Happy Holy Days!

It's a bit late to be doing this, but we thought it should be done. We'd like to wish everyone happy holy days, and if there are any that we missed that we should have included, please let us know. (Also, due to ignorance on our part, we will generally mess up the traditional greeting for most of these. If you know what the proper greeting is for any of them, please let us know so that we won't make the same mistake out of ignorance next year.)

Eid Mubarak

Hopeful Advent

Joyful Solstice

Happy Kwanzaa

Happy Agnositca

Merry Christmas

Happy Chanukah

Wonderful Feast of Stephen (also known as Boxing Day)

Happy New Years

Atheistic Well wishes of the Season

May you experience much joy and happiness in this season and in the coming year.

Legion

(This post may be randomly updated throughout the coming year as we remember other Holy Days that we meant to include but didn't.)

About time....

Greetings, one and all.

I'm not sure that Legion remembered to post that section where you get to tell us all apart. As I recall, he didn't. Oh well, wasn't the quote something about 'forgetfulness being one of the signs of a great mind'.
... maybe not. But I can definitely claim 'Tidiness is the last refuge of a desperate mind'. It may be noted that the only neat thing Legion and I tend to maintain is electronical.

I am however, unfortunetly, most off subject. Please excuse me.

As I decided that somewhere in this collection of ramblings there needed to be some veiw from the female persuasion. And so, here I am. Couldn't leave Data all alone. (Not that I get listened to any more often... just have a bit more in the way of active attention grabbing).

And so I say hello, and welcome.
I suggest you leave all hope of sanity here.

Why Posting in a Timely Manner is a Good Idea

@ "Note to the FooLish" was written, in part, to satisfy a promise to Strider. Today we realized that I'd forgotten an important note somehow. This must be corrected, to be sure. Which is why I'm posting this, the third in a series. Normally the others in Legion wouldn't let me post this many entries in a row (and I understand that Sabius has one that he wants to post), but they've made an exception for this one. So, without further ado, another note:

@ When attempting any new trick which involves kerosene, fire and a body part - for the sake of argument, let's pretend the trick is a hand transfer* - make sure you know what the trick actually involves before you start doing it. In fact, trying out the trick without the fire and the kerosene first is a good idea. Knowing what the guy who's teaching you the trick means by "fast" is also probably important.
@ As a side note, I have never done a successful hand transfer. I have also never been burned by fire torches...... JüggLer and CΐrKus do that sort of thing.@

FooL

* A hand transfer, as I refer to it here, is done as follows:

• soak 2 torches in kerosene. They actually need to be quite wet with the stuff.
• hold the two torches in one hand, with the wick ends point out horizontally, something like this:
  ,__u__,
  where ',' is the wick end (not lit), '__' is the length of the torch, 'u' is your left hand, palm down (the stick is your thumb). This is all seen from above.
• make sure that the kerosene can is well away and closed. This is a surprisingly important step.
• light one of the torches with the lighter you should not be keeping in your pocket, so that it looks like this:
  #__u__,
  for those who run at my speed, '#' means fire.
• now comes the tricky part, especially for my mediocre text art skills. Take your right hand (the one not holding the torches, and represented by 'v' because I don't know how to get a reverse 'u') and grab the torch which is not lit. This should get some kerosene and some nice black soot on your hand:
  #__u__v
• now take your right hand and grab the lit torch. Your hand should catch on fire right about now. Move your hand really fast and grab the unlit torch, lighting it on fire. By fast, I mean "really blazing fast". This is going to take several illustrations (the dashed lines in the second illustration are the motion lines, showing just how fast that hand is moving):
  
  v#__u__,
  
  ---v#
  #__u__,
  
  
  #__u__#v
• ...remove your hand! You'll burn yourself!
  #__u__# ϋ<- that's smoke coming off of your hand because you didn't move it fast enough.
• And that, folks, is a hand transfer.
  

Further Note to the FooLish

@ Oh, by the way - you know the guys who operate the backhoes? Yeah, they don't like it when you take their backhoes for a joyride.
@ Come to think of it, very few people like it when you take their vehicle for a joyride.... @

FooL

Note To The Foolish

'Cause the wise certainly don't need it.

@ If you're pruning a tree - for sake of argument, a pear tree - and you happen to be in this tree - in order to get to the upper branches, you see - it is a good idea to avoid cutting the branch you are holding on to. It is a particularly good idea to avoid cutting the branch you are using to keep yourself in the tree closer to the tree than your hand is.

@ While we're on the topic, I have some other notes which may be of interest. First, I know some people will think that I, in some way, did all of these and learned the lessons the hard way. That is not necessarily true. It might be, but it doesn't have to be. Goodness, you'd think I had no common sense or something, the way some people react.

@ Should you come across a snake in the middle of a path which does not seem to be moving for you, consider the reasons why it is not moving out of your way. After all, you're much bigger than it. It is preferable to consider this before you pick it up. It may be sitting there because it is in the last stages of digesting it's last meal, and may not feel inclined to move at that point. Picking it up, if this is the case, may result in the remainder of said meal ending up on one's hand.
@ Of course, another possibility is that this particular snake is extremely venomous, and doesn't see any real need to move out food's - I mean, your - way.

@ Should you decide - due to tornado warnings earlier in the day, the green sky above you, the wind picking up, and the deep black storm clouds in the direction of home - to not ride your bike home, do not immediately climb up to the top floor of a building with large antennas on top, into the room which is surrounded by windows. Do not do this even though there is one of the best lightning shows you've seen in a while. Getting caught up there during a tornado will not be fun. Nor will being struck by lightning while in the building.

@ Watching the shovel of a large backhoe come down and remove dirt from the hill 5 cubits in front of you is an amazing experience. However, think carefully about a) whether you are allowed to be this close to a major construction site and b) whether the operator of said backhoe actually knows you are there. After all, he likely will not notice anything different should he, say, pick up your foot with the backhoe and leave the rest of you behind.
@ I suppose the other thing to think about is whether, with point a and b fulfilled, do you actually trust the operator to avoid picking you up, in pieces or whole as the case may be. I'm not sure I'd be able to resist the temptation, but that's just me.
@ Furthermore, while on or near construction sites, remember: staring in awe at the large truck will not stop it from backing up into you, and while walking under a ladder is considered bad luck, walking under the trough of a cement mixer is considered dumb.

@ Well, those are all of my current observations. I am quite sure I missed a few, perhaps including some that I promised would be in here, but that's what I get for delaying my post by 3 months.

FooL

Ready to Roll

It's time for the Great Unveiling. We don't know how many people have seen this page yet, but we have yet to put up a link to here from our old blog. Time to correct that. We've spent the last little while hacking the template for this site to get it into a form we can deal with (blogspot doesn't come with any standard 3 column templates unfortunately) and getting the Most Wonderful Ever Boyfriend Replacement Kit up and running (sorry to those of you who wanted it updated - it took several hours to get it up in the form it is now, and we really couldn't afford any more time on it).

We hope you all like how it's turned out, and any suggestions for improvements are welcome.

Legion

Would It Work Here?

+ There are a bunch of other posts that need to be put up, and there is at least one list that needs to be put up. All the same, I couldn't resist cutting in line and putting this link up now, before I forgot. It's a link to a youtube video, and it just made me feel absolutely skooshy watching it. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/v/vr3x_RRJdd4
+ Special thanks to Patch of patchworx.blogspot.com for posting that and bringing it to my attention.

+ It just occured to me that posting a random link to a youtube video is not the best idea - I should probably talk about it. Basically it's a music video which shows a guy going around carrying a sign which says "Free Hugs". The reaction to it is wonderful. I'd like to see if it would work here. That's both "here", where I am physically, and "here", where I am on the internet:

FREE HUGS!

+ Anyone who wants a cyber hug is free to post a comment to that effect.+

Theophilus

The Obligatory Welcome Post

Normally we would avoid anything that's normal, on the basis that it's good to be original. However, having read some blogs that did not include a welcome post, we have discovered that sometimes originality is overrated. It can be very confusing, figuring out what the point of a blog is. Therefore, in keeping with tradition, we have included this post.
"My name is Legion, for we are many." This is from Mark 5:9. It basically describes this blog. Legion, who is currently writing this, is really a committee. At last count there were about 7 personas in Legion. Most of them will, at one time or another, contribute to this blog. We'll let you figure out who's who. Or, if you really want to and you read this soon enough (before I delete the other site), you can go check out http://strangerthanmost.spaces.live.com/ (or whatever new address MSN decides to give us :P). That's the site we move from, on account of the constantly changing addresses, the inflexible layout, and the change of appearance of the blog. Hopefully this will work better.
Other things... we're hoping to migrate the most important bits of the old site over here, so there may be some growing pains at first. This blog will update on a strict "whenever one or all of us feel like posting something and happen to have a computer with internet access" basis.
We think that's it. Enjoy.
Legion