strangething

There's a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles special tomorrow morning. They made a big-ass special to celebrate the cartoon's 25th anniversary. God but I feel old.

The special itself sounds like it's worth watching, if only for nostalgia value. They're doing a parallel universe thing to have the modern (blank-eyed) 2000's turtles meet the cheesy 80's turtles I grew up with. Apparently the original comic book turtles make an appearance as well. In black and white, no less.

It's the season for changes. My blog has a new look, and I have a new favorite icon. Scans Daily has a another new home.

It's a good time to post the story that founded my reputation as the king of weird. That's right, David Steinberg has a new column, and he ran the classic Weapon or Sex Toy story.

I really like his writings. He had a big impact on me as a idealistic college kid.

Strongbad made fun of me. Jealous?

http://www.homestarrunner.com/costumes2009.html

I'm in the montage of Homestars. Don't blink or you'll miss me. No love at all for my partner in costuming.

I've been working on my Fate/D&D mashup project, and I think it's starting to come together. Take a look, and tell me what you think it needs.

http://cursedworld.wikidot.com/

I need some help naming the gods, too.

Also, did I lend my Fudge Dice to anyone? I can't find them anywhere.

My god, I have a username on all of these. But where's LJ?

BeautifulPr

I have decided to to ITT next semester.

My graphic arts experiment is basically a failure. I'm kinda sad about it, since I really am enjoying the classes I'm taking now.

If I want to get student aid money, I need to aim for a BS. So I need a school that offers a degree that matches up with the classes I've already taken. ITT has a couple of IT programs that fit the bill, so off I go.

It's hard for me to be enthusiastic, since I'm moving from fun and creative into dry and technical. I feel like I'm just following the money. Then again, money really is the thing I need the most right now. I need to get in the door somewhere to get my life back on track.

I know a couple of you are going, or have gone to ITT. Please give my your opinions on the place. It seems a bit sterile and corporate, but that might not be a bad thing.

Halloween 2009

Pictures from midnightneko85's Halloween party.

My computer lives again! It turns out that it was just a bad cable. With all the delicate parts in a computer, how is it that an inert strand of copper is part to break down?

Much thanks to caffeine_bunny, once again. I tell you, one off-hand comment and he springs into action. I still need another IDE cable, in spite of our heroic efforts to acquire one. (We did everything we could, short of actually paying for one.)

My computer is dead. I'm writing this on a brain-damaged laptop.

Yesterday is was totally fine, earlier this afternoon, it was locking up periodically, and I had to reboot. After the fourth or fifth reboot, it returned a boot disk error. The BIOS is not detecting a hard drive.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

There's always a chance that this a freak intermittent error, and it'll go away as suddenly as it appeared. I don't hold out a lot of hope.

Most likely it's either the motherboard or the hard drive. I hope it's the motherboard. That hard drive is my backup brain, loosing it is like getting amnesia. Schoolwork, bookmarks, journals, passwords, game projects, it's all gone. Every time I go through this, I can only wonder what I've forgotten.

Thank god for the stuff I store online. I may start hosting all my game projects on Google Documents. I know it will come back to bite me when my internet access craps out at home, but but being tied to one piece of hardware is so 20th century.

Please disregard this post. My computer's clock is all f'd up.

My LJ, Twitter, and Facebook are now linked in an unholy daisy chain. Let's see if it works.

I am slowing becoming a Facebook person. It's sad, I know, but they make it so easy. Take this video here:



tl,dr: Why aren't you on Facebook?

Poe's law states that no parody of fundamentalism, no matter how over the top, will not be taken seriously by someone. It implies the inverse: that genuine statements of fundamentalism will be taken as jokes.

There's been a few whopping big examples of that recently, starting with the Conservapedia bible project I linked to a few weeks ago. That whole site is frequently taken as a hoax. But no! It was founded by Andrew Schlafly, homeschooled son of anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly. Trust me when I say that this man has never been funny deliberately.

Then along came this atrocity. Apparently legitimate. If you mouse over the painting, you get to read all about the artist's vapid symbolism. It is both hilarious and stomach-churning. This parody by the author of Shortpacked! makes a fine antidote. It's the exact same page, but with the artist's moronic notes replaced, in the interest of historical accuracy and LOLz. Or skip the witty parody and go straight to the blood-soaked Cthulhu version.

I've been following fringe politics for years, and I've built up an immunity to the effects of exposure this sort of lunacy. If these links have left you feeling a little ill, just remember that the crazies are an aberration, and most Christians prefer the Jesus on the left.

If at first you don't succeed...



EDIT: What the hell, PetTube? Auto-playing video? What is this, 1995?

They give you the real names, you guess the code names. I scored in the 90s on both quizzes, mostly due to hanging out on Scans Daily for years.

The DC quiz.

The Marvel quiz.

1. Holy crap Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize.

2. Strange Adventures in Infinite Space is now available as a free download. This game rocks. A game only takes 15 minutes to play, and yet can still eat hours of my time.

3. I kick ass with Photoshop. It's true. I'm ahead of much of the class now. Time to get started on the midterm.

4. Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill. Good stuff. I haven't had a good laugh in long time.

5. Pandemic! The cooperative board game, not the online Flash game of the same name. Played it at Andrew's last weekend, and had a blast with it. We managed to win twice, but the second time doesn't count, since the deck wan't shuffled right.

You know, I can't help but smile when I hear a new story about cross-dressing, Welch cage fighters. You just know that story is going to end happily. And it does.

I'm looking for a better version of the video now.

Good stuff for Doctor Who fans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F6D6RgpJGE