Saturday, July 24, 2010

Comic-Con 2010, my report

Whoa boy, here we go. This was and is my first *con experience. So to be honest I did not know what to expect. This is going to be a photo report of sorts, as they tell my story a bit better than I could. With that, lets dive in.

First off understand I'm normally a night person. Late night, not getting up at 4:30 am to get to somewhere 4 hours later. I may only be an hour and half away from San Diego I still knew I was going to hit traffic. And due to my need of coffee a well placed stop before Camp Pendleton was in order XD Also hit traffic in Carlsbad. But at least I was dressed for the occasion.


Thursday, July 22, 2010

Comic-Con 2010, the mini post

Ok so this is going to be a short post. I just got back from SDCC 2010 and I'm tired. Some highlights:

Really want to buy Slaughterhouse when it comes out in Fall. Saw 38 Studios trailer for Kindoms of Amalur, The Reckoning. It's an epic "FUCK YEAH". It'll be a single player game first, then MMO. Speaking of MMOs, played DC Universe, Aion, City of Heroes Going Rogue, Tera Online, and Vindictus.

I mention The Reckoning because it was really the only panel I went to. I was going to go for the one to Tron Legacy. Which was in Hall H.

That H stood for hell. As in where the line went to and back. And stood for Hilton, which is where the line was forming for the panel that was scheduled BEFORE Tron.

*sigh* I'm tired and cranky. A full post will follow. Ciao.

Monday, July 19, 2010

This is why I loved chemestry class as a teen


It's absolutely fascinating to see the product of what is basically energy in a pure form being transferred from one process to another. Energy released from Hydrogen Peroxide (how many of us have that I wonder ~_^) and diphenyl oxlate is sent to florescent dye. The dye releases a photon. We see the photon and convert it, with our brain, into light and colors. Elegance in complexity.

And it is a pity (or maybe a godsend, given the stupidity of humanity at large) that you can't get DPO (or TCPO, as in the video, which is easier to handle). It isn't exactly available as readily as H2O2. In fact my cursory look shows you'd have to buy about 4 different chemicals to make some. That's tall order.

It makes me wish I had become a chemist. I started out one coming out of high school but burned out on the course work, and switched to IT/Business. :(

Oh, and if you don't happen to know what the video is talking about when it mentions Mountain Dew, here's the video. Realize this is fake as there is nothing in MD to cause this reaction. Someone poured an active glow stick into the bottle.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Tales from the Crapiness

Hope everyone had a nice 4th of July. I'm still recovering but I decided to go ahead and put a post together for you all. On the 3rd I went scrounging again for the greatest finds in the Crap Pile and Kitchen Crap to bring to you. Here's my recent findings.



Hopefully you don't need to cut anything, because the only offerings here are 12 soups spoons or 12 forks. And though you wouldn't think it, these are aluminium not plastic. Not a bad deal at $2, but still not worth it for the fear of it being coated with lead.


Being a guy I don't see the usefulness of this one. I guess if you gals want your bra straps to slowly strangulate your neck you can hook one of these things in and let it do it's magic.


Wow, that's a cheap Forty.... oh wait, 40 CDs. It holds 40 CDs. Damnit, I wanted a drink! Or a bottle, as the case may be.


Hard to see, but our old friend the Specuallty cloth is under this Beauty Scrub Cloth. And again with the whiter than fscking white skin from using this. At this point, I'm thinking about using an SOS pad rather than this. It might actually be gentler!


Speaking of fine engrish. Spange? Really? I'm really trying to figure out what accent I need to put on to convert sponge to this. And it's one of those plastic ones even, not a true sponge.


Oh god, the stupid it burns. Here's the thing. Some Grandma, somewhere, just bought this for her grandson who's into "that rangers thing." Bonus points here: Displays "New Arrival" and "Collect Them All" on the cardboard. 1) This never 'arrived' on TV as far as I can tell (Unless its a Super Sentai team I've never heard of) and 2) I have them all right there, and I know this because you're so goddamn cheap that you will never release more.


Ok, I know what a pie shield is. My question is thus: Why make it into 5 easy to lose pieces? yes I know you can shield different sizes of pies but how often do you switch between say a 9" to a 12"?


Going further down into the useless category. Really? Is the can lid too good for you you need to spend $5 or so on a piece of one-use-only crap? Has Alton taught you nothing?

Friday, July 2, 2010

Don't Make Bets Where I Work

Yeah, so a couple of executives made a bet on something (neither is tell anyone what the best was). One lost... and it must have been a hell of a bet because the loser is wearing this today.
(Face covered to hid embarrassment)

So yeah, Happy 4th everyone (and a belated Canada Day as well)

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Oh god please don't suck: Woot.com aquired by Amazon

So yesterday my twitter account gave me a rather big shock. Woot.com, the originator of the deal-a-day marketing craze, has sold itself out to the largest web retailer in the world, Amazon.com.

No, pay no mind to me in my next statement: If they (Amazon) do anything to my beloved (Woot) I will come to each of the high brass and castrate them with a rusty spoon.

*ahem* With frightened rage out of the way I'd like to say that Matt Rutledge is one seriously humorous guy. He sent out this email to the Woot employees announcing the acquisition. It reads in part:

Over the next few days, you will probably read headlines that say “Matt Rutledge revealed to be monstrous pseudo-human creation of Jeff Bezos.” You might even see this photo making the rounds. Rest assured that these rumors have nothing to do with our final decision. We think now is the right time to join with Amazon because, quite simply, every company that becomes a subsidiary gets two free downloads until the end of July, and we very much need that new thing with Trent Reznor’s wife on our iPods.
That right there is genius XD. We also have some nice photo evidence of the Frankensteining of the two companies cultures.


And even the Woot Monkey got involved in the action:


All in all I have to say this is a fairly fun press release for what amounts to a metric shitton serious business practice. I hope it all goes well (again, castration by rusty spoons Amazon, don't for get it ~_^)