Saturday, August 21, 2004

classic

A bunch of guys sitting around a table eating Doritos and farting up the place should not be spending a lot of time on imaginary sex discussions.

Good shit, art!

Friday, August 20, 2004

Ping Stats

After Theactionteam.org went down I decided to track the ping time with a ping plotter. The Action Team server was down consistently for 6hrs and 40min with one 7 minute window. GO Nexpoint. 99.9%? Nah... We like to keep it real. You know 92.3%.

RUle.

Edit: Still can not post the blog. I keep getting post errors.
D'OH!

I think I may have lost a potential interview last week. This one outfit contacted me back after I sent them a resume/cover letter. The email stated the salary range and asked if I was still interested. The email also said that, if I was still interested they would call me for a interview this week. I responded and have not heard from them since. I looked back and was concerned so I decided to send out a tickler email to see what the deal was. Well I was going to send all the previous correspondences so they would have a reference and that is when I found it. A damn spelling error in the email. First word too. F'ing spell checker missed it. 'Deam'? What the hell is 'deam'! It is not even a word. Great would you hire someone that sent you a letter that started, "Deam Tom:". Fuck me! Last time I trust that spell checker. I went back and spell checked again it through the same spell check and it didn't pick it up.

FUCK!!!!!
All Im gunna say is...

Today's offering at www.somethingawful.com is pretty damned funny. The front page is about the latest expansion set for D&D, and this morning's edition of Photoshop Phriday was pretty funny. It's damned hard to go wrong with astronaughts, I say!

As for favorite keyboards, I'm going to submit one of my all time favs.. the ergonomic keyboard for pirates! RRRrrrrrrRRRrRR!!!!!!!!!! (too big to post image I think)

http://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/humour/pirate-keyboard.jpg?pics

Late,

Cap'n O.

Well my second favorite

I have to say the next key I hate, but actually serves a purpose sometimes is the 'caps lock' key. Annoying, but not removal annoying.

I still love this one. New Microsoft keyboard:


D>M>
The Aaaaaron rampage!

Tell me that everyone didn't just simultaneously visualize A-man ripping that key off and chucking it with the special little "on tilt" grunt that only Aaron can pull off.

Hehe..

(I hate the insert key too.. down with Whitey!)

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Oh My God

Jon you are too fucking funny sometimes. Damn. Sounds fair though.

You know, getting a place through craigslist usually is pretty quick. Aimey found one a few days after emailing people. Same when we moved after I came up here. I dont think finding a place by the 2nd would be too far out of the realms of possiblity. Besides it is definately still a renters market here.

I got so pissed at the 'Insert' key on my keyboard today I tore it off. Of all the keys on the keyboard, 'Insert' and 'Scroll Lock' are the most useless. Anyway, the only time I hit Insert is by accident. Unfortunately, by virtue of my fine typing style, it can take me up to sentence to notice that I have just typed right over my last sentence becuase I inadvertently hit that damn key.

D>M>
Jackie Chan is definitely in the picture, Art! He usually fights like 20 guys though, right? I totally forgot about that True Romance fight! That was great!

I gotta see the Bourne Identity, too. And Rocky I.

I thought of another one: that Steven Seagal movie (Out for Justice?) where at the end he takes on... a really fat guy with no fighting skills. The dude's a drug lord or something, and basically doesn't even fight back as Seagal beats the fuck out of him for five minutes. Then Seagal sticks a corkscrew into his brain.

Fuck! I'm fired up to watch fight scenes and move to San Francisco. It appears I have virtually no chance of landing a job up there. Awesome!! Every day that we don't have a job, we have to play Dungeons and Dragons. If we make level 20 before getting a job, we have to slit each other's necks and give each other a daisy-chain throat-fuck for dessert. Fair enough?

Anyway, I'm now emailing people from Craigslist. Who knows if it'll take me three hours or a month to find a place; I'm really hoping to get there by my birthday (Sept. 2nd), but finding a place to live can be difficult. Anyway, just being in the process of searching feels good. Don't worry guys, you all will be the first to know when I'm ready to move!
Mobile Game Companies

are getting a huge amount of financing these days, ie sorrent. My brother knows a company willing to license games if you can build them. The guy (who is actually my cousins boyfriend) started up a small company hiring 2, Basic C programmers hammering out these little games. I think game royalties are like 99 cents or a dollar per purchase.

I think the biggest challenge lays in making a game that's has wide appeal as there are many many many games out in the market. But at such a cheap cost, people buy a couple of them at a time. I wonder if it's a fad though. In the long term, will people keep paying for small mobile games and eventually replace handhelds? It seems unlikely that Game Boy will allow themselves to be phased out.

Another benefit of mobile games is that it's not just sold here but globally. Imagine 4 bucks not for every handset in america, but in china, japan, taiwan even london.

Big business.


More Movie Action Fight scenes:

Debbie does dallas, Wicked women when the women tounge fight it out, oh wait... not that kind of jungle fighting eh?

WTF: I seem to have gotten the undeserved spoiler award. Just cuz I spoiled a book for eric. and it was only 1 DEAD GUY. Great. Good memories asshanti-holes. I'll remember that.

So movies with fighting...

Go check out some asian titles with bad dubbing, if you can get your hands on em. Blockbuster had some but not many.
http://www.rarekungfumovies.com/
Drunken master is a fun one.
Hero (much like flying tiger hidden penis, artistic kung fu movie)

Americana titles:
American Ninja - The end when the evil ninja fights Michael Dudikoff (don't watch #2)
The last dragon - Shonuff vs michael schulz (1st black TV martial artiste) enuff said
WW2 fights - Rambo 1st blood, 1st kickass coreographed 1 man vs all
Predator - 1 man vs alien

Medieval-
Conan the Barbarian & Destroyer - Barbarian the Arena fights! Destroyer the fight in the beginning. (sword swinging is cool)
Braveheart - fights are brutal (obviously)
That's my 2 pennies

I just had an epiphany

We haven't heard from Dennis or Mike for a while right? I get the feeling that Eric killed Myke while he was in the UK and just made up the story about him being in Italy. Also Dennis probably got killed by Eric when he came over weeks ago. Funny that, we havent heard from Ry for a while either. Elric, where are you stuffing all these bodies? Please say you are burying them in your back yard vertically and covering them with a shallow layer of used kitty litter. You are my hero if you are. vertical graves are cool.

D>M>

Edit: Yeah good call Elric. Maybe even Probert v. McSorley in 94 or was it 95. ANd McSorley v. Clark 93' during the conf. finals. Epic. Remember teh sweet fight tape we made. Man if that was just 5 years later we could have done it digital (TiVo and a video capture card) and it would have ruled.
Bourne Identity

The scene when Jason and the girl return to his apartment and the assassin breaks through the window guns blazing. Jason has to disarm him, and then kick his ass, and then stick pens in his hands. Good stuff. Actually Gross Pointe Blank uses pens sticking in things too. Basically, any found objects sticking in bodies is okay by me!

That is all for blave. Over and blaven.

Of course there was always the Kings vs. Senators team brawl in 2002. This fights spawned such memorable moments as Adam Deadmarsh being forcibly tossed in the box after kicking some ass, and in his most heartfelt and viscious manner, pointed to a Senators player being taken to the other box and yelled, "You're fucking next!". Couldn't hear it during the game, but you could read lips, this guy was dead serious! It was intense! The other guy got thrown out of the game, so nothing ever came from it, but SCARY!!!!! Deadmarsh is my hero!
To Blave

Nice reference Jon. Even sweeter that Elric changed it.

-Indiana Jones and the Huge Brute German (airplane scene). Great Finale/death.
-Raising Arizona baby fight scene with Nicolas Cage and John Goodman, short but sweet. Great acoustic ceiling on knuckle grindage action
-Most Comedic: Black Knight v. King Arthur
-Grosse Pointe Blank fight scene in the H.S. with Mirror in the Bathroom playing. Great musical timing to the fight.
-Yoda throwing down on Christopher Lee in Attack of the Clones
-If it wasnt two on One the Obi and Qui-gon v. Darth Maul sans cheesy ending of the fight.
-Neo v Agent Smith in Subway station of Matrix
-Creed v Rocky in Rocky I

D>M>
You ARE the brute squad!

Best *movie* fights? Hmm.. are the Jackie Chan movies out of the question? I've always loved those. I'd give high scores to the "True Romance" fight scene between Christian Slater's wife (was that Robin Wright Penn? I don't remember) and the hitman in the hotel.. that was BRUTAL.

**thinking**

The Matrix had some very sweet fight scenes. I try to forget they ever made the 2nd and 3rd ones.. what a frigging joke. You could make the case for Bloodsport, but that's kind of a cop-out because the whole frigging movie is a big fight scene. Same for the Bruce Lee series.

What about the close-quarters fight scene in Saving Private Ryan where the guy ends up getting slowly knifed in the upstairs apartment? That was very disturbing to me for some reason. Moreso than even the "beach" scene.. it stayed with me for weeks and really bothered my psyche.

Anyhow.. that's all I've got off the top of my head.

For "real" fight scenes, I think the Gatti vs Ward trilogy is the best EVER. Non stop brawl for the entire fights! Better than Hollyfield/Bowe, in my humble opinion.
Feature request.

That button in the top right that says: "to blog" should really say "to blave". Because that's what I think every single time I see it.

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Master Fight Tape.

To change the subject from l33t graphics and Johnny's breast-pump mpeg habit, I thought I'd ask about everybody's favorite fight scenes. Specifically, mano-a-mano fight scenes.

I've been working on a writing project with some big fights in it, and I've been thinking that if I continue on it, I should edit together a master fight scene tape to watch for inspiration. So I thought I'd ask for everybody's favorite.

No spoiling any plot points or how big fights turn out for people who might not have seen these movies, please: Johnny, I'm looking at you here!

Mine are:

1. Kill Bill 2: The Bride vs. Elle Driver. A great visceral fight. More brutal and less cartoonish than anything in KB 1.
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Michelle Yeoh vs. Zhang Zhi-yi (or whatever) in that big fight in the dojo where Michelle Yeoh keeps busting out all the weapons and Zhang just keeps taking her to school. Even when Michelle Yeoh does a somersault while simultaneously swinging two linked blades. Yee-ah!
3. They Live: Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. that other guy: The longest, most brutally boring cinematic fistfight in history... so long and boring that it paradoxically becomes awesome. Will it make my fight tape? No, but it's still cool.
4. Attack of the Clones: Obi-Wan Kenobi vs. Jango Fett. By the 5th movie this swordfighting bullshit had gotten a little old. How were they going to mix it up? Have Obi-Wan fight somebody with a lightsaber growing out of his asshole, or twenty monkeys with lightsaber penises? No, they decided, we'll have a Jedi vs. bounty hunter fistfight! Funnily enough, probably my favorite fight in the Star Wars movies. Good visceral factor. That's just a good word, visceral.

Any suggestions?

Cell phones.

Now I realize why I didn't get a cell phone before. I am fucking hooked on that gadget. Now that I actually have one, I see that the potential for cell-phone applications are pretty mind-blowing. Game development alone: charge $4 for a game which takes a month of development time, and sell it to shitloads of people. A few hours of gameplay later, they'll pay for another one. Genius.
I found someone local that wants my ti4200 for $80, so I'm going to buy the x800 pro for a net $250!! I think that's a damned awesome deal if I do say so myself. Probably going to slap down my credit card tonight or tomorrow.

Pacific Fighters is looking to go gold in about 4 weeks or so. HELL YEAH!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

~O.


Edit: Chili Dogs? I don't think I wanna know.
LoL... Sorry! =D

Don't detract from the graphics card conversation, but real quick, Anyone know a Mongolian barbeque chef or a culinary chef?

I'll be searching for some mongolian BBQ sauce formulas. Anyone find any on the net please post it!!!!!

Thanks!
Johnny
Damn

Those are some nice graphics. Crisp. One thing is for sure your 4200 is not going to cut that. Hahaha...

Elrock, I finally got a hold of "American Hardcore". Really pretty amazing that Blush was able to get so many people from the Hardcore scene to do those interviews. God I did not know much at all about the hardcore scene. That is really quite a piece of work. I am about half way through it now. Have you tried to track down any of the original pieces mentioned in the book that may have been transfered to Digital? Anyway this book really changed the way I understood the whole scene.

Johnny, put that thing away. No making Chili Dogs here.

D>M>
Damn

Those are some nice graphics. Crisp. One thing is for sure your 4200 is not going to cut that. Hahaha...

Elrock, I finally got a hold of "American Hardcore". Really pretty amazing that Blush was able to get so many people from the Hardcore scene to do those interviews. God I did not know much at all about the hardcore scene. That is really quite a piece of work. I am about half way through it now. Have you tried to track down any of the original pieces mentioned in the book that may have been transfered to Digital? Anyway this book really changed the way I understood the whole scene.

Johnny, put that thing away. No making Chili Dogs here.

D>M>
WOW.. daddy needs a new video card.. check these screenshots out on the newest generation of cards! This isn't even the newest and highly anticipated "Pacific Fighters" add-on release slated for this fall. CRAZY.. especially the second one with the P-38 against the tropical beach!

Just.. wow.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/BPLizard/p40.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/BPLizard/f.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/BPLizard/e.jpg

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

All this talk about latateing titties! I have to go masturbate now. spank spank spank

Edit: okay that was a very childish post. I don't find lactation kinky anyhow. It was merely an impulse statement. But the rule of thumb is, once it's on the blog you can't delete it!
Lactation Class


Yes, I was the only guy in a room full of pregnant women, which was totally expected and a lot less uncomfortable than I had imagined while sitting next to my wife and hearing someone talk about the joys of nursing and all the types of breast milk we could expect to see.

Interesting points:

~ Blue Slurpies turn breast milk green.

~ Cow milk (formula) makes babies burp/throw-up because we aren't designed to digest the stuff. Breast fed babies don't burp, they fart, because the milk is being broken down in their digestive tract instead of being "rejected" by their stomachs. Increases the probability of fever, infection and disease by about 3-4 fold over a breast-fed baby. Aparently, there is specifically a protein in cow milk that is incompatible with our system that causes the "rejection" by our body. New studies suggest that the protein (at least what isn't expelled) is stored within our body until such volumes exist that warrant an auto-immuno response like lupus, cancer, or any number of other fun diseases like IBS, Krone's and whatever else.

~ Rat milk is closer to human milk than cow or goat milk. (LOL)

~ Studies are being done on the healing power and feasibility of using breast milk to cure many diseases that are only symptom-treatable currently.


Anyway.. there's more, but I was actually fairly suprised at the volume of information and the quality of useful, interesting, information gained by attending.

Just put up the shelves in the bedroom and nursery last night. Only a month to go. Wow.

Late,

~O.
Living the gay lifestyle in SF

Lots of food, sex and ewe. I'd recommend castro or haight but see i'm not much of a pirate.

Apartment prices have come down a little in fremont, at least it hasn't grown, but nowhere near cheap or affordable. Not for some of the average wages around here. I heard on radio that education wise, San jose isn't even ranked in the major cities, and Fremont ranked pretty dismally. LA of course was in the top 10. (eh? is that possible?)
Definitely give me a buzz sometimes, jerk... uh jon.

Doom 3 did look awrsome. Their flash site emanated some eerie noises, presumably from the demon flesh ripping monsters (They have people sitting on the computer 24 hours to do that). I'm torn between buying another game. Check out the Doom3 keyboard tho. $24.99 pretty sweet at frys.




I like pie.

Monday, August 16, 2004

I've noticed the same thing about the Olympics. I think that America is paying so much attention to itself right now that it doesn't have any attention to spare for the rest of the world. Who knows how other countries are looking at this Olympics.

Also from the American point of view, there's a big cloud over everything from the doping scandals.

So, I'm going to try to move up to SF by the start of September. I'm looking for places on craigslist to at least sublet for a month or two while I try to find a permanent place. Prices really seem like they're more reasonable now. I'm also trying desperately to finish an entry in a writing contest and make it actually good. Busy, busy!

Johnny, I'm going to give you a call in the next day or two to BS with you about up north....

Also, I got a cell phone. I can play Prince of Persia on it!

Eric: I noticed the 10d6 site is down. What are your plans in that direction? I will kick in some dough if you want to keep it going.
RIP Dream Teams alla B-Ball

Good Riddance I say. What a horrible idea they were. Other than the first one they were all just displays of Americans acting poorly.

I so want to buy Doom3, but I told myself not until I get a jobby job. Boooo... Other than the first couple of reviews down on the content and plot, I have heard lots of good things about Doom3. I Can't wait to get a copy. I'm Looking forward to HL2 too.

Art: You know they still have that deal at Dell. Crazy how they are able to sell it for >$80 cheaper than everone else. I still think it is a pricing error on Dell's part. On the whole Olympics thing, I have noticed the same too. People just don't seem to be talking about it. Aimey said the same thing to me this evening too. It was such a big deal in the Past. Maybe it was so big because of the whole political cold-war background. It used to be a show of patriotism and ideological power, now not so much. It seems like interest here has dwindled steadily since Atlanta in 1996. Maybe. Just a thought.

D>M>
D&D 30 years old

Over at GameSpy they have a bunch of articles up about the history of DnD on it's 30th Anniversary - all week long they'll be doing stuff: Here!

Ya, da olympics is pretty burnt. It seems pretty rare for an event to even sell out! Every 2 years does seem kinda too quick. omfgwtfbbq!
Anyone else get the impression that people, in general, just don't consider the Olympics to be very important anymore? I remember growing up and the Olympics were a HUGE event. I think the change in perception happened when they changed to the every 2 year format of alternating Summer/Winter games. They just aren't as rare or as special of an event to people, I think.

Dunno.. am I wrong? What do you guys think?

Late,

~O.
PR =1

Ya jael, I watched the PR team SCHOOL the us team in b-ball. It was awesome! I was watching thinking it would be a blowout for the PR team, but HA! suckers...

Men's waterpolo also won - they showed the game at 12:30 in the morning tho - ouch. Saw my friend a bunch on tv (he was on the bench tho - they used the other goalee. hope he gets some play tho.) they beat croatia 7-6. Ya babee...
Heard the same thing about Doom3.. very, very creepy atmosphere. The bonus about Doom3? I've herad that it is also very, very long and lasts well beyond where you think it's about to be over, even!

El.. did you grab the duct-tape patch/mod for the flashlight/gun or do you play with the standard settings? The late-night playing has been said to be the absolute scariest of course.. hehe. I have the ti-4200 128mb card so your review gives me hope that it will be a lot of fun to play on my mid-level rig as well. Actually, I'm thinking about pulling the trigger on an x800 pro 256mb card because there is a raging sale going on at Dell right now at $330 (which is a lot, granted) but I was looking at spending $200-250 on a newer card anyway.. so spending another $80 for the top-of-the-line seems like a bargain when I'd have to spend another $200-250 in 12-18 months anyway to keep up. (And likely won't have the funds anyway with impending Hurricane Haylee-Madison next month.)

Hmm.. (ponders some more)

P.S... wow. I'm going to be a Dad in about 30 days.

Whoa.

Doom 3 is F'ing Scary!

The gameplay is simple and straightforward. Move, shoot, unlock doors, get PDA information (emails, video files, audio files), listen and look at the PDA files to figure out door codes, hidden goodies (BFG!), etc. The lighting is the most incredible thing I have seen videogames do. Period. A second Period is needed for emphasis. The graphics are AMAZING! I have a GeForce 4 64MB 4200 ti and am running my Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.2GHz, and 768 RAM. Nothing really over the top pro gamer or anything like that, and I have it at medium detail settings and 1024x768 and it is TEH SHITZ0RZ!!!!

The scary parts are scary when played at night, I'm not sure about the difficulty settings yet though. I started playing hard, which was too hard until I learned the game, and by that time I started over at medium, so I can't really judge. Also, the gameplay is different than the first two (duh). There is less throwdown action, and more creepy movement and lighting and sound tricks, punctuated by brief firefights with some scary shit! Right now the game is too easy for me, but still fun, so if anyone gets it, play as veteran rather than marine! Of course, the game is still young, so I might just be eating my words here in a little bit...

All in all, I would say it is the next must have game along with Half-Life. A solid A!

Sunday, August 15, 2004

OH Shit! uSA Basketball loses a game in the olympics

That deserves a large size title font. I can't believe that. I watched only the last 2 quarters of the game and USA sucked it up. The only familiar face on the team were Tim Duncan and Allen Iverson. The rest were second rate 2 bit rookies. Lebron was there but he can hardly be considered an NBA veteran being in the league for less than 2 years.

The Puerto Ricans were tough. They must have watched "The Air Up There" and "basketball diaries". Maybe all the Michael Jordan videotapes in the 80's all got shipped to Peurto Rico and they all became crazy Basketball zealots! Nice going Rudy!

Wow... that'll be talked about for a while. So anyhow, no news on the front, I've been playing Rise of Nations from Microsoft. I have to hand it to Bill Gates. He knows how to make a good OS and apparently he knows his RTS games as well. Anyone playing this game?

Off to go get a tan and hit the gym.
Oh, and my link 'o the day:

http://www.luniticfringe.net/~blade/contents/rlvi.wmv


FUNNEH!

=]


I received this in my email junk mail folder this morning and thought I'd share a little poem with you all. I think it is called "Ode to a Huge Dong" although I'm not 100% on that one. (Seriously.. I don't think you could MAKE this up if you tried.. wtf?)

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DO YOU WANT A BIGGER, THICKER PENIS?

click here for details

Her beautiful slopy golden ram is angry.
Their shining glasses calms-down.
Whose purple computer looks around.
Our white omprella smells or her daughters round balloon snores.
A bluish dog run.Any given purple well-crafted laptop smiles at the place that a given noisy expensive little bra stares.
Any bluish sport shoes sleeps.
A purple small eraser calms-down.
Their white round balloon looks around while her daughters small paper sleeps.
Our children green paper run.
Our expensive omprella falls.
A given slopy ipaq stares.
Mine smart spoon sleeps.
Her smart paper fidgeting.
Her daughters round glove show its value.
Her well-crafted gun run.
Mine small car is thinking.
Our children golden boots prepare for fight as soon as their green recycle bin calculates.
Our slopy smart camera is thinking while their slopy tv looks around.
Her beautiful underwares stares at the place that mine round caw smiles and the tall glove makes sound.
His expensive bra stinks the time that a given round-shaped stupid slopy balloon walks.
His stupid white silver expensive door looks around however, mine odd shaped sony stares.
Mine odd shaped recycle bin calms-down as soon as his brothers soft eraser stands-still or a bluish book show its value while the odd shaped sport shoes is angry.
His brothers soft round cat falls.
Her daughters green cat lies.
Any given well-crafted little stupid binocyles looks around.
A round-shaped baby smiles.
A given expensive sony show its value.
Any given shining round stupid expensive door spit.
Their small underwares show its value.
Her golden well-crafted round-shaped mobile phone walks.
Any green balloon walks or our children smart mouse is angry.
Our hairy bra stands-still and our odd shaped recycle bin stares or their noisy odd shaped t-shirt calms-down at the place that our beautiful glove arrives and perhaps any slopy white exam book adheres.