Just saw Scott Pilgrim. I had only one qualm with it. Scott says he learned the riff from Final Fantasy II, but the riff he plays sounds like the riff from FFIV. What I want to know is, did they mean final fantasy II American (which is FFIV Simple) or was I mistaken in what I heard? Because they were trying to portray them as video game geeks and ( Read more... )

I went to a colleague's house for a rousing night of gaming. Apparently, unbeknown to me, he was having marital spats and is getting divorced. I wondered why half his house was packed but didn't say anything. The, "faux pas," of the evening came to the picture frames. A bunch of the picture frames were hanging around the house without pictures in ( Read more... )

I got a book about a year ago from the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides series called, "100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels," and just picked up, “100 Must-Read Fantasy Novels,” both of which have extensive lists of the must read novels and 1000 total additional suggestions to compliment the entries. You can find the amazon pages here(SF) and here( ( Read more... )

At work, we have a girl getting married sometime in June, so right now she is making plans (she has her venues booked but is deciding now on the finer details). Listening to her drone on and on about pink, purple and all things girls, it made me begin to think about some of the things I'd want at my potential future wedding. The following is a list ( Read more... )

As I walked back to my hotel room, on a differrent route no less, I met another group of hookers, who tried their best to accost me. Problem this time, there was a pimp who hearlded this flock. So, when I ignored them with my collegiate German and made my way, he stopped me. This man´s philosophy was obviously if I had a penis, it needed to be ( Read more... )

So, for those of you not in the know, even though for you it is only 6 p.m. (stateside), for me it is midnight since I am in Madrid for the holiday. My mother and I are here on vacation and I have a travel log coming in several days. The problem I have right now is I feel dirty. Why, might you ask? I was accosted by several hookers tonight who ( Read more... )

So, for those of you not in the know (I forget if I mentioned this a while back, but screw it, I am mentioning it again after two black Russians... the drink, a-holes), my mother has decided, after careful debate, to move down to be closer to me (yay!) and to wreak havoc on the poor people of the Washington D.C. Metropolitian Area. However, this ( Read more... )

Since retail stores are having giveaways, fuck it, I'll do it too ( Read more... )

I feel like I am in a conundrum. April is an interesting month and I am stuck between two choices of traveling. I need to blow vacation next year like there is no tomorrow since I've already hit the cap for vacation at work (next year becomes use it or lose it). So, there is a Sci-Fi convention in Germany I am thinking of attending and blowing ( Read more... )

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