full size images for everyone:

edit: one more from jack quinn's where we all actually look normal (boring, I know)

You know what's awesome?

PIRATES

CU-Nebraska Game

I just got my ticket for the game, does anyone else want to go? Matt, this is your chance to go to one game in your life and see what makes your brother tick. It may not work for a lot of people because its the day after Thanksgiving, so I'll be driving up probably the next morning with Mike. Anyway, mull it over people. Even if not the game, maybe if you're in Boulder that day I'll party with you.

iMac Deal

Here's a 24" iMac for $1300. Definitely worth a look.

I opted for matte screen

Too much glare on the glossy ones. There are worse things, however

Oops, not iMac

MacBook

Cassie

I also love the glossy screen on my iMac. Although, I will somewhat disagree with Matt: the smudging is a bit annoying, but not hard to deal with.

Glossy screen!

For what it's worth, I love the glossy screen. I didn't think I would, but it is sharper, brighter (and easier to see when it is dimmed), and smudges/dirt isn't, surprisingly, as noticeable.

ok

I guess I was mostly curious about whether it had the glossy screen they come with nowadays, so I should've just asked that. But thanks for the info, and everyone go visit Kim to distract her from her (temporary) lack of boyfriend. I would if I could.

My Imac

Its a late 2006 Intel Imac, so its one of the white ones. It has 1 GB of ram, its 17 inches and a 250 GB hard drive. Those are the main things you can customize I believe. Last night it was running a little chunky so I would say to upgrade to 2GB or 3 when you get it. Other than that I'm not sure what more to say about it.

Come see me

Hello Denver/Boulder/Longmont people. I think Drew and Bonnie are coming to Boulder for Harpo's trivia and Monday Night Football tonight (last I heard, at least). You should come, too. Mikey left for 3 1/2 weeks this morning to travel around Europe and I'm lonely. Come see me.

It is better over here?

Yo...

My computer has also been broken, so I have been out of the loop. I hope everyone is good, happy birthdaying, and healthy. Japan is gettink cold. With icink and Russians everywhere...

Much, much 愛
ben

Hey Josh

When did you get your iMac? Is it one of the new aluminum ones? I'd be interested to know what you think of yours, and what specs it has.

Oh yeah Carl?

I just watched a Ford Truck commercial where a country music singer informed me that, "This truck is the big dog daddy." I'm still angry and confused about it all.

Just Got Leopard

Its really fast. I'm surprised that a new OS came out that uses the same computer but actually makes it faster, not just expects more resources. Spaces is pretty nice, but I don't really know if I actually need to get any more RAM. Its mighty snappy at 1GB.

Just when you though it couldn't get any worse

30 Seconds to Mars covering Kanye West sampling Daft Punk sampling Edwin Birdsong

Halloween party

at Ani's tomorrow night, 7pm

920 37th street

Be there

Awesome Article

Human race will 'split into two different species'

Also, that last post was #666! Happy Halloween!

Lazerblast

Carl, you might be surprised to know I've actually seen that movie, even if two robots and a guy from Wisconsin voiced over it while I was watching it. Pretty good MST3K episode. "Are you ready for some football!!!" being the best line for reasons you wouldn't understand.

Also, while on IMDB, I reflected how Brian Cox is on pretty much fuckin everything I ever watch on TV or movies ever. So I looked up his filmography and triva, and discovered he was an extra on my favorite TV show ever, the Prisoner, for several episodes in the '60s. At which point my head 'sploded.

Best Movie Tagline Ever?

You Make The Call

Matt,

I'm sure you can search around and find some software which will attempt to do this for you. I prefer the brute-force method myself, because I generally feel like I have a good idea of where everything is. A few (perhaps obvious) tips? I'm assuming your old machine is working well enough to use some basic utilities...

• First of all, you'll probably be doing a lot of searching and frankly, I'm not a huge fan of spotlight or smart folders. There's a program called Spotlaser which does a better job.


• If you want to get wild, use locate or find from the command line.


• Look around for .dmg files if you've saved them.


• There may be things like preferences and whatnot within your Library folder. (~/Library).

Well, I guess I don't have very useful advice after all. Anyway. That's the news from Lake Woebegone, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are are above average.

Also

What is the easiest way to get files from my old computer to my new one? Should I just copy stuff back from my external hard drive like I"m doing right now? I figure that this may be the simplest way, and it'll force me to tidy things up. That'd be nice.

Actually, scratch that. When I started up my new computer, it asked if I wanted to get everything from my old computer onto this new one. Can I do that? Is one method better than the other? What would someone who has done this recommend. The last time I got a new computer was because my old one got jacked, so I'd like to know what people's opinions are on this.

RAM

MacBooks can hold up to 2 GB. MacBook Pro can hold 4 GB, but only 3.3 GB are active. It's a commodity, so you might as well get it off of Newegg.com or something.

It makes a big difference if you want to run Power-PC software on the new Intel chips, or if you use a bunch of Firefox extensions and gmail which I've seen can hog up to 400MB.

There Probably Is

Whatever messenger service works for me.

From what I read, .mac is getting a huge revamping. Along with .mac and iLife '08 you can pound out some pretty cool things. The photo galleries they have are really cool. I would say you should be excited for the next iLaunch because I keep hearing that people are really excited that .mac is finally going to be everything they hoped.

Woo computer.

So I can't seem to access my external hard drive, which I'm assuming is because I need to connect it with a firewire cable the first time instead of a USB 2.0. So I am off to buy a firewire cable, methinks.

Oh, also, I got a .mac membership. The things I liked the most were the website builder and the automatic data backup. I'm going to use the latter for my writing stuff, and the former for a porn site. I mention this because you all are fonts of knowledge, and will have many pointers. I want to be more involved this time around with my computer and I want to do badass things.

Josh, I'd totally do a chat thing. Isn't there one where you don't go through AIM? A mac-specific one? Holla?

Portlanders

I have nothing bad to say about the macbooks in the least, but I will gladly state that my imac is completely rock balls. I am also thinking about upgrading the ram soon. I already have a gig in there, so can anyone convince me that 3gb is far superior to 2gb? Is that extra $50 worth it? Dancing with the Stars VR sounds pretty fun.

thanks Portlandians!

...Portlanders? Portlandites? 

I'm in desperate need of a new computer, but sadly I'm going to have to save my pennies first. I have my eye on a new iMac, though, with oodles of aftermarket RAM (does that term apply to computers the same way it does to cars?) (aftermarket, not oodles). My poor little iBook has to think so hard about everything I ask it to do that I can't get anything done on it anymore. Its like being dependent on a very knowledgeable but severely retarded personal assistant.

Ok

Now that everyone is getting a new mac, I think I may bring old AIM back just so I can video chat. I want to get to the point where it gets all casual, like I'm reading a book and can yell in to the other room with my computer about something cool I just read. No forced conversation, just a window open with some of us in it. I saw the leopard ichat thing and it was pretty neat how you could embed documents inside your chat, or even better, show them your desktop.

This is one time I wish I had a laptop because then I could walk around the house and show it to people, but I would need an extension cord for that. Could be fun to do that though.

Matt, Welcome Back

Forget Boot Camp (and if you do get it, I want you to setup this), instead get Parallels

Oh Snap, Screenshot:


Boom!

That's right Windows XP and even Linux flavors running on top OS X all at once.

"Girl, that cigarette burnt my froat!"

I would also recommend upgrading your ram. I'm running 3 gigs on my MBP and it's like Dancing with the Stars VIRTURAL REALITY.

Boom!

Happy Birthday

Cassie! Can't wait to see you in Vegas.

Gloria & Josh

And I said FUCK YEEEAAAAHHH!! (guitar solo)

So I am typing this form my new computer. 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, I Gb SDRAM motherfuckin' Macbook. Yes. It is so sweet. I'm going to need to get me some boot camp running so I can play a videogame on it. That'd be a neat thing to have happen. I am excited.

Gnome and the Misadventures of a Lazy Rabbit

This book is destined to become a classic.

1984

Is almost here....

I didn't read the article, just the headline

The internet sucks I'm going to bed

What?

Was that really an R. Kelly video thing? That thing was HILARIOUS.

One step ahead of the man.

If you buy a new computer relatively soon before a new OS drops, you can get it when it comes out for only $9.95. Badass.

I'm still pissed that it costs $200 more to get a black Macbook than a white one. The ONLY difference between the mid-grade Macbook and the high-end one is the color, 20 gigs of hard drive, and $200. Fuck that.

Leopard

Everything new described here

That time machine thing is scary.

I'm Sure You Already Know

But wait until this Friday at least so you can get the new operating system. I've kept an eye on it and there seem to be some cool things such as the desktop spaces and stack folders. Time Machine could be cool for you Matt since you use a lot of documents and edit things. I'll probably end up getting it, eventually, but is there anything on it that is really outstanding like Expose?

I am computer!

Well, my computer saga is reaching its conclusion. My friend has lived a long life, and weathered its abuse with aplomb. Yet, as the sun is sure to set, so too has my computer's life come to an end. Mad props to Willie for wild amounts of tech support that led us to do more or less everything that he could think of. After it was still not working, I took it to the Apple store's Genius Bar twice, where we did pretty much everything else. It looks to be a straight-up hardware problem, the remedy for which being a $350 repair. It is time for the long-awaited upgrade. I am going to buy a Macbook, and it is going to be grand.

Also, Bonnie, this one is the one that I've used the most, but there is also this one, this one, and this one. If you're using them for commercial work, just make sure that nobody is going to sue you for using it. They'll say which ones are totally free to use, and which ones they'll track you down over.

Help Internets savy friends

Hi!
Does anyone know a good site for downloading FREE fonts? I need a nice Anglican Gothic.
Thanks and I miss everyone.

R Kelly is Cool Again

Kasparov

He's a bad-ass.

No chance in the election though...

Chess and Politics

Dustin, this is for you. I think everyone else will enjoy too:

Chess and Politics

Dustin, this is for you. I think everyone else will enjoy too:

um, why is todd a whore

Also,
I don't want to drive myself. I fucking hate car trips. Sorry duder.

SMOKE WEED

TODD WENDERSKI!

"Whore!"

woah

A New York Times article about

Manitou??

Vegas

Drew + Bonnie

Are you still thinking about driving on down to Vegas? Sounds like fun to me!

I'll Give You An Email Bonnie

I'll just take care of this individually.

And....

How much do we owe you Josh? I need to budget.
FUN FUN FUN! I hope it is great.

Jan 18th to Jan 21st

Vegas Dates

What are the exact dates for Vegas?
Also, I have to work for the next 7 days. BOOOO!

Achewood

Made me spit coffee this morning.

Come back to Colorado. I'm in love with you. Bring Zero.

Its Gloria. 

Who the fuck is Calamity Jane? I don't think the po-po listen to bitches from Deadwood.

Feds

Send the feds to me. I'll tell them everything they need to know. 

The Fuzz

I'm applying for a security clearance and will probably be using a good number of you as references. If anybody doesn't want to say happy, loving things about me, tell me now before the feds show up at your door.

Here is why the Rockies are winning...

http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article3033367.ece

Insanity

For those of you who know him...I don't know when this happened...but Todd Wenderski is engaged.

I Sound Like Butters

Trying to hang out with the cool kids, but too scared I'm going to get grounded.

Time Travel!

I've actually been thinking about this perhaps too much lately as it is my favorite genre of Sci-Fi, and I want to write time travel stories. First, I hope that a good story can be written about people more or less hanging out in the past because I have a story idea along those lines.

Second, about your thoughts, I have thought similar, and as far as I know nobody has done that yet but someone probably has. There are so many random Sci-Fi novels and short stories out there that I"m sure someone has already played it out. But yeah, if you figure that if something happened, than it has always happened. If someone going back in time will always have happened, you can't really go back in time and screw something up because it will have always been that way. It doesn't make much sense if you superimpose that on our world as it is, but there are ways of making it work.

Regardless, continue to be my friend to see this idea as well as a number of others come to fruition as stories. Also, for anyone who doesn't know, the Royal Springs Entertainment Company is in its pre-pre-pre production stages on our movie, and it involves a sort of time travel that kicks much ass.

Also, Josh, I had a dream last night containing you and Andy. I was kicking it at my house in the Beach, and you and Andy were coming over to have a sleep over. You came over and wanted to do cocaine. At first we were hesitant, but then we were really excited for it. But, before you brought out the coke, you had to go home because it was past your curfew. We argued for a bit, but you didn't want to upset your parents, so you left. Andy and I were bummed for a moment, but then he remembered that he had a suitcase full of weed, and so we proceeded to get really really stoned and we prank called you and you thought it was awesome. End of story, and back to work for me!

Those are Some Pretty Mighty Comparisons

At the beginning of October I made the prediction tree, fo, fo for the Rockies and so far I'm two-thirds there. Just fo mo.

Ok, so I was talking to someone about this because I was curious if any books or comics had ever used this time travel idea. We were talking about Bill and Ted and I liked their time travel in the movie. Their idea was that if you need something, just remember to go back in time and set it there and it will show up in the present, like the jail keys. It makes sense, also it keeps the story moving quickly. I asked him then if any medium had used the logic I've always thought, that no matter what I do in the past it doesn't matter. If was even able to go into the past, I obviously didn't fuck up the past to keep myself from existing. I figure the time that I came from will be identical. In theory even if someone tried to kill their parents, it would never be possible no matter what. Basically, if you exist to travel to the past now, that can't be changed because the past can't be changed. Even if what you are doing seems new, like Bill and Ted abducting Napolean and Genghis Kahn, it's actually already happened. Make sense?

I'm not trying to talk physics, I don't believe in time travel at all, but more if that idea has been used by anyone? I figure it gets rid of that "don't hurt the past" paradox. I guess most movies have people going back to time to affect the present, like Timecop or Bill and Ted trying to do their report, never just going back in time to hang out. This idea probably wouldn't translate well to a plot.

Beisbol

I read this article yesterday with all kinds of comparisons to the Rockies' winning streak. Wowie.

Wholesome Awesome Video

I love when I'm entertained by a video that's not cynical, painful, dirty, and is completely age-friendly. Digg came through today with this. Gloria's parrot could do some of these things, especially the dancing, but this is a pretty fun video. I love the laser and evil sound.

Dinger Rules

Man, this is nuts. I cannot believe the Rockies are doing this good. I can't wait to watch the World Series next week. Drew, have you read anything about comparable winning streaks like this?

Fuck Dane Cook and Fuck Child Preachers

The only cool thing in the world is Dinger.

woah

Rockies in World Series and shit

For John

and anyone who's been watching baseball.

I have

a driver's license now! (Although they could take it away at my court date Nov. 7, but for now I can drive.)

Baseball at Harpo's tonight?

Hi lovie!!!

I hadn't realized I was out of juice. That's cool. I'll see you tomorrow.

-Me

I have been reduced to this:

HI Husband, I will be spending the night at the Beach tonight (Sunday.) Call me and I love you all!

Sister Weddingq

It is likely that most of you don't care; maybe certain girls (probably only Bonnie) might, but here are my sister's wedding photos (these were taken with Mikey's camera, so don't expect Cassie- and Willie-type photos). The first album on the page is the wedding time.

And a Child shall lead them

(them being complete morons)

Jesus
Buttfucking
Christ

fsking hell! (Matt, obviously)

It gave me the good message, that everything checked out okay, yet when I typed reboot and it rebooted, it froze once I got to the desktop. It cleared the gray screen and most entirely started up, but when I came back after a bite to eat, it was on the same dreaded message. Fsking hell, indeed.

I tried fsking it again, and it gave me the same OK message. After rebooting it froze while still on the gray screen. Didn't even make it to the blue progress bar startup.

Safe mode is still working, though it still takes forever to start up this way.

:(

fsck that disk!

This probably won't help, but there's still a chance, so here it is:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

Perform the "Use fsck" section of the page. Basically, it will repair the filesystem on the disk and may also get your DVD drive back. Let me know how it goes.

Computer fun time! (Matt still)

First of all, thank you so much Willie. I really am not sure what I'd do without you on this. I guess I'd just go to the Mac Shack and hope they don't ream me too much.

So I tried resetting the PRAM and NVRAM and it didn't do anything. It definitely reset the stuff, because it did the second startup tone and whatnot. Unfortunately, as usual, about 10 or 15 seconds after the gray startup screen came up it froze up with the same message that it's been giving all along. At the bottom of the article you linked to it mentions resetting the PMU if it is a Powerbook problem. In the PMU article, though, it says "Resetting the PMU is not intended for resolution of a stall or situation in which the computer is unresponsive. A PMU reset should not be necessary except as a last resort in cases where a hardware failure of the power management system is suspected." So, seeing that, I'm assuming that I shouldn't bother with it? Here is the link to that article. It also says that it is a last resort type of measure, but I'm not sure we're there yet either.

To answer your questions, I'm trying to boot from the regular OS X and my system is OS 10.4 or maybe .3. Whatever it is, I got it from your DVDs when we were back at East Ridge. THe Applecare disc says in big lettering "AppleCare Protection Plan." It also says "Techtool Deluxe from Micromax" and "To start up from this CD, hold down the Option key as the computer starts up." The Techtool thing doesn't do balls when I access it after a safe boot. It said that I didn't have authority or something along those lines. And when I say that it freezes, I mean that the dimmed "You need to restart your computer" screen comes up that they describe in Carl's kernel panic article. When this comes up, I can't do anything but force a restart by either command-control-power button, or holding the power button for a few seconds. There is no mouse, sound, anything.

I guess that's about as much as I can say now. I'll keep trying shit, but I think that my magical bag of tricks has been exhausted. I doubt I'll throw it against the wall or smash it with anything.
What comes next? Thanks again. Smooches. I'll have to send you a thank you package of fun.

Generation Thing?

Have any of you noticed that people, especially those around 50 or so, seem to love puns? I think puns can be funny if they are said as a stupid joke and made obvious, but I hate when people make a quick pun and make you look like an idiot for not getting a joke they've told a million times. Example:

My coworker: "I'll miss you."

Boss: "What did you throw?"

Coworker: "Umm..."

Boss: "You'll miss..."

Coworker: "Oh yeah! Hahaha."

I guess its more the fact that they aren't delivered as a joke. It sounds more like they didn't hear you or you simply don't understand them. Bottom line, puns should not be someone's core sense of humor. Its uncomfortable.

For Those Of You Who Don't Digg

You only need to watch like a few seconds of this. Man...

It's not so bad.

It's actually really good news that your computer isn't freezing when you boot into the safe mode. That means that it's almost certain that you have a software problem and not hardware problem, which means that you can actually fix it yourself.

Don't worry about not being able to create a disk image. As long as you've backed up all your documents, music, movies, hard-to-replace applications, and the like, you're fine.

Now, the fact that you can't boot up from the CD is bad. You say you're trying to boot up from an OS X install disc. What version of OS X and what version did you currently have on your computer? Also, what is this AppleCare disk? And when you say freeze, do you really mean that the mouse stops responding or just that it acts like it's not doing anything at all?

Also, do this just for kicks:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238

There's still plenty more tricks that we can try too.

This is Matt, and I am SO UPSET

So I cannot figure out what to do with my computer. I can get it to start up more or less if I hold down shift while it starts up, which is the "safe startup." It seems that when it is "safely started up" that I can only do a limited number of things. I can't use the Airport, but other things seem to be up and running, and it doesn't seem to freeze in this state. Also, I've been able to back up files to the external hard drive this way, so that is swell. What isn't, though, is that I cannot create a disk image to restore my computer from should I have to erase it. When I attempt to do that, it says that it failed because the "resource busy." Do I need a disk image to restore my computer from? I'm copying my important folders, but are there things that I absolutely need to have backed up that I won't think of, as I ain't computer savvy?

Also, I cannot seem to start the computer from any other disk. I've tried the one I got from Applecare as well as the OS X install disc. When I start up my computer, I'm supposed to hold "c" and it'll startup from the CD, but it just freezes!!!! Same with when I hold "option," which is supposed to give me a variety of things to start up from including the computer's hard drive and whatever CD is in, but it just shows the computer's hard drive (it doesn't show the CD) and if I proceed from there it freezes again.

I'm at my wit's end. This is fucking ridiculous. I can't do the disc first aid if I'm started up from the disc itself. I think I have to be started up from a CD or some shit (which I can't do without it freezing) and then I can do the first aid on my computer. I can't start up any way but the safe mode or it freezes, and it seems like I can't do shit in the safe mode.

Willie, Carl, thanks so much for the help. I tried looking online and in manuals, but I'm getting so little information from the machine itself that I have no idea what the fuck I'm looking for. The kernel panic seems appropriately named and quite possibly what is going on, but I can't use that information to figure out how to fix my shit. If I'm unclear and you still want to help, I'll try to stay on top of this through Lindy's computer, but as I'm getting my cornhole excavated tomorrow, I may not be in the zone for a little while yet.

woot

kim!

I am allowed to go

back to Southern Sun now. However, I have to "act like a customer" and"not talk to too many people." Psch.

Radiohead

is

hilarious/awesome.

How much does their new album cost? You get to decide!!

No seriously....check it out
here

They were my favorite band...now they will always be my favorite band.

More apt usage of the word "Panic"

Does this help at all?

Don't Panic

The screen wipe is basically your computer taking a big nasty diarrhea all over your face. It's the same thing as the bomb that would come up on the old macs. Since it's happening a lot, the first thing to do is definitely to back up your data. Second, run the Disk Utility program to try to fix it. (Disk Utility is in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.) If that doesn't work then the next thing is to reinstall the operating system. If that doesn't fix the problem, then erase/reformat your hard drive, reinstall the OS and pray that that works.

Have you used the external hard drive for backing up your computer before? If so, I'm not sure why it would complain now, but you can always erase and reformat the drive using Disk Utility and it should work just fine after that. If you can't get your computer to run long enough to actually backup the data there's a couple more tricks that are pretty easy. Let me know if you need them.

Panic! HELP COMPUTER

So my computer, for the first time in its life, is fucking up. The screen does a top-to-down wipe (like the scene transitions in Star Wars) where it gets a little darker (like when you bring up the widgets screen) and displays a message in English, German, Japanese, and I think Spanish that says something along the lines of "Your computer needs to be restarted. Please hold the power button for a couple seconds or push the restart button on your computer." When this message comes up, the computer freezes. Now, if I restart it, the message comes up again during the gray startup screen with the swirling circle of lines on the bottom. If I shut it down for a minute or two, than I have some time after it starts up before it comes up again. I can't find anything online about this, so I'm pleading to you all for help.

The shittiest thing about this, and the intro to my second question, is that this happened at the same time that I decided to finally do some backup. I just got done with some writing and decided that I needed to backup. So I went home, and this shit started. But there is also a problem with my external hard drive. My computer says that the drive is a read-only disc, and that it is formatted for Windows. Is there a way to format the drive for Macs without a CD for it?

Help me, computer people, you're my only hope. If my computer goes tits up with my shit on it, I am going to lose my mind, and it won't be pretty.

Good Economy = Fat People

Duh?

FUCK Ben Stein

What a douche.

Guess I'll fix

that

By far

one of the best tv shows I've ever seen is 30 Days. Morgan Spurlock is a major bad-ass.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Days">Check it

Josh

The Office is a good one, and there are a few seasons to watch. Also, did you already watch Arrested Development? If not, that's my strongest recommendation. I also kind of like My Name is Earl, but not like, tons.

I got a new gotdamn board!

I am very excited and proud of my new longboard. I originally was going to get an 80's style skateboard after watching Thrashin' and being blown away at how cool it is. However, when I went in to look at buying one, the Caribbean pothead owner asked if I was going to ride at skate parks with it, to which I replied "no." He then replied with "Well then fuck that bullshit (referencing the skateboard half of his shop), and get yourself a longboard." After much thinking, it made a lot of sense since I don't/can't/won't do tricks anyways and pretty much just enjoy carving around.

So I got a longboard, and made sure that it is fucking badass. I chose all of the components and put it together myself. The most important part, and the part that I'm most proud of, is that I did the grip tape and it is awesome if I do say so myself. All of it is sticking to the actual board, with none of it overlapping. To boot, the skull glows in the motherfucking dark. I like my new toy, and I hope you do as well.

What?

Huh?

Anyways, I am watching the Packers right now, and John Madden and Al Michaels just said "Sheboygan" about 10 times in two minutes for really no reason and seemed to be having a lot of fun doing so. This was strange to me.

What Was My Other Reply That I Accidentally Deleted

Why not?

EDIT: I meant to write "That Was What My Other Reply Was That I Deleted". Once I start deleting and restrating posts, I tend to jumble my train of thought. 

To Ani

Why not?

Edit: I just read Josh's in depth explanation and laughed very heartily. Yes, the Steelers yellow towles were the first. Everyone else that does it sucks.

Here's The Original

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrible_Towel

The Steelers invented the towel (I believe) and other teams have adopted their own towels periodically. I believe towels are popular because the fans need something to do while they cheer and if twirling a towel can possibly make the team do better, its worth doing it. Also, there is such a strong sense of unity at a sports game that people love it when the entire crowd is doing the same thing, it makes you feel like you're part of a big machine.

Ani wants to know

why towels are flung around at baseball games.

Yup

I thought you would not be coming out of the bathroom for the next week Drew. Chin up!

Woo...Rockies and their fair-weather fans

I second worst video ever

I Nominate

this vid for worst on the internet. It's probably not THE worst, but it is up there.

The Cubs are horrible

If I remember correctly, there are three season (if not, four) of Upright Citizen's Brigade. Only the first two, however, have been released on DVD up to this point. If you need to chose between the two, the first season is better, but they are both insanely awesome. Metalocalypse is coming out on DVD very soon. On the 10th or something. They used to all be on Youtube, but now I can only find them online is here.

Obviously, I'm kinda bummed, but something inside me died in 2003, and I will just never be able to hope as much as I did back then. And for that I am thankful.

I Forgot Metalocalypse

I have seen a bunch of those, but man, nobody around here knows about that show. I play that song on guitar hero at my friends' houses and they just shrug. Also how many seasons of Upright Citizens Brigade were there?

Ideas for Josh

Metalocalypse (two episodes at a time)
Upright Citizen's Brigade

That's all you need. Oh, and you need this too.

Need A New 24 minute Comedy

I've found that eating and watching a half hour comedy for my lunch break works out pretty well, and I'm almost finished with South Park. I believe I've watched all but 5 episodes and those movies don't work on my computer at work from allsp.com or any other site. Therefore, its time to find a new show for me to watch during my lunch break. Ideas:

A Mighty Boosh (that BBC program that Carl linked to)
The Office (USA)
Reno 911!

Any other ideas?

"The [Japanese] Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam"

That quote is hilarious. It is in this article. I just see a stern-faced Japanese Salaryman saying it and I laugh heartily.

Also, I agree with Carl. I may not be super-incensed but those three articles are a cluster of bullshit to be sure.

Also, I'm taking a poop!

What the hell happened

to Carl? Take a shot and chill out buddy.

I'M SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW I CAN'T STAND IT

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5.times {puts 'Woot!'}

DIE!!!!!!!

(Woot)^4 ??

Die! Die!!

Woot Woot Woot!

I just pre-ordered the new Radiohead! Download commences Wednesday!!

Woot Woot!

Rockies!

Woot

ROCKIES!

I must be drunk.

Anyway, BonnieDrew are coming up to watch the Cubs game at Harpo's tonight if anyone is interested.

Harpo'

Lethemday!

Who are these people?

Sandra K & Thomas J Dipasqua

Ages:60-6http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif4, 55-59

3 Ole Musket Rd

Scarborough, ME 04074-9330

(207) 883-2730

They mailed me my copy of Gun, With Occasional Music, which I love and have been looking for and asking about for ages. I'm looking at Gaults, from the handwriting and packing materials used to mail the book. I am so happy to have it home, I don't even know what I'll do. Probably a jig, followed by a ditty.

If you were one of the lucky ones to get to read it, the author, Jonathan Lethem, is doing a 10-part comic and the first part came out today. It is Lethemday at Matt's ass.

I guess I'll make what this paragraph was going to be into a blog entry. As for what this paragraph is now, it is a link to this.

Yes

How observant of you. She was also dismissed later that year. Her successor, Yanukovich, was an asshole (yes, the same guy who ran for president in the rigged election which caused the Orange Revolution), so President Yuschenko dissolved Parliament and called an early election, which just ended in her victory, so she's back in the position she was appointed to and dismissed from in 2005... but apparently she's back on good terms with the President. Ukraine's politics are downright incestuous.

Sports

Sports are actually, in fact, awesome. And actually, in fact, that chick is the former prime minister of the Ukraine. Appointed so back in 2005. What?

Babes in Office

The past few days certainly have been exciting, but that has nothing to do with lame sports... it has to do with Ukraine's crazy elections, resulting in their new Prime Minister being a fox.

Sports are gay

fags

No kidding.

This has been the most exciting 3 days in a long time. CU beat Oklahoma? WTF? It was a beautiful game, and probably none of you watched it, yes? It was ridiculous.
Also, Ohio State won the 5th of their 5 games this season, as is to be expected. I'm pretty happy, though. I didn't know how OSU would do this year without Troy Smith. (Speaking of, Troy Smith is a 3rd string quarterback now for the Baltimore Ravens. wtf?)
The Rockies ordeal is very exciting even though I asked 15 different people to watch it and my Bungles tonight at Harpo's and no one would, so I watched the first 5 innings with a bowl of spaghetti in my lap at home.
Also, it was upset special weekend! K State beat Texas? Auburn beat Florida which is sweet because I now hate the Gators. Georgia Tech beat Clemson? Maryland beat Rutgers and CU beat Oklahoma? Wtf? That made everything fun, especially the fact that OSU was not part of this upset special phenomenon.

That Does It

Well, that caps it off. This was definitely the best weekend I've ever watched sports. Jesse said it perfectly in an email he sent me:

I know this weekend was fucking nuts. It was one of those weekends when you can't wait to watch SportsCenter. Usually, SportsCenter is like breathing. It's calming, it's needed, and most of the time you don't even think about it, it's just there. But I love times when I can't WAIT to watch SportsCenter, because so much insane shit has gone down. "

Yes Dustin yes, go Rockies. 14 of 15 games to make the playoffs. They did it.

Along the lines of Sports

I was at Ian's this past Saturday and we were looking for things to watch on the television, and I was thinking that even though I gather no enjoyment from watching sporting events, I do enjoy the fact that others enjoy it. I was sitting there, thinking to myself that it is nice to know that all around the country people are sitting and watching the same thing and gaving a grand time of it all. Even people rooting for different teams--they're both watching the same game. That thought filled me with joy, and I had no ill-will toward Sports.

ADDENDUM
I hope that the Rockies go all the way. I really do. That would truly be awesome.

Would any Boulder/Denver people

consider coming to trivia at Harpo's tonight?