Pender’s Fabulous Journal of Random Stuff and Things!!!!

What’s brown and sticky?

A stick!

On friday I bought a PS2, a 64 meg memory card and Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus. I bought the PS2 to play RPG’s (Role Playing Games), but Dirge of Cerberus turned out to be an FPS (First Person Shooter). I’m a little disappointed, I thought it would be like all the rest of the Final Fantasy’s, but nope! It still seems like a decent game. Although I wouldn’t have paid $60 for it had I known at the time, but that’s one of the dangers of buying games in stores without researching them first (since the backs of games give almost NO indication of what genre the damn things are anymore, like 6 screenshots of the game is ANY indication what a game is like). In that sense, DVD’s and other rentals are far superior to games, at least you get a symopsis when you get a movie and the rental store puts an “Action”, “Drama”, “Mystery”, etc. tag on the movie.

Today we went to Blockbuster and bought 3 more games. Cheaper this time. Bought Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, God of War and Dragon Quest VIII.

Here’s the cost breakdown:
Sony Playstation 2: $130
64 Meg Memory Card: $50
Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus: $60
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life: $30
God of War: $10
Dragon Quest VIII: $30
Plus Tax: $43

Total: $353

Pricey. But as long as it keeps me off drugs, alcohol and kicking small children, it can’t be that bad. Right?

It’s the pick-up line that’d just knock a girl into the next dimension, man!

They (I don’t know who “they” are, smarty smart people probably) are planning to make mini black holes in a 27km particle accelerator, but don’t worry! The chance of them blowing up the world is calculated at a MERE 10 to the minus 40 - a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance. In other words, they’re setting us up the bomb. We’re on way to destruction. Make your time. Ha ha ha ha.

(Thanks Gimpenstein)

Interesting article on New Scientist about something that would cause us to have a real tan. Tan in a bottle no longer washing off, and without the sun. It would actually be a REAL tan!

Pretty sure racism will be a thing of the past, since anyone will be able to have dark skin, and without all that pesky skin cancer and cataracts. Even red haired people. That’d be a cool looking combination.

Will also reduce the amount of time needed for pre-contest preperation in body building, not having to spend 20-40 mins each day for weeks in a tanning salon before a show. That stuff’s expensive and adds up fast.

Extra $130 per pay because EI and government pension contributions maxed out. Love it! It’s like I get my cable, interweb and phone for free 3 months of the year.

All you overpaid bastards are probably mocking me with your turned up noses and haughty laugh, exclaiming “hah, that lowly peasant, I finished paying into those petty things within the first two weeks of the year!” as you throw another wad of cash into the fire to keep you warm. Then you kick me down just because I wanted some more gruel.. Meanie.

The other day I logged into hotmail (I log in every few weeks to delete the 500 emails of spam that hotmails inferior spam blocker lets through) and it was as if I just signed up for the stupid thing. I had to decline newsfeeds and answer questions as I was logging in. When I got to my account it was completely empty, no prior emails, no contacts, it was as if I just created the account. So I filled out their stupid form and said to restore all my stuff, which of course I’ve not gotten a single reply about since it was sent 3 days ago. Customer disservice is microsoft’s highest priority!

This morning Hollywood checked her email and now her account is screwed as well! It’s a bigger deal for her because she’s lost all her contacts and she had tonnes of saved emails and hotmail was her main account. I should mention here that she’s VERY, VERY pissed about it.

For an email service that’s not a beta (ie: in testing, like gmail is), that shit’s pretty buggy.

Our production database server crashed yesterday morning. I’ve been working on it pretty much constantly ever since. I did get to sleep at around 1:30 last night, that was nifty. Sux when computers break. I think I would be happier being a crazed alchemist.

I saw this over on Steve’s blog and thought it was hilarious.

I saw on greggie’s blog that he has an article about a Flying Car.

I need one of these so that I can skip the 25 minute commute to work every day (if I were to land on the actual building, it would take maybe 3 minutes of flying).

I actually don’t think it’s that wonderful of an idea to have only “flying planes”, I don’t think they’re really feasible except for tom cruise and possibly the filthy rich. I do think that harriers, on the other hand, is an awesome idea. The reason I think planes are outdated is the long runway. You have to take off and land from an airport, or if everyone starts buying up flying cars, they will have to construct roads about 10x as wide to take off and land from all over the place. We’d still need roads to get close to where we need to go, so it’s a faster commute, but really no better. However with harriers, you just stop flying and land wherever you want. Roads would become nearly obsolete, which I can’t even imagine how much money that would save people not having to pave the wilderness anymore. The squirrels would thank you.

I think GPS data can be updated to include flight plans to not intersect people. The harriers would basically fly themselves to the destination based on this data, taking the evil human hand out of it.

I think if they combined the flying plane layout with a harrier we’d have a truely nifty idear a brewin’.

Over the summer we had the opportunity to drive 8 hours to Barb’s BBQ, outside of Shediac, right next to the ocean. Was good times, got to see a bunch of people that I don’t normally see (I won’t list who was there cause I’ll miss someone then they’ll kick me in the shin).

We played croquet (which isn’t the sport where you ride horses and hit a ball into a goal with a golf club, I was kinda disappointed). There was also lawn bowling, frisbee, soccer and a water fight. The beach was covered in jelly fishes, so we didn’t go swimming, but hung out on the beach for a while. Was a good time, glad I was partially invited.

This here’s the link to the photo album.