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Point and laugh at drunk Wretched hive of scum and villany!
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 |
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Dear LJ, I know we've been together a long time. But I realize we have not talked in a long time. I might as well tell you I've been seeing another social networking site. I don't think I need to tell you which one it is. You shouldn't feel bad about it though, because I'm sure I'll leave that one too when another one gets popular. You're just a little too constricting, you are a little archaic, and I feel I've grown as a person. Plus, you make it hard to deal with complicated friendships, especially ones where I don't want to hear 30 updates a day on how aliens have been talking to them. I know you have all the 15 year olds in the world that have finally left myspace, but I'm almost 35 now, I suppose I should grow up as well. Anyway, here is hoping that the people I like to read, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} destruct and voidness for instance, get with the program and join me in leaving you. If they drop me a mail at my username at gmail.com, I'll be happy to help them. And I'll always keep my permanent account of course, and we'll always have Paris.Goodbye. Love, ...gonzo out (2001-03-22 to 2009-03-20, signing off) |
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| Thursday, March 19th, 2009 |
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Okay, someone explain this to me. http://www.eveonline.com/careerguid Why am I in here. Seriously. I know I'm good at what I do, but why am I in here?!? I'm not eve famous like many of the others in here. And in the combat section, no less. heh Wacky stuff. |
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Couple other people I know took this, and they didn't agree. I do agree in this case though.
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| Thursday, January 1st, 2009 |
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So, another year passes. Nothing super eventful, I guess. Got a new picture of myself out of the deal at least. `8r) Hope everyone is doing well. |
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| Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 |
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| Monday, October 27th, 2008 |
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How you doing? I'm up thinking about pie. Poll #1285912 Pie Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23 Pie or Cake?
View Answers Pie! What, are you crazy? Cake, because I'm a disgusting individual. Bacon, but I'll take pie if you got it. I hate pie and all those that like it. What is your favorite single type of pie? Keep it short, I don't have time to read a book on pie, though I would. It's funny how the phrasing of this question might influences people's ability to like pie suddenly. Especially with the follow up. But I do like me some pie. |
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| Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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I've been seeing the secret meme or mystery meme a lot. I pretty much don't like secrets in front of people. So google, find this, people are searching for it. Feel free to review, in case you were named. 1. There are 30 questions. 2. Next to each number, write only the name of the person who fits. 3. Answer one question with one name. 4. Don't tell the questions to anyone who isn't doing the meme. 1. Someone who seems to have a lot of close friends. 2. Someone you've known for a long time. 3. Someone you'd like to trade places with. 4. Someone who seems likely to be a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 5. Someone who seems like a chatterbox. 6. Someone who seems to have a lot of wild ideas / fantasies. 7. Someone who seems like they were popular at school 8. Someone you think you would have been close to if you went to school together 9. Someone you want to stay up all night talking to. 10. Someone who can look after children. 11. Someone who seems to fall in love a lot. 12. A beauty. 13. Someone who seems like a celebrity. 14. Someone who is girly / manly. 15. Someone you want to dress up as the opposite gender. 16. Someone grown-up. 17. Someone childlike. 18. Someone who is like a princess / prince. 19. Someone who seems capable. 20. Someone who has a unique view on life. 21. Someone S-type. 22. Someone M-type. 23. Someone you think of as your boss. 24. Someone who would kill you if you got on their bad side. 25. Someone who seems good at seduction 26. Someone you think you could seduce. 27. Someone who loves with all their heart. 28. Someone you want to see in cosplay. 29. Someone you seriously want to go on a date with 30. A message to all the above people. |
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| Sunday, September 7th, 2008 |
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Blatantly stolen from destruct. http://foodproof.com/blogs/view/post/10 ( I'm not doing so bad ) So, I've eaten 68 out of 100, with only like 5 things not on the future menu? not bad. heh |
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| Thursday, July 24th, 2008 |
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So, the cat is out of the bag. The DNS theoretical flaw is now real, with exploit code written. It currently takes a couple minutes, but it can be changed to take a few seconds. It has to do with sloppy reception of RR records really. I wrote a bit of code today to try to get it accept an alternate address, and I came pretty close. But not bad for 5 minutes in perl. Just had to get the tuning a little tigheter. And that was just based off what leaked earlier today. Some guy broke it wide open though. Anyway, long and short: Patch. If you have updates on desktops, install them. If you have updates on your NAT device, install them. If you have updates on your servers, get them in. DNS is the start of trust within some parts of the modern web, and with the right ripple attack, we're looking at a worm that could exploit the crap out of a ton of machines. Convince a bunch of machines they're microsoft.com, push some code automatically, wheeeeee... INSTALL YOUR UPDATES! |
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| Thursday, June 19th, 2008 |
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Fine. I joined facebook. whatever. Yeah it's 1:30 am. They had a movie thing and I'm weak. If you can spell my last name, you can find me. heh |
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| Thursday, May 1st, 2008 |
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| I should call in GTA today. Again. | ||
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| Monday, April 28th, 2008 |
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What has two thumbs and is on vacation for a video game? This guy. *points at himself* GTA IV, you better be in stores tomorrow... |
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| Sunday, April 27th, 2008 |
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Hooray, it's nearly upon us! Some reviews are in as well and apparently the ps3 version is a bit better, with less load times, less pop-ins, and better anti-aliasing. (I am having a lot of problems with pop-ins with Mass Effect on the 360 for instance.) So, there's a multiplayer function. Does anyone else even have a xbox 360 or ps3 besides kam? I need to know who would help me explore! Two more days, dammit! Update: The DLC is a fair point, I guess, but I'm expecting downloadable content on the PS3 version as well. The problem is that many people are tied to one version or the other because of their fanboyness, so it's hard to find an unbiased review really. I know one person who has an xbox 360, and he's a douchebag and won't give me his gamer code. (Oh, he gave me his friend's gamer code for some stupid reason.) He pirated the game anyway. So, I'm stuck with kam on the PS3. |
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| Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 |
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Please, everyone, if you have seen a Uwe Boll movie, and disapproved, please sign this petition. The dude has said that if it gets a million signatures, he'll stop. He makes bad movies, and not even the good kind like Manos: Hands of Fate. Luckily, Blizzard turn him down on a World of Warcraft movie. Anyway, please please sign this. Before he ruins a video game I love. |
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| Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 |
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| Okay Pat sent me this amazingly edited video. It is my new standard. | ||
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So, Jess and I have been watching a lot of Futurama. In fact, we watched Bender's Big Score off of Comedy Central last night. First, a joke from the movie: A man loses his head in a terrible accident. A friendly alien species finds him, and reattaches his head. But upon standing up, the guy looks down and realizes his own naked ass is in the front now. He cries: "You idiot! Its on backwards!" They respond: "Well if you don't like it, why is your tail wagging?" I came to the realization that I can map Futurama to my life, to a degree. Kam is Fry, cause everyone likes him and is obviously one of the main characters. I'm Bender, cause I'm kind of an asshole at times, even though I don't commit the cool crime of robbery, or smoke, or drink as much. And more appropriately, the Fry character likes me dispite these obvious shortcomings I have. heh Chuckie could be Zapf Brannigan or Kif, because obviously Laina is Amy. Matt, being the oldest, is most likely The Professor. I'm not sure who Jess is, as I suppose Louise has to be Leela. So, which character are ya? |
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| Sunday, March 16th, 2008 |
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So, Jess has been watching this show called America's Best Dance Crew. I'm going to avoid linking to corporate entities that don't need my support in this entry, if possible. Except for myspace, where it's more research than promotion. heh I'm sure I have some kind of virus after touching so much myspace. I'm good at research. There is more here, but my brain is hurting from bad myspace pages. (Only horrible one linked here is the 'fan site' one, which has MTV's fingerprints really.) There are two teams in there, Kaba Modern and Jabbawockeez, that Jess and I picked out to be the best early on. (I have been watching the show, sadly.) BTW, she also liked BreakSk8, but they have several crews, and this just is their best, but jess can show her research if she wants. I started poking around, and it seems they are both offshoots of Kababayan, which is a Filipino club at University of California, Irvine (UCI). Kaba Modern is a direct offshoot it appears, at least according to their Myspace FAQ. Which is kind of funny because none of them are actually Filipino. Anyway, it seems that JWZ (their shorthand for Jabbawockeez) is also related. Apparently, the guy who runs the JWZ website also has links to this club, and to several of it's members. And Kevin Brewer's myspace also has links to the other members of the real, non-corporate JWZ myspace page, versus the very overstylized corporate JWZ fan site. (The real is set private, while the corporate one is public of course.) Others are out there, like Ben Chung, aka B-Tek and some others, of course set private due to the fame. However, I found something else on YouTube where Boogiezone, which seems to be an organization with a TON of history per page, helped me piece it together, as best I understand it anyway. You can find individual videos of Ben Chung aka B-Tek Solo and then links to other ones like a Kevin Brewer's solo. There are tons of details on these pages, which lead to me pictures on myspace helping solidify the history of JWZ before they were JWZ. It seems to me that there was originally just the university club, it had a dance off shoot. In fact, these guys might have been involved with the Kaba Modern group, at least some of them, and Ben Chung even choreographed for Kaba Modern at one point. Apparently people were involved in it, and liked dancing, so they kept dancing out of school. This community class might have been the start of it. They formed into a collective known as Family Royale. They took some of the members of that and made JWZ. Then they took the best of those, which were limited to between five and seven members, and they started dancing in competitions like America's Got Talent and America's Best Dance Crew. However, these guys are all older, in the 26-31 range, while the Kaba Modern crew is in the 20-24 range. Hence, I say that Jabbawockeez is the graduate class of the undergrad version of Kaba Modern. No disrespect for either crew, I think they're great, I just think it's funny that what I think of the top two crews have such a shared history. |
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| Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 |
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Okay, Big Wily Style posted something that linked to an article on Dungeons and Dragons leads to all things geek. It had a diagram. I like diagrams. So I filled it out. ( How did you 'fill it out', gonzo? ) I made a XCF if anyone has GIMP and is feeling ambitious. But I think it's an exercise for the reader to split it into front/background, and then draw around the edges to get your picture. heh |
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| Monday, March 3rd, 2008 |
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So, I didn't even buy the last NIN album. I was kinda 'eh' about it. But, Gonzo, you have NIN in your nickname? Yeah, I wasn't happy with the overproduced nature of NIN music at the time. Anyway, he has a new album out, after escaping his RIAA supported masters last year. It's 4 discs called Ghosts I-IV. - Free for Ghosts I, 9 songs download available in 320 Kbps mp3 format, from his website or this fast torrent. (He pre-seeded some torrent sites) - $5 for Ghosts I thru IV, all 36 songs they dide, in 320 Kbps mp3 from the NIN ghost website - $10 for pre-order of the double cd made version, with immediate access to all 36 song download. - $75 for pre-order double cd version, plus wav files of individual components for garagebanding and such, plus a blue ray version, and some other stu ff. - $300 for pre-order of a crazy package of vinyl and weird packaging, signed, etc. only 2500 of them, but I'm not that dumb. really. I'm gonna go with the double cd version I suppose. I've listened to about 6 songs so far. They were all made in 10 weeks with him and a small group. The songs don't have names, they have numbers. They don't seem to have any lyrics, which I miss already. Right now, they seem more in line with some of his Quake songs he made, some are rather sparse. But they're kinda all over the place. I just wish he had done a normal full cd release on the free side cause I hate burning short cd's. Now, the question, if he's free of his music overlords, will his songs get airplay? Most likely nothing on this record, that I've heard so far. |
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| Friday, February 22nd, 2008 |
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I am hating on New York even more now. This weekend, we were going there with friends. At least, at 5 am we were. At about 7:30 am, our 8 am flight was canceled. In fact, all New York flights were canceled. It seems that 4 inches of snow is too much for them. Oh wah wah wah... I was originally going to hate on New York, but I guess I can hate on it from afar. `8r) Luckily, I think we got full refunds for everything we had planned. So, we've been on 'vacation' in the western burbs now. heh We spent a couple hours at Woodfield Mall, which is dangerous cause we spent money. Well, I didn't, but other people did. `8r) So, what should be we do tomorrow? I think another 6 hour shift at the airport wouldn't be fun. PS. Do not take a trip with this great video in your head. |
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