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.
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!!!!!
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.
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.
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>
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!
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.
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
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.
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!
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>
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.
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.
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