So I was looking at my blog’s stats weeping at the low amount of people who find my shitty writing interesting enough to come here and I was surprised to see what some of the keywords were to finding my blog. Thought I should share them with you all:
- necrophilia fuckers
- tater tots and eggs
Yes. My blog is apparently very popular with people who like to fuck dead people and enjoy a diced and reshaped potato treat. In one way I am honored, but in another I am saddened that I just can’t provide the level of enjoyment I am sure some of them are looking for once they stumble upon this blog.
The search for “necrophilia fuckers” came in via MSN. When I did the search on msn.com with those words I am the fifth listed site. Wow, impressive. While I am all for sexual deviancy and partake in plenty (as some of you may know by my low purity score) I have yet to see the hotness of a corpse and honestly hope I never do. Sorry boys and girls.
Now, tater tots. Those I love. Not as good as Nathan’s fries, but damn good nonetheless.
fnordboy General
I was over at /. reading the latest Blu-Ray story’s comments (shoot me). Someone posted this up about VHS and the beginning of DVDs:
“[VHS] was so dumb, that people didn’t even mind loosing the ability to record TV when they moved over [to DVD].”
I never really thought about that before, but it is true. When I first got into DVDs, sometime in 1999, I pretty much threw my VCR away. Looking back on it I can’t believe I made that transition so easily. I was a recording maniac. I recorded so many movies and shows. I don’t know how or why I just gave it up like that when DVD came around. I can’t remember if Tivo was around then, but I know I sure as hell didn’t have it or any other DVR yet. And I definitely didn’t have a DVD Recorder until a few years later. How did I just give up “archiving” so easily? I can’t really figure it out.
Between my DVR and DVD recorder and PC’s DVD+-RW I can save as much crap as I want to, but I tend not to now. Atleast nowadays I know that the chances are that almost anything that airs on TV will be released on DVD soon enough so I don’t feel the need to record every episode (or any episode for that matter) of a show I like. Six years ago I couldn’t say that.
I guess it is something I will never figure out.
fnordboy DVDs, Films/TV, General
I Titor’d back to 1980 tonight. It was wonderful.
AK and I picked up an Atari Flashback 2 yesterday at Best Buy. Got a great deal too at 19.99 since they only had the price up for the older version. Basically it is a smaller version of the 2600 with 40 games built into it. Supposedly it uses the original hardware, I don’t know though. The controllers are also authentic… just as stiff and uncooperative as you remember. I love it.
I was constantly surprised at the games that I remembered. “‘Haunted House’, what’s that? OH SHIT! I remember this!” Unfortunately some of the games just aren’t as good as you remember them being. That, of course, is not the case for this gem:
River Raid. Yes, River Raid still owns. I think I could still play this game for hours, hell, for $20 bucks I would have bought this system if the only game it had was River Raid.
Everyone who ever owned an Atari 2600 needs to go pick this up. Show your children what you had to play on when they are bitching about the gameplay and/or graphics on their Xbox 360.
fnordboy Games, Nostalgia
Last night Freak Magnet was in town to see Billy Squier, or like she calls him, her future husband. I know… like me I am sure you are all just shocked that: A) He is still alive and B) Anyone remembers who the hell he is. I only remember him because I have VH1 Classic and every now and then they run out of shit to play and throw one of his videos on.
Anyway, after the show she gave me a call so we could get together for some coffee and food before she makes the trek back to MD. AK and I met up with Freak and her friend in Hoboken and took her to a diner I enjoy a couple towns over. First we stopped over by the river so she could take in the beautiful view of NYC we get on this side of the Hudson. We talked a little about her experience in NYC and at the show. By about 12:30 they decided that they needed to start on their way back to MD. I don’t think there is any band that I would drive 3 - 4 hours away for, so I give her credit for that.
Too bad it was for Billy Squier though. 
Had a good time, sucks that it wasn’t earlier in the night, but as least we got together for an hour or so and had some laughs. And it was a nice way to end a crappy day. I have been swamped lately with a project that finally got out the door basically done yesterday. It was a multimedia CD-Rom for a large corporation, and it was just massive as far as the amount of information that needed to be on the CD. Just waiting for some edits and hopefully the rest of the process will be painless… doubtful though. I wanted the project done on Monday, so by Wednesday I was going nuts trying to get it done and at the same time beating myself up for not finishing it when I planned to. Thankfully by the time Freak was around I was in a good mood.
She also brought me some Ayn Rand books, so that was nice. Thanks, Freak! 
fnordboy General, Music