- ben
Must. Resist. Using. Catchphrase...
I... I couldn't do it.
Oh well. Try to keep your lunch down while watching this:
- #4354
- Friday 2010/3/5 15:29 (CST)
Must. Resist. Using. Catchphrase...
I... I couldn't do it.
Oh well. Try to keep your lunch down while watching this:
We hear the death metal rooster most mornings as Matthew uses it as an alarm clock.
. sure you all remember death metal rooster, but did you wonder how it could crow for so long? Found this explanation from the Discovery Channel just now:
and now you know.
I also got two, yes two threadless shirts in the mail. First one was a replacement for a too big christmas gift. And the second was wrapped around a book that now has me going nuts driving the google-mobile all over madison. Thanks. Guess what I'll be doing at work for the rest of the week.
Also got a second issue of Rider in the mail yesterday. As if I wasn't already tired enough of winter. Thanks Dad. Now I just have to figure out a good time to go ride around Hawaii. And which of the bikes they reviewed to take. I really kind of liked that Moto Guzzi V7 Cafè Classic, until they got to the part about the 40 HP. The effective speed limit out here is ~85. I'd have worries keeping up with traffic on that. The Kawasaki Z1000 looked pretty good too. Except for the 150 miles on a tank of gas. That would barely get me to Ft Collins and back. Oh well. By the time I get my CC paid off, I'll have made up my mind I'm sure...
Ha!
A 40 degree sunny March day makes me wish I were a runner or had a bicycle, and didn't have to work today.
As it appears I will never get around to getting this site fully functional again, I've yielded to my innate laziness and installed TinyMCE so at least you won't have to remember BBCode off the top of your head anymore. It will still work, but you don't have to use it.
I been drink'n agin. I picked up a six pack of New Belgium's Mothership Wit. Their "organic" wit beer. The first bottle I had was almost overpoweringly yeast-y. And hence, nasty. But I don't know if it's the couple weeks the now five pack spent mellowing in the fridge, or the fact that I followed the pouring directions, but I'm rather liking it now. You should try it if you get the chance.
I didn't end up go to either the LAN party of Japanese film festival this past weekend. I just didn't feel like lugging my rig over to the Union, especially since none of my usual gaming buds were going. And instead of spending a couple hours watching a movies I really don't care to see, I had my own Japanese film festival with an exclusive (only in my living room! ONE NIGHT ONLY!) showing of Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well. It was good, but at 2.5 hours, I had a hard time paying attention for the whole thing.
Seriously, bresnan has got to get their shit together. This is unacceptable
Unfortunately, I don't really have a choice here. THey're literally the only game in town.
Otherwise, I've got a pretty busy week. The Banff Mountain film fest is in town tomorrow and thursday nights. And saturday is the annual japanese schlockfilm festival. This year it's some terrible sounding movie called The Blue Bird, and Departures. The latter of which has been moldering in my netflix queue for a while. Departures actually won a couple awards. But so did the movie from last year that I found teeth grindingly terrible. Also on Saturday is the semi-semesterly LAN party.
I'll need to take a vacation to recover from all the excitement.
Also, while I was in Ft Collins last weekend, I happened to see a Timbuk2 laptop backpack at REI. It was the swig, and seemed pretty nice. If you haven't gotten anything yet. It was even on sale. Had a nice cushy bolster at the bottom of the laptop sleeve to keep the laptop from banging into the ground every time you set the bag down. A lot of pen / accessory holders right near the top, in a cutout so they'd be pretty easy to get to. And the lid has extra nylon flaps along the mouth of the bag to hopefully keep out the elements a little better than a regular flap lid would. Since you mentioned Timbuk2 anyway, you might check it out.
Oh yeah, and one of the shoulder straps has a bottle opener attached. That's pretty important.
I was down in the big city to try and get some of those vibram five fingers i keep thinking about. Jax didn't have my size in the style I wanted (KSO) so I didn't get any. Dang they're popular though. There were three other people trying them on while I was there. They said they sell about five pairs a day, so they're constantly replenishing stock. Sounds like I just have to keep trying.
I have about 150 miles left on my current running shoes, so it's not a big hurry. Yet. If all else fails, I think I'm going to go back to the Brooks Adrenaline GTS. Brooks at least offer their shoes in wide. Unlike my current, "Oh, they generally run wide, so they should be good enough" Saucony ProGrid Omnis.
I did get a couple pair of the those Injinji tetrasocks. They feel kind of weird at first. I'm going to try running in them tomorrow.
If you like the nerd-core rapping, and I know you all do, you should check out Nerdcore Rising. A documentary filmed on MC Frontalot's first national tour. Pretty funny stuff. (Psst, it's available on netflix streaming too...)
Tonight I watched Big Dreams, Little Tokyo. Pretty cute. Kind of low-key funny. The guy who wrote/directed/starred in it has a new movie called White on Rice which I'll probably check out when I can.
Had a lot of news backed up... Almost done.
I've been reading volume one of Transmetropolitan. It's really good. It does sometimes seem to be trying a little too hard to impress you with how edgy and in your face, man, it is. But Spider Jerusalem is a pretty good character, and the book is a pretty good read over all.
Last night I also finished volume one of The Walking Dead. It's really good. Good enough that I now find myself contemplating buying The Behemoth edition. Except that I worry about how unwieldy it would be to actually read a 1000-some page comic book.
As for "real" books, I'm still working through The Guns of August. I still find it fascinating. The Great War wasn't started just because some dude got shot. Who knew? And it's got me adding more even bigger books to my "to read" pile. But it's also a little dry, and slow going. And I'm constantly forgetting names and such, so a little confusing too. But that's just my creaky comic book addled brain's fault.