Random Thought Of The Day #539

Day 539

Lesson #1. Never ask you motherfuckers for advice on what to do with this stupid blog. You all give me 1 idea and it made my brain hurt to think about because I was on 2 hours of sleep. No No No No No.

That proves one thing. You people never get any other choices ever. Daddy will make them. And I'll give you whatever I feel like here and you'll fucking like it.

You sneeky bastards. That's what you wanted. You wanted me to get pissed off at you and start insulting you fuckers again.

I don't trust you sons of bitches.

If you keep that crap up... I will activate the subliminal suicide code I planted in your a while ago. So behave, children.

Hey... that's a solution to the debt problem. If I active the suicide code in you, that's like... 4 people that won't be around to raise the cost of healthcare further. Leeches.

But hey... who cares... a year from today, we'll all be dead. Or the Zombie apocalypse will have come to be. Or the Mayans will appear from the future and kill us all. or something.

So you should thank me & beg me to initiate it. A suicide code implanted in your subconscious is totally better than fighting off zombie hordes a year from now.

Random Thought Of The Day #538

Day 538

I still can't believe I've been writing this thing for 2 1/2 years now. Do I have the highest number of writings on this stupid site yet? Not the actual blog site... I mean Fet.

There's days like today that I wonder if I'm just an idiot shouting in the darkness about irrelevant shit or if there's an actual reason for this thing.

I mean... I know I'm just blabbering about nothing here half the time. I connect 2 or 3 distinctly different topics that 99% of the planet couldn't give a fuck about, throw in some pictures, manage to tie it into Deadpool somehow & call it a day. But days like today, I'd almost like for it to be dedicated to something. For it to have an actual purpose other than my inane rantings & occasional pokes at feminists, vegans & other crazy cause-heads.

I don't know how to explain it. It's quite liberating to have a place to spread my virus. And it's wildly fun to be able to go off on some stupid topic for 30 minutes & inevitably making myself look somewhere between a genius and the crazy tin-foil-hat man screaming about the CIA & aliens. The mad scientist in me loves that realm of infinite possibilities.

But some days, I'm so devoid of inspiration that I almost wish that this was some kind of journal or topical blog on politics or science or cooking or whatever. Otherwise, it's just a blog about nothing. And what's the point of reading about nothing? That would make it the Seinfeld of blogs. But... You know.... Occasionally funny. Unlike that god awful show.

No.... I'd like to have a standby topic to go to when I have no inspiration for one of my ranting diatribes. Like a standing Plan-B for blogs. Something I can always talk about to an extend.

Or is this my standard plan-b? Some sort of naval-gazing quest for meaning or some lame metaphor for searching for direction in life?

That's not me, is it? Seriously... Cause if it is, I'd like to punch me. I'm not a fan of those people obsessed with their "journey in life". I kinda wanna hit them. I know that life is gonna be a fucking rollercoaster. And I already talk about myself too damn much.

No... I want sort of op-ed type thing I can write on a fairly regular basis. I've written a little about music or movies or tv with pretty much no reaction. So here's what I'm asking...

Give me a topic I can write about somewhat regularly. We're pushing close to a new year & I'd like to give this thing a little bit of direction. What do you suggest? Fuck... I mean... what do you people respond to most? Throw a brother a bone, kids!

I can only talk about my appreciation for girls that look or act like or are sluts or strippers or whatever so much before it gets repetitive.

Hell, anytime you come across something amusing that you would like to hear my thoughts on, just forward it to me too.

In the meantime, I'm gonna just stumble around & search for inspiration to write something here every day until I find that direction.

Random Thought Of The Day #537

Day 537

So... yeah... I was waiting for this one. Some dude actually just got time in the klink for movie piracy. For uploading a single copy of a film to a torrent site. Granted, it was an unfinished bootleg version of a movie that had, at the time, not yet hit theaters, but still... a year in the poke for online movie piracy is kinda ridiculous.

Once again reminding you... watch your ass, kids. Or you might be watching it in the communal showers in county. Cause shit's getting real in their stupid war against... well... at this point? I guess it's against the internet in general.

Just because they won't adjust their distribution model for the ways that consumers actually want to consume media in the 21st century.

Between this and the pust for SOPA, we'll be lucky if there's anything left on the internet by the time they're done. Stock up on your intarwubz porn now, kids. There won't be anything left by the time they're done with it.

And this is also going to turn our court system into a fucking circus. Seriously. There's so many people that are going to be bringing chargers & sueing, so many people that are going to be prosecuted and so many other people that are going to get fined for shit they do all the time...

I mean... I'd be hit for thousands of dollars or worse just for my blog. And I'm not making a penny on this thing (anyone wanna pay me to write this? Please? I'll even make you a sandwich) but the little bit of Deadpool that I post or the random funny shit on here... all of that would be subject to take-down notices or outright deletion of whole blog posts, pages or even the whole blog just for having them up there. Because they're all from piracy under the rules SOPA establishes. And it grants the rights-holders (namely, a shitload of corporations, intellectual property holding companies, production houses and publishers) the ability to just go onto the web and take down EVERYTHING they don't want out there. And they don't even need to prove that they have the right TO take it down.

I'm waiting to get sued by DC for having some Deadpool up here at that rate. (Hint: Deadpool is owned by Marvel which is owned by ABC/Disney. DC is owned by Time-Warner... they're not the same.)

Oh well... I'm just kinda preparing for a future where you can find nothing but social networking (without anything but drunk party pics or artsy nature photos), the mainstream media & a shitload of pay-for-any-content sites. And a youtube filled with stupid cat videos. It'll suck. And be boring as shit.

Random Thought Of The Day #536

Day 536

I'm sorry. I'm changing this blog post. I spoke entirely out of turn. I brought uop something that was entirely inappropriate of me to even mention. And it upset people that I care a great deal about. That was not my intention. This was just my way of venting frustration over being helpless to fix something when fixing things is what I do.

So I apologize whole-heartedly for that. I'm very sorry. It wasn't my place to even say antyhing in any sort of public forum or even get involved.

I don't even know if I should keep the rest of this blog post here or if I should kill the whole thing today.

:-(


Really wanted a part in House Party 4

But hey... Kiim Jong Il is dead. So that's kinda cool.
I really got nothing else on that topic. Just saying. That guy was kinda funny. So other than the whole "having the controls of a military force" thing, it would have been great if he just hung around and acted crazy for a while longer. He's like the Will Farrell of the psychotic marxists that run a joke of a country and have delusions of grandeur. Best in small doses and really fucking obnoxious when he's too exposed.

I bet that paranoid fat bastard had all kinds of cool secret rooms and shit.

I've always been a little kid at heart with things like "secret passages" and "hidden rooms" and shit. I mean... I always wanted one of those secret bookshelf doors that would expose a hidden room when you pulled one one particular book. Or like... a panic room. Or those secret underground passage ways from CLUE. Do you remember what I'm talking about? The board game & the movie. You'd go and spin the one painting around & *poof*... you're in some random tunnel that took you to another entire area of the house by way of the pool house & some hidden part of the basement that's behind the main walls.

I always loved that shit.

Actually... I kinda got that already a little bit with my house. All the built-in storage. And the secret passage way in my bedroom that's not really all that secret but just kinda cool but could totally be made secret if I wanted to with a little work. Maybe after I finish the 7000 other projects that need done first.

Random Thought Of The Day #535

Day 535

Dude... Obama got fucking OLD really fast. Guy looks like he aged 20 years in the past 3.

Let's do him a favor and let him keep a little of his youthful looks and vote him out.

Granted... there's nobody on the other side that's worth a damn. But that makes it a great time to get my dog elected.

Let's write him onto the ballot. I don't care which party. He's very nom-partisan. As in, partisan to whoever provides the noms. (That was groan inducing even writing it)

So yes... he will readily admit that he can be bribed with food. At least he'll be honest.

I wish I didn't suck at photoshop or I'd totally do the red/white/blue Obama HOPE style poster that everyone has copied for everything with my dog on it.

So what's his campaign slogan? Hope & Change & "yes we can" were done (or rather... changed to "guess he can't") and I don't even remember what Bush ran on ... "Let's go kill some arabs"? I don't know.

Maybe "I did not have leg-humping relations with that woman"? (There's your Clinton reference for the... well, hopefully forever) How's that one sound?

Or we can vote for some kinky bastard in and instead of "Hope & Change" we can go with "Rope & Chains"? Somebody in a latex bodysuit out of American Horror Story or something?

I'm just thinking out loud again. I give up. This is the best you'll get today.

Random Thought Of The Day #534

Day 534

I think I'm being paranoid. I've had this really really bad feeling that something really bad is going to happen for the past few days.

So as I've mentioned a couple times recently... using software to anonymize your IP is wildly helpful. For a lot of reasons. Not the least of which being that I don't want every single thing I do to be logged on some ISP database. They don't need to know my shopping habits or what movies I'm waiting to be released. They don't need to know how often I check into Fet. Or what news stories I'm reading. Or if I'm doing it from my laptop or my phone.

But the thing is... shortly after I began using it, my laptop started getting wonky. It was already kind of a piece of crap, but it was eating more processor than the little bit of stuff that I was telling it to do should have required. Then... headcrash on the hard drive. I tried for a few days to fix it & get it running again before ripping the whole machine apart & also finding that my motherboard was shot too. So I trashed it. I don't throw away hard drives though. I smash them. I have my tax records on there. My banking information. My passwords. Personal information. And even with a headcrash, someone with the know-how can retrieve the info.

So out comes the sledgehammer. Take the machine apart. Rip out the guts. And smash them to bits. Basic information safety stuff.

But somehow I feel like maybe something was going on in my system that wasn't supposed to be. Like running anonymizing software opened me up to host or play an endpoint for someone else doing things. I don't know.

Throw that on top of changing my wifi password a few weeks ago becuase I KNOW that I had a network intrusion with someone using it to run a torrent client & I think my paranoia is mildly justified. Something just kinda "feels wrong" right now.

I don't know. I'm just being paranoid, I think.

I think that the mild paranoia about that mixed with my usual unease around my birthday & the holidays is probably not doing me any favors. So if I seem a little off for the next few days or so... don't mind me.

Random Thought Of The Day #533

Day 533

Is there still a World's Fair?

This popped into my head a few weeks ago and I forgot to ask. I don't think there is, right? When did it stop? Why?

I think someone needs to bring back the World's Fair. Though I have a feeling that it would turn into a Best Buy display setup. And nothing that's really mind-blowing.

That's pretty  much the best you're gonna get today.

Thanks to everyone who came to the party on Saturday. Your worship will be remembered.

And those of you that did not attend... your failure to pay tribute to the ScienceJesus will also not be forgotten when I bring forth the armageddon.

And it will be led by Mortimer. The Lone Mantis of the Apocalypse.

Because 4 Horsemen has been done to death. YOU all expect 4 people on horses. I give you 1 gigantic mantis.With the name of an old jewish man. Because nobody has been named Mortimer in like 40 years.

Maybe that was the Giant Weta from last week. He might be the harbinger of war, famine, pestilence & death.

Or maybe it was just a really big fucking bug.

Random Thought Of The Day #532

Day 532

You know... I always wonder about the origins of certain things.



Hehehe... retarded panda.



Coffee being a major one.

Who thought "hey, you know what we should do? We should crush these beans here and then run water through them at high temperatures."? Who came up with that idea? WHY did they come up with that idea? Was it just an accident where they felt caffeine for the first time and thought "holy shit, this stuff is awesome!" after accidentally drinking coffee bean contaminated water?

Wasn't that kinda what happened to discover alcohol? Fermentation happened with some grain and water getting mixed together & whatnot?

But really... it can't be like someone was really thinking "hey, you know what we should do? We should find which beans we can crush up and pour boiling water thru to see if they make us stay awake longer.", right? Cause that's like fucking alchemy for tiredness.



WTF IS THIS WHEEL FOR??? Alchemy is weird.

 Did coffee beans actually serve any other purpose than just kinda sitting there? Did we eat them before we figured out the whole beverage version of it thing?

Now that I mention alchemy though... so are we going to have to wait for pico-bots before we figure out how to actually turn lead into gold? Or can nano-bots do it? I think they're still too big to work on the atomic level. They're golden for working on the molecular level, but the subatomic particles might need pico-bots.

You'd figure that we already know how to do a shitloat of other stuff with chemistry and changing atoms of this into that, that we'd have figured out how to turn lead into gold... or pretty much anything else we want by now. We've straight-up BUILT a bunch of elements already... is converting a specific one into another specific one still beyond our abilities? Or are we just not trying anymore cause it'll tank the gold market & then we'd be really REALLY fucked?

Just thinking out loud... errrr... quietly but through my fingertips?

We really need to think of new turn of phrases for the intarwubz age. Cause the old ones don't really apply a lot of times when we can ramble to thousands of people without opening our mouths once. "Thinking out loud" isn't really accurate if the person ingesting your words is not in your presences and you're not making any noise other than keyboard clicks.

And since we have lip-readers in the deaf community... can we have keyboard-click-hear-ers in the blind community? Like intarwubz-braille. And how do blind people remember where they were if they lose their place in a book?

 

I think I'm done now. That was far too much random pondering of stupid shit.

 

 

 

RTOTD #531.1

Day 531.1

Hey... guess what? Putin rigged the election in Russia.

Frankly, I'm shocked. Really. I am. I mean... a guy that came to power by working his way up thru the KGB doing things that are unethical & anti-democratic? NEVER!

In other breaking news... Scientists have proven that water is still wet.  Unless it's in the EU. Then you can't say that water hydrates you. It's against the law. Cause a judge said so.

Proof that we all need fucking bunkers. I'm praying for the Zombie apocalypse or mutant invaders from the sewers. I think we have a better chance at surviving that than the idiots in charge. I think we can just kill the Morlocks. Not really an option for the idiots in charge.

Random Thought Of The Day #531

Day 531

Heh... You know... I think I need a .xxx domain name.

I have no idea why. I have no idea what I'd use it for. I have no idea who in the fuck would search for it.

I do know that "the.sciencejesus.xxx" would be kind of an awesome site. And that there will not be any porn that involves my fat ass.

But that involves paying for things on the internet. And I hate doing that.

On that note, I'm going to make one change to yesterday's RTOTD. Not ALL of the "Occupy" people are idiots. I'm pro-#OccupyIntarwubz. And as someone else proved, they're pro-#OccupyFrontLawn. By snowmen. In a scene directly out of Calvin & Hobbes. Because Calvin & Hobbes are fucking awesome.

That's what we need more of. We need more Calvin & Hobbes. Did the guy that did that die? My brain is kinda fried at the moment & I can't remember.

Speaking of comics though... I really want to start picking some stuff up again. I just don't know if I can justify spending the money at this point though. Which sucks. Hard.

Maybe if there was just MOAR DEADPOOL!

Random Thought Of The Day #530

Day 530

Oh look at that... with the economy in the shitter & the deficit out of control... and every attempt at fixing them both crashing & burning... what is our wonderful government doing now?

We're talking about abortion again.

Cause, you know, that's important shit. Apparently.

*yawn*

But hey, scientists did find a planet that could be Earth 2.0. Can I just go there? Get away from the idiots running this planet?

Look, I don't mind talking about politics or economics here. I can ramble about it for hours. But honestly? You see/hear/read enough of this shit elsewhere that I avoid doing it most of the time.

But every once in a while, I feel compelled. I look around and feel like my brain is melting at idiots that think they've got the answers to fixing everything through some complicated mass of regulations, screwing these people, letting those other people get a freebie and generally playing a real-world version of Sim City.

How about this? Just fuck off. All of you.

Instead of trying to make new rules that conflict with some old rules, just throw away some of the rules. It really is OK for there to be LESS rules sometimes.

It's like the whole world is trying to be run by busy-bodies. The kind that don't like someone else doing something, even when it doesn't affect them. Anti-abortion assholes, pretentious vegan douchebags, "Occupy"-whatever neo-hippie wannabes, rich fucks that don't like their fiefdoms being challenged or any other of these special-interest jackwads.

They all feel compelled to get in everyone elses business.

Just go away. All of you. None of you are "fixing" anything. None of you are "protecting" any of us from the "big evil bad guy" that you hate. You're just getting in everyone elses business. That's it.

The world won't be saved if you ban abortion. It won't be saved if we can't eat a cow or go hunting. It won't be saved if your unwashed ass sits in a park with a sign about the opression of getting a job and it won't be saved if mr bank CEO is allowed to keep all his money or has to give it all to the government. It won't be saved if the government stops spending money on the military or stops spending money on the poor. It won't be saved if we all have to go green and it won't be saved if we are drilling for natural gas in the middle of a park.

Here's the thing... none of your ideas are going to save the god damn world.

The only thing that'll be saved by letting you have your way is your feeling of self worth. Because otherwise, you've apparently got nothing else better to do to improve your own life.

So fuck off & leave the rest of us alone. All of you.

This almost makes me want to have a drug problem.

Deadpool makes it better though. Maybe Deadpool can take over the world & fix it.


Or should we call you... DOOM-POOL!



Random Thought Of The Day #529

Day 529

Today is already going to be a bad day. I can feel it. Just a gut feeling. So I'm going to go back to reading SPCC plans, researching trash cost mitigation options, bloodborne pathogens, and all the other crap I spend my days doing and avoiding contact with the rest of the world.

Well... that plus I got nothing to say.

I'll get to the boatload of e-mails that are sitting in my mailbox here sometime later. Probably tomorrow or the next day.

I got a shitload of stuff rattling around in the brain right now and none of it is suitable for rambling about here. Either in content or quality.

So that's pretty much all you get today. We'll just have to try this again tomorrow.

Random Thought Of The Day #528

Day 528

I fucking HATE bugs. The bigger & creepier they are, the more evil they are and the more I hate them.



This is not the bug. This is just only marginally less creepy

 And I just saw the fucking mother of all evil bastards. The Giant Weta. This ugly looking gigantic demon spawn of an insect can rip your god damn finger off.

I'm getting the shivers just THINKING about the picture I saw.

It looks kinda like a really really really fucking big grasshopper or something. But looks like it's about the size of @Sybele 's baby princess. Oh god... I'm going to have fucking nightmares about this creepy devil bug.

I'm not even going to find a picture to post. Because then I'll have to look at it again while I'm writing this shit & it'll freak me out even more.

LA LA LA LA LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA

FUCKING BUGS!

I need to think about something really fucking stupid to wipe that thought off my brain. Like how funny it would be to see someone have a gasoline fight.

Think watergun fight. But with gasoline. Think of the possibilities of how THAT one would end up. Tell me that's not one that won't be guaranteed to end in tears.

Someone give me something that will wipe the vision of that fucking death bug out of my frontal lobe? Cause I'm about 15 seconds away from stabbing myself in the eye with that crayon from the other day to get it to go away.

I feel like I need a fucking drink.

Or a lobotomy. Or something.

But instead... I'll just laugh at Deadpool & try not think about that creepy bastard of a demon bug anymore.

Pancakes. That might help. Pancakes.

Random Thought Of The Day #527

Day 527

So I figure I'll do my part & pimp the Fetish 101 party that's coming up. I'm not sure WHEN it is, and I'm not going since they banned smoking inside the building during the party, but it's coming up this weekend, I think. You can find the info on here. I think a couple people have mentioned it recently in posts in the local group forums.

They're fun parties. Enjoy the play. Enjoy the availability of a temporary playspace. It's good. Especially for those that want to play more often than at the parties me & the roomies throw or in a different environment or if you don't know me & I don't give you the address or I just don't like you & don't give you the address. But they're a good time.

So there. I did my part again.

But now I have nothing I really need to talk about. I got a bunch of suggestions last week on topics. Apparently me mentioning that I do take suggestions means that like 20 people will send me some.

Though the one common one that I've seen was the topic of attention whores. How awash the local groups are with them. Among other aspects.

Honestly, they're everywhere. In the community. Outside of it. In every group of people.

Fuck, I'm kind of an attention whore. I just do it in a different way. I write & hope to see people talk about it or comment or whatever.

I'm the last one to defend anything to do with the community. I don't play well with others. I think that's kinda obvious. But complaining about attention whoring at this point, in the days of the 15 minutes of intarwubz fame & the "famous for being famous" world we've established is like complaining that politicians suck. It's not bad to note every once in a while just for the sake of mentioning it, but it's the new standard. It's not a passing trend, as much as it sucks, and it's not changing anytime soon unless it's to an even more annoying social dynamic.



This has nothing to do with the community. But see...
even Deadpool is kind of an attention whore sometimes.



I mean... it's just another "truism" at this point. Something that just... is. Get used to it. Trust me, I can't fucking stand it either, but when there's at least something approaching an income to be made off of fetish modeling, event presenting, toy-making or anything else... becoming a "known" commodity in the community is one of the ways to compete towards these dollars.

Now... that's not to say that everyone that's an attention whore is doing it to make some bank out of it. Hell, I'm pretty sure that most people with 2 firing neurons know that they won't ever make a penny out of the kink world. A lot of them just want to find a partner or someone to play with for a day, a week or a few months. And attention whoring gets them that. Making a spectacle of themselves is one way to get the attention that brings notoriety which brings meeting new people which can lead to new play partners.

Look... Attention whoring is just one way to "sell" yourself to strangers or people that you only know in passing. If you don't "sell yourself" in some way, you end as a wallflower. I'm not saying it should be considered a valid method of doing so, but it works. And it's the way of the world now. Throw in social media and the personal virus that I've talked about people creating in the New World & you have a recipe for making attention whoring a perfectly effective method for seeking the kind of approval most people want.

Attention whoring elicits a response. Be it a positive or negative one. It gets the person noticed. And validates their methods.

So I know it sucks but attention whoring isn't going anywhere. It's the new way of the social media world. Complain about it & you validate it. Ignore it and, unless everyone else does as well, it'll stick around as well cause SOMEONE will fall for it. So you're all kinda stuck with it.

Just saying.

Random Thought Of The Day #526

Day 526

Apparently I missed hunting season again.

Cause there's nothing better to do than sit my happy fat ass in a tree for like 900 hours and wait for something to shoot. That's what I want to do.

But I wish there was a people hunting season.

I think 2 per-year would be sufficient. I could live with that.

*silence*

OK... I think this proves that I need a vacation. I'm getting back to my "well, if we could just take 2 people per year.... " thinking. I wonder how many of us would be needed to take care of those Occupy idiots?

SHUT UP BRAIN!! Or I'll stab you with a crayon.

I definitely need a vacation. I'm gonna go find coffee or mountain dew or something to maybe wake my brain up a little bit.

Random Thought Of The Day #525

Day 525

I sent an entirely unsolicited message to someone last night on FL. It wasn't someone that I'd met at a party or an event. It wasn't someone that had stumbled onto this stupid little column, or at least to the best of my knowledge. It wasn't someone that I had any real mutual friends with.

It was simply someone whose profile I stumbled upon because of an interesting name and, after reading their profile, I was intrigued by.

This is profoundly uncharacteristic of me.

Fuck, you people kinda know me by now. Some of you really know me pretty well.

I don't like new people. I don't like people I haven't met. I guess that was kinda redundan, but whatever. I don't go out of my way to meet any people. I certainly never bother to send friend requests or first messages or even initiate conversation with people I don't know. And half the time, if it's not someone I haven't known for at least a little while, if they initiate conversation with me, I'll feign interest for about 10 seconds before looking around with a bored expression on my face before finally turning back towards the speaker, interrupting them and just saying "I really don't care what you're talking about" and walking away abruptly.

It's not anything to do with being shy or anything like that. I'm just kind of a dick.

Well, maybe that's not entirely accurate. It's probably how it's percieved, but it's not accurate. I simply prefer someone prove that they have something of value that I would appreciate in conversation or even in an acquaintanceship before giving any of my time or energy to so much as a conversation. I'm not much for small talk unless I've already established that the person I'm engaging with also has something to offer in the realm of substantial conversation as well. Something that I'd be interested in conversing about.

Harsh? Probably. But I really don't care. Even a conversation is an exchange. You prove yourself interesting & I'll give you my attention. Give me something of interest & I'll trade you my time. I do the same thing here. You do too. When I have something interesting to say, you trade me your time to read it and occasionally reply. But how long did it take for me to grab your attention? When did I prove that I have something interesting to say? Rhetorical question. Just proving a point.

But I digress.

Sending an unsolicited message to anyone here is terribly uncharacteristic of me.

Maybe it's just because I'm waiting for it to be interpretted as an "I'd like to fuck you" message rather than an "I said I was intrigued. Because I'm intrigued. Period." message and I dislike being misinterpretted like that. Maybe it's because I know that most people that SEEM interesting tend to be terribly underwhelming after you get to see beyond the surface intrigue. Or maybe it's just because it involved me actually making an effort towards someone I don't know. A little too much "putting myself out there" than I feel like doing for absolutely no reason other than initial intrigue.

I figure... I "put myself out there" every single day right here. Why am I bothering to do more than that on an individual basis?

I guess it's kind of the typed-word equivelant of my lack of fear of public speaking.

I've never had any sort of problem with public speaking. There was never any fear. Because I knew that whatever I was about to say would connect with one person out there. I'd be throwing a wide net over a large group of people and I knew that I'd catch at least one of them. I'd be able to grab onto that connection & run with it. And everyone else would disappear from my field of view. I'd forget about them. It was me and the few people that I caught in my net. They became my audience. Everyone else was static in the background.

So I guess that's what this is. This is my daily public speaking. This is my net. I throw it at the intarwubz and see what the fuck I catch. And then it's just me and you talking.

And with that all said... here's Deadpool.

Random Thought Of The Day #524

Day 524

Fuck me, it's early. Why in the chocolate christ am I awake this early? Oh... yeah... work. Bah.

Everyone still here? Nobody killed any relatives over the long weekend? Nobody working in retail killed any shoppers this weekend?

Good. Well... maybe good. Some of those assholes deserve a good killing.

Nobody died from withdrawal from not getting this shit for 4 days? You sure? I think I saw my friends list shrink by a couple people. That could have just been people realizing I'm kind of a dick... but unless I see proof otherwise, I'm totally assuming they died of withdrawal. And their profile here died with them.

So, I was thinking... Have we pretty must killed Santa Claus?

Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but when I was younger (I mean, even like 10 years ago), companies did holiday commercials & themes, but kinda avoided showing the "parents buying all the presents for the kids" type deal. Now, that seems to be all the commercials really are?

I don't really care. I'm just thinking that we're on a pace now where we're like 2 years away from Best Buy just running a commercial that says "Kids, there is no Santa. Just tell your parents to shop at Best Buy for your presents this year.". That, plus the glorification of Black Friday into some kind of fucking "event" instead of... I don't even feel like trying to figure out what it USED to feel like. But I just think it's been turned into a spectacle.

Though it does seem to make people go insane. Which is kinda awesome.

Some lady walking into a WalMart and lighting people up with a can of pepper spray? Tramplings? Robbing people for their "Black Friday Deals" at 3am in a wildly lit-up parking lot and thousands of people around?

That's all comedy gold for me. I just wish there was more chaos to laugh at this year.

Maybe next year when Black Friday shopping starts before Midnight... fuck, let's just start it on Thanksgiving Day now. We already see Christmas shopping ads before Halloween. Thanksgiving is just the day-off that most of the country gets to prep them for Black Friday. That's the actual holiday at this point.

Oh well. That's only temporary. Once my Birthday becomes a national holiday, that'll change.

Random Thought Of The Day #523

Day 523

So... I got a question. This just dawned on me...

What was the deal with Popeye & the spinach? Did they ever explain why Popeye thought "hey, if I eat a can of spinach (who the fuck has cans of spinach anyway?), I'll get super strong!" at all? Or was it just a "remember to eat your vegetables, children watching this cartoon" kinda thing? That never quite made sense to me.

I have no idea why that just popped into my head.

Now that I think about it, what ever happened to Popeye? Or any of the rest of the old-school cartoons? Everything from Popeye to Tom & Jerry to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons from USA's Cartoon Express in the 80's. Fuck, even Loony Toons have pretty much disappeared.

Instead we have these insane anime things that you need a heavy dose of LSD to understand more than 3 minutes of.

Though that does be the question of "What the fuck was a Grape Ape?" and why do I have a feeling it was wildly racist?

Man... 80's cartoons are very missed. And half of them ended up with a Nintendo game based on them. Or we're based on a Nintendo game.

Now we need to give Deadpool his own Nintendo game. But not like a Wii game or even a Super Nintendo game. I'm talking old-school 8-bit shit. Just like this right here.

Random Thought Of The Day #522

Day 522

Sidney Crosby has solved hockey.

There was an equation somewhere.

He figured it out.

He gave the rest of the league a 20-game head start. And the rest of the league's reply after last night?

"can we have another 20 games to make it fair?"

Random Thought Of The Day #521

Day 521

Just another "thank you" to everyone that came out on Saturday night for the party. It was kinda awesome to see all the costumes. Everything from "real" comic book characters to made-up creative ones with a comic book vibe. It was kinda badass.

Though it dawn on me that my costume was gonna get confused with Deadpool about an hour before people showed up.

Grifter. Not Deadpool. A far more obscure character.

But yeah. It was a good time. About 35 or so people showed.

And it was great to see more people playing this time around. If you all have more suggestions on how to make it better, feel free to post them.

There were a few good suspension scenes, a bunch of resistance, and a few people used the spanking bench & stocks. We didn't have the space for the Wheel of Doom this time around.

And even without a kitchen, it seemed to work out pretty well.

Plus, @DoNotGoGently totally had the hottest costume. Seriously. That was the best Storm costume I've ever seen. Fucking yummy, yo.

Yeah. That version of the costume. And she somehow made it even hotter. And tinier.

But yeah, Doom, Storm, Dr Who, (we did have a lot of Doctors there apparently), LadyZorro, the Punisher, Elektra, Spider-Girl and many more all showed up. It was a good time. And I got a kick out of the made-up characters. Like Henchman #2 or RopeSlut Girl.

Sorry to the couple people that e-mailed me for the address who I didn't get back to or who I don't know. Sorry kids. My house. If I don't know you or don't know someone that can/will vouch for you, I don't give it out. That's the rules. This isn't a community event or public party. It's a (mostly) monthly party at my home. I'm not throwing the address out into the intarwubz void for everyone. If it was an open party for anyone, I'd just put the address in the event list.

That might be complicated for some people to understand, but how about you throw an open party at your house first. Then we'll talk. (no, I seriously got like 3 people that were pissed cause I wouldn't give them the address when I'd never even met them or spoken to them previously. The only reason I post these as "events" is because fetlife still doesn't allow for "bulk messaging".)

RTOTD #520.1

Day 520.1

By the way... Fuck this iOS 5.0.1 update. I did it 2 days ago & it's fucking up my cellular connection as well as my wifi & my microphone when I'm on calls.

I thought I restored it back to just the basic iOS 5 last night, but apparently it wasn't done when I got a call that interrupted it, so I'm still on 5.0.1. So if you call & I don't answer, don't get back to e-mails (not Fet-mail, I am horrible about getting back to that all the time) quickly, or you can't hear me when you call... My phone is being more retarded than that kid with the helmet from middle school.

Random Thought Of The Day #520

Day 520

So it looks like my work is going hardcore on monitoring Internet use. So I'm back to writing this damn thing on my phone each day. They haven't initiated yet, but I just got the new security policy to sign yesterday & it's basically "you can't do anything online that is not work related" now. Needless to say, getting 1500 words on random bullshit might have to start being RTOTD #X.1 late-day updates now instead of the morning stuff.

Though honestly, writing a thousand words thru my phone isn't as irritating as your think.

But it does mean that my "reading stupid shit on gizmodo" time has been significantly reduced.

On an entirely different note, I have to say... The party tomorrow is going to be one of the hardest to pull off for a while. The contractors that are doing the kitchen are about 1 or 2 days behind what I expected. They started Tuesday instead of Monday & after we also hired them to do the walls as well (painting & whatnot), it pushed us back another day. Hopefully, they'll finish today on schedule but it's unlikely. The walls still need painted, 90% of the cabinets need hung & the plywood floor needs to get finished being laid. That's not including the counter top being installed, the sink being installed, the microwave being hung, dishwasher installed & the stove put back in place.

We are still going forward with the party though. It's just going to be a little awkward. The kitchen might be off-limits for the party. We can move all the kitchen stuff back out of the dining room into the unfinished kitchen & move all the old cabinets into the corners of the basement to keep them out of the way. But it's going to limit play space a little bit.

Though the electrician should be done today. So that's one less thing to worry about.

And if anyone wants some cabinets from the 40's or 50's, let me know. They're yours. Seriously. I kinda feel bad about trashing them because they're nice. They just need re-finished & some of the hinges need replaced. I wanted to go more modern in there, so we figured it was easier to just redo the whole thing. I think I might have just been a little ambitious in getting the whole thing done in the window I had set.

And we need to clean still too.

I'd like to thank GreyOne again for letting us borrow furniture. With all the other things getting worked on this month, I still haven't had time to build anything.

One project at a time. Winter will be a good time to do building. Just won't really be able to stain or paint anything until the spring probably.

Anyone want to volunteer time & tools for a building party in January? Just all get together and build shit?

*this is post-tear-down. Before they started working. It's already in much better shape.*

Random Thought Of The Day #519

Day 519

I decided that I'm gonna do one of those "25 things about my sexuality" things that everyone else seems to be doing.

Cause I'm a trend-follower. Really. I am.

But considering that mine would be 3 things about my sexuality followed by 22 things about booze, strippers, cigarettes, comic books, video games & music, maybe it'll be "25 things that have absolutely nothing to do with my sexuality" instead. That would be far more fitting for me.

But I just saw that NBC has asked for a proposal for a The Munster's re-make show. And tv has recently tried to do a Wonder Woman reboot show and ABC had an Incredible Hulk show coming out next year. This past season also saw a reboot of Charlie's Angels and the year before saw a return of Hawaii Five-O. So going back to the well on tv shows is all the rage. So, with that in mind... let's go with 5 old-school TV shows that should totally be brought back:

I vote for the following:

1. Married With Children - though I don't know how you could find someone funnier than Ed O'Neil to play Al Bundy. Though I think this is what they're trying to do with Modern Family. It's just not nearly as funny. Where's the trampy daughter & the teenage son that can't get laid? Or hearing the thoughts of the dog. But maybe in this version... Al's can be the grandson of Ted Bundy that he fathered with some other chick. Think Dexter as a women's shoes saleseman... losing his god damn mind.

2. Gilligan's Island - When I first saw the commercials for LOST, that's what I expected it to be. But it was infinitely cooler. But I think you could do an absolutely hillarious Gilligan's Island remake that was totally different. And doesn't need to include 4-toed statues and smoke monsters.

3. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? - I remember that this show sucked... but instead of doing it as a game show for kids.. make her an actual bad-ass intelligence broker & go all spy-hunter on her. She's got her network set up & all that. Maybe make it a 1st person style story too. Like the viewer is the spy hunter going after her. All shakey-cam style and everything.

4. Twin Peaks - I'd just be happy if this show ever got a proper resolution. But a reboot with the same crazinness and the same starting point question (Who killed Laura Palmer?) would be totally bad-ass.

5. Flipper - A crime-fighting dolphin? Who thought this was a good idea in the first place?  How the fuck did this show not fail the "suspension of disbelief" test? Come on... this time, give him like... a bionic tail, one of those collars from the Pixar movie UP that the dogs wore so they could talk. And a fucking body suit filled with water so he can survive ... with a laser gun. Or something. Just go fucking crazy with it.