| The perils |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|03:22 pm] |
Sometimes, I wish I was the sort who could be content with a head in the sand, fingers in the ears, and a Big Mac shoved up my ass.
I'm not, and that's why reading the news is really really bad for me.
So... here is the next thing to watch for. Carbon Credits. Cap and Trade is here, and there is going to be a huge bubble in green technology. This is both good and bad. Good, because when bubbles start going up, they tend to bring enough money in to the technology to really get it humming. Remember the tech bubble? Remember how often there was a new processor before and after?
For those not in the tech game, the Intel 486 DX2 66 was the defacto processor for home computers for years. It chugged along, powering everything from DOOM matches to nuclear fuel monitoring stations and all was good. The tech bubble started to heat up and suddenly you couldn't buy a processor without it being behind the curve.
The bad is that every time the bubble bursts, we're left with what we've got now, namely human misery. But hey, at least everyone has an iPhone, which probably wouldn't have happened without the tech bubble in the first place.
Here's tentacles crossed that the green bubble has some beneficial mutations amongst the fallout, and the 2018 bubble is all about space exploration. |
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| Additive |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|03:43 pm] |
Hai guize!
I get my 4th byte today! I am offically 100000 bin! But still only 20 in hex.
Famous people who share my birth date are:
1470 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
1912 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
1963 – Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
1966 – Mike Tyson, American former boxer
1987 - Chelsea Christenberry, American actress
???? - Sailor Moon
My favorite birthday historical event:
1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
woo! |
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| Memem ememmememememe emememme mem emmemem eme |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|10:44 am] |
Right... so....
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) used_songs sez to me she sez:
If you would like, reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I shall give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you. Or don't, who am I, your mother?
And soze I sez back to her I sez:
( Read more... ) |
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| SPACE ADVENTURE COBRA! |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|11:32 pm] |
Thanks to hexapod I've been watching Space Adventure: Cobra on the Vietnamese version of youtube.
As we all know, old school is the best school and this old school anime doesn't disappoint on every cell.
There are no bitchy whiny heros who can't pull their heads out of their asses long enough to save the world, there are no thirteen episode conversations about butterflies, no uncomfortably ambiguous sexuality, this isn't anime for little girls, this is anime for men! MANIME!
You see Cobra walking, Cobra eating, Cobra sleeping, Cobra fucking like a man! SO MUCH FUCKING!
Only, its all off-screen and all subtle, cause that's how he rolls. ROOOOOLLLLLSSS!
And you want to see BOOBIES, there are so many BOOBIES, you don't have to wait for the dojin to see BOOBIES, cause in every episode there are BOOBIES, hundreds and hundreds of perfect animated robotic android BOOBIES.
ROBOBREASTS! |
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| Space Adventure Cobra |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|04:45 pm] |
Its like... why doesn't this have a U.S. release in the last 15 years? Classic anime here people, so much better than 99% of the crap that's out today.
I could order the Madman version from Australia, I suppose, and try to find some way to play Region 4 PAL on my desktop.
Oh well. Have a picture.
Yeeeaaaahh, them's the goods! |
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| More on Iran |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|02:22 pm] |
The Supreme Leader has ordered a probe in to any election fraud. I'm torn between thinking that he's just going to reaffirm the standing results or he's going to throw Ahmadinejad under a bus and appear to embrace Mousavi's reformist platform. Make no mistake, Ahmadinejad belongs under a bus, but Mousavi is no angel. He was in a high cabinet position after the '79 Islamic Revolution and had no problem getting his hands dirty.
Either way, that sign is pretty indicative of what's going on over there right now. The people want freedom, and they seem more than willing to water that tree with their own blood. |
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| Iran |
[Jun. 14th, 2009|11:00 am] |
Is anyone seeing this? The election in Iran was stolen by the hard-line radical Islamist party. Some are saying that the votes weren't even counted and the Ayatollah simply had the results invented in order to keep Ahmadinejad in his office of Puppet President.
The result is that the citizens of Iran are utterly flipping their shit. There is rioting, power has been cut in Tehran, the government has blocked voice and data communications in and out of the country, university professors have resigned en masse, its fucking chaos.
The people want democracy, the people want freedom, and the only way they are going to get it over there is by fighting for it.
I wish them luck, its going to be a tough road.
Axis of Evil my ass. |
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| Squid Drying Day |
[Jun. 13th, 2009|11:40 pm] |
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My squid, it smells wonderful. It's making the whole room smell like laundry detergent, the good kind that smells like clean. I'm amazed at how many of the cola stains came out of the tentacles. |
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| Sinfest |
[Jun. 12th, 2009|05:24 pm] |
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Sinfest has been on an awesome Fuchsia the Devil Girl/Criminy arc lately. Just.. hellz yeah. |
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| Tired |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|06:55 am] |
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In to work at 4:30 this morning. Unfortunately, the machine I'm using as a packet sniffer was upgraded by a well-meaning coworker and he forgot to re-enable the network adapter. So. No packets for me, which means I'll probably have to be in again at 4:30 tomorrow unless I can figure out how to start Wireshark via cron. |
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| Up |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|12:25 am] |
Squiddy reviews Disney/Pixar's "Up", but first... the previews.
1.) Nachos. I'd like some nachos.
2.) And... lesse.. I always get the hickory burger, and I can't think of anything else, so
3.) OH SHIT ASTROBOY! 3D animation though, and not anime.. humm..
4.) Human lands on an alien planet, with sexy hilarious results. At least there is an homage to Alien.
5.) Bacon? No.. wait, yes.
Didjaknow? Luxo Jr. can be rendered in real time on most home computers at twice the resolution that it was first rendered in? That render also took several days.
( Read more... )
Up gets a solid 7 arms and a tentacle, bringing its rating up to an 8. A must-see. In fact, what are you doing tomorrow? Yeah? Well fuck her, go see Up. |
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| A-kon 2009 |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|09:20 pm] |
As stated before, I had a damn good time this year. I would have liked to have taken more squid pictures, but fun was had in abundance!
So, without further stalling for time, here are the pics...
http://gallery.prairiesquid.com/v/akon2009/ |
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| Couldn't dodge that one |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|05:53 pm] |
Oh Grasshopper, was your kung fu not strong enough? According to some reports the star of such cinema and TV greats as "Deathrace 2000" and "Q: The Winged Serpent" (the only movie I've ever seen where it rained boobs), David Carradine may have died from a terminal case of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
Of course, his friends and family don't think he choked his chicken to death, and seem to buy in to my theory of like a million billion ninjas, but when you die naked in a hotel in Bangkok with a rope around your junk there are only a few conclusions you can draw.
I'm not making any moral judgment about squishing your squid or killing yourself in the process, but I would like to offer some advice for the auto-erotic asphyxiators in the audience.
1.) Invest in a break-away. They sell these nifty little devices at the hardware store for a couple of bucks, and they can save your life. You tie or hook a rope to one end, and hook the other to a fan, or curtain rod, or whatever and when you reach the weight limit for the break-away it snaps in half. Simple and easy, and prevents nasty accidents. I'd get one that's rated for about 80% of your body weight, that way, you can still put a lot of pressure on your throat, but you'll break it if you slip off the stool. Sure, its a little bit of extra equipment to deal with, but come on! You're already pretty serious about your masturbation by this point, so what is a little bit of extra hardware going to hurt?
2.) Use a simple slip knot. Look, the absolute last thing you want when you take your life and cock in to your own hands is for the rope to bind up and be difficult to remove when you're done. The object here is fantastic orgasm not ignoble death with your ass in the air. Don't listen to those hardcore lifestyliers who say that the more beautiful the knot, the better the experience, that's bullshit. You can cut off air to your brain just as effectively with a simple slipknot as with a double taunt-hitch sheep-bend square Carrick bend overhand triple lock Ashley Stopper arbor woggle. If you do slip and fall, and you've got a break-away, the slipknot will loosen by-itself giving you just enough air to avoid brain damage or a really embarrassing obituary. To break it down even further the more complex the knot, the more brain power you'll need to get it undone. As we all know, orgasm combined with choking is one of nature's more powerful brain power reducers, right up there with a week-long coke bender or five minutes listening to Pairs Hilton and Tara Reed have a conversation.
3.) Use a soft rope. Silk is best, but nylon will work in a pinch. With the exception of photographs your self-garroted naked ass dangling half out of the bathtub in some dirty motel, nothing is more embarrassing than unsightly rope burns on your neck. I'm sure you could pass them off as chain hickeys from a pack of rampaging drag queens, but that excuse wears a bit thin over time. Would you want your boss asking why you're just so damn fond of scarves or your mother seeing your immense turtleneck collection and thinking "Wow, there goes a guy who really doesn't care if the world knows about his habit of tugging on his turgid member while his brain slowly dies of a build up of lactic acid." As an added bonus, softer ligatures offer a more caressing feel, like the time you paid that Thai ladyboy to put his/her soft well-manicured hands around your throat while you jerked spasmodically to a poor quality Cantonese dub of an episode of Wild Kingdom. Still, I can't believe we got two of those for 35 bhat! Fuck, that was a great weekend.
4.) Use a spotter. Weight lifters do it, high-voltage electricians do it, why shouldn't you?!? These days, finding a spotter for any sort of erotic activity is as easy as logging on to Craig's List and using some specific code words at the end of a post looking for a flywheel for a six bolt Chevy transmission.. eh? eh? know what I mean eh? six bolt.. yeah? flywheel? get me?
Anyway, this not only increases your safety, but could also lead to satisfying any sort of exhibitionist streak you may have. You might also be feeding in to someone else's fetish of witnessing bizarre sex acts. Its win win!
So, if Mr. Carradine had just followed these simple rules, he might still be with us today. Hell, its not like its hard to find a spotter in Bangkok either. I bet he would have to pay someone to NOT watch him fap, amirite? |
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| A-kon! |
[Jun. 4th, 2009|11:36 am] |
Wooo A-kon! Didjaknow™, this year marks the 5th anniversary of tentacle related awesome and all around wiggly win? I think the traditional gift for #5 is wood, so if anyone wants to guess the obvious joke...
First though, the link to this years pictures. I haven't finished editing and uploading the squid pictures, so enjoy some non-squid related fun.
http://gallery.prairiesquid.com/v/akon2009
And now, the Tentacle Show is proud to present a retrospective Squid Through the Years.
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
The Evolution of the Various Attention Getting Devices
The Original Sign
The Sign, 2.0
Rosalita
Its been a weird weird couple of years. |
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| Being the future soon |
[May. 25th, 2009|02:58 am] |
Things I Learned About the Future, from the new Terminator movie.
1.) While the global, self-aware, anti-human, artificial intelligence is called SkyNet, it sure doesn't seem to use satellites much. All of those huge human military concentrations and it still doesn't know where to find them?
2.) IT Security will still be crap.
3.) Even though machines will be able to construct their own factories, they will still be built to human proportions with easily human accessible controls.
4.) Every machine is full of smaller machines.
5.) Blackhawk helicopters can outrun the thermal and overpressure waves caused by a nuclear explosion, but Huey's can't.
6.) All evil robots support USB.
7.) Having had your own Terminator, not once, but twice in the past still makes you completely unprepared for meeting another one in the future.
8.) CPUs don't seem to generate, nor are they bothered by heat.
9.) Paranoid security means you don't reveal your position to one trusted soldier, but you'll broadcast a high power, short wave radio signal from your hidden rebel base.
10.) Multi-barrel Gatling guns are still AWESOME. |
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| Pffft, you were gone |
[May. 21st, 2009|11:06 am] |
(Where oh where, are you tonight?)
Anyone remember Hee-Haw?
When I was a kid, my great-grandfather would only watch two things on the picture box. One was MARVIN ZINDLER... EEEEEEEEEYEWITNESS NEWS!
(Aside: Until the day he died, Marvin Zindler knew my great-grandfather, grandfather, and father by name and on sight. Me? Ummm... you're Mac's boy, wadduacallit, umm... Jeffy? Mac was my great-grandfather and a Mason in the same lodge as Marvin.)
The other was Hee-Haw.
(Why did you leave me here all alone?)
Hee-Haw, if you missed it, was a musical variety show that featured up and coming young country stars and jokes that could stop a man dead from 50 feet. The Simpson's parody of the show in the first Lurleen episode was spot-on and unintentionally hilarious for the same reasons.
I hated Hee-Haw.
One, because my great-grandfather would watch it at ΔQ volumes enough to rattle the fillings in your teeth when Archie Campbell would hit the high warble.
And two, because it was on at the same time as Night Rider, and NIGHT RIDER!
(I've searched the world over and thought I'd found true love)
Years later, Hee-Haw was in syndication and shown at 11pm, right after Star Trek: TNG. Being that I was 12 - 15 at the time, I discovered that the Hee-Haw girls in the background were dressed in such a way to inflame the sensibilities of young men just blossoming in to their manly natures. i.e. the fapping material was top notch. Add to that, Dolly Parton was a regular and seemed to prefer tight pants.
Yeah, those were the good ole days.
(But you met another and pfffft, you was gone) |
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| lunch |
[May. 15th, 2009|11:31 am] |
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Are there any good chinese places in Brian/College Station? |
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| rage |
[May. 15th, 2009|10:11 am] |
RAGE! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!? FUCK YOU!
I'm not going to go in to details, and for that I apologize, but right now I'm about 10 seconds from putting my fist through a wall.
Calm blue ocean
I am a leaf on the breeze
All things are impermanent
Carl: If I didn't have inner peace I'd completely go psycho on all you guys all the time. |
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