January 2009 Archives
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND
gaaaaaaaaaad I can’t stop laughing. I couldn’t watch the proceedings, but I was keeping up with the lulz in this thread.
Also:
“It’s somewhat cowardly that he won’t take questions,” said Senator Dan Cronin, a Republican. “If he had something to say, he should have come down here like a man and faced the music.”
I almost agree, except Sen. Cronin needs to replace that “somewhat” with “hella.”
Shooper Tuesday Thread Go
So I have an imageboard now, kind of a smaller friendlier version of that other imageboard, and I thought I might try something: Shooper Tuesday.
Well, not much else fun happens on the Intarwebs on Tuesday, why not throw out a quick and silly Photoshop Phriday-ish challenge post every week?
There are no winners. There are no prizes except the adoration of the public and maybe a cat macro of approval. You can post anonymously if you like. It is all in good fun.
Fair warning: although thread is currently perfectly work safe and in all likelihood will remain so, DDChan /b/ is (as is only right and proper for a /b/ board) a NSFW-friendly board and there is a chance that some boobs or something might pop up on there.
The last free-roaming follicle colony in North America continues to bring epic lulz
Man, every time I say to myself “you know, this Blagojevich thing could not possibly get any more hilarious…”
I knew I was forgetting something
Did I mention that I finished fixing Chao Patties? Because I finished fixing Chao Patties. I could have sworn I’d mentioned it, but I see no such post.
There’s even some new crap on it, like some more freebies and a little tiny bit of fic set in the same sci-fi/thinly veiled RPS universe as my last SS*BB story.
In other news…
OMG THAR MIGHT BE LEAD IN BUKS SO B& TEH KIDZ FRUM TEH LIBERRY.
Seriously. Seriously. What in the actual fuckety fucking fuck is that?
uggggggggh
ugggggggh I have to go do some laundry today
but ugggggggggh I don’t want to get out of my chair
uggggggggggggggggggh
Comcrap.
Well, it turns out ironhand@lj was right–that “basic cable” package I was ogling? When you first click the “channel listing” thingy on the Comcast site, it shows you a very attractive list of channels. But when you click for the printable version, it shows you a completely different fucking list. Which is local channels only. I sent a “WTF?” e-mail to Comcast, their entire reply was the list of local channels.
What they call “Standard cable,” which includes the channels I want, jumps way the hell up to almost $50 a month. Not only is that way outside of my shitty service tolerance limits, it’s just too fucking expensive period.
Well, I guess I’ll just keep watching my fake news at work and my Mythbusters and such at Mom’s house.
On the DDR front, I has a new mat. It was not terribly expensive, it should work with Stepmania (though I haven’t tried it yet, I’ll need a USB extension first and I’d like to get whatever cable I need to feed the Black Beast’s video to my TV) and it’s a pretty decent mat. The only downside… whoever decided this thing should carry the “non-slip” descriptor is on fucking crack. It slips on my foam mats. It slips on carpet, though not as badly. It slips on my hard plastic mats, though at least it can be duct-taped down on those. I still want a RedOctane mat someday, but this will do until then and hey, now I can play with two mats. :D
I have officially graduated to Basic. I’m getting As on 4 and 5-foot songs, and the occasional full combo. 6-footers are hit-or-miss–I’m either getting As and Bs or crashing and burning entirely on them.
And I got Extreme last week. It seems like Beginner on Extreme is harder than Beginner on X–lots more jumps. Extreme has a lot of music I like, though.
Breaking news:
QUICK SOMEONE CHECK THE PRESIDENT FOR POWER RINGS, I HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE HE MAY BE A BLUE LANTERN.
…I’ve said too much *ninja vanish*
GOOD EVENING, NATION
HOW THE HELL ARE YA, FOLKS? I’M AWESOME. I SPENT ALL DAY WITH NPR IN MY EAR AND A HUGE GRIN ON MY FACE, THANKS.
I mentioned to Aunt Boss today that Dick Cheney looked exactly like Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life in his little wheelchair. I thought she was going to die laughing.
…you know, I think this may be the year I finally break down and get cable. I’ve been avoiding it for a couple of reasons–first, because I don’t like TV as background noise, I only have it on when I want to watch something specific, and there’s no sense paying for cable if I’m only going to watch a couple of shows on it. And second, my only option is Comcast, because the apartments won’t let us have dishes and AT&T still hasn’t gotten UVerse in this ‘hood–which kind of makes me go “eeh” because Comcast has some shitty fucking service, as my parents could tell you.
But man, it would be nice to watch my fake news at home as it airs and not have to wait until the next day and watch it over the Internets at work.
Ladies and gentlemen:
I present my new obsession.
I got this last weekend. It’s my first DDR game. Now I want to go to Gamestop and grab every single PS2 DDR game ever made.
I, uh, still pretty much suck at it–I’ve been playing at least two hours every day, three or four on days I haven’t had to work, and I’m just now getting comfortable with Basic level–and I kind of go “eeeh I dunno man” at anything higher than a 5 on the difficulty scale, at that. Which is still a lot more moving around than I’ve been doing, which is really why I got the damn game in the first place–I haven’t been very good about getting my ass up and moving around over the last few months and my jeans are getting a little tighter than I’d like again. Walking around the track at the park has gotten excruciatingly boring. So does every workout video I own after three or four times.
This is not getting boring. I actually can’t wait to get home so I can change my clothes, throw the mat down, and waste a few hours bopping around like an idiot. I, uh… I don’t know about playing in public yet, but as sure as I say that, a few years from now I’ll be found selling plasma and fighting bums for aluminum cans so I can scrounge up a few bucks to feed the DDR machine at Incredible Pizza or something…
Although I’ve figured out an excellent solution to the crappy standard mat not working worth a shit on carpet (I got some of those foam floor pads that lock together like puzzle pieces and put them under the mat and HOLY CRAP WHAT A DIFFERENCE, aside from the mat working much better, it’s a lot more comfortable), I’m still going order a better one probably this week.
And I kind of need one with a USB adapter anyway. And I kind of need some sort of TV-out cable to connect my computer to my nice TV. Because I might have kind of downloaded Stepmania. Five words: “The Device Has Been Modified.” Of course I’m going to have to edit that one to dumb it waaaaaaay down, as it seems to only have a WALL OF ARROWS expert level but still, Portal remixes on a DDR clone, how awesome is that?
