Showing posts with label misc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misc. Show all posts

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Magazines : Girls and Corpses


Please, do not ask me how I came across this. I think it's fake. I'm 99.5% sure that this is fake. I mean, the magazine is real. It's very real. But I think the content is fake. I mean, I think it is fake. I want it to be fake. I want it VERY BADLY to be fake. And I think it's fake.

But... there is 0.5% of me... nah, surely it's fake! Surely?

Recommend? Help me!

Monday, December 11, 2006

Templates : This Template

Wow, Blogger has offered us new customation in our blogs, and I have totally messed things up here! Check out the horrid color scheme! The unfamiliar placement of links! Even the dropped links I can't remember!

Recommend! You can now add labels for easier searching or something??

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Quest : Trying to get a Wii in Austin (without camping out.)

This quest sucks. We were two away from getting a Wii in two different lines. We should have gotten up before six o'clock, or we should have gone to that Best Buy way out in Lakeway. Well, guess there's always later this month when more come in...

Recommend? I recommend you pre-order.

Monday, October 2, 2006

Object: My cell phone

My cellphone is made by Samsung, which is a Korean company. From what I hear, the Koreans are pretty proud of Samsung, what with it selling so many fancy things everywhere. Mainly I use my phone for talking to people, but I also use the calender to remind myself to do things in the future, and I use the alarm function to help wake myself up in the morning. Though, you would be surprised at how quickly you adapt to the Stars and Stripes Forever going off at 8:05 am every morning. Very quickly! Right!

Recommend: It has not failed me yet, but one of the little silvery stickers under the LCD screen which covered a screw has fallen off and I had to scrape some sticky glue out of the hole, and wipe it on something like it was a booger.

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Life: Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin

It's been a while since I've seen or heard from him, but his loss ruined my Labor Day, and the Labor Days of millions of others around the world. There's not much more to say. He fought bears and gila monsters and sharks and crocodiles, and died by stingray blade.

Recommend: Rest In Peace, Crocodile Hunter.

Monday, April 10, 2006

Defences: Thesis

It's over. I passed. I kicked its ass. Seriously. I totally rocked it.

Recommend: If you like an hour straight of pure terror where you drank way too much coffee before hand so you couldn't stop jittering in your seat while your enormously sprawling answers both focus in on a single piece of literature while incorporating references to five or six others all the while watching the faces of your committee members to make sure that they weren't wincing and when they were furrowing their brows making sure you made extra careful to explain exactly what it is you were trying to see by using more and more specific examples and quoting lines of text and title after title by author after author until their brows stopped furrowing and you are trying desperately not to look at your watch or the sweet freedom outside the window blinds while you hope you aren't sweating and won't stutter or you won't just stare blankly at the person who asked you THE ONE DAMN QUESTION you couldn't answer as you rack your brains trying to trace back the essential characteristic of the speaker of a sonnet by recalling all the little things Shakespeare made fun of sonnets about in his sonnets and wondering why you hadn't spent more time reading sonnets and hoping that you'd quickly be able to segue to John Donne because his sonnets particularly the HOLY sonnets are the only ones you remember well enough to talk about in detail in fact you can quote five our six of them almost in their entirely but your answers keep leading you more towards Phillip Syndney's Defence of Poesy which you hated but were able to find one redeemable statement in them which segued you into talking about modernist poets while trying to avoid any further questioning into works before 1600 ACH! MEIN LEIBER!

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Microprocessors : The TI MSP430F1232

This gal is an angel. Low power, cheap, and easy to use. You can do almost anything with this little guy, and migrating to bigger, more powerful microprocessors in its family is a breeze.

Recommend? YES. It's even gentle with the babies.

Microprocessors : The Atmel AT89S8252

This processor licks chode.

Recommend? NO. It will only fail on you and make you spend thousands of dollars and thousands of hours trying to fix and update, only to eventually be replaced by something that actually retains its coding on power up.

Sunday, February 5, 2006

Chest Infections: Mine

This is really starting to get annoying. I'm feeling a lot better now, the fever broke and seems to be gone for good since some time between Friday night and Saturday Morning, but I'm still coughing up balls of green gunk. Seriously. I'm done with it. I hate being sick, and I've been sick since last friggin Sunday. Not to mention that my voice has been shot to hell and I've got to teach tomorrow with my voice dying on me every five minutes like it did on Friday.

Recommend: As illnesses go, its pretty good for the bitching about it factor but as for as the feeling like suck portion goes this ones not at the top of my list.

Monday, January 9, 2006

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Year : 2005

'Twas a long year, full of many life changes. There were a few stumbles along the way, but everything seemed to shape up in the end. Character was built, good times were had, and even some new songs were made.

Recommend? Well, if you haven't done it by now, then you won't ever get the chance to do it again. Happy End-of-2005!

PS: Anyone know where I can download the trailer to 2006? I'd like to find a sneak-preview before it hits, and I'm running out of time....

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Posts: This Post

This is the 101st post to this site. It is a short post and is pretty much self-referential with little to no basis or content outside of its own nature.

Recommend: Not really. Kind of shallow, maybe a bit flat. Really, you should skip this post and save the time it takes to formulate the letters contained therein into coherent meaning if you haven't made it this far already.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Toys: Plush STDs

The big struggle this year for parents is whether or not they want to get their kids crabs or syphillis for Christmas. Apparently, some family oriented group affiliated with some church has begun marketing a line of plush likenesses of magnified STD's. The whole collection is here - AIDS, the clap, herpes, and much much more, truly a gift that keeps on giving.

Recommend: You know, there's something really wrong somebody who thinks that its a good way to scare children about sex and STD's by making the STD's all soft and cuddly. Mixed messages anyone?

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Activity: Buying Fireworks

Living out in Pegram, TN, it is impossible to look at how little civilization is out here and think how nice it would be to blow up little bits and pieces of what little there is here, dirt, grass, pebbles, etc. But man, supply and demand. They know that as the fourth of July approaches all true Americans will get the urge to blow things up (I guess we're supposed to have that urge all the time with it intensifying at the 4th, but I just don't always want to blow things up), and Pegram caters to that urge, setting up striped tents all along highway 70.

But, you know, as much as I enjoy a good detonation or two, an explosion here and an explosion there, the actual blowing stuff up is just not quite as good as wandering through those fireworks aisles, looking at all those gunpowder stuffed goodies, and wondering precisely which way I want to blow something up. Do I want to blow up that apple with black cats or thundercrackers? Should I launch bottle rockets or saturn missiles at the birds? Literally hundreds of ways to destroy things are layed out on the shelves, and the rest is just the work of the imagination. Pick anything. Combine anything.

Do I recommend? All I say is this: Blowing stuff up out of pointless patriotism is the right our founding father's died for, so we'd damn well better honor their memories and the infinite possibilities for harmless destruction.

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Internet Dialect : l33t5p34k

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Wednesday, June 8, 2005

Tool: Non-flammable compressed gas duster

Starting from one of the best generic names I've ever encountered, this thing rocks. What a wonderful world we live in where you can buy air in a can. The dust just went poof straight up in the air and only half of it settled back down on the board. I always wanted something that would do my jobs half-assed for me. Not only was I able to sort of clean the boards of my computer with this thing, but I was able to scare the hell out of my dog. I didn't even have to try - the sound of the escaping air made the pup tuck it's tail between its legs and huddle up shaking in the corner. It's like buy one get one free except that buy one get one free doesn't inadvertently result in urine running down a puppy's leg. Not that I'm advocating scaring the hell out of puppies, but as a comedic side effect...thumbs up. And just think of all the other things I can clean! Surfaces, containers, openings, and coverings! I could go on an on! The air's even cold, so if it wasn't dangerous it could make an impromptu way to beat the summer heat!

Do I recommend? Oh, yeah I recommend. Doesn't clean so great, but man, it's air in a can.

Thursday, June 2, 2005

One Star For Traffic

You know, you'd think a place that so many people spend so much time in would be more exciting, but I've got to say, I am really disappointed with my experience with being in traffic. I've called so many people on their cell phones and they've told me that they were in traffic, and I got really interested in finding out what this "traffic" thing was all about, so I got in my car to try it out for myself. Let me tell you: what a damn waste of time. The production values were terrible. All it was was a bunch of cars on a road. Who do the public relations people for traffic think their fooling? Do they ever expect to sell such a ludicrous idea? You'd think they'd try for some plot development, but instead its just stop and go until the y split. Stop and go to the stop sign. Stop and go through the red light. It's all so damn predictable and there's no motivation for any of it. The character development is as superficial as a freaking bumper sticker or something stuck to a rear window. Furthermore, the atmosphere was terrible, all stifling sun through the windshield, the smell of tar and rubber and exhaust and that dead thing by the road, sometimes honking. All in all, I've got to give traffic one star out of five, a disappointment on all accounts.

Monday, April 25, 2005

Review Months : April, 2005

April 2005 just does not seem to be a good month for reviews. I'm not saying the few reviews that have been posted are bad! I'm just saying that it doesn't appear that many movies are being watched, books are being read, things are being done, or songs are being heard. Maybe this is because Spring is here? Or perhaps because school is ending?

Recommend? Well, you may want to hold off until May, when I'm sure the reviews will be plentiful and... plentiful.

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Month : February

February is a bit on the cold side. And it's wet and there aren't many flowers. Also, the sun goes down way too early. This month may have a silent 'r', but that's about all it's got going for it.

Recommend? NO. Save up your money for an April or May. If you really must get a February, I suggest trying to get one down in the Southern Hemisphere.

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Service : Blogger Invitation System

I was invited to join this blog, and that process is done by someone clicking the "Invite" button. It took much longer than expected! I was very surprised. It was like a roller coaster: it had its ups and downs, but I ended up about where I thought I might.

Recommend: Yes, I am able to post on this blog now.