After finding out that I had lost about a months worth of work on the code that I am creating, I decided to take a little walk. Walking in the backwoods of Dracut, I heard a sound in the distance. I figured that it might be my shoe, since the stupid air cushion pocket thing had ruptured and was making strange noises as I dropped the soul of my shoe on the ground. It wasn't though. I looked around to find the location of the soft distant sound. It was located behind a house with numerous cars in the parking lot. Seconds later, there emerged a turkey! Then, not just one turkey, but another turkey! Then two more! It was like, a turkey paluza or something. I watched as they frolicked about in the grass, eating and such. It was very surreal and mystic. As much as I wanted to run over and hug my turkey brethren, something told me that the people who owned the property in this random neighborhood would not like it.
Anyway, that brought joy to my day.

Thanksgiving? For what?

While Thanksgiving may be just one more holiday to check off on your calendar, it is not such a breeze for some species. Take, for a random unbiased example, the turkey. The turkey must fight to survive. Alliances must be made, friendships broken. A survival of the fittest. Some succeed, and some don't. The ones that don't, well, you can guess where they turn up. Turkeys have long been forced to use stealth and brains, and had to rely on guerilla war tactics in the game to survive. But now, after generations of hardening and natural selection and modern technology, some turkeys have risen up to a new standard, turned the tables, flipped the odds, raised the bar and beat the hunters with it. These turkeys live among us. Learn respect them, for they have none for you.

It can't be true!

Ohmygawsh! Why didn't anyone tell me before? I've been living on such a dangeriously fine line! It's a good thing experts are on top of people like Kenny and know how to extract this important and hard to aquire information.

Typical.

Well, Windows took a dump on me today with its classic Blue Screen of Death, or BSOD as I call it since I get it so often. It started this morning when I got my hot new video card. It all looked good and innocent at first. I uninstall the old drivers, shut down, put in the new card, and boot up. Next thing I know while desktop just begins to load, Windows hits me with the BSOD for only a milisecond, but just long enough to see. It then proceeds to reboot again in a viscious cycle. This would happen in safe mode also.
Right now, at 12:19AM I am just aboud done installing Half-Life 2 once again to conclude a 12 hour computer repair session. I'm sure the headcrabs will look stunning.

It is within my grasp.

I sit here, staring at the computer. The beloved Half-Life 2 has been shipped today. It is in stores. And now, we are waiting for the final beat of midnight Pacific time (3am Eastern) for the game to be activatedThe tension is horrendous. The excitement, contagious. Well, maybe not contagious. Nobody seems to care except for the 3 lambda amigos, but whatever.
I know what REALLY matters in life.




Ah, Half-Life 2. You gotta love it, including Alyx Kleiner. Talk about a computer savvy - science geek - good looking - gun toting virtual woman. (heh heh)

In reference to last nights party, and the awesome movie located in the last post:

SJ Magnum

"That was THE SCARIEST thing I have ever seen!!!! O my word....my heart still isn't working properly. Thanks a lot, Drewy, now I'm gonna have chronic heart problems for the rest of my life!"

Somhow, I imagine that you are going to have some worse problems starting ................ now:



Notice my menacing stance with the thumb poised over the volume switch. Thanks to sparky for the awesome camera timing.

Dem Crazy College Students!

Yeah, so today after a lecture on creationism about how evolution is so very incapable of producing intelligent life and that it is only a product of God, we all decided to head over to the community center (our house) and party like apes*. We first stopped to pick up a couple drinks and chips. After waiting in line at the slowest express checkout ever, we headed home in our respective puerto rican mobiles and started the party. After a few drinks it got a little crazy, but it was all in great fun. Note, all drinks in this photo consist of A+W Root Beer (Yes it has Beer in the name), and Frappucinos. No actually alchaholic bevrages were in use ;).





* No offense to any turkeys who may have joined the party.

Animal killing car comercials

Don't you love em? Especially the cute-fuzzy-little-animal-killing ones. The little bird ones always seem to have a special twang to them. They are always doing something cute and innocent when, out of nowhere, some giant SUV comes careening through the forest. I thought this one was especially funny. Make sure you have the volume up enough to hear the full bird-on-windshield effect the first time or else it ruins it and you should have not watched it at all. If you have to, do a "Save Target As" and save it to the desktop so that you get nice smooth playage.

Bring on the link ;)

Backed by popular demand...

Enjoy:

Psycodelic Llama