Category Archives: Just Stuff

Just Stuff, Site Stuff

Updates (or lack thereof)

Blame World of Warcraft. My brother kept nagging me..so I signed up with a 10 day trial…and while I’m not addicted.. I have been playing quite a bit during the trial, to determine if I want to upgrade and start paying for a subscription.

So far, my biggest complaint (and really, I have this same complaint about all online games) the game companies charge the same $50.00 (when the game is new) for a game you can only play via subscription (at $15.00 a month) as they do for the ‘single’ player games, or games that have an optional online multiplayer capability. C’mon.. if you’re going to charge a monthly fee.. sell the retail box for cheaper..since its worthless without paying the monthly fee!

Anyone know of a WoW mod to control iTunes for the Mac? all the ones I’ve been able to find so far are for winbloze…

Just Stuff

ouch!

Came across this story today… and really all I can say is Owwwwww!

Now.. I can understand being upset with your ex for getting over you.. and I can understand wanting a little revenge.. but c’mon..supergluing his penis to his stomach.. that’s a bit excessive… this is my favorite quote from the link though:

O’Toole’s attorney said this was part of routine sexual activity between the couple — acts that he agreed to — incidents that should have stayed in the bedroom.

So..she claims that part of their normal, consensual sex.. was to superglue each others genitalia to various portions of themselves.. now.. maybe its just me.. but I’m failing to see the turn on in being superglued to myself..

Janice’s response? “With 10 men on the jury…wonder who’s gonna win the case?”

Just Stuff, Tech

Odd Search result

I took a quick glance at the logs to see what kind of search queries were sending people here (besides the obvious ones like people searching on my name, or Kael’s name).

One caught my eye (I didn’t look at an extended period of time, I think it was just 1 day)

Coned shape boobs

Now.. this is not something I would have expected to have this site show up in the results for..so.. I Googled the phrase.. thinking I’d have to dig through several pages of results to find a hit from here.. nope.. I was wrong.. I was #7 on the list of results.. which, of course, made me look to see where I’d been talking about coned shape boobs (considering I would have spelt it correctly as cone shaped boobs)..turns out.. because I have Movable Type set to create a category archive page (which lists every entry ever written for a particular category)… I appear to have made fun of boobs and Con-Ed (the power company) in the same category.. so when Google indexed the page I appear to have been talking about oddly shaped boobs..I suppose I should be relieved that I didn’t show up further up the list of results, and beat out the erotic story that is the #1 result)

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Serenity Promotion

Joss Whedon posted this message over at the official movie site. I’ve reposted it here, in its entirety, completely without permission….

Well boys and girls and boys dressed as girls and girls dressed as Kaylee, the time is almost upon us. This Friday we take that old rust-bucket out of the shipyard and see if she can breach atmo. It’s been a long (to paraphrase a band I like) strange trip, and it’ll be nice finally to show everybody what it is we’ve been tinkering with all this time. You already know you have my thanks, from the hardcore fans to the softcore… fans…. let me try that again. From the people manning the booths, buying DVD sets for their friends, getting banners seen everywhere on Australian TV, raffling artwork for ticketholders (Adam Hughes, take a bow), to the most casual fan who just wants to see the flick and won’t ever even read this. You guys are the fuel in the engine, the Fire in the Fly, the weird green stuff coming out of Serenity’s butt. (Hmmm. Forget that last one. I’m a little bit out of control here.)

Everyone needs something to keep them going. Mal has his ship. Zoe has her integrity. Jayne has Vera. And I’ve got you guys.

So what now? There have been so many posts about seeing it, seeing it again, the first weekend, the second weekend, being enthusiastic without being obnoxious (and yes, it IS hard to see over the pom-pom of a Jayne hat), buying tickets in advance, making a noise… I honestly wouldn’t know what to add. I can tell you this: the movie will play in about 2200 hundred theaters, which is a good number. Too many, and you get empty theaters with no energy — not enough, and you get, well, not enough. It may be hard to find in some areas but it’ll be out there. Leave no multiplex unturned! This is going to be a ground war, peeps — we have to hold the valley for a long while. However it opens, it needs to HOLD. Instead of the Alliance we’ll be fighting viewer apathy, fear of something new, the urge to wait for DVD, and Jessica Alba in a bikini. (Although I have it on good authority that she spends 90% of the film in a huge wooly parka. Make sure that gets out.)

The day this puppy opens, I’ll be seeing it with my family (don’t worry, there’s a lot of them, and they’re all paying) and then I’m off to Europe to learn the word ‘Browncoats’ in nine different languages — ’cause like I said, it’s all about holding. I’ll never be far from a computer, though, so I can check in with y’all. Thanks for every damn thing.

And remember, amidst all the urgency to make this an event, all the work and the worry, to take two hours and just enjoy yourself. That is, after all, what all this fighting’s about.

-joss.

So.. go see it.. and then, see it again, and again, and again.. I’ve heard varying rumors regarding what may happen if the movie does well. Some say Sci-Fi will pick it up, and start producing more episodes.. others say Joss (look at me, calling him by his first name, like we’re best friends or something!) will continue to tell the story by way of movies.. either way.. we win.. so see it lots!

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5 days and counting

Till the theatrical release of Serenity, the movie based on the Firefly TV series. Go get in line now, buy your tickets and make sure that everyone you know goes to see the movie on opening day.. give it a huge opening day.. and then go see it a few more times so we can either get some sequels or maybe get the series brought back!

If you haven’t seen a trailer yet… here’s a link to one.

Janice and I are going Friday to one of the matinees (hey..that’s when we’ve got a sitter for).. so I’ll post my thoughts on it Friday Night/Saturday morning