GIRL POWER!!!!

I dunno why, but after about 3 years of the idea bouncing around my head, I have made the "Boobie" Magic deck. It was suggested a few years back, when my friend Jon looked through a binder of Onslaught and noticed a good deal of card arts featuring the female form. The idea bounced around my head for a while, but I didn't make it until just this weekend. I was bored. I had seen Eternal Witness one too many times. I decided to make the deck. It was originally going to be all three of the "Feminine" colors - Green, White, and Blue, but for some reason I decided that I needed to narrow it down to just two. I noticed Hanna, Ship's Navigator, and decided to make her my star chick, even though I only have one of her, but I had a bunch of enchantments and artifacts that also had chicks for pictures. Anyway, I ended up with a shitload of cards, probably more than I need, but I kept most of it (I decided that using the equipment-boosted girls would get me a bit of a general bleed into normal white weenie, and thats not what I wanted.) The deck, if I ever made it any "REFINED" form, I'd give it the shape of a stall/mill deck, but that's a long way away from the monstrosity I'm staring at now. Its impossible to shuffle. Its great. I love it. ^_^

Anyway, in non-Magic news, I just finished watching the movie Titan A.E., which was given the TV rating of "TV PG," with a subscript of 'S V'. Now, V for Violence, I know, but S? Does anyone know what S is? Sexuality? In a cartoon? I'm confused.

Also on the subject of TV, I hate the Fox News Channel, but it's still more entertaining than CNN. In fact, I think that's the reason I hate it. It's not so much news as it is entertainment. It pisses me off. Especially O'Reilly, that smug prick. I dunno why, but something about him pisses me off. I'm thinking of writing him a letter in the hopes of getting a signed copy of his book. Oh yeah, and Michael Moore is a prick too. I hate him because he makes me look like a dumbass for believing the same things as him. Stupid propoganda. That's just so you know, though, I'm an equal opportunity angry man. Rawr. I'm tired now.

Disturbing Things

I've been trudging through Clone.Manga lately, and its some pretty disturbing shit. I had actually read through the Tomoyo42 stuff, which is rather odd, a while ago, and then just recently followed an Applegeeks link to the main site, and lo and behold, amazing dementedness. I finished the Nana comic, and should start Day 4 of Paper 11 pretty soon. It's all very messed up.

Also, speaking of messed up stuff... where do conjoined twins come from? I mean, do they reproduce? I think that would be the number one argument against evolution. Evolution should have canceled out conjoinism (or whatever its called) a long time ago, since it doesn't enhance our survivalism. Since it didn't, evolution is wrong.

And then here's another thing: how come when humans are born conjoined, its a semi-run of the mill thing, they seperate one or both, but when animals are born conjoined, its an omen! Either a sign from God, or a sign that some turtle was swimming around in irradiated waters. The God thing, maybe, but no one accuses a conjoined twin-set of having rolled around in nuclear filth. No one cries out about the destruction and contamination of the human ecosystem. Of course, I'm no expert on the subject. Or any subject, really. I just trudge on through as best I can.

On a less distrubing note, Katie is awesome, so good for her! And yay randomness!

Effervescence

1. To emit small bubbles of gas, as a carbonated or fermenting liquid.
2. To escape from a liquid as bubbles; bubble up.
3. To show high spirits or animation.

So that's gonna be my new head screen name, or rather effervescence 34(someone beat me to the name without a number x_x). I've found it matches my personality more than l33t n1nj4, as I am neither l33t (at least as I would judge it) nor n1nj4 (subtlety, while possible to me, doesn't quite fit my nature). This switch will be accompanied by a lighter, more "bubbly" font, to reflect the lighter nature.

Do note that I'm not changing myself. I'm still gonna be the same Greg tomorrow I was yesterday. I just don't think the screen name xx L33T N1NJ4 xx is all that fitting of me. Plus, Effervescence is a much more unique name.

Just to give you an idea of why I'm switching names, look at my wallpaper, and ask yourself, which is it more befitting of?




Hmm... Actually a little of both. Oh well, time for a switch. I'm also tired of having 5 names linked to mine. I'll leave the ninja name linked anyway, so people can find me, and just start my new name with a blank slate. I'll add people as they come up, but really I was getting overwhelmed with 174 names, half of which I haven't talked to since my Squirrelmonger days. So, if you want on my list, you'd better give me a poke. Alright, that's all for now. See ya'll later.

Lonely

Where is everyone? Today is the ONE day when I realy SHOULD be alone in my room, and no one's on! At all! x_x I's lonesome. Hrmm.. I suppose I could do that aptitude testy thingamabob I was supposed to do. Okay, sure, I'll do that. Oh Wait!

Jackie just got on! YAY!!!!! Okay, nvm, I'm done.

This seems like something I'd like to do. Or at least, it greatly appeals to my sense of humor. ^_^

Random Babbles

I've taken to getting up around 9AM. Unfortunately, I haven't taken to getting to sleep any earlier. This constitutes a major problem on my part.I'm tired. On the plus side, it does give me a good two hour period on Mondays and Wednesdays with nothing really to do. Therefore, I can sort of ease into the day, rather than being abruptly thrown into class straight from bed. I like it.

I looked over the respective websites, and found that an Apple iBook would in fact be more expensive than a Compaq of what I'd consider greater value. I don't think OS X is worth $100 more than XP, personally. So I'm safe from Mac's for another day. *Shrugs* Note though that unlike my previous stance on the DS, the Aztek, and the X-Box, I WOULD graciously accept and use an Apple laptop I got as a gift. I realize the chances of that are slim to none, but I felt it was worth mentioning.

There's some construction across the street. It makes it hard for me to sleep when I want to. I hope they shut up by 3 so I can have a nice after-class nap.

Deep Space Nine is on, and I'm out of things to talk about. I had an interesting dream that involved Megatokyo and some cute girl I feel like I should know but I don't. I don't usually know what happened in dreams after the dream is over, but I think in this dream I didn't even know what was going on while I was experiencing it. It was interesting. Okay, my heads gonna shut down and do something that's not as mind-consuming as blogging. I'll let you know when I figure out what that is.

Greg Debates Getting A Mac

Dammit, the wind seems to always be against me. No matter where I ride my bike to on campus, I always end up with a headwind. It makes NO sense. You all think I'm nuts, but it's true. No matter where I go, I'm always going into the wind, and when I go back, the wind has completely changed direction, so my return trip is no better. Wait, I said I was gonna do something else in this...

I think I need a Macintosh. Laptop, probably, I still want at least part of a desktop to boot into Windows for gaming. But I dunno, the idea of a cute little iBook or something for when I'm on the go... Nothing as powerful (or power hungry) as my HP, which I would prolly also keep. I tinkered around in the Mac set up, and most of my distate for it is unfamiliarity. I don't like that which I don't understand; a reasonable reaction. I might spend some time in the computer lab just to get a feel for the set up, or something. The one button mouse thing really bugs me, but I should be able to use any old USB mouse, so that's not an issue. I can get FireFox for it and that should run semi-uniformly.

One real issue would have to be the document editing. I'd need to find a way to transfer my stories and homework and such back and forth, ideally using something that does .doc, since thats what everyone else seems to use. I had enough of being the odd format out though Middle and High School, where the schools had MS Office and I was stuck with the Corel Word Perfect Suite. x_x The two hate each other. Always have, always will. I don't wanna be a part of that any more. Oh hey. I just checked, and the eRaider site offers Office 2004 and other stuff. Upon further thinking, that doesn't mean a damn thing, because there's no telling whether or not it's compatible with MS Office. *Shrugs* I'll look into it. I really don't want an uberpowerful comp for this. Just a 12"er I can watch DVD's and movie files on, browse the web, chat, but I don't need any gaming power on it. Honestly, I don't really have many games, so I don't know what's keeping me from switching over to Mac for my home computer, aside from the preference to Windows. *Shrugs* Stupid brand loyalty. Someone teach me Linux. ^_^;

Oh well, I think I'll just see whichever is cheaper when it comes time to get such a device, pound for pound. I wouldn't mind learning a Mac, though. I've heard a lot of good things about Macs through anecdotal evidence. And there really must be a reason they can survive under the crippling ubiquity of Windows. That settles it. I'm going iBook (or powerBook, I guess) shopping after class. Speaking of which, I GOTTA GO NOW!!

Time Travel!!!

I was gonna talk about how my girlfriend has semi-destructive habits and I dont like 'em, but I've gotten over that with her and don't need to dredge it up again. So instead....

We got to talking about Bill and Ted, Jackie and I, and I decided that those movies tie with the Back to the Future trilogies for best time travel in movies. I then tried to think of other movies with time travel. Here's the list, as the came to me. This post will be edited as new entries come to me, so feel free to help out.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Back to the Future
Back to the Future: Part II
Back to the Future: Part III
Star Trek VIII: First Contact
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Donny Darko
Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time
Timeline
Time Bandits
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

That's it for so far. Lemme know if I missed any.

Are you Mohammed Conner?

Robot soldiers bound for Iraq

It not really all that threatening, a little tank with a moving turret, but how far behind do you think one of these is?

Eating your Bammiches

That last post was short (half was even copied off IMDB), so I've got still more to tell you. For starters, I made up a new word. Bandwich. Its like a sandwich made of bandwidth, formed from a terrible terrible typo. So the next person to say typoes suck better watch out, cuz it makes excellent words like bandwich. Also, to help eat your bammiches, I've got pretty pictures to share. Look and behold!






Pretty, no? Hawk (of AppleGeeks is fast becoming a favorite of mine. Consider him highly reccomended.

As you can tell if you check my post times, my sleeping habits leave something to be desired. I'm not sleeping until tonite, and that's after I've checked everything out I need to check online for Monday early morning (Megatokyo, Applegeeks, Mtg.com, Penny Arcade, etc.) Ah well, I slept in until like 2 this afternoon, and I prolly will actually lie down with the TV running or something.

I was thinking of leaving this open and ranting more into it, because I could have sworn I had more to tell you people than one made up word and two pretty pictures (the second one's my desktop!), but obviously I don't. Nothing important, anyway. Oh well.

|| Fantastic Four - July 1, 2005 || - Large

When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards, inventor and leader of the group gains the ability to stretch his body, and takes the name, Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, calling herself the Invisible Woman. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame, becoming the Human Torch. Pilot Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong rock creature calling himself Thing. Together, they use their unique powers to explore the strange aspects of the world, and to foil the evil plans of Doctor Doom.

Or something like that. Cosmic rays and gamma radiation. When will people learn to stop messing with the non-visible specturms of light? When has Gamma Radiation EVER helped anyone? I can't believe there was a line in the Hulk movie (or at least, in the trailers; I never saw the film) where a SCIENTIST, supposedly the smartest character in the film, says, "Okay, let's pour on the Gamma radiation." That has got to be the funniest thing I've ever heard a scientist say in a non-comedy movie.

I'm also pissed that the only chick in the main cast, the hottie Jessica Alba, has the super-power of INVISIBLITY! How the hell am I supposed to tap that ass when I can't see it!? You know why I think she got that power? Some lazy-ass artist never learned how to draw women properly, so he just said.. "Oh, what if she's invisible half the time?" and did that. That bastard...

Let it be known that I am keeping a tally of the ignorant masses who claim that Mr. Fantastic and The Invisible Woman were copied off of Pixar's "The Incredibles." I'm also going to inflict personal harm on anyone who believes the movie to be copied off of the Goliath Serum episode of "The Venture Brothers." >_<

AGH!

I think theres something wrong with my vagina, it's turned itself inside out.

I Am NOBODY'S Messanger Boy

...I'm a delivery boy. (Couldn't resist)

Names have been changed to protect the innocent, blah blah...

So anyway, I'm talking to my friend Bill from NJ over AIM. (I know him through my step-brother, he's a cool kid.) And we're just shooting the breeze about whatever, I don't even know anymore, it wasn't important. Anyway, his exgirlfriend Kate, who I met when they were going out, and who I consider my friend, comes on, and asks if I'm talking to Bill. I am, so I tell her. She asks me to tell him I'm talking to her, and see what he says. I resist at first, but eventually it gets to me, so yeah, I tell him she wants him to know she's talking to me. He doesn't care, and asks me to ask her why he should, so I do. This pretty much disolves into them arguing back and forth. Simultaniously, she tells me he's an ass, and he tells me that she's annoying. I forward those messages, and finally can't take it any more. I don't want to be their latchkey kid. I don't want my relationship with anyone to be defined as "the guy who sends messages to X." These were two people I considered friends, and I wanted to stay that way with them both, and I didn't want whatever negative feelings they had between each other be thrown onto me. I don't think I was so out of line in asking that. Anyway, Kate still had more she wanted Bill to hear. She starts begging me to tell him it. And I refused. This time I was gonna stand my ground. She kept begging, and after two rounds of it, I got tired of it:

her: u telling him i said all that?
me: no
her: TELL HIM
me: im not telling him anything you say
her: i want him to know
me: then email him or something
me: im not gonna be your go between
her: tell him everything i said
me: im not telling him ANYTHING you say
her: plz
me: get that straigh
me: t
her: i need him to know
her: just this once
me: then find some way to tell him yourself!
me: im not gonna do it for you any more
her: so he will know this is good bye
her: greg plz
me: HE KNOWS ITS GOOD BYE
me: HE DOESNT CARE ABOUT YOU ANY MORE
her: i cant he has me blocked
me: you're the one who wont let it go
her: U DONT HAVE TO BE RUDE TO ME

I quickly apologized. I didn't want to be mean, but she wouldn't listen, and I snapped. I had a momentary lapse in my cool, my usually friendly demeanor cracked, and I used captial letters. I'm sorry that I'm not budda. I'm sorry I can't be everyones lapdog 24/7. I'm sorry I GET PISSED OFF FROM TIME TO TIME! It doesn't last long when I do, and I always regret it. I never want any of my friends to feel that I don't care about them. They should all know that. Anyway. I've been agruing with her mom, another good friend of mine, about this.

I think, after two and a half hours of talking it over, I think we've reached something of an understanding. I really don't want to lose two good friends over something so stupid. Really, I think this is such an absurd situation. I've got two people pissed at me over two lines of CAPITAL LETTERS that I typed in the heat of the moment, and I spent the last three hours apologizing to her for it. Its just so insane!

Anyway, in other news, I recently fell for an old ex of mine. She's really sweet and nice and I really like her a lot, but I feel really happy that I was able to keep my head on and not do anything I'd regret, because I truely believe Jackie is the one girl for me, no matter how much I care about anyone else, I want you all to know that I won't let anything come between me and Jackie. I love her so much. Sorry ladies (and gents) who may like me. I know I'm extremely likeable, but I'm taken.

Yay, Parade?

Anyone else confused as to why Bush got a parade today? Did anyone else get a parade? If I remember correctly, I heard something about his last inauguration having something of an anti-parade. The man had to be driven all the way to the stage in his limo, as opposed to the customary walk. This year, nearly the entire city of DC, which it seems voted overwhelmingly against Bush, is shut down for a huge parade festival. Speaking of these little oddities, does anyone else out there see the Bush fans quoting his "Highest vote count," or whatever they call it, as a mandate from the people. Lots less people bring up the fact that the number two vote count belongs to John F Kerry. *Shrugs.* Oh well, I guess Bush won, I need to get over it and accept it. Sides, after his last term, what's the worst that could happen?

...o_o...

In other news, anyone paying attention to the Calista story will notice that I've changed Jake's last name to Thomas. The reason? I finally figured out why Jake Long seemed to click so well in my mind: Disney made a cartoon about him. He bears no relation to the character in my story (SPOILER!!! THE DOCTOR ON G.S. Calista DOES NOT TRANSFORM INTO A DRAGON!), but I felt that it would just be better if I didn't keep the name, since I was obviously influenced by the ad's Disney's been running.

I'm randomly tired lately. Not now, in particular, just overall. I had more I was gonna say on that, but I can't remember it. Instead I'll go by the other thing on my mind lately. The other night on Futurama, everyone got turned into kids. A young Bender shouted at one point to no one in particular "When I grow up I'm gonna be a steamshovel!" That's sorta how I feel. I wanna be a helicoptor. Or, a helicoptor Transformer. What can I say, I'm obsessed with the things, but the idea of being able to leap into the air, fold around a little and start flying around campus. It would save me so much time. I've even got my transform down, mostly. Prop blades on my back, arms become side turrets, legs fold into the rear strut, the works. In fact, I think I'm gonnna make a backpack right now. Well, not now. But soon. I need a helicoptor-transformation backpack/body suit.

OH MY GOD CHRISTOPHER REEVES GUEST STARRED ON SMALLVILLE THIS IS MINDBLOWING!!!

Ahem... Sorry, I'm done.

I've Stopped Reading PVP

Piro's rant pretty much says why. Basically, for those of you who are lazy look around, the deal was that Scott Kurtz, writer of PVP, was congradulating Rodney Caston, former co-writer for Megatokyo (aka Largo) on the birth of his recent child. He then made the snide remark that the baby was "one creation Fred (Gallagher Megatokyo's current writer / Piro) can't steal." I'd never been under the impression that Megatokyo was stolen from Rodney, and in his responding rant which I linked you to, he explains the split between them. So, no it wasn't stealing. Okay, everyones happy.

Except the fans. Megatokyo is a pretty popular comic, and when someone attacks Fred, there's an army of readers ready to leap in and defend Fred's honor. Not that he needed it, but anyway, Scott wrote up a responce to the fans. It was the most insulting "apology" I'd ever seen. I don't care if he wasn't talking to me. Scott Kurtz has just proven himself an asshat in my mind.

So, yeah. Basically, I'm banning PVP from now on, and I'm asking that you guys do too. Asshats suck.

CNN.com - Speaker to students:�Stripping can be lucrative - Jan 14, 2005

This was just too amazing to not show all my friends.

The guy had a point - do something you love doing. Some women are just made to be strippers. 'Specially the ones with bigger tits. Yep, you know my dirty secret. I love big tits. I must be some kind of freak. I mean, what other healthy man out there likes big tits? Oh, if only there were some way to help end these unnatural cravings...

*Sees Jackie.*

Eh, close enough.

*Tackles Jackie and starts playing with her big tits.*

Comeback

Look at this:

her: whad if you and jackie were like...long lost brothers...sisters...twice and a half removed....grandfather in law's son/daughter's nephew's wifes uncle's.....if yall were related..?
me: if we were related
me: then our kids would be.....
me: odd..
her: RETARDED!
me: like you?
me: o_o?
me: kidding
her: HEY!
her: your...face!
her: ..is retarded!
me: well, at least i didnt sleep with LUMBURG!!!
her: LMAO

Interesting, huh? Btw, that's my new end all comeback. So if you see me use that, don't worry; you're not the first.

EDIT: Turns out it's spelled "Lumbergh," so, yeah. Live and learn.

God I hope this moves my wallpaper down below the sidebar stuff.

New Wall (Again)

Just wanted to show off how awesome the calendar thing is. LOOKIE!



What can I say, I love XP-tan. ^_^ Oh yeah, and that is in fact my schedule for the next week there in the events column, though the Tuesday/Thursday classes are each an hour and a half, not just an hour. Stupid thing. X_X;

Lazy Weekend

I put up the second part of Calista. It's picking up a little bit now, but I still like the first part, if only as a neccessary introduction to the story. My only problem with this system of publishing is that they're showing up in reverse order, not the way I'd like. Oh well. Maybe if this takes off I'll get my own little webserver or whatever. Until now, just suffer through, if you don't mind. Anyway, don't expect me to put in an alert here as to every time I update the story. Especially if I update it more frequently than I do this blog.

Ahh.. A three day weekend. Since I don't have much else to do, I was planning on writing a bunch of the opening of Calista (so far so good), and getting the rest of my textbooks. Oh, and maybe reading those textbooks, and seeing what else is up. If you have any ideas, I'm open to them. So long for now. Indiana Jones is on.

G.S. Calista Is Born

Look! I linked myself! Sorta. Anyway, I've been working on this story all day. I hardly got anywhere, but it's a start. Sorta.

I'm sure you're all just so excited. "Oooh... A story about a hotel janitor in space. Sounds like fun!" True, its got a pretty dull setting, but I promise it'll get better. And hey, you can't say it's not original.

I'll leave the link to it over to the side there. I'll try to be good about updating it, and prolly fail. Oh well. Call it a New Year's Resolution. We'll see how it goes.

Howard Dean is Awesome

Howard Dean has not paid me for this entry. He certainly didn't answer my email which contained my secret swiss bank number. Oh no. He's much too good for that. He deserves the DNC's nomination. I think that if he got it, I would feel like a million bucks. Well, maybe not a million, but how about $25,000?
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