G - G = funny
I grew up reading Garfield comics, and though I am older, I find that I must agree with Dorkman (
http://dorkmanscott.blogspot.com/). Garfield without Garfield is hilarious and insightful! See it at
http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/
Edited to add their new URL:
http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/Labels: funny
A little elf
It was a typical morning. I was running late.
I got all my stuff for work, ran out the door and into my truck and started it up when I noticed that a little elf had snuck over and scraped the ice off my windshield for me! Thank you, little elf!
I love little surprises like that.
Labels: friends
Fan-Tastic!
I had an idea a while back for Fandango-porn. You've seen Fandango commercials, right? (If you haven't, go look up Fandango on YouTube. I'll wait...) I wanted to do a quick porn shoot in the same style as the Fandango commercials. It wouldn't be too graphic. In fact, what I came up with would have been comical.
Well, last night, Ray and I joined forces with a friend of hers and shot video on it! It's for a class project for Ray, a PSA on safe sex. I hope it turns out great!
Edited to add: We created it, and it turned out pretty good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v0ORflNss0&feature=player_profilepageLabels: parody
My Genghis Con experience
Last weekend was spent at a local gaming convention, Genghis Con. It was my girlfriend Ray, her son Aeddan and me. My son didn't want to go. My daughter did, but didn't show up. (They were missed.)
Anyway, we arrived on Friday after rushing through breakfast, just in time to register and make it for the first game. That is Settlers of Catan for Ray and me. I had some sort of magic with this game for Friday and Saturday because I kept winning despite not trying terribly hard. My numbers just kept coming up. On Sunday is when that all fell apart, during the semifinals when I scored 4 points to the winner's very fast 10. The guy running the Catan events, Richard, was pretty cool. He shared some interesting stories from his somewhat checkered past.
The second Catan game was annoying. We started an hour late when Randy showed up, and then he pressured us to play fast because he had another event or something to go to at a certain time. Well, we didn't hurry much, so he had to leave the game. Richard sat in for him and discovered right away that Randy wasn't playing right anyway.
I also got to try out Descent, a pretty cool game in its own right. It's somewhat like Doom (which I own), and as such, I'm not sure I would really get into it all that much, but it was a fun distraction. I was kindof an asshole to the little kids that were playing. They had played before and wanted to tell the rest of us how to play, what choices to make, what they thought was cool, etc. I was a little more rude than I should have been with them.
I saw only a few people I knew - Brandon, Jordan, Pyro, Mrs. Pyro, Laura, Randy, probably a few others. Ray only got called my wife about four times. She maintains that she is not a fish stick (Mrs. Paul). She's not the first to have had a problem with that name. I wonder if it bugs my mom?
Because of my failed Catan semifinals (which started an hour late), I wasn't able to get into the Magic tournament I wanted to play in. I think that's okay because I saw the decks folks were running and they were pretty scary. Mine was really vanilla. Dark vanilla. (I put a black deck together.)
In the dealer's room, I bought dice. I have no idea what happened to my usual dice collection, but all I can seem to find is my junk. So I picked up a new set, and Ray and I split a "pitcher o' dice" from Chessex. This gave us a wide variety of dice to use whenever we get around to doing some role playing. (Do you role play?) We still need to split them.
The hotel itself kindof sucked. The rooms had no fridge, which would have been really useful. They sold $7 pizza that was smaller than your usual slice in one place, and $3 pizza that was normal-sized in another. The restaurant was running a standard 30 minutes between ordering and food (so we didn't eat there). The hot water... wasn't. The desk clerk's solution: run the hot water for 15 minutes or so to wait for it to heat up. Swell. Also, they turned our key cards off before our scheduled check-out time, so we couldn't go into our room to get our stuff without first going back down to the front desk.
Sunday morning, we woke up randomly at 4 AM. Grease was on TV, so we watched it, then fell back asleep. Ray and I both had Grease songs stuck in our heads for a day or two. Stupid catchy tunes.
So the end result of the gaming: Ray lost quite a few games. I won preliminary Settlers games, but that's about it. Aeddan won his Dead Man's Chess game, personally eliminating the other three players from the game, and got to play Pod Racing twice and Echo Base Assault once (all Star Wars based), so he was happy. We didn't get into any role playing events, mostly because there wasn't much communication for newbies like me. Fun, yes, but could have been better.
Labels: games
Valentine's Parody
I was visited by my muse this morning, and this is what came out. I called my girlfriend and "sang" it to her in a voice mail, so I haven't felt the full impact of my own embarassment just yet. I mean, it's not like I can actually sing. Anyway, to the tune of Don McLean's American Pie:
A long, long time ago
You and I came face to face
But didn't know what we could be...
Something just got in our way
My wife, your husband, who's to say?
But now's a better time for you and me.
But February made me shiver
With snow the forecasters delivered
Was warm just a day ago
But this is Colorado
You never realize how fast
The chance can come and then can pass
We have our chance now at long last
It was the spell you cast
Be mine, mine, please be my Valentine
From the moment I re-met you
I feel like I've been flyin'
We'll stay together, everything will be fine
If only you would say you'll be mine
If only you would say you'll be mine
Are we in the book of love,
We go together like hand and glove,
Or is that koi pond and a fish?
Do you believe we have a chance
To have a Valentine's romance?
Would you tell me if that is your wish?
Well, I know that you're in love with me
`cause you told me underneath the tree
Do you believe it's true?
Man, I really wanna see you!
It was on MySpace that you said, "Guess who?"
You didn't realize what that leads to.
Is this just too good to be true?
Our lives have been renewed.
I started singin,
Mine, mine, please be my Valentine
From the moment I re-met you
I feel like I've been flyin'
We'll stay together, everything will be fine
If only you would say you'll be mine
If only you would say you'll be mine
Labels: love, parody
