From this day forward, I will call my current computer the New-Old computer. It’s old, but it’s new to me. Damn you for sticking that in my head, NBC. That and replacing all cartoons with ‘Saved by the Bell’ rip-offs back in the 90’s, but that’s another post. A really good friend hooked me up with this one for free, but I’ll still just keep throwing money at him as repayment. There are little parts here and there that I’ll have to keep replacing, but it’s easily more powerful than the old computer. I just got a sound card for it and the next item will be a USB Hard Drive cradle to snatch my old data off the old computer.

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While rounding up new versions of my old programs, I finally found out that Yahoo bought out Musicmatch and completely ruined it in ways that only Yahoo can do. From what I’ve read, they took the MusicMatch program, ditched any progress they’d made from version 5 to 10.0 and added DRM functions to it while calling it Yahoo Music Jukebox or something. Nice. I’ll have to find or buy something new to rip music tracks with because Yahoo is shambling Fail Zombie that infects things with every bite. Yahoo seemed to go through the change when it switched the Yahoo Clubs to Yahoo Groups and completely mangled a lot of the old clubs in the process. Sad.

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Most people that watch Family Guy saw the Season 2 episode Let’s Go To The Hop where Peter and Lois were about to get some freaky quality time together and Lois announces “The safety word is Banana.” What weirded me out today was hearing that again in a MAD-TV sketch today. It was the I Love Lucy parody where Ricky brings home The Artist Formerly Known As Prince and, well, some stereotypically Prince-like things are about to happen if you know what I’m sayin’ and I think you do. One of the last lines in the sketch is delivered by Alex Borstein playing a whip-wielding Ethel Mertz who yells, “The Safety Word is BANANAS!” It’s wrong on a level that I can’t put into words, but knowing that she said it in two different shows makes that sketch a little less disturbing. Since it’s so disturbing, I’ll try to find a video of it so you can be scarred, too.

I spent my Saturday working on random stuff and coughing up phlegm. I hope that means that my sinus problems are on the way out. I finally got some decent sleep and this is the first time in over a week that I feel fully awake. On the plus side, I had Pizza and Root Beer, one of the most glorious food combinations on this Earth. I think I overdid it with the cheese, but that’s literally just me since I’m the only person eating it. My first attempt in six years to make my own “Blizzard” just made a Reese Cup milkshake because I put in too much milk. The fact that I need to practice the right balance of all this stuff again is just sad beyond belief.

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While checking out my weblogs for the first time in dang-near-ever, I found out that the Spriting entry on Wikipedia now has a link to my old Frankenspriting tutorial on ScrollBoss. I can’t who came up with the term Frankenspriting, but it was probably someone on Solid Soul’s late (and still missed) Inner Circle board & site. I remember Mighty Damocles having the technique mastered back when I was just a newbie and I still think she’s probably more qualified to write a tutorial than I am. Plus, looking at that old ScrollBoss page reminds me that I still have a chunk of areas that need some serious updating.

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For my own future reference, here’s a link to a page describing one of the best episodes of Reading Rainbow ever: the one with the steel drum band.
Reading Rainbow #415: My Little Island
I used to think I was the only person who loved that episode as a young’un, but someone else always remembers it when I bring it up somewhere. Now that I have the episode number, I can look around and see if it’s on DVD. It’s too bad that Reading Rainbow went out of production now that the kid’s book market is said to be doing better than it has in quite a few years.

I would like to give thanks for the following:

• For my family and my friends for still betting on the most worthless horse on the track!
• For the relief from the artistic constipation I caught back in 2002. With any luck, I’ll catch some creative diarrhea in time for 2008.
• For those who fought for what was right especially when no one was looking.
• For the people that check out my sites Illmosis and ScrollBoss. No one looks at this blog, though. Seeing as how this place is filled with stupid posts like this, I’m thankful for that no one else is actually reading this.
• For these beautiful things: 25th Anniversary G.I.JOE figures and the box sets that play the theme song, Taito Legends 2 for being full of old-school gaming goodnes, Dr. Thirteen, Gumby, the new Booster Gold series, the Sinestro Corps. Crossover, the All-New Atom by Gail Simone, the Rey Mysterio: the Biggest Little Man 3 disc set, whoever was behind Steven Richards and Little Guido Nunzio getting more screen time in ECW, whoever lets Santino Marella get on the mic on RAW, female wrestlers (like Victoria, Beth Phoenix, Mickie James, Gail Kim, Jackie Moore, Ms. Brooks and ODB), everybody that worked on the Shaw Studios/Dragon Dynasty DVDs and whatever mad genius at Lego came up with the skeleton horse.

And a special thanks to:
YOU

Thank you for playing!

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Browser freeze.
Computer freeze.
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Too many things embedded at once for no damned reason at all.
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and fail.

… so if I’ve never added you back, it’s because I check out someone’s profile that freezes my computer and I’m too angry to even go back to the site. For months.

Not that you asked. BUT STILL…

In this first official random brain dump post, all entries have been sorted according to their riboflavin conent, polygon count and Pokédex Number.

1.) Sucker-Free Sunday: Doing a promo with a guy that’s yelling “We ARE Hip-Hop!” at the top of his lungs in a thuggish voice while video clips of blinging grills, rumpshakers and cars with spinning rims is bass-ackwards and embarassing. Wait, I forgot that Mainstream Hip-Hop doesn’t have shame. Your main audience, people who are looking to be programmed with coolness updates, don’t give a damn about the term Hip-Hop. Can we get the Afrikaa Bam’s Zulu Nation to trademark Hip-Hop like the monks did with the term Shaolin so it won’t get dragged through the mud any further?

2.) DC Comics’ Multiverse: If there’s one thing that I find confusing about the Multiverse, it’s that I was able to understand it when I was child but now there are grown folks that are already confused about the new one that hasn’t even been fully seen yet. If you’ve ever seen any piece of fiction with an alternate reality, you already know the rules. I’ve noticed more Multiverse defenders coming out on the comic boards, so I hope that’s a good sign.

3.) DVDs: You don’t really appreciate the term “menus” being considered a special feature until you get an DVD that doesn’t have them. I found a used D.C. Cab DVD that turned out to have no menus. At all. You put it in and the movie just starts and loops back to the beginning when it’s done. Universal should be ashamed of not even having a menu for a 2004 DVD. Even those $1 Digiview DVDs manage to throw together some animated menus. Hell, even bootleggers take the time to make menus.