My ongoing fame
I am now a star of stage, screen, and webcomic 🙂 Check out Fragile Gravity today (April 23rd comic). For those unsure, I’m third from the left in panel 4. Yep, that’s raininva next to me.
Thanks for the guest spot, guys!
Go Me
Once I take care of a remaining piece or two of WizKids paperwork, I’ll be approved to carry a loadout of 12 tons of armor, a particle cannon, 6 lasers, two machine guns, and a six-missile launching rack. However, I may not be allowed to appear in public thanks to the lawsuit over Dougram/Macross images.
Transformers! Servicemen in disguise!
I don’t plan to talk much about war today, unless it involves 2″ vinyl figures on click-bases.
However, I had to re-post this from frankensteela‘s journal. I mean, really, I had no choice 🙂
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Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat.
I shit you not. http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=3828
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Now, if we can get Jetfire and Rhinox, so much the better…
This is for Rain
The “quote of the day” I just got from logging into elfie:
Fog Lamps, n.: Excessively (often obnoxiously) bright lamps mounted on the fronts of automobiles; used on dry, clear nights to indicate that the
driver’s brain is in a fog. See also “Idiot Lights”.
“The Mighty Stephen Hawking is a Freaking’ Quake Master!”
Got my snickering in for the evening:
“So many people know of Stephen Hawking’s contributions to science, but so few of his career as a rap artist and his l33t skillz as a Quake player. Now, we can learn the truth, at E=MC Hawking’s music site!”
Actually, a decent tune… not for the tender of ear. Probably says something about my sense of humor that I find that track so funny.
dahdahdahdahdah – JunkYard Geeks!
Tonight on TLC Online, our challenge is for mikailborg of the TechnoFetish team. His job – to build a working analog-to-digital video converter from things he finds in his apartment – before the end of the afternoon!
He’ll have an easy time with the digital end – he’s already got a FireWire-equipped computer made for digital desktop video. But, how do things look for conversion?
He’s got a Sony digital camcorder that he’s wired in there! It’s got an analog adapter cable with RCA jacks at the far end, and it plugs right into that computer of his, so conversion is okay. But here’s the rough part – he’s got to find a way to deliver that analog signal, and his wife probably wouldn’t be amused if he borrowed the living room VCR. So what will our challenger do?
Look at that! He’s blowing the dust off a 15-year-old Sharp VCR he pulled from his bottom shelf! I can’t believe that thing still plays tapes – it hasn’t even been plugged into the wall in over 4 years!
He’s got it all hooked together… now he’s changing the arrangement of plugs in his FireWire ports – and it’s working! Image quality isn’t the best, but then most of his originals weren’t that good to begin with! It’s working!!
Thank you for joining us for this edition of Junkyard Geeks. For the benefit of lekythen, subbes, and rubinpdf, this episode will be re-broadcast next month on BBC Online as part of “Scrapheap Geeks”. Join us tomorrow as Richard O’Brien hosts an episode of Sony’s Virtual Crystal MazeQuest Online (subscription fee required).
mikailborg‘s still going to have to return the camcorder, though.
Tales of Modern Idiocy
A collection of unfortunate help-desk tickets: (had me snickering helplessly)
Stories of the increasingly surly owner of a video-game rental shop:
These are web pages nearly guaranteed to make you feel better about yourself.
Oooh… I just mentally bought a whole stack of t-shirts…
Sarcastic “God” billboards (may offend some)
Among other favorites: “I gave you a bigger brain for a reason. Start using it. – God”
Pre-dawn Wednesday, our office blew its hot water heater. Efforts to fix matters have only made it worse, we can’t shut off the sink, and now the ladies’ bathroom is rapidly taking on water.
We have rechristened the office “Her Majesty’s Ship The Titanic“. Sentries have been posted with orders to shoot Celine Dion on sight.
