"Hey Mikey, eat a dick", in not so many words were the sentiments of Pixar.
Looks like bad news for Disney. Quite a shame, they were huge, but not overtly evil. I doubt they'll be around another 5-10 years.
January 2004 Archives
You know she wants it, you know she needs it. So give it to her, slap dat ho!
Been super busy with work lately, yay!
Gotta cover some hellish weekend hours because of a whole in our coverage that just opened up, luckily that means I'm free for most of the week. Exausted, but free, hah.
I'll probally be posting a lot tonight during my downtime.
Retards cycled my ip address, yay! thats love for you, so RobDurdle.com and Alljenn.com and my otherwebsites will be semi-down, depending on your setup for the next 24-48 hours, yay!
the good news is, my php app is going along pretty good, yay!
Wow, according to this article, and this clock, yeah, we've got around 6.4 billion people on this planet. Damn.
And how many of them care about the us? Most of them, the new empire is fun.
Rolling Stone story about Justin Frankel, inventor of WinAmp and Gnutella and a continual thorn in AOL's side.
He talks about a program he put online called Waste, very rocking app. (more links here)
Ok.. so I've discovered a guy who has a hell of a lot more time on his hands then me. I want to create a site called 4oars. 5ives is crazy.
Speaking of crazy. I've had enough of mcdonalds just due to the service level, but I think this guy just gave me more reasons to never eat there again. I'm glad I've cut fast food almost completely out of my life. No more 4-5am stress eating and lack of sleep / exercise to completely screw me up.
Kill Bill, Volume 2 has a preview out. #1 was an awesome movie, and is out on DVD this week. Yay!
And when the hell is IKEA going to get its sorry ass to Moncton? Or at least halifax. Crap ass bastards, I'm sitting on a walkthrough on how to deal with Jenn when she finally gets to go.
Well, I've mentioned this style of thing before, and I'm still freaked out by it. This makes me look more normal.
I watch MXC a lot, its this stereotypical crazy game show from Japan where the people on it have to do the most insane and dangerous stunts to win prizes. It's Crazy, and I love it. I"ll post some screen shots from it later.
Today, the newf, he is sick.
I finally got pictures of PaulFirlotte.com's new ride... talk about a chick magnet, wow.
Booble has has its bandwidth whored by all the horny geeks out there, so its AWOL for a while till they realize that a porn search engine might need a bit more bandwidth then a normal website.
I got 362. beat me, I dare you. This game is highly addictive by the way.
Oh, and MusicPlasma is neat as hell. Lets you search for music visually. Yeah, I said that, go check out the link before you think I've finally lost what little shreads of sanity I hang on to.
Talking to Americans. Heh. The creation of new myths?
Finally, a link to the trailer for the upcoming Hugh Jackman flick, Van Helsing. The film looks like a Victorian-era Blade, with the baddies including the Wolf Man, Frankenstein, and Dracula, while Van Helsing tries to take them down. He's got a bunch of fancy Blade-like weaponry, including a buzz-saw gadget and a wicked-looking crossbow (gotta stake 'em all! .. oh wait, thats pokemon..you get the idea).
While it looks pretty cool, I have to wonder whether it'll turn out a mess. I hope not, there are way too many bad vampire flicks out lately.
Finally, a google for porn. It's about time damn it. It was announced yesterday, but I dont have faith in a porn search engine that gives me 0 results for Cleveland Steamer.
The best thing about my birthday is that It's mine before Dan's. Again, that looser comes in 2nd.
Well, I've been thinking of retireing the current car in favour of this one.. but it needs more weapons..
I want to get another vehicle actually, once I pay this one off, a Jeep or something that we can go off road in, something sturdy, so Jenn won't take the Sunfire on trails that require 4WD.
Got to do some callouts last night and this morning, fun stuff, talking to countless people via a single voicemail drop, yay!
Yeah.. don't play with power stations in southern california.. looks fake to me though.
This is why I hate clowns.
Seriously, I totally hate them. I'm not scared of them, I just know that they're middle age guys who get their jollies by dressing up in makeup and having kids sit on their lap, scary shit if you ask me.
Damn, can I move to florida yet?
Last Updated : Jan 15, 2004 1:22 PM.
Condition : N/A
Cloud Cover : N/A
Temperature : -25°C (-13°F)
Windchill : -40°C (-41°F)
Visibility : 24 km (15 miles)
Windspeed : 40 kph (25 mph)
Wind Direction : 230° (Southwest)
Quick, hide the coffee! Shit, too late. It's always too late to hide from a newf in an attack chopper.
The whole coffee nonsense was generated by an expereince this morning. I dropped down to Tim Hortons for a coffee, and some lame ass was causing a stink because they didnt have whipcream for his coffee.
Like, shut the hell up nimrod, ain't nobody here gonna go get you some whipcream for your damn double-double. It's a coffee, not a girly drink.
Coffee and Cig's. Back in the day, you were leet if you woke up, grabbed a smoke, and demanded coffee. But now, shit, you got your wankers demanding fluffy coffee to drink in their damn SUV's on the way to work. Seriously, die, k?
Get your coffee, and only complain if there's an eyeball in it. Even then, don't complain unless the eyeball looks as you funny.
I hate trendy coffee, it pisses me a off a lot. I drink plain coffee with a bit of sugar and creme in it, thats about as fancy as I'll get. Maybe sometimes I'll get a "blend" of normal coffee with hazlenut in it, but thats about as crazy as I'll get.
But this carmel, whipcream, chocolate sprinkles, strawberry syrup, and other crap. Who the hell wants chocolate sprinkles on their stupid ass whipcream covered milk based coffee anyway?
I guess I'm just old school, I didnt drink coffee till an ex forced me to, now I'm addicited to the shit, thanks a whole fucking lot.
Today I discovered, -40 degrees Celsius is -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
You may ask, How did you find this out rob? Are you a math guru? Are you that in touch with the world?
Hell no, my website told me. I thought it was broken.. I was like.. wait a second, how can it be -40 on both thermomitors..
Then it hit me, dude, its THAT cold out. I've been to places where its hit -32 before without counting the windchill, but this is utterly insane.
I love MSN Italy, they're so much less uptight then North America. Of course, there are places like sweeden too.. hah.
MSN is so much more relaxed over there, damn.
It's been a while since I dropped a real post, so today's 'real post' day.
Work's going well, being given more and more responsibility each day, which is totally cool with me. I'm a little more tired lately then usual, been hitting the sack a lot later then usual, I blame Jenn, heh.
Getting some work done on the car next week, getting the head gasket changed, and the thermostat fixed, maybe a couple of other minor things, but probally gonna just stick with those two for now.
Getting a haircut finally, hah, I should really stop getting a only haircut 2-3 times a year, I should jack it up to perhaps 4.. hah. I'm all shaggy, it's fugly looking.
Finished working on the case last night, all I need now is the fanbus, and I'm done. Time to ebay it up I say.
McDonald's can still eat a dick, you bunch of ignorant fucks. I swear to fuck, I am never going back to that place again. Burger King has awesome Veggie Burgers, that are actually healthy (sorta).
Oh, and with Chili Night at the Firlotte house this week, I should start training my poker face. Paul's chili isnt really chili... it's demonic blood that oozed up from beneth his house through a crack caused by that damn sub. He's making 2 batchs apparently, one for the normals, and one for him/dave/other insane people. I plan on mixing the two together and seeing if I can take it.
Oh, and Marty, you're a fucking moron
Well, I got what I wanted from McDonald's, and now, my ass is about to explode in righteous fury!
But the point is, I got what was mine! so what if I have spend the night on the toilet.
So.. Today I'm going to go back and have a little talk with Marty and see if I can get that meal I was promised.
I'd best come away from this little pow-wow with a meal in my hands, because if not, I'm going to loose it I think. I'll let you know how it went.
So we went to McDonald's for a very rare outing (I don't eat that shit much anymore, too evil for you.) and we got our food, I got this chicken thing. So we get home, and find out that when I checked the bags at the drive through, I didn't do quite as good a job as I had thought. I got 2 chicken fajitas (fa-gee-ta) instead of a chicken sandwich, so I quickly call back McDonald's to point out the little mistake, they make it sound like my fault, but tell me that I can have a free meal on them for the mistake (not their mistake, "THE" mistake). OK, So I was a little cheesed off about that but I let it slip, they're busy and shit.
At 9:00-ish Jenn & I head back up to grab my free meal, because quite frankly 2 fajitas the size of a child's thumb don't quite fill a 6'4 215lb man's stomach. We get there, and I talk to the same guy who I'd talked to on the phone "Marty".
Marty is a fucking moron.
Marty proceeds to tell me that I didn't call him, I'm a liar, there's nothing he can do, and that I'll have to pay for another meal. I tell dear sweet idiotic Marty, that I've already paid for the meal, I called him (I recited out phone conversation word for word), and there is no way I'm paying for a stupid fucking meal twice, Oh and I also inferred that he could "eat a dick".
So, I get out, tell Jenn this, and proceed to drive home, thinking "well, maybe I did fuckup, and Marty isn't a fucking moron". When we get home, I check my phone log, and lo-and-behold, I'm fucking right for a change. So I call the number back, and pass the phone to Jenn.
For those who don't know Jenn, do not piss her off.
Jenn talks to the moron very calmly, and explains the situation, and when he starts to imply that she's lying to him, she gets a little intense :)
She describes the chick who gave us the burger, the time we were there, the fact that they log everything, the amount we paid, etc etc. He still doesn't get it, and says that we didn't call.
Eventfully after beating the poor sap down, he says OK. If you can bring me the fajitas I'll trade you for the sandwich. (I ate the fucking Fajitas, and he can eat a dick). She tells him, that we threw them out (which we did, out of my ass). So he tells her "root around in there then and find them". Hah, "they're in the basement, we live in an apartment complex, and our garbage is gone".
At this he just gives up, and says 'OK, you can have a burger'. Well fucking Thank you for giving me what I paid for, I appreciate it.
Jenn Rocks
Why when fucking idiots fuck up, do they try to blame it on you? I mean, what ever happened to the old saying 'the customer is always right'. When did it change to 'fuck you, give me your money, and you might get what you want'.
Seriously, fuck you McDonald's for your poor teaching methods, and hiring methods. Fucking teach these monkeys to not make the customer (The one who pays your damn salary's) want to fucking knock your asshole Managers out.
I'm a nice calm person, but I don't take monkeys calling me a liar well :)
I'm glad I have Jenn, she can seriously kick some ass with the monkeys, while my idea is to just beat on them.
Sci Fi is bringing "Stargate SG-1" back for its eighth season this summer, along with a spin-off series, "Stargate Atlantis."
Jenn will hate the news, I (Rob) adore the news.
Hah. More Stargate for me! 2x as much actually, Stargate + Spinoff! haha
I'm so dead.
Oh, and while I'm digging this sci-fi hole for myself, I'd like to remind everybody that January 17th and 18th is the time to watch Space to catch the new Battlestar miniseries. Yes, I hated the orginal ones too, too campy for anybody straight, but the new ones have hot chicks.
I told you they were insane. But Nooooo you wouldn't listen. This will teach you.
Yea, well I cheat at Monopoly, its the only way to even try to beat Jenn, she never looses.
Last time I played, I was the banker, I kept stealing 500's outta the till, putting money others gave me for purchases in my account vs in the bank, etc etc. All the dirty tricks. I still got my ass handed to me.
If you look at answer #2 to How to: play Monopoly and win , "Be the banker and steal from the bank. ", I'd just like to say, it doesn't work if you play Jenn.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 censored 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
Yay me!
It feels so good to compile things again, I'm a little too happy.
$ uptime
12:56:53 up 1 day, 2:53, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
A model employee - Computer Invasion: A History of Automation in Canada - CBC Archives.
Seriously, the CBC archives are the funniest things ever. I phear them.
A network called 'Internet' - Computer Invasion: A History of Automation in Canada - CBC Archives.
Man, the CBC rocks. Check this shit out for old school laughs.
Geeks are still cool, hmm, actually, it's 'uncool' to not be a geek now, crazy. From age 8-15, I was getting the living crap kicked out of me for being a geek. Crazy.
Oh, and Troubled Tina still ain't said crap other then that one statement, I think she might be a one trick wonder.. sorta like Dan Brennan.
Oddly enough, it still bugs me that some little punk ass bitch would steal ONLY the plastic bottles from outside of our old Duplex.. That's even below my current level of insanity.
So our insurance goes down, yippie! But since we're in a better area, it goes up, but not as much as it went down.. so that means we pay less then before, but not as little as we could? Insane.
Well Dear Crap. You know you should feel ashamed when Wil Wheaton think's you're scum.
Last month, Penny Arcade created a makeshift charity, called Childs Play (Details here). Childs Play donated over $200,000 in cash and games, game systems, and misc. cool gear ($27,406.18 in cash & over $175,000 in gear) to a Seattle children.s hospital. A very awesome gift for the kids this holiday, also not a bad step in making the media realize that we're not all bloodthirsty killers because we like to shoot zombies in a make believe world.
I did a few reports about 8-9 years ago when I was in high school about how idiotic the idea that gamers are being "trained to kill", and are the "next great menace to our future", or other idiotic crap.
That was almost a decade ago, I know, it dates me, but still, a decade or more... That's basically one full generation of kids out there, who grew up on video games.
So that means, that since everybody who donated to Childs Play had a credit card, they're above the age of 18. The people who donated to Childs Play were raised in the video game age. Not bad that these "monsters of society" can raise going on a quarter of a million dollars of toys & funds for a worthy cause.
I know, you're probably saying, "This is just a stunt to try to save the reputation of Gamers". You'd be wrong. The Media (Capitol M) ignored the entire thing. The few that did pay attention to it reported the entire thing as a donation from a "catholic school, and were valued at nearly a thousand dollars"... By the way, did I mention nearly A Quarter of a Million Dollars? Shit, they had bins of GBA SP's and Xbox.s and Game Cubes, and literally, truckloads of other stuff. The Media makes too much money off fear and paranoia; of course its not going to say that one of their meal tickets isn.t quite as diabolical as they'd lead you to believe.
Search google for news on Childs Play, and you get three results.. Luckily Media Reform gets a lot of results.
Wil Wheaton had a few sweet comments about the situation. As well as Tyco from Penny-Arcade got his final 2 cents in.
A pal I met at Defcon asked me to post this, so consider it posted. Every day she'll have some smart-mouthed, negative, or tormented thing to say to you.
