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Oct 1, 2008 Movies, Personal, Poker
It seems regardless of how much I think about reviving this blog, I do a pretty lousy job. One shiny thing or another distracts me and suddenly a week or three flies by in between posts. I’ve been thinking about some ways to breathe life back into this place again, and I have an idea or two. In the meantime I’ll just write a little update about what I’ve been up to lately.
Grifball
Yep, I’m still playing this darn time wasting video game “sport”. It admittedly is probably one of the biggest reasons I’ve fallen off the face of the blogosphere. To say the game is addictive would be an understatement. Join a team, become part of league, play in tournaments and quickly it takes up even more time. I enjoy it though and I’m part of a great team with people I really like playing with. If you own an XBOX 360 and the Halo 3 game, I’d certainly recommend giving Grifball a try. You can read more about it here.
Dreaming
My cousin and I still aren’t giving up our movie dreams. We still have a couple screenplays that need tidying, some rewriting, and extra thought. Eventually we’ll be happy with what we have and move onto the process of finding an agent capable of helping us sell our work. At least that’s the goal.
Poker
Before the wonderful U.S. government decided to make it very difficult to play poker online for money, it’s something I used to do. I’ve missed it and lately have been just playing the game for fun. It’s still possible to play online, mainly in free games, but it’s better than nothing. It’s such a great game.
There’s of course other various things I’ve been up to, but nothing too terribly fascinating.
By the way, it seems while I’ve been away, Google has decided to decrease my page rank by 1. I guess I can’t blame them, considering how dormant this site has become lately.
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Sep 18, 2008 Humor, Music
The other day while sitting here sipping my oh so tasty Alka Selter cold medicine flavored water, I was perusing the Rooster Teeth website. There’s a section which is full of all the many crazy images the site’s registered users upload to their profile. There were several pages of the usual lolcats and motivation images. Pretty boring stuff. Then finally I landed on something that literally made me LOL.
If you’re like me and grew up in the early 80s, a fan of rock and heavy metal music, chances are you’ll remember the classic song by Metallica called “One”. If not, let me refresh your memory.
That would be a shortened version of the song, but the part to focus on is around the 3:30 mark. James Hetfield snarls, “Darkness imprisoning me, all that I see, absolute horror. I cannot live, I cannot die, trapped in myself, body my holding cell.”
Now let’s take a look at this great image I found on Rooster Teeth the other day. It features a couple of the guys from Metallica out shopping, probably somewhere posh like Beverly Hills. Check out James Hetfield in his flip flops. Pretty funny. What really cracked me up though is the great caption someone added to the image.
By the way their new album Death Magnetic is awfully blah, but that’s discussion for another day.
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Sep 14, 2008 Movies, Personal
If you must go outside or interact with other humans, I advise you to take precautions and wear something not unlike a hazmat suit. If you decide not to heed my warning, you run the risk of being assaulted by a nasty pack of germs, hell bent on ruining a week or two of your life.
What am I talking about, you ask? It seems everyone I know lately has become stricken by a nasty cold/flu/virus/thing which has left them feeling down right lousy. Of course, because I had no warning, I’ve fallen victim to it. My days are filled with fever induced sweating sprees, epic coughing fits and unbridled sneezing spasms. It seems no amount of Nyquil is enough to make it stop.
On the bright side since I’ve felt like doing nothing but lay around in bed, I’ve spent some time watching plenty of tv and movies. One such movie that I really enjoyed was Kabluey. It was quirky, rather awkward and full of just enough laughs to make me feel better, if only for a short while.
If you’re reading this right now and find yourself surrounded by a mountain of tissues, feeling like you’ve been run over by a speeding bus, I recommend dropping Kabluey into your Netflix queue, so you can at least enjoy 90 minutes of your sneezy, cough ridden, stuffy headed day. You can thank me later.
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Sep 2, 2008 Personal
I mentioned a few posts ago that after I finished moving into a new place I’d be getting a kitten. I did indeed, and it’s been fun having a little furball to play with once again. I’ve wanted to post pictures of the critter here since I got her, however she had a bit of an eye infection in both eyes, rendering her less than photogenic. On top of that she rarely sits still, complicating matters.
Fast forward a couple weeks or so, eye infection all but gone, I finally decided it was time to get this fuzzy bundle of silliness to sit still long enough for a brief (very brief) photo session. I was able to snap precisely two quick photos of her before she scurried off to chew on something or other. Admittedly these aren’t the greatest photos, but it could be weeks again before she settles down long enough for me to take more pictures.
By the way her name is Fidget, because as I mentioned before, she rarely ever sits still.
Fidget inspects my glass of water.
She’s a little camera shy.Popularity: 26% [?]
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