oh hay guys

A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb."

a simcity game that's not by maxis?!

inconceivable! looks kinda lame too.

a goon plays through castlevania 3

a series of 18+ videos at video.google. (link goes to forums thread.) oh boy!

thursday post

i had a mobile phone in 1998. that was back when two-way pagers were new. using my phone in public drew attention because mobile phones were relatively uncommon. my carrier was omnipoint, which later became voicestream, which later become t-mobile. my plan was about $40/month for local 150 minutes per month. extra minutes were 15 cents and roaming outside of my region was about 30 cents (i remember getting absolutely raped for surcharges when i was in san francisco for business). text messaging was extra. my job at the time subsidized most of my phone bill. i had a phone from siemens, which was like the size of a folded original nintendo ds.

wednesday post

i never played final fantasy 7. for real.

tuesday's post

i was once a mac user. i had a mac performa and a powertower pro from power computing, which was a licensed mac clone. a mac clone! i even had a job where i maintained and wrote for a 20,0000 daily reader web site about mac laptops and imacs for a couple of years. i was even part of the local user group scene at one point.

now? my last three home workstations have been windows boxes. my htpc is a windows xp box. and i make fun of the guys at work that own them. what happened? a few things actually. the mac os at the time was horrible for c++ development; no protected memory or preemptive multitasking. imagine learning and working with pointers and pointer-pointers in that environment... one bad pointer and the whole system needed to be rebooted, unlike windows 98se. i don't pc game much anymore but half-life and rainbow six were enough to keep me from booting up the mac box for weeks at a time back then. and i like building my own pc from parts i bought and hand picked from the internet.

will i ever buy a mac again? i doubt it. windows xp is good enough and my next workstation will be a vista box.

the perfect golf swing

The Perfect Golf Swing - Funny bloopers are a click away

for reals

in order to inspire others to post to their blogs, i will write something about myself every day this week that not many people know about. it's on.

edit: some of these "secrets" may be very stupid, obvious, and tangential. they're probably not secrets at all. but they will be posted on the internets.

they tried to make me go to rehab

well, sorta. i've been rehabbing a hamstring injury for the past two or three weeks. i think it bit me during my 24:01 5k and i haven't been able to run a pain-free 2 miles since. hopefully i'll be able to start running a bit more and test it out this week. i have to remember that these things take time to heal but i always end up rushing back too fast and too soon. :(

michael cera is fired from knocked up

Michael Cera gets fired from Knocked Up
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posting to complain about lost

what?

africacraft

buffalo versus lions versus crocodiles

weakest season of 24 yet

i heard that next season will take place outside of los angeles so that might breathe some much needed fresh air into the series. and what was up with that ending?

the office

that season finale was pretty sublime. creed's blog is kinda rad too.

Today in my office where I work as Director of Quality Assurance, we went to the beach for some reason that was never adequately explained. When we were there, our manager told us to eat hot coals. I thought that was a little bit untoward so I ate a fish. Then a woman I have literally never seen before in my entire life started talking very loudly about something involving Halpert. She was agitated, I’d say. From what I could guess, she was definitely on drugs of some kind, perhaps cocaine, or maybe ‘drines. Also, she is a knock-out. She reminds me of a young Daphne Du Maurier. Also, I stupidly ate the fishbones. I told myself “never again” after the last time, but then you turn around, and bam, they’re in my mouth. I also ate 55 hot dogs in 15 minutes, which is a world record.

you can relive the final minutes here and be all :D. and this is from a goon.

superbad is super awesome

not work safe for language

yup, i'm taking september 25th off

We said Fall 2007, but did you expect Halo 3’s release date to be just two days into the Fall? On September 25, 2007 (just two days after the Autumnal Equinox), players will be able to finish the fight they started in Halo: Combat Evolved and continued in Halo 2. Halo 3 will release in Europe on September 26, 2007. Worldwide dates may vary slightly depending on local rules and conditions.

do you remember mario paint?

title link goes to youtube page with much much more!

congratulations!

to geoff-melissa.

side note: joel, are you going to upload the thriller dance to youtube?

jane fonda flusters colbert

rarely happens but when it does, it's hilarious.

fuck your tickets, move on up and get closer

when win said that after "black mirror", entire rows in the back of the theater vacated into the aisles and turned the arcade fire concert into a small block party in front of the stage (glad there wasn't a fire marshal present).

win: "i love philadelphia. only city where you can park in the middle of the street. right in the middle of the fucking street."

fan yelling out: "it's more convenient!"

holy shit, it was a fantastic show. the national opened for them and they were also very good. check them out.