Man, I wish I could play this game for cheap. I don't want to pay the kind of money for the full thing, since I'm only interested in Portal.

But I so want to play this stupid game so I can get to the end and hear GLaD singing this song legitimately. I've heard there are lots of bugs in it though. Maybe I could find it super-cheap in the used section or something... I think I'll look sometime soon.

So, I got a fun piece of junk mail today (in my real mailbox-- as if I'd ever write about my email spam!):

Renting vs. Owning
How much can you afford if your rent is $1800.00 monthly?????
Purchase Price $341,500
0% to 3% down
Monthly payment of $2550 PITI
Annual tax credit $8993
Monthly tax credit $750

I mean, okay, you could basically do it... kind of... but only because of the tax credit! And that doesn't include land taxes or HOAs-- What kind of moronic.....? Well, clearly this is what some real estate agents and banks are still selling people on, and of course, since the tax credit only applies to interest, your payment is going to go "up" as you live there, leading to... oops, bankruptcy and defaulting on the loan and losing the damn home, which is the whole problem with the housing market right now as it is.

They know they have problems, and they're still trying to sell people on these kinds of ridiculous loans that they should know are not going to work? Gah!

... Humanity, I hate you!

*sniff* I miss my Ziggy...

There are so many cute doggies walking around these days. WTF! STOP IT! YOU PEOPLE MAKE ME JEALOUS!

They've made more? *stares* Well, I ain't putting a banana in my ear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSeO1vF8WEs

Candy Mountain!

I guess I should go to sleep now. Bahhhhhhhh.

Earthquake today-- about 30 seconds. Wooo, shaking! The epicenter was so far away I'm surprised we felt it at all, let alone as strongly as we did. Stuff was shaking and so on. Nothing fell down (I mean, off of shelves or anything) in Camarillo, though. Although... I do wonder if my drawers opened because of it.

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/STORE/X14383980/ciim_display.html

Luckily, it looks like no one was hurt anywhere.

They is all gone. *sniff*

But... I get to sleep in my own bed tonight, which is nice, right? And... they left me the strawberry daquiri, which is yummy. :) Yum. I shall drink some of that.

Goo bye mom and cko. And dad and Ziggy, too. I hope o-Ziggy likes his o-possum...


Also:

Edgar Mitchell, one of the astronauts who walked on the moon, claims that aliens are real, and have made contact, and are non-hostile. And that there is and has been a cover-up. And that he knows it because he was briefed about it...? Really?

Muppets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmjnYKlVnM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFgtFXfnv0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob6TTU1knUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA9NbPAK8o

Okay, time for me to go to sleep...

= Silent Hill?

But it's a liiiiiiiittle too dark on my TV. Why do they make it so dark, just because it's a horror..... (heehee).

Definitely scary feeling...

What would you do with your money?

Seriously, were you guys in our office? 'Cause you pretty much showed a crappy version of all the stuff we're working on. I mean, even the thing I think sucks, you had. What the fuck? And now, despite the fact that we've been working on it for a while, and despite the fact that ours is better, we're going to be called copycats. That just sucks. It really does.

Fuck you, "Arch Nemesis". Fuck. You.

May pointy objects damage your cars,
Me

PS. Does your game give as good a workout as ours does? 'Cause, you know, I totally have a few aching muscles from doing our version of your third game. I know how out of shape that makes me, but, I mean, some of it is valid exercise of the sort that my personal trainer tried to get me to do.

Final Fantasy 13 is a multiplatform game now. I knew it was going to happen when their CEO (or president? whatever) said that people would be fired if they worked on any more non-mainstream games. I'm not all that disappointed, because Square has been crap for a long time, but it does seem like it will put Sony in a weaker position. Not a happy thing for me...

And Fallout 3 has gotten some new footage. It... really isn't Fallout. I was hoping so much that it wouldn't be an FPS, but... yeah, that's what it is. Some kind of RPG-FPS, but an FPS nonetheless. It makes me sad. First person shooters suck... the footage features one of the devs/PR guys/whatever shooting enemies and saying "yeah, you could sneak through, or talk your way through..." but there's no gameplay footage of that-- he plays it like an FPS. And not even a really good FPS, from what it looks like...

It's even worse because I'm comparing it to Diablo. (My sister is going to kill me. :p) Blizzard starts showing of Diablo III, it looks like Diablo II gameplay but awesome graphics and new tweaks to gameplay. It'll release on Mac and PC, just like always. Bethesda buys up the Fallout license and makes something that has little resemblence to the older games, and focuses on the Xbox 360 version. I'd bet we Mac users aren't going to get it at all (and I'd be upset about it if it were a real sequel.)

*sigh* Sequels kind of suck. They just can't keep the magic most of the time. Even Metal Gear Solid 4 had some real disappointments for me...

Memes in the morning... is anyone reading this...? Glad Google's working again.

You are a Knife

You are precise, determined, and detail oriented. You mean what you say, and you say what you mean. You enjoy taking risks and living on the edge. You are a controversial person. You opinions tend to be divisive.

Is Google DOWN!?!?!?!?!?


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*gasp* I wonder when the last time that happened.

Especially things that I haven't cleaned in a while. Like the bottom of the garbage can. EW. (Hi Pine Sol, you just stay in there and kill whatever might be in there for a while.) And somehow, while trying to clean things, I stubbed my toe and broke the nail. I didn't even feel it... Gah. I've told myself that if I can get all the cleaning stuff done today, I can buy a video game. I don't know if I'm going to manage it. I mean, the space is small so I know that I could do it, but... well, I think it's going to take me until tomorrow to get everything done. I keep taking breaks. Heh. Geez, I'm such a wimp about this...

The worst part is that there is really no way that it's going to be really clean when people come over, even if I manage to get it right now, because they're coming on a Thursday. I can't exactly clean on Wednesday night and have everything perfect. Bah, it sucks!

Anyways, I've also scheduled my carpet cleaning (from when I renewed my lease). The 23rd, which is perfect because the visit is on the 24th. At least the carpet should be really nice.

...because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it

(Actually, I don't think you ever did have that, America. You just remind me of ee cummings poems sometimes.)


Seriously. American milk is not going to be in huge, unweildy plastic jugs any more. (Okay, okay, the milk is still in huge, unweildy plastic jugs, but they'll be shaped more efficiently.)

"How will I ever pour milk again?" "My grandma won't be able to figure out how to pour milk if the jug changes." "They're sooooo so hard to pour for little kids, unlike the old (HUGE -- did I mention a whole GALLON?) jugs, and people will never be able to figure out how to deal with such rectangularly shaped milk jugs."

My god, you'd think they'd been asked to go to metric. (Haha. Sorry.)


I miss my bags of milk. Not only more efficient, but also easier to put in the fridge, easier to pour (because a liter < a frikkin' gallon)... although, I'll admit, they're harder to snip just right...

In other news...

Who would win in an epic fight between Batman, Batman and Batman? (Well, I felt like I won.)

Also: ew. That's the grossest burger I've ever seen.

Why didn't I drink coffee early this... er... yesterday... morning?

My head hurts! Damn you caffeine withdrawal! Maybe I should try going to sleep and hoping that this will make the symptoms go away until tomorrow morning when I drink some coffee...

What if D&D geeks talked about cookbooks?

Hee. That is pretty funny.

We control Snake, his actions, his life, even his death. We are not playing Snake.

We are playing the Patriots.

That's pretty cool, actually.

Didn't manage to complete my third playthrough this weekend. I'm going for 0 alerts and 0 kills. 0 alerts is HAAAARD! (At least I'm not trying for the Big Boss title. That + 0 RATIONS! And they include regain and the soup with that. And only 5 hours. Cripes!)

I hate how YouTube is now requiring people to have customized home pages. I LIKE the basic unlogged-in home page view, so I keep having to log out in order to see the normal page. But you can't rate, you can't post comments... it just sucks now.

What the hell, YouTube? You used to be fun. Now you're annoying...