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So while searching youtube for a clip from the daily show where Lewis Black goes off (Lewis Black go off? Never!) on Fox news about the that damned dancing penguin movie.
I was unsuccesfull but for some reason I decided to go looking for TOOL cover songs… and well now you get to ignore the glory that is TOOL covering another band.
Covering the Ramones
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Covering Led Zepplin
Not to long ago Curtis and I were talking about gaming, as we often do. The topic turned to MMO’s (massive multiplayer online) games that we both play. We were lamenting the fact that our team in Eve was dying and both of us are loathe to seek out another group to run with since we both truly enjoy the community that we are apart of in Eve. The conversation quickly turned to another topic soon thereafter… I believe the topic of discussion was whether to see the dancing penguin movie or Bond. Lets just say that I will never look at penguins in the same way again.
So while sitting in the dancing penguin movie (which btw wasn’t that bad) I got to thinking about EVE, Planet Side, and Star Wars Galaxies. EVE has been my game of choice for the last 2+ years now it’s large it’s complex there are many many many aspects. I’ve always had a blast in EVE.
Planet Side was never really more then a diversion… you know like a ex-girlfriend that comes back into your life. You two keep each other around just long enough to remember why you are exes in the first place.
Star Wars Galaxies was my first MMO and is still the only one where I litterally lost track of time when I played it. More then once did I play for 12 or 14 hours. And for a while there SWG was all that I did. I chalk alot of that up to shit going on in my personal life that I didn’t want to deal with though.
So as I watched the dancing penguin movie and watched genitalia inter cut with the dancing
penguins flash across the screen I came to a thought.
With that thought the seed was planted… and now against every fiber of my being… I’m dealing with damned dirty fairies and elves…
/sigh
Once again the whole having friends who blog thing has brought out the envious side in me. Not that it’s that hard to do. I’m forever compensating for something… You flaunt your married-ness with home life and either kids / pets / or lack there of. I flaunt my single-ness and my general lack of attachments to anyone or thing.
So really it’s pretty much all aspects of my life.
My latest place where I feel a need to compensate… Cody and his damn blog pictures. And it’s not just his blog it’s his damn myspace too!
I pick the oddest things to get worked up about… I really need to find a way to relax… Oh look a fridge full of Guinness.
OK so getting back to object of tonight’s angst… Take a look at those pictures. I think the guy has talent his pictures are how I see my pictures in my head. Use of shadows almost all of them off the cuff and “natural”.
Really I think that is what drives me up the wall most about photography is that so much of it is unnatural and posed. 
Now I realize that alot of photographs are posed for artistic reasons or because there is a large group but I look at so many and there always things that seem a little to perfect.
And don’t get me started on advertising. I may be in the coveted 18-49 male demographic but I resist 99.9% of that advertising
YES LORD JOBS I WILL NOT REVEAL THAT YOU ARE THE .00001% THAT GETS TO ME
That was weird I blacked out there for a second.
Anyway… I am envious of Cody and his pictures… Or maybe I’m envious of Cody and his mad iLife skills. And Eve’s ability to do the ninja camera thing.
Ok so the married people have me on that one. In order to get my “natural” shot and be in said shot it can no longer be “natural” and must be posed in some way shape or form.
And the pictures I have posted here? Well I worked from home today which means I finished working a hour early since I didn’t drive in and was already here and didn’t have to drive home. So I took a couple of pictures at lunch. I even did the faux iPhoto thing to them in Picasa and well look at mine compared to Cody’s “nature” shots…
I need to go compensate some more.
for the record…. after a equal number of beers cody and curtis can still dance better to me.
I will truly need to find a drunk woman at the bar… or one who takes pitty on me.
So after 18 months of relative stagnation in terms of overall storage capacity. You know the storage capacity that you have available to you at any given time that is not dedicated on Hard Disks that also contain a OS. I seem to have gone a bit a nuts…
In the last month I went from ~400GB of Storage to somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.1TB of usable storage (The number is closer to 1.5TB of raw storage). Holy hard disk batman what are you going to do with all of that storage? Honestly I don’t know. Partially I’m fairly paranoid about losing data and insist on having multiple copies of everything. You know backups of backups of backups.
Yes in my world there is fantastic data redundancy but data continuity (being able to continue to use that data for something useful) sucks.
At least I’ve had the good sense to get a couple of external hard drives so I can put anything I want in a off line long term storage sitting in a closet someplace. I mean really though 1.1TB of storage?
I don’t care who you are there is only so much music/video/tv/porn/writing/games you can put onto a computer before it fills up.
| And you guys wonder why I want a Wii… silly people. | |
So the Cardinals are finally 2-8…. I guess a win is a win even if it is the Lions. I remember starting the season out with hopes of 7-9 maybe just maybe 8-8. Right now I’m hoping from for 4-12 and new offensive line in the spring from the draft bunny.
And so goes the life of a Cardinals fan…
So in your surfing of the intertubes and the intertube known as the Discovery Channel. There is a excellent program on modern day Iran. It’s really good and in my mind it was presented in a fair and balanced way. But not in the way of a certain 24 hour news network who’s mantra is “Fair and Balanced”. It was done by Ted Koppell so you know it’s quality.
E will like it if anyone gets through the first 20 minutes I will be impressed.
So who turned on the Christmas switch? Saturday afternoon not a sign of Christmas anywhere Sunday afternoon fucking Christmas carols at wally world and neighbors are starting to put up lights.
I wonder if I can find a “Bah Humbug” sign for the front yard.
So the Nintendo Wii is released tomorrow. Which means that age old tradition of gamers the world over is in progress tonight.
The camp at the store to wait for th system. Having never witnessed this before I decided to take a jaunt this evening and see what kind of people camp for a video game system.
In a word… “goth-tastic” Actually I should go easy on them since only a few short years ago I would have been there with them.
Me I’m much to patient to wait for something over night…. nice oxymoron huh?
Any way kudos to the folks in front of Wal-mart who had a tv with them and were playing what looked to be either the original Mario or Super Mario 3. Either way they win my vote for the most dedicated Nintendo player of the year.
As for me. Well I’m waiting for the Costco super pack.
Two things occoured today that I feel are worthy of writing… 1 event questioned one of the very tenets of my conscious eating. The other one told me a little bit more about a large American company.
This post will also come very close the no talk of work policy I have but both of these revelations happened during lunch. So they don’t count.
I made the rule I can make the exceptions.
1. A manager from our PACS vendor showed up today to get feedback from our docs. Now what happens when you have a vendor show up? Thats right kids FREE LUNCH!!! While this dude and my cohorts in crime were talking I noticed that everyone had run into him at one time or another at a bar of one sort of another. Never a golf course, conference, restaurant… a bar every story I heard. So I got to thinking and all good stories with this vendor generally have something to do with a bar.
Hmmm I think I like our PACS vendor.
2. I have found a Mexican restaurant that violates the law of Mexican restaurants. i.e the nicer the Mexican joint the crappier the food. This was actually a pretty decent joint and had really good food!
Of course E will never eat there… everything was drowning in cheese.
Once again the ol desktop is getting a bit long in the tooth and is starting to approach it’s three year upgrade cycle. This time around I’m presented with a different set of circumstances then what I’m used to.
1. CPU speeds have basically flat lined for the last 24 months. All CPU speed gains are being made by tweaking manufacturing processes, on die cache, instruction sets, and dual cores. The dual core thing is probably the most significant change to happen in a long time. Sadly it’s not the march of technology it’s the bloat of a certain OS that runs the world.
2. Video Cards change like the direction of the wind. It’s the one thing in the PC world that is still barreling along full speed.
3. Vista… When will it be worth the upgrade? Is it worth it to load vista upfront and take advantage of it’s neat new features (dx10, aero, other things) or do I keep running xp pro for another 3 years?
4. Hard Drives, the first solid state hard drives are coming to market in the next 3 to 6 months. First gen tech is never a sure bet but these things may break alot of those rules.
There are other considerations but these are the top 4.
You know this would all be a lot easier if there was a way to play all of my games under MAC OS X as easily as I do under windows. Actually if I could play EVE and Half-Life I would be very happy.
So begins Project “Pegasus”