How About a Quickie?
- DVDFab is an awesome program! I use it to rip my movies onto my iPod, and to copy my DVDs. Ever since I ditched Nero, I find that I'm much more willing to burn stuff for people.
- I hate the TTC more than ever. Getting to work at 7am on a Saturday morning is a pain in the ass, because instead of taking 1 bus straight to Finch Station, I have to transfer on Yonge, then walk to Finch Station. Horse shit!
- A customer called and told us he had a credit card stuck and he was at the intersection of Steeles and Cactus. My coworker told everyone it was the stupidest prank call ever, "what kinda stupid street is called Cactus?" Boy, was Sami ever wrong.
- District 9 was pretty damn good. My coworker told me they already have a sequel called District 13 and the Prawns turn into acrobatic Frenchmen.
- Customer quote of the year:
"That'll be $4.00 please."
"$4.00? But...what am I gonna do with my life now?"
I fuckin' DIED! The guy sounded so sad, he reminded me of Gill from The Simpsons. The timing and the delivery was perfect.
- I'm officially retiring my 2004 Red Sox hat. It was the only hat I had with a curved bill. I am now promoting the newer Red Sox hat, and am in the process of breaking it in (even though I've had that one since 2007).
To be honest, it was because I'm getting too old to wear my hats flat-billed.
- I maybe off the Internet and TV for like 2 days as they're digging up something on my street. I'm contemplating being a smartass and leaving a treasure map (teabagged to age it, not in that way, you dirty people) in the ditch.
- My sister's sick, but that's what she gets for going to school. If she started skipping school as much as I did, then she wouldn't get sick as much.
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ahhhh, I'm spent. Perhaps more later.
Less QQ, More Pew Pew!
It's pretty simple, but pretty genius. He replaced probably all the sound effects in the game with his own voice emulating the sounds! This has to be one of the funniest things to happen to games since you were allowed to rename your own RPG characters.
In all fairness, Tidus was probably the biggest Twat in Squaresoft.
Funny random story: In grade 3 I got in trouble from the computer teacher because I renamed my characters in Oregon Trail. I would have got away with it if Butt didn't happen to get Typhoid as she was walking by. Mrs. McKenzie gave me a total sassing for this and then told me I wasn't allowed to play Oregon Trail until I started taking it seriously. Mr. Golding on the other hand, was the greatest computer teacher ever! He was only around for the first couple of years I was at Banting, but that was because he was covering for Mrs. McKenzie who was on a leave of absence. In our last computer class, he told us to be nice to Mrs. McKenzie because she was an evil witch coming back from prison.
I didn't believe it, but I was thoroughly convinced when she banned me from the Oregon Trail. Only a true fiend would do something like that.
Argh! Red Smash!
I hate walking around downtown, because there's so many people. More people means more obstacles for me to maneuver around. Now, I don't walk very fast, but I have a rhythm, a flow that I need to maintain, and disrupting this will result in some pretty dire consequences. Such as me...blogging...about you.
Anyway...
If I had it my way, everyone would be on some kinda conveyor belt system and a machine would move you along at a fairly even pace. If you needed to stop for whatever reason, you'd move to the side and do your thing before you're ready to get inserted onto the belt again. Basically, I want the system from Wall-E, but, without the severe obesity that comes with it.
If only this didn't result in massive obesity...
How many times have you been at the mall, just to get that one thing, that one shirt or DVD that you know is there, and some idiot is having a conversation with someone else in front of the escalators? What a stupid place to have a conversation. No, please ma'am, don't get out of the way. I wouldn't want to disturb this conversation you're having. Seriously, do go on, what happened on last night's episode of The Hills? Me? No, I don't have to go anywhere.
Then I get on the escalator, and some ass clown is standing on the left hand side. Walk left, stand right. Not stand right, then stand beside your significant other on the left as well. If you cannot leave your girlfriend/boyfriend's side while you're on an escalator then you are way too clingy, and probably have daddy issues. Get that stuff checked out, but meanwhile, get out of my way!
To the people who are lost: you don't need to slow down when you are looking for a store. You are not driving, you are walking. If you walk past it, just...walk back! You're not driving 70km/h on Hwy 7, you don't need to plan several moves to get back somewhere if you miss a turn, just walk back. With that being said, do not immediately turn around and go back, there are people behind you. I cannot count the number of times someone has bumped into me by turning around immediately without looking behind them. It's worse than people who stop abruptly, because this is potential crotch-to-crotch contact here! And I don't do swordfights.
Just wanna smash everyone and bulldoze them out of the way, especially teenagers. I wanna smash those punks, I swear 90% of the offenders on this list are in their teens and need a good kick to the face.
I Took a Walk Today
I had a talk with my dad about my future yesterday. He basically encouraged me to follow my dreams and to pursue whatever it is that I wanted to do, as long as it made me happy. He was afraid I'd go for something practical just to put my parents' mind at ease, so he just wanted to reiterate his full support for me in "whatever you want to do" as long as it "makes you happy." I think my dad realizes that I don't have regular dreams and may be absolutely bonkers, but, since I'm still his son, it means I'm still entitled to unconditional love and support. 
So, with that message in mind, I took a walk.
I like walks, but I don't go on them that often. I really should make a habit of doing it, because I feel so disconnected from the world at times. I go out and the first thing I do is plug in my iPod if I'm alone, because even if I'm out in the world, I need to stay plugged into my own. My iPod's like a portable comfort zone, a barrier of sound used to block out the outside world so I can stay within the familiar territory created by my music. So I unplugged, and I went for a walk. It was so refreshing to see life outside of a screen, which is odd inspiration for me, considering my goal is to be able to capture it and put it on the screen. Whatever it is, I'm glad that I went for a walk today because I'm ready to rejoin the world after my extended absence from it, I just hope I'm ready.
“How Anime Otakus Must Look Like to Japanese People.”
Absolute Genius
I actually posted this on Twitter a few weeks back, but thought that this deserved a second run. It's probably the most memorable comic I've seen in years. I found it on ImgUr, I have no clue what that site is, but it was posted on Digg.