Playing Ketchup

Alrighty. Well, I have returned slowly to the land of living. I've been sick since wed of last week and was bed ridden most of the week and spent my weekend moving massive quantities of dirt with a broom. Fun stuff, plus that did wonders for my sickness. But I am finally back in operation but I have alot of blogging to catch up on so bear with me, it's going to be a long post. (it'll probably be tl;dr)

First off, I found a cool little device which you may or may not have seen. I'll let the link do most of the talking, but in a nutshell its a web server in a thumb drive. It's plug and play from what I can tell and you can have it serving content in >2 minutes. Pretty nifty idea if nothing else.

If you haven't heard, they have a new model for the video game character Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider series. For the new game release Alison Carroll will be accepting the role and has released an accompanying photo set. (click the photo for the rest of the set)

Some of those photos are showing a little bit too much blindly white crotch skin (and I hope she's aware of just how much that's going to suck to look at). But thankfully there's such a thing as post production.

Hopefully her hotness won't detract from the game quality. . . er ... wait... never mind. I hope it does. I'm assuming they are going to continue to make it pants-shittingly frightening to play this game, just as they did for the others. But maybe this time, with the advent of the next-gen systems, that it'll offer me a little bit of time to react to the tiger coming out of nowhere because I was too busy ogling pixels.

I found an awesome video on YouTube the other day. It's a re-cut movie trailer of Willy Wonka into a horror/drug culture movie. I won't ruin it much more than that, but rest assured it's worth watching and very well done. Video

Orson Scott Card, author of the Ender's Game and Homecoming series' has declared war on the gays and is asking you to enact your right of revolution against the government to prevent gay marriage from being legalized. Orson Scott Card Wants YOU (To Rise Up Against The Gay Menace).

Why are they called apartments when they are stuck together? (just wondering)

I don't know about you, but that's pretty fucking terrifying.

Um. Well I guess that pretty much catches me up for the last few days as far as things on the internet go.

Here's your music video for today. Alex DePue plays Owner of a Lonely Heart and MJ's Smooth Criminal on a violin. Video

I'm so sick (no not the Flyleaf song)

Well, i'm feeling pretty shitty but i'm at work anyway. Maybe if i'm lucky I can use this to my advantage and get the stupid clients sick. 0.o

Again, I don't have much to write about. I kinda wanted to talk about Obama (I wonder if his Wiki picture is the same as his Facebook) today but I don't really have the energy to write everything. So i'll just sum up by saying that I can't help but feel a little suspicious about the whole thing. I mean look at it, our president now is basically the biggest pawn in history. If there's ever been a puppet president, it's him now, I mean come on, he doesn't even take HIMSELF seriously. And then there's this election, we have one of the most promising and charasimatic potential leaders (probably ever) AND he's black. But then look who he's running against, McCain or something, I don't really know, he's pretty old, lame and boring (in fact, he'd be the oldest president at 73 years). And yet he's running against someone that brings so much hope and potential to not only the nation but to the millions of people living in it. The point being is, I'm somewhat worried that this is all just a hoax and that inaguration day is going to roll around and Bush is going to appear on every TV screen in America and go "Just kidding! Heh, i'm too busy trying to freedomize some countries from those sand people to give up my office right now." And then he sends out the tanks and helicopters and, TAH DAH! Totalitarianism -> Dictatorship. YaY! I guess we'll see what happens.

Here's power rangers. The song was written by Buckethead. Listen to how metal this TV show theme used to be. I grew up with this. Nice

Buckethead - Power Rangers

If someone says "Case of the Mondays" one more time. . .

Well not much is going on today. Most of the people in my office are gone, probably because they are more lazy than I am. Which is cool, because I like to have bosses who are += my.laziness.

I may have secured yet another job to do. A professor on my campus is looking for someone to build him 21 spectral photometers and I'm the most qualified for the job. (go figure) Details to come!

Anyway, like I said, not much going on. I haven't found anything quite so blog worthy (well at least viral Internet stuff) but in other personal news I have just signed papers and am the proud renter of 2109 Lester. I am living with my band mates and a mutual friend. On a recent trip to Georgia with Jak (my bassist), we found an unlabeled CD in my case of which I could not determine origin. So we pop it in the CD player and start to listen to it, we find that is a CD of the most metal of metal. No song labels or anything, but just 15 tracks of pure metal riffs and the most mind meltingly awesome solo ever. So for the last three weeks or so we've been listening to this CD wherever we go and using it as our metal inspiration for our band. Browsing the Internet today revealed to me the identity of the songs and confirmed our suspicions that most of the songs on the CD was Megadeth Rust in Piece. Tornado of Souls is a song with one of the most face melting, technically skilled guitar solos that I've ever heard. Marty Friedman is a god amongst shredders everywhere. Anyway, If you couldn't figure it out already, my musical contribution to you today is Tornado of Souls. The solo starts at 3:11 if you don't want to listen to the rest of it. (it's OK, I'll understand)

Tornado of Souls - Megadeth (Marty Friedman solo)