Fucking hell...

This weekend was going alright until about, oh, 4:00pm today. It then took an immediate nose dive straight into the ground, and just didn't stop.

Basically, I was driving behind an SUV, around 80 feet and we were doing about 70mph. There was some road debris up ahead but I didn't see it because of mammoth SUV in front of me. Well the clearance of the SUV allowed it to cruise right over the obstruction but my car is quite low to the ground, I ended up hitting it. Yes, you are saying, "why didn't you just dodge the obsticle?" Well given that I'm about 80 feet from the SUV and we're doing around 70-75mph that gives me, like just under one second to react and do something, which is pretty much impossible. By the time I saw the debris and realised it was way too big to just drive over it had already mangled the lower front of my car. I pulled over and inspected the result. Pretty much the whole lower portion of the car is was totalled. The splash guard was bend backwards pretty badly and the nose of the car was completely smashed. I drove about half a mile with the car like that but the splash guard was acting like an air scoop and it began to skid on the pavement. Fearing it would tear off and cause even more damage I pulled over.

Coming to the fast realization that my car was pretty much not going anywhere and that I was in the middle of BFE with mountains all around me, I pondered if i could even get a cell signal- which I couldn't... wonderful. There are santa anna winds blowing and at around 430-5 it was already feeling like 40F with the wind. I remembered that I had Onstar and thanked myself that I was smart enough to actually have it. It works off a satellite phone instead of a cellular network so getting someone to talk to was easy. After some conversation I a tow truck was sent out to get me, but it's ninety minutes out AND they are going to tow me back to the nearest Pontiac dealership that's in EL CENTRO. It's in completely the opposite direction I want to be heading. Fucking great. So, the tower finally shows up and it's like 730 now, the temperature is nearing about 30F and I still am beside myself that this shit has actually happened to me.

So we get back to El Centro and the Pontiac place is closed with a minimal crew there. It looks like they have a garage but I don't know if they have a body shop, so I have to call them tomorrow morning to find out WTF is going to happen to my car that is now 130 miles away from me in some town that I've visited by driving through it.

Plus, my other car, the Celica is sitting in the parking lot at LAX because my friend who I rented it out to flew to New York. I can't believe the amount of shit odds that had to all coelesce together for tonight to happen. I mean, I didn't trade in my Celica for reasons JUST LIKE THIS. And now I don't even have access to it. Plus I to figure out how I'm gonna get a rental because I'm not sure if I have that on my insurance. As for the repairs on the car, well, it's probably going to be at least a month for it to be fixed, and while it is under warranty I'm not sure running into shit on the road falls under it; although I know I have an extended warranty thingy so maybe I might actually have some grace and the dealership will pay for it... *knocks on wood*.

*sigh* I can't believe this shit. My Celica hit road debris too once and fucked it up just like this car is fucked. I mean I can dodge car accidents but appearantly inanimate objects are just attracted to my vehicles like magnets. I'm so pissed at myself.

I mean if I had just left a half hour later to go home someone else would have hit that crap and I'd be home on time instead for 5 hours late. Eh, I can play 'shoulda-coulda-woulda' all night but that fact remains that my car is fucked and 2 hours away from me... I am so pissed you have no idea...

An example for the rest of the west

Canada, that big mass of cold weather and pine forests up north of us may be the butt of a lot of our jokes but they as a people have an honor and sense of pride that people here in The States and Britain get an 'F', if we were to be graded.



It's troop support.



Most of the people who are going off to foreign lands to risk their lives come home to be treated as if they did some horrible in justice. I think it's just wrong and many people have just lost their respect that these young men and women easily have earned.



Which brings me back to Canada.



From the air base in Trenton, Ontario, the funeral cortege passes along motorways lined with scores of people holding Canadian flags, some with a hand on their heart, carrying banners emblazoned with the words "we support our troops."
All 50 of the motorway bridges on the journey into Toronto were said to have been packed with the general public.
As the cortege passes fire engines and police cars, officers and emergency workers solemnly salute as children wave flags.



Seriously, this is how it's supposed to be done. It's the least we could do for the fallen men and women who died for the liberties we take for granted.

It all makes sense now...

Dilbert's "Salary Theorem" states that "Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives, sales people, accountants and especially liberal arts majors." This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following two well known postulates:
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.
Since: Knowledge = Power, then Knowledge = Work / Time, and Time = Money, then Knowledge = Work / Money.
Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work / Knowledge.
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done.

Pure Awesome Hillarity

Okay this is pure hillarity. It's basically World War 2 in the form of a multiplayer realtime strategy video game. It's so great because this is pretty much exactly how chats go down in the multiplayer... just read it's great... :)

*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0J0: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]: sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got crap to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: Eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh1t u fags im gunna kick ur asses
T0J0: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right biznitch im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an arss
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh sh1t help
Hitler[AoE]: o man ur focked
paTTon: oh what now biotch
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: gj paTTon
paTTon: thnx
Hitler[AoE]: WTF Eisenhower hax hes killing all my sh1t
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny-tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun cocksocker
Stalin: rofl
T0J0: HAHAHHAA
Hitler[AoE]: u guys are fockin gay
Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city
*Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself
Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL
Stalin: OMG LMAO!
Hitler[AoE]: WTF i didnt click there omg this game blows
*Hitler[AoE] has left the game*
paTTon: hahahhah
T0J0: WTF my teammates are n00bs
benny-tow: shut up noob
Roosevelt: haha wut a moron
paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now?
Eisenhower: yah me too
T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol
Eisenhower: fock u
paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie
Stalin: go to hell lol
paTTon: fock this sh1t im goin afk
Eisenhower: yah this is gay
*Roosevelt has left the game.*
Hitler[AoE]: wtf?
Eisenhower: sh1t now we need some1 to join
*tru_m4n has joined the game.*
tru_m4n: hi all
T0J0: hey
Stalin: sup
Churchill: hi
tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY **** I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy sh*tholysh*thoylshti!!!111
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*
*The Allied team has won the game!*
Eisenhower: awesome!
Churchill: gg noobs no re
T0J0: thats bullsh*t u fockin suck
*T0J0 has left the game.*
*Eisenhower has left the game.*
Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for ****
Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbarss
tru_m4n: l8r all
benny-tow: bye
Churchill: l8r
Stalin: fock u all
tru_m4n: shut up commie lol
*tru_m4n has left the game.*
benny-tow: lololol u commie
Churchill: ROFL
Churchill: bye commie
*Churchill has left the game.*
*benny-tow has left the game.*
Stalin: i hate u all fags
*Stalin has left the game.*
paTTon: lol no1 is left
paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep
*paTTon has been eliminated.*
paTTon: o sh1t!
*paTTon has left the game.*

...randomness

So I was emptying out my phone of digital refuse when I happened upon a little vid I took a few weeks back of my roommate, Sofia, typing away on her lappy in the kitchen. Instead of throwing it out I figured I may as well make a blog of it; I mean less has been blogged about, you know?

Card Art!!

The latest expansion for Legends of Norrath, the digital trading card game has shipped today which means I get to show off the art I did for it!! Many of my friends who worked on the expansion have posted their work in their blogs. One of my favorite card artists for LON is my friend Thomas Sincich. He's really talented and you can check out his blog here where he's posted his card art. Anyways, here's the cards I worked on...

Thanks goes to my good friend Sofia Andersson for allowing me to use her as model reference for this card. Thanks fia!! ;)

Sushi night

Yeah ever since one of my good friends introduced me to sushi it's been one of my favorite cuisines. If I go out to eat I generally don't care if I'm with company or not, but sushi is entirely another matter- it's magical. Yes, eating sushi is like being transported to another dimension where the air is sweet, the sun smiles back at you, bunnies bounce about happily and posies sing sweet music that gives you butterflies. I just can't eat sushi alone. There's a first for everything though. Yesterday (wednesday), I was so starved for sushi but I couldn't find anyone to go with me (biatches!!), so I had to settle for a measly turkey sandwich and I sulked in my thinmints cursing my friends under my breath as my usurped appetite cried in pain. Tonight I just couldn't take it; my willpower was undone. I said screw it (it was closer to the f-bomb), and I decided to go by myself.
MMM sushi. In that first bite I was transported to that happy place, the sun greeted me hello and posies sang in my arrival. I ate like a fucking pig.

Here's the rap sheet...
1 Halbut
1 Eel Roll
1 Kappa Roll
1 Volcano Roll
1 Dragon Roll
1 Hamachi
1 Edamame
1 Ca. Roll
1 Rainbow Roll
(the last two I ordered after I finished the rest because I wasn't finish yet.)


$ 76.00

cha-ching!!

add in the insanely hot and sexy waitress tip for being nice, prompt, and well, fucking fine.

$ 12.00

Total
$ 88.00 bones

Finally eating sushi?
$ Priceless

Welcome to America... land of the idiot.

Yes, I'm sure there are people the world over just as ignorant and moronic as these fellows you are about to see, but I have a feeling that this number is juuuuust a bit higher in the States. I don't count 3rd world nations because, well, they don't have the education. Here, there's no excuse. Just watch *sigh*

Got wall space?

So since 2006 i've been workig on science fiction property of mine. It's pretty damn big in scope and a several months ago last year I printed out a prototype of the first in a line of galactic maps. Here is the first one... it's 6 feet wide by 3 feet tall.



... Sorry about the glare. :\