Cool Guy Holding a SodaMonday, November 23, 20095:13PMA few weeks later from installing Karmic Koala, the one thing I can say about it is that gnome-screensaver just keeps taking steps back in terms of functionality and overall flexibility, to the point of it being completely worthless. With the upgrades that came with Karmic, gnome-screensaver stopped working altogether, not the power manager sides or even the screensaver side, so the screen would just be on all the time. Why? Last night I uninstalled gnome-screensaver and installed xscreensaver, which Gnome stopped shipping by default quite a few releases back, but which works perfectly and that was all I needed to have all the stuff working again. So if you install Karmic, just remove gnome-screensaver and install xscreensaver. Yup. Friday, November 20, 20098:40PMThey were just playing this awesome song "Hit That Perfect Beat" by Bronski Beat on the radio, and I was thinking to myself, "this band sounds gayer than the Pet Shop Boys." Sunday, November 15, 200911:56AM - oh my godoh my god I want to buy this but it's like more money than I could ever possibly spend. Paper dolls! Collectible puzzle! Friday, November 13, 20095:45PMCherie's sister Anna got me a Mahjongg set for my birthday, which came today, and which is awesome. She shall henceforth be known as 無双妹. Now I Just need people to play with. 3:31AMSo Borderlands? It came out a couple weeks ago. It's one of the greatest games available for the present generation of consoles. Man. It's thrilling. A perfect mix of humor and action, with easy small missions and colorful characters. And 87 bazillion guns. It is highly recommendable. I was a little let down by Modern Warfare 2, not going to lie. I liked the "realism" I guess, and the emphasis on stealth over engagement, and there were a lot of really cool things about it. What was not cool was that it never really I guess crossed the threshold for me of making it "feel" right? Do you know what I mean? Like I didn't feel engaged enough with the characters to do the same section over and over again for an hour. Wednesday, November 11, 200911:27AMWoke up this morning feeling like I had knocked back a couple shots of lighter fluid that had somehow gotten ignited on the way down. Now am drinking warm, reconstituted dry milk with sugar. Still have terrible heartburn, too bad they don't sell tums in the vending machine. I have to teach like this? May wear snuggie, since my fluids are all depleted and I have chills. May call Dr. Van Helsing. I hereby file my official request to have my birthday moved back one day. Monday, November 2, 200910:21AMEpic Muhammad Movie in Pipeline. This is such a good idea. Do you know what one of the most blasphemous and sacrilegious things you can do in Islam is? Depict the prophet Muhammad in a picture. Double that if you're depicting him in a film. That's like, making a porno of Jesus double-teaming his mom with John the Baptist and sending an advance copy to the Vatican. In 1500. This will not "bridge cultures." This will have some hothead issue a fatwa against Barrie Osborne and he can hang out with Salman Rushdie. 1:11AM
Friday, October 23, 20091:25AMSo the new Boy and his Blob game on the Wii is every bit as amazing as the original on NES, perhaps even moreso because the controls don't suck shit and the boy doesn't usually randomly fall through solid space and disappear. It also is one of those rare games on the Wii that proves just what the system is capable of, because the game itself LOOKS beautiful. I wish there was an art book, if you know what I mean. The best part is that you can press a button and make the boy hug the blob and go "mmmmm." It serves no purpose. Except to be cute. And it's REALLY cute. I really want my own blob. Wednesday, October 14, 200910:34AMOnion Video: Advocacy Group Decries Peta's Treatment of Women. Saturday, October 10, 200911:34AMI like how, despite the outpourings of congratulations and acknowleddgements from all around the world, people in his own country are saying that Obama's Nobel Prize is "undeserved," "premature," or only due to his "star power." My favorite one is that he "hasn't done anything" which isn't something that the Republicans really even were talking about until that Saturday Night Live skit. Hasn't done anything besides, you know, making the rest of the world begin to think that maybe we Americans might be ok after 8 years of isolation, invading other countries at a whim, and insulting the rest of the world over any small thing because they don't understand America's right to protect its freedom. And other anti-social and anti-diplomatic things. Friday, October 9, 20095:50PMPeople are COMPLAINING because the moon impact wasn't EXCITING? OH NOES SCIENCE IS BORING, WHAT A SURPRISE, LET'S WATCH CSI BECAUSE IT HAS REAL SCIENCE, THE KIND THAT IS FLASHY AND GLOWY. Well gee, I guess they should have BOMBED the moon instead. Or, as an AP article suggested, they should have hired Steven Spielberg to oversee the project. Wednesday, October 7, 20095:25PMI just got a loaf of "fresh-baked" bread that said "All Natural! No artificial ingredients or preservatives!" in a big green sticker on the front. I turn it over, and it has normal ingredients like water, flour, salt, but then I get down to "diacetyl tartaric esters of mono- and diglycerides" and begin to seriously wonder what their definition of "artificial" is. Like is natural just something that can exist in this world without the use of black magic to sustain it? On the wikipedia page for that chemical it says "the exact mechanism is not well understood" for how the stuff actually works in baking. So I'm wondering whether MY definition of "natural" above even holds. Friday, September 18, 200910:38AMIt sounds like the guy next door is listening to a CD titled "popular rumbles from around the world." Wednesday, September 16, 20099:29PMWait del Potro beat Federer? hahahaha. I just happened to see the match where he SMEARED Nadal and wondered if it was a fluke. Monday, September 14, 2009Friday, September 11, 200912:06PM
Thursday, September 10, 2009Thursday, September 3, 200912:21PM - rantI like how a lot of tech companies like to advertise their new products with mostly meaningless buzzwords to try to hype their new products like "using all-new proprietary technology." All that tells me is that no one can fix it if it breaks and you have to buy another one from the same company. Great. It's even better when the product in question is like, 60 dollar headphones. Navigate: (Previous 20 entries) |
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