State of the Drinking

In honor of my least favorite day of the year, when all television channels show Dub-ya babbling about things he screwed up - I designate today's blog as a chance to liven his speech up a bit. I know, probably 90% of my regular readers voted for him, but I forgive you all.

There's a couple of easy ways to turn a State of the Union Address Party into a fun Party:

* Clapping Drinking Game. This is probably the easiest one to do with a group! Everytime the Congressional Audience claps, you take a big swig. Everytime they give the guy a standing ovation, everyone in the party finishes their drink no matter where they are at. Everytime that Cheney falls asleep, you get out the hard stuff and do a shot till he wakes up.
* Speech Bingo Drinking. It's probably just Bingo, but it's more fun to drink during this thing I would imagine. Anytime he uses any of the following terms, you take a big ol' swig. Only problem is that you have to be paying closer attention. Or at least someone from the group has to be listening. Not going to be me. Here's the list of words: Democracy, Saddam, New Orleans, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Medicare, Taxes, Economy (beware of that one), Homeland Security, Freedom, Terror/Terrorist, Bin Laden (Usama or Osama.... take your pick.... bonus beer from the host if you know what the difference between those two is), Elections (Iraq), Constitution, Nukular, Child Left Behind, Alito, Roberts.....
* Camera Drinking. Drink every time they show Laura, Jenna, Barbara (Sr. or Jr.). Drink every time they show Hillary or Giuliani. Drink twice every time Cheney gets his own camera shot.
* Listen for made up words (or "Bushisms") and if a majority of the party agrees it's not a real word, finish your beer and grab another one. Any mispronounced words (such as "Nukular" or his daddy's rendition of Saddam) require a couple of extra sips.

Luckily I have rehearsal in La Crosse tonight and will be unable to participate in any gatherings for tonight's event. Enjoy my suggestions and let me know if you think of any more games that I can add for next year!

Song of the Day - We have a new acquisition in the lab.... they agreed to let me purchase Karaoke Revolution Party for the Gamecube that comes with a microphone. So yesterday I "played" Karaoke by singing You Make Me Feel and I won a Gold Status on first try. I was robbed due to the delay we have in our monitors here in the lab otherwise I could have won an additional 50 points for Platinum status. The boys down here love it, let me tell ya! So I still have that song going through my head this morning!

Video of the Day - Pulp Fiction was on this morning. Don't think I've seen that for a couple of years but I have seen it 20+ times. It was the summer of 95 when it was out in the theatres and back in Cedar Rapids (shout out to my boyz of the 3-1-9!!) we had turned Lindale Six theatres into the $1.50 movie and since there was nothing else to do that summer, they kept rerunning Pulp Fiction all summer. And since it was only $1.50, we'd fill up the theatre every night for those 3 months. Most "2nd run movies" only lasted 2-3 weeks, this one was full for 3 months. It was fun to go to a 10:00pm show and be around a couple of hundred people who have seen that movie way too many times.

Webpage of the Day - Iowa State - in all of it's honor and glory.... has made us IBMers proud and now have a new Blue Gene Supercomputer on campus (In Durham of course). It's number 73 in the world at the moment and top 10 for Supercomputers at Universities in this country. Pretty Cool Stuff!