Dean: What do you use to kill rodents?
Scott: Rat poison?
Dean: Can you shove some of that up my left nostril to kill the animal which has clearly made a nest in my sinus?
Scott: Pussy.
Dean: Sure whatever works, shove a cat up there too. I hate this.
-dean
Edit: Dave claims I’m always sick and I claim I’m rarely sick. I am going to start tagging any posts made on sick days so in a year I can get a good idea of how I match up to the average canadian.
Does anyone know how much trouble you’d get into if you were in the U.S. without a passport? Like… if I were to… say… do some border hopping, just because they say I can’t. What would they do? Deport me? fine me? Send me down Guantanamo Bay?
You know… Just… curious.
Also, anyone feel like going on a roadtrip?
-dean
I went to this yesterday night (yesternight?).
http://videogameslive.com/index.php?s=home
Steph dressed up in her halloween costume (chun-li) and was up on stage for a bit. She met Tommy Tallarico. I’ve been a fan of Tommy for a long time, I’ve always admired his uncanny knack to get credit for every little thing he does. (seriously I mean that in a good way. I hear a lot of “THAT WAS YOU?” about my little projects.) So it was neat to see the master of self-promotion promoting videogame music too.
I ran into Kris and Nicole.
Nicole:”We’re going to the Syphony he says…”
Kris: “DID I LIE?”
Nicole:”I’ve seen two things at the Jubilee Auditorium. The other was puppetry of the penis…”
On the way out to my car a random guy said “Did you enjoy the show?”
Us: “yeah, it was pretty great. You?”
Guy:”well… I was in the choir.”
Me: “My query as to your level of enjoyment stands.”
Guy (in his late teens early 20s): “It sucked, I mean who likes videogame music? I don’t think the audience was into it at all.” (he was being facetious. The audience was super into it. it was more like a rock concert. Standing Ovation.)
Me: “yeah well… you’re just lucky I didn’t have the foresight to bring my tomatoes. So it was a nice change of pace?”
Guy(gradually increasing his volume as I open my car door and he gets further across the parking lot from us): “HELL YEAH! It’s interesting to see how culture has evolved that people are recognizing this stuff for how great it is. The times sure are changing.”
Me yelling and waving goodnight with my free hand as I climb into the vehicle: “For the better, my friend… TO THE FUTURE!”
-dean
I took a “how white and nerdy are you?” online test a few months ago at the insistence of my roomies.
Steph: HAH I’m whiter and nerdier than you and I’m not even white!
For some reason it came up in conversation.
“What how can this be?” Said my friend Marshall.
and had me take the test in front of him.
“Wear glasses?” No…
“Laser surgery counts.”
Ok yes.
“Made a webpage for your pet?” no…
“You have a webcam that’s devoted pretty much entirely to your bird.”
Ok yes.
“Myspace page is totally pimped out” No… I don’t have myspace.
“fine.”
The next day.
“Dean… I was thinking about it and building your own version of myspace should probably earn you bonus points.”
I suppose so.
So yeah, Now I’m whiter and nerdier than Steph.
You know how they say “Drop the needle” when they’re talking about playing a song?
Clearly it’s a reference to placing a record player’s stylus onto the modulated spiral groove of a vinyl gramophone/phonograph record, right?
Really, for the past what… quarter century? We should have been saying “Drop the laser” onto the pitted metallic substrate (of the CD player.)
And, for the past 10+ years we could have said “Drop the magnetic Read/write head” onto the magnetic dipole in the cobalt alloy platter (of the iPod-like Hard Disk MP3 Player.)
But for the past 5-10 years what should we have been saying? “Drop the hot-carrier-electron injection” onto the floating gate transistor? (of a ipod nano-style flash MP3 player)
Clearly we’ve dropped the ball on dropping things.
-dean
So I just got back from the dentist (filling an old filling that fell out, and the subsequent cavity that started in the next tooth from the convenient food gathering hole that resulted.)
I had the same conversation (via: instant message)with a few people but altered the geek level according to where I thought they were.
“I look like Jean Cretien”
“huh? no you don’t, not even a little.”
“But I just got back from the dentist”
“ooooh”
“except it’s my left side so I’m like Mirror Cretien”
Now you can choose your own adventure:
if (isset(Not a geek))
{echo ‘: Converation ends there.’;}
(if (isset(Kindof a geek))
{echo ‘: “I should grow a goatee and wear a sash like in startrek.” I say.’;}
if (isset(Geek))
{echo’: “So I’m shopping around for a gold sash.” I say’;}
if (isset(True geek))
{echo ‘: (beats me to the punchline): “I thought you couldn’t grow a goatee?” you say.’;}
Apparently I have really white teeth. The nice dentist lady had to go way up the whiteness scale when matching my filling color. Who knew?
-dean
I have this one really nice casual dressy button-up shirt. When I wear it out and about, I inevitably catch a few “that’s a good lookin’ shirt” compliments on it.
“thanks, yeah I quite like it.” I respond.
Sometimes that’s the end of the conversation. But maybe 45% of the time it goes a little further.
“Where’d you get it?” they ask in a “hmm… perhaps I will peruse the fine garments of the establishment where dean picked this thing up.” tone.
“Winners (which is like a cheap clothing liquidator). I think I paid like $8 for it.”
And at this point, I’ve yet to receive what I would think is the appropriate response to this, “haha, right on.”
I invariably hear a disgusted “oh.” and they make a face like they just heard I fished it out of the sewer system.
This story isn’t really going anywhere, other than to say it saddens me, and it’s always kindof annoyed me that people even care about trivial crap like brand-named clothes. Or rather, I guess the point is that designer labels tend to piss me off. I mean, I care about aesthetics and industrial design but I think that might be the problem. I examine each item on it’s own merits. Brand loyalty doesn’t really enter into it. You could argue “no way dean, you’re an apple fanboy, hell, your last post was drooling over that iphone.” and that would be your strongest case against me. But at the same time, you’d probably have a tough time arguing that a different MP3 player is better than the ipod (I could, but none of them bother to include mac support, so it’s iPod for me.), or a cellular phone or pda has ever been as close to amazing as the iphone (seriously go check it out on their site if you haven’t). So I think it’s really just a case of apple tends to make stuff that hits the right tastebuds for me. And it’s pretty clear by the fact that the first thing I did when I bought my latest machine was pitch the included keyboard and mouse into my “stack of peripherals that I use as backup if i really have to” in favor of matias and logitech products, that I’m not so blindly brand-loyal that I’ll put up with substandard work.
So yeah, I am going to pause now and give you all the finger through the internet…
(I just paused and flipped-off the display)
… if you’re one of those Fubu/tommy Hilfiger/nike/adidas/whatever-the-current-hot-brand-is-with-the-kids-these-days wearing, “Chevy forever!” types. You really get my goat.
-dean
Well… I guess any advice I gave the cellphone industry about names is moot now.
Apple just pwned you.
-dean
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