| Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 |
| 11:57 pm |
That debate was fucking boring. Obama and McCain, you are BOTH LOSERS (in this debate) (Tom Brokaw, I love you and you're a great reporter, but you're a bigger loser).
Meanwhile over the next few days I get to completely neglect that HUGE EXAM! I'm supposed to be studying for (protip: I won't actually be neglecting it) while Matt Of The Internet is here to hang out. Andy Of The Internet, I'm totally sorry you couldn't make it and next time, dude. |
| Sunday, October 5th, 2008 |
| 12:08 am |
I would just like to say that the Rock Band 2 drums feel pretty good! WIRELESS!
When I live somewhere that I can make actual sounds I should buy a real drum set. I can bang on it and have a grand ol' time. It will be like that kid in Freaks and Geeks and YES I would even buy an 8-track of Moving Pictures (fuck you, I like 8-track) (it sounds great). |
| Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 |
| 11:17 pm |
I missed the debate because I was busy watching French films about children dying. Was it good? |
| 12:28 am |
So apparently this whole time that I've been going into work at around 10 and making up hours on weekends and all of that there's been some kind of major problem with this and nobody has really thought it would be a good idea to tell me. This has two effects:
(1) I was almost the first person to be fired for insisting on working instead of taking sick time and
(2) I am almost positive that I did not actually get any kind of raise because nobody told me that the impression in the whole company was that I was a huge slacker. I think my raise bucks come into play this month so we'll see. Will I still be making less than I should be? ABSOLUTELY!
I'm not going to deny the slacking accusations but it's like my last boss told me: "I've never seen anyone who appears to do so little get so much done."
More or less this has reinforced my opinion that I need a different job. Environments where these sorts of major problems (not to mention project requirements, milestones, etc.) are not communicated to me are bullshit. T MINUS THREE MONTHS TO CHRISTMAS BONUS and then after that who knows what the fuck I'm doing. But I want that bonus check. I can bail immediately after I get it.
Oh yeah, PS: Because of this new policy at work where I can't do shit without taking vacation/sick time, I'm not going to Toronto for New Years unless a MASSIVE CONFLUENCE OF THINGS happens suddenly between now and whenever I can reserve a cheap flight. I won't have enough vacation time to do both that and Christmas otherwise and as much as I fucking hate spending Christmas with my family that's an obligation and New Years isn't. |
| Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 |
| 9:47 am |
In which I actually uphold my promise to not post about politics
Because something else interesting is happening, namely The Mother 3 translation is almost complete. I'm tempted to buy a GBA flash card and put the damn thing on there FOREVER so I can play it properly (on the DS, I hear it requires some bad-ass stereo power).
Mother 3! Just a few months ago I would have never given a shit about this, but after finishing Earthbound I'm absolutely fucking stoked for this thing. |
| Friday, September 26th, 2008 |
| 8:26 pm |
My favorite parts of the debate
JIM LEHRER: SO, HOW WILL THE ECONOMIC CRISES AFFECT HOW YOU RULE THE COUNTRY AS PRESIDENT? This is actually a verbatim quote, people.
Neither of them are even willing to pretend that Putin's puppet is the one really in charge. Strangely, McCain mentions Ukrane and is actually absolutely right about it - if Putin had an excuse to go and fuck their shit up there's no question that he absolutely would. It's the same reason that holding Ukrane is important in Risk (despite what Kramer thinks).
In summary:
MCCAIN: LOOK AT ALL THE SHIT I'VE DONE BEFORE
OBAMA: THINK ABOUT ALL THE SHIT I'M GONNA DO |
| Thursday, September 25th, 2008 |
| 11:56 pm |
COMMUNISM IS ON THE MARCH!
What's up, Wamu? Wait, you're owned by the government too now? Wow, everyone is getting in on this!
PS: Dear government, does this mean that my credit card debt with wamu is null and void now? Help a brother out. Hugs and kisses, Steve.
MINOR CORRECTION: Apparently Wamu was brokered into JP Morgan-Chase, which also recently rolled up Bear Sterns, in a deal that was only government mediated.
I totally can't wait to see what happens when JP Morgan-Chase goes tits-up from absorbing all of this bad debt. |
| 12:41 am |
In which I offend everyone
Kris: man, I love cheesecake
Stiv: who DOESN'T love cheesecake is my question
Stiv: answer: hitler
Kris: I bet even hitler loves cheesecake
Stiv: He probably loves it the MOST
Kris: he loves it so much that the other cakes go to the gas chamber
Kris: only master cakes for hitler
Stiv: hahahahaha
Stiv: THE MASTER CAKES
Stiv: now I'm just imagining white cake with yellow and blue frosting on it
Stiv: it says "CONGRATULATIONS ON JOINING THE MASTER RACE!" on it
Kris: hahahaahahahha
Stiv: there is a little smiling decorative hitler
Stiv: here is the best part
Kris: a little plastic hitler
Stiv: it is a bar mitzvah cake
Dear Everyone: I'm sorry! |
| Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 |
| 9:22 pm |
in which it turns out that THE GENIUS WAS CALLING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE
So, back in 2004 or whenever Dom Delouise upgraded the RAM in my old iBook, I seem to remember that there was nothing in the undercarriage or whatever you want to call it near the battery. I just plugged in that RAM and I was all like FUCK YEAH NOW I CAN RUN PHOTOSHOP! and pumped my fist really hard. Could this memory have been... wrong?
Fast forward to 2008!
That memory must have been wrong because the only RAM on apple laptops now is, and apparently has been, secured in the undercarriage. So when I yanked the RAM last night and the thing wouldn't turn on, DUH! On the other hand, no more Apple store, and I got a free logic board replacement out of it. On the other other hand, now I need to do an RMA and I hate that shit.
I also replaced my router. Dear new router: You're awesome! Love, Steve. |
| 1:22 am |
I am going to take my Apple Macintosh in to the "genius" bar at the Apple store for the third time tomorrow. I guess the first time they "fixed" it they didn't bother to do things like, say, actually test the logic board or try running the machine after removing the extra RAM in it (ps: protip, if the problem is RAM, asshole, and the kernel panics say that it is a page fault then fucking test it or at least try running the machine by taking out as much of it as possible).
Also I need to replace my wireless router because this one apparently doesn't work whenever you turn on encryption. Or maybe it's the wireless card in my desktop! WHO KNOWS!!!
The next time there are major computer problems over here I am just buying a fucking Selectric II and the mathematics typesetting balls. I do not want any more truck with this bullshit. |
| Saturday, September 20th, 2008 |
| 1:10 am |
I know I said I'd stay away from politics but this shit is too funny
The money quote is at the end. Ladies and gentleman: Dan Quayle with a vagina.
Okay, that's a little mean. She's probably smarter than Quayle, but says even dumber shit. Apparently the McCain campaign just pulled something like 10 of her solo appearances as retribution for being such a doofus.
I am sorry that this political season is shaping up to be HILARIOUS. I can't wait for the VP debate - I'm no Biden fan (speaking of which: Why is McCain riding Obama for the financial crisis shit, when he should be riding Biden?) but that's going to be like putting a chicken in a cage with a fox. |
| Friday, September 19th, 2008 |
| 1:03 am |
My laptop just died again, less than a week after I got it back from being fixed.
GO LAPTOP! |
| Thursday, September 18th, 2008 |
| 9:50 pm |
GOOD, BAD
BAD: BRODEO GONE FOREVER
GOOD: 5.5 ON ANALYTICAL WRITING ON GRE
Pending a decent math score this means my choices of university will be limited by exactly two factors: Where do I want to live, and how much do I want to pay.
But.. but the Brodeo. I'd only started listening to it a couple months ago and holy shit did I miss the fuck out. :( |
| Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 |
| 9:42 am |
WELCOME COMRADES (sorry about politics guys but I find this shit hilarious)
The US Government now owns an 80% share in AIG. I've said this before somewhere, but I think it's hilarious that the party who worships Reagan is essentially turning our financial sector into completely state-owned businesses. (Democrats are doing this too to be fair, but they have always been socialists, am I right?????)
I understand that it's to prevent a market collapse, but I'm going to be honest when I say that shit's going to happen anyway. Doesn't anyone remember when the government bought out Chrysler and they were then immediately sold to a German automaker? The euro's pretty awesome today, just sayin'. |
| Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
| 1:34 am |
Somebody Else Reads Things That I Had To (For You, So You Didn't Have To) Sarah (W.) mentioned this way back in one of the earlier posts on the TWILIGHT PHENOMENON but somebody on the "livejournal internet" also wrote up a much more detailed and WAY more fucking serious analysis/deconstruction/"this is hilarious" series of internets about Twilight. You can read it here. |
| Monday, September 15th, 2008 |
| 11:43 pm |
GONNA BOUNCE LIKE DR. CRUSHER IN SEASON 2 I have a very special place in my heart for TNG: It was discovered that my friend Leslie had never seen a single episode of it, so my main dude Greg decided that we needed to watch every single episode so that Leslie could catch up on it. We went all the way from Season 1 to midway through Season 6 before we couldn't take it anymore - we rented the show on 99c TV Wednesdays (and sometimes Thursdays, depending on the clerk) at the video store, meaning we would watch eight fucking hours in a single night and would usually be extremely drunk. This does not make the show any good, but it was often extremely Enjoyable and we would love it whenever Diana Troi would get space pregnant. We also all clued into the fact that (a) she used to be a porn star and (b) was probably once a man. It's kind of weird how everybody I know who watched the show when they were teenagers thought that Diana Troi was the hot shit and then years later upon seeing the show again realizes that it is, in fact, Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden edition) who is the total babe (excepting Tasha Yar but come on she was only in like what, 12 episodes?) Anyway it is with great pride that my friend COMPUTER TROLIO found this on the internets and showed it to me, even if it does greatly exaggerate the amount of play that Geordi gets (not a joke: When Geordi finally got laid, everyone high-fived because FUCKING AWESOME GO GEORDI) As a special bonus, I made an MP3 for you to listen to in your car or just generally around the house. AWESOME!SUPER SPECIAL BONUS: That video is a "response" to The Positronic Pimp which is delightful in its own way (but not quite delightful enough to embed because that's too much fucking youtube in one post) and definitely delightful enough to also encode as an MP3. Now you all can probably make a mix CD of novelty songs about characters from Star Trek getting laid. |
| Sunday, September 14th, 2008 |
| 10:49 pm |
some of you are seeing this twice but that just makes it twice as nice
PROTIP: Clearly my livejournal is now about two things: How much I hate Fahrenheit, and how mystified I am by Twilight. Anyway this is actually kind of hilarious in spots and makes me realize how long movie trailers are now.
Oh yeah and also I think I should mention that Burn After Reading is fucking excellent. Why don't you go see that. It will also not have any trailers for obviously terrible movies in front of it except for, I guess, OSCAR BAIT in the form of Milk and The Soloist (both of which are worth seeing for their own reasons). |
| Saturday, September 13th, 2008 |
| 4:43 pm |
Fahrenheit (so named because all the temperatures are in celsius and also you YANKS know it as Indigo Prophecy, which is a title almost as bad) is about 1/10th of a good game and about 2/5ths of a decent movie. And yes, I played the european one with the hilarious sex scene(s).
Why does anyone actually care about Heavy Rain? Is it just because it's a PS3 exclusive and "those people" want to have a game? This is a serious question. |
| Thursday, September 11th, 2008 |
| 2:37 am |
pre-bed internet part 2: tasty internet classics Some of you may have heard over the course of the years about the SEXY FARTING FUR DENISE. This is because my friend Prangs was going to make some kind of flash animation wherein people (i.e. ME) would read descriptions of terrible, horrifying art he found on the internet. This was 2003 and so such things were still CUTTING EDGE. Also, I couldn't legally drink. That's how long ago 2003 was. Holy shit. Anyway I was doing some e-excavating earlier and discovered the original sound file (danger: HUGE, because I was too lazy to make it an MP3). There are some other "classics" in that directory as well but I'm going to be honest when I say that (a) they are not nearly as good and (b) did not become enduring classics like this. Make sure you don't listen to it at work. It's "worksafe" but will definitely get you some strange looks unless you have mad headphones on. Also you might laugh (but probably not, although this was hilarious in 2003). |
| 1:14 am |
LATE-NIGHT THEATER OF THE MIND
When the fuck did FTW come to mean FOR THE WIN instead of FUCK THE WORLD? I blame you, internet. Fuck you. In fact, fuck the world (of the internet). |
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