In Wired's "Grading of Batman's Gear" (pt. 2), the Shark-Repellent Bat Spray has gotten an "A"

You may scoff and laugh - until your leg is being swallowed by a fucking shark.

Go here now.
http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/3932590.html

( what is that? This is what I see. )

This one attached to this post (I've only ever deleted ONE LJ icon in the entire time I've had this thing) was my first. I picked it because it was me and I looked "contemplative" in the pic (in reality, I'm lit up drunk doing dinner scene in Rocky at the Fine Arts in 2001, and was borderline falling asleep).

My current defaut userpic is my BSG alter ego, Saul Tigh from Balltestar Galactica, because BSG has been fresh on my mind in recent months. Now that it's on hold again until next year, I'll probably switch my default again, as I tend to do every 2-4 months.

Next up will most likely be Justice, my all time favorite comic book character, as after 20 years they're currently publishing a title with him again that I'm REALLY digging.

Tags: livejournal, userpics, writer's block

Hey, Mozilla, if you're going to ask several hundred thousand people to download the new Firefox on the same day (to set a record yet), you may actually want to make sure your servers are anywhere near capable of handling that capacity first. Obviously, they are not.

I got RickRolled in a DREAM last night. Yes, my subconscious fucking RickRolled me. It was even on the menu of the amusement park greasy spoon diner I was in that I could also buy Astley's greatest hits album for $3.98 (I thought about it, but ultimately passed).

You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:

1. one weapon.
2. one song blasting on the speakers.
3. one famous person to fight alongside you.

* Weapon can be real or fictional; you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.

1. Lightsaber (if it must be real, a sword... I'm running right to that store that sells them))
2. Torn between Metallica's Damage Inc. and Human Beinz - Nobody But Me (just like the Crazy 88's scene in Kill Bill 1)
3. Mace Windu (Samuel Jackson / Bad Ass Motherfucker). The way he tore it up in that Clone Wars ep (and the movie) is all the convincing I need.

Attitude Check: tired
Sound Check: Genesis - No Son Of Mine

I would fuck with the LJ writersblock system, which is apparently what someone at LJ did. This question now replaces the last question, the newborn baby one, making it seem like every person that answered that one is a retard that wants to take care of and name hobgoblins, or call social services on them. It's actually pretty funny with mine since In started with "Apparently, this would be the morning I woke up in a Three Stooges short film or Tom and Jerry cartoon." - change it to Scooby Doo and I'm all set.



On a tangent, get on the stick LJ fuckwits, this is exactly the kind of stupid shit that makes you guys look like a bunch of simpletons running this site.



ETA: Oh look, they fixed it by adding the second question back in. I think it be funny to answer these ambiguously and have people wonder which question you were answering...

Tags: goblins, havoc, writer's block

ETA: Since the crack (smoking) squad at LJ deleted the original question that accompanied everyone's post that answered it with the subsequent question, the original question WAS
"It originally said: "If a newborn baby of unknown origins suddenly fell into your care, what would you do? If you kept it, what would you name it?""

Apparently, this would be the morning I woke up in a Three Stooges short film or Tom and Jerry cartoon. In the other worldly odd chance that happened, my first call would be to the police/social services to come get the child that some retarded neglectful person left with me.

In the even more fantasy world situation of me keeping it, I'd name it Daddy's Little Tax Deduction.

Tags: writer's block stupids
Sound Check: Duran Duran - Skin Trade [Parisian Mix]

Yes, I am aware that my server is off line and has been for the last 18 hours. Moves are being made to get me away from the crappy service/server I currently have but it could take up to another 24 hours before that happens, and if I have to restore all of my sites, it'll take a few days. Yes, I am livid right now because I've been fighting with them to take care of this for months before a catastrophic failure like this, and they continued to insist there was nothing wrong. I'm not some idiot bumpkin; I KNOW the signs when a machine is failing. My biggest failure in this was not having another one on line to jump over too knowing this was the likely outcome.

One of these days I will have a relationship with a web host server provider that doesn't literally end in a crash and burn. For those of you keeping track, this is now the forth provider that has managed to kill my relationship with them in this exact same way in the last 12 years. They're all great at taking my money, but when THEIR system fails it's a total dead end of "technical support". I REALLY should have know with this one when they argued that there was no logged downtime on my server despite the fact that I had witnessed it personally a half dozen times in the previous three weeks.

Funny enough, even my little custom enraged icon doesn't even work... because it's fed from my server.

ETA: If you care what finally happened, go here http://community.livejournal.com/mmrhpscast/39778.html

Attitude Check: enraged

2/3 of the day through April 1 and I've managed to hang on to my perfect record of never once being RickRolled (despite the repeated [transparent] attempts of various forces on my LiveJournal friend's page).

2008 shall forever be the April Fools Day of the Rickroll.

Attitude Check: amused
Sound Check: Better Than Ezra - Good

Just in case there was ever any doubt about where I stand... graphic links to an entry well worth reading.

Susan Sarandon Masturbated To For Old Time's Sake
Complete with pre Toucha SS pic.

Feel free to repost elsewhere, I'm not going to.


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Sound Check: Neil Diamond - Chelsea Morning

Just posting because I wanted to. Not much to say. Move along.

See you next leap day.

Sound Check: Alanis Morissette - Forgiven

And, of course, I've already had several "blow it for me and die" posts on my friends list.

Expect me to be the fly in the ointment for all of you that blew that whole "Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader" spoiler thing for me a couple of years ago before Episode 3.

Just sayin'...