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.