Psudo movie review


I grant you I have low standards, and I went into it with low expectations... but Girl Next Door was actually a decent movie!

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I should be asleep


It's nearly 5:00 AM and I'm still awake. I've been up talking to Nick for the past couple hours. Prior to that we went for a jog, on which I amazed myself with by being able to make it the whole distance without having to stop for a break at any point. I barely made it half way the last time I tried this, so I guess all the DDR has really been paying off.

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Mmm... Food...


I made Clam Chowder from scratch last night. It's surprisingly easy and surprisingly good too! Sadly I didn't have any sour dough bread bowls to complete the meal.

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People need to die


I'm beginning to suspect that my respect for human life might be slightly below average. Everywhere I look around me, I see people who can only be described as "expendable". My hit list has grown considerably in the last few years (although there is still one individual who remains prominent at the top of the list).
Yesterday I heard a story about two campers who had been shot while they were sleeping. Nothing stolen, no known motive… And while they were sleeping! It’s not even like there’s a challenge involved there! You can hardly claim you’re a bad ass for killing someone while they’re already unconscious
. So what brought on this rant? The other day, as I was leaving work, I saw that someone had pushed my bike over. This is a heavy bike. It is incredibly stable while on its stand. This was not an accident. It was not blown over by the wind. Someone deliberately shoved it over, and in the course, broke a support bracket for the tail pipe, bent in the break, and snapped a piece of metal off the fairing. This is probably going to cost me $500 to fix. In my opinion, the person who did this doesn't deserve to live. What do they contribute to society? Nothing! The chances are, that my tax dollars are going to welfare to support these assholes so they can live long enough to fuck with my property again at a later date.
What's my solution to this problem? The way I see it, we will interview everyone when they reach age 18. People who do not pass the interview will be terminated. I agree that people too young to know the difference should not be given the same punishments as an adult, but if you reach age 16 and don't realize that breaking someone else’s property, or stealing, or assault is wrong, then you're just too dumb to join society anyway. It’s not like I am requiring everyone to be a super genius or anything… Just don’t be a fuck head!

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The good old 80's


An hour ago I was having a debate about how bad cartoons had gotten recently. I mean seriously... what the fuck is Sponge Bob Square Pants? Or the Powerpuff Girls? Or The Rugrats?
I was remembering all the classics from when I was a kid: He-Man, Thundercats, Transformers... Even some of the slightly later ones such as Duck Tails and Rescue Rangers. In my opinion, all of these shows had a small amount of merit to them, even if it was only in the last 10 seconds where one of the G.I. Joe characters warns little Bobby about the dangers of getting into a car with a crazy axe wielding murderer.
Anyway, somehow I decided that I needed to spend some time looking up the cartoons of my childhood. I found all the great ones that I remember, but I also stumbled across a few that totally defy logic. Does anyone remember Meatballs and Spaghetti?! Or how about one based on the video game Frogger? Thats right... a TV show, based on a game of a frog crossing a road. The Pacman show was slightly better because you could at least pretend there was a point or a higher purpose to the little circle eating the smaller little circles, but how do you explain something like Rubik the Amazing Cube?!
Apparently, in the 80's, they made cartoons about absolutely anything. While I refuse to go back on my argument that modern cartoons are crap, I do see now that old cartoons weren't all just how I remembered them either.

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Bear vs. Beer


This is quite possibly the most convincing argument I've ever heard against budweiser. We all know its a crappy beer, but now nature has spoken. If nothing else, it's an answer to that age old question. How many beers does it take to get a bear drunk.
Thanks to Becky for sending me this ;-)

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I've returned!


I'm back from Europe! Pictures are available at http://www.kissthenerd.com/pictures/europe_2004
I'm also typing up a journal of my time there which is available at http://www.kissthenerd.com/journal. If you don't have your own username and password, you can use guest/guest.

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