Diskage:
DVD • Pulp Fiction
CD-ROM • Empty
CD Player
• Soundgarden - Bad Motor Finger
• Mad Season -  Above
• System of a Down - Toxicity
• God Lives Underwater - Life in the So Called Space Age
• Metallica - ...and Justice For All

Books Lying Open
• The Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were, Michael Page & Robert Ingpen

Soul-Devouring Worry
• Too much online gaming goodness.

When I Grow Up:
• Oil and water will mix freely.

Curse of the Day:
• May your sausage fingers prove irresistible to your new friend's Schnauzer.

Daily Update
Cool weather Tuesday; I actually had to close the living room windows around 3am, since my toes were froze.  It must have been 68º or even 66º, if you can imagine!

I'm tired, so not much blather today.

I added some easy content, by taking a huge list of Fulldeckisms from a recurring newsgroup post and HTML'ing them. "What's them?" you ask?  Short funny little sayings and insults, such as:

• A few clowns short of a circus.
• A few pickles short of a jar
• He's not stupid; he's possessed by a retarded ghost.
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• Not the pointiest quill on the porcupine
• A taco short of a combo plate
• Three chickens short of a henhouse.
• Two sheep short of a sweater.

And on and on.  There are almost 500 of them listed, and I plucked out my favorites and listed them separately atop the page.  YMMV.

• I added another shot to the lava photo from the current Hawaiian eruption.  I do this for the same reason I collect jpg's of supermodels, I think.  Self-torture, mostly.

• Interesting article about the clumsy, overly-gung ho US army screwing up months of work by the special forces in Afghanistan. Funny how people become useless as informants when you burst into their homes with machine guns and harass and terrify them.

• Frightening article about people camping out to be the first when a new Krispy Kreme donut place opens.

B.R. Anderson Jr. joined the line at 9:20 p.m. Monday, making him the first drive-through customer. Anderson, who owns an employment agency, bought 42 dozen doughnuts.

“I’ve been camped here all night long to get doughnuts to deliver them to my customers to thank them for their business,” Anderson said. “Do I appreciate their business or what?”

That's 504 donuts, if you were wondering. Of which probably 200 were actually eaten.  They opened two Krispy Kreme places in San Diego 3 or 4 years ago, and we had similar nonsense going on here with people lining up for hours, blocking the entrance to other businesses, etc.  They even make sell them at the stadium now, mostly via vendors, in boxes of in boxes of 4 each for $4.50. They are moderately-profitable to sell now, though were really good to vend last year when they were new.

Supply is the problem with them, since some Krispy Kreme store has to make them and send them over each day; since they have zero preservatives and aren't air-tightly packaged.  This means that they try not to send more than will sell, so if it's a good crowd they're gone by like the 2nd inning, making one vendor decent money, but forcing him to leave really early, or else switch over to another item.

I've had a few at the stadium, and they taste like... glazed donuts.  Shocking, I know. I don't particularly like donuts; it's just too much painted on sugar for my taste.  I used to like cinnamon rolls, but haven't had one in probably a decade.  Once in a while I'll get a dozen at Yum Yum to take in to work, and generally I get a plain old fashioned, along with eleven other random types.  Plain old fashioned are the closest type to actual food, and not covered in crystallized sugar.

My take on it is that it's all hype.  They taste 1% different than any other donut, but people have gotten themselves all convinced that it's some special superdonut, and therefore they believe it when they eat it.  Much like how people will get drunk off of nearbeer, if you tell them it's the real thing before the put away two pitchers.

• Idiot wears black while hunting bear, gets shot by trigger happy idiot also hunting bear.  Hunters shoot at damn near anything that moves, and are usually about 3 sails to the wind, which can't much help their trigger judgment, so not wearing the bright orange clothing is pretty much asking for it.

• This photo of boobie taxonomy on Boners today is going to become part of my dirty slang page, for obvious reasons.

ew things to watch, listen to, and play.

The new TTT trailer is online, and while it's glorious and large and great quality (the full screen Quicktime version is 41k and gorgeous) I don't think the trailer is especially good.  The first 90 seconds I liked, but then it got a bit too "action movie" with lots of quick cuts and flashes of scenes. That's the MO of almost every trailer for every action movie, which is part of my objection.  The LotR trailers were so epic in scale; they felt sweeping and vast and grand and timeless.  So did the first TTT trailer, with more long shots of scenery and vistas and battle scenes.  This new one seems more targeted at the action movie crowd.  I still enjoy the trailer, and thank god there's no "Mr. Voice" type uber-cheesy narration to ruin it, but I think it could be better.  I'm sure the movie will be awesome, it's just the presentation I'm quibbling about.  Two months and two weeks yet to wait...

The "new" Nirvana song is all over the Internet.  I found it here, along with the lyrics, and have it on WinAmp now, and it's pretty rocking.  Nirvana went from fast to slow and soft to hard better than anyone ever, other than perhaps NIN, which is a different style of tempo change.  Every band does this now, but they always seem to be winding up into it, rather than just effortlessly slipping into overdrive, as Nirvana does so well. It certainly sounds like classic Nirvana, and would fit in very well with their best stuff from Nevermind.

Most of those songs were great, though I can't listen to them more than once now; it's just all too familiar.  I think the best part of this new track is the first 30 seconds, before Kurt starts bellowing.  Lots of their songs his singing is the best part, but this one he's not quite as raspy/howling as on some others, and the chorus isn't as catchy either.  The bass and drums are great in it though, very hard and immediate sound on the drums, so I like the mix.  Dave Grohl's best work was beating on the skins for Nirvana, rather than fronting the bland and vastly-overrated Foo Fighters, IMHO.

And remember, Kurt committed suicide, he wasn't murdered by the frequently-insane Courtney.  Right?

Excessive vowels doomed me.

Bookworm is a new Pop Cap game that I saw mentioned on Penny Arcade.  It's a sort of Scrabble game, where you make words from letter tiles, and score points based on the individual letters, and how many you use per word. You must not let the burning tiles reach the bottom or you die, and there are various bonus tiles as well.  I played once and got what you see here.  I like the concept of the game but it takes way too long to play; at least 20 minutes for my one game.  I suck at it too, I did almost all 3 and 4 letter words, with a few 5's and one 6 letter, and the 6 was only found since the first 4 letters were right in a row, from left to right. I very slow, far slower than I used to be when I'd play Boggle.  I think the hex shape of the board throws me off, for some reason, compared the instant word recognition in Boggle.

There's no time limit for the game or per move, so it's probably better to take longer and find longer words.  I just took longer and found bunches of four-letter words, so I had my pick of them each turn.  Which isn't quite the same thing.

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