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[Jun. 28th, 2009|11:15 pm] |
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Saw Transformers 2 last night, and I liked it better than the first. Maybe because I had gotten out of the mindset of "it should be like the cartoon", maybe because there were a lot more transformers (some with actual personalities), some surprisingly logical "what ifs" (how would the government handle alien refugees who also happened to be very powerful combatants with superior technology), and... ( spoilers within ) |
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*ping* ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ernunnos |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|04:36 am] |
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Ever get my question comment in your journal about issues with connecting your Cowon D2 to your Macbook, such problems as losing access to the built in memory or SD cards? (never at the same time, though). |
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| geeks opinions sought: |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|04:35 am] |
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What's the state of the art with video cards at the moment? What's the high end and what's the low end of the same production line? Can they reasonably be expected to pull a full 1080p 3d game with FSAA? |
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| Kittens: It's all fun and games... |
[Jun. 7th, 2009|07:16 pm] |
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...until one pees its own body weight's worth of urine all over your leg
I'd be annoyed except it's FWUFFY WUFFY KITTENS.
And I had some swim trunks in the car so I'm not wearing wet pants. |
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| Perhaps I'm a little jaded... |
[Jun. 4th, 2009|06:26 pm] |
Watching The Wicker Man and while watching a scene with the lovely Britt Ekland(nsfw image search) prancing about I found myself thinking...
"This is nice, but I want to see Christopher Lee's character already!"
Been a full week for movies, I also got Krull and Flesh Gordon(yes, that's Flesh, not Flash) in the mail, and rented Hancock and Quantum of Solace.
Krull: The best of the cheesy 80s fantasy movie genre with cheap effects like too much lens flare (even torches look like road flares), but a good story, some major crowning moments of awesome(such as an inept shapechanging magician going from joke to Bad Ass when he turns into a tiger to protect a boy), and a soundtrack by James Horner.
Flesh Gordon: Umm... not sure what I was thinking other than "Hey, only a couple of bucks on Amazon" and vaguely remembering watching it on the sly as a teenager after my parents went to bed. Kind of nostalgic for the "boobs and bush", though, the visual gag of the Penisaurus(NSFW obviously) (long before the Japanese started doing tentacle porn!) and Craig T. Nelson as the voice of a hilariously laid-back giant stop-motion animation monster.
Hancock: Some fun superhero FX but not really that good otherwise.
Quantum of Solace: I probably don't have much room to talk, since I was brought up on the Roger Moore Bond movies, but I wasn't terribly impressed with Casino Royale or Daniel Craig as Bond. I couldn't quite shake the feeling he should be playing some KGB villain instead of Bond, but that changed after Quantum of Solace. Pissed-off-avenging-dead-lover Daniel Craig Bond is just too awesome for words. |
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| Color me impressed |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|09:43 pm] |
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I used to have a love-hate relationship with Epson printers - love their image quality, hate the way they dry up and clog if you don't run them every few days even if you turn them off to make sure the printer heads park. I threw the last one out a few weeks ago.
Then I realized I also had a Lexmark Z1300 I'd picked up at Big Lots last year for less than the cost of an ink cartridge for it that I'd had sitting off to the side after sticking the carts in and printing a few pages, so I decided to see it worked or if it was also ready for the trash.
It works perfectly. Despite having been untouched for at least eight months. Photo quality not as good as the Epson, but regular paper printing is bright and clean... hell, while the Epsons always churned out great stuff on photo glossy paper, they always seemed to have a problem with printing on regular. And with digital prints available at just about every grocery store and pharmacy nowadays, high-end printing at home isn't really an issue anymore.
Only real catch for the 1300 is that it's one of those types where the colors are all-in-one rather than individual cyan, magenta and yellow cartridges. |
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| Rule 34, and how... |
[Apr. 9th, 2009|02:35 pm] |
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iRiver porn. NSFW (at least once someone gets close) obviously, although link is via 4chanarchive so it's probably filtered at work anyway.
The fact that it's well-drawn makes it worse. |
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| Oh frell |
[Apr. 8th, 2009|05:49 am] |
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It's almost six am and I'm wide freakin' awake... I took one Amoxicillin before bed and spend pretty much all night up to this point rolling and thrashing on the bed.
Guess I might as well go ahead and get today off. Damnit. |
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| Oh, and... |
[Apr. 7th, 2009|12:13 am] |
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I have a tooth ache. THAT MOVES AROUND. And fades in and out. Partly aggravated by cold and sugary stuff but not by pressure. No swelling or discoloration of the gumline either. I waited a week to see if it would go away but it hasn't, so I'm finally going to the dentist tomorrow.
Argh. Wouldn't have even thought of it while updating here except it flared up a minute ago, it's been minimal most of the day after I called the dentist. |
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| Quickie movie reviews |
[Apr. 6th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
Doomsday is a great popcorn flick. Rhona Mitra with a cybernetic eye, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, hot cannibal chicks with facial tattoos, and fat men in dresses doing burlesque.
12 Monkeys, on the other hand... it's like 2001: A Space Odyssey for me. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen, after hearing how much of a classic it is, but nothing was ever as cool as it was made out to be on Wiki or elsewhere.
How High (hey, it was a twofer DVD package at Big Lots) was more (somewhat) amusing than I expected. Hector Elizondo goes ghetto, and I lol'd at one line:
I failed Women's Studies? But I love bitches!</a> |
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| I have never heard of this before. |
[Apr. 1st, 2009|09:56 pm] |
An agent called today wanting to know how to add a "fifth wheel" to a policy.
Wait, what? Fifth wheel? Is this some kind of snipe hunt prank by the trainers?
Seven and a half years of working auto insurance policies and access to a huge database of obscure terms and definitions, and it still took five minutes to get her to explain what the hell she was talking about.
It's a hitchable camper/trailer. Simple enough to do, except for the part where it's a 2010 model with a VIN that's not in our system. |
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| Another fine John Ringo moment |
[Mar. 31st, 2009|06:05 pm] |
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Yes, that John Ringo. I picked up one of his novels - Into the Looking Glass, not the more infamous one - from a used bookstore because it did seem fairly readable.
And it is, aside from a slightly overbearing "libs libs libs" tone and a little bit of the Mary Sue in places, but it does have at least one jarring line:
Robin had squeezed through the door behind him and it was a sensation he thought he'd remember the rest of his life, watching mushroom clouds roll for the troposphere, roiling and pregnant with evil, while two small but firm breasts pressed into his shoulder blades.
Riiiight. |
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| Someone's really fucking bitter. |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|07:04 pm] |
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No, seriously. Read this shit. Bonus points if you can finish to the end without facepalming at least once.
Among other idiocy:
He quotes the Gospel of Luke 17:34 through 17:36 as a condemnation of homosexuality.
17:35 is gleefully quoted "Two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken and the other left."
GRINDING TOGETHER! I'LL BE IN MY BUNK!
Except according to a quick Google search for the different translations of the verse mention grain or mills in 5 of 14 versions.
GRAIN!
There goes the boner.
Never mind that it could be about the individual nature of salvation and how no one can tell who else is saved until it's over and done with, it's about teh gay. Srsly.
Then a bit further on he tries to portray a love of cats as a sign women are insane. Why? Because they identify with an animal that licks their ass. Aside from the amazing generalization (right off the bat, I can name several women that despise cats), what would that say about men who love dogs, an animal that not only licks their ass but EATS SHIT?
Not that I'd dispute the notion that women are crazy*. But trying to link it to cats is, well, crazy.
*Yeah, I said it.**
**But so are men. However, I'm not interested in men, so that's less crazy I see because I'm not paying attention to it. |
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| Catchy |
[Mar. 21st, 2009|10:26 pm] |
Oh give me a clone, just a clone of my own
With its Y chromosome changed to an X
And when we're alone, just me and my clone
We'll both think of nothing but sex
— Isaac Asimov
Fun to sing. |
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| Wait, what? |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|08:32 pm] |
Why are these headsets so expensive?
These are the headsets we use, and I'm trying to either find one with a non-foam earpiece or a plug I can splice an earbud and mic on. But damn... I can get a PC headset and mike for a fraction of that price, or a really spiffy surround sound version for a similar price.
Maybe I can just take mine home and measure the resistances and make my own plug from a cell headset. But I'd need an adapter or I'd have to cut up one to splice it in, and I don't think they have any spares. |
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