) Filker is earned and richly deserved.

Shameless Self Promotion

[eleri.livejournal.com]

sorta...it's more shameless something else promotion, and since there's a plethora (I *love* that word) of adventurous gamer types in here, I figured a Tom Smith Open Thread (tm) was the place to put it...

http://home.comcast.net/~urufandemo/

Re: Shameless Self Promotion

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

"Hefe? What EES a 'plethora?'"

Myst, Uru In Big Trouble

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. I'll have to try that later. You might also want to have separate BitTorrent streams for the component files, for people who haven't got CD-writing.

And, I'm pretty sure "plethora" is one or more of the following:

a) a North African dish made with sticky rice rather than couscous
b) somebody or other's wicked stepsister
c) an enchanted land where everyone always had enough of the creme inside the cookies... until the arrival of the Dark Lord Keebler
d) next season's alien hottie on Enterprise
e) an alcoholic beverage made with Bacardi, Sprite, and an entire bag of M&M's
f) what it sounds like when someone sneezes while saying "Bless you" to someone else who sneezed
g) One of the new Ages in Myst IV: Revelation
h) Harry Potter's soggy new house elf

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Tenk yoh, tenk yoh.

Re: And it comes out the same way!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Okay, VH1 has gotten weird. Didn't they used to be, like, respected for Behind the Music?

Re: Myst, Uru In Big Trouble

[eleri.livejournal.com]

Working on that bittorrent thing. I have no idea how it works! Would that I had server and bandwidth of my own.

Uru makes a good word for a filk, really ;)

Re: They ARE delayed

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

New Girl Genius? Ooooh! Ooooh! Must get to comics store...

Yeah, Yeah, I Know, It Doesn't Have "Uru" In It

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

'Cross the Rainbow Bridge of Asga-a-ard,
Where the booming Heavens ro-o-oar,
You'll behold, in breathless wonder,
The God of Thunder, Mi-i-ighty Tho-o-or!

Okay, what was everybody's favorite (a) cartoon and (b) theme song from the Merry Marvel Marching Society? (Whippersnappers need not apply.)