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I really dont know how I missed this…

I’ve been toying around with doing a documentary on Everquest, and specifically, the weird culture surrounding it. The MUD people. Evercrack, as it is so lovingly called. The game that has broken up marriages (plural). The very real addiction that it is to some people. I’m interesting in trying to bring a critical eye to video games, in hopes of helping to validate them in some way.

At the same time, I’ve never made a documentary (though I do have a favorite), and I’m pretty clueless as to where to begin. But I like the subject, and I have the benefit of the fact that Verant (the developer) is in San Diego. Like I say, I’ve been toying, and you’re all welcome to chime in as to the value of such a project (asscheeks akimbo, as Jon Stewart once said). Oh yeah, but the all important link that made me think of all of this again. Fascinating freaky stuff.

Due to my aforementioned obesssion with all things Tekken, I found myself watching, nay, fully enjoying Only The Strong, the world’s foremost B-rated movie featuring everyone’s favorite hard-to-spell-but-fun-to-watch martial art, Capoeira.



This is not a Tekken-related post. Just thought I’d get that out of the way.



So like I said, I’m watching this wonderful peice of motion picture goodness when I have to make dinner. So I’m in the kitchen, preheating the oven to 375 for our ahem Mac n Cheeze bake when it sounds like the TV has changed because there’s now what is unmistakably a Mazda commercial on. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Yah zoomzoomzoom.



Those who know me well enough will know I have somewhat of a Mazda fetish, and even if rotary engines are still not slated for release again until September, I revel in the odd Miata commercial. So I peek around my red-painted dining room corner and what do I see? Our kicking-ass capoeira movie has not magically changed into a commercial for the lovable scamp that reinvented the roadster; the music/tagline is simply coming from the movie.



I kid you not, friends, our beloved Mazda branding has been LIFTED from a Brazilian song used during the pivotal ‘beach training’ scene of ‘Only The Strong.’ Needless to say, I was beside myself with joy of the delicious and random mixing pop-culture references, both of which are near and dear to me. Just thought I’d share.

How very, very, very very odd to see someone you went to elementary school with on television. I even asked her out in the 8th (or was it 9th…?) grade. I’m glad she’s made it.. or as close as being on a show called ‘Baby Bob’ is to making it. Too bad there’s no picture on the CBS site, though… Here’s some on her ‘official’ website.. Think she needs a redesign?


Oh, and she did turn me down. I guess that’s what you get for doing it from a moving bus.

I’m writing this tonight because tomorrow I probably won’t be able to move… A few of us went paintballing this afternoon, one of the perks of not really having one employer. Besides some fairly serious bruises, I’m in pretty good shape but I do not look forward to tomorrow. I wish I did things like this more often but something tells me the fear of getting pegged in the face might outweigh the initial novelty of being in a reality-based Quake match. I think had we played capture the flag, I might have been a little more helpful to my team, because as is common knowledge, my Q3ACTF flag-defending skills are, quite frankly, off the charts.

I just realized yesterday was Mac OS X’s first birthday. Actually its more like a teenager brat in babies clothing. I mean its really just NextStep Appleized.

Bad Religion

Hot Water Music

Less Than Jake

Magness Arena, Denver 7:00pm


It’s tonight . . . Me and Kev are going and you’re not, ha biotches.

Are you a carpet layer? Jesus is with you.

How come no one told me about the new 10GB iPod? The equalizer is nice and the address book makes it one step closer to an all-in-one palm type of thing.

After 18 years of striving, Dell Computer finally reached its long-stated goal to be the worldwide leader in computing systems Monday and promptly ceased operations.




Aw… don’t tease me like that.

Linux Journal reviews Mac OS X. It’s a good read.

So I pulled out my Saves The Day CD today and all of a sudden I want to drive to Vegas. I mean, I wanted to go to Vegas this weekend anyway, and it just so happens that Saves The Day was the official band of our car trip this past summer to San Diego. So hearing it makes me just want to get in the car and driiiive….

Ahem. Today is Alternate.org’s 2nd Anniversary. I’d offer some wisdom or words of inspiration if I were a sentimental man, but alas. And this post happens to be number 911. There’s no coincidence here.

The Rev. Richard Moore, pastor at the Yankeetown Church of God, told the mayor of his plan to help cleanse the town of its evils by installing four hollowed-out wooden posts at the four entrances to town. In the hollow of each post would be a prayer.



The mayor thought that was a good idea, but on Halloween night, as she sat alone at her kitchen table, she was moved by the spirit of God to banish Satan by proclamation and insert that banishment into the posts, into the very ground. She takes no credit for the words. God guided her hand, she said.



This is just stupid. What a waste of tax money. They may as well have banned bad weather too. (NYTimes login required)

I was browsing my regular sites this morning and ran across the forums site at osxfaq.com and was surprised to see it has been hacked. Go check it out.