January 2009
daaaaaang… Freddies restocked with EVERYTHING I’ve been keeping half an eye out for. New transformers, star wars, halo, and so on…
‘paulrus bought the new kanye cd.’ ‘paulrus met a girl at the party last night.’ ‘paulrus is going back to school to get his degree.’
Graffiti I walk by every day - ‘paulrus is dead’. Is it literal or figurative? Or just microblogging?
Haiku d’etat - band name on a flyer on a powerpole this morning
If hulu doesn’t have the joy of painting with bob ross, then they need to get on that.
By this time tomorrow, bush won’t be president anymore.
meanwhile a plane taking off from laguardia hit a... →
i think it was colbert, anyhow
colbert: look, jon, that kind of thing may go over fine up there in jew york, or jew jersey.
jon: stephen-
colbert: or jew mexico.
jon: stephen, i think that's-
colbert: (wags finger) hang on... jewfoundland.
wtf, israel?
Israel ‘accidentally’ shells a hospital, Reuters, and the U.N. headquarters in Gaza, causing a tremendous blaze and destroying food and supplies for refugees. Last week they hit a U.N. school and killed 43 civilians.
Each time they have claimed they were firing on Hamas militants who were firing from those buildings, the U.N. disputed that, and then they claimed they were firing on...
will ferrell as harry caray vs jeff goldblum as a...
ferrell: it's a simple question, doctor; would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs.
goldblum: well i don't, i don't know how to answer that.
ferrell: it's not rocket science, just say yes and we'll move on.
“HIS AXE IS ON FIRE! HE KILLED YOUR PARENTS! SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD! SHOOT HIM...”
– mc chris vs kingdom hearts II
manifest destiny
new year, new outlook. every challenge is an opportunity for change! an important, if somewhat counterintuitive, point of view for this, the most economically challenged of years.
new president, new outlook from the very top. new opportunities, somehow.
i’m making myself think positive. nothing is worth complaining about that you’re not willing to do anything about, so...
slightly exxagerated
jeff (reading chrysler email): huh. 'ricardo montalban, voice of the chrysler cordoba, has died at 88 years of age.' i don't even know who that guy is.
sean: um, what? ah, khan. from wrath of khan.
jeff: nope.
sean: the man with the golden gun?
jeff: nothing.
sean: wow. fantasy island?
jeff: (shrugs)
sean: so much else that nothing springs immediately to mind except senor senor senior on kim possible...
jeff: i don't see a lot of movies.
sean: apparently.
The tv in the lunchroom has no digital converter, so to compensate for the impending lack of signal, nick brought in his NES.
1/8" stereo jack to 1/4" stereo plug adapter - i... →
and we're back
i don’t know why pc’s get such a bad rap for being needlessly complex and hard to get working; i know it used to be that way? but seriously; i borrowed ryan’s wireless usb dongle, put in the install cd, plugged in the device, and a minute later was automatically connected to scott’s covenant battle-net. no trouble at all. at this point i put two discs into my drive to...
Then i just need to download service pack 3, new itunes, chrome, and firefox extensions. And tweak a million settings as they come up.
Evrything is go except sound and wifi, and that’s more because I can’t find the damn cds with the drivers. I’ll look online tomorrow.
If i only have half a dozen programs i use regularly, I can just backup my itunes library and firefox bookmarls, and reinstall everything.
Phoneblogging because my pc is offline. Oh no viruses! Except I keep all my data on a separate drive for precisely this reason.
space ghost volume 5: from the kentucky nightmare... →
the faq page on powerball.com is sassy →
dj earworm has a bunch of other cool stuff on his... →
ah crap
24 day seven premieres sunday the 11th.
galactica season four restarts on friday the 16th.
lost season five premieres on wednesday the 21st.
dollhouse premieres on friday february 13th, but i don’t really care.
watchmen is scheduled for march 6 but may be delayed.
star trek drops may 8, happy birthday to me from abrams and paramount.
transformers: revenge of the fallen drops june 26.
...
My new years resolution is to see more movies this year.
stevie might be a bear maybe →
daaaang.
me: hey xbox live, can i change my gamertag?
xbox live: of course, that'll be 800 ms points.
me: ... what, srsly?
xbox live: sure!
me: fine, i'll just create a new profile using the gamertag i wanted. no limit on silver accounts.
xbox live: 'ultra laser' is taken. other people have also seen hackers. it's been out for kind of a while.
me: i can hope. i got the tumblr after all.
xbox live: there's probably more people playing slayer than tumbling at this point.
me: probably.
xbox live: you could add some numbers.
me: or i could just add 'Junior' to the end. what about 'lambent brumak'?
xbox live: other people have beaten gears 2 already as well.
me: nuts, now i can't remember anything clever. all your suggestions are crap, by the way. hrrm. i wonder if 'adama bomb' is taken.
xbox live: nope! that one's all yours!
me: wait, i didn't actually...
xbox live: forever!
me: i can't change my mind after checking if it's available?
xbox live: why would you want to do that? i mean, i guess you could power-cycle your system and start over.
me: thanks. that's very helpful.
xbox live: you can change your gamertag for 800 ms points.
me: you're being kind of a dick, xbox live.
xbox live: send us a message from a gold account and maybe we'll care.
the angry black woman presents things you need to... →
erin mckean, a lexicographer speaking at TED,... →
Did an olde fashioned double take this morning. All that rain drumming all night may have been hail? Inch of crunchy snow, anyhow.
toyota developing solar-powered car HOLY SHIT THE... →