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Walken - “I never forget a face…”

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:25:21 -0400

Walken - “I never forget a face…”

Dave Chapelle not only educates us by interviewing the...

Sun, 27 May 2012 11:34:20 -0400

Dave Chapelle not only educates us by interviewing the paparazzi, but proves that he’s the coolest of the cool. Total respect.

Bad Movie Podcast - The Upcoming Movies List

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:25:39 -0400

Here’s the list:

Action USA
Alien Apocalypse
Battle Queen 2020
Crime Zone
Doom
Equalizer 2000
Fatal Deviation
Fearless Frank
Galaxina
Galaxis
Gargoyles
Laser Mission
Mighty Peking Man
One Eyed Monster
Parasite
Project Metalbeast
Rising Storm
Saturn 3
Space Truckers
Supervan
The Barbarians
The Vindicator
Werewolf in a Women’s Prison

Requests:

Orca
Black Sheep
~~The Wraith~~ (DONE!)

Chicken coop is COMPLETE. Finally. Took up a whole week of my...

Sun, 13 May 2012 16:46:00 -0400

Chicken coop is COMPLETE. Finally. Took up a whole week of my life and more than a couple dollaz.

POD HARD

Sun, 13 May 2012 16:44:25 -0400

POD HARD

The Horror! The Horror!

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:30:22 -0400

The Horror! The Horror!

The Fox and the Sour iPad

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:03:05 -0400

I have never met someone who owned an iPhone or iPad and did not thoroughly enjoy their ownership of the device. I have met a lot of people who have never owned an iOS device who can speak volumes about the shortcomings of the device, the UI, the app store ecosystem, Apple’s business practices, and the treatment of Foxconn workers. Of these people, Android phone owners are most vocal. I don’t know a single soul with an Android tablet, so I can’t comment on that except to say it’s telling of itself.

Sour Grapes: The rationalization that something you can’t (or choose not to) possess is faulty and undesirable, as a means of easing the frustration of not having it.

Protect yourself from text-spam cell phone charges EASILY.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:35:00 -0400

I just got off chat with AT&T. I woke up this AM with the message “944-08: Cool Brain IQ Facts” informing me that I’m subscribed for $9.99 a month for having cool facts texted to my phone daily. That’s nice. I texted “stop” back, and started googling it. Turns out this is a pretty common spam, and they do indeed charge people. I can’t remember anywhere I’d have entered my phone number online. I always put 919-999-9999 in that blank. Sorry if that’s your number.

So, I needed to figure out how to a) cut this off b) reverse any charges and c) block all future attempts to scam my cell account with this trash.

I got on the chat line with AT&T, so I’d have a written record of it. It’s actually VERY simple to do, and I’d encourage everybody with a cell phone to enable this feature right now. It’ll save you some grief down the road.

Melissa A Conto: I am very sorry that you were signed up for that service. Please allow me 2-3 minutes to review your account.

There are three options for preventing this in the future: 1) Smart limits is $4.99 per line per month and will allow you to set text messaging and instant messaging limits, browsing limits, purchase limits, set time of day restrictions, allow and block certain numbers, filter content and block 411. 2) Device blocking option will allow you to block this from the device itself, however, putting on a text block would prevent all text messages coming through to your device. 3) Purchase blocker will restrict the ability to make mobile/PC purchases from AT&T or third-parties at no cost to you, and by far the most widely chosen by our customers. Purchase blocker will set up and e-mail you a four digit PIN number that would have to be used in the future to make any purchases for the line that you choose. You can choose any or all of your lines to have the purchase blocker placed on. Would you like me to set up any of these on any lines for you?

You: purchase blocker #3 please

Winner.

I am now theoretically 100% immune to cell charge scamming. Took about 2 minutes of my time. Wish I’d known I had the option BEFORE I needed it.

Video

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:52:36 -0500

Hello World

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:35:31 -0500

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

Christmas 1981

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:25:27 -0500

1981 was an interesting year. One item in particular changed my life utterly.

Hint: It was not my new sweater.

Sears used to have a kiosk with a bunch of 2600 games built into it. This was before the mall even had an arcade in it. I used to make certain that I got included on any trip that went anywhere near Sears, for this reason. I didn’t even have to play it, I just stood there and worshiped the thing silently.

My prior video game experience was Space Invaders, Battlezone, and Asteroids which were in the front lobby of Fischer’s Big Wheel, which was a small K-mart style store in rural Malvern Ohio. I had to stand on a milk crate to reach the Battlezone visor. Before these games were there, they had a bulldozer game where you pushed aquarium sand into holes.

I’m pretty sure you’ve never seen one of those, so there it is.

I was snooping through the cupboards one day in late November, and I found a Space Invaders cartridge up above the refrigerator. OMG OMG OMG! They had to have gotten me an Atari! Wooooo! I think mom was aware that I was onto something, perhaps because my incessant year long campaign of “subtle hint dropping” ceased just a month before Christmas. Or she noticed the game was out of place, or who knows. But she knew I knew.

7am Christmas morning, we raced downstairs. I was cool, confident, and utterly certain I was going to be playing some serious Atari that day. I opened the little stuff. Tried on the clothes. Didn’t even moan about the socks and underwear. Today was Atari day.

Except it wasn’t. After everything was unwrapped and accounted for, the gods of video games had screwed me over. How was this at all possible? I was destroyed. Everything I thought I knew about the world and my place in it was falling apart in the most profound disappointment. Oh god, why? How could I have been mistaken. This was a sealed-deal, my dues had been paid. AAAAAAAAAUUUUURGH!

I didn’t say anything. Deflated, I cleaned up the wrapping paper and tried to casually mope upstairs to die in the privacy of my own room. As I walked in the door, I saw a big wrapped box under my bed.

It was in the next minutes that I came to understand that my parents were the most wonderful people and most cruel prankster assholes of all time. I was sorta over it by the time the picture above was taken, though.

Trip to Lehman’s in Amish country

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:03:46 -0400

Trip to Lehman’s in Amish country

Photo

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:57:29 -0400

Photo

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:48:42 -0400

TV8 Weatherman Dick Goddard

Son of Ghoul meets Bad Movie Podcast

I love a good gadget. @Joaen bought one of these bad boys...

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:08:54 -0400

I love a good gadget. @Joaen bought one of these bad boys yesterday at BedBath. I was amazed at it’s Amish Rocket Science simplicity and elegance.

Video

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:04:42 -0400

Civilian Conservation Corps Documentary

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:47 -0400

Netflix has a PBS documentary on the CCC. My grandpa said it was the best job he ever had. Take 50 min and watch it, and it’ll change the way you think about old people, what they did and how their values are. The documentary is by Robert Stone, titled “The Civilian Conservation Corps”.

People of Walmart - the music video. Sure doesn’t hurt...

Wed, 25 May 2011 23:37:31 -0400

People of Walmart - the music video. Sure doesn’t hurt that this gal can really sing.

Music video made entirely out of PG scenes in VHS porn movies.

Wed, 25 May 2011 23:14:29 -0400

Music video made entirely out of PG scenes in VHS porn movies.

vhshitfest: Happy May 25th! The TRUE Star Wars Day! To...

Wed, 25 May 2011 23:04:04 -0400

vhshitfest:

Happy May 25th! The TRUE Star Wars Day! To celebrate, here’s a special VHShit-Bits where me and Dabeedoo discuss Star Wars VHS releases, amongst other Star Wars related topics. WARNING- 42 minutes of Star Wars talk may be a bit daunting, I realize, for non fans (AKA scum), so feel free to skip this one.

There will be a very special Star Wars related review later in the day, as well. Happy Star Wars Day!

-Tim