Saturday, November 29, 2003

Ah, pumpkin pie and coffee for breakfast

That's the life!

I can't believe the con is almost upon us. I got my badge yesterday. Now I'm mega-psyched for teh games and Anaheim hoox0rs. Anyone else got theirs yet?

Maybe I'll go to the website and see if there are any actual events I'm interested in... and damn, I gotta start getting ready if I'm going to run anything....

Mike, when are you in town?
Thanksgiving Movie Fest Reviews

Happy T-day! I pity the foo !

Timeline - Decent flick. Certainly ranks at least two times higher than Knights Tale (BTW that is not too difficult!). Knights Tale = Teh Suck! But Timeline had realistic armor, weaponry, and the epic siege was a nice touch. The plot could be remolded a little. Movies that deal with time traveling are so flawed. I guess these type of movies come in cycles. Remember Back to the future? Well this is back to the future except with said horses and trebuchets instead of skateboards and dalorians.

Missing - If you are expecting a scary movie, think again. I was a bit dissapointed with the movie, as the trailer made the movie sound mysterious. The trailer talked about a mystical being/demon, and young women dissappearing. (Not to spoil it for anyone) so I won't say what it was, but let's just say it was nothing extraordinary. The movie turned out nothing more than a western shootout drama. Having said that, the movie wasn't terrible. Had I had a different expectation going in, the movie would have been a little better.

SO whens the gaming? Perhaps I can join in and play a little Over the computer BB or medal of honor or something.

Thursday, November 27, 2003

happy thanksgiving guys! hope you have fun and are safe!!!
Post-Family Pox Giving Day Drink-a-thon

Anyone up for a little post turkey drinking at the ole homestead? I think Ryan is in, and I think Jon is available, anyone else? Mike?

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Whatup Lee

Getting a little late, so I'll just try to give you a call tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
lame chain letters

What's the point of making bogus stories up like that? Someone must have lots of time on their hands when it's free from masturbation. Do us all a favor, chain letter writers: keep your hands on your nutsack and go back jacking off!!!


Seriously, what's the gain? To see the letter sent all over the internet, to see the frequency the letter can make it's way back? Honest...


This is true though... this morning i followed this stock that grew 44% in the wee morning hours. Had I decided to invest at that moment, the stock ended up 87% gain for the day.

Yowsers. 40k ivestment would have given me 19k back. Too bad I didn't invest

Jael
Wow

That is some insane revenge. If that is true that has got to be the most outrageous thing I have heard in a while. How ever it is not a true story. Several variations of this story have been floating around since 1985. It made a resurgence in 1995 and again recent. Each time with more embellishments, most recently with the "Priceless" moment theme. Many media forms have been used, radio, faxes and the I-net. Boooo!

Jon: Big Adam's Apples suck. Trust me I know. Especially if it gets shot while paint balling.

Back to work Jerk.
Hoody hoo!

Hey jon, I tried calling you at home, but I figured you went to work. Talked to your pops for a bit. Hey so anyhow, i didn't want to hassle you at work, so whenever you get this blog, call me on my cell! Aight gangsta,

Cool Story:

So I get this email telling a story on this guy. Here's the cut-and paste
>>>>this is a true story about a recent wedding
that took place at Clemson University. It was in the local newspaper and
even Jay Leno mentioned it. It was a huge wedding with about 300 guests.

After the wedding at the reception, the groom got up on stage with a
microphone to talk to the crowd. He said he wanted to thank everyone for
coming, many from long distances, to support them at their wedding. He
especially wanted to thank the bride's and his family and to thank his
new father-in-law for providing such a lavish reception.
As a token of his deep appreciation he said he wanted to give everyone a
special gift just from him. So taped to the bottom of everyone's chair,
including the wedding party, was a manila envelope. He said this was his
gift to everyone, and asked them to open their envelope. Inside each
manila envelope was an 8x10 glossy of his bride having sex with
the best man.
The groom had gotten suspicious of them weeks earlier and had hired a
private detective to tail them. After just
standing there, just watching the guests' reactions for a couple of
minutes, he turned to the best man and said, "F--- you!". Then he turned
to his bride and said, "F---you!". Then he turned to the dumbfounded
crowd and said, "I'm outta here." He had the marriage annulled first
thing in the morning. While most people would have canceled the wedding
immediately after finding out about the affair, this guy goes through with
the charade, as if nothing were wrong. His revenge.. .making the bride's
parents pay over $32,000 for a 300 guest wedding and reception, and best of

all, trashing the bride's and best man's reputations in front of 300
friends and family members. This guy has balls the size of church bells.
Do you think we might get a MasterCard "priceless" commercial out of
this?
Elegant wedding reception for 300 family members and
friends......................................$32,000.
Wedding photographs commemorating the
occasion..........................................................$3,000.
Deluxe two week honeymoon accommodations in
Maui...................................................$8,500.
The look on everyone's face when they see the 8x10 glossy
of the bride humping the best
man...............................................................Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's
................. MASTERCARD.

>>>

Jael.

fuck

I wish I had an Adam's Apple. Right now I got nothin'. In fact, I wish I had a huge Adam's Apple that looked like a big dick, hanging off my neck.
Hey oon, bad reception, that's whatsup

for some reason AT&T doesn't give messages on time. Sometimes it can take up to a fucking day or two to get messages. I didn't get your sunday message, i guess till now. Anyhow, I'll pop you a call tomorrow morning.

Your voice is sexy though. You should go into voice modeling. It's like feet modeling except they take snapshots of your adams apple as it contracts and expands while creating your melodious voice. Much money can be made.

Johnny

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

fuckin' ashton kucher

First Dan Savage thinks he's all hot, now he's ripping off my story ideas. Philosophically, probably most any time-travel idea has been written about somewhere. I mean Groundhog Day deals with repetition and consequences, Blinx the Time Cat deals with fast forward/rewind in a platform jumping environment, and Peggy Sue Got Married (and like two shows from last season, I understand) deals with going back in time to school. So, that's cool. Anyway I bet my getting-strangled-by-a-drug-dealing-pedophile scene is way better than Kucher's.

Speaking of that guy, have you guys tried to watch that show Punk'd? That shit is unwatchable. The camera moves every 36 frames, exactly. It's like the Ring.

We had some slow time at work today so I pulled Godfather Part III out of the vault. Holy fuck, that shit was worse than Punk'd. The plot, dialogue, and acting were all so corny and derivative. What happened to Al Pacino? At least the Devil's Advocate was good.

You know what I like? Music. And Amoeba Records. Those are two good things. I picked up the new Frank Black album... pretty cool! The lyrics are more straightforward and raw than usual. Most of the songs are about divorce and depression... good stuff.
clone warez

I had never seen this (dont have cable) but u can watch em on the net - cool! clone wars cartoons by the samurai jack animator. i like it better than the movie.

http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/microseries/chapter/archive.html

yarz
the eye spy

the whole premise for the eye is pretty darned cool, and the look of the film is nice - its VERY sharp and clear and I assume digital. BUT, its just fucking boring. I want scary movies that are MEAN. As flawed as The Ring is, at least its MEAN. Gothika had a bunch of those cheap scares in it, but without giving away anything, it is at its heart a NICE movie like "what lies beneath." FUCKING BULLSHIT! Fuckin' weak ass horror/thriller movies.

I think there are some cultural things in the eye that bug me too, like the music. Whenever theres some sappy love shit going on, its THE WORST music you've ever heard. I dunno - they just have a different aesthetic with some of their shit i guess. YUCK!

Saw some decent previews though. ACTUALLY, there's a new Ashton Kutcher movie that looked kind of cool and it TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE THEY RIPPED OFF JON! Its about this guy who discovers a way to go back in his past. He can pause time, rewind, or whatever. So, he goes back to change something. Then other shit goes wrong. So he keeps going back and shit gets worse and worse. Looks pretty rad. I can't tell for sure, but it looks like in one scene he does some REALLY violent shit, and then rewinds- yeah, probably all weaker than JONS story is/was/coulda/woulda been, but still neat.

-gorble gorble gorble
9PM EH? Hmmm... I donno...

That may be a bit late. I would actually love to leave late, but that will only make my life miserable. I am thinking more along the lines of early after noon. 2pm or so. Otherwise it will be too painful to imagine. Thursday we are eating dinner early to mid-eve, although there are talks of going and grabbing a few drinks with Pat and Carrie since they both will not see me the rest of the weekend. You are all welcome to come and drink it up. DOnt worry it wont be a heavy drink fest. Otherwise, I will be free friday and saturday so far as I know.

Yeah the Eye has a few really creepy scenes. I would mantion a few but they may ruin the "Suplise!"

I am stoked on hanging out this weekend. Rule!
Hey... that was old enough for our forefathers in Vietnam, who are we to be picky??

I heard there's some kind of good elevator scene in The Eye, but I don't know anything else about it.

So, are people busy on Thursday night? My family always does the Thanksgiving thing early... by 7:00 or so I've usually shaken off my trytophan hangover and am ready to rock, at a moderate level. I also have Friday free during the day, and all day Saturday and Sunday. Aaron you're not leaving until 9:00 PM on Sunday. It Is Deicided. Eric, you should run WFRP or something!

Monday, November 24, 2003

Ja -eL, I like your math

I got a jolly snort out of your figures for how much he made on those games. That som' bitch had a decent idea that would barely had paid for itself if it wasnt for his book and some crazy followers. Its good to hear that you have made it back to the states in one piece. How do you like the fine warm weather you have returned to? It was colder on Saturday. 38 in Fremont during the night, 39 in SF. Sprinkle in some strong winds from the north and instant cold. Blah!

Did you guys see that someone actually was able to cross bread tomatoes and tobacco to make
"Tomaco"? The plant actually has nicoten in the fruit produced by the abomination. Pretty funny.

"Daddy, these tomatoes taste like grandma"

PS, I saw this on Slashdot...

"LA County has banned the use of the terms 'Master/Slave' (commonly used to denote hard drive arrangements.) According to Snopes.com, 'someone within the County bureaucracy... had taken offense at 'master/slave'"
Hooxorz, Lots of

Came back to see a flurry of blogs which was exciting because the blog has been deadzorz for quite some time now. Unfortunately the only thing I didn't get to do on this trip is getting some hooxorz. I DID get a massage for an hour, but to my dismay, this was at one of those "professional" joints where they only have sad endings. El-cheapo though compared to the full service massage places here. The dillio only cost me 1000 NT or 35 dollars equivalent. Don't see why people are so into massages though. This was my first time getting a full back massage and IT WAS HORRIBLE. At times they kneeded with so much pressure, I felt like crying. I had to convince myself that the money spent made the pain good... Good pain.

Cashflow 101 and 202 eh? Kudos to erick for buying both of them. How much did your coworker part it for? It's a good game if you can obtain it at a decent price. I doubt there is a lot of copies floating around. Based on simple mathematics, if he sold 1000 copies, he has already made 190,000 deducting the 5000 dollars it takes to make the game.

Jael
Hmmm...

I thought The Eye was pretty descent. Huh? ALthough it was not a horror movie, but a thriller. It is a bit slow...

I tried blogging the other night from the exercise bike at the gym last night but I failed. The bike had an Internet connection as long as you peddle. As soon as you stop though it cuts you off. Anyway the touch screen for inputting text was just to had to work with and I could not get a message off. So much for that.

There was an article in sfgate about a pitbull that attacked a police horse in Golden Gate park. Crazy ass dog. Pit Bull.. Go figure. Still a horse is huge. In the end the police officer, the owner, the pitbull, and the horse all ended up injured. Check it out here.

Sneezy
don't see THE EYE. omg, it was SO BAD. The guy who told me it was scary must be on crack, because that shit was SO BORING. if i had gone in with NO expectations - maybe i'd think it was pretty bad. NOW, im like "this movie is teh worst!

elrick - what color is your truck? i was down in MB today and i saw a guy in a truck that looked like u and i started honkign and he looked at me all crazy.

Sunday, November 23, 2003

I meant to say ORIENTAL MOVIE!

PS - Both my cds are available for ordering ONLINe and its NOT from CafePress - besides being way overpriced, they kept fucking up my cds, so i switched. I'm using an SF based company - $10 bucks each plus shipping (its like 2 or 3 bucks.) DO IT!


cafebeats.com
Latex Pants

Went to a pretty huge party last night. A friend of ours invited us and we thought it was going to be a small little social gathering, 20 maybe 30 people. Instead we got there and some 2 to 3 hundred people were milling about the place. It was a theme party: Fancy Pants. On your way in a sign outside the courtyard stated, "Fancy pants or no pants." People had the wildest pants on. Mine were kinda boring, but it was the best I could do for a last minute event. I had a pair of Khaki's that had been painted with glossy interior household latex paint. "Sticky Pants" made great fart sounds when I slid in and out of a seat. Too much smoking though. All my clothing still stinks. The party reminded me of the SDSU parties, but older. 30s instead of 20s. I am glad I dont frequent that scene, it gets old fast. I guess I hate the small talk and bullshit.

Rude: The Eye is actually a hong kong production filmed partly in Kong Hong and partly in Thailand. It is a pretty cool movie except the last five minutes. The "extra" ending could have been done without. Fun though.

Rock on.
"Don't be a pedophile, touch all the little kids!" - BR

Comeon dude - watchin' 13 year olds dance around - ehhhh.

I've been busy with work mostly - we're making ALL the Academy Award screeners (VHS this year) and its a 24/7 project thats gonna go on till mid December. Because of all the super-fear of piracy, here's how it works. I'll use the movie 13 as an example.

We make 1 dvd of the movie Thirteen with an individual barcode.
With that 1 dvd, we copy it to 1 VHS tape with another individual barcode.
The dvd and tape are scanned together so they know exactly what dvd made what tape.
We then destroy the original dvd with this pretty cool dvd/cd "shredder" kind of machine.
The lucky academy member gets the vhs tape in the mail.
I think there's something like 130,000 tapes that need to be made by mid-december.

I left out a LOT of scanning. Seriously, you scan EVERYTHING all the time. There's a security guard that pats you down whenever you leave the CAGED work area that has been dubbed "Thunderdome." Pretty crazy. LOTS of fucking overtime (and double-time), so even though the work is total Gungo-Ho: The Movie style car-plant stylee, its worth it for all the extra cheese.

My Scion is still fun to ride. Also still liking my girlfriend. I was SO into BB but then people stopped playing and I never reinstalled it on my new computer. Saw Gothika last night and it was Suckitha. Heard about this Japanese horror movie called "The Eye" which sounds FREAKY! Wanna see that.

JAEL - Don't get no h00x0rz!