Geek Christmas

I guess this is a fun happy time Christmas geek wish list.
1. Netflix
With NXE, watch movies anytime through your xbox on your tv. AWESOME. 9 bucks a month.
2. Ipod Touch/Iphone
These things are ridiculously powerful. Last year I was wowing about the Kindle. This can do all that that can (download books, newspapers, etc) and play Youtube, surf the internet, have lightsaber battles, play games (and not just regular games, like quake 3 levels of games) so much free things. (apps) There was a webcomic talking about the how you can call anyone, meet anyone and find the directions to anywhere in the world. You can look at anywhere in the world, anywhere in the world. And how you would have crashed you flying car anyway. The Iphone is the first landmard that the future is here.
3. Steam Games
Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead. Valve keeps coming up with these awesome games, but I can't bring myself to get them because of the Mac. Now that I have the desktop in optimal gaming position, i have been using it more. These games look amazing.
4. A Hacked Original Xbox HDD.
So I can place emulators and a media server on my old xbox. This is way to complicated to do myself. It involves unhooking your xbox HDD while the power is on, and when you hit that point its time to stop.
5. Rechargable Batteries Packs for 360 and Wii. The Wii batteries just keep dying, and the i still need 1 for the 360.
6. TV series.
One can never have enough TV series. If You own it, and think i should own it, theres a good chance i need to watch it. Unless your Cody. Then reverse that. Same thing for books.
7. Something that would help write more in this blog. Something not numerical post wise, just more verbose posts.


Things I gotmyself for Xmas.
Ipod touch !st Gen (With Macbook- Free)
Lego Star Wars Complete (10)
Warhammer Online.
$20 Xbox Card for Rockband songs

Jillian Knippling

Nerdgasm

Stargate Atlantis
Now with more Jewel Satie! Kaylee from firefly.
Episode guest starring....

DAVE FOLEY - Newsradio, kids in the hall
BILL FING NYE - SCIENCE GUY.

BEST episode ever.

I have some of the pictures of the new niece on my phone, and if they saved to the memeory card I will try and upload them soon.

MacBook

I suppose I should say something about the new laptop, a Macbook from 1 gen back. The lowest level solid white. I have several opinions about it after using it.

OS X
Very shiny, Cool easy to use

All of the new cool stuff was ported directly from linux. Spaces and Time Capusle, just right from Ubuntu.


Mac Hardware
Smaller than I am used to, really light, and quality stuff. Everything is really well made. THE TOUCHPAD IS HUGE. No really, its the size of the Ipod.

But everything was made difficult for the user. Instead of having a regular HDMI port or DVI port on the side, neither are larger than the mini-DVI. But you have to puchase a mini-DVI to DVI or HDMI cable AND then you have to buy the Cable. NEITHER of which will work unless they are specifically made by apple, they won't work. If I purchase a new video card for my PC, it come with 2 DVI ports, 1 DVI->VGA adapter, 1 DVI -> HDMI adapter, A DVI cord. Also mini-DVI IS ONLY USED IN APPLE PRODUCTS. They didn't have to create a new format for this.

Also my touchpad can support multitouch gestures, but becasue i have a Macbook and not a Macbook pro, i can't use them.

I might just end up putting Vista or Ubuntu on this guy.

Names

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother's and father's middle names)
Alan Marie

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)
Durwood Lambert.

3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 2 letters of your last name, first 4 letters of your first name)
Knand

4. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Blue Duck

5. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you live)
Joe Madison

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite alcoholic drink, optionally add "THE" to the beginning)
The Green Carbomb

7. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Anng

8. GANGSTA NAME: (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite cookie):
Double Nut

9. ROCK STAR NAME: (current pet's name, current street name)
Egan

10. PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on)
Oscar Route (I think the big black don's name was Oscar, I was really young)

Wuxi Finger Hold

So i just rented Kung Fu Panda, and still wondering about the Wuxi Finger Hold they reference. I was thinking that it was some sort of inner movie joke about the chinese version of the Pull My Finger Joke, but i didn't see anything else that would give me any evidence of that.

1. Then you Must know what happens when i "Flex My Pinky"
2. The hardest part is cleaning up the mess.
3. What's brown and rhymes with snoop?
4. There is a golden cloud emanating from the Po when he uses it.
5. They were making fatish jokes the whole movie
6. -> 3.a. Dr. Dre


But anyway, I laughed the other day at the open discussion forum for the election results. There was a chick who said something derogatory about Obama winning the Election, and cause quite and uproar. She said something along the lines about a hunting trip and causing an accident, there were a bunch of irritated people and she had to explain herself. I noted that she should be expecting a call from the Policia about that, and my roommate was quite confident that they can't do anything if the threat was made with joking intent. And I just Laughed and LAUGHED.

They can do anything they want. I guess he wasn't paying attention in 2001 and 2002.

Oh, watching the stuff leading up to the Election is almost as good as watching the resulting people fight it out. It was like the newest South Park episode, where the Obama people were out in the streets and partying, and the McCain people were hiding in fallout shelters. Obama people were too exited for something that was going to happen. McCain people got way to butthurt.

Mark the date

I just saw the first Christmas commercial. And it was a Christmas, not a happy holidays.

Point, Windows

Apparently, Macintoshes do things that are proprietary for their own CABLES. BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT. If I got to the Apple section of the of Best Buy, go over to the accessories table, pick up an adapter(THAT SAYS MAC COMPATIBLE), AND HAVE IT NOT WORK DUE TO APPLE'S DVI OUTPUT CHOICES.


ONLY LARGE UPPER CAPS LOCK CAN EXPRESS HOW ANGRY I AM.

Ren Faire

So got to go to the Renaissance Faire in Minneapolis. Easily one of the high points was a group of chorus singers singing the Manamana song, led by pirates. It was awesome, they were almost done when I got there otherwise I would have gathered a video.

We're Detectives! Not Mind Readers!

I'm So glad they brought this back. Now if i could only find a way for the old games to be played.

Dimitri Marten

These are one shots from dimitri marten.

“I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word ‘dude.’ ‘Dude, these are isotopes.’ ‘Dude, we removed your kidney. You’re gonna be fine.’ ‘Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.’”

“I like the beach. I like to get there really early before everyone else shows up and take like thirty bottles with notes in them and throw them into the water. Then I wait for everyone to come to the beach and when someone goes to pick up one of the bottles, I go up behind them because when they open it there’s a note saying ‘I’m standing right behind you.’”.

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I’d probably just start calling out letters.

Graffiti… I don’t like graffiti, unless it teaches me something, you know? Like “Oh, that’s how Alex feels about Maria. I wouldn’t have known if I had not walked by there, thank you.” Graffiti’s the most passionate literature there is, you know? It’s always like “Bush sucks!”, “U2 Rocks!”. I want to make indifferent graffiti. “Toy Story 2 was okay!” “I like Sheryl as a friend, but I’m not sure about taking things further”, “This is a bridge!”, “That guy’s right!”

2 guys at the bar

The Guild

HERE COMES THE DEVIL!

Week of Youtube

I have decreed that this be the week of youtube.

This game remindes me of half Team Fortress 2 and half hogans heroes.

Boom di Ada

I think I'm going to make a list here soon.

Epic

Note the time is 3:30.

Just got back from the 12:30 showing of batman the dark knight

Refer to title of blog post.

Watchmen trailer

Repeat 3rd point.



The joker was amazing. there was no doubt after the magic trick done by the joker, on how f-ing crazy this guy is.

Not aimed at the younger audiences.

Muppets

Best Patriotic Video Ever...


THAT WAS TERRIBLE, HORRENDOUS, I'M OFFENDED, I'M APPALED!

rushed

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I was going to do the whole thing, but i found Mystery Science Theatre 3000 on youtube.

Crystal Skulls

Saw the New Indiana Jones, movie, and they almost had it. Without giving too much away, It felt like there was too much of an ending. It was all really good up until the chamber at the end. After that it became less like the old Indy, and more deep. They leave, killing the bad lady for some reason, taking off, and leaving nothing behind. I felt that there should have been something physical for Indy to take back, as unlike the other movies, nothing was accomplished. there were moments of very cool action and memorable parts, although nothing spectacular. The Motorcycle chase was good at parts, particularly the beginning, where he gets pushed back into a group of bikers... GET THAT GREASER! was pretty cool. And in the library, when Indy recommended a different book to read. The most memorable was probably the refrigerator, and when it closes, the door reads "Lead Lined." I wasn't expecting it but the Waterfalls was pretty well done. They could have coped out and did a panic bit like in the Last Crusade and the tank, but they all had the characters be like, Ya whatever. And the car chrash that they show in the previews. in the lead up to that a character betrays Indy, (Hint, its the only guy you don't recognize) and he is shouting, "Stay back, you don't know jones like I do. You don't know Jones! YOU DON'T KNOW JONES!" *crash* Overall they movie had a feel like Destroy all Humans!! with the communists angle of things, not a bad thing. But the killer was the ending, it felt like even though technically they left it open for a sequel, they were wrapping up 4 movies.

tl;dr Ending needed something. Less Wrap-up, and more cheesy JOOOOONES! moments.

Where have all of the action heroes Gone?

I had just finished watching Judge Dredd, when a thought occurred to me. When was the last time, I had seen an action movie that had not delved into the complicated world of thought. In Judge Dredd, the was Rico, the Ultimate Bad Guy, and Dredd the Perfect Good Guy. Explosions, Good guy wins, the humorous sidekick, Rob Snieder complains the entire way. It made me go Woo! inside after watching it.

Another Example, Die Hard. Die hard 1, he's fighting terrorist who are also greedy. Die Hard 2 same thing. Die Hard 3, he's doing it with Samuel L Jackson. Die Hard 4 he got some whiney little computer hacker that he has to protect the entire time. The Bad Guy was once a good guy, and he is really just doing this to protect the country from an attack that really means it and make some money. With the addition of all of the technology, computer hacking, and the removal of the signature line in order to keep the rating, the movie was terrible. Killed by modernization and new movie making techniques.

At least one Genre is still getting better. Horror movies are still remembering where they came from and where they should be going. Planet Terror was one of the Best Zombie/Plauge/Psycho Killer/Shocker movie I've ever seen. Deathproof put Kurt Russell back where he should be, as the rough, tough Bad- Ass. (cept for that part at the end, that was a mistake, a true tribute to the stalker movie should have been the new chicks getting killed in, and the killer starting on the next victims)

I really really really hope that the new Indiana Jones movie has as little as possible of Shilo Lebueaf or whatever his name is. The movie should be Indy shooting Nazi's, Wooing Women, and Grabbing the treasures. I swear to God if they start to get deep on me I will walk out. Fight Nazi's, Women, Treasure. simple.

Movies made from past pop culture. Spiderman, hulk, transformers. You're starting to leave me empty inside after I watch one of these movies. I would REALLY like to see one of these that has NOT been dummed down for general public viewing. You just end up with a movie that been remade like the new action movies. Speed Racer goes fast, and fights baddies. Preferably at the same time. He WILL not debate the ethical consequences of driving under the race company, unless they are clearly names TEAM EVIL. (way to go Shaolin Soccer)

Too many movies try and make me think when they should just be silent. Unless I want to come out of the movie thinking, like V for Vendetta, I don't want that. No one does. Piracy isn't causing drops in movie, neither are home entertainment systems, HD in the home. It is the quality of the cinema. (WTF was No Country!? Best Picture!?!)

I heard a statement the other day. I originally thought It was rediculous, but the more and more I look into it, the more and more it seems to be more true. The more intelligent you are, the less happy you are. A comedian made an amazing comment along these lines. I can't remember his name at the moment but here is what I remember from it. "I thing 'Tards, are the evolution of man, not a disease. Sure they're stupid as hell, but look at how happy they are. They get a new lunchbox and thats the highest point of thier day, until five minutes later when something Better happens! Continuously reaching new high points in the day, man it must be great. I would kill for 5 minutes a day of 'Tard happy. "

*Edit* I just remembered another quote from the episode of South Park, "Cartoon Wars", A random trucker give Kyle a ride to try and stop Cartman from canceling a Family Guy episode. "I mean, I know it's just joke after joke, but I like that. At least it dosen't get all preachy and up its own ass with messages, you know? "

Classics

Snow

I just get ready to do outsidey stuff, it keeps dashing my hopes to the ground with bad weather. Oh well.

Snow Happens.

Delayed

-OMG HTML BARF-
If there's one thing I hate more than anything, its myspace pages that look like someone threw a grenade made out of HTML code at your page. Holy shit your site has sparkling letters, moving pictures, crazy sounds, and an X instead of a cursor? Wow, you're the lord of the internet! It doesnt do anything but make your page annoying and unpalatable. Probably just like you.


Found this online, sums up my thoughts torwards html people quite nicely.