Game #119 - Max Payne.
Posted on January 27, 2008 at 7:32 pm.
Just finished Max Payne. Now it is on my list under number 119.
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One year anniversary.
Posted on January 25, 2008 at 5:08 pm.
It was brought to my attention that today is exactly one year since I got married. Personnel performance reviews and promotions are to take place later this afternoon.
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My role model.
Posted on January 25, 2008 at 3:57 pm.
Good people still live in Britain Formerly Known as Great.
This guy fought off three attackers who previously murdered someone, despite the fact that they had guns, knives and knocked him out unconscious. They also held his daughter hostage with a knife to her throat.
Two quotes that are utmost inspiring:
"We were going to die anyway, that's what I thought. I thought, if I am going to die then I would rather die like a man than a dog."
"I have never used a weapon in my life and it was a great feeling. I grabbed the gun and bashed it across the knuckle-duster guy. Next thing is they took off and I chased them down the stairs."
Link to the original article is here.
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Fox vs. Mass Effect.
Posted on January 25, 2008 at 9:56 am.
I didn't think I would ever say this, but I am severely dissapointed in Fox News.
SEVERELY.
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Gene pool needs more chlorine.
Posted on January 23, 2008 at 11:30 am.
According to this article, a bunch of young people hung themselves so that they could get a virtual brick in an online remembrance wall.
Sweet!
I, for one, support this 100%. In today's society it is considered bad form to go around killing idiots, so one can only hope that idiots take care of themselves.
Since all the "victims" were fairly young, it is likely that they did not manage to procreate yet, so in weeding themselves out they have done all of us a great service.
We can only hope that more brain-dead morons follow their lead!
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Dont die in BFKG.
Posted on January 13, 2008 at 12:41 pm.
When I die I don't care what happens to my body. I'm an organ donor. I signed the back of my license and told my family.
Gordon Brown, a prime minister of Britain Formerly Known as Great has a similar outlook on life and death. Only he doesn't feel there is a need to sign anything.
Very soon in BFKG the hospitals will be able to take your organs without your consent when you die.
Nice...
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A terrorist has my passport.
Posted on January 12, 2008 at 12:53 pm.
Yesterday I had a phone conversation with my sister, who now works in Seoul, Korea. After listening to what she had to say I asked her to type it up and send the story to me. Here it is:
A Terrorist Has My Passport
Brother dear, I want you to remember that if anyone who goes by my name and date of birth ever blows anything up, it was not me! Alright. So as you know, I applied for an Estonian passport in June. I paid good money for it, traveled to New York and explained 8 times why my parents don't have the same middle name. I should've known there weren't up for the job when they let me walk into the embassy with a suitcase and a huge back pack without patting me down or asking for id. I was so amazed by this that when I got into the elevator, I told the lady who was riding with me, "Can you believe the security didn't even check my bags?" And she said, "If you are gonna do anything, please let me go home first." I agreed.
Anyway, In July, when I was packing for Korea, I emailed the immigration department in Estonia, explained my situation and asked them to send my passport to Seoul when it's ready. They didn't have a problem with this. I still don't have a passport. I could really use too, with all the anti-American shit going on in this country right now. Did you know that the Estonians have an agreement with Korea that allows them to stay here 3 times longer than the Americans without a visa? I wonder what was the reason for this benefit in the first place. There is only a short list of countries that Korea considers eligible and Estonia is one of them, for some reason. Mind you, it's not like all of Europe has the same right, and Estonia just happened to be a part of the union. Spain and Denmark, for example, aren't allowed in here for that long.
Ok, now onto why Estonia shouldn't be a sovereign state. I've been playing email tag with the government officials in Tallinn for 4 months now. They sent me contact information for the Estonian honorary consul in Korea and told me to go pick up my passport. The email address that they provided bounced back. The phone number didn't exist. When I forwarded the undeliverable email to the girls and boys in Tallinn and told them that the number was out of service, they gave me a different email and a different number. The email was faulty again and when I tried to call the number, some angry woman bitched me out in Korean. I tried calling again, and she bitched me out again. Finally, I got an email from Estonia in which they assured me that the guy in Korea has my passport, but they contact him either, and that I should just go to the provided address and see if I can catch him.
First of all, WTF!!! How can a government not be able to contact their own honorary consul?!?!?!
I went there. It was an inhumanely difficult task since people in Seoul don't go by addresses. They tell you to exit a certain gate from a certain subway station, then look for a Burger King, and go to the second floor of the next building or some such directions, and it usually works. Nobody frigging knows where 174 Jorgno-gu is. It took 5 very nice construction workers, a corner store clerk and an old lady all working together to find that building for me. They searched tirelessly for 70 minutes. Finally, we found it. I know it was the right one because there was a huge plaque by the front entrance with "Estonian Honorary Consul in Korea" on it. I even took a picture just to prove that I've been there.
Here's the kicker. When I entered the building, I found a bunch of clay models, computers and Korean architects. The building had been sold to an architecture firm 8 months ago. They all stopped working and began searching the internet for any info that could be of use to me. No one knew where the Estonia-Korean guy went. At last, they made a few calls and told me that the honorary consul retired and this position no longer exists in Korea. After calling some more places, the architects told me that all Estonian business in Korea is now being handled by Finland. They all thought it was very funny. While surfing the net, one of them would say "Estonia!" shaking his head, and the rest would laugh. They never heard of that country before.
At some point their boss walked in and said something in a barking stern tone of voice. Everyone started talking in the same time pointing at me, and I heard the word "Estonia" said a few dozen times. The dude in charge spat something and left. Everybody looked very happy and got back to searching. I could tell the whole thing was very exciting for them. I plan to go back there and buy the construction workers and the architects some pizza.
How can a government not know that they no longer have representation in another country and that another government is handling it for them? I mean, shouldn't the department of immigration be up to date on the international front? It's not like I was trying to force this information out of the department of public health or some such thing! In conclusion, a terrorist has my passport.
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DarkRoom.
Posted on January 10, 2008 at 9:46 am.
I've recently stumbled upon this cool text editor called DarkRoom. It's a tiny free program for Windows, and it's main feature is that it has no features, no buttons and no interface. When you start it up, you get a black full-screen background and you type in an easy to read green font.
It is beautiful.
No destructions, no mess of buttons and arrows and rulers. It has a retro feel of the monochrome computers of old. The most important thing though, is that it helps you focus on what you are writing. It's just you and your text.
You can check it out here.
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Movie - Fulltime Killer.
Posted on January 7, 2008 at 11:19 pm.
Just saw Fulltime Killer, a Hong Kong made movie. I actually enjoyed it a lot. Although a lot of things were pretty unrealistic it is a good example of fun storytelling with great characters and fairly good plot twists.
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Movie - Used Cars.
Posted on January 7, 2008 at 11:17 pm.
Saw Used Cars a few days ago. A nice comedy poking fun an the contemptible presidency of Jimmy Carter among other things.
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship." - Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813)
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