![]() 02/06/07 - 03/15/07 |
![]() |
Netsorcery Beautiful, no? Here's a bigger version. I made it here. If you want to change stuff after you preview it, I think you gotta delete your temporary internet files first and refresh the page. Kind of a pain but fun once you figure it out. But yeah, it's for dorks. Speaking of dorks, I came upon this nest of awesomeness: The Uncyclopedia. Right off the bat, I lost the Game. Stumbling around from the resulting headache, I found refuge in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Drifters. Which in turn led me to enthralling discussions of redundancy and redundancy. Cool article about vision tracking. Comment on this entry... |
![]() |
sexual gestures, nudity (Janet Jackson), and what-not Some real gems courtesy of the Smoking Gun... Personally this one is my personal favorite. Hope that HIV test turned out alright. At this Wilco site on Sunday they were streaming the new album, Sky Blue Sky, and I had a chance to hear almost all of it. You can still download one of the new tracks, "What Light." It was definitely Wilco, at first listen similar to the A Ghost is Born sound, with some new sounds and lyrical phrasings thrown in the mix. It was just kinda... ok. At first listen. It'll be out May 15 but I expect more tracks to show up on their myspace before then. We watched the first episode of The Riches tonight, and it was a pretty decent pilot. It wasn't half as cheesy as I expected it to be. The accents are a little troublesome but it wasn't unbearable by any means. The most interesting aspects were the dark corners... Minnie Driver is a pretty harrowing junkie. I predict this will be the breakout role for grizzled B-actor Gregg Henry, who, it appears, will be playing the asshole of the neighborhood. Comment on this entry... |
![]() |
Carandiru (2003)
|
![]() |
Morehammer I finished my Imperial Guard regiment last week after about 4 months or so of work and played a game against Mucky's chaos on Saturday. The 54th Tiefwalder held their own. Near the end of the battle, the demon prince charged the center of the Guard formation, slaughtered a squad of infantry, but finally expired in a hail of lascannon and heavy bolter fire. The confrontation ended in a stalemate, as both friendly and enemy forces fortified their positions without significant losses. Tiefwalder casualties included one Sentinel, a mobile infantry command squad and their Chimera, and a fire support squad. In early test games I used the two infantry command squads as deep-strike suicide teams, but I’ve decided to give them each a Chimera instead to add even more anti-infantry firepower. I added a flamer or two to the infantry command squads and special weapons squad to help out with close-quarters defense. I also added a Commissar to the Command HQ for a hidden powerfist and leadership boost, and used Iron Discipline instead of the Drop Troops (deep strike) doctrine. It allows squads using an officer’s leadership to ignore the -1 Ld for being below 50%, as well as to regroup even when below 50% (needing 9’s on leadership tests almost every time, which is much better than normal Guard Ld). I had 12 points left over that I couldn’t allocate, so I decided to throw a sanctioned Psyker into the command squad for the hell of it. He’s going to be worthless most of the time but every once in a while he’ll boost the junior officer’s leadership radius to 18”, which could help in a pinch. Comment on this entry... |
![]() |
Borne Aloft We went to see my brother play in his Brasilian band at the Blanton Museum's B-Scene. It was cool to see D blow through like 8 different instruments as the night progressed. Some good sambas and whatever all else different types of songs. As it turned out we weren't able to check out too much of the actual art exhibits, so we'll have to go back at some point. I had heard some good things about the B-Scene, but I didn't find it that appealing really. A little too swinging. Saturday we went out to the neighborhood park and launched a couple of cheap kites, featuring a pterodactyl and a couple of aliens. We definitely got our two dollars worth, and enjoyed some crazy aerobatics before the pterodactyl bit the dust for good. Pretty soon after we arrived we were joined by some of the most selfish, asshole parents I've ever heard, all the time snapping at their kids and spouses for no reason, grabbing the kite away when -god forbid- the kid threatened to bring their kites down, that they had spent 10 whole minutes getting into the air, thank you very much. Even a grampa got into the action. But all-in-all the day was just too awesome to be spoiled by a bunch of bitter breeders. Here's some pictures from all that mess. Comment on this entry... |
![]() |
The Man Who Copied (2003)
|
|
The River Rise
![]() |
![]() |
Talladega Nights (2006)
|
![]() |
Yeah! Especially Backed In! Some douche left this note on my vehicle at work. Suffice it to say that it was fucking unwarranted and I was pretty irritated about it. Back in San Marcos you were eye-to-eye with your competition. At work the act of parking is much less hectic and cutthroat, but people are generally older and bossier. At least he could have used one of these instead of this creepy little burning cross-esque back-of-the-receipt bullshit. Tonah stormed the set this past weekend and we had some good times, including a big poker game on Saturday. KLube cleaned us all out and went home with the big win. Jeez... I fired up Seven Mary Three today after Mucky was humming some "Cumbersome." Hadn't heard it in ages. Pretty good. Comment on this entry... |
![]() |
The Departed (2006)
|
![]() |
Time For You To STEP OFF Had a pretty fun weekend, starting off with the Lemonheads live at Emos. It was a late start, but after the two mediocre opening bands, Dando and crew took the stage and very quickly rocked through a ton of great material. Allison got her tit pierced! Also I heard something about a mohawk. The first meeting of the Austin Dodgeball Society went down on Saturday, but we didn't really play any dodgeball. We just posed really enthusiastically for this series of staged pictures. I've been watching this silly White Rapper Show. I hate hate hate this show... but I still cannot stop watching. Hallelujah holla back. Comment on this entry... |
![]() |
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
|
![]() |
Clerks 2 (2006)
|
![]() |
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
|
![]() |
Superman Returns (2006)
|