Just Don’t Bite

Seems pretty easy to say in reality. Drug addicts do it at NA, alcoholics do it at AA. I guess it’s fitting I do it on the internet, as I’m apparently addicted to electronics and the internet. The weirdos at a treatment center will tell you that addiction has something to do with having a behavior that has negative consequences and yet you still engage in them.

Thats pretty simple really. I’ve spent entire nights and days stuck to a computer, working or playing video games. I’ve allowed electronics/computers and work to cause stress in relationships. I’ve come to depend on them to feel normal. I’ve gotten in trouble with them. I’ve broken laws with them.

It’s come up in thinking several times over the past month. Usually when I open my laptop  for the third or fourth time in couple hours. Why? Oh for nothing more than to check the news and my email. Given that the news don’t change that much and I really don’t get that much email, it’s kinda pointless. It’s terrible really. Falling asleep with the glow of a screen, or falling asleep on your keyboard.

Yeah, seems like a joke and all right? Wish it was, but it’s no surprise to me that they have actually started to notice that it is indeed something that people can become addicted to. There is however one thing that I will NEVER do. Online dating. Surprisingly though, both my Dad and Step-Dad have both done so and ended up married. Just so that we’re clear on this… crawling over broken shards of glass and hot coals while being violently violated so I could beg an ex for a chance would be more favorable than the concept of online dating.

Ehh I think my dog just farted.

Always thought it was a given that guys aren’t all that great at understanding girls. But who would have ever figured that someone would actually do a study on it and break it down math wise. Well someone did and made a nice little paper of it. Not to large of a read only about ten pages. Of course there is a little more to it. But like I said, I figured that was a given.

Girls, very simple. Use English to  get the point across. Tell the guy up front. Please bare in mind however though if your lips press against his. If body parts of either of you end up in the other persons mouth (tongue, finger, toes… I dunno). You’ve pretty much crossed the friendly flirting and gone to the “yes sex would be an agreeable activity”.

In other notes, if you ever get the bright idea to separate your car keys from your work keys before going and drinking for a night. Don’t. Just leave ALL your keys at home. Further more if you have a pocket full of quarters and you end up putting your keys with said quarters… check your piggy bank for your keys. You’ll feel like a moron, but you at least have your keys.

So this morning I get a little text that just says “Msn..” of course this is while I’m waiting for my machine to boot up anyhow. I tend to know a fair amount of interesting and twisted people, I very much enjoy random bs with them over messengers. Turns out it’s a little nicer than try’n to have the same conversations in a room or a crowded place.

After you hit the link to read more, that’ll be the bulk of the conversation. Some of the pointless stuff having been pulled out, other wise thats the conversation I had this morning. Anything in italics is notes done now. Names have been pulled so that people don’t get offended.

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I’d almost forgot about it. With as often as you hear of games being made and then scrapped, or that they have a long time until release, it happens. Anyhow Ghostbusters is going to be a video game, and I’d forgotten about it. I do remember hearing about it when the some demo on the 360 popped up and it looked like a Ghostbusters game, but it wasn’t. It looked a heckuva lot like it thought. Turns out it was just a tech demo and a different studio was making the game. Thankfully it will be launching on each of the major systems so I can look forward to it. If you’re curious or want to see a few more links by all means check the wiki on it.

I’m going to have to find my copies of that movie now, haven’t seen it in awhile.

“I don’t understand how ’survival of the fitest’ went to ’save the fat, dumb, lazy’.“- A buddy

He’s right though. How DID we go from survival of the fittest to protecting and prolonging the life span of the dumb and dieing. If you look at the rest of the animal kingdom you notice something that for the most part is normal among the. They let the weak die off. You don’t see a pride of lions keeping the old ones alive, you see the old one wonder off and die. Same way with the sick ones. They leave, and go die alone and in piece and don’t infect the rest.

Then you have us. the ‘intelligent’ beings of the plant. The ones that have become the top of the chain. We some how can’t learn this simple lesson from the rest of the animal kingdom. In our finite wisdom we have decided that we need to protect the stupid with warning labels. We need to protect the lazy with all forms to enable them to be lazier. The horrid twist is I’m typing this while finishing McDonalds and on the back of the fry box is this little icon that reads “it’s what i eat and what i do“. I’m sure there is a mess of phrases that you could add to that to make it funnier.

Simple fact of the matter is that we have gotten to the point that we reward laziness. That we reward stupidity. We really might be headed towards Idiocracy some day soon. Sad thing about that movie, I loaned it to someone. They watched about 10 minutes of it and couldn’t stand it because of the stupidity.

Humans, the only time we think it’s ok to kill is out of malice, anger, and spite. We seem to forget that sometimes it can be done out of love, care, and hope.

For some reason today there was a wealth of news about bio fuels and the “green nature” of them. Living in Nebraska you might think that I’d agree with ethanol. Sadly I don’t. Can’t say that I find it wise to trade our food for our fuel. Can’t say I agree with allowing lazy lardo’s to drive around while people go hungry. Or that food prices go up so our transportation costs stay low and allow us to be lazy pigs.

Since ethanol is a crop based fuel and further it is alcohol based you’re going to need water. Makes sense right? You have to water the crops. You have to use water to ferment the sugars and organisms to convert food to alcohol. I think that means yeast and it’s stripping of sugars for oxygen and the by product of that being alcohol is how that works. Then you need heat to drive the alcohol out of the water, and more water to cool and condense the vapors for collection. Some people aren’t so game for this, and would like to keep their water where it is.

The bio-fuel of using waste oil from fast food seems like a good idea too. Unfortunately it seems to have draw backs too. Honestly I think this one has a bit better use than the ethanol idea. Simply because it’s using waste products that are already being used. But it appears that it is just as polluting as using straight gas, so that’s really not a solution at all now is it?

Then you also have strange things like robust solar cells made of dyes. You could help a electric car with that, or provide n add on to your your house. Unfortunately it’s a long shot and will likely be expensive when it does happen. But imagine if we could some how coat just about anything with photocells. It’d be great, it really would.

In the end though, the best and easiest answer. Simply reduce your usage of energy and resources. I know it sounds hard, but it’s worth a shot isn’t it? What can it hurt other than your pocket book.

Several months ago a friend told me of a book. This book was a simple book. Small and brown, hard cover. The title “What’s your poo telling you“. I ordered it off of the Amazon. The Book arrived and I found it funny as sin. What’s not funny about poo? We all do it, most don’t like to talk about it. This is a book about it. A book you can open to any page and read the description and KNOW that someone else in the room has had that poo. That someone has experienced that feeling. The book spent some time in the bathroom as reading material. No it sits on my table and is picked up and thumbed through by damn near anyone that comes over. Never fails to get a laugh.

Now if you don’t think I’m serious about this book and that it is actually a good read for you, Salon has a nice 2 page jot of the book. Along with a video of “man on the street” questions. So i encourage you, the next time you go and drop a deuc to look before you flush. When you take the cosby kids to the pool, check on them before you leave. When the brown bear has left the cave, take a look and make sure he is healthy.

Seriously… look at the crap that comes out of yer butt and make sure it’s ok and there are no issues. Your health will thank you for it.

Things to note:

• Blue food coloring will make yer poo green.
• Fire Hot Cheetos  will give you red tinted poo.
• Spicy food might give you burning poo.
• Keep your diet in mind when looking at it.

Ok, just so that I don’t have the comment run and mess in the other post here is more on what I’ve gathered. As I said before a Google shows up that this is a fairly common error. Now while I don’t have my browser history to find the exactly link I had came across last night, I do have a fair bit of memory, and found a few of them again.

Kotaku had a little blurb about it and points you to the Nintendo Repair Form to get the forms. Now keep in mind that Nintendos official stance on this is “A very small percentage of Wii consoles may have trouble consistently reading data off this large capacity disc if there is some contamination on the lens of the disc drive.”

Let us ponder this for a moment. At one time the slot loading drive of the system was a selling point as a method of keeping the discs and internals clean. I for a fact know my discs are clean and scratch free, I really do tend to take care of my games. Also I have a launch system, so it’s old. I have no problems with any other discs…. but I’m drifting here. IF it is as they say caused by a dirty lens, then ALL Nintendo Wii systems will at some point develop the problem of not being able to read dual layer dvd discs. Sooo either they need to develop and sell some little Wii cleaner disc, or let us know what is really wrong.

My own personal idea for the source of this problem is simple. The potentiometer isn’t adjusted right or a focal motor isn’t set right. When you send it in, they fix this and send it back. Or as some have stated, they replace the machine. Now I’m not really to keen on the idea of shipping my Wii back to Nintendo for a fix (yet). However if getting the disc to read is causing more ware on my Wii than it should, perhaps I should send it in.

[UPDATE] Here is the link I couldn’t find earlier @ Destructoid

100 Photographs that Changed the World, take your time and thumb through them. Now what did you notice?

How many of those photographs where of violence, of pain, of suffering, and how many were of awe, beauty, and joy. Kind of a sick world really. These are photos chosen by Life Magazine (that is apparently a sub of Time Magazine). What is it about the negative side that is so life changing? What is so fundamentally wrong with us that it takes something wrong for us to act. I really wish I was kidding, but from what I’ve seen we are a very negative group of beings. Our news, our entertainment, our actions at times.

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Given that I am a news junkie and spend a vast amount of my time reading different aggregate sites, I come across a wonderful mix of news. But this little article titled Seven Kinds of Sex EVERY Relationship Needs really made me think. Not because it’s from a site that is apparently about being over 40. Or that it’s really just one of those girlie fluff things. But because I agree with the damn thing. Granted I’d think there are a few more that need to be added to it.

Pissed off Sex: Cuz lets face it, after an argument you’re both pretty damn heated and it’s a great release.

Public Sex: Hey nothing like the risk of getting caught. Of course this could be considered a quickie.

Shower Sex: The risk of slipping and falling with the joy of sex, two great things at once.

I dunno, I could probably come up with a bunch more. However I really do have better things to do than spend half my day thinking about sex.