infinite lives

Two Halloween-Themed Games!!

The Zombie Wars (use space to shoot, z to change weapons, shoot the barrels to blow them up)

Body Ladder

Mario Theme

Just gonna warn you, I haven't actually listened to any of these because I'm posting these during Philosophy class and it would be rude to start listening to like, 15 versions of the Mario theme.

The Heavy Metal Mario



Guitar Hero Mario



Mario Hymn



Jazz Band Mario



Tesla Coil Mario



2 Guitar Solo Mario



Marching Band

I am a Phone Booth

The Phone Booth

Your time machine is the Phone Booth.

For you, History is fixed and unchanging. But this is a actually very, very good thing. It means that you are free to mess around all you want without worrying about accidentally changing the wrong thing and permanently removing Oreo cookies from all existence. Sure, once in a while you'll be called upon to save the universe or defeat a villain or two, but there's nothing that says you can't do it in the silliest and most amusingly contrived manner you can think of.

Take the test HERE.

Trëkhgornyy

Trëkhgornyy is a "closed town" (due to nuclear crapola) somewhere in Russia. Thanks to Google Earth and Panoramio (thanks in advance for not getting mad about me stealing), i've got 3 pics of Trëkhgornyy.




Yes these pictures are all of the same place. Crazy Russia...

What better legacy...

Sony Robots Get Down The new line of Sony robots are out and they`re groovier than ever. Doing the robot equivalent of The Human.

(just hit the little beaker button right there and it'll take you to the site)

xmas list already?

peoples are already starting to ask me what i want for christmas. my response: IT'S OCTOBER! for goodness sakes, WallyWorld hasn't even got wreaths up yet! i have no idea what i want! im perfectly content with all of my worldly possessions (in fact, i'd like to have less...). but for the sake of the supershoppers in my life, i am constructing a list of things i'd like. this has taken much internet scouring to find stuff i'd even vaguely like to have. (hint to people shopping for me: go for guy merch (and stay away from pink or floral at all costs))



Stuff i plain ole' want:

• MUNNY doll (make your own art toy)
• FSU hoodie
• 17" laptop art skin
• beach cruiser bicycle
• octopus!
• any kind of easy cookbook that has stuff college kids would want to eat (ways to pimp out ramen for cheap?)
• gift cards! (iTunes, Target, Barnes & Noble, Starbucks... ect.)
  

Stuff for NEXT christmas that i will legitimately need:

• tool kit (i break stuff often enough that i'll need my own tool kit when im off)
  
• stuff you need in your kitchen (spatulas, pots & pans, toaster, spoons & forks, plates, ect.)
• beanbags, lots and lots of beanbags!!!
• lockable trunk
• ok fine, just general stuff you would need to furnish a dorm/house.
  

not much to do with anything

one seriously amazing prank involving golf and a spaceman. watch the video.

Telescope Octopus
Little is known about the biology and behavior of this strange cephalopod except that it has rotating telescopic eyes. But its sheathed white appearance makes it look like it might just pop up and say, “Boo!”
Image © Steve Haddock

Senator.

see Sarah Palin pictures

I saw about the first half of the debate, and the last 10 minutes. I think i'm disappointed in the whole thing because i expected an honest sharing of opinions, not a full out "im right, you're wrong, HAHA loser" thing going on . i swear it was like watching kindergarteners fight.

urban dictionary goodness

Check Your Vitals:
To check your email, myspace, facebook, blog, and/or any daily essential websites.

Interneutered:
Losing your connection to the internet

Nuke The Fridge:
A colloquialism used to delineate the precise moment at which a cinematic franchise has crossed over from remote plausibility to self parodying absurdity, usually indicating a low point in the series from which it is unlikely to recover. A reference to one of the opening scenes of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which the titular hero manages to avoid death by nuclear explosion by hiding inside a kitchen refrigerator. The film is widely recognized by fans as a major departure from the rest of the series both in terms of content and quality.
"Man, when Peter Parker started doing the emo dance in Spider-Man 3, that franchise officially nuked the fridge."

Frisbeetarianism:
the philosophy that when you die, your soul goes up on a roof and gets stuck

Mouse Potato:
someone who spends all their time on the computer surfing the net or playing games. Similar to couch potato
The mouse potato locked himself in a dark room with only his computer to keep him company, and didn't come out for 2 days.

Guitarthritis:
the medical condition causing pain in the wrists after playing guitar hero for an extended period of time

Manicorn:
a mythical male creature who is successful (read: pursuing his passion and can pay his electric bills/rent), funny, chivalrous, masculine (read: not chauvinistic), adventurous, artistic (read: not suicidal)

Bad Fuel Day:
The mood or feeling one experiences after having just filled his or her vehicle with $4.00+ per gallon gasoline. (Usually consists of a sense of great economic despair, impending doom, anger, frustration, depression and/or a combination of all the above)

Web Shy:
Unwillingness to expose one's thoughts, feelings or identity on the web, knowing that doing so means freaknobs from Baton Rouge to Bangladesh will know everything about you.
"Jeez, Paul--you need to get with it! You should create your own web site, post your picture, do some blogging about your beliefs, and generally trumpet yourself and your innermost thoughts via that there Internet."
"You kidding me? I'm way too web shy for that!"

I Approve This Message:

Phrase you can use when leaving a message on the answering machine of a very political friend or relative.

On answering machine:
"Hi, I'm your son and I approve this message. I'd be happy to dog-sit while you're away for the week. By the way, I mailed in my ballot...so stop nagging me to vote."

400 Calories:
Supposedly making out for 20 minutes burns 400 calories. Actually, 400 Kilocalories, but food companies thought it would be easier to denote those things we burn as calories, so what the hell. Apparently metric prefixes are fucking scary.

Robocracy:
Government run by robots. They will be able to lie and have scandals more efficiently than humans.
Vote Candidatebot 4000 in 2008 or be processed for organs.

Phone Grope:
Grabbing at pockets, patting yourself down to make sure you have your cellphone and don't need to turn around and go back home for it. This behaviour tends to be heightened in people who also have a habit of going back to check the locks on the doors several times before leaving home.

Moobs:
A combination of the words "man" and "boobs." This is what happens when fat gathers in a male's chest area, and gives him the appearance of having breasts.
Usually seen in overweight males, but can strangely also occur in men who are not really overweight.
"Those moobs are quite sizeable."

Post-Potter Depression:
The feeling that a chunk of your heart was just ripped out after having finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, knowing that you will never again feel the anticipation, the excitment, the pre-release hype that ever accompanies a Harry Potter book release.
Lucy started reading the Golden Compass books to fight her post-Potter depression but she said she just kept waiting for Voldemort to show up.

non sequitur

On the side of my caramel macchiato this morning:
"By the time executives get married, take on a mortgage, raise kids, cope with the crabgrass, climb the corporate ladder, do their best to manage career pressures, build their net worth and get into their 40s, they've lost touch with what they believe in and care about most deeply." -Allan Cox

RIP, little piggy

JULY 23, 2006 - OCTOBER 8, 2008 Stubborn Little Piggy (Evangeline) was chasing a Field Rat that had fallen in the pool. She apparently lost her footing and drowned. We are going to miss her...ALOT!!

normally i don't take stock in these, but...

Aquarius (1/20-2/18)

Today, it's time for you to take a larger view of your life and how your recent actions might have affected your path. You took a turn down a new road -- was it the right decision? Think about it and figure it out before you continue going any further. You need to be more reflective about your actions, and add some more discipline into your life. Hold yourself back from falling into temptations. Doing so will prepare you for something big that's coming soon.

Horoscopes always seem way to prevalent, particularly this one. No, I'm not going to tell you why.

Cute little Scorchio.

steampunk ponder

an article about how cool steampunk is

3. Like Being Goth Without Scaring Your Parents

A lot of kids in today’s steampunk music & style scene used to identify with the goth aesthetic — and are pleasantly surprised to discover that normal adults seem intrigued by this new thing rather than alarmed. Well, yeah. People think of goths as weirdoes who take vampires too seriously, and therefore they can’t help being worried on some level that a crazy goth might, you know, want to make them bleed. Whereas steampunks are — what? Weirdoes who take pocket-watches too seriously? What are they gonna do, vehemently tell you what time it is?

I've been called goth a couple of times. I like to wear spikes and black pants with chains, but that doesn't make me goth. I'd be hella paler and scowlier if i was goth. (i consider myself a hybrid of Punk/Dork.) Silly people just don't understand the find distinctions between the darker sub-genres of people. people don't have that problem with steampunk. lots of brass, glass, and Victorian style just really don't mix with any other group. well, the Victorian style is very Lolita, but Lolita's don't generally look like steam-powered robots.

i think, if i had access to lots of brass piping and a welding torch, i would try out the steampunk thing for a while. seems like a hassle though, to have to pimp out EVERYTHING you own like that though. i like being able to wear whatever.

5. The Future: UR Doin It Wrong

The heyday of science fiction — the mid-20th century — was fueled by near-universal excitement about the promise of science. We had a definite vision of “The Future,” in which the details might be variable but the overall picture was clear: new discoveries and technologies would lead us to a glorious golden age, in which robots would free us from drudgery and we’d use rocket ships to colonize the galaxy, redeeming manifest destiny in the name of all humanity together. That future — that was IT. We were going there. Our parents knew their grandkids would have jetpacks.

…except not. Today, that classic vision of the future — not only hasn’t it happened, but right at this moment, as we stare down the barrel of resource shortages and rising global temperatures, the people of Earth don’t really believe it’s going to. We know now that 20th-century technology helped us solve lots of problems while creating entirely new ones that might be even scarier. In effect, we were expecting Star Trek and we got Blade Runner; all the quirky little bits of science fiction have come true, but we lost the big dream.

Steampunk basically lets us go back, at least in our imagination, and try again — lets us tap into that sense of wonder at the unfolding universe that our grandparents might have felt when modern science was just beginning to open up all its incredible new pictures of the world. And you might just call that escapism into nostalgia — but I actually think it’s more than that.

i think Soylent Green is a better analogy for where our society ened up.

and it would be nice to turn back the clock a bit and re-do everything so we don't screw everything up subsequent generations. (and so Steve Jobs would make iPods with visible brass piping... that would be fricken sweet...)

ON A DIFFERENT NOTE: if you read the Twilight books (whether you liked them or not) you need to read THIS. i personally am pretty fond of the books but i still am crying of laughter.

nuclear waste makes me sad

From Worldmapper:
"Around 8910 tonnes of heavy metal nuclear waste are generated each year. This waste mainly comes from nuclear power stations. Three territories produce over 1000 tonnes a year: the United States, Canada and France. Canada also produces the most waste per person living there, although Sweden is not far behind.

Some islands in the Southern hemisphere with notable areas are: New Caledonia, the Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas, South Georgia, and Reunion. On these maps they are assigned to France and the United Kingdom, and resized according to their combined data. Little or no nuclear waste is from these islands."

The picture of the Ferris wheel was taken in Pripyat, 30 km from Chernobyl. The Ferris wheel was never used,

because some overly confident Ukrainian nuclear scientist thought he was too good for safety precautiouns, and now millions of people have been affected by radiation. Hundreds of people died within a few weeks, thousands within months, and even now poor Ukrainian, Belarussian, Russian kids are being born completely disabled. Heads shaped like balloons, extreme mental disabilities, legs that look like they came off cave trolls... its saddening. And silly people are actually moving back into Pripyat and Chernobyl. It's not going to be healthy to live there for the next thousand years, at least people! and even then, only if they get the sarcophagus fixed! If the sarcophagus deteriorates enough, and the wind blows south, Kiev could be completely screwed. If it blows west hard enough, Western Europe might have some serious problems....

I'm not opposed to nuclear power, for the record. On the contrary, i think it's probably a pretty good idea. If only we could stop blowing ourselves up, with factories accidents OR weapons.

Darthapalooza

Web Urbanist just did a piece on The Statue of Liberty. featured was an AWESOME interpretation by Wade Lageose for the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. of course, i had to click the flicker link that sent me to the rest of the collection of Vader Helmets. Amazing stuff right there. I'm particularly fond of the red and black one here. Pretty sweet, if there was some blue on it, it would look like something i would draw.... *inspirations strikes*\

If you live anywhere within a 50 mile radius of the Silver Screen in Pensacola, i beseech you: COME TO THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW!!!! It's at 11:30 on the last saturday of the month, which is 11/29. I'm not going in October, because they're doing the show on Halloween (which is a Friday this year), and I have a mandatory parental party to attend on Halloween. But you GOTTA come. It's the most riotously hilarious movie complete with uber-witty shouted audience-provided commentary you will ever watch/witness.