Because you homos are all in hibernation or something, I'll continue posting.

LOOK AT MY BALLS! LOOK.

Oh. My. God. Just when you thought people couldn't get any stranger.. maybe the best personal advert of all time, this side of the time-traveller guy.. This guy advertising on Craigslist is not gay, but looking for a jack off buddy!

In other news, I got to witness some smack down on a mail-fraud ring today and I was the crusader of all that is good and holy in the world. Woot!

I tell you what though, these fuckers are getting SLICK. I received a letter of some-such basis, something about a government grant program for home improvement / equity relief or something.. whatever. It came along with a check for $4,000 that passed every measurable standard I could come up with. On a whim, I even took it down to a branch of Wells Fargo to have them look at it (the indicated bank of origin) and THEY were ready to cash it because there were no qualifiers on the check like "not valid as a financial instrument" or whatever.. it was just... a check. Even though it said I needed to call some phone number to pre-approve the process or whatever on the letter.. a check is a check and it was a valid account with money in it, even. Come to find out, it's a check written on a legitimate account but through identity theft. Plus, with it being sent through the mail, that constitutes a federal offense. When the people at the fraud center in the bank called these people to feel them out, the WTF PWN stick came out and the hapless idiot on the other end of the phone was shitting his pants. LOL. It was pure awesome. I don't think the guy knew he was 'employed' by a scam artist firm. Anyway, thought it was worth sharing. My good deed for the day.


Also: Playing the Wii topless is NSFW, but awesome.

| Work Gym

Kinda neat, i was talking to this guy at work about inadequate gym facilities around the area, so him being a gym rat as well, we decided were going to try to make our own workplace gym in the factory! We'll all be pitching in, he's going to bring his dumbell sets and I'm going to buy the bench press bar, then we'll weld some makeshift benches. Cool thing is it'll be indoors and next to my dorm! I'm excited cuz it actually has an reasonable chance of working out. Hopefully other people will start chipping in by bringing their excess home equipment, then it might actually turn out to be a pretty cool workplace gym.

Work has been hazardous lately. We have an ISO audit in 10 days and during an internal audit my department had 2 deviations and several observations. So I have to correct those asap. Then it's that time of year where all the bidding begins with our customer, so lots of quoting for 2008.

Got cable recently, so have been watching an insane amount of BoobTube. Saw some Chris Angel stuff, and we get mostly reruns that aired in the states a while back, so i'm still getting references to Chris Rocks latest movies. But Chris Angel mindfreak show is pretty cool magic show but the thing is when the whole "magic gets revealed", magic really loses it's luster. Most of the easy tricks can be solved and even the more high-powered copperfield stuff is just a bunch of elaborate and expensive smoke and mirrors.

Hahah, that was a really subtle ytmnd. I was like, what's radiohead have to do with WoW? And I thought that image on bottom was ads they run on their site now or something. CLASSY! :)

The sad truth about World of Warcraft:

http://sadwar.ytmnd.com/


Yes, I'm up at 2:30am, desperately trying to fix the half of the 80+ page paper and 60 slide powerpoint I didn't already write myself for this fucking group project. I even told myself I wasn't going to do it. Then, here I am. Finished, tired, and a little sick to my stomach that I'll be giving an hour long presentation in front of the class on about 3 hours of sleep.

Yet, I take an extra 5 minutes to spead some joy to the Action Jackson Team.

Holiday Cheer.

Woot.

| Obi-Wan never told you...

Since you're into ASOIAF now Eric, here's a part of the discussion on the SA books forum where they talk about doing Warhammer armies based on the houses in the books:
The whole thread is very spoilerrific so BEWARE!

It would be very easy to do a Bretonnian army themed around one of the great houses. Just stay away from Pegasus Knights and paint the appropriate heraldry on each of your guys. Bretonnians are very much based around heroic lance charges though. A more tactical, infantry-heavy army would be more more effective with the Empire list (with no guns or wizards, obviously), though most of the Empire model range would look a bit out of place.

Here's how I'd do various major players:

House Lannister: lots of large spearmen regiments with detachments of archers and militiamen. Use Bretonnian knight models with the Empire rules. Tywin Lannister counts as an Empire General (or with Ld 10 for +25 points). Jaime Lannister, with two hands, counts as a Templar Grand Master (+10 pts for WS 7). Gregor Clegane counts as a Templar Grand Master with Frenzy (+25 pts). Tyrion Lannister counts as an engineer or something equally useless, but with a 4+ ward save to represent his incredible luck. Have a couple of cannon on the sideboard for those occasions when you actually want to win a game.

House Baratheon & House Tyrell (Renly's army): sure, they never actually fought any battles, but it'd be fun to do nonetheless. Make it a straightforward Bretonnian army. Rainbow Guard count as 7 Grail Knights . Loras Tyrell gets WS 7.

House Stark: The Middenheim list would be ideal, but it's not valid with the release of the new Empire book. I'd treat it as Empire with lots of militia. For knights use either Kislevite Winged Lancers without the wings or Knights of the White Wolf with lances instead of hammers. A direwolf counts as a daemon hound of Khorne.

House Greyjoy: proxy human models for Beasts of Chaos - I think their ambush and raider rules reflect the Ironborn's style of warfare pretty well. Allowable units would be Wargor (Leaders), Beastherds (Raiders), Bestigor (elite Ironborn). Named Greyjoy characters count as Wargors with an extra point or two of Leadership. This wouldn't be a competitive list in the slightest, so I won't get anal about points costs and stat tweaks.

House Targaryen: Dogs of War, I guess? You'd have to take models from all over. Dragon hatchlings could probably count as great eagles. Dothraki would be some form of light cavalry but better than the entry in the Dogs of War list. The Unsullied would be spear-armed infantry with the Unbreakable and Immune to Psychology rules - does any existing Warhammer unit fit the bill?

I lol'd:

Hal A. Lewia, biology beamline specialist

The internets never cease to amaze.. the shit you stumble into!

Tom Bombadil and His Forest of Faggotry

| Aliens

- Here is a little flash version of the game (without the expansion). It is totally fun, but on my crapola monitor it is a little dark, so often times I run right up to an alien and get torn apart cause I couldn't see 'em... perhaps a little TOO realistic? Good stuff.

- Song of Fire and Ice Update: I have finished Clash of Kings and am 57 (of 1130, or so) pages into Storm of Swords! Wish me luck! It is some of the best stuff I have ever read! Awesome!

- I d/l'ed the demo of Skate., and it was fun, though a little exact. I am still contemplating picking it up at some point and using BioShock as a credit. I just can't devote the time required to play long games that have a learning curve anymore so BiShock was awesome for the three nights I played it in a row, and now after taking a break it is hard to get back into. Guitar Hero/Rock Band/Wow are my cuppa teas - I can play for 10 minutes, get my fix, and not really forget how to play between sessions. As much as I want Assassin's Creed, I think it would be a waste of money. Skate., on the otherhand seems perfect.

- The Goonsquad videos for Skate were hilarious and at the same time boring. The slams and clipping errors were really funny, but the 'check my awesome line' vids were boring. I was thinking if it were really a skater doing those lines, then yes I would be impressed, but it is a video mans doing the 'tricks'... ho, hum.

- Combat Commander: Mediterranean and Paratroop Pack #1 came in the mail a few days ago. They are all clipped and ready to be played (solo) for all of you that care! So much good CC stuff now! 25 maps! Wheeee!!!!

- The F.A.R.T video Art posted was absolutely hilarious. I highly recommend you click it, fools.

- After hearing about the repulsive/steal any niggling amount of belief in childhood and humanity BME Pain Olympics videos, I decided to dig a bit deeper and find out what I could about this horrendous 'event'. Not a lot of info about it, but what I did find was the BME website, which I WILL NOT LINK TO HERE, and did a quick scan of the BME encyclopedia and apparently it is basically an extreme body modification gig. Some terrible stuff people do to themselves is talked about, photoed, and explained. I used my hand to cover up the images while I read about the few topics I could bring myself to click on, and just don't recommend you go there. Ever. Not for any reason. Please. Just don't do it. No, this is not reverse psychology. Just don't do it. Simply acknowledge that the world is messed up, people are messed up, and leave it at that.

- I feel like crying a little bit now.

Either I have been bitten by the dreaded Aptos tse tse fly, or the last few days of overeating and mayhem are catching up with me, because I am worn the hell out.

However, I had a fun Turkey day. Thanks for hosting Enron. I have not been that overstuffed ever, that I can remember. Also great to see your place Aeryk. Can't wait to come back sometime! Aptos definitely reminds me of circa 1985 South Bay. Nice feeling to the place.

If any of you guys are interested in picking up a couple of games, Fantasy Flight is having an overstock fire sale and some of the card games and board games are in there. I picked up Kingdoms and the Lord of the Rings expansions for $5 each.

Hey Eric didn't you or one of these guys say you had that game SKATE for the 360? I was just watching a bunch of vids and it looks really awesome and everyones all saying its better than Tony Hawk. Oh yeah, so I joined SA Forums recently (man, i pay 10 bucks for drinks when Im out whining and dyning the ladies, so fuck it) and they got a site called GoonSkate which has a bunch of their vids. LOOKS rad game!

I LOL'd: F.A.R.T.

AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrronnnnn

Two bits of lovely goodness for the 20th of November:

Frigging AMAZING Images (wait for it, the first page sometimes loads slow)

Binocular Soccer (LOLZ)