There’s some dude in France who hates dogs. You know he was totally hiding behind a bush and pointing and laughing at the guy and his dog.

Sir Jesus-A-Lot

On Friday Ryan, Manveer, and I went to play pool. We were at a table, and then this guy and these two girls start playing at the table next to ours. After a while, they finish playing and the girls go to the bar to pay. I’m just sitting on the stool by our table waiting for my turn when the guy from the other table comes up to me and is like, “What’s up man?” I’m like, “Not much, what’s goin’ on?” I thought he was going to ask if we wanted to play him…I don’t know if I would have ever guessed what he really wanted…

“I’ll give you a hundred dollars cash to take these fat chicks off my hands,” he says.

Naturally, I begin laughing hysterically at him. He’s like, “Seriously, look at them, I’ll give you the money right now if you take them for me.” I tell him that I’m good and wish him good luck with his fat chicks.

By now, Manveer and Ryan have come over to see what this guy is talking about. He tells them he’ll up it to two hundred dollars cash if they take the fat chicks off his hands.

He informs us that his friend set him up with this girls and told him that, “they had pretty faces.”

He apparently had lied to them and told them that he had forgotten his wallet at home and didn’t have any cash, at which point he pulled out this huge wad of money out of his pocket to prove he had the money he was offering us. It had to have been at least 300 dollars.

He finally got the point that he was talking to the wrong people when we didn’t stop laughing at him.

And the moral of the story is, some people will pawn fat chicks off on other people.

Microsoft wrote this article that is intended to help parents understand what their kids are talking about online, but they focus on leetspeek. I’m pretty confident that most of the kids that talk online aren’t talking in leetspeek. They need to focus on the acronyms that are commonly used. I doubt the majority of kids are gonna be into the warez scene. And they say that people who use “pwn3d” are bullies, or “griefers.” What the crap is a griefer…no one knows what that is Regis. I also really like this bullet:

“pron”: An anagram of “porn,” possibly indicating the use of pornography.

hahaha…”possibly indicating the use of”….hahaha, that sounds like it’s a tool to be used for some greater purpose. “hron: an anagram of “horn,” possibly indicating the use of a horn to show animosity towards another driver.” If your children are using the hron often, they may be suffering from road rage.

ph34r my l33t skillz

Dr. Pepper has come out with a new product…Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper…it certainly sounds promising, but I wonder if it delivers. I guess I’ll have to try and find it somewhere to see for myself. As a big Dr. Pepper advocate, I’m definitely up for trying it.

I saw this dumb kid who had on a Big Dog shirt (I didn’t know they still made those). But anyway, it said “Lord of the Big Dogs” on it in the LotR font and everything. I was gonna punch him in the face…but there were lots of other people in the room, so I decided I’d better wait and jump him in the parking lot.

LokiTorrent (http://www.lokitorrent.com) was shut down yesterday by the MPAA. On the site it says:

“You can click but you can’t hide.”

“This website has been permanently shut down by court order because it facilitates the illegal downloading of copyrighted motion pictures. The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity. Illegally downloading movies from sites such as these without proper authorization violates the law, is theft, and is not anonymous. Stealing movies leaves a trail. The only way not to get caught is to stop.”

I’m not objecting to people getting paid to make movies. I haven’t downloaded a movie in a long time, but I do have a problem with the MPAA employing draconian measures in an attempt to stifle what clearly is a viable means to propagate their content.

I also have an issue with them referring to the downloading of a movie as “stealing.” It’s not stealing. It’s copyright infringement…which is entirely different. Loss of alleged, potential, future revenue is not theft of a tangible, existing asset. The most that they’ve lost in potential income is either 8, 20, or 28 dollars…on average. That’s assuming that you’d have gone to see the movie in the first place (8 dollars), you liked it after you downloaded it and bought the DVD (20 dollars), or you saw it in the movie theater and bought the DVD (28 dollars).

The MPAA’s goals in all of this seem unrealized. Every time they shut down some site, 3 come up in it’s place. I’d also point out that every single case of some torrent site getting shut down has resulted in a settlement. None of them have ever gone to trial. Hmm…I wonder why that is? I’m going to say that the corporate fear mongering is all they really have. They’re just too greedy to figure out a new business model that works with their customers as well new as distribution mediums.

I really like “You can click but you can’t hide.” Ha! I think it should be something else….

If you click a torrent…the terrorists have won.

http://maps.google.com

Google’s mapping service completely 0wn5 every other map service out there…it’s totally awesome!!

Time Warner screws everyone out of money…spread the word!!

So, say you have regular cable and your bill runs from the 19th of the month to the 18th of the next month. You decide to upgrade your service on the 6th of the month…right in the middle of your billing cycle. So you’ve got two weeks of the previous month’s bill that you haven’t had the newer service. Time Warner doesn’t prorate retroactively for their service — meaning that if you sign up for a service in the middle of the month, they charge you for the entire month, not just the two weeks of the billing period that you’ll have the service for.

The Time Warner representative told me that this is how it worked but that “their intent isn’t to screw you out of money.” I say, “Eff that s!”. That’s exactly what they’re doing.

I propose we start a website…perhaps http://www.timewarnerblowsgoats.com, to gather people together to start a grassroots effort to get them to change their crappy service and their billing system “features” that just happen to screw you out of a lot of money if you want to upgrade your service.

Time Warner…a pox on thee I claim!!

People truly are retarded. In this study that surveys how students see free speech, some disturbing results were found. “Three in four students said flag burning is illegal. It’s not. About half the students said the government can restrict any indecent material on the Internet. It can’t.” If that’s not Orwellian, I don’t know what is.

Anywho…I saw Something Corporate and Straylight Run over the weekend. It was an awesome show. I forgot it at the time, but Straylight Run was started by two of the guys who left Taking Back Sunday a while back. I suggest you listen to them, but don’t expect Taking Back Sunday, because you won’t get that.

If I had a time machine I’d travel to the 30th century to try caffeinated bacon, baconated grapefruit, and Admiral Crunch.