• 13Jun 09

  Cable > DSL

  Blog is posting... come back in 3 hours.

  My already infrequent post schedule will become even more sparse and random, the reason for this is that I have told Comcast to kindly go **** themselves. I was paying over 120 bucks a month for digital cable and internet. I had no movie channels at all, and internet by itself with no tv package is about 60 a month. So, I once again find myself without television or internet that would keep my otherwise deviant mind pre-occupied with Family Guy and youtube videos of idiots setting their pants on fire.

  I may chance a foray into the world of Satellite TV when next I decide I can't go another day without channel surfing, I can get ALL their movie and sports packages for like 80 bucks a month. I just have to stick an ugly dish to the side of my condo. However I will *NOT* get DSL. I'm using a DSL connection right now... and I seriously want to strangle a kitten. Sure, it's broadband, (more like dialup2.0)but it's aggravating since I'm so used to cable, the difference is just shocking. This must be how the Jetson's felt when they traveled back in time from the distant year of 2002 to visit the Flintstones. Damn you Hana-Barbera. Who decided that every move a character makes, from blinking to peeking around a corner requires a crappy sound effect? WHO?

  Anyways, I've just about beaten InFamous, I'm holding off on the last mission to get all the damn shards. Suffice to say the game is extremely fun, and I've really enjoyed it for my first PS3 game. When I've finished, I may post something a bit more in depth for no other reason than to take up space on your list for a brief time.

  As an aside, I had been really looking forward to Prototype, and most of the reviews I've read have been positive, except they all come with a 'BUT' and proceed to make a laundry list of technical problems. This makes me hesitant to purchase it, since I've no access to XBL right now, and getting any forthcoming patches, etc. would be impossible.

  I miss my internet. She loved me like no one else could.

  *heart*

  • Posted Jun 13, 2009 10:49 pm PT
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• 26May 09

  Aquaman's Lament

  Do you know what sucks? I mean, really, really sucks?

  Not having any superpowers, that's what.

  Oh sure, I have *a* power... I can talk to fish, but honestly, it's hardly "super," and for that matter, how many of you out there have I saved using my telepathic link to seasnails? Show of hands?

  I thought so.

  Don't think I don't know that I am forever relegated to the punchline side of the Superfriends. I see your snarky comments on the internet, and the mocking references in the media. I can get OUT of the water you know. Even the cheapest motels have internet access. (I can't afford swanky caves like SOME superheroes... that prick)

  I notice that pretty much everyone is getting a movie deal now. I was actually approached myself, but it was by that Uwe Boll guy - and even Aquaman has standards folks. Frankly I'm holding out for a part in Harry Potter. I love that fuzzy little wizard! I bet Batman won't ever be in a Harry Potter movie. Maybe Twilight, he's certainly moody enough to be a gay vampire.

  It's not that I hate Batman, or that I'm bitter... I just, you know, wouldn't mind if he died more often. Seriously, that ****** has more money than he knows what to do with, having money basically IS his superpower! He uses it to build these ridiculous, completely impractical gadgets that Rube Goldberg would call complicated, swing around like some kind of emo bat-monkey, and then goes and broods on top of a building... a building he probably owns, yet he can't lend me twenty bucks to get a hot meal and wash my uniform at a Laundromat. Suck it, Bruce. You billionaire jackass.

  Anyway, I was crashing at Robin's pad on Castro Street in San Francisco, which I generally don't like to do... he always finds some reason to touch me in some way, which is profoundly unsettling. I slept over 2 times before I realized he was lying about it being a one bedroom apartment and insisted we share his twin size bed. (He covered the door to the guest room with a full length mirror) You don't know horror until you've been spooned by a 93 pound man in a mask. On the bright side, he has a Playstation 3 which is fun to kill the time while he's off... doing whatever it is he does. (Don't ask, don't tell) On this occasion, I noticed he had a new game, this one is called "inFamous" - I wasn't sure what it was about to be honest, but the box looked neat, so I threw it in and, wow. Just wow. Like I didn't already have enough of a complex about my own lack of impressive powers, especially compared to everyone else and their mom... and dog. (Even Underdog is more impressive than I am, what is THAT all about??) Now there's a videogame character with awesome electro-sparky-magic shooting out of his ass. Are you guys TRYING to make me kill myself with this crap?

  I have to admit though, this game is a lot of fun. Once I got past the fact that I now have that much more competition to overshadow me, I am in control of this digital bastage. As such, I took it upon myself to unleash the evil Aquaman like you've never seen (or cared about) before!

  ...........Except less dolphins and more mayhem.

  • Posted May 26, 2009 10:30 pm PT
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• 11May 09

  Windex and a papertowel.

  *dusts off blog*

  Okay, so it's been awhile.

  Not that it's imperative that I post on a regular basis, or that it really matters. The short version of my excuse is that I've been ridiculously busy. Even for me!

  So originally, I wrote out a blog that was going to be my 100th blog blowout bash superfunhappytimestravaganza! TM I was ready to rip into my own beloved RPGs with all the whinybi*ching that I could manage. The blog was written; I got sidetracked, and came back to a laptop with no power. I had left it unplugged and thus lost it all. Not unlike that crazy game of poker. (Points if you get that reference)

  So, what else is there for me to do but spout off the random happenings of my life since February... ish. We will go in order so you can put yourself in the moment. Prepare for an assault of a bunch of very tiny and uninteresting blogs: (remember my life is not all that interesting at the moment)

  February 20, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  Yesterday I tried paying my Comcast bill. They made it very difficult and I cried about it. Later I wrote a blog.

  February 29, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  The weird part about this entry is that this isn't even a leap year, but I'm writing under the date anyways. HA. Take THAT society!

  March 3, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  Work sucks. I do it a lot. It seems like I do very little else. Perhaps I should drink more to numb the pain

  MarH 4q, 03984

  DERr DIARHeahh!@

  BOOOoozwE! Heeeeeeeee ^_^

  March 9, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  I apologize for my last entry and my unwelcome forwardness. I will never touch you like that again... unless you ask first.

  March 19, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  I shouldn't complain about working so much I guess... at the end of the day I'm pretty lucky I have a job.

  March 20, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  GOD****** MOTHER******* WORK SUCKS!!! If I lived on or near a cliff, I would certainly throw myself from it. Or at least someone I could do without.

  March 29, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  I have food poisoning. My whole body is so weak, I can't even move without exerting a tremendous amount of energy.

  April 3, 2045

  Dear Diary,

  I've traveled to the past to warn myself about eating that tuna sandwich. It seems I've miscalculated and I've shown up a few days too late. It is rather amusing to watch my younger self struggle to make it to the bathroom, only to trip and fall halfway and stuff his (mine? our?) head in a bucket and give up. I've taken pictures to show my prostitute turned wife, Elizabeth Hurley. (Things get very bad for her in about 6 years)

  April 5, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  The food poisoning seems to have passed, it must have been pretty bad, I was hallucinating. I could swear I saw myself laughing at my situation while dancing around taking Polaroid's. Man. No more tuna sandwiches for me. On the bright side, I made it downstairs today just in time to see that movie where Elizabeth Hurley is the devil. Man, if she was a prostitute, I would buy her for a LIFETIME baby! Wooo!

  April 16, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  You know, I just realized that outside of work, I don't really know anybody anymore. That is profoundly sad... great now I'm depressed. Thanks a bunch DIARY. Stupid diary. You can't come to my birthday party.

  April 27, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  Stupid Mondays. I hate Mondays. They're a plague.... A weekly death plague. Tuesdays suck too. If I had the power, I would drown Tuesdays in a deluge.

  April 28, 2009

  Dear Diary,

  No work today, as my office has been flooded in a deluge. Apparently I have that kind of power. I'm just as shocked as you are.

  April 29, 2009

  Dear Ndugu,

  I had to go back to work today, but not to my office. No, instead I had to bring my personal laptop in and hang out at a satellite office, in a tiny little room that was not designed to be inhabited for more than maybe 10 minutes at a time, by one person. We have four, with several fans for purposes of air circulation. It's not working, the end of the month is approaching and I have no access to our main servers, and thus none of my reconciliations, spreadsheets, or any other information I need to make April, you know... balance - which means the first part of May will suck as much as the end of April. Oh, Ndugu, you may not understand what is going on here, or maybe you do. I can only imagine as you spend your nights playing the latest version of Pong, or perhaps Space Invaders that you look up into the night sky (I'm assuming there is a hole in your roof) and wonder what it is that I am doing. Well, the answer to that, young Ndugu is : I am getting drunk. Very, very, very drunk.

  -----------------------------------------
  Anyhow, you get the gist. Mostly nothing except work and my office flooding.

  In gaming news, I picked up Street Fighter IV, which promptly kicked my ass rather mercilessly, I did finally manage to have some fun with it though thanks to a rather severe ass whipping from our own GodModeEnabled. Seriously. We played like 70+ rounds straight, of which I won 30ish, and he won 40ish. It was a marathon that had my thumbs bleeding. Fortunately, I didn't notice as we had also started drinking during this smashathon. Good times.

  I grabbed Wolverine for the 360 as well last week, and I have to say, as far as movie games go, this is by far the best. In fact I would argue that it's better than it's movie counterpart in a lot of ways. It's just a fun beat'em up. Not particularly challenging on the 'Normal' mode, and I beat it over the weekend. I may go through it again on the newly unlocked hard mode just for the heck of it while it's still fresh in my mind, I could probably tear through it pretty quickly.

  Well, that was all pretty anti-climatic wasn't it?

  ..... and that's why I don't date. *zing!*

  SNIKT.

  • Posted May 11, 2009 8:13 pm PT
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