Older: March 2004
Newer: May 2004

C O A C H E L L A z

In about five hours, Morgan and I are driving down to LA to pick up Palidor & co. for the Coachellaweekend. The itinerary looks something like this:

Friday afternoon - Palidor & the Espers arrive

Friday evening - Do whatever around the Anaheim area. As I discovered while trying to book a motel during the week before a gigantic event, 90% of the world's hotels are in Anaheim, and they always have rooms.

Saturday morning - Begin the long drive to Indio at some ungodly hour. The distance is one unfortunate side effect of lodging in Anaheim.

rest of Saturday - omg coachellaz

Sunday morning - Back to LAX then back to Santa Barbara so I can go to work.

At the moment it looks like i forgot to schedule sleep in there somewhere. Hopefully there will be some time for that Friday night.

lol xbox = big

I've mentioned before how much CNN.com's article illustrations amuse me, and I fully intend to post a small gallery of the best ones once I've amassed enough of them. CNN may want to look out, though, because it looks like the New York Times is going to give them a run for the money. Of course, I'm talking about this image, from this article. It may lack CNN.com's apprentice Photoshopper charm, but I think the sheer absurdity more than makes up for that.

They should also play "Boat of Car"

So at the next They Might Be Giants concert I happen upon, when everyone in the crowd is screaming for them to play Istanbul, I'm just going to whip out the megaphone and go, you know, screw that, let's hear Hot Cha.

Seriously, though, is there such thing as a TMBG concert where they don't play Istanbul?

Tangentally, here is the guy who opened for them. He is totally weird and finished up his set with "We are the Champions" on the accordion. Awesome.

So here's a song about a crazy bastard who wants to hit me

It's called, "Bastard Wants to Hit Me."

Der Übergeeken

If I were going to be interviewing someone for some computer-related job, I'd probably prepare a typical set of questions, but as soon as the person walked into the interview room, here's what would happen: I'd sit them down in front of a computer connected to the office's mighty T1, with some URL entered incorrectly into a browser. Something like http://www.google.co/, or preferably something that would give them an error page. Then I'd hit return and they'd have to fix it before the error could load.

If they can do that, they're hired. Otherwise, on with the questions.

冰冰娃娃

勾結和聽

Just something stupid I made during some downtime in class.

Just look how awesome John Woo is

Future Metroid director John Woo in his Santa Monica office. Photo courtesy NYTimes.com (mostly).

Destroy them all!

I just found out that Gradius V got pushed back till September. I thought it was out this week. That sucks. However, I did find mention that Hiroshi Iuchi is handling direction and game design, which explains why it looks like luv.

Warning: racist Photoshop humor

I was sitting in my digital strategies for painters class today and we were going over some select JPEGs of MC Hammer and Milli Vanilli. The image of Mr. Hammer was a little too red so I was trying to tweak it a bit, and then I thought it would be pretty funny if some engineer over at Adobe had rigged it so if you had a photo of a black guy and used Auto Levels it turned him white. Ahahahahahaha.

I would never do anything like that, of course.

Top 5 track names from Shadow Hearts II

  1. His Name is Gran Papillon ! !
  2. Getting Nasty
  3. Hardcore to the Brain
  4. Concon Ticktin Con Ticktin
  5. Swoop !

It's true: Yoshitaka Hirota is from another planet.

CHOMP CHOMP

*rofl*

Scary shark image of the week. I don't know if you could pay me to stand there. What if it jumps out of the wall??

Sharks deftly defeated bears in the long-running, long-closed poll, by the way. If a shark versus a bear seemed too close to call to you, imagine this scenario: 100 sharks vs. 100 bears, in that same mythical river. The image in your mind should be that of a wave of endless teeth and an explosion of fur.

Within you without you

What could be more mellow than listening to freaky Beatles sitar music and smoking delicious opium??

That's mostly rhetorical.

On a similar subject, a conversation from work today:

<Danny> Getting drunk is just so fun. It feels like I'm flying through the air!
<me> Are you sure you're not doing heroin?
<Danny> You mean... (taps arm and does shooting up motion)
<me> You forgot to tie it off first.
<Danny> HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT??

Older: March 2004
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