Month: August 2012

I think I did the coolest thing ever

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I don’t know what the hell is going on, but there’s gotta be a wasp’s nest somewhere on my roof, or worse, somewhere in my attic possibly.  Either way, throughout the summer, I’ve periodically run across wasps in my bathroom, and occasionally in my bedroom.  By themselves, they’re easy to dispatch, and after the first three or so wasps, I’m not really worried that they’re dexterous enough to do some crazy sifu Tai-Chi evasive maneuvers and sting me.

Anyway, I ran across a wasp in my bathroom earlier.  Instead of gassing it with bug spray and risk getting it into my eyes again, I decided to deal with this by hand.  I grabbed a hand towel, and wound it up into a hog tail.  The first snap got the wasp’s attention, and it began evasive maneuvers.  And then with the second snap of the towel, the wasp ceased to exist.

Not only did I kill the wasp with a stinging whip of a hand towel, I snapped the wings clean off of its body doing so.  As I bent down to pick up the carcass, it indeed had no more wings on it.  And it was really dead; no twitching, no remaining shreds of mortality clinging to a body making its last gasps of air, it was completely, motionless, dead as a doornail.  I probably did it the biggest favor it could have asked for, giving it such a quick, sudden, and likely painless death.

Not going to lie, I think this was one of the most awesome things I’ve done in a while.  I feel very accomplished and satisfied with myself, to the point where I could churn out 275+ words on the subject.

I don’t really care about Mass Effect anymore

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My friend forwarded me a link today; it was for some upcoming Mass Effect 3 downloadable content.  I haven’t even downloaded the “updated” ending downloadable content that was released, some time ago, I don’t really remember when. The point is, I realized that I didn’t really care about this new downloadable content.

The bottom line is that the way the Mass Effect 3 ended, I guess had a bigger impact on me than I thought it would.  I don’t remember abhorring it like lots of people all over the internet did, but at the same time, I don’t actually remember feeling any sort of satisfaction at it either.  All I really know is that going through the game a second time, as the ultimate renegade, as I had done in both prior MEs, felt more like a chore than being an entertained demi-god, stomping everything in sight.  In fact, I didn’t even finish that game, because I first wanted to get 100% galactic readiness, but then that most certainly became a chore, and I never pursued it.

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Political irony explained by marketing

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Typically, when it comes to the topic of politics, I tend to keep my opinions to myself.  For the most part, I’m pretty ambivalent about politics, but I have recently been accused of “looking like a liberal,” whatever that means.  But truthfully, I don’t really care that much; if that makes me an irresponsible American, then I’m an irresponsible American.

But anyway, I saw this sticker on a pickup truck (naturally), and it really got me thinking: why would a sticker bother to show the President Obama logo at all in a piece of attempted smear paraphernalia?  It doesn’t mention at all, what would be taking Obama’s place on January 20, 2013.  It is going to be Mitt Romney?  Ross Perot?  Predators?  Cthulhu?

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Adobe software is a lot like cars

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When Adobe released the CS6 Suite, maybe one entire year after they had just released CS5, I didn’t have high expectations for it, the moment I saw that they had redesigned the software down from the splash graphics to the software’s workspaces.

Recently, I ran into a problem in InDesign CS6, where I couldn’t get a particular file to print, or export to PDF.  Upon attempting to initiate either task, the program would crash.  It was related to a problem in the file itself, as troubleshooting with blank new documents or other projects did not replicate the problem.  After about 20 minutes of frustrating unsuccessful troubleshooting, I realized that I had still not uninstalled CS5.  I saved my problematic file out as an IDML legacy file, and opened it up in InDesign CS5.

It printed without any complications.
It PDF’d without any hesitation.

In conclusion, it didn’t work in CS6, because CS6 is fucking retarded.  I thought about it for a second and chastised myself, because honestly, this was, and shouldn’t ever have been, much of a surprise.

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Peggy Bundy has aged very well

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When Seth Green mentioned Katey Segal during Comedy Central’s Roseanne Roast, and the camera panned over to this voluptuous woman, my first thought was “holy shit, that’s Peggy Bundy?“

Growing up as a dedicated Married With Children fan, I never really thought Peggy Bundy was at all that attractive.  I mean I get it, there she was with her bouffant hair and her stretch pants and high heels always accentuating her large bust and shapely figure, but it never did it for me.  I don’t think it really was meant to do it for most guys.  But I could see how some might find the physical features appealing.  I never did.  Maybe it’s because of the successful development of a character that’s supposed to be the ultimate boner-killer that did it for me, but for all intents and purposes, I never found Peggy Bundy that attractive.

However seeing Katey Segal now, 15 years after the last episode of Married With Children aired, I’m kind of like whoa.

To cut to the chase, she’s in total alpha-cougar territory now.  Sleek dark hair instead of the trademark Peggy Bundy bouffant red hair, and the sexy librarian glasses, and a dress that accentuates the obvious fact that she has a rockin’ body and a nice rack.  I don’t really care if she’s had any work done or not, the fact of the matter is that she looks downright hot, today.

Mafia Graves gun update: Shell Shock’d

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Shell Shock is some amazing shit.  I’ve currently got all foam components of the gun slathered and covered in about three coats of Shell Shock, and they’re almost all fully cured, and ready to begin the initial sanding down of them.  If all goes according to plan, then all of them will be smooth and plastic-hard shelled, and ready for painting, and eventual assembly before finalization.

Again, I have to reiterate that it’s actually been fun to be creating shit again with my own hands, instead of years of watching on the sidelines.  Throughout the week, I had been receiving and gathering materials for my costume as a whole, and I’m actually growing excited about everything as more and more pieces come in.  I look forward to the eventual completion of this gun, and I hope it’s everything I hoped it would look like.