After Brandon’s last post, I thought it would be a good idea to just go downstairs and get some air. I had not left my desk for a good 4 hours and had tried to start 2 conversations about jelly dildos (unsuccessfully I might add). I proceeded downstairs, but instead of going outside I decided to just wander among the people wandering around Grand Central’s Main Concourse.
Sure there are a lot of people and a good percentage of them are constantly in motion, but if you stay down there long enough you see that they all come back, 1, 2, 3 times. Some of them were just wondering around as I was. These people didn’t look like they were waiting for a train or anything, just loitering. I pictured this place like a giant beehive, a whole lot of workers and no where to go…
I wonder which one was the queen bee?

I should probably stop standing around the Shoe Shine booth. I think the polish is making me high… awesome. Continue reading →

“John, God sent you as a test for me. Your working on the first half of your life and I’m working on my last half and I’m trying my hardest to get into heaven but your messing it up for me. I’ll be thinking the foulest shit, but I’ll keep it inside and then you come along just as I’m thinking it and come out and say it. You get me started. You have the time to correct your shit before you die, I don’t mess it up for me.”

-Janine
Words from an older black woman Continue reading →

You know what’s awesome – having a redundant backup of your old blog, of which much time, love and wasted office time was dumped into; and having said backup – A backup available online and on local mirrored disks – in a multitude of formats (flat file, DB and OPML) – having this one stop SM.Net Archive to end all Archives ~~~ be corrupt. and completely useless.
I could get the shit back but it would be by hand. fml.

Really, the only post I want back really bad is Brandon’s submission on the ‘water’ game.
God that was brilliant.

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I haven posted in a while and I feel like I should, so stick around for a minute while I go ahead and feed the beast.

Besides the brief moment when Steve “fell asleep on Brandon’s couch upstate and didn’t leave for six months”, I haven really had a full conversation with Steve for a good 3 years. I know it’s directly related to my “Escape from Long Island” venture, but is felt really good just to bullshit with him for two hours over the phone. He apparently got suckered into some VOIP cable modem thing from Cablevision, which under normal circumstances would probably be really neat but in the case of Cablevision is a total monstrosity.

If you have never played with their ‘IO TV’, let me just inform you that it sucks. The fact that they cap your bandwidth if your “uploading too much” also sucks (and the whole blocking of ports… double suck). I remember the whole phone over cable scam they were running before, bit when your phone has lag or cuts out because your using bittorrent or because your bandwidth is capped because you TOOK TOO LONG TO UPLOAD SOMETHING, sucks as well. Let me get back to my point…

I haven’t seriously talked to him in 3 years and the same old jokes were still funny. It was like picking up exactly from where I left off. Most likely it’s because, for me at least, I’m still the same person I was 3 years ago. A lot has changed and I have grown mentally, but the underlying structures and the inner workings of me have not really changed at all. I’m still a 23 year old boy. New place, new life, new toy, new me, but I’m most likely going to work myself into the same corners and difficulties that I have in the past. Man it sucks when history just starts repeating.

ANYWAYS… Here are some entertaining bits that I have come across.

The Lonely Island, but more importantly ‘The Heist‘: I had theheist.mp3 saved on my iPod, I didn’t even know I had it on there. As a warning, try not to be drinking anything when listening to it as you might hurl liquid keyboard-wards. It was unexpected and hilarious. The site itself rules. These are some pretty funny MoFos. I think what originally for the Nintendo Clip, but found a wealth of other coo’ shit. I was reading an interview of these guys on Ostrich Ink, which I originally misread as “Ostri Chink” and though that was a fucked up name for a site and would most likely have some comedic value to it, not that I know who or what an ‘ostri chink’ is, none the less there are some great quotes in there:

KYLE: Were you very excitable in this Japanese commercial? Because I’ve heard that that’s the way they like their commercials.ANDY: Oh, I was out of my mind.

KYLE: Really?

AKIVA: It’s them dancing to “Let’s Groove Tonight” in a car, and Andy’s dressed in, I think, orange camo pants, a blue mesh shirt that you can see through, a Dolce & Gabbana zip-up sweatshirt, and goggles on his forehead. He’s basically selling out America.

ANDY: It was the gay Iranian raver look.

KYLE: Did they play that song during the shoot?

ANDY: THE WHOLE TIME.

and in other news:

VGMaps: Big as maps from countless video game, both console and PC. Zelda & Mega Man level maps rule.

The PacGrenade is from ‘i am 8 bit’, an art exhibit in Los Angeles that stumbled upon through BoingBoing.

Godwin’s Law [WikiDef]: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

This intereste me to no end… Math Rules. Continue reading →

Is the Dreamcast considered ‘retro’ yet? For a system with such a short life span, How could I love it so much. Today was total dork out day. I spent much of it watching Star Trek Voyager in my underware (that’s not what made it dork out day…). Post shower and dressing myself, we were going to go see a movie, but once it got late and Harry & Phil were already settled in I decided now was the time to introduce them to my old love interest, The Sega Dreamcast. Harry’s initial reaction was along the lines of “Holy Shit, You still have one of these? Does it work… Isn’t this what they played games on back in the 90′s…” After a brief history of gaming to get them up to speed, I broke out the old DC Spindle and we started down the stack. Old favorites like Crazy Taxi, Tony Hawk 1 & 2, Sonic Adventure, Wetrix+ and MDK 2 came rushing back to me, but my eyes were on the prize: Self Bootable Mr. Driller with CDDA. Oh yes… This is the stuff dreams are made of.
Mr. Driller’s overly simplistic gameplay and cunningly trick levels made for HOURS of enjoyment. I only wish the DC version had a multiplayer like the DS version does. Which reminds me… must hunt down Driller-Kun import, the US release doesn’t let you play multiplayer from 1 cartridge, JAP does. They get these things because they are better than us, or so Brandon says.
Eventually we came full circle back to current gen systems playing Naruto: Narutimate Hero until my eyes dried up from not blinking for 30 minutes straight. I think unplanned game night was a success. Next time I think I’m going to try dropping Tetrisphere on them. That should rock their brains just enough. Continue reading →

Yeah, the photo should get your attention. This is one step closer to the Kitty-Cat Bullet Cam idea, but used in a practical sense… Putting dogs in dangersous situations that humans need not be in. As much fun as it would be to watch a “well trained” police sniffer dog fetch dynomite (No, it’s really not fun at all), I felt I just needed to post somthing.
It almost feels like an obligation now. I wish I had more to say or at least more thought processes behind them. I’m barely getting by with a few paragraphs, while Brando is pounding out a short story. Guess I just have vocabulary envy.
Anyways I also want to share:

MS 1337 5P34K v2.0: The money shot- “Thus, the word ham could be written as “|-|4/\/\.””

“Remember, It’s just a ride.”

Know your games? I got a 35 out of 40..w00t! (Bomberman is “Dyna Blaster”, fuckers.) Continue reading →

I BoingBoing so you don’t have to.

C A T S _ I N _ S P A C E !

I FUCKING KNEW IT!!! Hello Kitty is an Alien. No wonder the bitch she has no mouth.

Firefox extension displays whether Abe Vigoda’s alive. Is there anything it can’t do?

I want to roll her head in push-pins and art gum erasers.

D.I.Y. Methamphetamine Continue reading →

Jawan: Hey, how does google cache all of these internet pages?
John: Easy, they just have it download HTTP:\\*.*
Jawan: Really?
John: . . . No Continue reading →

BoingBoing.Net: Water Purifying Straw

Ok, Saw this on BoingBoing and instantly I though I had to say something outloud about it.

For 8 Pounds Sterling you can drink otherwise questionable water through a magic straw and it purifies it as it goes. Instantly these thoughts hit my mind:

.) £8 For the straw, How much for you to drink my urine through it?

.) “You do not pee in a mister coffee and get taster’s choice.”

.) “But Miss Pam, There are buggies in da water…”

.) Can I use this on Vladimir Vodka so it won’t taste like rubbing alcohol?

.)”Don’t drink that”
“Huh?”
“Anti-Freeze”
“Why?”
“You’ll go blind”
This message brough to you by the Foundation for Condescending Paternalism. Continue reading →