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May 19th, 2009
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Red Alert III - coming soon!!
I still play Red Alert II all the time. I can’t wait for Red Alert 3!
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3 comments August 5th, 2008
Even the undead need love and companionship.
And of course, The Internets oblige.
4 comments July 24th, 2008
ass + hands + anger = making an ass of yourself
The douchebaggery of this comic artist is magnificent. Also astounding? His suggestion that people calling him on his weak-sauce will be mocked in some minicomic that he creates.
Good job. That ought to convince a half dozen maroons that you weren’t acting like a spoiled brat.
Everyone makes an ass out of themselves form time to time. The best way to handle it is to step away from the situation - stop being angry, take your hat off and apologize.
1 comment June 30th, 2008
Santa takes one for the team.
Of course, it’s not like he has much a a choice. We’ve royally screwed Santa and the Mrs., the reindeer, millions of children, and the environment
Hopefully, Santa won’t quit and leave us at the mercy of Robot Santa - which is what we deserve.
1 comment June 27th, 2008
Bueller!!!
Working on a Saturday, yet again. Wherever I work, I find myself tied to proprietary and slow web applications. On the upside, this means that I have time to browse the web.
1 comment June 21st, 2008
Woohoo! Our (Oregon) laws aren’t copyrighted!
I blow a big raspberry to the thought processes that got Justia into trouble at all, but cooler heads prevailed and now anyone can delve into Oregon’s laws all they want.
1 comment June 20th, 2008
Best Crayon colors ever!
Seriously, Flesh of Christ is a freaking color? Also, Christ was peach colored? And there were dinosaurs on the Ark? I knew I was missing out on learning the whole story when I skipped religion class in high school. Then again, it was a Catholic high school, so I probably just missed the pederasty. Am I right, am I right? Huzzah!
PS: Work is making me go insane (but pictures like this certainly aren’t helping). Cut it out, Internet!
Does John McCain color with perfect white?
3 comments June 18th, 2008
Possibly the best MetaTalk comment of all time…
…is right here. Go read and smile
1 comment June 18th, 2008
Farming with Dynamite!
Well, I’ve never tried real farming or working with dynamite before, but this pamphlet has me pretty much sold on the idea that Farming with Dynamite is a truly awesome way to go about life.
Aside from the indubitable charm of combining a respected agricultural tradition with large explosions, the booklet is very much a marketing gem. From 1910, an easy and clear read; you should take the time to read it yourself. Excellent wording, data presentation and well conveyed buoyant enthusiasm.
Also, if you know where I can get an inexpensive farm and some dynamite, please let me know. I want to blow holes in the ground and then plant things there. Cultural metaphors, I’m looking at you!
via Mefi
1 comment June 16th, 2008
I’m losing my battle against owning a PS3
I hate Sony. For too long has their proprietary shit machines have bummed me out. Everything, that is, except their consoles.
When the Wii and PS3 launched, I bought a Wii - because that was the sensible thing to do. I don’t need a $600 video game console with $50 games. Especially not when I just built a $1200 smoking fast desktop PC.
And yet, hooker killing in a game that might make me feel bad about it beckons mightily…
And if rt would just tell how the media streaming is, I could finally make a choice to abstain, or to plunge headlong into a fiery chasm of vicarious violence that offers an appalling look at myself in a world with slightly fewer consequences.
Update
Okay, so the PS3 doesn’t actually function as a network media streamer. Very disappointing.
If you want to stream media to the PS3, it looks like you have to run some app on *another* computer on your network to stream media that’s been selected in the app to the PS3.
Weak sauce, Sony - royal weak sauce.
Looks like a Mac mini is in my future.
(Well, either a mac mini or another soft-modded original xbox, which functions pretty damn well as a media streamer, with the exception of easy non-xbox remote setup…)
4 comments May 2nd, 2008
How would you like to be a worthless white nigger?
Gee, I don’t know - but I can tell how Hillary Clinton’s adviser feels about the working class *and* black people. God only knows what he thinks of working class black people. What a classist, racist tool!
1 comment May 2nd, 2008
Solar FTW!
Apparently, only a (proportionally) small amount of the earth’s surface need
3 comments April 28th, 2008
Israel: Filled to capacity with religious nutters.
[sigh]
Can we stop killing yet?
1 comment March 26th, 2008
Patagonia wants your delicates!
via Green Daily
On a sidenote… I just paused for a moment and wondered if there were any capilene thongs. A quick google confirms their existence. Rest assured humanity, if a garment can be made of it, someone has made a thong with it. This should be the first law of fibers.
Kudos to Patagonia for being such recycling badasses.
The only possible downside is that they seemed to put all their focus on underwear; I imagine that any capilene clothing item could be recycled in their program. I bet there are a lot more old and ratty capilene shirts and (liner) socks than capilene underwear. Of course, underwear is funnier than socks or shirts…
1 comment March 21st, 2008
Anchorwoman reveals that she craves power and cannot remember childhood.
Also, those glasses are indeed famous.
Way to stand up to that beastly woman. Rock on Cory!
5 comments January 15th, 2008
Egg Poaching for Maroons. (that includes me)
This post is sort of a placeholder for myself, but may be interesting for other similarly-challenged would-be egg poachers. Over at Slashfood, I just read a post about poaching eggs. I love poached eggs, and I consider a good Eggs Benedict to be the absolute height of breakfast pleasure.
Also, I love eggs for breakfast. I’ve been able to make all things egg-breakfast-related with relative competency except: Omelets, Eggs over Easy, and POACHED EGGS.
Poached eggs baffle me. I haven’t even tried that often, because every attempt yields disheartening results at best and egg-splattered temper-tantrums at worst.
Omelets? Well, let’s just say they they usually turn out to be a delicious scrambles, with only an occasional omelet produced. This does not bother me too much, but I would love to get better. That’s another blog post though.
Eggs over Easy? Well, in my opinion, the cardinal sin of of egg frying is a broken or hard yolk - which I seem to run up against most of the time when attempting this. I’m certain I can master this one with some more practice. Though I think that a two-burner-sized griddle would help my efforts. I can’t seem to get my flip on using a regular pan.
Anyways, back to POACHED EGGS.
In the Slashfood post, they link to Rob @ b3ta, who seems similarly challenged (at least as far as egg poaching goes). In Rob’s “How to poach an egg” post, he comes to grip with the myriad of conflicting egg poaching instructions available in the tubes, and tests four well selected methods. I don’t want to spoil anything for you, but the last method tested looks to be nearly foolproof (which is good) and easy (which is great). Sounds like a winner to me.
Once again, I shall throw caution to the wind and try egg poaching this weekend. Once I have this art mastered, I’m off to the arena of Hollandaise - and then ALL BR
4 comments January 8th, 2008
Quick! Somone waterboard CBS while it’s still legal!
1 comment December 17th, 2007