Saturday, March 15, 2003

wo ze yoa RANG RANG RANG

Chinese dubbed title of the song... =D Speaking of fine titillating flesh, I just saw an asian movie with an actress by the name of Shu Qi. Not an oscar movie by any means, but apparently she has had a great previous career in porn (kinda like asia carrera). Pretty hot, her film shows a little skin which goes by the title "sex and Zen 2". Much to it's credit it follows the series Sex and Zen 1, which apparently is like "debbie does dallas". So my quest for true zen begins, inner piece? shall be tranquiled... I'll see if I can get a hold of a copy.

In the meantime, rock on.

Oh Elrock... great business stuff. I heard of Viral marketing before, but what exactly does it entail? Now we just have to come up with a business idea that people wants... Battle Cry of that epic magnitude... definitely won't be portable.

My nose is feeling better. There's so much coagulation in it, I still can't breath... great.

jael



Friday, March 14, 2003

Bang Bang Bang

- Funny stuff. Kinda like the "Gay Bar" thing Oon and I saw last weekend. Funny.
- R Dub and I are playing a little Halo and MOHAA tonight if there are any takers. Games start around 7pm. Be there or be square.
- Gamin' this sunday Jon? DO we know whats up?
- BATTLE CRY UPDATE: 5 hexes of terrain, 2 units of Union Troops, 8 casualty counters. Man, with these casualty counters, games of Battle Cray are going to be so sweet. The bottlenecks of violence are going to be more apparent as the bodies begin to stack up.... I'm excited anyway.

Here Are My Movie Contributions:
Charles

Thursday, March 13, 2003

I just want BANG BANG BANG

Best song/video combo ever: CliCk

Crazy A.Z., wAr, and other shit

I'm tired- been house sitting down in gardena this week and driving through all that crummy traffic is the pits. I had this great blog all worked out in my head like 4 hours ago (inbetween Bridget Jones Diary and Cruel Intentions 2.) Well, now I'm too tired.

Arizona: When I was on my recent mini-road trip we passed thru Flagstaff (emphasis on PASSED THRU) and it didn't seem too bad. BUT, at my old job there was a bunch of losers from AZ there, and man- wouldn't wanna live/visit there. I think most of them were from Phoenix, where I've never been. Yukums.

Oon: Let's go to New York soon, mmmk? I figure you know some places to stay (the bostone-connection) and my dad went there this week and it was a little less than $300 bucks round trip- seems reasonable (especially to an unemployable gent like me self.) I think there's a big storm coming soon, but we should do that SF/SJ trip soon! Yar!

Glad your nose is ok Jael! You were having the ladies suck the snot out of your noze again, eh!??? AHAHAHAH! :\ (nap time.)

And the main reason I decided to post: BIG anti-war protest downtown this Saturday March 15th. Here is the LoGISTiX!! I'll be taking the metro to it, and you guys could theoritically get there from the green line- its on that thar logistics page. Last one was cool- you guys should come. :_P

werk sux

So, today I decided I had better things to do than watch Dark Angel for 8 hours, so I took French leave. (That's a total old-school Steven King reference! I think it means, going AWOL.) Anyway, one thing I did with my fine time was sit my ass down at Krispy Kreme and put in some time editing a story. While I was doing so, I saw a homeless guy outside ranting and raving at passer-by. He was wearing a shirt that said, "I (HEART) DATABASES." That was pretty cool.

Random anecdote: yesterday I was entertaining my friend Nick at work by pretending to masturbate by punching myself in my imaginary clitoris. Right as I was doing so, a woman who I work for and don't know very well walked into the room. Nick didn't even see me do it! So, that sucked.

I like the new look of the blog (cool picture!) except there's one problem... having the text at the bottom of the screen friggin' kills my neck. See, I use a laptop, and with the text at the bottom I have to arc my neck down and squint to read. Reading text at the bottom of an angled screen is less comfortable than reading it at the top. Ouch! But, who cares about old Oon?

Anyway, I agree with you guys about Bush sucking and all that, so, er, keep at it.
I am back from the horrible land of Arizona for 2 days. Then I have to go back. Don't even ask. But the high-light of the trip so far was an old person wearing a shirt that said, "I'm retired, now give me my fucking discount." I hate it there.
I just got a chain letter on gas...

At first I thought it was kinda interesting. Remember how "don't buy gas for a day" last year didn't quite work? (It's flawed in concept). Anyhow, now I got one saying that instead of not buying gas for 1 day, we should NOT buy gas from Mobil and Exxon. Right. That was the proposal. I swear, either this is from an employee of Chevron, arco, or it's from some dumb kid who has nothing else to do!!! But believe it or not, my friend forwarded me this email, which means some dumb kid will actually influence a nominal amount of business from mobil and exxon. teh moron = teh true jackass.

J.

P.S give dubya a fork and hope he might hurt himself

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

teh king of jackasses = USA

I think I'm more afraid of our own government than North Korea these days. In Canada recently there was a poll about who people were more afraid of: Sadaam or Bushy, and *BIG SHOCK* dubya got more votes. This ain't no jokes dudes. Yeah, so anyways, we outta go up north soon! Let's see if we can get Oon to cum along too (I hear that Jordan and Matt will be up north that unspecified weekend also!1!) :P

Jackasses are Korean too...

Yeah N Korea is some freaky shi-ite. Those monkeys are a bit on the militant side. Given that things are pretty bad in that country, they have a terrible depressed economy, they may decide that they have nothing to lose by instigating a war.

Yeah that would rock if you guys come up. I will be down the last weekend of march for Jenn and Mark's wedding. I do not know how much time I will have to cheel with da homies, but I will try and get some time in. Problem is that my Cosines are in town. Tangent and Secants too.

You know gas sucks dick when you are excited to find gas for $2.159/Gal. Interesting point to note... Refineries were taking $0.27/gal in processing costs/profits in january, now they are taking $0.55/gal. Sounds like a racket to me. The state government is looking into possible excessive profits. Of course the Bobby McOil lobbiests will coo the politicians and some laws will be passed and gas will ironically get more expensive.

$@!% OPEC! Bastards decided not to increase oil production.

Ass, ass, or ass. No one rides for free.
North Koreans are Jackasses too

What's wrong with these countries?!! Do you remember Sid meiers Civilization? It's kind of scary to think of some of the similarities of that game... Advanced civilizations avoid war, while less advanced countries generally love war. Madness.

Elrock: I have (had) a deviated septum and a cherry like growth in my nose. It's fairly common and just needs to be burned off or shrunk. So it's done. You know, I think I've had this since high school but my parents were never observant enough to help me. I think I would have been a lot more comfortable with the breathing. Already I feel this is helping my breathing in my nose! So I'm never going to play baskeball again... I'm taking up Golf as a new sport =D!!!

steveimsteve: When do you want to come up? I'll try to take off a day or 2 so u guys can stay up longer. We should go to Great america or something if ur not too hard up for Qache. Yeah... gas prices are frigin outrageous. It's 2.4 now down on the east bay...

jael

Nariz

Did you get the Michael Jackson special? What the hell is wrong with your nose, you never really explained that part to the blog. Plastic surgery? Deviated septum? Nose removal procedure? We need to know.

War should be fought like the Civil War and/or Revolutionary war. It should be a law. A global law. There would be a lot less war, thats for damn sure.

And as a happy last thought, let's not forget about N.Korea and their 2 million troops and nukular weapons factories, so once we dispose of the tyrant that is the LEAST of our worries as far as "Safety for the American People" is concerned, we get to go to full-on war with the absolutely insane N.Korean jackass. Sleep on that!
Sharper tools in the nose

Well fellas, I just got out of surgery with some tubes now stuck in my nose. It's going to be a lovely 24 hours.

Never seen the movie "rabid" but sounds like the pitts. HAR HAR HAR
so I didn't get the reference at all... but I usually don't anyhow.

bout war: I can't believe the shit position that we are in. What the fuck is bush doing? I am probably the most ardent supporter of " respecting authoritative descisions" out of all of us, but Bush's leadership is seriously a joke. If you want to fight, fight. If you don't, don't send troops. Don't frigin send troops and then dilly dally around. Placating the UN should have been done prior to sending the troops. One thing I agree with you guys is that Bush is a complete utter dolt.

J.
Sharper Tool in The Shed

omg, all morning (well, *some* of this morning) I've been trying to figure out what you were talking about- "Jael's website joke"- I just didn't get it. My stupid vagina-armpit comment was about the Cronenberg movie "Rabid" which is about this crazy doctor who grafts this vagina-like thing under this ladies arm. LOL - I guess that crazy website Jael posted could also apply. :)

Trip- frikkin' gas prices are so horrendous right now though. They showed some place I think out by the grapevine where gas was like $3.65 for premium! Let's walk.

PS: Go here and place your vote concerning the war. I guess Frisk, the top Republican Whatever had some poll on his website asking: Should America go to war? And he made a big deal about it being strongly in-favor (Like 60% pro) and then word got around on different blogs and sites and tons of people went and voted and it ended up being 70% against war, 30% pro, so they took it off the site and claimed hackers got to it! Idiots. Anyways, vote on this stupid CNN one anywayd:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/
For Those About To Rock

If anyone here is into the older, more 'core, mo' betta Boy Sets Fire, check these guys out Killswitch Engage. They kind of rock. They are a great combo of grind/hardcore/melody. I wish I started this band myself, but alas, I suck and didn't.

EDIT: I'm in for the SF trip. Kublacon isn't until the 23rd of May, so maybe we can get there before sometime. Of course I've got nuthin' but no time....Hooray for Road Trips!
Action Trip

Hey, all of us down here in LA should go up there to SF (and SJ) some weekend soon! I got nuthin' but time and I haven't been to SF in ages. Jael mentioned Elrock going up for some con- is that supar-soon or what??
Today in the History Books

Mar 11, 1979
Kings defenseman Randy Holt picked up an NHL-record nine penalties and 67 penalty minutes in one game. They all came in the first period of a 6-3 loss at Philadelphia.

Mar 11, 2003
Eric Hess just realizes what the vagina in the armpit reference made by Steveimsteve refers too. At first, he was thinking some twisted Cthulhu-esque reference to a movie he had never seen, then it hit him, its about Jael's website joke. Eric feels like the sharpest tool in the shed.
Spider

Saw that movie the other day- I liked it. It's pretty disturbing but in a very subtle way (Not like "BOO! I GOT A VAGINA IN MY ARM PIT! ARGH!!!) It deals with (i guess) mental illness and Ralph Fiennes did such a good acting job it seriously kind of had me freaked out about becoming a schizo myself (I don't know much about the illness, but his portrayal seems pretty legit, especially when compared to the Russel Crowe's dumb Beautiful Mind crap I also caught recently- bah!) Anyways, I recommend Spider- I don't know if you guys would really like it- its not like most films- I dunno- everything seems very "precise"- wierd. Anyways, I just read a cool interview with David Cronenberg in The Onion AV, so yeah. Awesome interview. Better than Blinddate Uncensored. Almost.

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

b00kz

I'm thinking of placing a small order online in the next few days for a couple of books- anyone else interested in going in on it? It'll cut down on shipping (if we can get the order up to $50 bucks shipping = free) and they've got some real good used stuff- lemme know mmmk? b00kx

Also, any of you guys seen the Animatrix shit? I guess I'm kinda late jumping on the lagwagon with this, but its a series of japanamation style Matrix sequels or prequels or whatever they're making. I watched the 1st one HERe. I also think that cartoon short shit that comes on before you see that shit-looking movie DREAMCATCHERZ - yeah, k-ewl.



The US is Awesome!

Freedom Toast!!!
To Jael

Here is my contribution to your (our) quest for cash. In my office, there are really good business men. 100's of millions of dollars of total net worth businessmen. They know what they are doing. Right now, some of them are doing a website called consciousone, this site does online self-help/spirituality classes with known authors. From what I have picked up, here are the ingredients for success:

1) Viral Marketing
2) Databases of emails of interested people
3) Worthwhile content for your target
4) Money

So at least we have the guidelines, now we just need the rest of it.... but rest assured, I'm in. And if we have a great idea, the guys in my office will give us money and take control over 60 - 90% of the company, but hey, some money is some money!
Actually...

this is the day after New Years, so you are recovering from drinking a bottle of vodka at your apartment, Jael is clubbing in SF, and Enron is at work in this picture.
Me, Jael, and Arron-el must be JUST off camera in that picture. Actually, I remember, the three of us were taking the picture! Yeah, that's it! :)
New Look?

This is version 1.9.9 because some images aren't finished, but this is the 2.0 look I think. Looks a lot like the Showcase site, but hey, I made that too, at least I could use the code twice, eh? Comments?

Members and Images don't work yet, but it's late and I need to go to work tomorrow, so no soup for you!

I agree with the laptop comments too.
I'm not the target market either

These things are for techno-flunkies and non-tech people who would like the convenience of a portable dvd player while camping or on a trip or office. Personally i would, like Mcbaron, spend 400 bucks on a laptop DVD or a desktop DVD-R. Still there might be a small market. Anyhow, about the cost rude, I'll share with you off the internet at a later time, but let's just say I can afford to sell the same unit at about 199-299. I just need to find some outlet channels.

Jael.

Monday, March 10, 2003

Hmm

I dunno about those dvd players. I, personally, have no interest in ever owning one, but I'm sure there's some kind of market for it. Check out these reader reviews on Amazon of a similar model of the one you showed us. CLizniCK

How much is it going to cost you? Are these "hot" ? Here's some more reviews of a model (different manuf tho) to the one you showed: Click. What I've noticed on a few of these reviews is what seems like a high percentage of defective ones floating out there. Make sure you're not getting a bunch of lemons.

Good lkuck!

(Edit: HERE is the stupid Amazon page for the model you showed- sry.)
Craigslist

Yeah I do not know about most of the listings on there. Some serious wierdos. On the otherhand some of them are not bad. There have been a few I have passed on that I wish I had persued. A few D&D ones. I would say the signal to noise ratio is 1:8. Not too hot, but then again you are only looking for a few ads. Dating.. Ehhh, I wouldn't recommend it off craigslist. It just seems like it would be frought with all sorts of mines. Stick with the other resources.

Johnny I have no idea how well those little mini DVD players sell. Personally if I were in the market for one I would buy a laptop. They are expensive enough that I can not justify just the DVD option, without at least some lowend laptop hardware. But thatis just me and I may not be a good represntation of the target market.

That Blind Date show is pure pain. In fact all those damn reality show give me gas. I never liked "The Real World" and I do not like the next generation of them.

Man one beer anymore and I am toast. Alright I am Audi, before you monkeys start harshing my buzz.
coolio

Seriously. Glad you were only joking! I thought for a moment there that I sorta threw 160 bucks down the drain. =D

Yeah, Mcbaron, I checked out Craigs list and it's mighty scary. I don't know how gutsy amy was to respond to those ads. But there was this one that wanted only females for a fun trip to disney, hollywood studios, magic mountain. He proposes to get only 1 room, will pay for all the expense of the trip and does not expect sex in return. There's a concept. But expects that there be a relationship built from it. Makes me want to go if I was a girl.

Anyhow, what do you guys think of this product
http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=11101873&cmp=KA14028

I can get it at a minute fraction of the retail cost, but the problem is how to distribute this product. Internet? Retail? Do you think it's a good product? Respect your thoughts fellas.

Thanks,
Jael
PB Confedential

Jael: Between you and me, E-Rick told me he hated that pbs game, no joke. Just trying to get the truth out there. I just watched Blind Date: Uncensored! Argh! Yeah, thats what I've been doing with my free time of late. Sweet. It was pretty bad. Couple of funny things but mostly chicks with super-nasty fake boobs flashing the camera. :\

Blasterbate, PBI taken to the next logical step.

Ja -el, Elric likes PBI in a very special way. Seriously though, he almost always has that game or BB setup. Elric would play it even if his adnoids were on fire. In fact he will often tie a belt around his neck and thrash the terrain with his yard stick. Its great fun, except I have to put that damn green moss shit back on the trees all the time once he has spent himself. Fucker. Yeah Stroben 69! Either that or it is Stampy playing with the trees. Elric also likes Ace of Base. Nuff said. Side note, I had a rockin' time Saturday Mr. -el.

Elric: Kings piss me off. We need new teams... Red Wings! Go self loathing! Go! On second thought, how about I get a little localism going. Hey the Sharks! Never mind. Forget I said it.

Ry & Elric: How the hell do we end up with such winner teams?

Motordyke: Turn the key.. No really, how is the program going? I have not heard an update on your scholarly endeavors, or extracurricular for that matter. Our your advisers all over you still?

Peckerwood: Man you gotta get out of su familia's casa. I would have slit my wrists by now.

RuDog: How is job quest? Mine is bortz. I have the option of working where I am or... Nothing. Yeah!

What do you do with a bundt cake?

Killen 45, Works everytime.
Seriously...

NO Johnny, I love PBI!!! DOn't be disheartened!! I actually have the board set-up righht now and am going to play against myself!!!! This is 100% truth, Aaron can attest to this: I love PBI!!!!!! I just never get to play anyone other than myself!

I love it like I love Blood Bowl. Now thats a statement.
Another good blog is Tom Tomorrow's blog This Modern World. Although its not super personal (like ours), mostly he collects interesting news bits relating to the mess thats going on these days. Good source for inf0. And his comic is really funny. The "Life In Hell" from the last LA WEEKLY was a reprint from like 1993 and it basically could have been from today (re: gulf war.) *sigh*

Interesting comment

Every joking statement usually contains 50 % fact and 50% joke. I don't believe you were entirely joking about the PBI deal. I'm a little sad, but I'm still going to finish the game... game of nuclear proliferation that is. Don't worry, I didn't purchase the game on the sole account that you and I were going to go head to head. I always wanted to get into miniatures, napoleonics, or something but just never ventured forth. It's a quaint little system, and I'm still pretty into it and hopefully I'll be able to play this with my cousin as well and you... if you are ever up for it.

Movie Review: Continuous Hell

It's a Cantonese movie. Was rated #1 movie, a pretty prestigous deal. Kind of like the grammies if you will. It was pretty good considering filmaking in Asia is a far cry short of moviemaking in the States. If any of you are ever up here, I'll let you guys watch it, unless somehow you learn to read chinese and can rent it at a Chinese Video store in Orange county. I'll take my odds on you guys visiting, however bleak that chance is. =D

Jael
My Blog to You All

Motorbichael- I was remembering back to when you came with me to work one weekend day. We were in the tech room and you saw this huge tube of screwdrivers on one of the desks. I was doing something else and you said in a very UCLA circa 1994-1997 voice, "I like screwdrivers...". For some reason, that has been making me laugh all day long. How's Hogwarts?

Steveimsteve - You missed some good Halo-ing! Let's try again this weekend! Funny commercial, I'll make one just as soon as I have some time and speakers here at work.

Bobby McOil Baron Killen - You seriously need to move back to LA. Seriously. I'm not even kidding.

Ragnar - We too must try to play some Halo, unless of course you are busy...

Jael - Nice to hear you are painting some PBI stuff. Have you based them yet? It's pretty much a waste of time for you to paint because I don't want to play PBI anymore.... just kidding. I'm still ready for some Blood Bowl throwdown, we can also try and play over the net with the javabowl game too. Just a thought.

R-Dub - Go Kings. Go Cubs. Ach, its all the same. I know you ahve been losing some weight, so hopefully this won't be a problem for you again, but try not to get your stomach folds sunburned while you are in Arizona, the Striped Belly Look was like totally last year!



Sunday, March 09, 2003

Green l'eggs n ham

H'eeey oetersen! Just givin u a shout.

ok.. So since 8:00 this morning I've been fooling around with the paint for the PBI miniatures. I've been trying to figure out the difference between "stone grey", "field gray" and the bluish grey paint that I had. I've found that by adding a little green into the grey mix gives it a good dull stone greyish look. Yah paint! Yah hobbies! Marc Andressen of netscape doesn't believe in hobbies because he thinks it's a waste of time. He's probably right, bastard overachiever.

Watched 1 hour photo the other day. Quite disturbing but mostly rather un-enjoyable. The movie was so mundane. For the good first part of the movie it was just showing the daily life about a film guy at a local store. It wasn't until the latter part of the movie, provided you haven't fallen asleep yet, when all the psychotic developements began to show (when the guy finally snaps). That was when Robin Williams gave a pretty decent performance. If I wanted to watch a low-paid film developer and his life, I'd go out to the local Walgreens and go hang out there. What was disturbing though was that this guy literally can be a reflection of a lot of people's lives, varying degree of course.
Movie rating: Fried rice with an egg roll

The Mcoil Baron Killen tour was open in SF yesterday. Definitely say I had a good time. SF is always fun, especially if you know the trendy and inexpensive places to hang out and you don't live there. Even then It's definitely not a cheap-to-do-often routine. I think the Aaron tour cost me about 60 bucks for the day. 2 meals, some paint, train tickets. Definitely beat the tour I gave Mr. Oeterson when he came up here.
Me: "er... jon, hey how's about we go to SF"
Jon: "Ok"
(we ride the bart)
Me: "Well here's chinatown"
Jon: "great"
Me: "That's SF. lets go now."

Nose surgery next week... wish me luck fellas! "billy jean is not my son... da da da da"

Jael




New Convention Movie

So, I made this new convention short film- click here to see it: CLICK HERE I MEEN!!

If you wanna make a movie too, click on the MAKE MOVIE button in the corner. Funny stuff! :)

Oh yeah, congratulations again.

spam

So, I'm up to about 12 pieces of spam a day. This is a new record. How about you guys?

Fortunately, my precious, precious Macintosh mail program has a pretty decent junk mail filter built-in, so of the deluge only 1 or 2 pieces actually trickle into my Inbox.

Today I got a piece from a travel company, and the headline was: A Magical Jaunt, including Air!

Free air?

Wow!

Well, shortly I will be rubbing elbows with the likes of Mr. Haas and my old Mattel cronies in the playing of some Dungeons and Dragons. Then I'm going to see Spirited Away at the Egyptian in Pasadena. I don't know if you guys have seen this one (it's an anime), but it's really, really good! Although there aren't enough tentacles. But other than that....