Yeah, come to think of it, please change my quote. I want to work.
Jon, some of your best work yet. Laughed pretty hard at your exchange with the Amazon people.
And who is "Entertai nMe" on the little board on the left. They sound mad.
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Who lives is a pineapple, under the sea?
I went and saw New Order and Chemical Brothers in concert on Friday. I'll tell you what, New Order, as cool as it was to see them in concert, are definately a studio band. No energy or passion on stage, vocals were just way too weak and a little rough/out of sync. All their guitar work was a little rusty, but hey the synth work was great.On the other hand I expected chemical brothers to be boring in concert. I mean DJ work isnt the most exciting visual work on stage, especially at any distance over 20 feet. It is more about the music. However, their visual effect show was great. A lot of sweet projected videos and sophisticated stage light show. Not at all what I expected.
Props to the referrals research. I really like the motobyke one. Too about Ry with the quote.
Rude: You are driving to the con right? Would you be adverse to David hitching a ride with you and spliting the cost? Homeboy really wants to come but he can not shell out 150 for plane tix.
Elzar: Hows the WFRP coming along? I was seriously drooling over the players handbook at Borders yesterday. Almost bought it and then I came to my senses. Like I am poor n' stuff. Boooo. Maybe I will buy it at the kh0n as my one big purchare of merch.
Pen Jotersen: Rebates are bunk. I seriously think they try and make the process so unpleasent that purchasers will shy away from actually completing the rebate. A sub-conscience aversion and procrastination two pronged offensive. Yet, most people will buy the product based on the subconscience draw of the lower price. A lose, lose scinario. I think the rebate disbursement rate is something like 10-20% of total sales transactions. Cockballz.
Spounge Bob, square pants!
I went and saw New Order and Chemical Brothers in concert on Friday. I'll tell you what, New Order, as cool as it was to see them in concert, are definately a studio band. No energy or passion on stage, vocals were just way too weak and a little rough/out of sync. All their guitar work was a little rusty, but hey the synth work was great.On the other hand I expected chemical brothers to be boring in concert. I mean DJ work isnt the most exciting visual work on stage, especially at any distance over 20 feet. It is more about the music. However, their visual effect show was great. A lot of sweet projected videos and sophisticated stage light show. Not at all what I expected.
Props to the referrals research. I really like the motobyke one. Too about Ry with the quote.
Rude: You are driving to the con right? Would you be adverse to David hitching a ride with you and spliting the cost? Homeboy really wants to come but he can not shell out 150 for plane tix.
Elzar: Hows the WFRP coming along? I was seriously drooling over the players handbook at Borders yesterday. Almost bought it and then I came to my senses. Like I am poor n' stuff. Boooo. Maybe I will buy it at the kh0n as my one big purchare of merch.
Pen Jotersen: Rebates are bunk. I seriously think they try and make the process so unpleasent that purchasers will shy away from actually completing the rebate. A sub-conscience aversion and procrastination two pronged offensive. Yet, most people will buy the product based on the subconscience draw of the lower price. A lose, lose scinario. I think the rebate disbursement rate is something like 10-20% of total sales transactions. Cockballz.
Spounge Bob, square pants!
Way to have the cool psychic Intarweb powarz Hemo! You can LOOK INTO THE MINDS OF MEN!
Fuck Amazon in their goddamn cock-ear. I've been dealing with this bullshit hassle over a $150 phone rebate for over six months now.
OK now that I know we're a major googleable Intarweb presence I'll refrain from listing my address, but let's just assume it's "123 FUCKYOU ST."
1. Back in December or some shit I was denied the rebate because they had put a different form on the phone web page than I was supposed to use. Me: "But I just used the form that you gave me!" Customer service rep: "That was the wrong one! Tee-hee!" Me: "Oh."
2. So they fix that and then weeks and weeks go by. I call. Rep: "Your address was 132 Fuckyou St., right?" Me: "No, it's 123 Fuckyou St." "Tee-hee!"
3. So they fix that and then weeks and weeks go by. I call. Rep: "Oh, that shit is on the way, we just sent it out!"
4. More weeks. I call. Rep: "Oh yeah, we sent that shit out. In our system we have your address as: '123 YUCKFUFFFUUOOOUFFF St.' Is that correct?" Me: "What the fuck? IT IS 123 FUCKYOU ST, NOT 123 YUCKFUFFUUOOOUFFF ST!" Rep: "Tee-hee!"
5. More weeks go by and all of a sudden, it's today! I call back and ask to speak with a manager. Manager: "What was your address again?" Me: "123 Fuckyou St." Him: "OK, I've gone and corrected that now. I'll send it out. I just want to move forward." Me: "Wait... 'corrected it'? What did you have it as?" Manager: "I just want to move forward." Me: "WHAT DID YOU HAVE IT AS?" Manager: "We had it as 132 Fuckyou St." Me: "ARRGH!" Manager: "Tee-hee!"
This is especially annoying because I've been thinking some purchases from them (more Exalted crack and WFRP) since they're so cheap, but Jesus Christ!
Fuck Amazon in their goddamn cock-ear. I've been dealing with this bullshit hassle over a $150 phone rebate for over six months now.
OK now that I know we're a major googleable Intarweb presence I'll refrain from listing my address, but let's just assume it's "123 FUCKYOU ST."
1. Back in December or some shit I was denied the rebate because they had put a different form on the phone web page than I was supposed to use. Me: "But I just used the form that you gave me!" Customer service rep: "That was the wrong one! Tee-hee!" Me: "Oh."
2. So they fix that and then weeks and weeks go by. I call. Rep: "Your address was 132 Fuckyou St., right?" Me: "No, it's 123 Fuckyou St." "Tee-hee!"
3. So they fix that and then weeks and weeks go by. I call. Rep: "Oh, that shit is on the way, we just sent it out!"
4. More weeks. I call. Rep: "Oh yeah, we sent that shit out. In our system we have your address as: '123 YUCKFUFFFUUOOOUFFF St.' Is that correct?" Me: "What the fuck? IT IS 123 FUCKYOU ST, NOT 123 YUCKFUFFUUOOOUFFF ST!" Rep: "Tee-hee!"
5. More weeks go by and all of a sudden, it's today! I call back and ask to speak with a manager. Manager: "What was your address again?" Me: "123 Fuckyou St." Him: "OK, I've gone and corrected that now. I'll send it out. I just want to move forward." Me: "Wait... 'corrected it'? What did you have it as?" Manager: "I just want to move forward." Me: "WHAT DID YOU HAVE IT AS?" Manager: "We had it as 132 Fuckyou St." Me: "ARRGH!" Manager: "Tee-hee!"
This is especially annoying because I've been thinking some purchases from them (more Exalted crack and WFRP) since they're so cheap, but Jesus Christ!
Referrals
So, on a whim I was looking at where various people have come from before they hit theactionteam.org, called HTTP Referrals, and while the majority of them come from bookmarks (and homepage buttons) there have been some interesting hits to say the least.
- A google search for Ryan Patrick Walsh comes up with the AT site and Ryan's fine racism quote, bummer for him. And I guess I should probably change it to protect any questionable issues with Ry's professional future....
- Quite a few WoW hits actually. Dalaran, Gloves of Might, etc.
- Search for "insurance + motobyke". LOL!!!
- Quite a few searcehs for Duchess of Kent, America, and Tea, referring to another random quote. As well as a search for "the shit be on".
- Most numerous random referrals came from searches for words including "fucking action". Regrettably hitting our site due to "The Action Team: NOT fucking with Ragnar since 2002"!!! See for yourselves what fine company we keep on some search engines!
Good Times!
BTW Jon, that was some good stuff!
So, on a whim I was looking at where various people have come from before they hit theactionteam.org, called HTTP Referrals, and while the majority of them come from bookmarks (and homepage buttons) there have been some interesting hits to say the least.
- A google search for Ryan Patrick Walsh comes up with the AT site and Ryan's fine racism quote, bummer for him. And I guess I should probably change it to protect any questionable issues with Ry's professional future....
- Quite a few WoW hits actually. Dalaran, Gloves of Might, etc.
- Search for "insurance + motobyke". LOL!!!
- Quite a few searcehs for Duchess of Kent, America, and Tea, referring to another random quote. As well as a search for "the shit be on".
- Most numerous random referrals came from searches for words including "fucking action". Regrettably hitting our site due to "The Action Team: NOT fucking with Ragnar since 2002"!!! See for yourselves what fine company we keep on some search engines!
Good Times!
BTW Jon, that was some good stuff!
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Cool pix man! Your new Xbox Live Gamertag is "ST4LK3R."
Ugh.
My day so far:
1. Wash some dishes.
2. Lie down for a while.
3. Take a gross alcohol shit.
4. Repeat.
All that wine and kahlua fucked me up man! It was well worth it but jeez. Maybe eating the piece of poundcake that was lying out on the table overnight didn't help.
Anybody seen Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy yet?
Ugh.
My day so far:
1. Wash some dishes.
2. Lie down for a while.
3. Take a gross alcohol shit.
4. Repeat.
All that wine and kahlua fucked me up man! It was well worth it but jeez. Maybe eating the piece of poundcake that was lying out on the table overnight didn't help.
Anybody seen Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy yet?
Best Way to Get Up Early Is to Drink Late
I now possess Enron's Skelephone. The phone that I named is now borne by its namer. A curious karmic circle of events.
Aaron swung by yesterday afternoon to drop off the phone, which turned into us playing the Doom boardgame with one of my roommates, which led to making a huge dinner for some ladies, which led to staying up until 3:00 AM watching Freaks & Geeks!
Which led to the ENORMOUS pile of dishes in my sink! Ah well, this kind of fun and debauchery has to be paid for somehow. Time to get out the dish soap and start cracking. But first... bathroom run! Ohhhhhhhhh
I now possess Enron's Skelephone. The phone that I named is now borne by its namer. A curious karmic circle of events.
Aaron swung by yesterday afternoon to drop off the phone, which turned into us playing the Doom boardgame with one of my roommates, which led to making a huge dinner for some ladies, which led to staying up until 3:00 AM watching Freaks & Geeks!
Which led to the ENORMOUS pile of dishes in my sink! Ah well, this kind of fun and debauchery has to be paid for somehow. Time to get out the dish soap and start cracking. But first... bathroom run! Ohhhhhhhhh
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Excerpts from the Xbox Live Manual that Make Me Worry Slightly About What I'm Getting Into:
p. 9, "Top Tips for Getting the Name that You Want, and That You're Proud to Call Your Own":
3. Consider using numbers in your Gamertag (e.g. B1AD3, SH0KK3R).
p. 19, "Play Famous Fellow Gamers":
Past participants at the Game With Fame party include:
Hoobastank
New Found Glory
Korn
-- 3N0T0 R4GN4R
p. 9, "Top Tips for Getting the Name that You Want, and That You're Proud to Call Your Own":
3. Consider using numbers in your Gamertag (e.g. B1AD3, SH0KK3R).
p. 19, "Play Famous Fellow Gamers":
Past participants at the Game With Fame party include:
Hoobastank
New Found Glory
Korn
-- 3N0T0 R4GN4R
Friday, April 29, 2005
Work Work Work Work Work Work. Convention time!
There. That's one work for each day of the week, except for Sunday where people here actually Don't Work?
Hey guys, what's up? If your wondering, there's no games here. no time. Most people work six days a week. and it's too damn hot to sit around at home stewing over "the grape escape" or rollin the dice at Settlers of Cataan. So take that MB.
Gaymer 1: (rollin the mojo) alright! i got some bricks
Gaymer 2: Hurry up. it's getting hot in here
Gaymer 1: lemme think, wanna trade?
Gaymer 2: (died of heat exaustion)
Man, I wish i could be playing some games at the con, but i'm instead typing this at work. Everything else is cool though. I'm the new Business Developement Engineer, whatever the heck that means, but i'm mainly under the Sales and Marketing division. So the job is cool. We also have a cafeteria, but the food is, well... eclectic. Most of the times they serve some type of Fried venue. Everyday, it's either, fried fish, chicken, pork and rotates everyday. Actually the food is pretty bad.
On other notes: That history channel game looks pretty hot. Boo Roleplaying. Congrats rudy on your debue. I would have gone for sure.
well anyhow, talk to you guys later,
Johnny
Have fun at the con! and tell me how it went. TRUE DUNGEON...
There. That's one work for each day of the week, except for Sunday where people here actually Don't Work?
Hey guys, what's up? If your wondering, there's no games here. no time. Most people work six days a week. and it's too damn hot to sit around at home stewing over "the grape escape" or rollin the dice at Settlers of Cataan. So take that MB.
Gaymer 1: (rollin the mojo) alright! i got some bricks
Gaymer 2: Hurry up. it's getting hot in here
Gaymer 1: lemme think, wanna trade?
Gaymer 2: (died of heat exaustion)
Man, I wish i could be playing some games at the con, but i'm instead typing this at work. Everything else is cool though. I'm the new Business Developement Engineer, whatever the heck that means, but i'm mainly under the Sales and Marketing division. So the job is cool. We also have a cafeteria, but the food is, well... eclectic. Most of the times they serve some type of Fried venue. Everyday, it's either, fried fish, chicken, pork and rotates everyday. Actually the food is pretty bad.
On other notes: That history channel game looks pretty hot. Boo Roleplaying. Congrats rudy on your debue. I would have gone for sure.
well anyhow, talk to you guys later,
Johnny
Have fun at the con! and tell me how it went. TRUE DUNGEON...
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Mine's F'n ripe
So ripe I peeled it and ate it. Fuggers, dont look at me like you havent. Besides Eric likes it. Likes the way it feels on his teeth. Mmmmm ripenis.
Yeah so what if I added an 'H'. Whats it thoo you john chunt eater-son. Man I am so burnt. I havent slept more than 4 and a half hours on any day in the past four nights. Didnt help that one of those nights I woke up every 30 minutes thinking I forget to make a specific and often ludicrous change in the book before it went to the printer. I am burnt to a cris. MacDonalds, breakfast of champions. Rock on New York, Rock on Chicago.
Pump: It is good to see that you have not died trying to protect all your mintures in a moment of perverse clarity by ingesting them all individually wrapped in the poor mans condom, Saran wrap. BTW if you try rubbing the delicious new video card on your belly it is a much more intense feel than what could ever be had with your hands.
The book is done. Yeeha! The first 10 prototype wire-bound printings came off the press and will be peddled to potential publishers at the AIA convention after they tour Italia. If they dont get picked up, they will be perfect bound at a real printer, otherwise, who knowswhat will happen if a publisher picks them up.
My 210 minutes of glory(hole) action in LA, of which 60 was spent at LAX, was brief and full of signitures, notaries and hoodwinking in no particular order. At least I got a chance to have dinner with my Mum and Wienerdude at good old Sion's. Mmmmm Bistek Picado and a Pacifico. Rule.
Elzar: Respond you punk ass turd. Me need the Warhammer! Teehehehe
We Have Fallatiated Ryan's Penis
BTW David may not make it to the Con. Home boy tried to get airline tickets, but they were just too expensive. Booooo...
So ripe I peeled it and ate it. Fuggers, dont look at me like you havent. Besides Eric likes it. Likes the way it feels on his teeth. Mmmmm ripenis.
Yeah so what if I added an 'H'. Whats it thoo you john chunt eater-son. Man I am so burnt. I havent slept more than 4 and a half hours on any day in the past four nights. Didnt help that one of those nights I woke up every 30 minutes thinking I forget to make a specific and often ludicrous change in the book before it went to the printer. I am burnt to a cris. MacDonalds, breakfast of champions. Rock on New York, Rock on Chicago.
Pump: It is good to see that you have not died trying to protect all your mintures in a moment of perverse clarity by ingesting them all individually wrapped in the poor mans condom, Saran wrap. BTW if you try rubbing the delicious new video card on your belly it is a much more intense feel than what could ever be had with your hands.
The book is done. Yeeha! The first 10 prototype wire-bound printings came off the press and will be peddled to potential publishers at the AIA convention after they tour Italia. If they dont get picked up, they will be perfect bound at a real printer, otherwise, who knowswhat will happen if a publisher picks them up.
My 210 minutes of glory(hole) action in LA, of which 60 was spent at LAX, was brief and full of signitures, notaries and hoodwinking in no particular order. At least I got a chance to have dinner with my Mum and Wienerdude at good old Sion's. Mmmmm Bistek Picado and a Pacifico. Rule.
Elzar: Respond you punk ass turd. Me need the Warhammer! Teehehehe
We Have Fallatiated Ryan's Penis
BTW David may not make it to the Con. Home boy tried to get airline tickets, but they were just too expensive. Booooo...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Ugggg...
Boy are you in for a treat.. Okay I will be in LA tomarrow for 4 hours and 15 miuntes. I am sooo tired, I will sexplain later.
Elzar: I have one acronym for you WHFRP. You will run it at Kooba. I have not played an RPG in 3 years. I have not played WHFRP in over a decade. Please, for the love of god run a game. Even Jon has been pressing me to pressure you into running a one off WHFRP adventure. Sincerely. Not the, I wanna play the Ratcather "Batman Theride" Jon, but the I like RPGs Jon. Ill play CCGs too. I have been having nostalgic feeling about those days too.
Dick-bone
Boy are you in for a treat.. Okay I will be in LA tomarrow for 4 hours and 15 miuntes. I am sooo tired, I will sexplain later.
Elzar: I have one acronym for you WHFRP. You will run it at Kooba. I have not played an RPG in 3 years. I have not played WHFRP in over a decade. Please, for the love of god run a game. Even Jon has been pressing me to pressure you into running a one off WHFRP adventure. Sincerely. Not the, I wanna play the Ratcather "Batman Theride" Jon, but the I like RPGs Jon. Ill play CCGs too. I have been having nostalgic feeling about those days too.
Dick-bone
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Haloooo!
Coming in from the cold... Recently got a new computer (with a sweet sweet sweet video card - strokes card as blood drips from all the abrasion cuts) to play WoW to its fullest with all my guildmates at the Action Team plus one!... guys? /yell hellooooo?!!!! /cry Hee heee, I logged in last night and the last character on was about a month ago. But as the gods are my witnesses, I ain't quitting until I'm unemployed! (prolly in a month or so boooooooo). So how do I go about and stage a coup d'etat for guild leadership?
Jon - Good call on the DS. Good sire, tis but a piece of offal. Offal sir! Setting aside the fact that they've yet to release a decent number of games for it, it is really badly designed. Take it from somebody who has played with it for eight hours. It is too big, and top-heavy. Murder on the wrists. The SP is soooo much more elegantly designed... mmmmmm klondike bar.......aarrrrrrgg. Oh yeah still working on the elfy cheesecake.
Rudy - Congratulations! Just catching up on the blog. Hope the party went well.
Eric - Saw the Blood Bowl humans..... hmmmmm I do believe that might be enough to push me over to the humans. sweet sweet humans.....
Coming in from the cold... Recently got a new computer (with a sweet sweet sweet video card - strokes card as blood drips from all the abrasion cuts
Jon - Good call on the DS. Good sire, tis but a piece of offal. Offal sir! Setting aside the fact that they've yet to release a decent number of games for it, it is really badly designed. Take it from somebody who has played with it for eight hours. It is too big, and top-heavy. Murder on the wrists. The SP is soooo much more elegantly designed... mmmmmm klondike bar.......aarrrrrrgg. Oh yeah still working on the elfy cheesecake.
Rudy - Congratulations! Just catching up on the blog. Hope the party went well.
Eric - Saw the Blood Bowl humans..... hmmmmm I do believe that might be enough to push me over to the humans. sweet sweet humans.....
I'll probably pick up Halo 2 someday... that's supposed to be awesome on Live. Maybe we can saddle up then!
Might and Magic II! Hell yeah! I love the first two Might & Magic games. Might & Magic I for its ugly graphics, extreme difficulty and inscrutable demeanor, Might & Magic II for being one of the most beautifulest games ever and one of the longest and hardest games that I ever beat! That kept Jordan and I busy for at least a year. I've still got our maps around somewhere....
MAN those graphics were good at the time! I remember seeing the pegasus on the back of the box and being all "DUDE! These graphics are AMAZING!" Then I went to school and got beat up by Jeff Stimpfig.
The subsequent games never captured the magic of the first two. They all had this kind of cookie-cutter design. I guess it was kinda cool when they put out 4 & 5 at the same time and you could combine them into one mega-game. But for the most part they were lame.
So, my phone is broken. I charged it the other night, unplugged it early in the morning (like five), and when I got out of bed it was dead. I took it to the T-Mobile store and the kid working there removed the battery and put it back in again, at which point it worked for about at hour before crapping out again. It won't hold a charge, and when I plug it into the charger nothing happens except the battery gets hot. Awesome.
Might and Magic II! Hell yeah! I love the first two Might & Magic games. Might & Magic I for its ugly graphics, extreme difficulty and inscrutable demeanor, Might & Magic II for being one of the most beautifulest games ever and one of the longest and hardest games that I ever beat! That kept Jordan and I busy for at least a year. I've still got our maps around somewhere....
MAN those graphics were good at the time! I remember seeing the pegasus on the back of the box and being all "DUDE! These graphics are AMAZING!" Then I went to school and got beat up by Jeff Stimpfig.
The subsequent games never captured the magic of the first two. They all had this kind of cookie-cutter design. I guess it was kinda cool when they put out 4 & 5 at the same time and you could combine them into one mega-game. But for the most part they were lame.
So, my phone is broken. I charged it the other night, unplugged it early in the morning (like five), and when I got out of bed it was dead. I took it to the T-Mobile store and the kid working there removed the battery and put it back in again, at which point it worked for about at hour before crapping out again. It won't hold a charge, and when I plug it into the charger nothing happens except the battery gets hot. Awesome.
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