I love me some Guitar Hero. Now I can slack off at work too.

Wait, I already do…

This morning, on Fark.com, there was a link to an uninteresting story about bus travel in the UK being the least stressful way to travel.

Of course, it’s not this way in America. The Farkers chimed in with bits like:

Princess Queef 2008-02-07 04:30:09 AM
when i was a kid riding the bus for a field trip, another kid threw up extensively in the middle of the bus, right in the aisle. it was the kind of vomit that launches about five feet, so it was everywhere. the driver did not stop, and it was a bumpy, twenty minute drive. the puke was like an orange river, going up and down the aisle in both directions or wherever gravity chose to take it.

it seems like my most vivid memories are the most traumatic.

VTSquire 2008-02-07 02:33:26 AM
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Missourri to Cali:

Poop. Human poop. Human poop on the floor. Human poop on the floor, and it wasn’t coming from the bathroom. It’s raining. It’s storming. There’s a tornado watch in effect. For the love of god, open the farking windows!
…

Of course, back in the day, I did a fair amount of bus travel. While most were fairly uneventful, one time sticks out in my mind.

When I was going to college in California, and my then-fiance lived in Utah, we regularly took the bus back and forth, before I bought a crappy 86 Ford Escort. She had taken the bus down to my college town, then we rode the bus back to Utah together. While at a stopover in San Francisco, we were being cute and snuggly and making out in a corner, when I heard a falsetto voice ask, “Can you help my baby?”

I didn’t quite expect what I was about to see. In front of me stood a 6′ +, well built black man. In a scraggly, used, baby doll dress and flip flops. His makeup was well done, with only the lipstick being a bit over the top. In his right hand, was his “baby”, which looked like a doll from a second hand store. It was missing a limb and a fair amount of hair.

Best. Beggar. Ever. I gave him $5 and he skipped away.

Was he wearing underwear?

First, for your viewing enjoyment, crazy fundie at a coffee shop!

Think that was bad? Not even close:

And here’s about the only time I agree with Sean Hannity:

Well, I’m finally back after a long break, caused by, you guessed it, World of Warcraft.

If the game were a single player game, it would be incredibly boring. Get a quest, kill 20-100 monsters, turn in a quest, yay. You then bump the experience bar a little further. The Burning Crusade added grinding reputations with factions, which made it all that much worse, despite the rewards.

The thing that drew me back was the social aspect of the game. I really enjoyed hanging out with my guild members and drinking heavily. After I quit the game last time, I kept in contact on the guild forums because, well, I was hosting them in the first place. I really missed ‘em.

However, once I came back, the guild was falling apart. It was a matter of days before the guild disbanded. Friends moved to different servers and different guilds. I played my alliance druid for awhile and abandoned my warrior, using him only for PvP. That was fun until I got them geared up, but it was constantly frustrating me with shitty PuGs for instance runs and getting my ass kicked with premade groups in battlegrounds. I tried to find a good guild, but I just couldn’t find a group that made me enjoy the game like I used to. The straw that broke the camel’s back was simply a loss in a battleground. No huge blow-up, no huge rant, just more of a feeling of “I’m sick of this shit.”

I calmly uninstalled the game, deleted the directory, canceled my account, and to make sure I never came back, tossed the CDs in the trash, which now reside in some landfill.

I’m feeling pretty good about things now. I’m getting caught up with my degree program, losing the weight that I put on, and have time for other essential things, like paying attention to Vahl and not ignoring/putting off my friends anymore. I also came back to writing, and noticed that my WordPress installation is severely outdated, hence the title of this article. Major security bugs suck. I’m just glad the site wasn’t big enough to get noticed and hacked.

If you haven’t already gathered, I’m an atheist. Along with that, I’m a big fan of Richard Dawkins. He finds great points that I hadn’t even thought of. This video is 45 minutes long, but do me a favor and at least watch the first 6 minutes.

At work today, I was doing some stuff on Google Video. Yes, it was work-related. When I went to delete a sample video of a clock, I noticed that Google recommended this video as a correlated item:

Wow… a Korean live-action adaptation of Street Fighter. I had myself a hearty LOL as they introduced Blanka and especially Zangief.

Long, long ago, a swedish friend of mine introduced me to a little browser by the name of Phoenix. It was still in its beta days and I was still (stupidly) using Internet Explorer. It took me about a week to get used to Phoenix, but I’ve stuck with it. It became Firebird, then, as it is more commonly known, Mozilla Firefox.

As I was browsing Ars Technica today, I came across a mention of an update to the Mozilla store. They’ve got a lot of cool stuff in there. I’m enamored with this shirt in particular. I might just have to grab one.

Work has been busy busy busy. But here’s a kitten.

I love NetFlix.

I’ve been using NetFlix for years, ever since my early college days. I had seen their ads for their Watch Now service, but I had ignored it until a few days ago. I launched one of their movies on my laptop, and was fairly impressed. I wouldn’t say that their streaming movies are perfect, by any means. In fact, the video quality is less than perfect, the movies are DRM protected, and you need MS Windows XP/Vista and Windows Media Player 10 in order to watch them. That being said, it’s awesome to have a huge library of on-demand movies for no additional charge.

I hooked up my laptop to our entertainment center via the S-Video out and headphone jack. The video loss was less apparent on the TV than on the laptop. The audio quality was rather good.

Vahl and I watched a couple of animes, then came across something from the creators of MST3K entitled Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark. I love MST3K, but the movies they review are painful. This one was no exception. Everyone remember Rue McClanahan from the Golden Girls? Well, in this movie, she is a desperate actress stripping to make ends meet. That’s right, this Rue McClanahan.

You would think that since this film was released in 1969 that her youth would have some saving grace. Unfortunately, the Golden Girls image has been burned in my mind, and during the strip scenes, I just wanted to vomit.

In summary:

NetFlix Watch Now + Laptop + lots of wires + TV = awesome on a spoon, or possibly a fork. Heathens.
A young Rue McClanahan stripping for money = smash my eyeballs to a pulp with a ball peen hammer. You’d be doing me a favor.

A few months back, when Vahl and I first bought our Wii, we were playing around with the built in browser and came across the “Will it Blend” videos on YouTube. We were transfixed and went through at least a dozen videos, hedging our bets on whether or not it would, in fact blend. If you want to check it out, just go to YouTube.com and search for “Will it Blend”.

During my news browsing this morning, I came across their latest video for whether or not an iPhone will blend. It hurts me a bit to see this happen to such expensive equipment. ><