In keeping with the theme of 6-month gaps in between stretches of entries, consider this me hitting my quota. Hooray, I’m still lazy.
Carry on.
adam: My mom’s gonna be upset
Matt: Yeah, we know how seriously your mom takes releases.
Mike: thats a different kind of release
adam: Matt++
Matt: I really want to make an “overload” joke here, but… I got nothin’.
Mike: the kinds of releases adams mom gets, are full of buffer overflows
Matt: Mike++
Matt: Buffer overflows, or FLUFFER overflows?
Mike: i would push and pop her stack any day
Matt: I hear she’s got a thing for bidirectional linked lists
adam: My mom: Making the channel go down every time.
Mike: lets just say her conditional statements always return 0
Matt: She’s my main void
jchin: i hear she’s good with objects
Mike: if ($mom=”adam’s”) then $whore=1
jchin: try{adamsMom.getServiced()}catch{this.getSTD()}
Matt: Her regular expression always evaluates to “O’ face”.
jchin: haha
Matt: And, for the record, you don’t need a “try” block, since Adam’s mom accepts EVERY piece of input.
I’ve mentioned it before, but I take part in what might be the nerdiest game ever created: fantasy professional wrestling. I say this as a disclaimer. If this isn’t your thing, then you’re probably not going to want to go beyond the break.
So as some of you are no doubt aware, for the last 12 years I’ve taken part in an online collaborative writing game centered around sports entertainment. In reality, that’s just a fancy name for “fantasy wrestling” or “e-wrestling”. I figure it’s probably better to get this out of the way now, that way if this sort of thing doesn’t interest you than you can just skip over the cut that’s going to show up right… about… NOW!
So I started thinking about it, seriously thinking about it (which is terrifying in its own special way), and have come to the conclusion that the pope is the captain of the Vatican Swim Team.
Look at his hat. It is obviously designed to assist in breaking the surface tension on a body of water, in this case an Olympic sized swimming pool. The pope dives in, aquadynamically assisted by his tapered cap, and then hauls ass across the lanes like the righteous dolphin that he is.
This also explains the church’s fascination with holy water. The water you find in a church hasn’t been blessed as much as run through His Holy Brita Filtration System. Using a super-concetrated cholorine blend they’re able to not only kill any microbial infestations but also cleanse the water of sin. Popes through history have been known to squint. This is not from glare, or fading eyesight, but instead is a result of the chlorine mix they use in the pools. That shit stings.
Have you ever seen the pope outside of his robes? Of course not. The pope reps his team colors like a champion.
Think of it this way. We have a college of cardinals, which is really the varsity squad of the Vatican Swim Team, and every now and again they congregate to elect a new captain. They have only one letter player, but instead of a patch for his jacket the dude gets his own custom ride: throne, bullet-resistant glass, private driver, the works. That’s one hell of a team bus.
Technomicon Banner Graphic
So I’ve been playing with Photoshop a little bit today, and lo and behold what do I make but this handy-dandy little banner above. It’s not terrible for a first time, and I did use a few kickass brush packages that I found on the ‘net for technical-type brushes (credit to ~ak-productions and ~z-design for those, find both on deviantart.com).
I’m such a Photoshop newb.
So, fantasy gives us elementals. We’ve got ‘em for Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. I want Life and Death elementals. I want opposing “master” elementals who encompass an aspect of each of the 4 standard elements. Flames versus embers, growth versus decay, etc.
And also we closed on the house on Friday, and started working on it over the weekend.
http://revver.com/video/508293/ventrilo-harassment-darth-vader/
Click the link. Don’t make me destroy you. It would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here.
I’m deliberately taking a minute out of a really f’ed-up day to vent about it. I have come back from vacation and walked into Hell. On Tuesday I took a few calls as part of my shift, including one about ID block problems (I’m not going into detail about what that is) at a replica site. Shortly after I get dragged into an issue that was raised through the Duty Manager for one of my colleagues. I spent Tuesday afternoon and half of Wednesday working on it. Late on Wednesday the Duty Manager gets a call about the ID block issue. Great, now I have my own crisis to attend to, flagging it as a downed system situation. As I’m working on that issue (right now I’m waiting for the dude involved to respond to my requests for new information), the Duty Manager gets called again, this time about a low priority issue that I have open. Is this real?
Every day is just another swell on the cascading wave of fuck.
http://www.myextralife.com/?p=8510
That link right there is serious business. It’s the Imperial March played on a floppy disk. Also, if you’re not following “Italian Spiderman” each week on Youtube then there is something seriously wrong with you.
In completely unrelated news, I’m heading to Wakefield again tomorrow night to smash elves into the red zone. Hopefully this week will be a little bit better than last. One of the matches I played in was misreported, and of course it happened to be the only one I won. I am therefore officially trying to redeem an “0-3″ week tomorrow even though it should have been a “1-2″ week.
I also made some changes to the deck. Terrors are out and Nameless Inversions are in. I also cut both Garruk and a Wayfinder for three Slaughter Pact. I did this in part because I wanted to boost Tarmogoyf while still having answers to guys like Magus. I also gave the board a huge overhaul, based on what I saw last week. Squall Lines are up to four, Cloudthreshers are down to one, and moved both Garruks to the board.
I’m considering building Project 420.5n for next week. The only things I’m really missing are the Gargadons, the Firespouts, three Glittering Wish, some land (Grove, Thicket, etc.), and the Guttural Responses. All of which I’m sure I can pick up on the easy.
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