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"How stupid do you want them to think you are?"
Seek the power, find the Sock of Destiny!
The hostile team now consists of scads of
people hardly ever posting to this site! Of course that doesn't actually
equate to any more posts, it just ups the brownian motion of the
system a bit more.
Earth First! Make Mars Our Bitch!
Thursday, August 31, 2000
- 4:45:57 AM by mark
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- The Mushroom has always aimed to be "The Onion" for gamers. They have done quite well in my opinion but this article is just too funny. Is It Just Us, or Are Videogames Way Too Realistic? On the other hand we have this bit which is just ... oh wait it is to damn funny too! Japanese
Developers Just
Realizing What's
So Funny About
Seaman
Also get the interview with 18yr old hottie Alisa Chan
- 12:47:10 AM by mark
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- linguistics mega list of resources. Gotta remember that one...
Wednesday, August 30, 2000
- 9:08:30 PM by mark
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- How did I miss this? Interview with Harlan Ellison. On the AVClub part of the The Onion if you can't be bothered to mouse over the link. This quote caught my eye:
They pissed and moaned that I'd deserted the show, and oh, how that inconvenienced
their asses. As if being a tv viewer gave them the right to express an uneducated opinion about my behavior!
No. If you get set up as some sort of a whited sepulchre, which is what keeps happening, then invariably you
will get little piss-ants who want to drag you down and prove that you're actually morally turpitudinous, and
no better a piece of human offal than they are!
Pretty much trademark HA. The part that bothered me was the "right to express..." part. Actually, they do have a right to express and uneducated opinion. Feh. You run around signing your name on public media, you want to get paid to appear somewhere and you are suprised that people have an opinion about you? Gah, you signed that away. You jumped up and expected to get paid good -- well crappy usually but still -- money and now you are mad that you made people think even a little bit about you?
Of course, IF someone offered me half of his writing ability and only wanted a few toes I'd take that deal. The man is amazing at putting words together to get more than his fair share of meaning out of them. Mind you, he is a clear thinker most days, I envy that too. If he was offered the above deal for some mythical writer that he might envy for their talent, he'd ask about sepsis and analgesics and implements of toe-whacking. Me? I've already got my foot out and the clear thinkers are asking if cautery gear is afoot. I'm just chuckling with glee if I get one good quip in per day. This man can rant for half an hour about on just about any topic and have a point at the end of it.
- 8:11:15 PM by mark
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- The best humor is always about surprise or fear and dealing with that reaction. The best suprise humor recently? theSpark's Personality test, note the submit button at the end of page three. That just killed me. Props to the smart-ass who stuck that in there. =)
In case you are wondering... EXPERIMENTER
(Dominant Introvert Abstract Thinker ) is how I rated out.
Too bad they don't put the entire list of types or stats up other than the 5 lines at the end of the test.
Stupid bastards.
Tuesday, August 29, 2000
- 8:09:11 PM by mark
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- OK I'm not a big fan of Pokey comics but this PPP/M protocol is pretty damn funny if you've read other network protocol papers. That's a lot of work to put into moving stuff like this.
- 4:08:04 AM by mark
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- Write up on what makes a car a piece of shit will probably be a multi-pager it's 11kb with no html markup already...
- 1:21:23 AM by mark
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- Overheard this weekend:
Big man wearing a small purple lace bra
No, none of us have any idea what context that was said in...
Also the Dixie chicks played here last week and we had a sort of running contest on mocking them. For days the best was "Dix Chicks" or "Chicks with Dix-ie" till my friend spotted the billboard with their "Got Milk™" billboard and immediately coined the phrase "Bukake Chicks".
Monday, August 28, 2000
- 8:02:46 PM by mark
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- I just bought a new car, Pontiac Bonneville. That is a big step of from the POS '91 Chevy Camaro I have been driving. I'm stunned still from signing away my firstborn to GMAC so I'm gonna play a fantasy game like EverQuest for a while to cleanse my palette. =) Then I'm going to write up the definitive What makes a car a Piece of Shit. Hint, if the car lot user car buyer asks you if you've heard of the Donate your car for a tax write-off Charities then it surely is a piece of shit...