One bourbon, one scotch, and one mav

In less than 10 hours, I am getting back in the Mavmobile and heading for Moscow. I’m really torn about this whole college thing - I want to have a degree, but I can’t seem to convince myself that it’s really important enough - especially since I’m just going to end up in Twin once I’m done anyway.
Continue reading “See you on the flipside”

Somebody call Morley fucking Safer or something.

Check this out. The ten-second version: Some anti-piracy vigilantes (amazingly enough, one of them is 19 - not what I’d expect, at all) have written a program that masquerades as commonly-downloaded files (like UT04 keygens) and when run, it phones your IP back to their server. Interesting. Spyware, definitely, but interesting.

I’m not going to touch on what they did, because I believe that any sane person would look on this and say that this is precisely why we have due process. Sex offenders don’t deserve to be murdered by random vigilantes, and software pirates don’t deserve to be harassed by random vigilantes. That should be a given. What I’m curious about is why anybody would write something like this in the first place. So, assuming (as per usual) that there’s no chance in hell that I’ll ever hear from these guys myself, I am going to have to make a few assumptions as to their motives.
Continue reading “NEWS FLASH: Lots of Gamer Kids Pirate Software.”

and by that, I mean that Bill Hicks probably did it first. But since I don’t have any Bill Hicks to listen to, really, I’m taking my chances. I know that Carlin did it, in his “Free Floating Hostility” bit, and it’s really funny. Read this. It pretty much covers how I feel about voting, politics, and the upcoming presidential election.

Here’s hoping George Carlin doesn’t sue me.

“Now there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about. Politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents, and from American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities; and they’re elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do, folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces. Garbage in, garbage out.
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So after a long, long wait I finally saw Bubba Ho-Tep tonight. It’s playing at the Lamphouse in case you Twin Falls residents want to go -and you should, because it’s really quite incredible.

“They” say that you know an actor is good if you look at their role and don’t see the actor at all. If that’s true, then Bruce Campbell is a lot better actor than anybody gave him credit for. Ever wonder what Elvis would be like if he was 70-something and lived in a shitty Texas rest home? Look no further, because Bruce fucking NAILS Elvis. Reminiscent of Jim Carrey in “Man on the Moon.”

Possible spoilers follow.
Continue reading “Don’t make me use my stuff on ya, baby.”

I realized that I haven’t shared this story with anybody in a long time, so here goes.

Before I quit dabbling and became a full-fledged heathen (pagan, athiest, whatever they’re calling it these days) I used to run sound for my church. Or rather, my parents’ church. Whatever. Anyway, the audio system in this church was really, really minimalist. One eight input mixer ran the whole damn thing.
Continue reading “Divine intervention in the damnedest place”

So I go to school today feeling like shit. I wander over to the new student union during lunchtime, and it’s “Grand Opening Day.” The place is packed, they’re giving away free food in the Nest. The Director of Student Information is wandering around telling people to just go on upstairs to the cafeteria, that they’re giving away lunch free today but what most people don’t know is it applies in the big cafeteria too, meaning instead of standing in line for shitty hotdogs & chips I can go upstairs and get a big lunch for free. So I go upstairs, get lunch, work on my paper.

On the way out I run into a friend from my next class, she says class is cancelled so I walk over to the library. Interlibrary loan got me the whole issue of a journal I wanted, so I spend the next two hours selecting and copying journal articles for my paper. Great material, very interesting, it’ll work out great.

Problem is, I keep feeling shittier and shittier.
Continue reading “A day without a little bad is like a day without air”

Actor Paul Winfield died today. He was a very prolific character actor, but in true Geek fashion, I only knew him as Captain Terrell from Star Trek 2, or his fucking awesome performance as the Tamarian Captain Dathon in the truly unique ST:TNG episode ‘Darmok.’

I am a huge nerd who will really miss seeing this guy on the screen.

so as per usual, I’m posting them here. But first, I’m going to digress for a minute.

This whole thing with my dad has given me the luxury of putting off all my college shit again (even though it cost me a few bucks to do so.) But now that Dad’s getting better I have to start making the hard choices again. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy that my dad is getting better and that my folks are getting along and that money’s not an immediate concern (at least for a while) but that means I have a lot of work to do. I have to figure out if I’m going back to Moscow - or rather, WHY I should go back. It’s one thing to indulge my fantasies, but it’s another to pay tens of thousands of dollars to indulge my fantasies, and on top of all of that I still don’t know what the hell I want to do with myself. Got any ideas? Drop me a note.

Anyway, on with they lyrics. “A Place Called Home,” Kim Richey.
Continue reading “I found some lyrics I can relate to”

Go read this. Raff Ellis covers the issue at hand better than I ever could.