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Sunday May 19, 2002 |
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of the Day Hi, This is a new game This game is my first work. You're the first player. I wish you would like it. -- Every other email received since about January 2002. |
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Blog I've missed work and other things I wanted to get up and do numerous times due to my inability to get to sleep at a semi-reasonable hour, and probably taken years off my life by getting 2 or 3 hours of sleep so often, when I do have to get up in the day for some reason. Yes, life is so very hard. On the bright side, I've seen another 4 or 5 South Park episodes from season 4 and 5, and they are almost all as good as any from season 1-3. Which makes the first 4 from season 6, which all sucked more or less totally, even more mysterious. Episode 503 is brilliant and funny, with the best obscene and absurd SP humor, and very clever societal commentary mixed in seamlessly, so check it out if you get the chance. They say "shit", unbleeped, 164 or so times. But there's a method to their madness, I tell you! I'd post it here for DL, but that's not exactly allowed in my hosting agreement, and I'm afraid I'd go over my allowed bandwidth for the month in about an hour, once you bastards posted the link on some SP forums. Get Kazaa, or at least a friend who has it and will burn them to CD for you. *cough* News stuffs. • Abercrombie and Fitch now selling training-thongs, for girls age 10-16, and they're small enough to fit younger girls. Parents are pissed. The article has a picture. No, just of the thong, not it being worn. You sick puppy. I don't see the point in saying the size of them would fit different ages; there are grown women who have hips the size of a 9 y/o, and 10 y/o's with hips larger than most grown women. I see girls around 13 every day at work who are nearly as tall as I am, and probably wearing thongs, which are apparently all the rage now. Damn I wish I were 18. And sexually active. Hell, I'd settle for either one, at this point. • They didn't have articles like this in my college paper. In fact I'm not sure my college had a paper; I wasn't exactly into the school spirit. I think my high school did, but I'm quite sure there weren't any articles about proper cocksucking techniques, or debates on spitting vs. swallowing in it. There is good news though, in that very few women have problems with sperm going up their nose. I'm not making any of this up, I promise. • British criminals are turning themselves in now, hoping to get minor jail time out of the way so they'll be free in time to watch the World Cup. Police sent out numerous notices to people who had small crimes to pay for, threatening if they didn't come in now, they'd be arrested and spend the World Cup in a TV-less cell. God forbid they get locked up and can't watch Britain lose soccer games, I mean it's not like jail is meant to be some sort of punishment, right? • Microsoft announces security flaws in MIE6 that could allow hackers to do horrible things to you. Yes, this happens every three weeks. So go DL more critical patches, chop chop. • Funny article on Wired about some guys who built a near full size Millennium Falcon in their backyard. The photos are amusing, especially this one. And you thought you were a SW geek? • Simpsons do Pulp Fiction. The explanation is on the page, and it's pretty amusing, with various scenes from Pulp Fiction showing Simpsons characters in them. The characters don't really match up with the scenes very closely, but they are allegedly drawn by real Simpson's animators, and certainly look professional quality. Link from Max Power |
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WhatsBetter.com is a simple concept, but quite fun. You get two options, a small image with a caption, and you pick which one is better. Hence the name. It's not really a hot or not thing, it's more of a "which would you rather do" thing, though it's seldom girl vs girl. There is an eclectic spread of potential items, with thousands submitted thus far. The traffic seems to be heavily male, at least judging by the most popular votes, which are largely hot female photos or geek toys or anime, while the least popular feature boy bands. It's of course addictive and amusing to play, if only to see what you get each time for the vote options. If you get two that so horrid you can't bring yourself to pick one over the other, you can just reload the page. A few of the funnier pairs I've gotten thus far are:
Plus you can see dozens of really funny pictures by poking around. Megafucks, Hello Cthulhu, Domo Kun, Bunny Love, and JFKFC, for instance. Humor being what it is, YMMV, of course. The script could be better though. Be sure you have 1st party cookie acceptance on, or you won't be able to set preferences, your votes won't be counted, you won't see the results of the vote you just made, and you won't have an option to click to see the full info about the vote items. They could use a bit more quality control also (meaning ANY quality control), as so many of the options now are just pointlessly obscure crap, random non-celebs standing around, obscure brands of alcohol, redundant entries, and various other things 99% of people will have no opinion about one way or the other. Which is partially the charm of it, the junk drawer randomness of the selections. Perhaps an option to discard an item from the voting, and if it got a bunch of votes, it was off the island. Many of the keywords for an item are incomplete or wrong or misspelled, and moderators to spiff stuff up would probably help. I would like to see a www.WhoWouldYouRatherDo.com site. In fact there might be one already, but I've not checked to find out. This is the semi-popular verbal game where you list two somewhat equivalent women (or men, depending on your gender/sexual persuasion) and debate which you would rather "do". In the Biblical sense. The funniest ones tend to be seahags. It's sort of pointless to compare say Elle MacPherson vs. Claudia Schiffer, since it's a no-lose situation. The conundrums are when you get say Rosie O'Donnell vs. Aunt Jemima. The fact that one of them is a fictional product logo is irrelevant; you have to play along. Anyway, I think a site with that concept would be a lot of fun. You could of course pick male or female or animal or all of the above, and it would keep all time score records, etc. Copyright issues on the images would come into play, I suppose. The idea for a celebrity hot or not site I've had forever still hasn't appeared, as far as I know. It would be just like hot or not, but the pics would be celebs, ideally from public appearances, movie openings, awards shows, paparazzi shots, etc. Everyone loves to critique what the starlets wear, and rather than just hear Mr. Blackwell or Joan Rivers kvetch about it, it would be funny to see JLo get a 2.5 for her awful Academy Awards hair, or Gwyneth Paltrow get a 1.7 for her fried egg dumplings from the same event. I'd do the site myself, but I can't be arsed and I'm not a clever script-producing little devil. And it would probably be buried in C&Ds in about two weeks, for unauthorized photo use. So what we need to do is get Yahoo to set it up, or Entertainment Weakly, or some other such site, that already runs dozens of AP wire photos of such events. No reason they couldn't slap a vote script on them, eh? Aside from never getting a celebrity interview again after someone's publicist had three cows and a butter churn at the thought of their pampered celebrity employer getting a look at what their fans actually thought of them. |
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