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Jul. 27th, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
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After taking a 'What color is your lightsaber?' quiz on Facebook, I realised...
It's rather depressing how the Jedi get this vast rainbow of colors and the Sith only get red, isn't it? I mean, graduation day must be pretty boring:
Sith Master: Alright, now, what is your personality style, so that I may determine your lightsaber blade color?
Sith Initiate 1: Right. Well, I'm a bit of a berzerker, really, always flying off the handle and going into a murderous rage, leaving nothing in my wake but random limbs strewn here and there, that sort of thing.
SM: Hmm... Good, good. You shall have... red. Because of your burning anger and violent tendencies.
SI 1: Yes, my master.
SM: And you? What specific brand of Evil do you do?
SI 2: Oh, well, I'm more of a manipulator, really. I get in real close with others, persuade them into doing my bidding by giving them the illusion of free will, and manipulate them into fighting my battles for me. In combat I favor quick, precise strikes to an opponent's weak points, so as to maximise his pain before delivering the final blow.
SM: Hmmmm... Alright, you shall have... red.
SI 2: What? Red? But you gave the other guy red! My brand of evil is worlds different than his! Can't I have another color? A jaundiced yellow? A dark and forboding violet? A malevolent chartreuse?
SM: Nope. Sorry. You're evil, so you get red. Next!
SI 2: But-
SM: NEXT!
SI 2: <Storms off, grumbling>
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(15:13:58)Me: dtoid says the new fable dlc sucks.
(15:14:27) Vix: o rly?
(15:14:37) Me: http://www.destructoid.com/review-fable-ii-see-the-future-dlc-131640.phtml
(15:15:52) Me: i liked knothole, to an extent, because i hadn't already beaten the game by the point i played it, so it just felt like an add-on quest. i imagine playing the dlc after beating the game feels more pointless.
(15:19:04) Vix: I'll probably get it anyway, as many of the commenters say
(15:19:11) Me: definitely.
(15:20:03) Me: i hear it expands a bit on the fortune teller. i didn't get a good feeling from her at the ending.
(15:21:01) Vix: :nod:
(15:21:22) Me: wish i played 1 though just so i knew the story.
(15:21:32) Me: but i can't play it without punching villagers.
(15:22:58) Vix: :snicker: get it on pc
(15:23:03) Vix: then you can cheat
(15:23:10) Me: i have it on both, actually.
(15:23:38) Me: i got it on sale one week on originals for download.
(15:25:22) Vix: and you haven't beat it?
(15:25:35) Me: haven't *played* it.
(15:25:47) Me: i got to the burning down the town bit.
(15:26:05) Me: quit in the guild when i kept beating up my BFF.
(15:26:55) Vix: >.>
(15:29:05) Me: i can't help it! i'm a maladjusted orphan! i lash out at the ones i love the most because i'm afraid they'll leave me!
(15:29:15) Me: also it's just fun to hit NPCs.
(15:34:45) Vix: :P
(15:39:08) Me: this is why i often can't play western rpgs without cheating.
i either kill random people, get attacked by people by saying the wrong thing and then have to slaughter an entire town (they ALL turn on me just because farmer joe didn't like what i said about his daughter and i killed him in self-defense), or get attacked by people because i stole their stuff (it was laying out RIGHT THERE! you should lock your house if you don't want me taking it. besides, the japanese games let me take all kinds of stuff!)
(15:39:41) Vix: :shakehead:
(15:39:48) Me: what?
(15:42:39) Vix: one of the properties of a game is that there are rules. If you don't adhere to the rules, the game punishes you.
(15:43:23) Me: pffft. whu-evah. ah do what ah waunt!
(15:43:35) Vix: :P
(15:44:22) Me: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153246
(15:44:40) Vix: I'm familiar
(15:44:59) Me: fpppt.
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Mar. 22nd, 2009 @ 09:07 pm
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Fable 2:
(20:36:55) skadus: vix joined my game as a male (you don't play as you in multiplayer if you're a guest, you're a henchman of the host's character). he knocked up one of my wives. :/
(20:37:22) skadus: (yes, wives. i've got hos in different area codes)
(20:37:40) Kit Blake: Then it's technically not cheating
(20:37:53) Kit Blake: if it's different area codes
(20:39:23) skadus: actually, in bowerstone i have a wife in the town square and a husband in old town. the husband was just so i could have a kid before a plot point.
i actually got a blackmail letter and had to pay 2k gold because i had 5 spouses (speeces?).
(20:40:12) Kit Blake: What would have happened if you didn't pay?
(20:40:48) skadus: i think they tell them and you get divorced or something.
(20:40:58) Kit Blake: oh
(20:41:07) Kit Blake: You have some asshole spouses then
(20:41:27) skadus: well, i am a bigamist, you know.
(20:41:38) Kit Blake: Well that's true
(20:44:26) skadus: gypsy wife is the best, followed by bowerstone wife.
(20:44:43) Kit Blake: too bad you can't have threesomes
(20:44:49) skadus: you can.
(20:44:57) skadus: i got an achievement for it.
(20:44:59) Kit Blake: x_x
(20:45:01) skadus: and an angry wife.
(20:45:05) Kit Blake: YOU'RE SICK!
(20:45:08) skadus: XD
(20:46:58) skadus: "The Swinger: You went to bed with more than one person and... Well, why do you think we blacked out the screen? (5 Points)"
(20:47:13) Kit Blake: x_x
(20:47:18) skadus: what?
(20:47:23) Kit Blake: That's hilarious
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[Tried to post this through ping.fm, and it said it posted, but it didn't, so I'm doing it here. Pretty ranty. Mostly letting off steam.]
Cat kept me up most of the night crying outside because after three days boarded at the vet he thinks he's back to being an indoor cat and hates being outside. Woke up at 6 from the cat crying again, 30-40 minutes before I usually get up, to hear a voicemail beep. It's the VP of Drilling. 'The server's down' (which could mean anything from 'the DSL modem needs to be rebooted' to 'the Small Business Server's RAID melted'). I Come out as fast as I can. Turns out the wall outlet had an outlet multiplier on it that burned out, which turned off the power to everything in the room, because we had a billion things plugged into it. Plug in a newer surge protector, flip a bunch of on/off switches, everything's fine again.
Then I decide that that was too close, we really need to jump on this backup thing that the new IT company has been not-doing-anything-about for the last 3 or 4 weeks. I email the net admin guy, give him my take on the situation, get an email back 2 or 3 hours later with 'yeah, you might want to buy two 2TB drives, because the current drive set you have just doesn't work.' Which is amazing, because *I said that a fricking month ago* and everybody said to hold off and not buy any new equipment because we were going to have a completely different setup soon.
So I went to Fry's during lunch, bought the drives (and Street Fighter 4), and the net admin guy's setting it up now, finally.
So now, in addition to probably getting to explain why I'm expensing $400 on hard drives I'll get to explain why it's taken a month from 'WTF, why haven't you been doing off-site backups?' to 'oh, yeah, we need a new set of hard drives to get it working.'
Because instead of doing *their* job, I was doing *my* job.
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me: i've come up with the perfect restaurant.
eric: oh yeah?
me: here goes...
pancakes. and whiskey.
eric: just like breakfast with the parents
me: yes.
but none of that ihop shit. so rooty-tooty stuff, no fancy 'waffles' or 'french toast' or 'napkins'. just plan old flapjacks with maple syrup.
eric: it'd be like magnolia's with a bar, and no hippies
me: NO HIPPIES
and maybe cigars in one area. but no hippies. ever.
eric: emo kids too, while you're excluding people
me: emo kids can't handle anything harder than wine coolers and eggos anyway.
eric: no without crying about it
*not
me: that's why wine coolers are loaded with sodium. disguises the taste of tears.
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Yeah... dug out the camera this afternoon when I got home.
Aug. 24th, 2006 @ 07:37 pm
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Look at me! I'm Doctor Zoidberg, homeowner!
(Just closed yesterday (5/24) - more recent pics as I take them)
May. 25th, 2006 @ 07:06 pm
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So I was opening my easter egg cookie I got from the grocery store tonight... and I saw this little symbol on the back, where the ingredients were listed. A little stylised 'KSA' in the bottom right, that kinda looked like the markings on the dreidels they'd hand out in school when I was a kid, during the 'Hannukah (sp) Awareness 5 minutes' thing they'd do around Christmas time.
Poked around a little bit on Wikipedia and found a similar symbol here next to "Kosher Supervision of America".
Apparently my easter egg cookie is kosher. Who knew?
Apr. 17th, 2006 @ 09:29 pm
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Big day. :)
Big sale at work finalised today, so we had a semi-fancy lunch at the Greenspoint Club... and left around 3 or 4 to go downtown for drinks at the State Bar. Fun. :)
Was also my first time driving myself downtown and parking in a parking garage. Traffic was light, so it wasn't so bad. A few problems here and there but no major freakouts. Need to remind myself next time to get return directions, because I forgot that most of downtown is one-way streets. Duh.
Also got a bonus today. Bigbig bonus. Down payment on my house bonus. So that's good too. It was such a big shock that it took me a few minutes to calm back down.
Lousy post. Just figured I'd share before bed. :)
Jan. 31st, 2006 @ 11:47 pm
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So last night i opened all my boxes of hot pockets and threw the individual hot pockets into a plastic grocery bag... And tonight, when I went to grab a couple for dinner, I went ''kay... this is pepperoni... and this one's turkey and broccoli.' (bearing in mind the individual ones don't say what they are on them)... And I was right. Heh.
Oct. 26th, 2005 @ 07:59 pm
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Mission accomplished! Mostly. only stuff that didn't fit in the laptop bag was my change of shirt, and a couple other things I brought because my ThinkGeek package came on Friday before I left and I wanted to check things out. All the stuff in the box I brought with me was 'extra' stuff I wouldn't normally bring with me, so the experiment worked.
So far everybody at the office that's seen my Flip-Flap thinks it's pretty cool. I love it. :)
One thing I never got done this weekend (or even the previous) was get a haircut. Oscar, my barber, doesn't work Sundays, and Saturdays I wind up sleeping in til god-knows-when, so I don't get a chance to call for an appointment. I'm getting really shaggy now and I'm trying in vain to hide it by Saturday. Yersterday and today I tried using hair gel to slick it back. Yesterday was too little and the gel evaporated. Today it was too much and my hair looked really greasy. Hopefully I'll find a happy medium tomorrow morning, and Mom won't attack me with an electric dog groomer when I head to my parents' Friday night.
Movies - Batman was kick ass, and I hope Christopher Nolan keeps it up. I also hope they try to cast Crispin Glover as the Joker. Hitchhiker's Guide was good... but not what I imagined from the book. It was neat that the first half of the movie was almost exactly like the TV series, down to the sets. And the Family Guy movie... eh. Three good episodes. That's all I can really say. This weekend I'm getting Eternal Sunshine, A Knight's Tale, and The Tick (have they made the cartoon DVD yet? :/ ).
I still haven't played Katamari 2 yet... Hopefully I'll get the PS2 hooked up this weekend.
Got a flier on my door tonight for a Halloween party hosted by the apartment people. Not sure if I wanna go... Saturday at 7...
Oct. 25th, 2005 @ 08:07 pm
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Woo new laptop bag.
After many problems with packages and not being home til 6 ands the front office closing at 6 I finally have my lew laptop bag, Katamari Damacy 2, and some new books.
Laptop bag is the same as the IT guy's at work, but mine's blue (realised after I got it that it matches my laptop lid... odd I didn't notice until now). I wanted red, but the only three colors were blue, black, and vomit brown. The only reason I got a similar bag was it was the largest one I could find. 2400 cubic inches is pretty sweet. My mission this weekend is to go to my parents' (dogsitting while they're in Vegas) and bring laptop, PS2, DVD burner, and a change of clothes without needing more than one bag. I enjoy having everything in one spot.
Finished "If Chins Could Kill" last night so I could start on "The Tao of Pooh" in my increasingly long list of books to read. Tao of Pooh is neat so far.
Right now, though, I'm waiting on the mail to come. Batman came this week from Netflix, and Hitchhiker's Guide is finally coming today (by the way, Nightmare Before Christmas was great, and I remembered more than I thought I did), with my birthday stuff I ordered from ThinkGeek this week.
(Yes, I am a consumer whore. I wasn't intending to brag about any of that, I was just excited.)
Oct. 21st, 2005 @ 04:38 pm
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Another weekend, another UT football game, another couple days dog-sitting.
Luckily, this time my grandmother isn't with my parents, so I just have the three dogs.
Three dogs that apparently don't know what a tennis ball is for. I found one in the front flowerbed when I went to get the mail, so I took it out back. A few minutes of chasing and catching and running away and dropping the ball for me to walk a couple yards to pick up and start all over again, Lucy went and dropped it in the flowerbed in the back yard. So much for playing fetch. Upside is, I finally found Lucy's collar, and actually managed to fit it around her fat neck.
Lucy and Ethel were in the same litter, but Lucy is just... a pig, almost. She eats any food she comes across and often lays down with her head in the bowl, eating. We actually had to get two smaller bowls so that Ethel could actually get some food too. Ethel is a pretty normal size, a little on the skinny side, whereas Lucy... you can barely pick her up. She runs like a muppet, too. Love her to death, but.. sheesh.
Anyway, saw Boondock Saints today. I really liked it. Willem Dafoe in drag was a little creepy, and the camera angle and lighting in the confession booth made his face very creepy, but it was a fun action movie. I also get a kick out of seeing Billy Connolly in random cameo roles. I used to really like him on Head of the Class.
After that, I mulled over getting a haircut (verdict: too lazy to go out), watched Bubble Boy on Comedy Cental (funny, but... odd)... ordered a pizza to come at 8 (Pizza Hut's garlic parmesan chicken wings rock, by the way)... and now I'm getting ready to watch The Count of Monte Cristo. I'm hoping for 130 minutes it's going to be good. [EDIT: Great movie! Best I've seen in awhile!]
My other Netflix movie this week is Nightmare Before Christmas. No, I haven't seen it before. At least not in its entirety.
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Stop looking at me like that.
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No, really, I mean it.
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C'mon, I'm watching it this week, aren't I?
Oct. 15th, 2005 @ 06:18 pm
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I've been told I need to update more. So... I'm trying to now.
Spent the weekend dog-sitting while Mom and Dad were in Dallas for the UT/OU game. My grandmother went with them (my aunt lives in Dallas), So rather than the usual three dogs I had four. 2 cocker spaniels, a german shorthair pointer, and... something. Lab mixed with something else, I think.
Dear God, what a nightmare.
Ever hear that old riddle about the farmer who needs to move his stuff across the river? And he has a boat only big enough to hold himself and one other thing and he has a fox, a chicken, and a bag of corn?
Certain dogs in certain places and the added variable of food bowls determined randomly whether there would or wouldn't be a fight at any given time. I was glad for Sunday afternoon to roll around.
I got to watch quite a few movies while I was there, catching up on Netflix stuff.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was pretty good. I'm really getting to like Guy Ritchie. I don't normally like crime movies, but his just have a certain pacing and humor that I like.
Ghost World... was okay. Better than the comic, at least. And Thora Birch... unf. So hot. Indie movies tend to be outside the traditional narrative form... which for some reason makes the plot meander to the point where you have no idea where you are in the story until the credits start rolling. Which, for some reason, really bugs me.
Dark City was one of those movies I had forever on VHS but never got around to watching (it came out.. when? '96? [EDIT: 1998, according to Netflix. Not too far off, I guess]). And really, it wasn't too bad. Neat setting and visuals, kind of a Matrix-meets-Hellraiser kind of thing.
Let's see... what else?
Saw a bit of Pi. It was... odd. The fact that it had math and codes and stuff in it was neat. I didn't see much of it (missed the first 10-15 minutes and I had it on in the background)... but I think I'd have to be in the right mood to see the rest of it.
And last night, I saw a MST3K DVD of a bunch of shorts. Like the old instructional films from the 40s and 50s. It was pretty funny. The good thing about the shorts is, unlike Manos: The Hands of Fate, if the movie is so horrible that even MST3K can't save it, you can take solace in the fact that the film isn't that long.
Had today off, so that was nice. Didn't do a whole lot, and that's how I likes my days off. I did manage to clean up my hard drive a bit, and i'm about one DVD burn away from having enough free space to finally defrag. Maybe I'll finally run faster.
Still feel awkward using Deepest Sender. Still upset that I can't find a plugin for Gaim. But I'll just have to deal with it.
Oct. 10th, 2005 @ 10:17 pm
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Yay! Deepest Sender is fixed!
Now, if I could just get somebody to make an LJ plugin for Gaim, I'd be even better off.
Oct. 4th, 2005 @ 04:15 pm
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Spent all day reading Fark threads on New Orleans instead of working. I'm worried, exhausted, and just generally feeling bad. I don't know if I really want to let out what I'm feeling about the whole thing. Mostly because it's a bunch of irrational thoughts brought out from Fark's usual fearmongering.
Anyway... this made me feel a little better for some reason.
Sep. 1st, 2005 @ 06:29 pm
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So Friday I get a notice saying that today (Monday) they're going around fixing those breaker electrical outlets (like the kind you plug a hair dryer into) in the individual units, and that a maintenence guy is going around with the electrician.
First thing I think is 'oh, boy, two people are going to clean me out.'
No place to hide my movies and stuff... so I just put them on my bookshelves and crossed my fingers.
And I hid the katana in my bedroom since it looks a bit... out of place on the bar in my kitchen. Never know how apartment people will take that stuff.
I hate being paranoid. Gonna be stewing on this all day.
May. 23rd, 2005 @ 09:23 am
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Linked to from a Fark comment...
Am I crazy in thinking Paris Hilton looks better before plastic surgery than after?
I mean... the 'before' picture makes her look almost human. If one hadn't heard about the sex tape thing, one might think the whole bitchy-debutante-thing was an act.
May. 15th, 2005 @ 01:14 pm
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After all the hoopla over RealID, and seriously considering becoming a dues-paying member of the LP today, I saw this test in K's OKCupid profile...
The Moderate
Okay! You scored 69! |
You are a moderate. Not EVERYTHING conservatives do annoys you, but
some things get under your skin. You're not entirely comfortable with
liberals, but there are some issues you'll support them on. You like to
think of yourself as an independant thinker and you refuse to just vote
down the party line!
You hesitate before leaping into things, but when you get into them,
you're quite passionate! |  |
My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 76% on rightness |
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I like these tests... but one thing I've noticed about me that never gets reflected on tests is the fact that my personal standards/opinions/ideals/whatever are not always in line with my political views. Someone needs to make a test where each question is like "Do you agree/disagree with X?" followed by "Do you think the government should enforce this?"
I mean... for example...
::thinks of a non-threatening example::
I'm not a big fan of drugs.
I've known a few people who smoked pot, liked a very small subset of them (though something could be said about those people's personalities, not just their intoxication habits). I don't like the culture, I don't like some of the things it makes people do, and I don't like the uncomfortable paranoid I-hope-the-cops-don't-show-up feeling when I'm at a party or something where there's smoking. That's just how I am. I don't like it, won't make me hate you if you do it, but you may be a little lower on the respect-you-meter because of it.
BUT! I don't really see why it's illegal. You can Google all the different pro-legalising stances out there, and economically and criminally I will likely agree with them.
It's a personal choice, and as long as it doesn't endanger anyone else, I could care less if someone uses it.
That's sort of the point I'm trying to make. If you make a test (this one had a few similar questions, mostly concerning topics like abortion), "Do you like pot?" is a very loaded question. Do I like pot? No. Do I think the government should criminalise it as something worse than alcohol or tobacco? No. Two subjects, two instances. One question doesn't reflect my opinion on the subject, and that one question skews my profile to the right when in actuality it's more neutral or left. Get it?
I realise it's a bit stupid to criticise online quizzes. But I've had that in the back of my mind for awhile now. :) I use this for catharsis, remember?
May. 11th, 2005 @ 07:21 pm
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