LO2

In celebration of my 100th post, I have started a new weblog slash webcomic, The Adventures of Bark and Skeet. You will hate it. For the loyal reader(s) of my blog, here's strip #2 (Unpublished until Monday). Click to enlarge.

The new blog looks kinda simple. I'll pretty it up later.

When a guy with a "1" feedback rating (from someone who is no longer a registered user) is selling "80 playstation 2 new still in box" for $150, it's a scam. He will take your money and go to the bar, buying drinks for pretty ladies in the hopes of seeing them naked.

Also, don't pay $220 for a copy of Tomb Raider. That is stupid. You can get the damn game for a buck. Plus, you won't have enough money to go to the bar, and buy drinks for pretty ladies in the hopes of seeing them naked.

Only 10 episodes in, and Full Metal Alchemist is quickly looking to become my favorite anime series ever. Yes, that includes Bebop.

Sing it with me! KIMINOTEDE! KIRISAITE! TOIHINO! KIOKUWO! God, I'm such a loser.

Hopefully, if there are any terrorists around, they'll have a look at what's out here today and go somewhere else...wait...that's a horrible thought.
Wall street employee, remarking on the troops deployed to protect financial centers from a suspected potential terrorist attack

Click the pic to see video of it in action. Not sure how to feel about it yet.

Click to enlarge. From UseMyComputer.

I was looking for clip art for next week's Bart and Skeet, when I ran across this thing. I really don't know if it will look as spastic in your web browsers (was using firefox), but I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

Found at Feebleminds Gifs.

Watch it. I don't know what else I can say about it. BitTorrent required.

Fullmetal Alchemist is like crack. No it's worse than crack. It's like crack with a storyline and a kick-ass theme song.

I actually considered cosplay for a minute. Somebody shoot me.

Someone should start Anime Anonymous, but the alcoholics took the damn initials.

Old Foghat album cover I had never seen before. I thought it was pretty funny.

3.45% angela delvechio
3.45% please stand by while the age of miracles is briefly suspended
1.72% barcelona chair pictures
1.72% bloody motherfucker whiskey
1.72% cassius marcellus coolidge and reproduction rights
1.72% cheryl preheim colorado
1.72% chesterfield michigan topless dancing
1.72% irish movie willum defoe
1.72% merton to please you pleases you
1.72% silhouetto and figaro and bismillah and translation
1.72% stylist at work
1.72% there are a lot of ways to grieve
1.72% you'd better go ahead and enjoy this while you can bob because

and my favorite...

3.45% the honkys

Can you refer to anything as being "uncrackable" without sounding like a sarcastic smartass?

Click to enlarge. Korean ad campaign to class up their flash MP3 players. I like the concept, have the tiniest problem with the Audrey Hepburn bastardization. Found at Akihabara News.

Couldn't possibly buy one. The uncontrollable giggling every time I needed tape would get me fired. Found at Scope.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important. Sooner or later the public will forget you, the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

Fat gives things flavor.

Playing golf with men can throw off your stroke.

There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.

Celebrity has its uses: I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

I'm awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today's dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. You need to enjoy the good things in life, but you need not overindulge.

I don't eat between meals. I don't snack. Well, I do eat those little fish crackers. They're fattening, but irresistible.

You must have discipline to have fun.

The problem with the world right now is that we don't have any politicians like Roosevelt or Churchill to give us meaning and depth. We don't have anyone who's speaking for the great and the true and the noble. What we need now is a heroic type, someone who could rally the people to higher deeds. I don't know what's to become of us.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Julia quotes taken from What I've Learned by Mike Sager

Well, I'm out of Full Metal Alchemist episodes to watch, so I figured I'd watch FLCL (aka Fooly Cooly or Furi Kuri). I've only watched one episode, but I believe that it just might be the greatest anime I have ever seen that involves a guy taking repeated blows to the head. Click for the enlarging and whatnot.

Yes, she is licking a Louisville Slugger.

Coming up next episode! Cat! And much smaller fucked up looking Cat!

This is the Wavac SH-833 150 watt monoblock power amplifier. It costs $350,000. Not a typo. A home stereo amp, a quarter of a million dollars.

Let's do the math.

My 150 watt stereo amp cost $50. It measures roughly half a foot by 1.5 feet by 1.5 feet. That's 1.25 Cubic Feet. I could buy 7000 of those amps (at retail) for $350,000. If I bought that many, I bet we could get wholesale, so we could probably buy 10000 total. That's 12500 cubic feet. That's a cube approximately 23 feet to a side of solid amplifiers, 1.5 gigawatts, or 1,500,000 Watts of Rockin' Stereo Power.

Wavac can kiss my ass.

From The Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness. Great Stuff.

Made a link image for anyone that wants to link to my comic, The Adventures of Bark and Skeet. Not that anyone will, but please request any other form factors you might want.

The cover to the new Time Magazine (biggest pic I could find, sorry). The cover story is "Saving the Big Cats," but as I walked by a copy and glanced down at it, I could've sworn it said "Shaving the Big Cats." Couldn't stop laughing for five minutes. Poor big shaved cats.

A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation.

From How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions.

Hmm. What is it that tells you that the school year has begun again when you work on a college campus? Is it the eager eyed freshmen? The bookstore flyers everywhere? The bad drivers barreling towards you on one way streets? No, no, no. For me, it's the astonishing amount of urine all over the men's room toilets and floors.

Seriously. I'm not that old, I clearly remember being 18. I could aim, I'm sure of it. The random errant drop, I can understand, but it looks like the bathroom has been showering.

That's all I can really say about that.

Silent Hill 4 - Home is definitely where the heart is. Along with some spleen. And a little chunk of liver in the hall.

Going to see Hero this weekend? (Snob Alert) Been there, done that. Lovers is the movie to see. Here's a Wallpaper to put on your coffeehouse laptop so you can be all cool and ahead of the curve.

See the trailer here.

Other movies of note: God-Diva (Blade Runner meets King Tut)

Mach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lots of painful looking fighting mayhem, and website music that makes your booty wiggle.

Pierce could smell her body lotion. It made him think of her as a fruit with skin.
Steve Almond, "The Nasty Kind Always Are"

He had long ago ceased trying to divine the mysterious insides of a woman. There were spots that felt good, warm, fleshy knobs, sudden pockets of air - he had no idea.
Steve Almond, "The Nasty Kind Always Are"

And now, in a hotel suite overlooking the whole loathsome valley of San Fernando, with the hot breath of summer curling in from the balcony, with his fingers squinching about deep inside a semi-employed tart of indeterminate age, his frustration got the best of him.
Steve Almond, "The Nasty Kind Always Are"

Well, I have a Google GMail account to give away. Comment on this post letting me know why you deserve this account more than anyone else. Considering that whoever responds will probably be the only one (not a big traffic magnet, me), you've got a good chance.

From Futurama, Episode 405, "A Taste of Freedom"

Fry
I'm having one of those things, you know, a headache with pictures.
Leela
An Idea?
Fry
(nodding) Mmmm! Hmm Hmm Hmm!!

Even as you vomit and scream and bang your head on the cement floor with the hope that the pain you create in your head will at least momentarily distract you from the pain in your knees, he lights another cigarette, picks his nose, farts.
Nicholas Montemarano, "The November Fifteen"

If the world were full of da Vincis, we'd all be quarrelsome, gay, left-handed Italians who couldn't finish a painting.
Bruce Sterling, "The Evolution Will Be Mechanized"