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My worst ticket was 180 bucks for Tailgating. I was in a 25 mph zone (in like old town) and I was actually driving about 20. The guy in front of me who lived in old town, was I guess about 1100500 yrs old, so he was doing an incredibly dangerous speed of five mph. Although I saw him turtling a few cars distance away I was eventually catching up. Lo and behold he must have decided to turn into the grocery entrance and suddenly braked. I proceeded to step on my brakes, when the fucker decides to continue on. I let go my brakes too, but then the guy decides to brake and turn again.

The cop behind me pulled me over and said, "don't you think you were tailgating too closely". UH... OKAY

In the philippines, for 500 pesos, I get off with a gratuitous and hearty "thank you" like those you would get from restaurants hosts. For an extra 500, they escort you to the place you are going. Ta da.

Just remember Enron, it's all material. Material for the Savage Worlds campaign you're gonna run. Just wait 'til you see how many things my characters sticks to his chest with butter. It's gonna fuckin' rock.

Sorry about your ticket Rude. That is hellishly expensive. One piece of advice: try stopping at the intersections maybe? Wait a minute, now that you're a cop aren't you supposed to be able to get out of these kinds of things? ftw mate

The worst ticket I ever got was a $280 ticket for not "stopping" when I saw a schoolbus with flashing red lights. I put that in quotes because what I in fact did was, as soon as I saw the bus, pulled over. Apparently that's not good enough. Nope, you should stop right away.

Anyway that was back in the '90s when $280 was worth like $10,000 or something. Fuck, I was so rich back then and I didn't even know it!

Just wanted to keep you all in the loop...

My first conversation with Sprint lasted 30 seconds before the rep disconnected me. What a fine start.

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Dudes, we're getting fuckin OLD! Or, we already ARE old!!!! Shit just hit me in the face like a brick! I was lookin at myspace and i put in costa and our year of grad and was lookin at the 50 or so ppl that pop up, and fuuck man, everyones faces are gettin all wrinkly n shit! DUDE, I saw Daniels (forget his last name, but he was a water polo-er and a DnDer) and I remember like my first ever dnd game with the group at Jordan's house I think, and Dan's not even at the table, but laying on a couch saying shit like "Uh.. can I be a chaotic paladin? uh.. can I be.." he was crackin himself up doing all the obvious undoable combos. BUt like he's a fuckin doctor now and looks old as shit!!! I seen Ali Tamasbee - never knew the guy, but he looks kinda young still. Basically I didn't really know any of the 50 ppl that popped up, but i recognized quite a few of em. FUCK THOUGH MAN(s)! Dude... old... :( $400 dollar ticket too! :(

LOL dude i knew you were gonna mention that one fuckin Chill game, thats some funny shit.

I got a fucking $381 dollar TICKET from a red light camera for not stoping while making a RIGHT GODDAMN TURN. I'm so fucking pissed/bummed right now. FUCKING-A. I fucking hate Hawthorne. Corrupt shit town.

I picked up the first Assamof Foundation book - havent read it in years, and feel like it might fill the post-harry gap for a bit. Read a really good hardboiled pulp book this weekend from like 1958 by Evan Hunter. RAD. MY FUCKING TICKET IS ALMOST $400 fucking dollars for NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

| Superbad Is Super Bad... At Not Being Hilarious!

Agree with Ryan. Superbad is fucking hilarious! I especially liked the part when Batman punched the Joker into the applesauce. Oh wait, wrong movie. Anyway, even despite the presence of the Joker, Batman, or applesauce, it is well worth your precious dollars and the risk of sitting near switchblade-wielding Negroes.

So you guys remember that game we had lots of fun playing at SoCal Gencon last year? Savage Worlds? Well, they just put out the new edition of the rulebook. It is digest-sized, has better art and production values than the previous editions, and best of all costs only $10! Everybody should buy it and we should role-play every day. I will use it to run a pirate campaign, Aeryk will use it to run a Cthulhu campaign, Myke will run the greatest campaign about digging for pottery sherds ever made. Enron's will be about Blackberry call support lines, and his cock being hilch. Ja-el's will be the continuation of the GI Joe orgy campaign, and all characters will certainly all have 12-inch inseams. Rdubs' is about punk drummers who excel at hockey and baseball, and Art's... I don't know Art's RPG tastes... masturbating while punching orcas or something? I think he said he liked that one time? Or being married.

Anyway it's gonna be awesome.

Oh yeah and Rudy will run a fusion of that Chill adventure in the carnival with Buck Rogers. And hookers.

| TelCo's are the blurst

Don't ever buy a SprintNextel Blackberry. Why? Well, according to my less than scientific, but wholly personal experience, activating 1 in 8 units will be the nostril raping of a life time. If you can not get the unit working on the first attempt, just swallow your distaste for the waste of money/resources and throw the inactive blackberry away. Then, just buy a new one and start from scratch. Viola!

I have wasted no less than 7 hours of my working life the past week and a half on hold and/or hashing it out with various SprintNextel reps. I can not even tell you how many departments I have been in contact with. At the very least, more than I have fingers. No amount of money is worth the agony of revisiting the scenario over and over and over with each new rep you are sent to in, "yet another department". Especially, when no one can tell you what is wrong in the first place. You can literally hear each reps mind scream not to tackle the problem at hand and to pass the buck. I have been disconnected more times than I care to remember. Most infuriatingly, I have heard the line, "Let me put you on hold so that I may brief the rep I am transferring you to", only to get the following line from the supposedly 'briefed' rep, "Can I have your name and account number?" Not a single one seems to know anything about said briefing except for one instance where the first rep stayed on the phone with me and the new rep. I mean WTF? At some point in this whole process it was definitely cheaper for my company to buy a new phone then burn away the cost of my resources.

The long and the short? No dice yet. Last Friday I almost flipped my desk over, ripped my office apart and threw a world-class fit of rage when I got disconnected after a somewhat promising 2.5 hour call segment. Oh my, I can not remember the last time I was so near absolutely and explosively losing my temper.

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| New Baseball Game for PSP

I really like baseball, even the black players... some of them. Anyway, I got this game for my PSP and it totally rocks! The way it is set up, it is almost like role playing within the game. You create a character, start off as a rookie, and build skills to become a star. You control your whole team, but the one player you have special interest in is the one you created. Fun! My story is that one option the game gives you is to create a nickname for yourself, which the announcer on the game says whenever you come up to bat or make a play. However, the nicknames are from a list... you don't get to make one up, rather, you choose one from a list of like 30 names. Some of the names are like "Cobra," "Crazy Legs," "Hit Dog," etc. The nickname that I chose for myself is "Brains." So, the announcer says stuff like, "Brains homered in his last at bat, let's see what he does here," and "Brains makes an amazing play," and "Brains strikes out, AGAIN!"

I went and saw "Superbad" today. Really funny. Some scenes made me laugh hysterically. See it! Even you Eric!

| Aptos, or The City With No Police

So, it has been a little rough around the edges, this whole move thing, but by and large things are going pretty well. Highlights of the past week or so:

- The movers getting stuck in the weigh station and being detained by the CHiPs because the truck had some damage that needed to be fixed, which meant they got here a day late, which was kinda lame.

- By the time they did arrive, and we had been living a spartan existence, we sort of wanted the moving van to explode and take all our crap with it so we could start over. That didn't happen and now I have a two car garage filled with absolute junk upon junk. Though some pretty cool game stuff.

- Aptos has delicious food!

- Ryan came up on friday and stayed til sunday and we partied hearty.

- My computer is finally setup.

- Stay as far away from DirecTV as possible as they are lying sacks of shit. I am trying to get out of my contract before my first month based on 'misinformation' and being 'misled' (their words over the phone) during the signup process. Long story. Bottom line: stay the F away!

- Shopping for more than groceries, restaurants, and Taco Bell is predicated on getting into the car and getting on the 1, mostly. This equates to a 10 - 15 minute drive up to Santa Cruz proper or surrounding areas. Translated into Aptos vs. Manhattan Beach terms: I can get to most things around here in the same amount of time it takes to drive to Target from the Elm house! And we save on gas mileage because mostly we drive hwy miles now! I love it! Oh yeah, the 'bad' time for traffic around here is from like 430 to 530, and thats it. Not from 300 to 800 like on Sepulveda.

- Awesome!

yay, its back! howd the move go eric? man, i dont think ill ever get used to typing on laptop keyboards. unnatural!

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| Teh Hax Site Has A Flavor?

Testingz0rz?

| Theactionteam.org: More unbrokener

jr0n: I agree. The whole 3.5 biz was a bit irritating. Maybe i am a bit cynical, but it almost seems as if it was a vehicle for more wotc-notzee revenue and nothing else. Besides it seemed to present a number of flaws while patching others.

More RPG I always say. Let's do it! GenCon FullCal in 2008 sounds cool. I'd be willing to give it an attempt.

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I'm surprised by how excited to take a gander at 4th edition. 3rd ed really left a bad taste in my mouth when 3.5 came along -- I hope that WotC will avoid those sort of shenanigans this time around. Am I the only one who thinks we should go to GenCon in 2008 to pay homage at the altar of dungeon crawling?

Also, damn, it's been a long time since 3rd ed came out. We're old.

Aeryk, I hope that now that you're up in the area we can "get the band back together" and do some roleplaying!

| More 4e

For those of you interested, more 4th ed details. Sounds like they are removing a few of the idiotic parts of 3e, like having two different skills: Hide and Move Silently, removing stupid skills like Profession and Use Rope. Sounds like they may merge the Wiz-azz and the Sorcerer. Looks like they will also be overhauling the Race system too. For the most part they sound like positive moves.

Yeah Elzar congrats on turning old and achieving your first power of 2 age in 16 years and the last for 32 more AND moving to the Aptos. Plus if I tore your legs off you would look like a snow man.

M-Byke, are you back to the land of fog and neo-hippies? Or are you strung up in Tennessee listening to banjo music?

Like a shit head, I got a sun burn for the second weekend in a row. Great.

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