Monthly Archive for June, 2008

5 days to go

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on June 15, 2008
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Really looking forward to Friday at this pace. At least this week shouldn’t be too shabby - Tricia’s out of school and getting ready for our vacation, I’ll be busy packing and the like, and on Thursday I don’t really have a “work” day - Tim (the boss) is taking all of us interns with a few other employees in a big government van to go see the Hunley. Our workgroup at SRS is doing partnered work with the Hunley group, so we get to go see it. The Hunley is a Confederate States of America submarine, the first submarine to ever sink a warship. However, in that process, it sunk itself and over 136 years later from that fatal mission in 1864 it was recovered and sent to Charleston, SC. Our trip will be taking off at 7AM and getting back around 5PM - I hope to take a ton of pictures. :D

So last night I saw The Incredible Hulk. It lives up the the title “incredible”, that’s for sure. :D I don’t want to say too much here in the instance that someone hasn’t seen it yet and doesn’t want it spoiled for them, but I will say there’s a lot of great acting, some unexpected humor, some really fun cameos, and a lot of KICKASS motherfuckin’ HULK action. ^__^ (Also, don’t bother waiting after the credits - there’s nothing. The scene that should be there was moved to the very end of the movie… you’ll be able to identify it easily.)

Recently, I’ve been reading Super Effective, a side comic from VGCats. Granted there’s only 8 comics so far, I do rather enjoy this project of Scott’s. I hope that he continues this and it fleshes out more. :)

Mr. Bill was a fantastic skit 3 decades ago on SNL, wherein Mr. Bill was ALWAYS abused and mutilated during routine tasks. Seems like Mastercard decided to reach back for some good old humor with their latest commercial, reviving Mr. Bill:

:D “Ohhh noooooo!” XD

I don’t really know what else to add other than what I’ve already said. Chances are this will be my last post until I leave for my vacation, where I hopefully will have a ton of pictures and anecdotes to elaborate on. So, until next time, toodles!

Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow

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on June 9, 2008
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For kicks and giggles I decided to look up Walt Disney World on Wikipedia, seeing as I’ll be headed there soon enough and I’m excited. :P

After a bit of digging around, I found some very interesting things about the origins of the now Epcot park. Turns out, Disney World was never supposed to be a set of theme parks, but was supposed to revolve around the workings of EPCOT - standing for “Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow“.

More or less, this was supposed to be a utopia community Walt Disney planned for Florida. The plans were vast and very sci-fi - reminds me of The Giver in a sense… even to controlled weather, as the center and life of the community was to be enclosed like a dome. But the plans are remarkable, too, and I kind’ve wish this could be realized for today… I want to see how it would turn out. Here’s a Youtube of the original plans for EPCOT:

This is only part two of three. Part One and Part Three can be found by clicking the links I’ve provided - there was one version on Youtube that’s contained in one video, but the quality sucks pretty badly - you can barely decipher the image and sound sometimes. I embedded Part Two because that’s where the information starts - Part One is merely an ad for Disneyland that sets the tone for the rest of the video.

Please give them all a watch; they’re incredibly interesting and informative. I’d like to buy a copy of this video on the Walt Disney Treasures: Tomorrowland DVD.

I haven’t done much else today. I saw “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan”. Pretty fabulous movie, as that’s the only word I can really use to describe it with. XD Go see it - it’s probably the best Adam Sandler film in years. :)

Also, my brother showed me this:

Party on, Wayne and Garth. :) Good to see some good old humor from great duo once again.

101.7

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on June 7, 2008
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Sometimes I wonder about this place.
Whether those noises are significant or if my reality radio needs a tuning.
Maybe then I can stop turning the dial endlessly,
Looking for something that might not be found.

I think the fan is going to fall right off the goddamn ceiling.

I’ve always looked at the stars, y’know. They’re scarce, but…
I wanted one.
I couldn’t ever have one. I reach for them and they blur or disappear.
I’m working on that.

Oh good, it stopped.

We run around in circles, much like that fan.
Unfortunately we blow hot air, unlike the fan.
Perhaps we should cool off sometime.

Look at me sometime. And tell me what you see.
I want to hear it.
All of it.
Raise your hands, kids, but I don’t have the authority to call on them.
So speak out of turn.

Abra kadabra fagnut, it’s Peppermint Pattie!

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on June 6, 2008
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….Quoted from “It’s Martin Luther King Day, Charlie Brown”. I especially like this line at 1:46, and the sequence just prior to it at 1:37. :P Beware, racist humor ahoy.

So tonight I spent majority of my time talking with Jessica about children’s shows of our past and how superior they are to the smut on television today. We watched a few Youtubes - mainly 30 minutes of 90’s cartoon intros and 30 minutes of 80’s cartoon intros.

In these there were many recognizable shows we remember and love: Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Pinky and the Brain, Gargoyles, Voltron, Inspector Gadget, Beetlejuice (hell yes), etc, etc. The highlights, though, were shows we’d never heard of that were either awesome, terrible, or awesomely terrible. First, an awesome: NO ONE EVER TOLD ME THERE WAS A SAM AND MAX CARTOON. I’m disappointed. :( Moving on, some…. strange ones: Samurai Pizza Cats, Back to the Future (what?), Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures (I reaaaaally wanna see this), BraveStarr (The planet of New Texas? Really? XD), Thundarr, Blackstarr (notice a recurrance of R’s here?)…. But finally:

GILLIGAN’S PLANET:

WHAT THE FUCK. I think that sums this up:

Jessica:………..
Me: o.o
Jessica: WHAT THE FUCK
Me: Gilligan’s ISLAND
IN SPACE?
WHAT THE FUCK
Jessica: WHAT THE FUCK
A spaceship made of wood.
WHAT.
Me: WHAT THE SHIT
Jessica: I’m scared.
Hold me.
Me: NO.
THIS IS WRONG
WRONG
*hold Jessica, for he is scared too*

Moving on… We then decided to watch what turned out to be a creepy, disturbing claymation animation:

Give it a watch. I don’t really have too much else to say except that I woulda been running faaaar from that mask. >.> This led to a conversation on the finer points of mindfuck movies and videogames. Jessica introduced me to a spiritual predecessor of BioShock called System Shock 2. Here’s a clip:

She more or less described the game as a hellish mix of Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Resident Evil, and Star Trek. Basically the AI in the game discovers humans, doesn’t like them, and makes her own brand of life that tries to kill you and her, so she uses you as a pawn to save herself. Sounds like something I’ll definitely have to try. Apparently it would’ve done better but Half Life overshadowed its release.

Next up is another mindfuck horror game: Condemned. I need to try this, but all I really have to go by right now is her word and this video, which needless to say makes the game look tough and terrifying:

XD Those guys are wussies, but entertaining nevertheless.

Anyway, enjoy all these videos, and I need to sleep. Leave me some comments to read and comment on myself!

Media Musings

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on June 2, 2008
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First up: it’s Sex AND the City? I swore it was Sex IN the City. News to me. @_@

I notice I rant a bit as you pointed out, Seph, but… sorry, here’s another. XD Sex In The City is… well, it’s one of those many, many TV shows in the media today that enrapture people for all the wrong reasons. What happened to the days of dignified acting, responsible and respectable actresses like Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, or Judy Garland who still managed to be outrageously attractive and not complete sarcastic sluts sorry, “four intelligent women in control of their own lives” - wherein “control” somehow means being ridden like a racehorse in the bedroom at every opportunity.

And yet Sex and the City stars are today’s Hepburn, idolized and inspiring all the wrong ideals. “It’s okay to be a high-priced whore with expensive shoes, wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other!” Shows like this (and “My Super Sweet 16 - don’t EVEN get me started) emphasize and underline a syndrome in today’s youth I like to call PPS - “Pampered Princess Syndrome” - an overwhelming sense of “can’t do wrong” inspired by feminism and shallow media like this.

Finally, Sarah Jessica Parker: you look like a horse. Stop it.

Robot Chicken nailed this:

ANYWAY. I should be sleeping soon. I need to go make my lunch for the morning, though, and retrieve my work pants from the dryer downstairs first. But… I had to rant a bit. XD My camera battery died today. :( It was the free disposable that came with it - I’d say it lasted rather long. Good run - I hope the camera continues some good battery functionality like this. Speaking of cameras, my brother and I had a good time in Wal*Mart today going and getting a camera SD card for him along with a USB memory stick - each at 1GB. Our plan had been to get him a nice LCD HDTV at around 19″, but the only good one we liked was sold out… so we abandoned that, put down the nice $44 upconverting (!!) DVD player we found, set aside the HDMI cable for it, and gathered the other goodies. I like electronics shopping. XD And I’m liking how often I can hang out with Cody lately - I guess we’ve bother matured past the “we hate each other” stages of our lives. :) Funny, eh? We’ve been playing GTA 4 almost every night, laughing and having fun. ^^

I also got a nice pair of cheap sunglasses (cue ZZ Top). I look so cool. :D I’ve always liked the cheapos - who can afford or actively require the hundred dollar sunglasses (unless they’re prescription)? And I don’t feel nearly as bad as those spendy people would when I’ll inevitably break mine. XD

18 days and 16 hours til Tricia arrives. :3 It’s getting so close! I washed the car today and everything (trust me, it needed it). I’m so anxious to see her and drive to DisneyWorld. I feel like a kid again. XD

OH! So Andrew graduated, and we attended that ceremony as well. Very different from my brother’s. I liked the speeches given, particularly the one from the Salutatorian, who was both entertaining AND intelligent (as well as humble). The Valedictorian was a bit preachy, but damn… he was offered full-ride scholarships to Harvard, Princeton, AND Yale. @_@ Anyway, Saturday was spent in the morning at TKD for the testing, where I got to have some fun, but my brother and Andrew put on a demo that, while very cool, resulting in my brother breaking some minor bones in his foot. =/ So he’s been limping around. Hope he feels better soon…

I should wrap this up - gotta sleep. @_@

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