Wow... that was nerdalicious!

Well, I've finally done it. I've read all of XKCD. There is nothing out there that speaks to my nerd and geek tendencies so strongly. The really cool part for me was the way it explains complex emotional states in such a complex scientific way that it made perfect sense to me. I feel like I've gained a new sense of clarity that isn't related to hating people and that's rare indeed. To celebrate, here's a dancing monkey quoting Shakespeare.

Also, this page, it amuses me.

-Salem
This is how I lived until I ditched my alarm clock and started using my mobile phone.

Connections...

So today has had an interesting start for me. We got a visit from a long lost family member today (my cousin to be specific) and I was informed about her family. Turns out that I'm rather closely and directly related to Brisbane's current head of the Ethical Standards Command, Assistant Commissioner Alan Davey. Indeed, he falls into the category of second cousin. This comes as a bit of a shock to me for many obvious reasons...

-Salem
Is it ethical of me to wear a bomb-squad shirt? I hope so...

30% of Tabula Rasa done

*sigh* its now 5:47pm and I've been going since about 9am this morning and we're up to 30%. Maybe my joke earlier about this not being done in time for Salem coming home might be right. But I hope not.

So as the net is incredibly slow and CoV just looks at me and laughs when I try to load it up I found this.

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2799214

So whoevers on enjoy and have fun watching some sweet anime clippets. yes not clips, clippets.

Oh yeah, I went there...

How dull is my life? Well, I've just managed my new record in Penguin and I'm posting about it. 'Nuff said.


-Salem
No sir, you are quite correct. I have no life.

Flaming Carrot gets all the Ladies

No, seriously, he totally does...

-Salem
What a carrot...

7 Day Retrospective

Disclaimer:
Don't read this. No seriously, I posted this up simply to pass the time and perhaps look back at in the future and get a bit of perspective. As such, this contains nothing even remotely amusing and I can promise that it's just a bunch of self-gratifying BS. In short, this is just the kind of crap that you can find posted all over MySpace (no I will not link to them, no matter how relevant) and exactly the kind of thing that makes me loathe that same site. Run, run for the hills and never look back at this mass of writhing egotism!
End of Disclaimer.

Well, today is Thursday and I've finished off all my work for the week. This is a good thing to be sure, but my week has plagued me somewhat. On the whole, I think this has been one of the worst weeks I've ever had but to make sure, I've decided to make a list of pros and cons. Why am I posting it? Meh, it's my blog and I'll post what I like. It's in the charter dammit.

So let's take a look at what has transpired between last Thursday and today.

Pros:
Went for my second interview at Pandemic Studios in Brisbane.
I Finished off the last of the bridge that I've been working on.
I got paid.
Frejak was able to attend my work Christmas party.
Got to kiss my girlfriend in front of our co-workers. (Complicated)
I have time to take all my allotted smoke breaks at work.
I've managed to amass 2 weeks of paid leave.
I was given a slingshot... a really good one.
I still have decent coffee in the cupboard here at the office.

Cons:
My girlfriend broke up with me.
I've still got a nagging cough and the sniffles.
After paying bills and rent, I've had $.063 since Friday.
I missed the work Christmas party because I was working.
It was the last kiss I will ever receive from her.
I just ran out of smokes, making smoke breaks useless.
I organised a week long trip to my parents house.
My track record shows that slingshots get me in trouble.
My diet this week has consisted of little more than coffee.

That's really about all of it I guess. Looking over it, this week really has sucked. Thankfully, I've eaten so very little this week that my body is surrendering to my brain, so it feels like I'm floating on a cloud of endorphins that really shouldn't be there. Besides, I think I used up a years quota of depression on Sunday and Monday, so I don't have the emotional energy for anything more than apathy right now. We should all know this formula by now:

Apathy + Endorphins = Mild Euphoria

I'll be floating around here somewhere for a while yet I'd say. Perhaps I'll go home and risk playing around with that slingshot...
It really was an awesome gift.

-Salem
No, you probably didn't need to know any of that.

Not that he'll see it here...

Well, this is getting sent all over the place and there's a good chance that you've already seen it, but I still like it. I'm primarily posting it up for Visure, but to be honest, he probably won't watch it here. He can't get to the interwebs from his workplace and since he doesn't bother checking much that's happening on-line at home, his membership here is mostly honorific (that means he's a member only in the spirit of including one of my closest friends in my activities). Anyhow, this one is for you Vis, I hope you like it if you ever see it here.



If it wasn't that they use VB, I'd swear that this was perpetrated by the people behind the "Australia" episode of the Simpsons...

-Salem
"Orchestral music?"
"Beer!"
"O-R..."
"B-E..."
~sigh~

Zombie Quest 1.0

Has this ever happened to you?

Well I'm sure hoping that it hasn't or I may have missed the event that I've been waiting for. Either way, it's mostly irrelevant. Seeing something along those lines is becoming a sure fire way to tell that you'll be reading about zombies and I hate to disappoint. This however is not really a part of the larger "Zombie Plan" series, but more accurately something I personally plan on doing in the midst of the Zombie Apocalypse while others are adhering to the plan. I'm sure that what you will read here will shock you in the fact that my Zombie Quest is completely at odds with the goals of our Zombie Plan, namely survival.

I've recently been telling people that once our plan has been put into action and we have fortified ourselves adequately that I plan to aim the stereo out the window, put on some serious metal and jump off the front balcony to go and inflict some Hollywood style carnage on the horde of walking corpses that are sure to gather at the entrance to our Zombie Fortress. Today, I've decided that this is no longer just something I'm joking about, I'm going to do it. Rather than just aim the speakers out the window, I'm going to arm myself with some personal speakers plugged into an MP3 player and make a serious effort to damage and mutilate things in the most picturesque and mind-blowingly awesome ways I can think of. In short, if I could film myself, I'm sure that it would be YouTube's most watched video. I'm hoping that I'll manage to rack up an impressive kill count and don't think I'll stop until I'm either too tired to keep going, my MP3 player goes flat or I just get eaten. Should be fun.

The thing here is that Survival and I aren't really the best of friends. There's not a single RPG game that I've played during which my character will enact some sort of near-suicidal plan designed to get everyone else out of the hopeless situation that threatens to doom us all. Sometimes it goes well and miracles happen, other times it leaves my character mutilated and in need of major surgery in the next 5 minutes or face the kind of death that is reserved for heroes in war movies and Shakespearian tragedies. Why is this even remotely relevant? Well mostly because I'm quite willing to do the same in my everyday life. It doesn't show through nearly as much, but it's there. When was the last time you had to be the last one out of a tunnel so that your group of friends would be sure the C4 detonated, destroying the cyborgs that were chasing you? Exactly my point, you don't get the same calibre of disaster in reality as you do in an RPG.


I'm sure that my massive martyr complex will kick in at the exact same time as the Zombie Apocalypse so the hard part of the plan for me will be not throwing myself on my sword until it will do some honest good. Fighting my way through hundreds of the undead to go get plain flour for some cookies that Frejak hoped to bake to raise moral when all we have in the cupboard is self-raising... not really the best reason to risk becoming zombie-chow, but in my mind, it's good enough. Let's just hope that my MP3 player is out of juice when that one hits. Still, given half a chance, I'll be willing to risk getting torn open to do some good for the team and that is my personal Zombie Quest.

-Salem
At least there will be more food for everyone, zombies included.

Dammit! Just... Dammit!

Well, it finally happened. We got a comment from a completely non-affiliated person. This is not the reason for my cursing however, the reason is that they left a return link to their own blog and well... I can't read the damn thing!

So you are all aware, I don't know any language other than English.

This upsets me because I believe in the whole "One good turn deserves another" and in this case, my own lack of languages is preventing me from being able to understand anything. I'm not going to go around promoting other people's blogs unless I've read them first, so what the hell do I do here?

Well, I guess our new visitor will have to be content knowing that while I can't in good conscience say anything nice about their blog, I am still grateful for the compliments left for us here. Thank you, you were not overlooked, I just don't know... I'm going to guess at Spanish, but what the hell would I know. It's a miracle I can even get along in English these days. I hope that in the future, you will continue to enjoy our pointless postings while I go and find someone to translate for me.
~sigh~

-Salem
Just... DAMMIT!

New Comic

Sara_Jayne sent me the link for XKCD and here are two of my favourites:


Hehehe... comics :)

-Salem
When will I run out of things to do here?

The More You Know!

Just thought you'd like to see how we stack up to the other web-sites. Aren't we amazing? I think we could have hit 'Genius' if I hadn't posted that story about the bear. Live and learn I suppose. We'll try again next year/100 posts, whichever comes first I guess.

-Salem
Go on, ask me something hard...

First, 100 posts and now our 1st Birthday.

Take it away MC Chris!

~~~~~
Go Robot, it's your birthday!
Go Robot, it's your birthday!

You're one year older, one year wiser,
Rock n' Roll star, King, Tsar and a Kaiser.
A room full of friends, a mouth full of cake,
Every present is for you and it feels pretty great.
You're the man of the hour, the V.I.P.
You get the first slice of the p.i.e.
But first blow out the candles and make a wish.
Put a smile on 'cus it's your birthday bitch!

Go Robot, it's your birthday!
Go Robot, it's your birthday!
~~~~~

The best kind of deadly sin...

Ok, so enough with the birthday songs. It's been a great year here on MB and I have to say that I'm shocked (but pleasantly so) that we managed to keep going this long. Usually, our collective interest wanes and dies within a few weeks of starting on something like this. Turns out that if this blogger thing is indeed the deadly sin that has replaced Sloth, then we're eager to submit to an eternity in Hell.

Hmm... The scary cat-thing makes a compelling argument...

The upside is that I can now announce that the winner of our '100 Rambles' contest is (and this will come as a shock to you all I'm sure)... Kahn. I'd be bitter about him beating me, but since I'm ineligible to win anything as it's my contest, I guess I'll be content with making sure that my name is plastered all over the award so that he can never forget who the real king of this little hill is. Congratulations! We love you Kahn, you shall live to blog another day.

Hmm... The fuzzy baby penguin makes a compelling argument...

If you haven't yet noticed, I'm also using this post to throw up a lot of random pics that I've found and enjoyed. If you don't like it, I recommend you click here and go somewhere else on the interwebs as I plan on continuing to scatter unrelated items throughout the remainder of this post. This is what happens when I post while I'm sick, the fever germs get into my brain and things get rather mixed up. My attention span is short enough but when I'm sick... hehehe, I posted 3 animal pics in a row :)

Would we make fun of Catholics? Well duh! Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Sorry, where was I? Never mind, I think my germs are massing for another attack. I gonna lay down back 'cause our concussion have me sleepy. Happy birthday MB. I got us all a cake to celebrate... but I ate it. It was friggin' deliciolous.

Kruddler!

-Salem
60% of the time, I work every time!