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Hey, I managed to raise the steering wheel on my rental car, so it doesn't brush against my legs anymore! Go me! I only wish I could solve the login problem with the computer at work.

( Trivia about me )

While looking up information on the infamous "Justin Bailey" password in Metroid (which someone claims is actually "just in bailey," meaning Samus is dressed only in her swimsuit; I think that's a bit of a stretch), I came upon some information on the old Captain N: The Game Master cartoon. I used to watch that and the various Super Mario Bros. cartoons all the time. The list of changes from the actual video games on the wikipedia page is pretty accurate. In the Mario cartoons, the animation quality was really lousy (right down to sometimes having the wrong character's mouth move during dialogue), but the character design was pretty much true to the games. They kept the early design for Bowser in the later cartoons, so he was bald in the show even when he was consistently shown with red hair in the games, but that's pretty minor. I think the voices were pretty decent, too. I can't really imagine Bowser sounding different from his cartoon incarnation. I have no idea why Mouser had a Russian accent, but I guess it worked. In Captain N, though, they changed EVERYTHING. Sometimes it was just for comic effect or to make someone more interesting, like with Mother Brain or Simon Belmont. But other times there's really no sense to it. I mean, just look at what they did to poor Mega Man! And even though Mother Brain (voiced by Levi Stubbs from the Four Tops, who also voiced Audrey II in the movie musical version of Little Shop of Horrors) appeared in every episode, Samus never appeared, apparently because the original writer had never heard of her. Contrary to wikipedia says, I believe Metroids DID appear in one show, although they were too small and didn't float around.

Many sink down to the Underworld, and few return to the sunlit lands

In Virginia, they've proposed a bill intended to stop unmarried women from having children. Are our elected officials REALLY that stupid, or are they just trying to appeal to idiotic constituents? I mean, talk about ignorant AND unconstitutional.

And in other crazy political news, a self-proclaimed vampire and Satanist is running for Governor of Minnesota.

I've finished with my re-read of The Silver Chair. I don't know whether anyone is actually interested in my semi-reviews of the Chronicles of Narnia, but I might as well go ahead with them. ( SPOILERS, plus two quiz results )

I'm currently listening to the mix CD that obsessical sent me. I'd actually heard Rilo Kiley's "The Execution Of All Things" before, but I think it's a cool song. I wonder if I'd like anything else by that band. And isn't Stan Bush's "Dare" from the Transformers movie? That takes me back, albeit not as far back as it would likely take someone who was into the Transformers when they were actually popular. Anyway, thanks to Ren for the mix!