Monkey Does Handstand on Tightrope-Walking Goat

Smash Bros. Party Delayed

So my Smash Brother in arms, Matt is going to be here in a week or two and he asked if I would wait until he arrived to play Smash Bros., watch the intro and play the Subspace Emissary together. Of course I said yes, so the party will be delayed a bit. Pretty much we've played both Smash Bros. a ton so we figured we'd keep the tradition going.

Not A Big Fan and DST

I'm not a fan of very much these days. I don't think its music's fault, I'm just kind of stuck.

I don't know about you all, but my favorite day of the year aside from Christmas, Halloween and my birthday is coming up, Daylight Saving Time! Its on the 9th which corresponds with Super Smash Bros. Brawl's release! So, I'll be there right when it opens (no lie), and I'll get it and everyone can come over. I hope to see you all exactly an hour from when I tell you (because you and I both know you'll forget to change your clocks).

Speaking of goats...

Are there any huge Mountain Goats fans out there? I have one extra ticket for tonight's (sold out?) show.


This has nothing to do with Mountain Goats.

Un-Band

In order to justify that headline, I give you a robot that can perfect the hardest Guitar Hero 3 song on Expert (which no human has thus far been able to do).



Relatedly, here is a sweet Lego robot that can bowl a perfect game on the Wii.



Here is a link with more info. The former is electronic, which is very cool, and the latter is mechanical, which is debatably cooler.

Unrelatedly, Josh, I suggest a Friday after work or a Saturday afternoon for Gladiators. It seems like a good pregaming activity. I'm in, in any case.

Unbanned

So I banned myself from websites at work to make me more productive, but I unbanned this one because it wasn't sucking up too much of my time. Also, I tend to post more at work anyway.

That guitar game should work, and if anything will make your playing cleaner which would be a good thing.


Who wants to see the American Gladiators finale? I want to have people over and drink whenever Hulk Hogan says "Brother" or whenever your picked contestant loses. I've got it taped so I'm just waiting for the opportunity.

Lastly, if you want to see "Be Kind, Rewind" this weekend, I'll probably be going Saturday afternoon.

Guitar Rising

Link

I have no idea whether or not that will be at all fun or successful. But I am really, really interested in seeing what reactions it will prompt from people.

For reals?

I hope so. (From here.)

"It's a Washington where decades of trade deals like NAFTA and China have been signed with plenty of protections for corporations and their profits, but none for our environment or our workers who've seen factories shut their doors and millions of jobs disappear; workers whose right to organize and unionize has been under assault for the last eight years...

...

I don't know about a time-out, but I do know this - when I am President, I will not sign another trade agreement unless it has protections for our environment and protections for American workers. And I'll pass the Patriot Employer Act that I've been fighting for ever since I ran for the Senate - we will end the tax breaks for companies who ship our jobs overseas, and we will give those breaks to companies who create good jobs with decent wages right here in America."

From Obama's victory speech last night.

Expression

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/22

Do read the beginning of the newspost as well.

Feeling like Arthur Dent on that fateful Thursday

OK, it's not a Vogon Contructor Fleet, but I am hungover (good party last night! Between the Columbian vigorously defending his thesis that neoliberal policies of the west are ultimately responsible for the violence in Columbia, to the poli-sci major arguing that Obama can't win 'cause America is racist, to realizing I am no Jack White, or Black for that matter (but closer to Black), a good time was had by all - except that I can never listen to Pearl Jam again, but that's another story), and I do have a vague sense that something's not right. Could be this.

It could also be that my boss has made several brief references, one today, and one yesterday, about some sort of release I'm apparently supposed to be doing today. I'm thinking it's a big one. THE big one, even, maybe. Wish I knew. Should've paid attention in those conference calls, I guess.

Let the Swift-Boating begin

http://hillarythemovie.com/about.html

Not that I'm a huge fan of Hillary, since she voted for the war, and voted recently for the warmongering Iran resolution, but the usual cast of Clinton-haters is in this film. Damnit, why can't I dislike Clinton for being such an establishment moderate without all these misogynistic, lying, ignorant, bloviating assholes staking out that position for totally idiotic and mean-spirited reasons? An enemy of my enemy is ... my enemy? Damnit!

Ignite 2

Sean filled me in on this, he and Amy are planning on going. Looks like it will definitely be cool, but maybe a little too packed for my taste, dunno. Anybody interested?

electric goat might be your band name.

i love it just for the noise it makes


via videosift.com

Some weekend activities

Jacob and I are going to see the movie Persepolis tonight at the Fox Tower. It is one of my favorite books and it looks like the author did the artwork as well. Anyone want to go with us?

Also... I STILL have not tried my new bowling ball. Friday night, is there anything else going on because if not we need to go bowling.

My Dharma initiative beer is chilling in the fridge in anticipation of Thursday LOST return.

Super Bowl Sunday

I will be watching the big (Packerless) game, the kickoff of which appears to be 3pm. It is a little hard to tell since the pre-game show, I swear to god, starts at 11am! That is just excessive.

In any case, everyone is invited as usual, I'll probably get it turned on at 1 or 2, but if anyone does want to come over earlier and make a day of it I am good with that too. We can just hang out like normal people rather than NFL freaks.

In my case, since I don't watch the pro bowl, this is the end of the season, so I will be in mourning and wearing black (well my socks anyway).

I hope to see you all there!

Bad ABC, No Biscuit.

FYI, I edited the LOST event on the calendar to start at 9pm instead of 8. ABC's been announcing that it's a "two-hour premiere event", but it turns out the first hour is just one of those stupid clip shows to get people caught up. As if that would even work.

I wouldn't be opposed to watching the first hour as a recap of sorts, but I'm definitely not married to the idea.

my kind of politics

do you love Barack?

Things heard at work today:

• The phrase "stakeholder buy-in"


• Comments about food poisoning.


• The ***hole who blows his nose every ****ing day, multiple times throughout the day, as loudly as possible, seemingly for as long as possible - twice in a row. Picture either: two full, consecutive breaths blowing unmercifully, forcefully, into a trumpet with no intention of making anything remotely musical, or two full breaths expended solely trying to make a farting sound (mouth to palm) as loudly as possible. Irritating doesn't begin to describe it. Does Tonya Harding still live in the area?


• An offer to extend my contract when I thought they were actually about to kick my lazy *** out of here before the end of my contract.

I've been thinking about UFOs a lot this week (as I'm making a promo about a local UFO sighting). I think its obvious the US governement is trying to cover it up anything, but they sure do a piss poor job of coming up with excuses. Today: "ohh yeah... our aircraft WERE over stephensville texas, we just... umm forgot about it...." Come on! At least blame it on global warming, everyone would believe that!

But really, if some of the UFOs are visitors from somewhere else, what do they want? Are they just checking us out? Seeing if we're friendly? Are we some sort of tourist destination? Like we would pay to visit the moon? or go on Safari?

And on that note- back to editing- but... someone put this on the calandar.

Aliens

I think you put your finger on it, Kristi. It is just not possible for me to believe that we are the only life in the trillions of planets in the universe. Equally improbable to me is that a culture that was advanced enough to travel

6.1724248 × 10¹³ miles

(that is 61,724,248,000,000 or, yes, almost 62 trillion miles) in one of their lifetimes (as a point of reference, the speed of light is 670,616,629.2 miles per hour, and even at this unattainable speed, it would take 10.5 years) could be duped by any instance of the pentagon or US government is pretty hard to believe.

On top of that, they would have to identify our planet out of trillions to come visit, cause you know there ain't any sidetrips with those distances.