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Pu-Tar go splodey!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:09:55 GMT

Well, I managaed to royally hose my OS last night. I was trying to upgrade from Fedora 6 to Fedora 8, but when I tried to boot it after the upgrade finished, it said that it can't find any of my RAID arrays, and went into kernel panic.

Fuck.

Fortunately, I at least had the good sense to back up my /home directory beforehand. So most of my stuff still exists. And, actually, I think I may be able to access my arrays when I boot from the rescue disc, so once I get a new external HD (my current one is full), I can probably slurp down my /usr directory and then just do a fresh install.

But still. Fuck.

Attention friend-type people in the Denver, Colorado area

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:49:48 GMT

I'm planning on being in town July 17-19 for the JAA- USA Tomiki Aikido National Tournament. Between events, nursing wounds, and trying to stay rested despite rock-hard hotel beds and/or sleeping on the floor, I probably won't have a whole lot of time to hang out, but it'd still be cool if you could drop by to say hi or maybe watch!

Photos from WonderCon 2008

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:46:21 GMT

I need to be better about updating with stuff I've done reasonably close to when I do it. It's been a week since WonderCon!

I went all three days, but only have pics from Saturday and Sunday. Oh, I brought my camera on Friday...it just refused to turn on! Batteries were fresh too. I was a little put out, since I'd lugged the damned thing to work with me (I work just a few blocks from Moscone Center), and I'd just had it fixed (I just hadn't bothered to try it out since I got it back from the shop, and it'd been too long since then to just bring it back and get it fixed again for free). I borrowed my folks' digital camera for the rest of the weekend

The Dalek was really impressive. It moved around. I'm pretty sure it was motorized, because it glided and turned way too smoothly to be somebody inside. The girls reminded me of Girls's Costume Warehouse. I can't place what the girl with the hood was supposed to be (something from Final Fantasy?). She was mighty cute, though.

Some steampunk costumes, including a couple recognizable to webcomics fans:

The first one turned out too dark, and some jackass barged in front of me with his own camera, but I kept it because I like the poses more. This was, naturally enough, in front of Phil Foglio's Girl Genius booth. Agatha and Gil were a couple, while the rest were from some Jules Verne "re-enactment" troupe.

Here's Phil, looking mighty pleased at the display:

And posing with his creation:

Not pictured: Agatha and Gil's baby, who was in a stroller (and not in costume, his parents aren't that nuts).

Art Adams in Artists' Alley:

Pyramid Head and Nurse from Silent Hill:

The Cartoon Network booth's tables were a doodles-allowed zone:

I got a kick out of the fact that somebody saw fit to correct the spelling of "pompadour".

Loki and the Enchantress:

The green contacts are pretty freaky. As are the airbrushed muscles. I have no idea who that guy between them was, but he was wearing an exhibitor badge.

But here comes their greatest enemies, Thor and...Girl-Thor!

She may be the magically transgendered Thor from the Earth X miniseries, but I don't know. I thought that one still had the silver spots on the front.

I was amused by this:

This is your brain on WonderCon:

Your guess is a good as mine. I do think the Hello Kitty backpack was a nice touch though.

Ryu and Chun-Li at the Capcom booth:

I think they may have been hired to work the booth, though Chun looks a little sheepish.

The 501st Legion booth:

The 501st, as you've probably already figured out, is a Star Wars cosplay group. It's ridiculously huge—they've even got their own version of the USO.

The Ewok was a statue, however, not a guy in a suit.

Mike Mignola and his daughter in Artists' Alley:

The Depp Duo (plus one):

I'm disappointed in how grainy these came out. The costumes were pretty good, and Captain Jack really had that drunken, foppish swagger down pat.

A Snow Trooper, and a couple of Batman villainesses:

Note the kid's shirt in the first pic (I wish I'd gotten more of him in frame).

Speaking of Bat-villainesses, here's Harley Quinn in front of a lunch line:

Some people just don't know better than to eat con food. Oh well, it's their intestinal tract...

This underwhelming pic is the Dark Horse panel:

Among the many announcements made at this panel were that DH will be printing collections of the classic Warren Publishing Eerie and Creepy horror comic magazines, in the original size and dimensions. Keith Knight's K Chronicles, and Chris Onstad's Achewood, will also be published in collected form by Dark Horse. There will be a huge Star Wars crossover series spanning the history of the extended universe. And the founding anthology title Dark Horse Presents will find new life as a web-based comics feature on MySpace.

Big stuff...but nobody heard it, because the audience at the panel was next to nonexistent. I've noticed this about Dark Horse panels: they'll usually only be two people, their publicist and an editor, who nobody really cares about so nobody attends. DH has a ton of top creators, so you'd think they could convince one to appear at the panel to generate some interest.

(This dark, blurry pic is as good as it gets here. I took another pic, after finally figuring out the zoom feature, but the stupid camera decided that the focus should be on the head of the guy right in front of me, even though it was barely in frame, so it's unusable)

More costumes. Here's Violet from The Incredibles:

Dan Brereton at Artists' Alley:

Dan's responsible for the Batman Elsewords Thrillkiller, and his creator-owned series Nocturnals (about a group of supernatural monster-heroes), The Psycho (a violent superhero noir), and Giantkiller (kaiju action). His specialties are monsters and voluptuous women. Sometimes both at once. And his live-in girlfriend is the daughter of my mom's childhood best friend, so we're practically family! Okay, not really.

I got myself a copy of Giantkiller (lots of fun BTW), a few prints, and a sketch in my sketchbook.

More costumes:

Master Chief's gun is almost as bulky as that kid's enormous backpack! I didn't crop the pic of Tom Servo and Mike(?) because I wanted to show how the dealer room looked.

Up on ground level (Moscone South is an underground building), we find...R2D2!

These R2 units were awesome. They moved around! While I can't be totally sure about the Dalek, these were obviously 100% electromechanical. Not a blown motivator in the bunch!

Some more costumes topside:

The guy being strangled by the...whatever that thing is is not in costume. That's a Brinks truck driver, probably there to refill the ATMs (which get depleted in record time at these events. If you ever want to blow a metric fuckton of money on junk, go to a comics convention). I wish I'd thought to get a shot of Link's back, because his Hylian shield was really the best part of his costume. Batgirl (Cassandra Cain version) was part of a huge group of people milling around the mezzanine area after a panel (I think it may have been Tokyopop).

Back on the main floor:

Boba Fett? Boba Fett? Where?

I believe the guy dressed as the Green Hornet here was dressed as Dick Tracy the day before. He was also Tracy at the last San Diego Comic-Con I attended, where I'd complimented him on his costume and chatted a bit.

Over in the celeb signing area, RVD! RVD! RVD!

Yes, that is pro wrestler Rob Van Dam. He goes to these things all the time actually. He's a big comics fan (maybe not as big as Shane "Hurricane" Helms), and runs his own comic shop. If I'd known he was going to be there, I probably would have tried to get something signed for my friend Joe.

Mike Royer in Artists' Alley:

Mr. Royer has had a long career in comics, working for several companies. He's mostly an inker, but he also did the early '90s redesign of the Winnie the Pooh characters for Disney (which nearly all of their Pooh merchandise is based on, and which has been more popular than Mickey).

Yet more costumes:

Gandalf there is standing in front of a booth where I dropped way, way too much money. Those out-of-print soundtracks were $40 a pop, but they had some great stuff that's impossible to find. This con is the first one I've been to where several booths actually took credit cards, and didn't use the oldschool carbon copy method. Over at the Sofawolf booth (not pictured), where I bought volume 3 of Digger, I found out that there's now a credit card reader gadget that you can hook up to a cell phone so you can charge without a land line. This is both a blessing and a curse: blessing, because it's way more convenient than having to stop at the ATM every time you turn around, and curse, because you're not held back from spending tons of money by having to wait in line at the ATM!

The kids loved that big, plushy Creature from the Black Lagoon costume.

Kurt Busiek at the DC booth:

I thought I'd gotten a shot of Bill Willingham earlier, but I guess not.

Here's Jason Thompson hosting the "100 Manga in 60 Minutes" panel:

The panel didn't tell me much I didn't already know about manga in Japan, but it was entertaining, and he went into the different focuses and audiences for specific magazines.

His eyes are glowing there as he prepares to eliminate a heckler with his EYE LAZORS:

ZORTCH!

And finally, we have Sergio Aragones, of Groo and Mad Magazine fame (and currently writing the western Bat Lash for DC):

Besides a sketch, I also bought the Groo card game (now out of print, and I didn't know it existed!) and a copy of The Life of Groo/The Death of Groo, which he signed. To the left you can see Steve Leialoha (got his start drawing stuff like Adam Warlock for Marvel in the '70s, currently drawing the popular Fables and Jack of Fables for DC), who I also got a sketch from. Both are great guys, and if you ever go to one of these things you should stop by and say hi.

I also attended the latter half of the DC panel, saw some Bleach, and saw a couple of movies. One was the 3DCG anime Appleseed: Ex Machina. The semi-cell-shaded look took some getting used to, but it was pretty fun. Although it's kind of hard to believe that Deunan is an "unmodified human" when she's pulling off crazy Matrix gun-fu acrobatics. And it's produced by John Woo, so naturally there are flocks of doves everywhere (later it's revealed that the doves are actually robots broadcasting a mind-controlling signal. At this revelation, the entire theater broke out laughing). The other was the animated Justice League: New Frontier, based on Darwyn Cooke's revisionist (but not "superhero deconstructionist") take on the Silver Age DCU. I missed most of the first half, but what I saw was pretty good (I don't think there was any need for Hal Jordan to be abducted by a UFO to find Abin Sur rather than just being led to him by the ring, because blowing up the room he was in makes his secret identity a little harder to justify, but then by the end it seems like a lot of folks, including Rick Flagg of all people, know his ID, so it hardly matters). Both are worth checking out, JL:NF more than Appleseed (unless you're up for some fairly mindless explodification).

And to sum up, here's all the stuff I got:

Sketches:

Matt Wagner: Mirth from Mage
Art Adams: goofy self-portrait
Keith Knight: self-portrait, saying "Poop!!"
Phil Foglio: Agatha Clay (I meant to ask for Lady Vrin, but he'd started before I had a chance)
Chris Giarrusso (G-Man, the Mini-Marvels backup feature, The Mighty Skullboy Army): Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)
Mike Mignola: Hellboy
Dan Brereton: Drop Dead Girl (one of his Nocturnals characters), full color
Steve Leialoha: female face
Sergio Aragones: Groo with Rufferto

Merch:

Art Adams samplers V and VI
Groo: The Card Game, with expansion set
The Life of Groo/The Death of Groo (reversible hardcover)
Girl Genius: The Works card game
The Beatles: Yellow Submarine comic (I never knew there was a comic tie-in! Had to buy it)
2 issues of DC Comics Presents: "Superman and Clark Kent" and "Superman in the House of Mystery"
Giantkiller TPB, signed
Steed and Mrs. Peel issue 1, written by Grant Morrison (based on the TV Show "The Avengers")
Epicurus the Sage volume 1 by William Messner-Loebs and Sam Keith
Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom graphic novel
Firestar issues 1-4 pack
Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld four-issue miniseries pack
Wild Cards four-part graphic novel series
G-Man TPB (signed)
Mœbius volume 5: The Gardens of Adena and volume 5: Pharagonesia (long out of print)
Digger vol. 3
Out-of-print soundtracks on CD:

Tron: special 25th anniversary edition (includes alternate versions, the lightcycle theme, incidental music, and some dialogue bits)
Forbidden Zone (music by the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, before they'd transitioned into a pop group)
Transformers: The Motion Picture soundtrack complete edition 2-CD set (includes songs and score)
The Prisoner
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (I love this movie so much)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Akira Ifukube!)
Goblin: Greatest Hits (includes their themes for Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) and Suspiria, and the Italian version of Romero's Dawn of the Dead)

DVDs:

Disney's Haunted Mansion ride behind the scenes vols. 1 & 2
Disney's The Pirates of the Caribbean: The History of the Attraction
Inhumanoids: The Evil That Lies Within complete series 2-DVD set (a forgotten cartoon from the '80s)
Max Headroom seasons 1 & 2 3-DVD set
Duckman complete series 4-DVD set

Oh god, get this blasted game out of my head

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:14:02 GMT

Thanks to derakon (damn his eyes), I've gotten somewhat addicted to Dwarf Fortress, a freeware "sim" game with elements of roguelike adventure games (like Nethack). Basically, you're in charge of a group of dwarven pioneers in a fantasy setting, and your job is to lead them to create a successful fortress. But not just a fortress. It starts out as a small outpost, but over time it grows with the influx of migrants (and eventually, children), whose presence demands ever greater production, until the thing is basically one enormous city. You have to manage not only digging and building, but food supplies, farming (which can be done underground! mushrooms are delicious), brewing (even more important than cooking), trading with caravans from the elves, humans, and other dwarves, little dwarfy justice, defense against monster and goblin attacks, keeping nobles happy, making clothes, felling trees, and and and and.... It's ridiculously in-depth, but you can't micromanage (you can't just tell specific dwarves to go specific places, you can only set their tasks and tell them where certain things should be put). And you have to keep them happy, because surly dwarves sometimes go on rampages! It's like an intricate dollhouse full of dolls with minds of their own. And there's even a wiki with articles on all of the different aspects of the game.

It's definitely got its problems. The pseudo-ASCII "graphics" have their charms, but are frequently cryptic (What is that @ sign and what's it doing wandering through the storerooms?!). Recent versions have 3D landscapes, but earlier ones were all on a single plane, and the interface for dealing with the z-axis seems tacked on and hard to deal with. The game is so complex that you really have to read all of the introductory articles on the wiki (especially Quick launch, Starting builds, What should I build first?, and Your first fortress) plus the articles on the basic workshops, buildings, and items, and the one on noise, before you start or you'll find that you've screwed yourself over from the beginning (and remember to always check the wiki on any given building before planning it, so you don't put the only door to the room in a place that's blocked off by the contents!). And it's keyboard-only, which is clunky.

But damn, once you start playing it's hard to stop!

While I'm currently muddling through with my first fortress, I can't help thinking about how I'd plan things the next time around, knowing what I know now about how things work. Putting workshops only a few squares away from the barracks? Bad idea! Walls don't block work noise, so you end up with a bunch of unhappy, insomniac dwarves. Next time I'll go for a sort of "beehive", layered design, separating floors with living quarters from workshops with floors of storage space, staggering the networks of walls and halls from floor to floor for a honeycomb-like structure. Not only will this keep noise away from sleeping areas, but I can also have arrange things for an efficient workflow, so a workshop that produces one good and one that requires that good as raw materials can both sit on top of a stockpile for that item (for example, the butcher shop produces both hides, meat, and bones, so it can share a stockpile with craftsdwarves' workshops for making bone items, one with the kitchen to use the meat, and one with the tannery to turn hides into leather, which can also share a stockpile with the leatherworks, which turns leather into clothes and tradeable goods, etc).

Also: a still is one of the first things that needs to be built. Dwarves are total alkies and require booze to work at full capacity.

And instead of wasting time building fortifications, I need to concentrate on getting things working. Right now I've got arrow loops out the wazoo, but not enough places for my swiftly expanding population to sleep at night!

(For lulz, and to see what got me to check out the game in the first place, see this "Let's Play!" of an earlier (2D) version, by some Something Awful goons trading off being in charge of the legendary fortress "Boatmurdered". It's a laugh riot.)

The feel-bad hit of the winter

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:24:13 GMT

I went to see Cloverfield after work today. The verdict: it's way more effective than a giant monster movie has any right to be. Holy shit.

I went in expecting a big dumb monster movie. I didn't expect it to actually be, you know, scary. I was in for a big surprise. That movie is intense! It's sort of like how all those kids were dropped off to see a matinee of Night of the Living Dead by their parents, thinking it was just a harmless spooky movie, only to come home shellshocked and shaken*. The premise is basically "Godzilla from the POV of the poor bastards getting stepped on", but Manhattan has never felt more like the Nostromo from Alien. As I walked home from the BART station, I still felt claustrophobic, despite being out in the open. When the huge creature is rampaging through town, tossing rubble and crushing everything in its path, being able to run is no protection—you're just as trapped as if you're hiding in a cardboard box.

Speaking of which, it really hits on all of the big fears: claustrophobia, acrophobia, arachnophobia, agoraphobia (big time! it's practically the whole movie), fear of the dark, and a touch of body horror. Large things crushing you. Small, fast things clawing and biting you. Even gephyrophobia and aviophobia get in there. If you suffer from any of these fears, you will probably end the movie in the fetal position.

A lot of critics have pointed out that the movie has a shaky camera for pretty much the entire running time. It's true, and if you find that shaky cameras in movies make you motion sick you should probably sit this one out. I found it irritating in the beginning, when it's mostly just people talking, but when the main action starts (just when the shakily filmed conversations have really worn out their welcome), you don't even notice the shakiness, and the "verité" approach just works. You feel like you're there, looking at what the cameraman is looking at, seeing only what he can see (and, more importantly, not seeing what he can't).

The dialogue was a bit whedonesque at times ("Another something. Also terrible."), but it didn't detract.

What the critics haven't pointed out is that this is one feel-bad movie. It's not some "cozy catastrophe" romp where the main characters get to play hero while the extras are dying off around them and Heroic Impulse + Willpower = Victory. If there's a point to the movie, it's that just because something is the morally right, heroic thing to do, that doesn't mean it isn't also a really stupid thing to do**. It may even be the wrong thing to do***. This is not the usual Hollywood party line!

I thought it was great.

*The original Night of the Living Dead was astonishingly scary, considering the effects consisted of Bosco and greasepaint, and, like Cloverfield, had a really disturbingly cynical worldview.

** And not just in the "so crazy it just might work!" way, where decisions that defy self-preservation end up working just by virtue of their heroic purpose.

*** Think about the decision to go back for Beth and the condition she was in, and tell me more of them wouldn't have survived and the ones that didn't wouldn't have died in such horrible ways.

P.S. Did anybody else who watched the movie also notice that the ending theme was a total homage to the classic Godzilla score?

Pink elephants on parade

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:50:47 GMT

The creepy Pink Elephants sequence from Disney's Dumbo, sync'ed to a version of the tune by Sun Ra! It doesn't always sync exactly, because the Arkestra extended some bits and shortened others, but it works surprisingly well.

The Dumbo animators clearly owe a great debt to Fleischer Studios and their weird, drugged-out jazz cartoons.

Awesome CG animated music video

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:06:13 GMT

Great post-rock song. It starts out quiet and low-key, then about halfway through switches modes to epic and soaring.

And there's one point that reminds me of ursulav's Biting Pear of Salamanca (perhaps better known by the intartubes as the "LOL WUT" Pear). You'll know it when you see it.

EDIT: Deepest Sender ate the entire contents of my post. I hope it works this time.

The Battle of Pelennor Fields...in candy

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:27:15 GMT

Today's installment of People With Too Much Time On Their Hands On The Internet Theatre...

Classical

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:13:37 GMT

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:08:11 GMT

When you see it you'll shit bri/x/

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:43:19 GMT

Until 4chan went down recently (RIP), I'd been spending a lot of time on /x/, the paranormal board. I don't believe in that stuff, but it's occasionally a good source of creepy stories (what they call "creepypasta", after "copypasta", which is stuff that's frequently copied and pasted). I've saved some of the good stuff.

I'm too lazy to retype it, so here's a screenshot of some pretty effective creepypasta.

Dreamtime

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:53:22 GMT

Last night I dreamed I was watching a video (movie?). It was like a third-person dream (which is how they usually go for me), except it felt like I was specifically watching it on a screen. The movie was about my mom and her old friend Carolyn on a trip to Monterey* with Ikumi (a character from Infinite Ryvius, an anime series a coworker loaned me). They came by train, and stayed at a Coke vending machine at a crossroads--they'd put in a quarter, open the front panel, and walk in. The interior was made of bare sheet metal with a few shelves attached to the wall, and about the size of a closet (but apparently big enough for 3 people to stand comfortably).

After resting for a bit, my mom and her friend went by bus to the woods, drinking tea and talking along the way. Strangely, they were both invisible to me, the viewer, during this trip--in fact, I don't recall actually seeing them at any point in the dream, but here it was obvious because the teacups and saucers were visible, and floated in the air as they held them. They then hiked back through the woods, talking about how a large skyscraper being built on an island in the bay (the island had a name, although I don't think it was a real one in the area. I can't recall what it was) was a bad idea to build in earthquake country, because if it fell it would wipe out everything around it, and a tunnel being built to the island was likely to get flooded. It was a very talky dream, actually. They walked by a BART train (BART doesn't go down to Monterey), and even at one point walked over it as it went through a crevace that left the roof level with the surrounding ground in the forest. Ikumi was back with them at this point (I recall there was some sort of subplot with him that the "video" would cut back to at points, but I can't remember it). They got back to the vending machine, packed up their stuff, and left.

As an interesting note, at some times the "video" was animated. Ikumi is of course an anime character, and also the bus trip was done in a sort of Miyazakian, painterly style.

I thought the video was really good, and woke up wanting to reccommend it to people. It took a while to sink in that I'd only dreamed it, which was kind of disappointing.

*It was supposed to be Monterey, CA, but it didn't look much like it. It looked more like way to the Sierra foothills, with rolling hills of golden dried grass next to green wooded areas. Apparently my subconscious is just as bad as Hollywood studios when it comes to scouting locations.

I have not disappeared

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:45:52 GMT

But I have been writing more stuff on my Last.FM journal than here. I've decided that my music-related posting is going to go in my Last.FM journal (and since I've been going to more concerts and buying more CDs lately, I've had more to say about it). Although I may start cross-posting, because my LJ is looking a little dead these days.

These are my journal posts so far (with the exception of a repost of that Van Halen blooper jokermage posted a while back). My CD reviews:

Recent acquisitions, reviewed (Mogwai, Sufjan Stevens, Lou Harrison, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Link Wray, The Bad Plus, Györgi Ligeti, Mastodon, Behold... the Arctopus)
CD reviews: King Crimson, Four Tet, Ruins, Slough Feg, Tony Levin, Barenaked Ladies, Buckshot LeFonque, French Frith Kaiser Thompson, BulletBoys

And reviews of shows I've been to (these were all within one week. I was pretty dead by Friday):

Enjoy!

The magic of STEREO

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:17:24 GMT

Listen to this mp3 with headphones. It sounds like an invisible person is shaking a matchbox around your body. It's eerie when it seems to go behind you. And when it goes in front you can actually track where it "should" be with your eyes.

Trip like I do

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:39:34 GMT

This is what you get when you point a video camera at a monitor connected to the camera:

Originally I had planned to write a post about the Aikido torunament

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:03:18 GMT

But it was long and probably not that interesting to anybody who wasn't already into it. So, in a nutshell: it was awesome, I had a great time, caught up with people I hadn't seen for a while and made some new friends, got my ass kicked by a man in his 60s, learned a lot, and was really tired by the end.

Now with that out of the way, an awesome video by The Avalanches (no, it's not Frontier Psychiatrist):

Happy trails

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:47:44 GMT

Early tomorrow morning I will be off to Ohio to be thrown about like a rag doll by men in pyjamas. Since I'm not going to risk having my laptop mistaken for a bomb, I will be sans intarwebs until I get back Sunday evening.

So, in the meantime, I leave you with an image to ponder in my absence:

No mere mortal can resist / The evil of the Thriller

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:27:27 GMT

You've seen them perform the Pythagoras Switch Algorithm March. Now, 1500 inmates of a Phillippine prison perform the video to Michael Jackson's "Thriller"!

Public service announcement

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:01:47 GMT

I wish I could say this is the dumbest quiz-meme ever

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:57:28 GMT

Your Score: Cheezburger cat

71 % Affection, 53 % Excitability , 52 % Hunger

Sure, you deserve one. You helped popularized lolcats from a running gag to an online sensation. Now mainstream media writes asinine columns on this 'phenomenon', students write theses on the topic, programming languages adopt the grammar, and losers write tests about them on dating sites. Now take your cheezburger and never touch the internets again.

Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Weeaboo! Weeaboo! Weeaboo!

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:08:46 GMT

Thanks to a coworker, I have discovered the awesomeness of Planetes. Just watched the episode with the unemployed lunar ninja fanboys. Good shit. WE ARE! THE 8 NINJAS! CHINESE FULL COURSE DINNER!

Also, here's Animetal performing a medley of the themes from Cat's Eye and Dragon Ball (original series):

Creepy diamondvision ad

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:43:23 GMT

Seen at the giants game last Friday:

Dear Jenny
Will you
marry me?

Not too bad. Then the second screen:

By the way:
NO
is not an option
- Jose

Ohh...kayyy...

I wonder if she knows him?

LASER FORCE!

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:07:20 GMT

This is an ad for a construction company, believe it or not

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:33:57 GMT

Super Sex-Ed Bros.

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:48:20 GMT

Oh god.

(thanks to heykidzcomix)