Category Archives: General

Mostly pop culture rants. Usually without reason or spell chekin.

Appletizing

Distractions, General

This weekend was weird.

Friday I spent all morning cleaning so that I could allow a woman doing research into Men Who Like To Cook into my home. I capitalize that because that’s the best way I can describe her study. At first I thought it was going to be all Gender based questions regarding my views of roles within the home but it turned out to be a lot more curious – the questions she was asking going into hour 2 were a lot more personal than I expected and at one point I had a revelation that I actually derive my pleasure for cooking from when I would come home from school about an hour earlier than my Dad and would start dinner. He would come home and complete the meal. Teamwork! Comfort! Valour! Effort! etc… Afterwards, I made SharkBoy a nice dinner of beef quesadillas.

Saturday we basically played it low key and took turns on the PS3 trying to plough through our games. I’m still on Mass Effect 2 and SharkBoy is eating up Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. I’ve never seen him so obsessed with a game – I’ve created a monster. Later we met up with GroveOfBlue and Fortress of Solitude and enjoyed Kick Ass and then the first two episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race. I wish I could download things from the web again. Dang Rogers and their silly DMA threats.

Sunday was dinner with Dad after a day of naps. Da is officially 78 or something silly. Doesn’t act it, though. Happy B-day Da!

After dinner I high tailed it to the Apple store up at the Yorkdale mall where I sat in on a hiring seminar. A few days ago I applied for a part time job for the summer since I: 1) don’t have any projects or plans for this summer and 2) want more money doing something I like doing – namely telling people what to do with their computers.

When I got there, I was the oldest in the room (of about 40 people). Oddly enough this didn’t intimidate me at all, however the amount of scarves on these twentysomething hipsters in 17C weather was quite disconcerting. Thankfully I was wearing my big nerd eyeglass frames or I’d be seen as the totally non-hipster old guy in the room. I find out later this week if I got an appointment with the “People Leader” and then on to the appropriate store manager for training. Fingers sort of crossed. If I get it, great! If not… meh. Moving on…

An Uneasy Truce

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IMG_2374, originally uploaded by deadrobot.

They have moments where they look like they actually enjoy each other’s company.

Clash of the Titans – a 14 Second Review

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Hey Kids! Shelly here!

Okay so the Terminator shows up and then he’s all like “Who am I?” and the creepy guy from The Usual Suspects is all like “I’m still your dad.” And then Voldermort convinces Shindler that he’s got a plan to make their little action figures to like them again while they’re playing real-time Katamari Damancy. Liberace says, “Yeah let’s trust the bitter and evil guy, even if he’s my bro.” And Dr Bashir says “No way!”

But Qui Gon says, “Yes way!” but sends the Terminator guy a lightsaber in the form of fatherly gifts even though he’s going to fuck up the plan he just said “Okay lets do it!” to.

Meanwhile the city of Argus is all like “Holy Shit! Gods are suck!” and then Voldermort shows up and is all like “Chicka waaa?” and they’re like “Oh shit, no way!” and he’s all “Tough tit. This one who defended us is dead meat. I’m sending in Cloverfield.”

So I’m Not A Terminator Guy thinks he can stop the whole thing ’cause he’s a demitasse or something but he doesn’t believe it yet he thinks he can kill a god and they send him and a bunch of other guys (Billy Connolly, Zach Galifianakis, Father Guido Sarducci, The Rock, and some Red Shirts) and they go to the lair of The Pans Labyrinth ladies to see if they can stop the 20 Million Miles to Earth monster and on the way they meet up with some wooden Transformers that have the bluest eyes ever. But they’re made of wood. And they ride motherfucking scorpions, dude!

At the lair of the Pans Labyrinth ladies, they learn that if they get the head of Uma Thurman, they can turn anything into stone. They go there, lose 99% of their party but “I See You- but not directly” Avatar dude gets the head of Christy Brinkley (circa 1988) and the the TerminatorAvatar Guy gets on National Velvet and flies back to Argus to defeat the Cloverfield and they wind up with the most shittiest harbour ever.

The end.

Seriously, not as bad as I expected. If you’re a Clash of the Titans purist, then you’re going to be disappointed (and if you are a CotT purist, then you’re a mouth breathing shut in. The original was crap except the stop motion stuff). I thought it was a good updating on what was a rickety house of cards.

3.5 bolts of lightning out of 5!

Friday Grab Bag

Distractions, General, Tech

Lisa’s Facebook page has an app that is updating her wall with goofy remixed pictures of her profile pic. It’s creeping me out. Today’s pic is of her being eaten by a tiger. No shit.

I got new glasses. Actually SharkBoy got some too but his aren’t as he expected. He’s going to have to get progressive lenses since he’s skeeved by taking them off just to read. Mine make me look like a fat Elvis Costello. I think.

The iPad is making splashes through the web, having been dropped off early at some nerdy tech writers. Gizmodo has a great cross reference graph for your perusal.  Yes. It’s making me want one. And I don’t really need it at all, but something in me…wants… one… arg.

Fortress of Solitude posts a funny pic. I find a companion video.

This weekend my family converges on Toronto again from Calgary, Ottawa, Brockvegas and the grand United Kingdom. I’m looking forward to it!

The Panty Game Continues

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You might recall SharkBoy and I are locked in immortal combat in a contest forever known as Who can hide the panties the best. We’ve lost the Spongebob undies somewhere – one of us hid them too well for the other to find it. The funny part is that neither one of us can recall who’s “turn” it was. I wonder if someone out there in the big wide world is opening a used lunchbox bought in some garage sale and come across this poor rag.

But no fear, we have found a new participant: green ugly and lyrca. Go take a look at SharkBoy.ca. I have escalated this war.

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!

(Update: Site has reverted. Link still works)

Awards Fever! Or…Shameless Plug?

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Remember how I decided I wanted one acknowledgment of my 6+ years of blogging? That site tanked pretty fast right after I announced that, didn’t it? After being on the web for over 12 years now (Christ on a toboggan… the internet IS for porn!) I find these kind of award sites either way up on the long tail (meaning they serve only to highlight 1million hits-a-day blogs) or they’re a group of friends who act like those mean girls at lunch hour out by the parking lot who use to point at my dandruff and bad skin…

There’s a Canadian version out now and the LGBT section is a bit lacking in content (no offense to the people who are there). Of the 6 listed, two are written by Americans living in Canada, one is living in Ireland. Why not nominate moi? That’s deadrobot at gmail end the dot com thing.