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| Trigun Volume #2 (the manga) |
| 08.31.04 (8:08 pm) [edit] |
I read the 2nd Volume of Trigun (the manga) just the other day.
That was actually kind of irritating.
The whole book was actually pretty good, save the last chapter. The plot was going good, and setting itself up for a long story with a number of additional characters yet to be used. Then, all of a sudden the author decides "I'm going to end it!" So he does, leaving about 7 cool characters completely unused, and a stupid anticlimatic confusing finish.
it sucked, big time.
plus there was a sequence at the end that I was VERY surprised that Dark Horse printed. (of course, I'm more surprised that it was in the manga without any warning on the back than I am the fact that they published it.)
So . . . uh . . . yeah . . . that last sequence is like R+ rating. (miracle of life, anyone?) Just giving you a heads up so that you don't read it on accident without warning.
I don't plan on buying that book.
That and Capcom pushed back the Street Fighter collection 1 more frickin' day! ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
oh well . . . I'm going to bed.
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| synchronized swimming |
| 08.28.04 (10:01 am) [edit] |
I saw a little bit of Synchronized swimming yesterday.
That actually is a pretty cool sport. (even if it still is a bit rediculous with their forced smiles mixed with trying extremely hard to breath, leaving a wide mouth grin like a psycho killer.)
I saw the Japanese put on a terriffic show, getting almost straight 9.9s. Then the Russains after that pulled 9.9 - 10s.
Then came the americans . . . That had some sort of eurocosmetics that made them look . . . plastic psycho? I had to turn it off, they were just eerie ugly looking.
so . . . I'm not going to say that synchronized swimming shouldn't be an olympic sport anymore . . .
but it's still a bit weird.
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| Kerry the Jerk |
| 08.27.04 (4:26 pm) [edit] |
I imagine most of you don't have military connections. So I figured I'd post this:
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Observations of Kerry by an Air Force Pilot.
I'm confident that in approximately 15 minutes this article will be in the inboxes of every resident of the free world and maybe even few people in France.
Chris Thomas, Air Force Pilot:
I would like to add my two cents about my John Kerry experience. During my career as an Air Force pilot, I spent two years flying a small twin engine prop plane around the Pacific from my base in Okinawa, Japan. On one trip we had to fly Senator Kerry, his congressional aide, and a Navy Captain (Vietnam, A-4 fighter pilot) who was also in Kerry's party to various locations in Vietnam and Cambodia as part of the MIA/POW talks.
When I met him, he was wearing a shirt with a picture of his sailboat on it. I told him I had a 27' sailboat in Okinawa, he remarked "Oh I never sail on anything less than 135 feet." Thanks, Senator, "I feel even better about the meager salary I get paid for flying you around the Pacific."
When we first flew him into Phnom Penh, he went to the back of the airplane and grabbed the pizza that was put aside for the crew and passed it around to his staff. He was never offered any pizza because they were supposed to have lunch with the Cambodian government when we landed. The pizza was the crew's only meal for that day and he ate
it.
Then when we picked him up in Cambodia, he was an hour late getting to the airport. Because fuel was an issue, we could not start the engines and therefore the air conditioning until he arrived. Phnom Penh at that time was over 100 degrees with 95% humidity and we were basically sitting in a greenhouse behind the cockpit windows.
When he finally did arrive, we were wringing out our clothes from the perspiration. He walks out of the air conditioned car, into the airplane and asks us "Could you guys get the air-conditioning running, I'm a little warm?" The other pilot had to physically restrain me from going back there and picking a fight.
Then we took him into Noi Bai airfield in Hanoi. After we picked him up the next day (he stayed the night in Vietnam, we stayed in Bangkok) we taxied out, ran up the engines for take off and noticed that our prop rpm was vibrating all over the place. We taxied off to the side to look at it, but there was a good possibility that there was an engine malfunction and the engine may fail if we took off with it.
Well, Mr. Senator sticks his head up in the cockpit and says "This plane WILL take off, I have a press conference in Bangkok in three hours!" (Maybe this is an indication of how he will run the FAA). American service members' lives be damned, we had our Senatorial orders. We ran the engines again, and did not have the problem, so we took off and
made it back.
During the flight, he told everyone how he had taken a Cessna (a small General aviation plane) up with a fighter pilot, and the fighter pilot remarked that Kerry was one of the best pilots he had ever seen. I don't know about other pilots out there, but it's hard to imagine a little, single-engine prop plane pilot being able to show the "right stuff."
After Kerry left the plane, the Navy Captain came up to us, apologized and said basically that "he knows Kerry is a jerk" and that we should be glad we don't have to deal with him every day.
Your choice folks. Elections in November. You want a mega-millionaire ego-maniac "it's-all-about-me" crew-eating-pizza-ite like Kerry or maybe a Green Party candidate like Ralph Nader? Or, God forbid, maybe even
re-elect George Bush, a nice God-fearing Christian bent on protecting us from terrorist attacks on US soil?
Hmmm, let's see? Continued freedom under President Bush or bombs in our backyard under Kerry (who will be sailing on his "minimum 135' yacht").
As Fox would say, "We report. You decide!"
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| XXX |
| 08.25.04 (8:27 am) [edit] |
I saw XXX yesterday (the "sooper cool james bond style movie with Vinn Deisel).
It sucked.
But . . . there were a couple bits in there. The snowboard scene close to the end where he takes out the radio tower's worth seeing. It's also very worth seeing with freinds to play MST3K
my verdict . . .
only when you're bored out of your wits with nothin' to do with your freinds . . .
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| getting to know . . . me! |
| 08.22.04 (10:21 am) [edit] |
I got this in the mail a couple days ago. I figured I'd post it so that y'all could get to know me a bit better.
enjoy
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Welcome to the next edition of getting to know your
friends. Okay,
here's what you're supposed to do.....and try not to
spoil the fun! Just
give in.
Copy (not forward) this entire e-mail and paste it
into a new e-mail
that you can send. Change all the answers so that they
apply to you.
Then, send this to a whole bunch of people you know
*INCLUDING* the
person who sent it to you.
The Theory is that you will learn a lot of little
known facts about your
friends. It's fun!
1. What is your Full Name: Ryan Don Butcher
2. What Color pants are you wearing now? Kahki
3. What are you listening to right now: Return of the King Soundtrack
4. What are the last 2 digits of your cell phone: NA
5. What was the last thing you ate?
6. If you were a crayon, which one would you be? The one that you never use. It's usually broken in half and laying sideways in the box so you can't even get to it.
7. How is the weather right now? There is no weather, here on the moon.
8. Last person you talked to on the phone? An overly rich CEO who wanted me to pull his car out for him.
9. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex: Usually, that they're breathing and moving around.
10. Do you like the person who sent this to you? yup
11. How are you today: My innards are restricting me from fully taking over the world.
12. Favorite Drink: Bawls, the only energy drink that keeps me awake.
13. Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Vodka, it's just fun to say.
14. Favorite Sports: watch - basketball, play - golf
15. Hair Color: Dark Brown to Light Brown, sun dependent
16. Eye Color: Brown
17. Siblings: 4 brothers, one sister, all older
19. Favorite Month: October
20. Last Movie you watched: Army of Darkness
21. Favorite Day of the Year: Christmas, Halloween is a close second though
22. Are you too shy to ask someone out: no, I just don't live near anyone I'd like to at the moment.
23. Summer, Spring, Fall, or Winter: I'm a winter! (bet you didn't know I knew that!)
24. Hugs or Kisses: Both
25. Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
26. Do you want your friends to write back? Sure, why not
27. Who is most likely to respond: Melissa
28. Who is least likely to respond? Mickey Mouse
29. Living Arrangements: Mooching off my parents
30. What's on your mouse pad: The wood panel on my desk
31. What did you do last night: Slept . . . and watched the episode of Alias that guest starred Quintin Tarrentino
32. Favorite Smells: . . . dunno
33. Can you touch your nose with your tongue? no, I am saddened daily because of my short tounge.
34. What inspires you: my weekly beating
35. Popcorn: Doused in butter
36. Favorite Flower: the smelly kind
37. Favorite Cookie: Chocolate Mint Chip
38. What's your favorite type of chips? Poker, either that or Chili Flavored Fritos
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| Rez |
| 08.20.04 (7:12 am) [edit] |
Rez - PS2
I'm quite pleasantly surprised with this game. It's about as simple as they come, but it really is quite fun.
Of course, the biggest boost that this game recieves is the style. It's somewhat reminiscent of Tron, but all in all, it's loaded with a style that's completely unique in games - and it pulls it off extremely well.
So . . . I highly reccommend this game. Just be sure to play it for at least 6 minutes.
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| Alien Vs. Predator |
| 08.18.04 (7:21 am) [edit] |
I saw AvP
Frankly, the movie sucked.
But, I still found it enjoyable. (I suppose mainly because my brother picked up the tab for a good deed I did earlier.)
I mean, there's a couple of cool bits, like seeing a queen alien moving around. But the rest of it stunk (more in an overly cheesy stink, rather than the boring stench of Predator 2).
The art desing was cool. But even that lost it's edge a little bit in the end.
Sadly, I think Van Helsing was a better movie by far. Seems the crew on that film realized their movie did kind of stink, so the went the extra mile to pack in as much action as they could. With this one, the film stunk, but they still tried to make something more out of it. Hence, amplifying the stench.
My viewing suggestions:
Rent this on DVD and watch it with your most sarcastic freinds and play MST3K.
If you're too impatient to wait, catch an early morning matinee when it moves into the smaller theatres (like first showing of the day). That way, you and your freinds will be the only ones in the theatre and can have an even better MST3K experience. (me and my bro did that with Van Helsing. Cool experience.)
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