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And on the Cool Check-In, Centerstage on the Mic, It's the New Style...
2002-01-23 14:55:24
EK: OH MY GOD THAT PIC IS FREAKING AWESOME!!!
Consider me cheered up. Considerably. I laughed my ass off.
"perhaps if you kicked it in the Tribe Called Quest sense of the phrase..."
LOL.
::phew:: I needed that :)
already saved it off for future laughs.
Thanks again! -
Dear Universe:
2002-01-23 11:48:38
Yes, today can get worse, so you most certainly did *not* hear me say "can this day get any worse?!?!" earlier. That was someone else.
Today's events:
Wife leaves house upset.
Phone rings in shower. This can mean only one thing: wife calling.
Run through house soaking wet to get phone. Now freezing.
It's Liz. She got into an accident this morning.
It's her fault. Because she was angry at someone who cut her off.
No problem. I'll just grab the Bebop mix CD Phil made for me and go to work.
CD doesn't work. It's a bad burn. Won't work in car CD player.
Reach down for change at toll and realize I left house without wallet.
I think about the cop I just passed while I was doing 75, and the fact that I have to drive another hour home without a wallet (or liscence).
Get to work and realize that I don't have my ID badge, either, which means I can't get into the building. Fortunately, one of the building workers saw me and let me in.
Had to borrow $10 so I can afford to eat and pay tolls to get home.
Figure out in head without seeing it that damage to car will be about $400-500.
UGH. -
Word to your Moms, I came to drop bombs.
2002-01-23 01:35:16
Love that song.
Can't get it out of my head now that I'm playing WWIIOnline every night ad insanity. I've been working 10+ hour days (and don't forget about that 2 hour round trip commute every day!) for the past two weeks. This means weekends, folks. My buddy Phil wanted to come over on Sunday, and I had to reschedule the past two weekends, so I told him it was O.K. even though I really needed to get some work done. I couldn't tell Phil this because he'd feel really guilty and call the whole thing off in a huff. So after he left around 7 pm I headed into the office. For 8 more hours of work. I didn't get home 'till 4:30 am on Monday morning. Then I was back at work by noon again on Monday. And I've got about a week and a half more of those hours.
Ugh. This game is going to be the death of me. I'd better make a mint on royalties, or I'm never doing another soccer game as long as I live. Not worth it.
I wish I had more time for my personal artwork or even a spare minute to rip the audio for this upcoming AMV (I *swear* I'm going to start on it soon. Just as soon as this project is over Feb 1st and I get my life back). It seems all I have time for lately is work, a brief moment of gaming, and traffic.
I need to comment on stuff or something, so these sporadic journal entries don't become droll.
Oh! I know...The Fast and the Furious. I forced myself to watch it when Phil was over. We like to think we're car mod buffs. Well, I like to think I am. He actually has had a little bit done to his Volkswagon GTI. I, however, can only dream since every spare penny is poured either into this house or into my computer (which by the way needs a new video card. Fun!).
Well, after seeing TFatF (ha! The Fat F! Funny!), I'd like to say that I'm *not* a car mod buff. I'm someone who wants a very responsive and tuned car because my father used to race cars and taught me a lot about how to drive them properly. I am *sooooooo* not those people they picture in the movie. In fact, I don't even think the car mod buffs are anything like those people in the movie.
They got *so* much wrong with that stupid bomb of a movie. For instance: Vin Diesel's character is chiding our hero about how he doesn't even know how to drive his own car. Vin sites that the hero needs to "double clutch" it to let the rpms equalize out between gearshifts. For those of you who don't know what a double clutch is, it's when you allow the gearshift to stabilize in neutral before engaging the next gear. (i.e. car's in first. Step on clutch, move gear box to neutral, release clutch. Step on clutch again, move gearbox to second, release clutch. Lather, rinse, repeat). This has to be the stupidest thing ever mentioned in the history of racing and it's within the first 15 minutes of the movie. The cars only take 10 seconds to go a quarter mile. They're shifting through at least 4 gears. Who the fuck has time to double clutch when you're going that fast? And more to the point, modern clutches no longer require a double-clutch, especially racing clutches. In fact, if there was $6,000 and the pink slip to an $80,000 car on the line, I'd *slam* shift my way down the quarter mile (i.e. not using any clutch and just ramming the shifter into the next gear using human musclepower) so I wouldn't lose an ounce of torque to the wheels while I shifted. Then I'd replace my now stripped clutch for $2000 and walk away one rich mofo.
And it gets worse from there. These guys are racing their cars over 140 mph without helmets or even FASTENING THEIR SEATBELTS. I can't even begin to tell you just how wrong that is. Anybody who's ever raced a car for fun or profit will tell you how invaluable the seatbelt is just insofar as controlling your car is concerned, let alone the safety issue. If you're not jostled around in your seat (i.e. wearing your belt), you have a better feel for the weight shift of the car. They all have 4 pt. restraint racing seats in their cars, yet none of them are equipped with 4 pt. seat belts (the ones you see Datona guys using). They're not even using the frickin' lap/shoulder 3 pt. restraint that comes stock with the cars. LAME.
The funny thing is that Phil and I came to the agreement that The Fat F would have made an *excellent* anime. The storyline was pretty thin, as well as character development, but for whatever reason it struck us as something that would have been fantastic had it been done by the Japanese and been animated. Things like the big race that everyone gathers at being called "Race Wars." Oooooooh sounds so NOT cool when you're talking about real people and real cars, but I can just sooo see that name as a bad engrish transration and therefore being cool in an anime. Kinda like "The Big O." Do they have any idea what "the Big O" means in this country?
But the whole racing thing. With anime. Yeah. Cool. I'm shutting up now.
Oh, one last thing: the final stunt of the movie was *very* cool. I'll give them that. It was cool to watch it from all the different camera angles on the collector's DVD, too. I thought they did that sequence with CG, and it turns out that they really did that with 2 cars and some stuntmen. And about 9 cameras.
Oh wait, one *more* last thing. Don't rent from Blockbuster Video ever again. They edit their freakin' videos, and don't mention it anywhere on the box. I'm almost *positive* this one was edited (a guy says "get off" in regards to the art of male self manual release, but if you read his lips he's obviously saying "beat off." I doubt that changing that kept this flick from being an R movie, and is just the sort of "family safe" image BB so desperately wants.
You want further proof? Go rent Starship Troopers from them sometime. When you're done watching it, ask yourself where the scene was where the Sargent breaks the Private's arm on purpose, or where the scene was where the guy gets his head lopped off by the wing of that bug. I'm almost positive they got rid of the red-head's boobs in the group shower scene, too. But I *know* they cut the other stuff. F Blockbuster. I'm going with the locally owned places from here on out.
Peace out. -
I was going to laugh...
2002-01-18 19:42:17
EK: That cat story reminded me of a funny encounter with my cat when I tried (by myself) to fit her into her old hard plastic carrier (which I later determined was too small).
Short version: one half hour later, I decided it was better for her to stay at home and have Liz try it the next day. At that point, I was soaked with sweat from chasing the cat around the house for a half hour, I had leather gloves on because the kid paws were off, and she was attacking me with full-nailed-and-tooth-frenzy. In the end, I had to take the mattress and box spring off of the bed and throw it on the floor because she figured (unsucessfully) that she could hide under the bed. Of course, removing the mattresses caused pure terror and panic now that her safe haven had been violated, and I don't think I ever want to hear another living being make those kind of noises again. Ever.
I was going to hope that would brighten your day a bit, and then I read the rest about the f'n "beautiful people." I've taken a fall down cement stairs like that myself (many times, some landing me in the student infirmary), and I can't believe no one stopped to see if you were all right, let alone had a laugh. Christ, it makes my blood boil to hear that people are that cruel. Or just that stupid, really.
Hope you're feelin' better.
As for comments to the rest of the list, I think I'm just going to stay away from that particular ego-fest.
Off to kill more Frenchies at WWIIOnline later.
OH! On a side note, as soon as I'm done with the crunch time for my game (I'll have worked about 80 hour weeks for 20 days straight when all is said and done), I'm going to start working on my Bebop vid. After visualizing everything I need to do for it, I've realized that I'll be lucky if I get it done in time to air at Acen. I'm biting off way more than I can chew here (especially for a first time AMV'er), but I get those chills up my spine and the hair stands up on the back of my neck when I think about how it's all going to look when it's done. And those little hairs have never proven me wrong before, so I'm going with their counsel for the time being.
Oh, and one more thing. DA BEARS.
Good luck on Saturday, guys.
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Whapeesh!
2002-01-17 01:00:12
That's the sound of my old tablet being connected to my old work computer which is now at home. They enjoy each other's company, evidently, as they are getting along swimmingly.
What this means: I can *finally* do color art again! The work machine comes with everything pre-installed. That is to say it comes with everything I had on it while I was using it at work. Painter. Photoshop. 3DSMax. Filmbox. O.K., so I'll be using those last two to do work, but wOOt! the damn thing runs! That's more I can say about my home machine, which is at work. Being fixed. This is all very confusing.
At any rate, it's all I can do to not go on Oekaki boards and just draw picture after pic. Now I can finally finish that Harry Potter fan art I started like, a month ago. O_o
Bowler out.
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