Ok, I will blog every fucking day now until you lazy frackers write something. I like reading Jane Epenson's blog. She writes for a lot of my fave shows (including last nights BSG) and its just a pretty interesting read. NOW YOU COCK SUCKERS WRITE SOMETHING CUZ IM TIRED OF LOOKIN AT MY ULGY MUG ON THIS PAGE OMG.

Eww, did you guys ever see DnD movie 2? I never even heard of it. Wiki sez it has lots of refrences to famous game items and even modules, haha so might have to check it out!

Jeez Art, that school project shit is SO depressing sounding. I HATED those types of things, but as fate always had it for me, I'd get in a group of equally lazy folks, so we'd all kinda squirt out a passable piece of work. But I'd always here similiar stories to yers from my more studious friends.

Heroes is a good show. BUT, I dunno, I've lost a little bit of love for it last few episodes. This week's show was cool, but I think it suffers the same kinda problem that any of these ensemble kinda shows suffer: one or two of the story-lines is CRAP and it bums you out when those scenes come on. I'm kinda that way with the "Niki Whatsherfucking-lastname" scenes, and kind of even the cheerleader ones. I'm just kinda, "meh." when they come on. But whatever - fun show for sure, and definately light years ahead of most network-tv dramas.

My fave shows this year have been:
Doctor Who!?
BSG
Dexter (I know eric hates a lot of the acting in it and the voice over, but I really dig those parts of it. Believe it or not, my main boss in the office (a leuitnant i spellz good) is pretty darn CLOSE to that guy in Dexter who's all loud and suspicious of Dex heh.)
And prolly now the new Robin Hood from BBC. Just crammed 9 episodes down my fucking throat over the last couple days and I'm all hooked on that one.

i ToTALLY feel the same way about Lost that you do Ry. I watched Season 1 on DvD in like a week, then half of season 2 on downloadington, then once I hit the "live shows" and you had to wait a week or more inbetween, boooo. I still watch it, but it's totally fallin down a few notches for me. PLUS i think season 1 is the best cuz they had a few ppl writing/directing from the buffyverse hehe. Then those dudes split once the show got HuRGE and "the man" took over.

Yeah, I watch way too much tv too. :( Doesnt feel as dirty as the 'ol WoW days though, weird.

Eric, not only did I say Lost rocked, but I seem to recall one day when I was singing the praises of Heroes, this is how it went:

Me: Heroes is an amazing show. I think you'd really like it. It has a lot of elements that you seem to like.

You: I dunno... "Save the cheerleader, save the world." I'm not into it.

Me:*sigh* ...

Sometimes I know what I am talking about.

I actually think that Heroes is my new favorite show on TV. It has since taken the place of Lost, a show that I am kind of pissed at. It is one of those shows that strings you along and is pretty stingey with information. Heroes is good EVERY WEEK and it leaks new info at an acceptable rate. I could deal with Lost when I was watching the DVDs, because I could simply go on to the next episode. Now that I am watching it episode to episode, it's annoying. But I am hooked on it like crack and I can't stop watching.

Whatever though. Both shows are on hiatus until late January. I watch too much fucking TV.

Mmm.. nothing says "refreshed" like working until 3am on a 'group' project final that no other member in your group has done any work for in the last 2-3 months.. and doing it all yourself and running it down to Kinkos at 7am for printing, binding and lamination on your dime. WIN!

This, however, cheered me up considerably: How To Handle Telemarketers

"Rock", "Hockey", "Free Food":

CALLING (well, emailing) ALL BJers:

TWELVE-FOR-NINE, with BJers Brett Westphal and Lisa Feiertag and a BJ
"alum" on percussion, will be giving a rock concert in the Judson
Lounge at 7 p.m. tonight (Friday).

You've seen their posters, now hear their sound!

A perfect after-dinner overture to Matrix mania or other wild Friday
happenings.

Free food.

Oh man, I hope I can get in on some of that RPGing come x-mas break. That'd be pretty sweet. Right now I have ZERO working credit card type devices, so this weekend I had planned on playing some free trial version of WoW (just to see if I'd still like it) but you even need a CC for the 10 day trial. They I ripped open and installed shitty "Collector's Edition" of City of Villians I got free a few months back when I purchased another game, and of course, need a CC to even play the 1st 30 days for free. Knew that was gonna happen, but I STILL gave it the 'ol 1-2. So instead I played some more Final Fantasy 5 Advance (its fun but fuuuuck these games are pretty long. Sez I've played around 13 hours so far.)

Watched "An Inconvient Truth" tonight - it was pretty cool. I've been reading that "Red Mars" book, so I'm getting into all that terraforming shit, so I dunno, that led to Al Gore's movie, heh. Now watching BBC's new "Robin Hood" tv show. It's alright - it airs at 7pm in EngLand, so its kinda "family-style". So far no one's been killed. BOO. EDIT: OH SHNAP! I revise my first impressions of Robin Hood 2006 from "alright" to "friggin awershome!" It's gooood. Only a little thru the 1st episode though hehe. BUt it got totally awesome about 20 mins into it.

Yeah dude, I told ya Heroe's was the shit! I think you just missed another mega-marathon of the 1st 10 or whatever episodes on Sci Fi. Seems like they show a marathon of the show every other weekend. Tomorrow is the last new one for the x-mas break, so I betcha Sci-Fi's gonna have the 1st half of the season up one of these coming weekends. If not, you can always watch shows the way I do *wink* *wink*.

Shit, as I'm looking at SciFi's schedule for the next month, they've got the sweet Twilight Zone marathon new years eve-ish. I know where MY party's gonna be be!

Yeah, it's cool that you didn't get the Wii. I mean I want one, but fuck I'm a poor sumamabitch and I would waste it's whole social dimension playing those games by myself.

You're friggin IM story is too hilarious Jon. That shit happens ALL the time. At work I'm usually looking at the hollywood tabloidy websites, and when Britney's grody poon was all over I kept getting almost busted by the lady who sits behind me. Buy that cock sucker a hockey bobble-head or something.

I rented Lost disc 1 a while ago but I thought it was kinda disappointing... the first two episodes on the disc were good, but I thought the third and fourth took an abrupt downturn. Mainly I didn't like the characters, they were too cartoonish.

Hey, let's play Savage Worlds again over Xmas break. It'd be fun to finish Vault of the Iron God, and then perhaps have more adventures featuring the GM stylings of A. Hessels!

I'd love to play Battlestations too. Your experience at GenCon has rekindled my interest. I'll dig my copy out of storage and start plowing through the rules again.

Hot Damn!

- Okay, so Rudy was right, Heroes is an AWESOME show! I d/ld 2 episodes for the iza pza (iPod) and it rawks! I wanna watch all the shows now, but don't wanna be a sukka and buy them for the iPod, and then have to buy them on DVD too! What is a guy to do?!?!

Also, Ryan is poised to make me look a fool cause I also bought Lost episodes one and two. So when I freak out about how good that show is too, Ryan will know he was the king of TV show knowledge.

- I have the Savage Worlds book now, and it is awesome! I also d/ld the AD&D 1rst ed conversion, which is radicool, as well as the 81 page Star Wars conversion! What a fun game! I am also listening to an interview with Sean Fannon (who is evidently doing a new world book for SW) on a Savage Worlds Podcast in my car. What a goof! He has some really neat ideas, but man, sometimes his self-marketing just gets a little but old. He does have an interesting idea with Project 77 though, let's see what happens with that. And I say interesting because, I shit you not, this was my video game design class final at UCI in 2001. Therfore, I rule, Sean bites, and I really should be reagarded more highly.

- I coulda had a Wii today at Target. I was there buying some baby stuff when it opened, I was already up for a few hours before 8am (but not because of Wylie, because Cleo brought a live bird into the house and started playing with it under the bed, which was a nice way to wake up. It lived.). So I grabbed the cart and customarily strolled past the electronics department where there was a line of about 10 people setting up. I asked, they told, and long story short I coulda had a Wii. Then I thought "when would I ever play it?", and walked on both frustrated and satisfied. I'm saving my nickels for Dreamcast II: Electric Boogaloo.

- I bet Benji Winter is pissed about El Somb going down in flames. My theory is that the owner of the business' across the street is looking to sell his buildings and wanted to say "Ocean views", so he razed the intervening building, and BAM! Ocean view!

- When I use the word "raze", it makes me want to play Mighty Empires again, no matter how broken the siege rules are.

Holy shit! El Sombrero was there for what, 35 years? That place was really one of the few remaining pieces of ole M.B. What a bummer. I bet it was burned down by somebody who wants to put up a mediterranean mansion there. Maybe they will respect the place by making their slaves wear a sombrero when they horsewhip them in the front courtyard.

Zero-G Jenga, hahahaa! Nice picture. Basically what happened was that all these new people are in the department. A lot of them used to do QA at Electronic Arts right before this job, and the result is that they look like a bunch of thugs instead of people working at a business. Like there's a real stereotypical white rapper guy and an intense looking dude who talks about karate a lot. Whatever, it's a reasonably casual building and QA is sorta known for relaxed standards in things like clothing and hygiene. Anyway, this one guy I work with wears a Sharks jersey every single goddamn day. He's also sorta weird-looking, he's not a a bad guy at all but at first he looks sorta weird plus he's a sorta small guy swallowed up in this mammoth jersey so you're weirded out. And the first day he was there I got things off to a rocky start because a friend of mine and I were IMing back and forth kinda talking smack about this guy. Not anything really bad, or even personal to this guy really, more just that we were bored than anything else -- things like "we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel these days" (which sort of applied to everybody who'd been coming in lately) and "this guy looks like he'd nail your skin onto his wall" (well, that's a little personal). So har, har, let's joke about the new guy who is just starting and doesn't know anybody yet. Yay us.

Anyway I am always doing about 20 things at a time so that was one of many windows open. So when this guy came by and I switched to a word document to show him something, I realized in horror that bringing up the document also made the IM chat window partially visible, although still semi-concealed behind the word window. (In Warmachine terms it would have a +2 defense bonus due to an intervening window.) So I tried to move the word doc over the IM window but instead I clicked the IM window, bringing it to the front. Then I tried to close the chat window and instead I double-clicked on the bar and maximized it. This dude was just sort of standing there staring at my monitor. So after that I felt like a really great human being.

Anyway, whatever. I felt bad so I was really nice after that and I think things are cool. Maybe. So at our team meeting our boss asks who all would be interested in a secret Santa and I'm up for it, why not. I was sort of looking forward to either buying something scandalous for one of the people in the department I know, or getting to know one of the other dudes. Instead I pull this same fucking Sharks jersey guy that I've been working with all this time. Great. Not only that but the sheet that we had to fill out to say some of our preferences, the one he filled out is totally unhelpful. What are his interests? "Hockey." Gee, that's a surprise, thanks. What kind of food do you like? "Free food." OK. What about music, does he like music? Oh yeah, he filled out that he likes "Rock." Thanks fucko. I think I'll just put "Rock" "Hockey" and "Free Food" into Google and buy the first thing that pops up.