vg cats is funny

Haha. I knew Mario was like that.

No he didn!

That is the funniest shit I ever done saw.

Weekend

Totally spaced this one, even though I meant to jot it down. Spent the day saturday with the fellas. First tried hanging out at lucky peak, but the boat motor burned up. Then tried to get a beer and pizza at old chicago, but joe forgot his wallet. Ended up at john's playing games and watching Saints and Soldiers (woulda been great if not for the mormon propaganda).

Point is, it was a blast. The story was better when it was fresh and I had it all worked out. What I learned from the whole thing is that you shouldn't forget your wallet when you say you'll buy the beer, make sure your gaskets are in good shape, and brothers in arms is a cool game.

And FYI, Joe and I and his cousin and some of his buddies will be starting a guild on gorona soon. So take that and shove it in your pipe. And then smoke it. And clean up after yourself when you're done.

Google Talk

Neat article there. I find the secondary problem being, I don't want to pass out my gmail address, so I'm kind of in a bind with this thing, seeing as how it's connected to my gmail account and all.

Sure do love Idaho

Guess the lion's even rarer now. Fucking morons.

Haha, cool

Met up with a bud on a different server last night. Started up a human palidan to preach the truth of the light and to save the last remnants of humanity from the grips of the undead horde. He's got a lvl51 gnome mage that seems to like leg humping. Helped me power level a bit so I can join his priest quicker. Might even start up a guild with him and some of his friends.

Pretty sweet this game.

Love this

I dunno what it is, but every time I see that, I el oh el. The minute I see the docs face and read "FACE!" I can't help but chuckle.

RTF

RTF is fucked up. Don't use it. Seriously. You will crash your OS.

Holy ass shit

The DVR records things you're not watching!!!! Hot damn it's the miracle I've been waiting for! Praise jeebus. And don't no one try to tell me otherwise cuz this is the bum diggity.

News from teh font

Went with the mom lady and the bear dog over to swan falls dam today. The idea being that maybe bear will teach yuki how to swim like she means it. So the good news is, she doesn't hate the water. The bad news is, she's chicken poop. At first she followed him right in, bam, off the dock and into the water swimming like a champ. I hadn't even got out of the truck while this was happening. Back on the dock she goes and bam again, only this time head deap into the muck on the other side of the dock. She barely comes up out of it, head covered in moss and fish turd. I had no choice but to drag her out of this one by scruff of the neck.

So time goes by and she decides jumping off of the dock is scary. We shove her in a couple times and she deals. It was amusing because she would literally go completely under water, even when trying to get in by herself. We ended up having to not use the dock and let her waddle out from the boat launch. It wasn't bad, but after about a half hour of this she gave us the up nose and began waiting for bear to bring the stick back rather than following him in after it. She would still float and swim and hang out in the water, she just wasn't as stimulated for the swim as bear was.

It was fun though. The weather was nice and the water was cool. I'm always amazed at how well she picks up on things. She swims better than bear when she's brave enough to get out there. She looks so tiny when her lumps of fur are plastered to her sides. Wish I had a camera to capture such an obvious kodak moment.

Stupid Questions

Why do kids need to be told choking games are probably a bad idea, particularly when played alone?

Why do people need a monetary value placed on the trees in this area? Is breathing oxygen just not good enough for them?

Why do we let the smart people choose not breed while the stupid people continue to pump children out like some kind of sick vending machine?

I swear to god. Maybe it'd just be best to let the kids hang themselves while we remove the trees. I think the collective IQ of this planet would actually have risen when it's all said and done.

A serious moment

One of the guys I work with has been watching his father suffer leukemia for some time now. I guess the folks upstairs have decided that today will probably be his final day. The same fellow also found out a while back that he has some cancer spots on his face, requiring surgery. It's been a rough time for him and yet he still makes his deadlines and cracks the wise with us here. I think it'd be cool if the few people that read this would keep him in mind for a bit. I'm not much for prayer or any of that voodoo, but I think a little good karma could go a long way to easing a pain I can't even begin to understand.

Thanks.

Ugh

So I happen to know the manager of Paylface. Got some free tickets to a metal show tonight. Ended up with a free shirt too cuz she kicks ass. Her husband also happens to be one badass guitar player (for Paylface). I'll tell you what though. I watched a show buddy take off early, and one of the most hardcore kids I knew in high school look at me and say "I'm too old for this shit" as we stood back after a couple minutes in the pit with dudes twice our size. I fucking hurt man. And I've seen shows. I was right there, up front for The Melvins and Tool, up front for Korn, up front for Marilyn Manson, up front for Weezer, so on and so on. I hurt like I ain't never hurt before. Kidneys ache, bones are creaking, and I think I'm developing scars all over my legs and feet.

But it doesn't end here. Just two more shows to tough out this week and I'm home free. Sweet.

Mail

It's official. I'm missing mushroomhead to see flogging molly. Woot.

DVR update

DVR updated itself this morning. We now have series recording, which I've been wanting since the first day I had one of these things. There's also something new coming along called iGuide or iView or some stupid thing with an i at the front. The mail mentioned watching something while recording something else. Not sure what this means without having a dual tuner, but we'll see.

Also got a new UI with the update. Kinda cool but kind of a step backwards into the land of the ugly. I like the new ffw and rw interface. Showing where you're at in the recording and all of that jazz.

Neuros 3

Don't know if I mentioned this back when I found out, but in July some of the specs for the Neuros 3 were released:

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After considerable debate and discussion, the decision was made to use the TI DM320 and Linux as the platform for the N3.

The primary reasons for this were

* Substantial price/performance benefits of the processor
* Substantial programming benefits of the Linux/ARM9 architecture, can recruit more application developers
* Compatibility of platform with other Neuros devices
* Substantial processing power of the ARM core of the processor obviates the need for DSP programming for most, if not all, audio tasks.
* Video capabilities still considered a nice to have in an MP3 player

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So in addition to the myriad of other cool products coming Digital Innovations (include the 442 video recorder/player) the N3 looks to be shaping up nicely. I also saw a post on the site about something like true open source development of the software. What that means is creative people who want to help make this thing the best it can be would be able to get developer boards to test write software on. You wouldn't find Steve Jobs doing something like that, now would you?

Now if I could just figure out how to get some sync software that will import playlists from the neuros, I'd be set.

Music

I think I'm having a love affair with music. There was some kind of battle and it involved bands. I got drunk and had fun with my friends, and even people I didn't expect to see showed up.

Ooh yeah... my ears hurt. And I have more screenshots from WoW I need post. Cuz I know you wish you were me. W00t and l33t and Leeroy and all that shit.

G-Phoria

Wow... what a... what a giant steaming pile of shit. I think I lost more brain cells skipping through this trash heap than i have in the last six months combined. How embarrassing to think that this is what killed TechTV. But hey, at least those jokes making fun of that Wilbur Valerma fellow were marginally close to amusing.

Two in a row???

I'm a fan of these two comics from CAD that just happened to hit one after the other:

Jack Thompson is an idiot
Meeting stones are for noobs

I gave a good hearty chuckle to both.

Iron Forge

Finally bothered to make my on over to Iron Forge tonight. Fucking long ass walk that one was. I took some screenshots of the trip because I thought it was cool (for the uninitiated, Iron Forge is the hub of the Alliance. sure, the dwarves start out right next to it, but for a Night Elf coming from not just across the ocean, but across the ocean and across the next continent, it's a pretty big deal to see it).

The journey begins when you take the boat from Auberdine in Darkshore to Menethil Harbor. Once there, it's about a 15 minute hike through the Wetlands (it took me a bit longer because I stopped to pick up some young croc skins for a quest, but the aspect of cheatah maybe balanced that out a bit). Once through the wetlands, it's about a 5 minute hike up Dun Algaz (and god damn if there wasn't an orc encampment sitting in the middle of that). Coming out of that in Loch Modan, it's another 5 minutes or so to get to the North Gate Outpost in Dun Morogh. On the way through there are some cool Dwarven guard towers and a long windy road. It's probably a good 10 minute hike over that road to finally get to the Iron Forge Gates. I decided to stop and check out the scenery below the gates. Once inside Iron Forge, I absolutely had to stop at the Auction House to see what I could bid on. I was out of money though, so I couldn't partake in the antics. Since I was really just there for a quest, I made my way to the forge where the gryphon master was so I could get a ride out of there. As usual, I was a few bucks short and had to sell off some of the low end food I'd picked up for Frylock so I could bum a ride.

I gotta say though, for as cool s Iron Forge is, that place is one laggy motherfucker. There had to have been a good thousand people running around in it, so it's somewhat understandable. It's just kind of akward trying to find your way around when things are skipping and jumping all over the place. I really feel for the dwarves who have major quests to complete in there.

I also found a cool waterfall in Ashenvale that I decided to jump off of:

Thinking about it
Free falling
Rough landing

It took all of my health when I hit the bottom, but didn't send me to the graveyard. Woot.

I chuckled a bit

This goes with that post right below this one. I really did chuckle cuz it's funny to imagine a video game molesting a kid who then goes on to be all creapy and wierd and anti-video game like.

Hi-lar-i-ous

Jack Thompson. What a character. Is he for real real or just something dreamed up by those crazy, bored Democrats to make themselves better appeal to the countless inbred social regects that keep 'causing' their losses at the polls? What a silly game.

WoW... again

Damn, what a game. What-a-game. Blizzard did a bang up job making sure you could sit and play for an hour and two and still have fun. 2 kudos for that!

Crazy

I'm just trying to picture how that game would go...

Old

The kids, they don't appreciate... When I was their age... If I could be 16 again, I'd...

My bones hurt. I can't keep up with these kids. Some good bands last night though. I just wish I could understand why even at their young age, they choose to stand around doing the head bop (this not including the 10 or so kids that were actually having some fun). I can kind of see it at the beer serving shows because who wants to spill their drink? Definitely getting too old.

WoW

So the latest PCGamer came with WoW and a 14 day trial. Naturally I signed up. I'm pretty much hooked enough that I'm gonna pick up the game at the end of the trial and let another 30 free days go by. I got me an almost lvl 10 night elf hunter running around on the moonrunner server. It's pretty packed so I've had a couple minutes of waiting in the queue, but otherwise not bad.

The gameplay's pretty good. Lotta monsters to fight and quests to take on. I'm pretty excited about getting my first pet and taking on some of the hunter quests before leaving the night elf island. I can definitely see how people get sucked into these things so easily.