A Big Todo About Nothing

Long time, no post. :P

2009-11-14T04:33:33Z

Wow, I should do a better job at trying to keep up posts. So many things go on and I forget what I have done so easily. I'm getting so old, lolol.. *cough, cough*
At the begining of Oct I was sent to Arizona for work. I spent two weeks just south of Phoenix working on a big trailer park hooking up the amps and taps for a big cable distribution system. My karma caught up to me and I got all the sun in those two weeks I had avoided all summer and turned a few shades darker. Kinda surprised myself a few times as to how much, lol. Not much out there except dirt, rocks, snow birds (old people fron northern regions escaping the winter), and cacti. I've never seen so many different kinds of cacti in my life, took lots of pictures of them. XD
For Halloween I went to usaku and nekoboy 's place for a party. I brought my girlfriend with me and fun was had by all! Played Rock Band, watched TF2 character vids and get to catch up with everyone I haven't seen since 4th of July. I really do need to try and keep in touch with everyone a lot better than I have been.
The cold weather has been setting in and I have had to switch everything over to "cold weather mode". Got the heater out and put away the fan, got a nice set of PJ's from my girlfriend to keep me warmer than the swimming trunks I have been using, started closing up windows I usually leave open and fired up the woodstove up north, the last time I was there, for the first time this season. I didn't think to wipe the dust off of it before I did so it was a bit stinky until it finally burned off the dust on the outside as it heated up. :P
Just got done with helping my girlfriend move to her new place. It's a lot closer and on this side of the bay. No more long trips to the city and paying a bridge toll to get there. Yay!!
Now let's have some fun stuff!
So that's how you draw Asian women... I've been going about it all wrong this entire time. :I

If you wish to be a part of the zombie apocolypse, be buried here!! 8I

Ferret Dansing XD (for porku )

RIP Capt. Lou Albano

2009-10-15T01:38:23Z

I remember the days when he was a wrestler, a manager and Mario. He will be missed.

Full Moon Wo Sagashi......

2009-09-06T05:55:44Z

...wait a minute...
it's not that kind of full moon. LOL

In honor of the full moon out tonight I give you...
A werewolf flash game.

It's pretty cool actually, a fun game. I've gone a little ways into it. I recommend it. :)

Milestone....

2009-07-31T03:34:46Z

Or more appropriately 250,000 of them.
My truck has officially rolled over a quarter million miles on the odometer. It seems only like yesterday that I was at 92,000 when I bought it. :P

On another note.

Lex Luthor is a terrible guy!! >:(

Hmm, Knowing really is half of the battle.

Buy that man a beer!

Waiter! I'll have what she's having!

Awesome! XD

Lap Top Get!

2009-06-12T06:15:19Z

Got a new LT last Saturday. Taking me forever to get used to Vista. :/ I hope I can get all the basic items installed on to it and can try to get back to a semblance of normality soon.

Plants vs Zombies!!

2009-06-02T04:07:11Z

This video is so cute it could rot your teeth, as long as you are not a zombie...
;D
It is a simple game, I would buy it, looks fun!

Payday $$$

2009-05-08T03:55:32Z

Well, the first third of the year is over and now all the paychecks I get are mine. Since right about one third of all the money I earn goes right to the government, (State and Federal) every thing after April 30 is technically mine. Everything earned before that belongs to the government mafia. )_)

Taxing the Ganja.

2009-05-08T01:32:39Z

On paper, taxing marijuana looks like a good idea. In reality, I don't see the great income of taxes from it that people are imagining. Once you make it legal to grow, own and use, you can just grow your own. No tax income generated there. If you don't grow your own, the great American entrepreneur next down or just down the street will be doing it in their backyard. No tax income generated there.
There might be some people who do pot for the anti-establishment angle but they are few and far between. Every person I know who smokes it doesn't do it to "stick it in the face of the man", they do it to get high. Drug use would not go down. It would more likely explode as people who didn't do it because it was illegal, now would.
The drug lords might lose a tiny fraction of their income due to the legalization of it and people growing their own but now, with a legal outlet for their product, they can flood the market with their stuff. They have the capital to open smoke shops on every corner to fill the new demand. If you don't think they would do that, just look around and see how many bars and tobacco shops are out there right now. The market abhors a vacuum, there will be people out there to fill it.
Politicians, being who they are, wouldn't be satisfied to designate the money for things like hospitals, libraries and such. The money would go into the general fund to pay for the deficits and new programs they would want to implement. With a new commoddity, a new beauracracy would have to be funded too, that money would have to come from somewhere. I recall somewhere that the grand idea of the lottery was to help fund schools and they would get all the money they could use. Problem with that is the politicians saw money designated for schools from the lottery as an excuse to take away equivilant funding from the regular educational budget. Politicians have never permanently eliminated a tax. The new income from pot would not encourage the ones in charge to reduce taxes on other things. It would just be another source of income for them to use and abuse.
The tourism angle is a good one though. I can see the Humbolt region in Nor Cal becoming quite a boomtown. That is something that inargueable, lol.

Yaay..... :/

2009-04-08T06:42:58Z

It only took three days but now I have a new temporary name, courtesy of the County of Alameda...

Juror #8

Thankfully the trial should be short and over in a couple of days. The judge said that criminal cases usually go for four to five weeks! I couldn't handle that, I live paycheck to paycheck and that would ruin me. He said this should be a short trial so that's the only reason I am going along with fufilling my "Civic Duty".

In other news, I have finally gotten around to watching the last couple of eps. of the original Captain Harlock series. Interesting, definately old school stuff. :P

Some funny Links

2009-04-07T03:22:47Z

It's been a few weeks but here are a few funny links I thought people would enjoy. =D

Get a degree in Locksmithing, Paralegal, Basket Weaving, Gunsmithing or The Beatles.

Smoke'em if you got'em.

Little known, super secret move in SF IV for Ryu, ultimate finishing move!!

Pirates vs. Ninjas? No, Pirates vs. THE GERMAN NAVY!!

The truth about VAMPIRES!

You will lose an argument with a gay flight attendant.

California Air Resources Board = We have nothing better to do than find ways to be a pain in the @$$.

Frank Miller + Highlights for Children = I'd watch that...

So THAT'S where meat comes from...

Links for Monday

2009-03-17T04:52:01Z

For usaku -- Periodic Table of Typefaces

What I'm going to do to every elevator I see!!

Gamer Philosophy, deeper than you think.

One more reason to like Japan - School Girl, Loli and Harujuku, Oh My.... Ambassador?!

Why you shouldn't meet people from the internet!

Comcast Users!

2009-03-13T04:04:31Z

I have 8 coupons for free Pay Per View movies. Up to a value of $3.99 per movie. Anyone want them? Let me know how many you want and I'll send them to you.
How did I get them considering I work for their competitor? Easy! I swiped them from a construction site. =P Heh he...

Thank Whatever Higher Power You Acknowledge That You Live in the USA!!

2009-03-11T06:02:17Z

Because you could live in Saudi Arabia.
I know the US has room for improvement, what country doesn't?? But when people say that the US is such a "horrible" place and that we are treated so terribly by the injustice of our nation, they need to stop and look at the rest of the world. There are much, MUCH worse places you could live and they aren't limited to just a few little spots in some remote corner of the planet. I can think of very few countries that I would have any problem going to visit.
Save your energy and put your righteous indignation towards a cause that will truly help those who need it. Write letters to your Congressmen, Senators, Mayors, Governators (lol), Secratary of State, Vice President and President. Tell them that these countries overseas that do these horrendous things to women, who have no rights in their own country, who are treated as property on the same level as a horse, dog or TV, who can be beaten for things that women over here take for granted as very mundane, ordinary, everyday things, tell them that this is not right. Tell them that this has to stop. Tell them to put pressure to reform those nations and bring them into the 20th century. (I know we are in the 21st, but they are living in 13th century rules and maybe bringing them 700 years up would help to bring them into the light to catch up to the rest of us.)
These incidents like the ones in the article above are isolated or rare. They happen all the time, we only get to hear about the most sensational ones when the media isn't fawning all over what Pam Anderson was wearing at some gala for the Mutual Self Admiration Society, which sports personality was doing steroids or any of the other garbage they talk about.
Saudi Arabia isn't the only country this happens in by the way. You can point almost anywhere in the Middle East and it is happening there, save for Israel, Turkey and Iraq. And by no means is that the only region on Earth that basic human rights are being tossed in the toilet. There are those who tout the great land of Cuba and it's wonderful health system. Right, I will pay the travel bill of anyone who wants to go there and film yourself standing in front of the capital there speaking into a megaphone in Spanish about how the people need to demand freedom from their government. You'd be lucky to ever be heard from again. Also, if their health system is so good, why aren't people clamoring to go to their great world renown clincs to be healed by the best medical services in the world?? Oh, that's right, those places are in the US....

Cuba isn't the only place nearby to opress and deny rights to people. I'm looking at you Mexico...

Rampant drug corruption in the government and violence and kidnapping in the streets. Not winning any points for a place I would visit. Spend some time in a Mexican jail, if you don't speak the local language or have the dinero to bail, (read bribe) your way out, prepare for a real nightmare. The National government there demands we, (the USA) should accept the illegals crossing the border, however when illegals cross THEIR southern border, they are shot at or imprisoned with very little hope of a timely trial or humane treatment.

China has more human rights issues than you can shake a stick at. Religous oppression, political oppression and freedom of speech to name a few. It's easy enough to look on the internet and see how they treat the followers of the Falun Gong. How many website have been banned in China because they mention freedom and human rights? Most blog and journal sites are banned and citizens of China have to use offshore proxy servers to get access to them. Google and Yahoo agreed to ban and censor web content. Way to win one for freedom guys...
The entire continent of Africa. Tribal wars, anarchy, slavery, (I mean currently and yes it is still happening there and not by white people) rape, murder, ethnic genocide, religous fighting, tyranny. These things are happening in every corner of that great continent. I suggest reading this book, Out of America if you want an eye opener. Read the prelude there and I bet you will have a opinion change right away.
Russia is better than it was under the Soviets but speaking up there is still a bad idea. Journalists are still having "accidents" or strangely "dissapearing" while on assignment or vacation.
North Korea.... can anyone name one GOOD thing that comes out of that place???
So please, get your voice out there, make it heard. Yes there are things over here that need work, plenty of them but when you look past your own little sphere of comfort here in this country and see what is happening overseas it will put into perspective how really good you have it over here.

Monday, Monday

2009-03-10T06:41:34Z

Yeah, the Mama's and the Papa's, they rule! lol

More great pics for a much sunnier Monday.

Yeah, why lie, I'd eat there.

Got a spare Paris Metro ticket?

Dalek found in Pond!!

Screw Rubik's, this thing is crazy!

Wake up Mr. Truck driver...

Grab your controllers! Megaman vs Metroid!

Rare Atari Game!!

There is hope for the children of Fresno. XD

Don't throw away that old VCR!!

Now on my list of places to visit in Japan. XD

Some Amusement

2009-03-03T02:39:15Z

For a grey Monday.

Avon is in league with the Umbrella Corporation!

Ana Bought a Lexus

Official Chandelier of the Castro District

Why is it I have never seen somebody on one of those motorized wheelchairs that looks like they really need it. Only people whole appear that they could benefit from NOT using one. :(

Ragetoons are sooooo true!!!! XD

You know that hot water, it's so out of control...

...and whatever you do, Do Not!!!

Feeling better?? =)

On this day in history....meme?

2009-02-12T06:06:45Z

What was the number 1 song on your birthday? Or maybe your Wedding day? How about your High School Graduation day?
The #1 song on my date of birth was, "Love Will Keep us Together - The Captain and Tennille"
The #1 song on my HS Grad day was, "That's the Way Love Goes - Janet Jackson"
The #1 song on the day I enlisted in the USAF, "The Sign - Ace of Base"
The #1 song on the day I joined LJ, "Check on it - Beyonce feat. Slim Thug"

Insurance for your BJD's?

2009-02-04T03:31:20Z

Dolls can be an expensive hobby/family to have. It's best to alway insure what you have against tornados, earthquacks and random meteorite impacts! LOL
It's an insurance agency in the town of Red Bluff, just north of my place in Corning, (which I had posted a Google Earth pic of it in a pretty old post.) I don't know if that would insure dolls but in this economy, money is money. :P

Cowboy Be-whut??

2009-01-21T04:31:18Z

Keanu Reeves is going to play Spike Spiegel in the live action Cowboy Bebop. Oddly enough it looks like the snow is getting pretty deep here....

See you later Wyld Stallyns...

O_o'

LOTR - Yan Yan??

2009-01-20T05:37:50Z

I got some Yan Yan, (a snack made by the makers of the ultimate otaku snack, Pocky) the other day. I had never tried it before so why not? It is a cup shaped package with "bare" cookie sticks that you dip into the little chocolate frosting cup inside it. Nothing out of the ordinary there... or is there??!! Printed on each of the "sticks" is a little picture of an animal and a couple of words. Pretty childish type stuff, like a mouse with the words "Best Friend" or a giraffe with the words "Long Neck". But on one of them, I saw something that lead me to believe that Gollum from Lord of the Rings works in the print and design department at Meiji!!.

"Those tricksey Hobbits won't know what happens when Smeagle sends "him" to get our precious!"
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And just for porku .

Mad scary cow cookie sticks!! LOL

Money well spent?

2009-01-16T03:50:37Z

The cost of President Elect Obama's inauguration is supposed to be around $150 million dollars. Really?? $150 million?? Bush Spent one third of that, ($50 million) and the press complained loudly that he was a wasteful person for doing that. Now, I'm the first person who will defend a persons right to spend their money any way they want. So really, he can spend that money on what he wants to. He can have a big bonfire with it for all I care. What I think would have been a great strategy for him to win the hearts and minds of his detractors or people who are on the fence even would be to take that money and do some serious good with it.
Let's just say for the sake of arguement he only spent $50 million, the same as Bush. It's still a lot if you ask me but it could be legitimate as a precident to be set for others. So that would leave the other $100 million sitting around to be used for other things. It would be easy enough to spend it on a few ideas I have that could be written off as part of the celebration of the inauguration.

1. Find 1,000 families whose homes are being foreclosed on and pay down the mortgage on each one to the tune of $100k. That act of generosity would give him so much credit and ammuntion to use against those who would say he doesn't care about what is going on with the housing market and foreclosures, no one would be able to touch him. Besides, those families would be saved and they could keep their homes, unlike the so called bank bailout which hasn't saved a single homeowner.

2. Buy 400 brand new, state of the art, firetrucks for the poorest 400 fire departments in need of new equipment. How much property and how many lives could be saved? You can't put a monetary number on that!

3. Buy 2,000 new police cars for the 1,000 poorest police departments in need of them. Once again, this would show how much he is dedicated to the community and how much he really is looking out for the interest of the people.

4. Buy 1,250 new school busses for 1,250 of the poorest school districts. Back to dedication to the community and how much he is willing to do.

5. Sponsor a massive home building campaign with Habitat for Humanity. They build homes for those in need on a fairly low budget. Putting together a program that grants them that kind of money would once again do a great amount of good for families in need and the community in general.

For plans 2 - 4, not only would those vehicles do a great amount of good for their recipients, jobs could be saved and/or created with the businesses who make the vehicles and service and maintain them. Instant economic stimulus, albeit small, FTW!!
For plan 5, even though most labor and materials are donated at little or no cost, having a good budget to work with, you could purchase lots of materials at a great bulk rate and employ a large amount of out of work construction workers. Again, another way to get people back to work, economy stimulated and put a roof over peoples heads.

I highly doubt any of that would happen but it would go a long ways towards changing a lot of people's hearts and minds. You will always have people who will find the bad in any situation but doing any of the above or even a combination thereof would be such a great gift to the nation. That part can't be argued. It would be the best gift any one person would have given to the nation, ever.

New Vocaloid announced

2009-01-07T02:18:48Z

There is going to be a new vocaloid released soon, Megurine Luka. Her name looks a bit like "Lucky Margerine". XD I see some people have her "accessory" being a great big frozen tuna fish, kinda makes Miku's leek a bit less absurd. lol

Something Ironic, Something Funny

2008-12-24T03:21:05Z

Oh the irony. I doubt it will calm any of the self-righteousness on either side...

And on the funny side, these things have killed more people than any of my guns. =P

It's meme time!

2008-12-20T01:41:24Z

Borrowed from pharna , and not yet returned. ;P

1) What was your FIRST video game console?

NES, 8-bits of doooooom!

2) Name a few games you played on said console.

All the required basics, (Super Mario Bros., Zeldas, Dragon Warriors, FF, Blaster Master, Gradius, Life Force, etc) and some of the more oddball games, (Legend of the Ghost Lion, Giligan's Island, Cybernoid, Desert Commander, Casino Kid, etc.)

3) Excluding handhelds, how many VG consoles do you own presently?

Crap, it might be easier to list the ones I DON't own, lol. Let's see...
13, sheesh...

4) Were you a Street Fighter nut? Any character in particular?

Yes, everyday at lunch and after school during High School. Guile.

5) Do you think Capcom is a FUCKING awesome company with kickass character designs?

Sure, they wouldn't be around this ong and have as big of an empire as they do if they didn't.

6) Here's the scenario.. You had some friends over and you all ate FRIED CHICKEN! After the meal you all decide to play some video games. As your friend reaches for a controller you notice his/her hands are very "greasy." Are you the type that would insist they wash their hands before pawing the controller, or is it no big deal?

Wash your hands or you just bought the controller.

7) What's your favorite RPG/Action RPG?

Dragon Warrior/Quest series. Very nostalgic.

8) Do you prefer 2D games or 3D games?

Both are just as good, it depends on the game really.

9) Are you an SNK fan?

Yes, KoF's, Metal Slug, Samurai Showdown, Mai Shiranui...mmmm..... =D~~

9') Are you good at DDR?

I have played it a grand total of 3 times, you tell me.

10) Who wants to kick that dog's ass from Duck Hunt?

Oooo, ooo, ooo!!! I do!! XD

11) Have you skipped out on important events in life because of video games?

I am a vidiot, I have skipped out on some things, but not the important ones.

12) Do you listen to video game music?

Yes, I own CD's, DL'd music files, think it's cute when Miku Hastune sings them and have played games just to get to a certain level to rock a track or two.

13) Have you ever cosplayed a VG character?

Hmm, well the characters I have cosplayed are from anime/manga series' and have been featured in video games later on, does that count??

14) Have you ever been in an arcade playing a fighting game, KICKING ASS, and then some 6 year old Asian kid comes in and OWNS YOU??

Not me specifically, but I have seen it happen to my friends.

15) Name three games you would love to see remakes of if it was done properly.

Hmm, tough one. I know they did a great job with Bionic Commando recently which resotres my faith in companies doing the right thing once and a while. So let's see, Blaster Master, Commando and Faxanadu.

16) Mario or Sonic?

Bonk!!

17) When a movie shows up in the theaters, let's use Spider-man as an example, are you likely to buy the GAME version?

Well, I know it's cold here in the Bay Area but it hasn't quite frozen over here yet.

18) What is your LEAST favorite genre of video games? (ex. fighting, sports, shooters, etc.)

Sports, they just don't thrill me all that much. I do have ones I like, but overall, I'd rather play something else.

19) Is there a game out there that you feel was unique and didn't get enough love?

Yes, Faxanadu! Seriously, I want a sequel!!!

20) Have you ever verbally abused a game because you couldn't beat one of the levels and/or bosses?

Yep, the game, the controller, the console, the power plug, the TV, the game designers, my brother, a chair, etc...

21) Do you own any VG apparel?

Yes, courtesy of Dan the man and Gamestop/Game Crazy.

22) What are your thoughts on the live-action Super Mario Bros movie?

Did they EVEN play the game when they made that pile of doo-doo??

23) On that note, what did you think about the live-action Street Fighter movie?

They might have played that game a couple of times, but they still could have done a better job. I guess it was the best they could do with a low budget.

24) Who's hottest out of the KOF ~~guys~~ GALS?

Mai Shiranui!!! ::nosebleeds:: =D~~~

25) Do you say "old-school" a lot when you're having a VG conversation with others?

Yes, because I am sooooo old. :/

26) Have you ever lent someone a game and they returned it to you damaged?

Yes, he at least gave me the money to buy a new disc.

27) Do you own any imported games?

I OWNZ them all!! LOLOL ::bricked:: I currently posses a lot of imports, for almost every system I have.

28) Are you ready for this meme to be over, or could you keep going?

I could keep going, but you are probably getting tired of reading.

29) In this scenario, let's pretend you're going to get a video game tattoo! What would you get and where?

Seeing everyone elses responses, I thought of a dirty response to this too, but I'll keep it clean. Hmm, a tri-force on the back of my hand like Link is supposed to have? Or maybe a Death mushroom from Super Mario Bros on my shoulder blade.

30) Have you ever cried after you beat a game? If so why?

Maybe from the CTS some of them have induced. I've been more pissed at endings than teary eyed.

Christmas came early!

2008-12-19T03:22:32Z

The Veritech Beta Fighter I preordered forever ago arrived today from out of the blue!! XD It has awesome quality in its construction and is ridiculously huge!! It has an 18" wingspan!! Tons of great detail keeping it true to the animation and a bunch of accessories FTW. It has the link-up connector for the Alpha, (which I already have and can't wait to get to it up north to link them together, I'll take pics...) landing gear, a little removable pilot, (Rand) and a display stand that will hold it and the Alpha linked together in any mode!! =D The main part of the legs is die-cast metal, it makes it more stable when standing up, it makes the whole thing heavy too. The weight gives it a good feel, not like a cheap plastic-only thing. The packaging is great quality too. It comes in the "book" stlye box with really nice quality materials and the front cover has a magnet in it so the when it closes it won't just flop open. It's definately worth the money spent on it, I look forward to getting my grubby little paws on the next two!!! XD~~~

Edit: I just took a look at the bottom of the oder page on the Robotech.com website.
"Made of 100% Pure Awesome"
Yes..., yes it is... =D

I don't think I was that bad...

2008-12-03T04:39:59Z

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

Last Thursday I helped dirtytomato hide a body (-173 points). Last week I set kasumi19's puppy on fire (-66 points). In September I committed genocide... Sorry about that, joystick_jedi (-5000 points). Last month I pulled usaku's hair (-5 points). In July I gave vampireanneke a life-saving blood transfusion (50 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-5194 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking!

Sincerely,
Invidscrim