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Dec. 8th, 2008

Two Parter

I've been meaning to post this for a while now. I'm 8 days late but better late than never.

Christmas CARD Swap action.

If you LIKE getting cards, or like GIVING cards email your info to
and I will add you to my christmas card list as well as send an email back with my own snail mail addy.

sooner you send the info higher chances you have of getting yoru card in time to make your mantle look like people love you. *(my own dastardly plot)*

second part, the sad news.
My Grandmother passed away last night. It wasn't sudden, she's been suffering from alzheimers for a while now. she nearly broke the record for the longest survivor but she's simply tied it. Go gram.
I've never spoken much about my Grandmother but she was very important to me and the very very least I could do is mention it here.
Silly maybe but, then again I'm "Lord of the Absurd" what did you expect? something classy?
not my style.

Farewell Gram.
I love you.

Oct. 10th, 2008

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Your result for The Absolute Language Test...

The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly In The Plane

The statement above is a play on words, I know it's supposed to be "plain." So please no more e-mails about how I spelled it wrong.

You are a master of the art of language! You probably speak more than one language and are very well cultured because of it. You also get annoyed with people who don't use proper grammar and constantly correct them. Give yourself a pat on the back! You're ready for the Embassy Ball!

... Second to last question: 17 languages have appeared in this quiz:

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Latin, Dutch, Farsi (Persian), German, Russian, Japanese, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian Demotic, Chinese, Italian, Greek, Cuneiform

Answer Key: http://www.okcupid.com/profile/Silver_Rain1011/journal

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Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test...

English Genius

You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 80% Advanced, and 80% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!

Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!

For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.

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Your result for The Ultimate TRUE IRISH Test...

Finn MacCool

I am honored to be in your presence. You know your stuff. You are Irish in your heart. You probably talk like an Irish person after a few pints. You sing the rebel songs. You drink, and probably bleed Guinness. You may have even been interned in British Prisions. You impress (or annoy) all your friends with your vast Irish knowledge. If you are a female, I am in love. If you are a male, we are brothers. We should have a pint.

Please don't forget to rate my test...

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Sep. 17th, 2008

In Touch

People always say these things during transative periods. The one that keeps comming back into mind is "Stay in touch" or "Let's keep in touch".
Touch? Really?

People don't, as a rule, Touch. Lovers do, family perhaps, but most americans have this impenetrable bubble of personal space that defies any one from entering within to make physical contact. This is double so with men.
Men, they give the arm punch, or the brief shoulder patr from as far from each other as they phyiscally can be. People scrunch in on themselves on the subway so they don't brush against the stranger next to them.

It occurs to me that I've never been in physical contact with my boss. I've touched his son in the way of high fives, bumped fists, pats on the back but yet my employer of four years, not once. Not even a hand shake. That's wierd I think. I've shaken HIS bosses hand more than I've shaken his.

In a non literal sence, keeping in touch, is still rather difficult isn't it?

We put peopel on lists and we initially send them little notes and we try to call them and make sure they know we care but slowly these things happen further and further apart. Then, finally, in the distant future you're trying to remember who this person in your address book is. Why are they in my phone book? Honey do you remember a Bill Jenkins? No? Huh.

If you're on my friends list and haven't been in touch this is a good chance.
Let me know you still remember who I am, or ask me who I am. Let me know who you are, just in case I've forgotten. (I haven't. but you know I do like updates on what's been happening)

Purges from the friends list may follow. Not a threat, just don't want any one to be surprised if they find themselves with one less mutual friend.

Sep. 16th, 2008

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Does any one know where I can buy escamoles in the united states? With out traveling to southern california? I don't want to go to mexico just to try this stuff but it looks like I'm going to have to.

any one from chicago know any thing about finding it?

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2 week notice has been put in today.
Not that I had a choice.
Fuck.

Sep. 11th, 2008

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I am now in the market for a new job. My old job, while still technically mine, has officially become an endangered species. Any one know of any jobs in the Madison area? Or the Chicagoland area? Either one would work.

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Sep. 9th, 2008

Bitches

Dear Inconsiderate Bitches,

I am aware that there are things that are more important in life than gaming. The list is quite prodigous indeed. I understand things come up and that even though you SAY you'll be some where that you can't make it.
BUT, when you ask to specifically schedual the game for an obscenely unusual hour to fit your own schedual I expect you to be able to make it. When you inconvenience me to the point of me having to rearrange my sleep schedual to accomidate your request, then when I drive over and am made to wait several hours, and THEN end up not running any thing recieving NO appology or any sort of thanks on my part for trying it makes me feel unappreciated.
It makes me not want to run games at all. Why would I run for you guys if you don't show up and don't appreciate me when you do show up? A call to let me know you can't make it would have prevented all the hurt feelings and all the bull shit. Can't you get to a phone? Can't you even be THAT considerate?
I think we know the answer to that.
If you're reading this and think it applies to you and haven't appologized to me yet, don't bother.

Sincearly,
Aggrivated DM

P.S.
When you answer your friends phone and it's a mutual friend you don't actlike a dick to him. I don't care if you are drunk, that isn't cool. Especially if I'm calling to see if our friend is all right because he's an hour and a half late for something he SAID he'd be at. Hence the worrying. Then getting some bullshit sort of answer, that's really awesome.

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SPORE

So I bought the spore creature creator the day before spore came out because I wasn't paying attention to release dates and the like but that didn't sour me on the game itself. Spore is a VERY fun game from Maxis.
I've been fiddling with it and have evolved my race from single cell organisms to a mighty race of intergalactic pigmy warthogs. Who spit acid.
Fun game.

Sep. 4th, 2008

Writer's Block: What You'd Accomplish if Success Was Guaranteed

Knowing beforehand that you wouldn't fail, what would you attempt to do?

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If I knew, with the certainty implied by this query, that I would NOT fail, I could not attempt but achieve.
That being put forth for consideration, I would cure cancer.
this has a three fold effect. One, it would help inumerable amounts of people and that's ALWAYS a worthy endevor; two, it would grant me the immortality of being the guy who cured freaking cancer; and three, I'd be comfortably secure financially if not from selling the cure (something i'm morally opposed too) but from the celebrity status and the resulting commercialism my name would have tied to it.

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Sep. 3rd, 2008

Writer's Block: Sarah Palin?

Is Sarah Palin a shrewd choice for the Republican Party, or is she a liability?

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Oh ho ho THIS is a can of worms isn't it?
I will say that she is very much a liability. I don't feel this way because her 17 year old daughter is nocked up, and I don't feel this way because she's a token vagina designed to soak up some stray Hilary Votes. I feel this way because she was part of a group who were trying to get Alaska to ceseed from the union. Yes, that's right.

McCain who runs on a united america ticket has chosen a running mate who tried to get her state to become it's own country. That and her state is investigating her on ethics violations. Nice.

So yeah, I'm going with liability.

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Aug. 26th, 2008

Birthday... again.

So tomorrow will be my birthday. Again. I've suffered through 28 of these damned things allready and yet here it comes again, like clockwork.
Ok, so i'm 29. Last year before the big 30. I'm still going to need a fake ID to buy Ultra Porn.

*sigh*

Also, any one who lives near around in or adjacent to chicagoland or is willing to make a trip, this week end I'd like to have a dinner at Bucca de beppos. RSPV here if you're interested in going.

Aug. 9th, 2008

Idiocy

Apparently, I am a victim of the reeree gene. I, my compatriots, am an official moron. On a group this lovely site hosts I had made a post and in the flurry of comments I would see the occasional reply of "this" to a comment. Now, being an inquisitive and having not seen this particular use of the word "this" I decided to make a simple inquiry as to it's use here.

I was informed that saying this was a much simpler way of saying I agree. One commenter even took the time to add in the post script of Duh at the end of her ( I assume a her ) explination to me.

CLEARLY a warranted duh. The usage of this word in this fashion is clearly superior to the way I have been bandying it about. I mean why type TWO whole words or the LENGTHY abbreviation IAWTC when this saves you an entire letter and some cases two letters AND a space. Shear genius.
I mean, the next time I decide to agree with someone I can just nod and sagely declare "this" in the fashion of a scholarly fellow. I could just say "this" during the next meeting with my boss or the next paper where I agree with the point presented by the author I'm writing about. Why write a 12 page paper when I can hand back a post it note with "this" written on it.

Of course, these people I deal with, these morons will have no clue as to what I'm talking about. I'll have to go into a lengthy explanation of the superiority of this "This Method" as I've dubbed it. And the explanation will invariably be quite complex and in depth. I suppose.. to avoid a complex way and keep things simple I could go back to I agree.. or hey, here's a shot in the dark.

how about mother fucking DITTO. One extra letter I know but It's worth the price of my stroke I think. I mean for fucks sake.

In twenty years will we be degraded down to poo flinging imbeciles grunting monosyllabic responses to each others meme's and blogs? Will entire conversations be summed up with a twitch of the eye and a incomprehensible mumbling of a word that us old bastards with out love of language used to recognize but in this new context have become confused and afraid?

Not me, I'll not live to see that day. I'll have long been killed during my bloody rampage of vengeance as by Grabthars hammer and the sons of Worvan I attempt to avenge the English languages slow strangulation and rape by the internet.

The Clam! Oh for the love of Lucifer, The Clam!

In the "booze box" section at the end of the cooler at my local petrol station they've begun stocking a large can of what is labeled "chelada". This concoction bu anheiser busch is a mixture of Budweiser (blech) and Clamato (bluh) with lime (YUM) and salt (ACK). Now... I've heard of Chelada before. I've always known it as a beer with lime and salt with something spicey mixed in. hot sauce or something. Tomatoe juice with a shot of tobasco or worstershire is odd but drinkable.
the introduction of tomatoe juice laced with CLAM JUICES... that's down right lovecraftian.
Yes Lovecraftian is a word. I just used it.

So, as curious as a pooka on sunday (despite it being friday) I fought the urge to buy and subsequently try this dubious mix.

until tonight.
Perhaps it's my sleep deprived brain telling me aww come on TRY IT. Perhaps it's the fact meg is away for the week end and with out her I've no good sense to avoid the shell fish liquor combination. Perhaps the jaunty can looked appealing more than usual to me. doesn't matter, I bought it, open ed it, and am at this moment trying to drink it.

While not something I'd drink often (or possibly again) this is potable.
I'm not dying. Yet.

Aug. 7th, 2008

The trial of the Mystery Cup

I'd developed a bad case of leavsies. I left my phone on the counter at a gas station, I left my soda in the fridge at work, I left my psp in my truck ON and in the front seat.
Retrieving the phone I saw they were selling Reeses cups for 2 king sized for two bucks. Sweet!
So I bought them and opened the one pack and immedietly set to scarfing one. I set the remainign three cups in their long wrapper on the console between the bucker seats of my truck.

I dropped my wife off at the train and on my way TO the train I ate another, and noted they were melting fast. So I went in to work to get the soda and as I got back in the car I saw a lone cup melted and liquid sitting miraculously on top of my psp un spilt when I got back in the truck.

I snatched it up and scarffed it up. As I drove away I did the math in my head. one.. two. three.. where.. I checked the wrapper finding it empty.
Looking around I was praying I hadn't sat in it. So, blindly I begin groping around.

Well, long story short I found the cup. However I found it by smashing it with my hand.
Bad news, squished cup. good news none of the chocolate got on the upolstry. amazingly enough.

But I still have NO IDEA how those last two cups got out of the wrappers, placed so far apart in the truck and DIDN'T SPILL their melty chocolate.

HOW!?

which of you bastards did it!?

Aug. 6th, 2008

Attack of the Frog

On my desk next to my computer monitor I have a little five gallon hexagonal fish tank. It was originally filled with a swarm of little spotty and stripy fish named danios. Overseeing the swarm was one giant striped danio. In addition to the swarm was a plecostomus catfish, and a small african dwarf clawed frog.

In the beginning the frog, who was named Hermes, would share the fish flakes with the swarm. Eventually he graduated to nibbling the algae disks I put in for the cat fish. From there he grew to being able to fit the entire disk in his mouth, forcing me to put two in. One for him, one for the catfish.

Now only Hermes, the giant danio, and the catfish remain as he's graduated into eating the little fishies one by one.
just this morning I saw him with the giant danio's head in his mouth, the danio trying to wriggle free and eventually escaping.
Seeing it I viewed how I'm going to die. Eventually he's going to grow so large that he climbs out of the tank and swallows me head first.

You've all been warned. Once he's big enough to devour me, none of you will be safe either.

Apr. 16th, 2008

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I've been pretty bad about posting lately. I've just been sick and unfit for any sort of pleasant company. I suppose I could have vented some sort of catharsis here but honestly, I doubt very highly if any one is interested in reading the half mad ramblings of a delerious fool.

Of course, in retrospec, I suppose that would be no different than the majority of my posts.

Heh. Regaurdless I'm feeling better and should be posting again as regularly as the interweb demiurges allow.

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Mar. 5th, 2008

A Day of Mourning

Gary Gygax is dead.
:'(
I think I'm more saddened by the fact that no one I know seems to care than the fact he's passed on.
Even I am being pretty blase about the news. It's not that he won't be missed but how old WAS he? I mean, when it's your time, it's your time, you know?

We'll miss you Gary.
Lot's of love.

Feb. 27th, 2008

Movie Madness part 2

Movie Repost as my car crash news seemed to superseed the movie quote game.
come on guys. you can do it.

1. Pick 10 movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess where the quote is from.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search

Movie One~
Person One: [On the phone with Person Two] Who is this?
Person Two: I won't waste your time: you don't know me.
Person One: I know everyone, and I have all the time in the world.
Person Two : Ah, the folly of youth.

Movie Two~
Person One: Well, if you give me a couple minutes of your time, I got a few things I'd like to talk to ya about. You know, eh, what you did wasn't really your fault. It's what you call, a eh, genetic defect. Mom called it the, the gene. My Grandfather had the gene, he eh, came over from the boat from Ireland in 1912 and I guess he passed it on to my Old Man. My Old Man was a great guy, a real pussy cat, you know hard worker. Big sports fan, but sometimes on his way home from the docks he liked to stop in with the guys and have a couple of beers, ya know. I remember coming home from school one day, and eh, the whole house was dark. Couldn't figure it out. I heard my Mom crying off in the dark someplace, and I was old enough at that point I could reach the light switch. I turned the lights on, and I saw, what he did to her. So I went to my room and I got, the eh, baseball bat. Mikey Mantel model my Old Man give me for Christmas, and I found the Old Man passed out in the bathtub, and I tattooed him. Needless to say, when I came home everyday from school after that, the eh, house is lit up like Ebbet's Field, and the Old Man eh, never drank again. So all I'm saying to you is if you wanna drink, you go ahead and drink. But if I ever find out that you laid your hands on that little girl again, me and Mr. Mantle are gonna pay you a visit my friend.

Movie Three~
Person One: We have a Die Hard Situation developing in the Kitchen.
Person Two: What's happening?
Person One: Well, either he's going to whack 'em with a rolling pin or bake him a cake. I don't know. Could go either way with this crew.

Movie Four:~
Person One: ...I bet you guys got a lot of stories, right? I don't. I grew up soft with the private schools and the little blazers, you know, and everyone "talked things out," you know? No one ever threw any blows - still to this day, never punched in the face, imagine that. I'm pretty much a pantywaist. I don't say this to be self-deprecating, I just, you know, don't have much of an opinion of myself. I'd much rather be like you guys, you know, bar fighters and big, swinging dicks, takin' care of shit. You know, sadly this is it, you know, it's disgusting - "Thanks, God! Dog-pile of piss-poor physique on top of a small cock and hereditary alcoholism, 'preciate it!" I'm babbling, I do that drunk, please forgive.

Movie Five~
Person One: Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!

Movie Six~
Person One: Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! Underground... God damn monsters.

Movie Seven~
Person One: Lou. Give me a milk. [Dramatic Pause] Chocolate.

Movie Eight~
Person One: You don't need a license to drive a sandwich.

Movie Nine~
Person One: Some one's trying to kill you.
Person Two: Who?
Person One: Me.

Movie Ten~
Person One: thank you for saving my ass back there.
Person Two: You're Welcome.
PErson One: Of course when I tell that story it'll be the other way around.

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The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly In The Plane

English Genius

Finn MacCool

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