I'm two quarters

A shocker.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:53:08 GMT

I totally called the 'neverending drama' after MJ's death, but I actually never expected (though I probably should have) that his death would be ruled a HOMICIDE.

That's just crazy. Who the shit murders Michael Jackson? Well, I mean, I guess we'll find out after the investigation. Goddamn, though.

About a serious problem.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:05:00 GMT

Guys, I'd like to talk to you about something serious that I've fallen victim to, and I want to keep you safe from. It's sort of an addiction problem that can sneak up on you unexpectedly and tear your life in two. It causes public outbursts, it causes you to lose sense of who you are and go into a hungry, angry rage every time you can't find what you're looking for. In advance, I want to apologize to everyone who's been affected by this problem I have.

What I'm talking about, of course, is Quaker Baked Cheddar Snack Mix.

This is the most delicious shit you'll ever wrap your mouth around. Once you've had it, you can't stop craving it. Every moment you think about the cheddar-drenched goodness that is the snack mix. The chewy bits of sugary-sweet quaker cereals that start off sugary and end with a cheesy kick. The pretzels, so coated in thick, rich, delicious cheese powder that you'd hold your own family hostage for some of them. This stuff makes you tear the shit out of a Wawa in a furious rage at 1pm when you've run out and want more and they hid it. Hid it next to that fucking doritos snack mix which might as well be called 'shit mix' because it's awful! Fucking terrible! They're disrespecting both me and the quaker dude by putting them together I swear to god I will KILL them.

Don't start, guys. Once you do, you can't stop.

K so.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:39:55 GMT

I have a new screen name. It's TOTALLY NOT MANDATORY (I'm just adding it to the list I keep online) but it's in preparation for maybe a fursuit yes, yes :]

It's huskalope.

If you find that cute to instant message, then feel free to use it.

Okay bye. :D

Bible time!

protocollie@livejournal.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:43:08 GMT

Again, neither shalt thou eat the hyena; thou shalt not, saith He, become an adulterer or a fornicator, neither shalt thou resemble such persons. Why so? Because this animal changeth its nature year by year, and becometh at one time male and at another female. (10:6-7)

Just thought that might inspire you a bit today.

P.S. the world is totally working its hardest to entertain me today. Case-in-point, woman claiming to be the reincarnation of the world's largest hat sues Hugh Hefner for being a pedophile and, uh, something else.

Excerpt:

I then told my parents let them take everything away, and when I got old enough to understand what was going on I will get everything that was stolen back from the pedifile organization like property, parcels, lots to a car lot, a gas station and Getty oil wells, just the mineral rights. See being a hat I'm suppose to eat, God just made sure that I'm able to say even a morphidite's pussy. TO some this is scary. But if you haven't gotten molested it's not like everyone dosent want to touch you or molest you,or even be a pedifile, even at 13yrs.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:02:40 GMT

I've tried to think of the best way I can sum up AC and I really can't. It's always too much and this year's Wednesday night to Monday morning con was the longest I've been to so far, so really it'll be hard to sum it all up. Let me touch on high points:

Wednesday Night:
Simba told me it was time to party, so I came out to party. Goddamn, it was awesome. I met a bunch of cool folks (like Sp0rk!) and saw Madius, Simba and a whole lot of other folks I haven't seen for a while. Was a good time, was good drinks, was good. Had fun.

Thursday:
Distinct memories about Thursday include getting stuck on the roof of the convention center (for at least 20 or 30 minutes) and also setup for the con. Uh, beyond that I spent like ten minutes at a dance. Tiff showed up that day (I think!) Other than that I don't really remember much distinct about Thursday. Way too much going on. Registration, maybe. Yeah. Registration. Also, new reporters. Saw a lot of folks.

Friday:
Friday was my dance, hooray. Drac->Valrejn->Me->Tek. It was a good night, and despite massive, catastrophic (no exxageration) hardware failure which resulted in music grinding to a halt twice, it was undoubtedly the single most fun show I've ever played, I was enjoying it so much it was ridiculous. I want all your videos and pictures. I had a great time, loved playing for everyone, and was particularly glad to hang out with my colleagues on stage. It was awesome - thanks, everyone. Also, as always for the past few cons I've played, thank you so much to Fizz Otter for the lasers, they add so much to the night.

Saturday:
A total blur.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:56:16 GMT

Not particularly thrilling on the social front, but we did something cool on WoW, right? We totally kicked ass at [For The Alliance!] and I got a badass glowing-eye angry bear to show for it.

I will totally say that it's been the most rewarding thing we've done on WoW so far. It was intense. We had 40 men, I wound up raid leader, and aside for playing babysitter for the inevitable (literal) twelve-year-olds who tagged along (and whined for days because of silly things, like losing assistant rights) it was intense. We hit orgrimmar first, ran forty people in (on a PVP server!) and back out with no issue after killing Thrall. Thunder Bluff was next and we managed to hoof it pretty much straight across the barrens to Mulgore and down the leader there with no issue. We had mages drop ports to ironfore, flew to Western Plaguelands and raped Undercity in one shot (despite the group splitting up like four times.) After that it was almost nothing to flappy to Zul'Aman, run north into Silvermoon, run in circles a bit and down Sunstrider.

After that we killed everything in Silvermoon, and I got my badass bear. ROAR. The end!

I totally owe you guys the Topher and the cops story.

Two things for you.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:38:45 GMT

One, the best music video/song ever. This song is trippy. The video is insane.

And two, this is amazing, also:

What on earth!?

protocollie@livejournal.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:53:11 GMT

Pullquote from a BBC news article on Michael Jackson's death.

One of Michael Jackson's brothers, Marlon, is planning to develop a controversial luxury resort, a mixture of a slave history theme park and a museum dedicated to the Jackson Five in Nigeria.

A slave history theme park? Huh? I'm lost.

i am so fucking sick of electro

protocollie@livejournal.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:38:42 GMT

that it's not even funny how sick of electro i am.

i'm totally weighing the pros and cons of a really slammin dark techno set at AC this year.

the pros are it could kick ass and be awesome.

the cons are nobody might get it.

In case you didn't know...

protocollie@livejournal.com — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:54:51 GMT

The short story is that last night, the cops showed up at Topher's place. While he was in suit. Well, his head was off.

The cop stared at him for like ten minutes and then asked why on earth he was dressed like that.

I'll recount the whole story in gory detail later but truly it was a sight to be seen. The look on the cop's face. I can't... I can only describe it as:

D:/

And you have to accompany it in your mind with him muttering, "...i became a pig for -this-?"

A thought.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:24:36 GMT

Dutch is the best language ever.

Writer's Block: Local Favorite

protocollie@livejournal.com — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:47:09 GMT

What's your favorite thing to show out-of-town guests when they come to visit?

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My junk.

DEAR POLITICIANS

protocollie@livejournal.com — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:32:01 GMT

If you don't stop fucking up and being COMPLETE ASSHOLES I am going to have to do something.

You want to BAN TOYS WITH FAST FOOD BECAUSE KIDS EAT FAST FOOD WHEN YOU GIVE THEM TOYS?

FUCK. YOU.

GodDAMN could these motherfuckers wipe their asses with the constitution any more?

Just a thought.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:15:52 GMT

I've always thought politicians were self-centered, egotistical, stupid clowns with no -real- purpose. In fact, a lot of the time I feel like the only reason we have so many is that they've been cunning enough to convince us they have value.

Maybe at one point in American history a politician was a brave individual who fought for the rights of their constituents, but not anymore. Politicians are petty, small-minded fucks with ego problems and an express desire to push their point of view on everyone. And they're childish, ignorant sons of bitches, too.

This situation in New York is beyond childish. It's buffoonery. It's the most fucking ignorant display of absolute disregard for your goddamn job I've ever seen and I hope EVERY SINGLE PERSON INVOLVED loses their seat in the next election. When actual laws need to be passed, those stupid fucks are running to the courts crying because, OH NO, the other stupid fucking party's in charge! Wahhhh!

Shut the fuck up.

Level 80

protocollie@livejournal.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:34:48 GMT

Is the best level to be!

I can't help but be extremely disappointed.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:14:25 GMT

All I've ever wanted from Pendulum was a good live CD. Really, that's all I asked. I wanted a decent quality recording of live Slam and then I could feel better about myself. The live CD is out. Finally.

It's fucking unlistenable. It's mixed terrible. There's no bass. The music sounds thin and lacks any energy. The worst part is not any of that, though. The MC is screaming over the whole thing and not saying anything worthwhile, but he drowns out most of the music. There's one drum machine they use (particularly for claps) which is SO LOUD it's ridiculous, and the transitions from drum machine to live drums are so awkward and blunt under thin music that really they sound as if they've never practiced these songs before.

Oh, that, and the noise from the crowd mics is louder than most of the instruments. It's mostly a CD of teeny boppers screaming. It's so bad you can hear the reverberations of the room PA in the crowd speakers throughout most of it.

That said, there is live slam on it, and it's almost delicious. They dropped the normal, badass, amazing and epic intro for a cover of master of puppets. Yup. Goddammit, Pendulum.

Other strikes against it:

The lack of proper mixing exposes how cheesy the synth patches they use actually are. It sounds like a general midi symphony at some points. It really takes away.
The drummer cannot keep a beat. Again, you don't notice this when it's mixed right, or when you're actually THERE, but he stumbles over himself OFTEN and covers it with lame fills.

Plus sides:

They definitely learned to sing since I saw them.

The high point is definitely the Tempest. They DESTROY it. Like not just play it well or like it sounded on the album, I mean they absolutely go nuts. There's shredding at the end like nobody's business. It's amazing. They hit every note, it's in time, it's STRONG. It's really, really good.

The low point is 'the other side.' It's unlistenable. I can't say anything other than that. When you can't make out those stupid lyrics under the voice effects, it's okay. When you can clearly hear them and in addition they're being grunted in a sorta trashy accent, you can't help but feel embarrassed for them actually playing it. Skip it if you get the CD. This, as a side note, is the only song I've ever heard with an awkward silence. There's a part where the stupid voice goes 'coming down, coming down, coming down...' and they actually had the computerized version playing because it does this effect at the end that nobody could reasonably do with their voice. The MC decided to jump in, I guess. He's screaming coming down, hits that part, and just makes this horrible 'daaahhhh' sound. Then there's silence and this 'bewww' downward sound. That's supposed to be there. But he just shouted some stupid noise during it. The crowd is silent. There's a lull in the music. Palpable awkwardness in the air. Then garreth comes in on the vocoder and picks the song back up. The crowd returns to making noise. It's really an awkward moment. I know that's not how it played out live, I'm sure. But that's what it sounds like. If you're listening along, go to 4:10 in the song.

It's been over a month

protocollie@livejournal.com — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:52:44 GMT

Since I've found the last track I was that pumped about coming off of uh, any label in electro house or breaks.

I'm really hoping it's because they're holing up exclusive tracks for summer clubbing and not because the genre's hit a brick wall. There's been almost no movement on the top charts and I see DJs digging up two or three month old tracks for their BP top charts, plus I'm not hearing much buzz about anything that exciting anywhere else, either.

I'd really like an awesome track to actually be pumped about. I've barely been listening to music lately.

FUCK SHIT PISS

protocollie@livejournal.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:47:57 GMT

As a kittydrood myself, this interests me greatly.

So.It

protocollie@livejournal.com — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:00:08 GMT

Today, I get to cross a goal off the 'life goal' checklist.

I totally have my own dedicated studio.

It feels pretty good.

APC40

protocollie@livejournal.com — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:35:57 GMT

In my house. Now.

Asjkdalsjdlas.

More to come.

Fuck me.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:56:33 GMT

So I just upgraded my MBP to max it out at 4gb of RAM.

The difference is night and day. It is so much faster when I multitask too much like I always do.

On the downside, opening the MBP is an experience I never, ever, EVER want to deal with again. It takes the removal of 8 screws, half of them literally so small you could lose them in cracks in the floor. The RAM hangs out right near a structural wall and the bottom DIMM is hard as hell to get in and out. When you do, there's connectors on either side of the ram slots that you can unplug by bumping them - they're like, toggle cords. Push down once, they lock on. Push down again, they disconnect. And it's hard to even know wtf happened because they're not like anything I've ever seen before.

Long story short, I disconnected the ribbon cable that hooked up the ram to the computer and freaked out because none of my RAM (old or new) worked.

But now, holy shit. Went from average 2,000-3,000 page outs a minute during WoW to uh, 0. The speed difference is unreal.

Even so, This is rough as hell. I'm a pretty seasoned machine-tearer-aparter and it was horrifying.

There are very few things. Very few!

protocollie@livejournal.com — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:07:11 GMT

There are so few things that would ever have a countdown running that I'd watch like a hawk. Maybe a spaceship launch, or a countdown to the bomb is going to blow up what wire do I cut!?

But crap crap crap APC40 launches in a little over a day and I keep checking the timer. Over and over and over.

God I can't wait.

Somebody told me...

protocollie@livejournal.com — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:41:17 GMT

That massive trance is much more exciting and awesome than minimal techno.

So I'm going to answer that with two pictures.

Us minimal freaks get shit like this:

Awesome! Hardcore! Hell yeah Chris Liebing you rock.

Oh you like trance? Here's your dude.

Case closed! I will hear nothing else on the topic because there's not even a POINT pitting the music against eachother as one is music and the other is not.

The secret is out.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:39:39 GMT

I love li'l baby murlocs.

This night elf looks like a tranny.

protocollie@livejournal.com — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:00:10 GMT