Current Ramblings
Monday, June 28, 2004
I totally had Spotted Dick last night.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Without even trying I've found myself with something that is apparently the latest, hottest, trendiest thing to hit the internet: a GMail account. A few weeks ago people were asking - and sometimes actually getting - sick amounts of money for these things. I got mine about a week and a half ago through Blogger, who are currently owned by Google. And now check me out, I'm awesome.
And now I go finish packing for England. Woo!
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If you ever wondered why I've gotten squeamish about Wal-Mart, it's because ofshit like this. Oh no, paying women the same wages as men will add to their cost structure! Aren't there laws against that? Hmm, you'd think maybe they'd be mentioned somewhere on the internet, maybe on a government site... Oh, that's right! Bush had that information removed from the government's site! I guess he didn't want us ladies to know that it was wrong for his corporate buddies to rape us like that.
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Updated the photo blog with some random odds and ends before the trip.
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Monday, June 21, 2004
I'll update for real sometime before I leave for England on Wednesday. I promise. If you're lucky I might even post more than just an essay about "Pokemon 4Ever" aka Celebi: The Voice of the Forest, which I finally got around to watching the other night and thought of a great deal to say about. Let's face it, I'm just a big Tycho wannabe, except I just talk about Game Boy stuff all the time instead of real-time strategy and MMORPGs. In the meantime, you get this, but only because I thought it was a particularly good one:
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Friday, June 18, 2004
My mother told me on the phone the other day that she had the decidedly awkward experience of having my creepy ex-boyfriend from high school - 6 and a half years ago dumped, for reference - pull into their driveway as she was standing out there messing with her car. The purpose of the visit seemed to be for the sole reason of showing off the Viper he's now driving, though it's uncertain whether he meant to run into me personally or if he was really so desperate for attention that he just wanted my parents to see it. Of course, he happened to be in the neighborhood to do this because he still lives with his parents. Normally I consider pathetic ex stories to be slightly embarassing. I mean, while Garrison's bio is at least as funny as anything WARenfeld's written, and rivals Echowarrior as the Munchkiniest Fan Character of All Time, I still only grudgingly admit when it comes up that I actually dated the guy responsible. Do you really want to admit you had the bad taste to date someone as horrible as that? But I feel I have in my defense the fact that the things that make him such a loser now - relying entirely on his parents, stalking 15-year-old girls - were at least somewhat acceptable when we were actually dating. It's just now that he's 7 years out of high school that it's pathetic.
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
Photo Blog Updated! with few-weeks-old pics of Steve-o's couch-moving.
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Monday, June 14, 2004
Dammit, I thought I had moved away from this stuff. Though I find myself constantly questioning anything Ashcroft says. HATE.
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Friday, June 11, 2004
You're Devi! Bad people happen to you more than is
normal. You must live a cursed life.
What Johnny the Homicidal Maniac character are you?
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Stuff like this is why I like Virgin Mobile. Sure, I still have the same signal issues everybody else has, but no bills or contracts for them to screw up.
I started playing Mega Man Network Transmission today, and it's pretty fun, but I think I might give a stronger recommendation for it to people who had already played one or two of the GBA Battle Network games. With a more RPG-esque battle system the chip system was a pretty neat thing, but combined with a side-scroller it sometimes feels like an unnecessary complication. But I suppose if I didn't want some kind of catch to it I'd be playing Mega Man 8.
It was with great dismay that I learned that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will not be out in paperback in the UK until about a week and a half after we return from our trip. I don't know if I've mentioned it here, but I've been reading the UK versions of the books, for much the same reason one fluent in Spanish might rather read Gabriel Garcia Marquez in his native tongue. Also because I'm a horrible angilophile snob. I've read up to Prisoner of Azkaban, and I was hoping to pick up Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix during my visit to England. As it is, I'm considering my options. I could bite the bullet and just buy Order of the Phoenix in hardcover, leaving my set unmatching or picking up a paperback later. I could put that one off and just buy Goblet of Fire on this trip. Or I could blow roughly $125 on a box set of all five in hardcover. Heck, I don't need to eat. We'll see. My saving has been going pretty well, despite the new tire I had to buy today. No real story there, the other three were replaced last summer after a harrowing week during which I made three trips to Discount Tire Company, one immediately before leaving for OTFCC, and the one that had been spared was badly worn out.
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Sunday, June 06, 2004
It's been probably a week or so since I last filled up my gas tank, so I'm not entirely sure when someone put three Chick tracts under the door to my gas cap. Maybe they're trying to explain that the rising gas prices are Satan's doing. I dunno.
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Thursday, June 03, 2004
So these are out now, at least at Target. I picked up Legend of Zelda, but while my original enthusiasm was directed right at Excitebike, having just purchased it for my actual NES kinda took that edge off. For that matter, my deep, aching desire for the NES-style GBASP has been dulled slightly - so very, very slightly - by the possession and use of the actual controllers it is based on. Still, I have to fight with the desire to trade in my trusty blue model for the beautiful red buttons and grey stripes. If blue wasn't my signature color I'd do it in a heartbeat.
In other personal gaming-related news, Steve-o picked up Wario Ware for the GameCube as I was buying Zelda, and it is indeed all that and the proverbial bag of chips. Today was a very good gaming day. And we had a cookout! It went great once the rain stopped.
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