I want some geocaching pics
The friggin' event happened a couple weeks ago and I still ain't got a write-up with pics up yet. Damnit.

Movie Magic!
Well, not really.

The trailer for American Pie 2 is friggin' insanely funny. "I kinda superglued myself to uh... myself." Hehe! I think I'm going to have see this movie now. Thanks Brian for the link.

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within debuts this coming Wednesday. I really hope this movie doesn't suck, because it's probably one of two or three movies I may end up seeing this summer.

And why isn't Kiss of the Dragon being shown anywhere near me? I could use a nice fighting movie right about now.

And although this isn't a movie, this movie clip kicks ass. Or... uh... kicks face?

And... that's all I got. And Quicktime sucks.

I'm out of pills
Damn. And I was really starting to like them.

I guess that also means that I have to see Dr. Whackjob soon; it turns out I have an appointment some time this Monday. I'm looking forward to being treated like a human water pump again while he jabs various parts of my torso with a pair of fingers. Then, maybe he will give me some more of these betafood pills which, interestingly enough, contain bovine prostate. Yummy!

I was talking to one of my friends a night ago about how my gall bladder went on strike, and he said that he visited the same doctor because he was doing poorly in school. He was given the same "exam" as me and it turned out that he had a calcium deficiency. If he took Pill X for 12 months, not only would he learn more and retain more information, but also any future offspring he may have will never have the same problem. So he took the prescribed pills for a while, and it did turn out to make him "smarter." His lowest grade for one school quarter was a B+. Unfortunately, once he realized that he was getting these improved grades, he didn't feel the need to study as much. So he became lazier than he already was (which is an impressive feat, I kid you not), and his next report card reflected that. Heh. I think he has a job doing manual labor now.

I hope I'm all set now. Pills aren't cheap. I'm guessing the cost must reflect the work required to extract a bull's prostate, as well as some of these other fancy organic ingredients. It'd be really funny if they had to get the cow parts from living bovines only.

Monday is gonna rule.

Links to things of or pertaining to geekdom
I'm a man of few words today. Where the hell is everyone, anyways? Ho hum...

* Ever want to know what it took to qualify to be on The Weakest Link? Find out here. It's a good read: "Ernie, huh? Where's Bert?" "Hey, that's funny. I've never heard that before." "Seriously?" "No." Hehe!
* Someone was really cool to post this job offer over on one of my preferred job hunting sites, Headhunter.net.
* A girl's guide to geek guys. T'is another good read. Replace "Star Trek" with "The X-Files" and "software t-shirts" with "a plain shirt with a bleach stain or a tear" (yes, I need new clothes), and you might have me. Except my computer usage only dates back four years. And some other stuff.
* This page cannot be displayed.

"The price is wrong, Bitch."
Be careful when trying to save a game of Deus Ex while using OpenGL. You might get this interesting error.

And then your saved game files will be corrupted. Heh. Say goodbye to many weeks of effort.

At least it wasn't my saved game. :)

This is too friggin' funny.

me (12:01:51 AM):
  Jarrod (12:01:28 AM): homo
  Jarrod signed off at 12:01:31 AM.
Jon (12:07:45 AM): ?
Jon (12:07:55 AM): he just called you a homo and logged off>
me (12:07:57 AM): that was my conversation with jarrod
me (12:08:00 AM): yup
me (12:08:03 AM): like the fag he is
Jon (12:08:10 AM): and you are surprised by this?
Jon (12:08:12 AM): homo
Jon signed off at 12:08:15 AM.

Wrecked.

Animal stories
I hate Seattle and the state of Washington now. And the Department of Agriculture. 4,200 birds will be eradicated in the Puget Sound area in the next two weeks "to reduce perennial piles of goose poop on lawns and sidewalks." What the hell? Geese are being killed because they shit too much? If there's a geese problem in the city, here's a solution: DON'T FEED THE FUCKING GEESE! They will go away eventually. You don't put them in fucking gas chambers!

Birds are corralled during the early summer molt, when they lack flying feathers and are easier to capture. They are then suffocated with carbon-dioxide gas.

A new wrinkle this year is the use of large steel boxes, hauled inside the beds of pickups, where geese are gassed in the field instead of being taken away in wire cages. The "euthanasia chambers" were built specifically for the Washington state roundup, said Clay.

Consider me thoroughly pissed.

It's probably because most of the geese are Canadian geese, too, heh.

I stole the story from Asian Bastard. Check out their comic strip about the situation. You may have to scroll down the page a little bit, but you shouldn't have trouble finding it. It sums up the situation pretty nicely. Pay close attention to the last statement that is said.

ARGH!

Anyhoo, here's some not-as-controversial animal stories you can also take a look at:

* The Rock may be the Scorpion King, but does he have anything compared to the Scorpion Queen?
* Buddhists. Reincarnation. A mother's dead son. A custody battle over a lizard. I wish I was making this up.

My house smells funny.
There's a two-degree relationship between the source of the odor and "bitter beer face."

If that wasn't enough of a hint for you, there's also a one- or two-degree relationship between the source and Cribbage.

That's all you need to know.

"You are NOT shootin' that green shit at me!"
Coding for both IE 4.x and Netscape 4.x is funny. Sometimes a page will load one way in Netscape, but if you don't change a thing and try to reload the page 10 minutes later, it doesn't look the same. And then you have to add some really stupid javascipts to prevent Netscape's crappy bugs from resurfacing ever again. Mix in some CSS elements and some tables with borders and you're in a world of pain. Heh.

Not much going in the Jerome household today. It's been looking like it wants to rain all day, thereby preventing any outdoor activities such as firing up the ol' barbeque grill. But I did have some company, which was kinda good, I guess.

I guess that means that I'll be doing some more coding just for the hell of it, and maybe I'll watch Independence Day because hey, it's America's birthday today. Woo.

Miscellany
I didn't really do anything today. Nothing noteworthy, anyways. And to make up for my lack of personal content, I have no choice but to give you some more wonderful story links. I hope you like them!

On second thought, I don't care if you like them or not. I don't exist to appease you, you conceited ham-and-egger.

* Who's your father? Was he your mother? It's possible. And it may be not as uncommon in San Francisco since the local government voted to pay for sex change operations. Freaky.
* Don't get married. You'll stay smarter and healthier that way.
* A list of things new campers can hunt for. I remember being a newbie boy scout, going on my first camping trip, and I was told to ask one of the leader guys if he had a left-handed smoke shifter. "No," he said, "but we have 200 feet of shoreline." Snipe hunting is also a popular gag.
* The Anti-Garbage Site!!!!!! I think it's funny as hell, especially since I can't take anything involving way too many exclamation points and short-hand words (like "u" replacing "you") seriously. Or stupid ASCII signatatures. Or LOTS OF CAPITAL LETTERS. You get the idea.
* Battlebot toys coming to a store near you! Who wouldn't want a 10-year-old playing with a scaled-down version of Overkill or Nightmare? Woo!

I hate it when the phone rings non-stop at my house.
And I need a haircut really badly.

Computer crap. And kids.
I could use a cable modem right about now. This frequent exchange of the phone cord is getting old and annoying.

* Who would have thought that while Anarchy Online was being mass produced and open beta testers were pleading that the game was not ready to be sold, that there would be some problems after release? Hot damn! Well, the makers of AO decided to pull a Tribes 2. And they had to apologize for it.
* Down with Napster! Songs downloaded off of the internet don't carry any warning labels on them, and this is clearly Napster's wrong-doing! *sigh* Idiots.
* Kids in Belgium are encouraged to drink beer during lunch at school. After all, beer is a healthier alternative to soda! My question is, has the department of education in Belgium ever hear of milk? Or juice?
* 90% of England's kids have cell phones. Everyone knows that your typical 16-year-old is such an important person that they require a cell phone to keep in touch with all of their affairs.
* Maybe those 16-year-olds need those cell phones so they can properly execute their plan to demand sex while dressed up as a baboon.

Here comes the money
Not to be out-done by the $10 check I got a while back, I received a work study check appraised at $143.75 yesterday. Heh. And I thought I picked up my last work study checks. I guess this one is the last one. But the amount kinda caught me off guard. At minimum wage ($5.75 per hour), that means I worked for 25 hours towards the end of the semester. I don't think I worked at the end of the semester, though. I remember stopping for the end of the year work study party, but did I actually hang around to make a few bucks? Hmmm... I might have worked during finals week or on the study days, since I couldn't really study at the apartment. But I only had one final... I don't know. Whatever. I guess I shouldn't complain, heh.

Now that I got this magical and forgotten boon, I have to spend it. :) Since there isn't anything at the mall or any nearby stores that I want, I guess that means I'll pick up a 32MB Visiontek GeForce2 GTS card. The GTS cards have dropped significantly in price lately, which has made me wonder if I should pick up a "Pro" card instead of a GTS card. Hmmm... the GTS cards have been around for slightly over a year... I guess I shouldn't worry about how long it will be until the card is obsolete. I'm a casual gamer anyways. Chances are, I won't need something as ridiculously powerful as the GTS card for Shadowbane. I just need it for Tribes 2. :)

After reading some reviews about Visiontek and the GTS card itself, I felt that the GeForce2 Pro wasn't necessary. The Pro is about 20% faster than the GTS, but since the price difference is more than 20% between cards (and given my limited budget and no flow of income), the GTS will give me more bang for my buck. And the 64MB version of the card isn't worth it.

So there you go. I've been in need of a new video card for a while. I'm not sure how much better the GTS card is to my current video card (32MB Diamond Viper 770D TNT2, a really solid card, actually), but one thing's for certain: I won't be playing Tribes 2 with really shitty display settings ever again! :)

Want the card, too? Visit Pricewatch and find the cheapest price (go with a card made by Visiontek, if possible). Or, get yours where I'm getting mine, PowerUp, Inc. It's a mere $105 plus shipping, no less. It's a steal!

I'm feeling androgynous. Well, not really. Ick.
Today has been a big day for me in terms of getting web site work done. Not to this site, of course. But since I'm getting an "A" in that summer course I took, I should probably consider replacing my survey. Hmmm... I need a topic, though.

But anyways, with the third Garbage album almost here, there has been a good amount of info released about it. The "official logo," whatever the heck that means, is black and white. I may have to update my G site accordingly. But I'm kinda sick and tired of black, white, and/or blue websites. That's why this site was originally green. I'm willing to tolerate this black background/blue text combo for now, since it's not as prevalent on the web. My G site currently has a black and white background and is littered with black cell blocks with pink borders and white text. It kinda has the self-titled album theme going on (I don't care for the orange colors used for Version 2.0). That being said, it's getting kinda dated. Time for a redesign.

I really need a server of my own. I can't count on the thesevoices.com server to be up and running anytime soon (or later :p), and as people continue to email me things to put up on my site, I'm getting tired of separating the site out into several accounts due to web space limitations. And I'm gonna have to open another account like... right now. Since cable modem technology will be in my house in about a week, I could use my own computer to act as a server. But I can't guarantee my computer will be up all of the time, either. I play games, I like to tear open my computer's case to see what's going on inside, I like to "stress test" my computer, and installing new programs may make me have to restart. Dilemmas, dilemmas.

I also hope that the third album doesn't suck. It is supposed to be kinda like an extreme version of the other two albums: darker than the first album (which I still listen to a lot) on some tracks, and "poppier" than Version 2.0 (which I don't listen to that often) on other tracks. It's also going to be more to-the-point and simple instead of having subtle lyrics with hidden meanings. Being the incredibly intellectual person that I am (heh), I'm really hoping this "direct and simple" approach also won't cause me to place the CD in the same drawer as the other CD's I never listen to; like my CD's by Ace of Base, Monster Magnet, and the Goo Goo Dolls. Some of the CD's in those drawers haven't even been listened to all the way through. :) I had to throw them in the drawer right then and there. :) But if this third album does end up in the drawer, I guess I could trash the Garbage site and replace it with a different band. I'm not sure which one, though. We'll see.

So yeah. I have to figure out what the hell I'm doing and how I'm going to do it. It's not a very fun process; but it's necessary, I guess.

And with that said, I'll close this post with a Shirley quote:

"I think it's adorable that our fans call me Shirl. It's preferable to Asshole.