Stupid Tongue

It really bothers me how every time there's something at or about my work that I want to finally get out and complain about, some new event or get-together or something else comes up that I want to do/have. So I hold my tongue in order not to ruin my chances of getting this thing.

The day I finally do get to complain I'll probably be so filled with pent-up rage somebody will be shot. Don't ask me where I'll find the gun though...

Hardy Har Har

So, now that my "summer" is almost 4/5 over, what have I been doing with my time? You know, since nobody sees or hears much word from me?

In a word. Working. Followed by another word. Nothing.

Most days after I finish work between 6:15 and 6:45 are then followed with a ten to fifteen minute shower and a forty-five minute dinner with the fam. Not that I'm complaining, the family time is nice and it's nice to feel like a part of the family again. But then it's usually almost 8:00 and i have between two and three hours to do something else before I start thinking about sleeping. You have no idea how long i've wanted to play Majora's Mask. I'm still waiting for that opportune moment...

One thing that I have taken up, unfortunately for my lack of free time, is webcomics. You can blame Least I Could Do's crossover event - ima sucker for crossover events. Suffice to say that I now religiously read...

Least I Could Do
Girls With Slingshots
Questionable Content
XKCD
Penny Arcade
Player Vs Player

While still regularly checking

White Ninja Comics
HomestarRunner
VGCats (mostly for the Super Effective which is never updated. Ass)

I'm also looking forward to this one's return.

Butternut Squash

Entirely Nico's fault.

So now all of you can be trapped in the horrible vortex that I am. Can't wait for school and more free time. Although I'll probably just find more ways to waste it. Ugh.

In an unrelated, but mostly related, note, I have decided that it would be terrible to live in a webcomic. Or any serialized comic for that matter, although I stopped reading them the day we stopped getting newspapers. To be constantly trapped in a world where even the most deep and dark moments of your existence are forcibly made into jokes. If those characters were real, they would have killed themselves ages ago. Hence their immortality in comic form.

Just getting constantly pumped for the funny.


note from rachel: jon writes blogs like english essays. and is embarrassingly nerdy. also, apparently any time spent with me is equal to NOTHING.

Tick Tock

i really have nothing to add here, but i guess i've gotten kind of attached to this blog. or rather, addicted. and am suddenly unable to see a whole month go by without a post to mark th fact that i was on here that month. so here it is...

i have a watch tan. it's not very clear, mostly because my crazy arm tan is like most normal people's normal skin tone. but it's there.

that is all for now.

Soap 3

Random thought

If I were a mad scientist, or just someone looking to cause a lot of chaos and destruction (but let's not use the T word here...), I would totally create some new germ weapon or disease and makes it's carrier bars of soap.

Think about it. Not only would I manage to infect millions super fast, but I'd cause even more destruction once the public realized it was the soap that was the danger and everybody stopped cleaning themselves. Think of the germs! Think of the disease! It'd be like the black plague all over again...

Sometimes I scare myself with what I come up with in my head...









Oh, and an update on the epic.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/9/large.html

So Shuffle

So just about everyone else is posting about their jobs (makes sense, that is what we're all doing right now...), so I figured I'd join in a little bit.

My job, on good days, keeps me busy enough to not start watching my watch hands move while not bringing me to the point of a full body shut-down. However, a lot of it is still far from mentally stimulating, so I often find my mind wandering to whatever it used to wander to in my old ADD posts.

That being said, I can only remember on thought I've had recently at work right now.

If there is ever a zombie apocalypse, or we all need to get out and fight guerrilla-style against some sort of common enemy other than zombies, i call being the guy that gets to wield the shotgun. Most awesome-est weapon ever.

My job also allows for a fair bit of iPod listening, making shuffle songs one of my new favourite options. However, I think there's a little too much coincidence in Apple's shuffle option as opposed to another devices random. To prove my point, i have nearly 2764 songs right now...

1) Within one hour of one day 3 of the songs played were by The Hush Sound, of which I only have 19 songs...
2) That same day also played two songs by k-os one after the other (I only have 26 songs): Neutroniks and Papercutz. They were both from "Joyful Rebellion" as well...
3) Another day the shuffle option played Apollo I: The Writing Writer and Apollo II: The Telling Truth, both songs by Coheed and Cambria, within twenty minutes of eachother. Although I think that those two songs being played at all in the same day is pretty strange...
4) I have three versions of Kidnap The Sandy Claws on my computer: the movie version, Danny Elfman's original demo version, and a cover version by She Wants Revenge. One day two of those three songs were played...
5) There have been a bunch of other Hush Sound-style coincidences where a bunch of songs played in one day are by one artist who I don't have a lot of (Coldplay: 17 songs, 3 played; The Hush Sound: 19 songs, 4 played; Incubus: 15 songs, 2 played; The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: 13 songs, 3 played, and two were of my six ocarina songs...)

And yeah, that's my job and how bored I am with it. Enjoy the links (I added links!)

Are You Not Entertained?

here's something weird that I remembered about myself yesterday. because, you know, there's never enough weird things about me as is. always got to be more...

back when gladiator came out, i couldn't quite wrap my mind around it. for some reason, i thought that all movies were only ever about the present time. or, at the utmost most, movies could only be based in a time that could still be faked thanks to buildings or settings that were still around - like the patriot, which also came out that year. but there was no way in my mind that a movie could be based in a time as long ago as the height of the roman empire - i thought that if anything gladiator had to be some sort of weird movie about a man who thought he was a gladiator and was trying to recreate roman times in the present.

i didn't actually see gladiator until a long time later, and then when i finally did it just blew my mind. s'probably why it's one of my favourite movies now...

Depressing?

So, whenever I talk to anyone about what kind of music they listen to, there's one thing that's always the same.

"I hate country"

And it sort of clicked with me yesterday that I dont really understand why. If you look at all the other genres out there, why is country the one that's so unanimously hated? It's mostly just guitar and simple melodies - just like a whole of other genres (pop, pop rock, punk rock, pop punk, etc...)

You think less people would hate it and hate things like, oh I dont know, death metal.