Hey Jon,

Had you seen this at all?

I just picked it up the other day and it’s… odd. I love Fabry’s art in general but for some reason this just seems out of place, like it doesn’t quite fit the story, or probably more accurately, my perception of how the story and characters should look. It has a very Transmetropolitan/Invisibles vibe about it and while cool in their own rights, just doesn’t seem to fit. Now, that being said I haven’t read it yet so it may all just be a first impression type of thing and it’ll all come out in the wash.

If you’re curious, that’d be Door on the cover? More looks like Ragged Robin to me.

This guy has absolute Mad Skills and crazy upper body strength. I’d hire him to be a ninja any day of the week.

Or Beware the March of Ideas

If you’re Caesar, Brutus is going to stab you in the back today, or if you’re Doctor Destiny, Morpheus wants his Ruby back. Either way, be on your guard.

For some unknown reason, Thursdays have traditionally been the day I put up links to useless shite I find on the intarweb rather than my usual witty repartee. I don’t even know how or why I started doing that. I’m sure there was some site that I was initially pulling my crap from that updated on Thursdays and it just sort of became a tradition that I’d save up my useless links until Thurs and spam you all at once.

And as I’d hate to ruin a tradition here is today’s meagre fare, culled from the depths of Youtube.

Yes. I am easily amused. Hey! Just be glad I’m not posting links to bad 80s music videos. Trust me, I could quite easily drive away the two readers I have left! Don’t make me pull this blog over!

In other news, I’ve got the next week and a half off. I’ve had the past week off as well, but have really been too sick to enjoy it. People keep asking me if I’m going anywhere? The simplest answer is nope, don’t have the money and don’t really want to. The more correct answer of course is “further in and higher up”¹. I’m just taking time to recharge my batteries and such. Plus it’ll give me some much needed time to fix my car, get new contacts, cut my hair, see a movie or two and read some. If I’m lucky all this recharging will even get my creative juices flowing again.

Anyways, It’s 10 to 4 in the afternoon. Showering and laundry are on the immediate menu and then perhaps afterwards I shall indulge in a quick game of clean up the room. Or if that fails to hold my interest (which I have little doubt on), I shall retire to this comfy chair and plumb the depths of teh intarweb looking for more crap to spoonfeed you next thursday.

Ciao

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My new video card requires 2 power plugs or it doesn’t work. *boggle*

In an age when microprocessors are getting smaller and smaller by the second, I’ve got this monster arse video card. I swear this thing will process Godzilla sized effects. I forgot to take a pic when I was putting it in so I can’t show you a comparison but trust me, it’s about twice the size of the old one.

Now this thing better work in fixing my problems, because I ran my ram test when I plugged it all back in and everything is green, so if it screws up any more, it’s either the mobo, or the game…

In the meantime, I can now play Oblivion with max settings with nary an eyeblink of lag. GOGO Me!

One of the girls my mom works with is one of those people whose dogs are their children and they spoil them rotten. The other day she went out and got our dog a tiny little donkey shaped stuffed toy that sounded that made a very forlorn noise when it was squeezed. Connor didn’t like it at all. He kept thinking he was hurting the toy and didn’t like it one bit, so we took the squeaker out of the toy and gave him back the donkey. Within 5 minutes the donkey was in shreds and he was chasing the cotton batting around like the goofball he is.

Undaunted after hearing about this, my mom’s friend decided to send home another toy. This time it’s a stuffed boar a little over a foot long and it oinks like a pig. This time she hit the nail right on the head as it’s Connor’s new best friend. He pines for it when you take it away. If you put it in a closet and close the doors, even if he isn’t anywhere near you when you do, he’ll sit outside the closet door and whine until you open up the closet and get him his toy. And once he gets it he romps around the house like a madman.

Here’s some pics of him being his goofy arse self.

For those of you who remember (or care), you know I’ve been having computer problems for awhile now and I’ve tried almost everything under the sun barring going out and buying a new system to fix them. When we last left off, I had hopefully narrowed the problem down to the video card. So off I went hunting for a new card that I could use.

I found a good deal at ATI’s site that would allow me to trade-up to a high end card by buying a new card, then sending in my old card and getting a sizable refund. It was a great deal so I put in an order back on January 14th. I got an email right away saying that it was on backorder and that it could take up to 4 weeks to arrive. Meh, I wasn’t in any particular hurry so I was okay with that. I could make do with what I had until then.

Last week I realized it had been quite awhile since I’d heard from them so I checked and the card was still on backorder. I gave them a call and the drone on the other end of the phone had no ETA for me as to when it would be in stock so I went ahead and cancelled the order. Honestly, 6 weeks? That’s quite ridiculous if you ask me. When I got my ipod it came from Shanghai in 2 days after saying I had a 2 week wait.

So after much debate, I decided to spend the extra cash and just get a new card. So, as of Monday, this will be my new card. I know this because I have the tracking # and I would’ve received it today but Canada Post doesn’t deliver on Saturdays.

So, hopefully come Monday all my computer woes will be over.

*pets his new toy*

Something.

I’ve got weird friends who send me weird shite over teh intarwebs.

And therefore I share it with you.

NSFW

Woot!

I finally got back in touch with my old friend Steve today. It’s been I think about 5 years or so, give or take, since we last spoke and like all my true friends, we just picked up where we left off. I’m really happy about this because I’ve been looking for him and trying to get back in touch for awhile now, and thanks to Jon, we managed it! Yay for gaijin ingenuity!

And to top it off. Another geeky friend to play Bloodbowl with. Though I am going to have to beat him senseless and make him convert his league to LRB5 rules. Yarr!