December 2003 Archives

Tonight, I drag Jenn away to a secret hideaway, and am totally unreachable (except for my unlisted pager/cell), so if you want me and don't have those, tough luck.

Heh, Drum Machine :)

A snippit from PaulMartinTime.ca, who is being sued on christmas day by the Liberal Party.

I woke up on Wednesday morning to a phone call from a friendly guy named Tim, who informed me that I had one hour to take down the website, PaulMartinTime.ca, or he would set the lawyers loose on our asses (that's not a quote, but it's an accurate summary).

In between his friendly but businesslike remarks, he dropped a few remarks intended to make me nervous. He said, for example, that he "had a little trouble getting through privacy.ca, but they're no longer supporting your cause." If we had in fact been using privacy.ca, that would be pure power-play. It would mean that he had intimidated (legally or otherwise) a company whose function it is to protect the identity of people who use it into breaking its sole mandate. As it turns out, we don't use privacy.ca; the address of Rob Maguire, the person who registered paulmartintime.ca, is publically available, for all with an internet connection to see.

What an awesome way to spend our tax dollars! Remind me again why I voted for this retard... OH WAIT, I didn't.

Ok, I've had about enough.

This shits about as far past normal as I thought they'd take their wacked out witch hunts. The farmers almanac on a possible banned book list? Shit.

Oh, and Damn.

Downloading MP3s via P2P is now technically legal here in Canada thanks to an MP3 player tax. Just don't upload anything.

Also, the Supreme Court of Canada began hearing arguments over whether Internet Service Providers (ISPs), should start paying tariffs for Canadian music downloaded by the public.

Oh and what in the name of fuck is this shit? Japan needs to take a time out from the internet. Somebody pull their uplink, please?

Michael J. Nelson of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame will be providing audio commentary for an upcoming re-release of Reefer Madness.

Heh, a re-release, I've it on DVD already, I am so cool. Or perhaps Jenn is for making me buy it.

Speaking of Jenn, here you go babe.. we all know you're a trekie. At least one of us will understand it.

The (new) 7 words you can't say on television. Didn't George Carlin get busted for this in 78?

Cool, this is a Java-based map of the continental US that progressively narrows down the area covered by a ZIP Code as you type in the numbers one by one. Fucking awesome.

Seriously, I've had enough with security guards with god complexs, this whole US homeland security bs is giving every guy with a badge a god complex.

Just because you think you're leet, doesn't make it so. Even a college girl can own your ignorant shit.

Hell, if you really want to get around US Customs and the glorified security guards associated with them, buy this.

Trust me, when you own one of these, ain't nobody gonna ask you shit.

The Transport Security Administration maintains an allowable and banned items list (PDF).

Yay, well it's US law, so obviously it will filter down to us Canadians... yay! Oddly enough, I've been hassled for some items which are ok to travel with according to this list..

Of course, I look evil.

Too many cool ads get rejected from our airwaves because the censors suck in north america. Here are 10 of the most wacked ads (Windows Media .ASF format) that I would love to see on our television networks... but never will.

Oh, and also, I'm flame retardant.. no not retarded. Smart ass.

The PSX is almost out for the North American audience, the dvr/dvdr/ps2/sex toy/ps1 gadget for all you geeks. If it wern't a grand US, I'd think about it. For now, you can pick them up on Lik Sang.. ahh dear sweet Lik Sang.. if that company had the right orifices.. I swear I'd be in jail.

a week off, and I'm still tired. Hah. I am so getting to be an old man.

Well, the mars rover is set to touch down in a couple days, 'yay' it'll be what, somewhere near #35 on the list of probes sent to mars? Here's some info on it, and a countdown timer to its eta with big red.

After a few months, I decided to put The Gallery back up due to the fact I got an email about a new version of the software used, which reminded me that I had taken it down a few months ago.. Oppsy, stupid short term memory.

Hah. Yes, I'm fairly blank when it comes to short term memory, stupid drugs my mother made me take when I was a kid, Ritilin and Tranq's yay!

Well, Christmas rocked. Got a leet phone, an xbox live kit, xbox games, GBA games, superman fabric that Jenn is going to use to make me something neat, and some other cool stuff that I'll mention sometime later.

All in all, a neat Christmas.

So yeah the phone rocks, and I love the camera in it and the ability to play music with it, and do voice memos and all that jazz. Oh, and I get 6 months free, and tons of perks, cuz my girlie smiled at the guy selling it to her, and he got suckered in. Heh, sucker.

Karla, for all you wacky folks, is my 16 year old sister in Newfoundland.

For those of you who don't know me well enough in person, my sense of humour is very sarcastic, so all of you people who think I'm serious all the time and hate me for it.. cool, I don't hate you.

Oh, unless you're Dan Brennan. Yea, I hate you Dan. Everybody else, remember, life could be worse, you could be Dan Brennan.

Karla got her permit before me... that's just scary, congratulations are in store, she beat me :P
A very rare thing for me to be beaten.. except when Jenn headbutts me.

I hear you other Canadians bitching about the snow all the time. Hah, snow. You ain't seen snow.

It makes me feel old having to say this, but... back in my day, we had 12 meter drifts engulfing our houses, idiots (like me) jumping out of windows into HUGE snowbanks trying to shovel themselves out, and not having power for a week.

Now, this is where it gets weird. I'm 25, "my day" was 1995 apparently. Back in nfld we had this major blizzard around new years, and everything went away for a week. The number of telephone polls that were snapped off was something like over 500, 2 in front of my house. Hurricane strength winds and 12 meters of snow and ice, yeah baby.

I don't whine about having to shovel out a car thats got 2 feet of snow around it, or having to walk in a little baby blizzard, the next person who complains about 'this is too much snow!' gets a fat lip, because if you jinx me and I wake up to 12 meters of snow tomorrow morning, I will blame you, I will come to your house, and I will not be a happy newf.

Heh.

My eyes, they burn, the goggles they do nothing!

Stupid flu.

I need more DayQuil.

wow, listening to static hum usually doesnt bother me.. except when I have a migrane.

You would be amazed by the amout of pain that a simple little bit of background static can cause when youre brains gone all hypersensitive.

I need drugs. No, not those.. the legal kind. Freaks.

So it was like walking to work through and olympic sized swimming pool today.

Jenn looked so warm and comfortable curled up in bed under the blankets, so I decided to leave her there rather then drag her out of bed to drive me to work. Big mistake. She had to get up anyway apparently and I basically swam to work. Thanks to 2 City busses who basically drowned me, and all the other dickheads who helped him out. Only one truck avoided a huge trench of water. He was a city worker, they must get in trouble for having fun.

I'm sitting here, with my jeans dripping, and my hair drenched, luckily today for some reason, I packed a spare pair of shoes, and wore my swanky leather trench. Doesn't help the fact my legs and socks are soaked, but whatever it's all good.

Hey, at least I'm not Dan Brennan.

If PaulFirlotte.com wasn't so physically broken, I could picture him enjoying this, It's a unicycle mountain bike.

6. Finish off every one of Elrond's lines with "Mr. Anderson."

I kept wanting to do that last night, I even giggled for a while (5-10 minutes) thinking of it.

The whole "being up till 4-ish watching a movie and getting up at 7", yea, thats so not cool. I should have slept in longer.

I need a home phone, It would make these mornings easier to put up with.

Home Phone + VPN + Woman = Happy Rob

Oh, and I want this for xmas

Well, that was a kick ass movie, made me feel better after that stupid matrix letdown.

The swords, and blood were awesome, some neat fire effects, and a lot of cheese. I loved it, I'd get it on DVD right away, but the MPAA would hurt me. So like everyother person on the planet, I'll wait till next november to get the extended version.

I hope this year passes quickly.

"Yay"

Been looking around trying to find a decent sms sending setup. Picking through other peoples pages, 3rd party apps, etc. I've decided that nobody on this planet can write html for crap. And that all the stupid 'custom' sms pages out there are made by idiots who dont know shit about error trapping.

Time to make my own I guess.

Ahh Yeah, thats the shit.

Who else is going to the midnight showing?

INFO :
Famous Players Moncton: The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King - Midnight Screening

Special Midnight Screening
Tuesday December 16th at select locations.

17. When they go in the paths of the dead, wait for tense moment and shout, "I see dead people!"

I had planning on doing that, damn Idea stealing bastards.

Famous Players: Movie Information

The Lord Of The Rings: The Trilogy (No Passes)

Running Time: 692 mins
Genre: Adventure
Distributor: Alliance Atlantis
Release Date: 12/16/2003

I'm a big old school Nintendo fan, being that I grew up with it. Found a neat little site that lets me play all my favorite nintendo games online. Sort of pertty damn cool if you ask me.

Gonna try to get to LOTR tonight, if theres a midnightshowing in the province. Hopefully the snow will put off all but the hardcore fans.

If somebody fucks this movie up for me, I will take a hammer to their toes.

1. Stand up halfway through the movie and yell loudly, "Wait... where the hell is Harry Potter?"
2. Block the entrance to the theater while screaming: "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" - After the movie, say "Lucas could have done it better."
3. Play a drinking game where you have to take a sip every time someone says: "The Ring."
4. Point and laugh whenever someone dies.
5. Ask everyone around you if they think Gandalf went to Hogwarts.
6. Finish off every one of Elrond's lines with "Mr. Anderson."
7. When Aragorn is crowned king, stand up and at the top of your lungs sing, "And I did it.... MY way...!"
8. Talk like Gollum all through the movie. At the end, bite off someone's finger and fall down the stairs.
9. Dress up as old ladies and reenact "The Battle of Helms Deep" Monty Python style.
10. When Denethor lights the fire, shout "Barbecue!"
11. In TTT when the Ents decide to march to war, stand up and shout "RUN FOREST, RUN!"
12. Every time someone kills an Orc, yell: "That's what I'm Tolkien about!" See how long it takes before you get kicked out of the theatre.
13. During a wide shot of a battle, inquire, "Where's Waldo?"
14. Talk loudly about how you heard that there is a single frame of a nude Elf hidden somewhere in the movie.
15. Start an Orc sing-a-long.
16. Come to the premiere dressed as Frankenfurter and wander around looking terribly confused.
17. When they go in the paths of the dead, wait for tense moment and shout, "I see dead people!"
18. Imitate what you think a conversation between Gollum, Dobby and Yoda would be like.
19. Release a jar of daddy-long-legs into the theater during the Shelob scene.
20. Wonder out loud if Aragorn is going to run for governor of California.
21. When Shelob comes on, exclaim, "Man! Charlotte's really let herself go!"

Time to hurt, just so happens that I'm sick after I come home to work via the VPN.

Go me!

Well, we got most of the xmas shopping done Saturday, and I think Jenn was supprised at how fast and easy it was to do, I got most of her's done last month, so all is good on that front. Except for stuff for her stocking, I still need to fill that thing up with goodies..

Well, then. The OAOT XMas party was awesome, It was at the Delta, I've never been there before for anything other then passing through to a former job. Had some good food, and a good beer, with a good woman. So it was a pretty damn good night.

Jenn wore this long slinky red dress, looked damn ass hot in it. Pictures will follow soon. I even shaved my beard off for the event. Supposidly I looked pretty good, I still need to loose 10 lbs for me to be happy though, But I guess having lost 15-20 is a good start.

I opened this conference call yesterday at 8am est, and I'm JUST finishing it. How damn leet.

Man, after September 11th they've gotten fucking touchy. Remind me not to fart in NYC

Oh, and some of greatest vomit stories ever are in here.

Does this make anybody else nervous? Sheep + naked = bad ?

I can't see anything good coming from this.

Ever wonder why you pay so much in taxes? It's because the goverment is made up of normal people, and normal people love porn.

I'm all for the empowerment of the unix community vs Big Bill, but these geeks have way too much time on their hands.
I hate projects to get linux running on idiotic devices, just to say it can. I can beat myself in the head with a hammer, but that doesnt mean I should.

Holy shit, I just stopped looking at random links, this shit scared the crap out of me.

Oh, and I posted a link about the woman who was trampled at walmart for a dvd player? looks like that shit was too good to be true.

And then, there was more tools to waste your valuable shopping time.

Oh, and here's the perfect gift for the druggie in your family, The Urinator. Just don't get pulled over with one of these gadgets on you.

The best Penny Arcade image ever. Mainly due to the fact they were forced to take it down, here's their take on it, and an on-going petition related to it.

I know most banks are dirty.. but this is a little odd, even for them.

Oh, and when I first saw this Characters name, I thought he was based on PaulFirlotte.com

I'm thinking of getting a new case after Xmas, details are here.

This should be one of my last purchases before getting geared up to save for a house.

Yea, A house, I'm now an old man. Hah. leet.

Isnt her 15 minutes of Fame up yet?

I still wonder if I should post a link to her Porn/Video, Hmm, if you want it, make a comment below, and I'll possibly hook you all up.

More details on the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, starting tonight.

Battlestar Galactica. I know, I hate the orginal 70's show, who doesn't? It was the largest pile of crap I've ever seen. Inbreeds and Psychotic fucks loved it, but other then that, its even worse then Ren&Stimpy, and I -hate- that show.

But this one has something the 70's version didnt..

Yes, Tricia Helfer.

"We realized the only way we could improve on the original is if the Cylons could have sex," quipped co-executive producer David Eick at Tuesday night's Los Angeles premiere. The chrome-domed "walking toasters" from the original TV series are succeeded by -- well, really hot blond chicks, who infiltrate human society to engineer its doom.

Episode No. 1 of the two-part miniseries, which debuts Dec. 8, explodes with a jaw dropper of a scene that blends Cylon eroticism with equal parts pants-wetting apocalyptic terror and blast-tacular deep-space warfare. None of this should work, but under the nuanced direction of Michael Rymer, it does, spectacularly, and the rest of the episode never disappoints.

Canada's View on Social Issues Is Opening Rifts With the U.S. (note: NYT reg. required)

"Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull," Rick Mercer, Canada's leading political satirist, said at a recent show in Toronto. "Between the pot smoking and the gay marriage, quite frankly it's a wonder there is not a giant deck of cards out there with all our faces on it."

There are people out there who think Canada should be attacked like the US was, so that we could know how it feels. But that's sort-of impossible. Nobody hates us.

Ok, So I worked at burger king for a while after I got out of college, a lot of people look down on that kind of work, I don't.

It's good solid work, and it paid the bills while I was job hunting. I know people in the fast food world making 13$ an hour to sling fries. They don't have to deal with downsizing, or the instability to the technical world.

Hell, with the way that North Americans eat, they probally have the most jobs security of any of us.

So, yea, here, take it, and feel bad, you bastards.

What in the name of hell is Flute Oil?

Well, i'll find out in 6-8 weeks, won't I.

Wow, Canada finally has its own evil spam sites!

I must investigate this more, maybe they just made a typo.

This Super Bowl halftime, make it to the Lingere Bowl. American TV hits a new low by inventing another sport along the lines of Foxy Boxing and Hot Oil Wrestling. The gridiron action features Team Dream vs. Team Euphoria (featuring washed-up former NFL players as coaches) in full contact football while wearing skimpy clothing. Even weirder, but there will be cheerleaders to cheerlead the players that are already dolled up to look like cheerleaders in some sort of subtle hot lesbian action. It's all pay-per-view, but this "Girls Gone Football" seems more like a new low than a step forward for real women's sports.

Yea, Wal-Mart is the devil. It's a place where you can be crushed half to death, beaten up for a tv, and be pulled into jury duty. All in one qucik stop.

Oh, and yea, fucking ouch.

Ok, So I slightly screwed up last night.

While hiding Jenns presents in the Magic Green Tote last night, I got busy removing stickers. I should have double checked to make sure I collected all of them at the end, because apparently I stuck the price sticker for a DVD I boguht Jenn on her desk.

She found it about 20 minutes ago, and called me laughing so hard she was almost crying.

I love you sweetie, now stfu with the laughing :p

heh

I've gotten 300 hits in the past week just for info on 64k Demos. Actually, I know why. If you do a search in Google for 64k demos, I'm #1.

Leet, so to whore more free advertising.. 64k demos rock

Well, I told you those guys with saws looked like fucktards, but insane fucktards? Damn, or is it a case where guy can't even show up for his job as a municipal tree cutter drunk and holding a loaded shotgun?

This shit is wacked. I love it. Basically think of it as a script to use when talking to telemarketing people. Here it is in PDF form (Requires AdobeAcrobat), but theres a link at the bottom for a more viewable form.

The Direct Marketing sector regards the telephone as one of its most successful tools. Consumers experience telemarketing from a completely different point of view: more than 92% perceive commercial telephone calls as a violation of privacy.

Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance

Oh Christmas Joy, more crap to waste time during the holidays while waiting for the fat man to give me goodies.

Modern Drunkard's 86 Rules of Boozing.

12. Never, ever tell a bartender he made your drink too strong.

Knowing bartenders, and having them mix drinks 'special' for me, has gotten in a lot of trouble, but yet I obey the rules too.

Roy Disney has resigned from the Disney Board of Directors, and has sent a scathing email to Michael Eisner explaining, in detail, exactly why he's leaving the company his uncle founded. The old man has a serious set of brass balls.

1. The failure to bring back ABC Prime Time from the ratings abyss it has been in for years and your inability to program successfully the ABC Family Channel. Both of these failures have had, and I believe will continue to have, significant adverse impact on shareholder value.

3. The timidity of your investments in our theme park business. At Disney's California Adventure, Paris and now in Hong Kong, you have tried to build parks "on the cheap" and they show it and the attendance figures reflect it.

Back in the day, I would have just walked over and taken a hatchet to rogers fibre setup. I think I've matured.

Roger's Internet is the Devil.

Got through this morning to a tech support guy who was familiar with the term "cisco" in a way most of them aren't, ie, he actually knew what a router was.

Rogers internet has taken to dissabling accounts which abuse their informal quotas. Yea, rogers now has quotas, informally of course. Due to massive abuse of the system, they've decided to exploit a loophole in their EUA.

"Unlimited Internet Service" now refers only to the fact that you can be connected 24/7. ie, The connection is unlimited, but the bandwidth is limited.

I've had rogers dissconnect me a -lot- due to this, and have had a few calls at work from rogers security about it. Wondering if I had a virus that was using all the bandwidth, or if i was just abusing it. They then informed me of how little bandwidth each node has, and that if I and 1-2 other rogers customers in my area are all using our rogers connection to the full usage which we pay for, then it means there isnt any bandwidth for anybody else. The needs of the may, etc etc.

Their soloution? dissconnect me constantly at 2-3 am so that I'll stop.

Ugh. Well, if I didn't know somebody at rogers, my account would already have been dissabled without notice.