12.31.2007
OFFLINE //
Since I spent Thanksgiving here because of the shingles thing, I decide to go home for the holidays for a week. It was a lot of playing with my niece and nephew and seeing them experience the joy of Christmas, which has long since become just another day for me.

The neighbors went out of town so that meant meant my parents couldn't leech free wireless. Ergo dial up. It felt like it was 1997 again and I was playing Tetris on my 386 in my dorm room while I waited 15 minutes for the 12k of my email to download. After about 5 minutes I decided that I'd just be disconnected for a week.

I helped my mom buy a new laptop as well. She wanted the top of the line ultra slim notebook. After scaring her off from the Mac cult she went with a 1 inch thick 2.7lb Sony Vaio VZN-NicoleRitchie model. To get it small it's a little stripped down and doesn't come with a modem. My mom was nearly devastated when I told her that she couldn't use AOL on it. It's like being mad that you can't drive without your e-brake up. Anyhow I'm finally back, which means more semi-amusing posts about my boring life and weird things I dig up on the interwebs. Happy Holidays.



12.19.2007
WEEKLY DIGG //
These are the 3 major life stages for men in relationships. They come in for 1, and are stuck between 2 and 3.

Some things need not be taught.

This holiday season get your significant other a gift that gives back.

Baby thrown out with the toilet water.

This is what it is like to be colorblind.

Life imitating art.

A guy with a camera confronts cops who park illegally. I'm surprised they didn't tase this bro.

The world's most famous photoshop hoaxes.

Drug dealers vs geeks. Very little difference.

The worst video game box art for 2007.

Sift through Disney's revisionist history and see how these fairy tales didn't end so happily ever after.



12.17.2007
SCROOGED //
I think I'm in the minority when I say that I hate Christmas. I hate that there is traffic all day long for a solid month. Gift giving is lame. If I really wanted something I bought it already, so I get stuff I don't need but I have the burden of having to buy gifts for other people. My nephew wants a connect the dots book. I've been to 3 stores including a Borders and they don't sell them. Spam overflows in my inbox. Today I got another email from Buy.com with the subject BLACK FRIDAY IV! What exactly is so great about Christmas? You don't need an excuse to see family. And it's cold. I hate cold. If I get a visit from the ghost of Christmas whenever, he's getting a kick in the chestnuts.



12.12.2007
WEEKLY DIGG //
If you're embarrassed by your old air brushed, wallpaper background of books, thumb-index-finger-to-chin senior picture. It could be worse.

Freshly minted movie trailers:
The Machine Girl - From the land of the rising sun comes a flick that boasts ninjas, the Yakuza, the drill bra, and tempura!
Speed Racer - It's a bizarre blend of live action and CGI. Matthew Fox makes it off the island to play Racer X.
Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay - This trailer is rated R for awesome.
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - If you're aching for a fantasy fix.

Some of the most cringe-worthy comic book movie moments. The dubbed X-Men cartoon is particularly vulgar. And by vulgar I mean I laughed so hard the tea I was drinking almost came out of my noise

Here's one disaffected bird. I wish I could just live one day the way this avian lives everyday of its life.

If you like fresh whole rabbit, you may also enjoy Smallville.

Apparently Brits are connaisseurs of pens.

A storm is coming. Gird your loins well like this armored squirrel.

Nice socks.

Who doesn't love Lolcats? I mean they has cheeseburger and then eated it. Here's a few of my recent favorites:
I has a flavor, Bad times ahead, OMG WTF?, I not cheezburger, Let's do coke! This napping kitty looks like it was shot. And finally, one Lolbunny.

Here's a screenshot of the recently announced Street Fighter 4.



12.10.2007
TRAFFIC TV //
It's been a while since I've done any real driving. I rarely leave my apartment. Last night I did laundry and the entire load was one pair of socks, a towel and the rest was just underwear (which also says what a gloriously warm winter Texas is having). So I was surpised when I was stuck in gridlock Friday night. The traffic was so bad that I nearly finished watching an entire show on my mp3 player before I got 5 miles away from my place. Watching tv while driving actually isn't that difficult. Now reading a book behind the wheel was a different story.



12.06.2007
WEEKLY DIGG //
After filtering out all of the anti-Bush, Iraq, and stories about the editor fired from Gamespot because of a justifiably bad review of the abysmal Kane and Lynch game, the was very little new or interesting on the webernets.

Read the Bible more is on my list of things I really should be doing more; along with making eye contact with people and eating more fiber. Maybe these badass verses will inspire you to do the same.

At first I thought I had seen this video already. But nope, it seems to happen a lot apparently. This time brought to you by my home town's finest.

Ads these days annoy me. Gone is much of the creativity replaced by using sex to sell. What happened to good old fashioned sexism to shill products? I love the existential question posed by the last one.

A lot of cook books nowadays revolve recipes around one ingredient. I can think of about 10,000 better things offhand to cook with than this.

Here's a daily dose of cute if you don't happen to visit Cute Overload like, a friend of mine does.



12.04.2007
FREEWAY PHOBIA //
I tend to over-compensate a lot for my lack of size. That is, my height. So I'm too competitive, too proud, and never want to admit that I fear anything. Except for rust and cockroaches. And if you don't fear those things, you really need to.

Anyone who knows me knows that I hate driving (16 month old car- 6,000 miles). Gas and traffic have always been issues, but in the last few years I've realized that whenever I'm on the freeway I get a case of the yips. I never thought it was because I was in an accident because I wasn't even driving when it happened, but I always think someone is going to hit me. It's not exactly fear. It's more like I'm skittish. Like a mall Santa with a prostrate problem.