Your parents are getting divorced.
Santa killed himself back in 1974.
The Easter Bunny is a hermaphrodite.

The iPod TouchScreen isn't confirmed.

:(

They just dropped the release specs for my new phone. It's out November 15, conveniently the day after my contract is up for renewal and I get my phone discount.

It's the LG Chocolate flip-phone. It's not stupid like the original Chocolate or the soon-to-be-released Chocolate Platinum. Slider phones are st00pid.

So some people out there hacked the Guitar Hero 2 demo that was in one of the October gaming magazines. Result? More than the 10 default songs supposed to be on the disc. Now 30 are accessible, 3 weeks before release date.

Freebird is on the tracklist for GH2. Here's a video of a very talented player.

To quote Brian Crecente of Kotaku.com

"The song enters holy fuck mode at about 5 minutes and super holy fuck at 7. I believe it causes grand mal seizures at 9."

It does Brian. It does.

Oh...my....God....this is too funny.

Some stupid 13 year old tried to scam someone into giving him their Steam password. (Steam is the online software distributor and game launcher used by Valve Software, creators of Half Life/Half Life 2 etc).

Luckily the would be pwned knew a thing or two, and scammed the kid right back.

br0kenrabbit says:
hi

Greg_ValveOLS says:
good evening

br0kenrabbit says:
What’s ip?

br0kenrabbit says:
up?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
my name is greg a member of the valve online Support team

br0kenrabbit says:
On MSN?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
yes :)

br0kenrabbit says:
Why?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
we logged multiple ips from your account and ned to verifi your information

br0kenrabbit says:
My information?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
we believe someone may have stolen your account mmmm you havent shared youre account infomation with anyone have you?

br0kenrabbit says:
No. I don’t even have it written down.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
hmmm maybe a keylogger on you r PC then maybe you need a format?

br0kenrabbit says:
Well…

Greg_ValveOLS says:
if you can verify your account information to me i can insure that only your ip have access to it Its a new security feature were trying because this happens so muchlogin names and passwords aint safe anymroe You know. L:)

br0kenrabbit says:
Well

Greg_ValveOLS says:
dont worry this connect it secure

br0kenrabbit says:
Can I be honest with you, Greg?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
k

br0kenrabbit says:
Look, I don’t know how you go this MSN account name, don’t really care, either.

br0kenrabbit says:
Unlike you, I DO work for Valve. Trace my ip and you’ll see.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
huh?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
bs

br0kenrabbit says:
Trace it.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
how

br0kenrabbit says:
Start/run/cmd type Tracert and then my IP address and hit enter.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
oh k

br0kenrabbit says:
As an employee, I know that Valve employees will NEVER contact users over MSN. I also know a valve employee will NEVER ask a user for his/her username and password.

br0kenrabbit says:
I’m putting a temporary hold on your Steam account.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
why?

br0kenrabbit says:
Have you read the ToS?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
Tod?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
tos

br0kenrabbit says:
terms of service

Greg_ValveOLS says:
were?

br0kenrabbit says:
Greg, this is a serious infraction against the Tos. You are at risk of losing your account.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
why

br0kenrabbit says:
I just told you why

Greg_ValveOLS says:
:(

br0kenrabbit says:
I need some information from you if you want me to unlock you account. I’m going to write you up but I will only suspend you account for three days, since this is your first infraction, okay?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
k

br0kenrabbit says:
First, what is the name the account is registered to. Not the user name, the persons real name who created the account. This is for verification purposes.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
xxxxx xxxxxxx

br0kenrabbit says:
Is this you?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
ya

br0kenrabbit says:
Are you the only user of this account?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
ya

br0kenrabbit says:
Okay, and what is the username

Greg_ValveOLS says:
xxxxxxxx

br0kenrabbit says:
Okay.

br0kenrabbit says:
I see you have purchased a few of our games, thank you. :)

Greg_ValveOLS says:
some. dude

Greg_ValveOLS says:
m

br0kenrabbit says:
Do you always log on from the same IP?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
ya

br0kenrabbit says:
And who is your internet providers, your ISP?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
xxxxxxx

br0kenrabbit says:
Thank you. One moment, please, let me verify this information.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
am i gonna be bale to play 2nite?

br0kenrabbit says:
What is your city of residence?

br0kenrabbit says:
That depends on if you cooperate. You’re doing fine so far.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
xxxxxx

br0kenrabbit says:
Illinios?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
yes

br0kenrabbit says:
Okay. And what is the password associated with this account?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
xxxxxxx

br0kenrabbit says:
Okay. Do not try to log into steam. If you are connected now you need to log off.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
why

br0kenrabbit says:
So I can update your account.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
can I play 2 nite

Greg_ValveOLS says:
clan fight

Greg_ValveOLS says:
wont win without me heh

br0kenrabbit says:
Heh. You’ll have to wait a few minutes. Are you logged off?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
ya

br0kenrabbit says:
Okay. Give me just a moment.

br0kenrabbit says:
Try to log in now.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
k

Greg_ValveOLS says:
It says login failed wtf wtf!!@?

br0kenrabbit says:
Greg

Greg_ValveOLS says:
did u ban me???????????>WHY

br0kenrabbit says:
Greg

Greg_ValveOLS says:
what

br0kenrabbit says:
Valve will never ask for your username and password.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
what????

br0kenrabbit says:
I don’t work for Valve dude, but you just got pwnt.

Greg_ValveOLS says:
omg dude wtf why?

br0kenrabbit says:
Why were you trying to steal my account?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
i wanst

br0kenrabbit says:
Then why were you asking for my information?

Greg_ValveOLS says:
i was just making a joke but not cerious honest dude just give
my acount back pllllleeease i’m only 13 and save d up for like a year to buy it

br0kenrabbit says:
Greg

Greg_ValveOLS says:
dude pleas

Greg_ValveOLS says:
what

br0kenrabbit says:
Go mow some yards, bitch.

Freezepop, an indie electronic group that I've loved for over 4 years is offering some free song downloads all zipped up pretty for ya. Snag 'em here.

I first heard of them way back in a game called FreQuency. It was a PS2 game by a company called Harmonix. It was a music game where you had "tracks" of music to activate. They came out with a sequel, Amplitude. Man were those games fun. The first was more house-esque music, and techno beats. Despite the fact No Doubt was on there it was a remix of Ex-Girlfriend and not that great. Amplitude had amazing artist support hough. POD, Run DMC, Garbage, Weezer, David Bowie, Papa Roach and Blink 182 just to name a few.

Harmonix set their sights on ROCK next and gave us Guitar Hero. I haven't had that much fun with a game in ages. You may have seen posts about it in the past, since Guitar Hero 2 drops on the 7th of this month. Needless to say anyone who's played the original is excited. The track list is amazing, and the game is at least 5x as hard.

You play with a plastic guitar controller. Chords are held with 5 buttons that are on the frets, each a different color. You "strum" a toggle bar in time with the notes on the screen while holding the correct chord combo. It's a little confusing at first but anyone I've watched play for the first time had the hang of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock And Roll" by the middle of the song. Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert are the difficulty modes. I can only do a few Hards so far. The experts are enough to give one an aneurysm. Take a look.


Freezpop has had songs on every Harmonix game and they've apparently got a close relationship with them. Harmonix has used a lot of indie groups in Guitar Hero 1 and 2, a majority of which are bands of Harmonix employees!

I've gotten into maybe 12 new artists I never knew of. Talk about good exposure for a group.

This may be the best Gamer's Manifesto I've ever read. It's hilarious yet stays true to many of the gripes of the gaming community. Worth a read.

Some highlights:

The crate has long been held up as an example of lazy game art design, a crutch that game level decorators have been falling back on for fifteen damned years. Come to think of it, have you ever actually seen one of those wooden crates in real life? And did you smash it to see if there were bullets and medicine inside?

Once upon a midnight madness sale I sauntered, steeped in sadness,
Through the shiny piles and aisles composing my computer store.
Suddenly there came a rapping. "Skeet skeet skeet." Had I been napping?
Energy, it had been sapping from my soul for weeks or more.
Yea, those loathsome customers had chilled my being for weeks or more.
Back-to-school had drained my core.

Soon the winds would bring the winter - time to sell each mouse, each printer.
"Profit!" said I, "Thing of evil? Nah," applying Avacor.
For while came the rare exception, money flowed from deep deception.
Ignorance would find reception warm throughout each corridor.
From these fools I'd find the dollars flow down every corridor.
Idiots I did adore.

There I saw him, by the mobos, dressing like those unkempt hobos -
Greasy hair atop the fat and pimples that adorned each pore.
Mannerisms quite absurd, he stood there mumbling, looking nerdy,
Yet I could not find the word he brought to mind inside the store.
In that squalid rust of malice did he slither through the store,
Saying naught and nothing more.

Fate approached him as a customer who seemed at once to trust him.
"Are these cameras any good? I've never shopped for one before."
Glasses thick, stubble unshaven, spewing trivia like Cliff Clavin,
On he went, this crazy maven bragging of his Slashdot score.
"If you read my blog, you'd know my postings rate above a four.
'Funny' and 'Insightful' are the words you'd see with five or four."
After which she fled the store.

Then a man who lacked acumen caused his targeting to zoom in.
"Windows spyware drives me nuts. Removing it is such a chore.
"This Mac mini sure looks swell so buying it would end my hell, no?"
"Apple's switching to Intel so I would wait a year or more
"And you'll want new software too if you don't wait a year or more."
Quoth the maven, "Leave the store."

I heard this a long time ago but I liked it enough to post on my blog :P

Bryan wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company's Christmas party. Bryan is not normally a drinker, but the drinks didn't taste like alcohol at all. He didn't even remember how he got home from the party.

As bad as he was feeling, he wondered if he did anything wrong. Bryan had to force himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to them,a single red rose!

Bryan sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean andp ressed. He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotlessly clean. So is the rest of the house.


He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror. Then he notices a note hanging on the corner of the mirror written in red with little hearts on it and a kiss mark from his wife in lipstick!:

Honey,
Breakfast is on the stove. I left early to go get groceries to make you your favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling!

Love,
Sherry

He stumbles to the kitchen and sure enough, there is hot breakfast, steaming hot coffee and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Bryan asks, "Son... what happened last night?"

"Well, you came home after 3 A.M, drunk and out of your mind. You fell over the coffee table and broke it, and then you puked in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door."

Confused, he asked his son, "So, why is everything in such perfect order, so clean, I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?"

His son replies, "Oh THAT! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, "Leave me alone, lady, I'm married!"

Broken Coffee Table $89.99
Hot Breakfast $4.20
Two Aspirins $0.38

Saying the right thing, at the right time..............PRICELESS!!!

Some shows start off amazing, and then fade in subsequent seasons. I'm glad that Lost is still keeping my attention week after week. They dropped a bomb in the first episode of Season 3 and it was slow going for a week or so, but now things are picking up again. I'm really interested to see where things get taken, and how they'll tie older themes back into the show.

And damn it why did Locke lose the use of his legs? I want that question answered soon lol.

Here's a little trip down memory lane. Toby at 4 months :P

Super Michael Jackson Brothers Speedrun

Part 1: Michael Jackson Quest III

Part 2: Michael Jackson Fantasy

Part 3: The grand finale - Michael Jackson Forever!!!

That is all. Lol.

Bakrudeen Ali Ahamed Mohamed Ali Jinnah wins the "Most Difficult Name To Remember Award" for 2006. Awarded 2 months early because I'm pretty damn sure nothing will top it.

Finally some positive press about Bully. I'm only 14% through this game and I'm enjoying every bit. It is as good as the hype made it out to be, and nothing as violent for another matter. It's funny how most critics look at the title of something and jump to conclusions.

Article after the jump.

Blind Melon...my first favorite band is getting a new lead singer and working on new material.

It won't be Shannon Hoon so I have mixed feelings on this so far.

This guy McPhee disses Kingdom Hearts 2.

Funniest video I've seen since Leeroy Jenkins.

BITCH ZOMBIES COMING UP THE HILL RIGHT NOW! sHOOT 'EM IN THE HEAD! SHOOT EM! GRAB THE SHOTGUN! yOU DON'T NEED TO LOAD IT! WE DID THAT FOR YOU! WHAT ARE YOU PRESSING SELECT FOR?! YOU HAVE NO TIME TO MAKE A PROFILE!! BITCH! ZOMBIE'S IN THE ROOM!! HIS AXE IS ON FIRE!!! HE KILLED YOUR PARENTS!! SHOOT 'EM IN THE HEAD!! SHOOT HIM IN THE HEADDDDDD!!

I'm a huge fan of Kotaku, and one of their editors Florian Eckhardt. He has a sharp wit and comes up with some hilarious situations and metaphors. He did this article today about buying the Rockstar game Bully. Check it out, it had me laughing way too hard.

I don't know how many of you out there follow politics, or even care, but I've been involved since Bush Jr.'s first election.

Maybe you're heard Michael J. Fox's campaign ads for Missouri's Jim Talent. It really should be called disinformation. The bill in question that Talent is campaigning on is Amendment 2, or also known as the "Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative." This amendment has nothing to do with stem cell research in the least. It is ACTUALLY an amendment to make it a constitutional right to clone humans in Missouri. For four years Missouri legislators have been trying to ban human cloning, and now the Democrats are parading the sick. Why?

Because you can't victimize the sick. You can't challenge someone ill with Parksinson's Disease. If you do it's just viewed as cruel and heartless. But just because you can't challenge someone does that mean their view is right? Most often not. Michael J. Fox claims that Talent is trying to criminalize stem cell researchers, when in fact this amendment has nothing to do with it first of all, and secondly stem cell research is actually legal and being practiced at universities and medical research facilities in Missouri today.

I'm a big Michael J. Fox fan, I've loved him for years and he'll always be Marty McFly in my mind. I also read his book, 2002's Lucky Man. I was shocked to find the following admission. He admits in the book that before Senate subcommittee on appropriations in September of 1999, he did not take his medication for the purpose of demonstrating the full effect of Parkinson's disease. It appears Mike is up to the same trick again.

"I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease and the urgency we as a community were feeling be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling."

Makes a lot of sense why he was never that bad on Spin City or other appearances.

So to sum it up a human cloning amendment, which would be made a constitutional right, is being billed as a stem cell research issue with the false pretense that Michael J. Fox would be healed within a decade due to the research.

This is why I dislike smear campaigns. Democrats are basically spreading false hope to millions who are afflicted with diseases of this sort. There is no concrete evidence showing that we will definitely have a cure for any of these sicknesses. The message is "If we defeat the Republicans we can heal Michael." This is using and exploiting someone in the worst manner to achieve your own ends. They did this in 2004 with Spinal Paralysis and Christopher Reeves...and now they're doing it again.

Why is embryonic stem cell research so important? Why not work towards adult stem cells? Why not continue work on extracting stem cells from umbilical cords? It CAN be done. Because underneath it all this is really about abortion still. It's the biggest platform Democrats have and they won't give that one up without a fight. Anything that stands in the way of stem cell research is also an enemy to abortion. Rush Limbaugh can be a little radical at times, but he puts it very well.

"If you leave it up to these liberals, you're going to end up with a culture where they are going to decide who lives and who dies based on the convenience and personal preferences of theirs. We're already eliminating kids in the womb. We're eliminating the elderly because they're an inconvenience, and now we want to eliminate the embryos and fetuses because we might be able to cure disease even though there's no evidence whatsoever for it."

I love and hate politics at the same time. There's more distortion than a Tool concert.

Hybrid Cars. The future? Or just an annoying present?

My next car will be a hybrid. Most likely the Toyota Highlander Hybrid. I love that car, and if it shaves off some gas prices in my pocket so be it.

This article is pretty hilarious though checking in on some of most beloved celebrities and clocking their fuel consumption. They're not as "green" as they appear.

But way to go Leonardo DiCaprio. He travels commercial for all his movies unless there's a huge scheduling rush. The rest of them fly their fancy personal jets, burning more fuel than they'll ever save the Earth. Why not start a campaign to fly commercial only? So you might have to fill out a bunch of autographs for fans...you're a celebrity. You're rich because of them.

Go Leo. You're on a roll in the new millenium.

"Recent events in Iran and North Korea support President Bush's 2002 claim that those nations were part of an "axis of evil," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.

After discussions of the North Korean nuclear test and the anti- Semitic remarks of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, radio host Sean Hannity asked Rice about the axis remark.

"You think of some of the world reaction to the president's use of the word 'axis of evil,' and then you see how events have been unfolding," Hannity remarked.

"It was a pretty good analysis, wasn't it?" Rice replied. "It really was."

YEAH CONDI! YOU GO GIRL!

Tiger Direct is offering 1GB flash drives for $5. They're $90 with an $85 rebate. Jump on this if you don't have a flash drive, because everyone needs important files with them at all times.

YAAAAAAAAY!