grindmonkeh

I've been at home sick for the last couple of days...goofing off a bit...watched Superbad and Headbangers Ball, then played through most of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Superbad was really funny...like a Slack-Pack take on American Pie. ("They literally stopped me from eating foods that were shaped like dicks. No hot dogs, no popsicles... You know how many foods are shaped like dicks? The BEST kinds.") Call of Duty 4 is pretty well done...a student worker let me borrow it to play through the single-player, so the free factor helps a lot. Even still...it's solid enough.

I felt great yesterday evening and had planned on going back to work today until Mason started horking last night. I woke up this morning at 5:20 and Bran said she felt like she was going to hork too, so I called in again today to stay home and help out.

We all know that Hollywood ran out of ideas over a decade ago, but get serious....f'ing Knight Rider....AGAIN? Doesn't anyone remember how bad that show was the first time? IT'S FROM THE 80'S SO PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOVE IT! (What about the awful attempts at a KITT revival that were tried in the 90's?!?!?) I SAID PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOVE IT!!! TRANFORMERS, GI JOE, NINJA TURTLES...WE'RE PANDERING TO A MARKET OF CONSUMERS RAISED ON THIS SHIT! Stop typing in all-caps. OKAY.

So I thought to myself, "what next...the f'ing A-Team?" And IMDB answered from afar. (PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOVE IT!)

Before we went to sleep, Bran and I watched a documentary called Dope Sick Love. I was sure that I was going to have nightmares about letting old gay men pay to fellate me so that I could buy something to shoot into my arm with a bent-needled syringe that I picked up from the floor of a public restroom. I was sure of it.

My mom bought us (Christmas present) a new mustang solo seat with a removable passenger pillion for the motorcycle. I'm dying to go for a ride, but the battery is dead like Elvis and only H-D would make a simple battery removeable so f'ing difficult.

GREAT SCOTT! Add that to my christmas list. And now to find a lead codpiece...

When I saw Rachel Ray on a television commercial last night the Muppet Show theme song tried to play in my head. I couldn't come up with it (age, alchohol, ginkgo biloba deficiency?) so I had to yagoohoogle it and post if for posterity.

From this post forth, Rachel Ray on the tele will successfully invoke the fitting mental accompaniment.

I'm making a Christmas list out so my wife will know what to get me. I'm tough to shop for. So far I've got this:

(Older PC games that I never got a chance to play that they're practically giving away now...)
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic - PC Game

Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines

Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth - PC Game

Thief 3 - Deadly Shadows - PC Game

Tribes Vengeance - PC Game

(magazines, star wars, etc.)
A GuitarWorld Magazine Subscription

A PC Gamer magazine subscription

The Orc King - R. A. Salvatore

Star Wars: Episodes I - III Slipcased Graphic Novel Set

The Star Wars Vault

Star Wars "Circus" posters


What's on your list? I like to know these things.

Here's an early gift for everyone.

(Edit: Doh...I left a list of songs/albums I was going to gather up at the to of this post. Deleted.)

They should have just skipped Spider-Man 3 and did this!!!!!!!

Le CLICK!

Sunday morning started hectically with a phone call at about 6-7am from Billy, a long-time friend of mine that I rarely see anymore.  Billy informed me that the police were looking for my brother, because his truck had been found totaled with blood on the interior.

Long story short - I was on the phone all morning with the police, my dad, and my brother's girlfriend.  Marc was at work in fine health and shocked at the news of his wayward truck.  He had stayed at his girlfriend's house on Saturday night and was driving his Bronco.    Someone stole his (relatively) new Dodge truck out of his driveway and was reportedly driving it 80 mph around the neighborhood before running the stop sign at a t-junction, barreling through the adjacent parking lot,  and driving completely through a counseling center building.  It looks like someone built a (drive-thru) garage on one end of it.  As I mentioned, the truck is totaled and whoever did it is hurt.  (That's a bit satisfying.  Leaking Thief...could be a band name.)

I'm expecting to read about it on the front page of our daily rag when I get home.  I could have a collection of newspaper clippings concerning my brother and his vehicles if only I had kept them.  My brother has the epitome of shit-luck...especially when it concerns vehicles.

Warped re-animated their servers.

That gives me an excuse to post this as well:

Retrocrush has some good stuff to help decide what movies to watch on Halloween...

Top 20 Zombie Movies

The 100 Scariest Movie Scenes

The 100 Greatest Horror Movie Performances

I have my first parent/teacher conference ever today.  Who is old?  That's right..I is old.

On another random note, I hate when web-editing programs junk out my code.  I use notepad all the time, and my boss found a program called Crimson Editor which is basically notepad with integrated ftp access to your stuff.  He gave it to me knowing that I would be thrilled with it.  The initial problem I found with it is that you can't create new files...you can only edit what exists on your ftp host.  ...Which makes notepad and my current ftp clients still essential.  Slight oversight on the programmers' part, eh.  So...I opened a couple of the pages that I had edited with Crimson Editor with Notepad to make some changes and saw that Crimson Editor had removed all the formatting from my html coding and inserted these little boxes instead of ending each line.  I've never seen anything so stupid...one page of html coding is one big run-on sentence with no breaks or end-lines, and finding what I'm trying to edit was foggling libiquitous.  I just spent two hours formatting the code structure of the pages I edited with it.

The only thing worse is when someone sends me an html document created with MSWord and asks me to integrate it into an online manual or utility page.  Complete Trash.  The file is rampant with "&nbsp" x10,000.  "&nbsp" represents a non-breaking space, which is essentially useless.   But the meat of the code is buried in it.

To make a long and uninteresting enough story short...the ultimate point here...just say no to junk code generators.  Yes...nerdias mucho. 

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From Peter Serafinowicz's new show on the BBC...



There are more amusing clips from the show here on spacecaptsteve 's LJ.