You win, Pornographers!

Posted by on August 24, 2007 1 comment

You motherfuckers are relentless! 15 porn spam comments since I checked last night! Perhaps I should maliciously break my comment system, much as Peter Lynn has. That cheeky devil.

The Redbull Trap

Posted by on July 20, 2007 No comments

Apparently, if you drink a Redbull at 6pm, you can expect to be up at 3:20am staring at all the porn spam in your blog comments. Then, if you drink a Redbull the next day to make up for it, you can expect to be a total zombie by 5pm, asleep by 6:20pm, and awake again at 9pm, wondering if you’ll be able to get back to sleep at a reasonable time. The answer is, obviously, no.
If you haven’t seen Die Hard 4 or Ratatouille yet, go do so! Transformers was pretty good as well, but it’s hard to beat Bruce Willis as John McClane or the Pixar/Patton Oswalt combo.

The Darkness and Super Stardust HD are pretty fantastic games… uh… that’s about all I can think of right now. More at some point in the future. Maybe I’ll make fun of Spence Diamonds new commercials. People seemed to like that.

Off Again

Posted by on May 17, 2007 No comments

This is going to be a busy early summer for me. My brother and sister are both graduating in the next few weeks, and there’s an engagement party for my sister as well. I’m off to Washington tomorrow morning for my sister’s graduation from Med School, so that’s pretty impressive.

Hopefully when I get back I can upgrade WP and set up some comment spam filtering.

I can also change the template for the site a bit. I mean, my profile picture is a set of dice. I guess dice are okay, but do they really represent me?

GFW Podcast

Posted by on May 10, 2007 No comments

If you’re into PC Games at all, you should be listening to the Games for Windows Radio podcast. Not only do they frequently have interviews with PC developers, but they also talk about current games they’re actually playing. One of the podcast regulars, Sean Elliott, also does a series of skits. My current favorite is his “Whiskey Nerd” voice, a sample of which is available on youtube*.

This week’s episode has Flagship Studio’s CEO Bill Roper on it, to talk about their new game “Hellgate London”. You might remember Bill Roper one of the early Blizzard games. If you don’t you might recognize his voice as an Orc Peon!

* Ugh, I’d like to embed that, but I need to upgrade WordPress some time, I guess.

Things I’ve learned from moderating comments

Posted by on May 10, 2007 1 comment

#1 – I need a spam filter

#2 – Some people also think the Spence Diamonds ads are clown shoes. Sorry if your comment got deleted, I had 1000 of them to go through!

Most girls lookin right, some lookin a mess

Posted by on May 10, 2007 No comments

Holy shits, I intended to put this post up when I got from Mexico a full 6 weeks ago. It’s not timely at all, but I want to talk about some other stuff, and I can’t have people riding a cliffhanger about how my vacation went. Are you ready? Here goes!

I’m back from Mexico, which was a nice break. I realize my post heading is not only repeating Ludacris from my previous post, but I thought it was appropriate (if not 100% accurate) given that I spent my time lying on a beach watching some fat goddamn people walking around. Some of the guys there looked like red Grimaces.

We arrived near the end of spring break, which meant there were a lot of college girls walking around in sparkling bikinis. You’d think that would be, you know, awesome. But it was actually pretty depressing because they were all there with their boyfriends. Which reminded me of relationship ruin! Even though I’m seeing someone now! Oh my god /emoface

My brother and I managed to get sunburned on the first day, due to waiting outside at the Pizza bar at noon. The resort was all-inclusive, so there was booze and buffet for every meal. The cafeteria fare got tired pretty quick, so we ended up eating out a lot. We went to an Argentinian steakhouse a couple of nights, and I had a breaded chicken breast the size of a dinner plate (schnitzel style), and it was fucking awesome, sir. If that restaurant was in Toronto, I would be 500 pounds and deceased.

There is a really cool nightlife in Mexico, but that’s not really my scene, so I stayed in and read Neil Gaiman’s “Anansi Boys” and the first book in the Warcraft “War of the Ancients” trilogy, “The Well of Eternity”. I also put a bunch of time into the new Castlevania DS game, “Portrait of Ruin”, which is really very good.

I also watched a bunch of late night Mexican television. Did you know that the proper pronunciation of “Hugo Boss”, if you’re Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, is “oooogoboz?” I do, thanks to foreign television. That’s not even a slag on a bad dub. That’s the way he says it. Is it correct? I don’t know, but it’s pretty funny. You have to purse your lips at the end, though.

Gone for a minute, then I’m back again

Posted by on March 16, 2007 1 comment

I’m off to Mexico for a week, which is my first real vacation in 7 years. I’m a little nervous about leaving work, which is partly why this is my first vacation in 7 years. The last time I took time off work, it was to help A. renovate the basement. Yeah, I know how to show a lady a good time!

It looks like I picked the right time to take a break, as it’s now dumping ten feet of slush outside the house. That’s going to make it a little interesting to drive to the airport. Hopefully when I get back I won’t have 80 spam comments for Russian MP3 sites fucking up my blog.

More NIN

Posted by on February 27, 2007 1 comment

So, not only is there a new NIN album coming out (and a new concert DVD this week), but there’s also an ARG to hype the upcoming album. You can find out almost everything about it here at Echoing The Sound. It’s the year 2022, and everything is falling apart. The Government is putting something in the water, Hollywood has been attacked, there’s a new street drug named Opal destroying people, and people are having visions of a giant hand pushing through the sky to the Earth. The first time I saw The Presence, it creeped me the fuck out.

Start with iamtryingtobelieve.com and work your way on from there.

I got my fist, I got my plan, I got Survivalism

Posted by on February 19, 2007 1 comment

I think it was a couple of weeks ago that I first heard there would be a new Nine Inch Nails album this year. And today I heard the first single off the album – “Survivalism“. I heard an interview with Trent Reznor where he said that the new album would be a little different from what people were expecting. I took that to mean we were getting another album like “The Fragile”, which was had a lot of atmospheric/instrumental tracks. “Survivalism” sounds like something a cross between that and “The Downward Spiral”, which bodes well for the new album. On the other hand, “We’re in this Together” wasn’t that indicative of how “The Fragile” sounded. “Survivalism” is pretty good, although it’s nowhere near as catchy as “The Hand that Feeds.”

It’s great that we’re getting another NIN album this soon, although it’s also a reminder for me to how fast time is passing, and how much (and how little) has changed since “With Teeth” came out. I remember my friend D. sending a leaked copy of the album to me, which I took home and played for A. Now both of them have done the smart thing and moved the fuck out of St. Catharines and I’m still here 2 years later. I can barely believe it’s been that long.

Tomorrow I’m going to do my Taxes and clean the house! Can you even believe that? Holy shit, I can’t wait!.

Snow Day

Posted by on February 14, 2007 No comments

Despite my best efforts, and one and a half hours of shoveling, I’ve had to call it and phone work to say I won’t be in. I now have (had? I haven’t checked outside) a pristinely snow-less driveway, yet even my best snow clearing efforts can’t get rid of the massive snow drifts on the roads around my house.