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01/29/2007: Palm Pilotin’ Hardcore.

Man, it’s been a busy few weeks and there are only so many scratch-off Lotto cards available to help me cope, but I’m almost over the hump. In this case, the “hump” being too retardedly exhausted to even consider writing anything of substance after finishing up writing other things of substance more strictly correlated with checks that arrive with my name on them. In times like these, when there’s too much to do to ever really feel organized, I turn to technology and buy tickets for bandwagons two years too late. In other words, I got a Palm Pilot.

It’s a Palm Pilot Treo 700wx, or some shit, I dunno. The woman’s sister had one, and it took me all of five seconds to declare that it had to be mine. It’s ridiculously expensive if you just buy it outright, but in my case, I was just upgrading from my crappy Sprint phone, and was thus privy to all sorts of discounts. In the end, it was still pricey, but not so much that I now have to kick my beloved scratch-off Lotto habit. Did I mention that I hit $50 on one card last week? I did!

I’d been looking into getting a PDA for a while now, for a variety of reasons. Like, if I want to bolt out of the office early and not tell anyone, I need to at least be accessible through e-mail to cover my ass, and now, I can be. Moreover, I just want to be able to read about elephants and Scoville ratings and other Wikipedia shit on my long bus ride home. By the time I figured out that I could download Tetris and Bejeweled, I made a halo out of construction paper and stapled it to my head.

Truth is, I’m an idiot when it comes to tech trends. I go through at least one computer every two years, and that’s conservative. And, when I buy a new computer, it’s really just about driving to Best Buy and picking the tower in the coolest shade of gray. When I bought the Palm, I knew I’d be able to use it as a phone, to send e-mails and to vaguely browse the Internet, but I didn’t realize just how much of a “minicomputer” the thing actually is. I foresee grand times ahead, assuming I don’t fumble and drop it in the next week, which is entirely possible.

My favorite Palm-related revelation has been its inbuilt Microsoft Word Mobile program, which, at least for argument’s sake, would let me write articles and finish assignments from pretty much anywhere. Sure, I can’t type very fast on a tiny, thumb-buttoned keyboard, but I can type, and save, and send, and maybe even print if I look around hard enough. Fun!

I didn’t, but I wrote a couple of sample paragraphs on the Palm just to see how it would work out. Verdict is: It would work.

I’ve tried in the past to do things to increase my productivity while I’m away from the womb/house, like always owning laptops and never desktops, but it never works. The only thing I can successfully pull off when I’m away is playing video games. And even that requires me to lug around a strategy guide at all times.

Now you have your own mobile GPS system. Probably useless but it’s nice ta know you got it.

Hey, cool! I’ve still got the 650 and it’s great, though I’d love to upgrade. You’d be surprised at how fast you can get with that keyboard after a bit of practice. I have a picture somewhere of mine with the shrimpy version of the blog loaded up, but I can’t find it. I did find a Star Wars scratch-off that I scanned (a loser :().
Bejeweled is great, of course, but I like anything from Astraware too, especially Candy and Fruit Frolic. Get plenty of screen protectors, extra stylusssesss (I like the ones with a hidden pen inside) and consider getting a case. It takes away some of the sleekness, but if you’re as apt to drop things as I am you’ll be grateful for it.

First thing I did was run out and get a case, knowing myself all too well. Unfortunately, they only had what is obviously a lady’s style case. (Black leather with that dotted white thread around the edges.) It looks so dumb, but I’d rather look dumb than have a broken Palm.

I wanted a palm pilot a few years ago. Then I got a cell phone and a laptop and the need passed. I’d LOVE one of those Envy phones, though. Oh yeah, aptly named, they be.

Argh. Pain in the brain pan. I think I have cockroaches eating through my beehive into my brain. That must be it.

Wow, I had a wicked bad dream last night involving those demon things from the movie House. I haven’t seen that movie in years so I rented it and House 2. Not so disapointed with the sequel. I still am disturbed from those random demon things.
Nice PDA Matt. I have finally found an old Blackberry because all the new ones in the past year have made typing clear emails impossible. Fat thumbs.

K, have you tried Elite Beat Agents? It actually got me back into playing DS and is all about the touch screen. It’s also one of the best games ever for DS…

God bless technology — now you can get all the latest news on the CGI TMNT film on the go! Come on, I know you’re going to be there opening weekend..

Shaun: Nope. Everyone I’ve heard about it from rave about it, though. What bothers me the most is that I see too much of my ham-fist when I use the stylus to move my party around in III. In battle, I’m better off than most as the menus are on the left side and I’m a lefty. You can switch your “main hand” in the Config menu but that just reverses the icons for menu and camera at the top of the screen, not the position of the battle menu, so I know righties are going nuts.

I just found myself looking at my hand more than the screen. Though I may be prematurely writing it off. When you learn to drive the majority of what you remember is looking at the speedometer, so maybe in time it’ll get better–with a different game of course, I know traditional RPGs weren’t what were in mind when they designed the DS. In that respect, I know I am shortchanging them as I bought it specifically for III and the spin-off of XII

Man, I feel so un-techie. I am worried that the lottery tickets, martinis, Wiis and palm-pilots are representing the bold new X-E where I just can’t relate…

Lot of gizmos but not a lot of Gizmo. (boooo Manimal boooo :thumbsdown:)
Off to bed. LATER X-Ers!

Don’t worry, Manimal. I also spent much of tonight taking pictures of Ring Pops and Warheads candy. More soon…

If you want to see the DS touch screen in action at its best, I suggest Trauma Center.

(hey Matt if you haven’t had the chance to catch Rome they’re replaying the first 3 eps on Friday)

Of course you know that now there’s no excuse for not giving us an article or at least a blog update EVERY SINGLE DAY. And if that thing has GPS, I’ll be stalking you like… I dunno… but I wanna insert a Rob Liefeld joke here.

Anyway, my mp3 player died tonight and I’m heading to Best Buy to pick up a new one tomorrow. Anybody got any reccomendations that don’t invovled the phrase “iPod”?

after getting past the initial “AWESOME!” factor of the iPhone, I’m starting to think, outside of a few neat little gimmicks, it’s really not all that impressive

Sorry I missed the SNT. I seem to have lousy timing. That palm pilot looks like it could be very useful. I was excited when I got a Casio handheld organizer from the drug store bargain bin last summer. Who knows what kind of crazy stuff cell phones will be able to do in the future? At the rate things are going we’ll have cell phones that allow you to watch cable tv in HD and have a built-in TiVo program, as well as a lie detector, radar detector, miniature microwave generator, and can opener. Eventually they won’t even bother including the phone feature.

Don’t worry. It’s ought-seven, and I’m still the only kid on my block without a cellular telephone. I did have an atomic watch not too long ago, but the combination of an irate Dutchman and the reeking waters of the Gulf of Mexico put paid to that gallant little gadget. So if you need someone to help you keep disrespectful youths off your lawn, I’m just the man to do it. PLUS: Candy article coming up. Awesome.

I love technology. I don’t have a fancy phone, but I did have a RAZR before everyone and their grandmother and their unborn children did…
For any of those wondering for whatever reason, Windows Vista runs like a dream.

I won $50 and $1 on scratch off tickets from my xmas stocking. The very next day (my b-day) I won $100 on a scratch off attached to a birthday card. Beat that.

Of course, I got about 25 scratch offs in cards from my graduation party and they were all losers so the universe properly righted itself.

That’s because the blog is HTML capable, and interprets anything following a less than sign as an unclosed HTML tag, which causes it to be discarded. If you really need to use a less than sign in your post, replace it with the following four characters, without the dashes: &-l-t-;

For example, let’s replace the apersand with “n” so that you can actually see the string. “I nlt;3 transitive pictograph verbalizations” becomes “I <3 transitive pictograph verbalizations.” It’s a bit clumsy, but it works on almost any forum these days. And knowing is half the battle.

Glad to hear you’re off the scratch-offs for awhile, Matt…I’m still amazed by the fact that they make 20$ scratch-offs…

OoOoOoOoHhHhHhHh … nifty communicator brick, Matt. Beats the hell out of my black leather-bound address book and planner that I got as a free gift from a certain credit card company. While my little black book does have that certain nostalgic charm, you can’t play Bejeweled on it.

As to the iPhone … meh, I’m not impressed. I like my iPod well enough, especially considering I have received both of them as gifts and haven’t had the battery or software issues a lot of people have had. I like the interface though I think they tend to over-think and over-complicate it just a bit. That said, considering what I do to phones (I go through one about every 6 months due to my bad habit of throwing them), I really don’t want my mp3 player tied up to it.

I won $35 and then $50 on the first two lottery tickets I ever played. It’s enough to turn someone into an addict for life.

I’m not alone! I don’t have a cell phone either (unless you count the Tracfone I bought five years ago that stays in my purse with the power off in case I need it for an emergency. 48 pre-paid minutes, baby!) I hate talking on the phone, so I consider the fact that people can’t reach me a benefit of leaving the house. Besides, the way I see it, if I’m out doing something, I’m busy. I can’t give you the attention you deserve if you call me, and I can’t concentrate on what I’m doing if I’m trying to talk to you, so I’ll just check my messages when I get home and return your call then. My husband is even more anti-cell phone than I am. He recently mentioned to someone that we didn’t have cell phones, to which he received the response, “How do you SURVIVE?” I thought that was a little overdramatic, especially from a guy in his upper 40’s who can remember even more than I do just how EASILY we survived without them.

Wow, I’m more sure than ever that this is the place for me, a lot of us are cell phoneless. I worry that someone is going to buy me one now that I am getting my licence. I don’t care if it’s for emergencies or not, I don’t want to waste 10 bucks every month just so I don’t lose my phone account. I even told my husband, if anyone buys me a cell phone I’m going to tell them to take it back, I don’t care how rude I am.

Another reason to try to get a Wii. All you Wii-people (Wiiples?) who also are HomeStar Runner fans, ring this up on your browsers:

curious? can you access myspace with that? I’m guessing yes. I too have sprint and am getting close to my upgrade time. I might have to splurge.

The Treos are decent little PDAs. My ex-boyfriend has had a 650 since they came out and it still functions even though he has thrown it, dropped it, drowned it, etc. I believe that he has been so impressed with it, he is going to upgrade to the 750 soon.

Matt, does it have a stylus? Or are you forced to type like a newbie pecking at the miniscule keyboard? Either way, it’s super cool.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t need all of the latest gadgets. Just leave me with the basics. I recently got rid of my Tracfone because I only use it for about 2 minutes a month, so I just borrow my moms. I also have no desire to buy a palm pilot, mp3, webcam, iphones, etc. Heck, it’s been a long time since I’ve played any video games so I have don’t have any desire to own a Wii, PS#, DS, or whatever else comes out. My last portable video game system I have is my Game Boy Color, and not the pocket one either. Haven’t touched it in awhile either.

Yeesh, the above paragraph makes me sound like I’m anti-technology, which if I’m talking to you guys I’m apparently ain’t. I just don’t to be in constant contact with everyone in the world.

Combining a regular, boring class with MST3K. Riffing on how boring & awful the lecture is, the look on the Prof’s face when they’re telling this, etc all to prevent from driving yourself crazy.

My Grandma’s been pretty lucky with scratch-offs. She’s won about $60 total so far in the last month. Also, I’m the only family member she loves, so she gives em to me!

Jedoc:
Thanks. Any forum I’ve ever frequented and any blogging software I’ve used that supposrts HTML tags only interprets angle brackets as coding when a complete tag is used. Now that I know this one is a little different, shouldn’t have anymore problems.

Matt, did you send me a thank-you note?
I haven’t received one. I was wondering if perhaps my husband pulled it out of the mail while I was gone and threw it out b/c he took offense at my “spending money on someone you don’t even know.” Fun fact: Of the three gifts I bought on Amazon.com for Christmas, yours would be the only one that reached it’s owner.
Damn brothers not updating their wishlists with current addresses.

I’m even less of a technology freak than Matt and JLAJRC. My DVD player is whatever was cheapest three years ago when I bought it. I own an orginal Nintendo and that’s it. My computer tower is whatever was cheapest two years ago (and my monitor is going on probably five and works just fine). My TV came from my dad’s house. I collect records (yes, the black vinyl music things), for crying out loud.

My sister’s been trying to talk me into getting a cell phone of some kind, but I don’t see the point for me. I don’t call that many people, anyway. It’s just another thing to carry around and another thing to pay for. When I really, REALLY need to get in touch with someone, I borrow a cell phone (like I did last year when I was on vacation).

Wow, starwenn- you remind me of me. The only gaming system I own is a Super Nintendo, still have 200 VHS tapes, and my car- despite being a 1999- PLAYS TAPES. So, I am constantly making MIX TAPES. Very old school.

wow this is awesome something i have some sort of knowledge on. i sell sprint phones for a living, and i have a word of advice for you. it’s too late now because they are closed but call *2 tomorrow and put insurance on that thing. It’s 6.99 a month and it guaranteed insurance for lost, dropped, stolen. If you do those things you get a new one for fifty bucks. With a phone that expensive you need it man.

Sh*t! I have had the Wendy’s theme song in my head all day and I just saw the commercial so I can count on going to bed with it too. You know, the stupid whistle? I question how they came to buy that jig. hmmm….I used the word jig for possibly the first time in my life.

Oh fucking sake I hate that Wendy’s whistle. It doesn’t even have any rhyme or reason, they just randomly play it throughout their commercials and I hold myself in a cringe upon its arrival. If Dave Thomas were alive, he’d shoot himself.

I feel so at home here, with my 5 year old computer, 7 year old VCR/DVD, 13 year old LD player, and 17 year old TV! :) And no cell phone! The TV is the only thing in need of replacement at the moment, as it started to lose its colors finally.

I only havea cellphone for emergencies. As it is, the thing is two years outdated and perpetually has a dead battery.

Honestly, I don’t like talking to people on the phone when I’m at home so I can’t really fathom why I’d want to talk to people when I’m out.

I have a Treo 600 and love it. Matter of fact, I don’t have a land-line phone. My Cell is my only phone.

The cell phone is a blessing because of Text messaging. It’s what allows me to communicate with people. I’m hearing impaired, so talking on the phone is neither easy nor fun. Text messaging is a God-send.

I’m generally up with Tech trends, though I do still have a CRT TV (two, actually), and a VCR that is at least 10 years old (Now that The Wizard is on DVD, it doesn’t get much use…but I did use it to tape “Heroes” last night!).

Me and the girlfriend won 25k on a $5 scratch ticket a couple of years ago. Keep trying Matt it can happen.

No, let’s talk about probabilities and sunk cost. I’d seriously motion that you channel your nervous energy into more worthwile (and healthy) endeavors. Like playing Twilight Princess, for example.

Sorry if that sounds preachy coming from the straight-edge guy. I’m just concerned

One of my British friends was looking for a cheap, nice place to stay in NYC and brought up the Milford Plaza. Now I have that f*ckin’ jingle stuck in my head, so naturally I had to read that blog article again. Matt — It’s a bloody shame you didn’t get to Mt. Airy Lodge before they shut it down. That would have made for a stylin’ article.

I have a Virgin Mobile phone, and was thinkin’ of upgrading to their Switchback model to be able to web browse on the go, but Sister in Law has one, and is having all sorts of problems with it. I look it up, and find out the problems affect most of the Switchbacks out there. Guess I’ll wait and see what else I can root up.
I have too many tapes of junk I recorded off of TV to totally forgo VCRs, and with the AV-In jack on my digital camera, I can take episodes of Earthworm Jim and Freakazoid! with me when I have to go places I’d rather not be.

ARRGH! I know what you mean! It’s scary to me that VCRs are becoming harder to find, especially when the life expectancies of those things get shorter and shorter. I don’t have the time or energy to convert my hundreds of tapes to DVD, but I’d like to know that I’ll be able to watch that stuff later if I want to (which is the whole point of taping stuff in the first place.) I’ve noticed that newer VCRs often seem to be incapable of playing older tapes that aren’t standard lengths (like T-15, T-30, T-60), which is a big problem for me (my dad used to bring lots of those home from his job, so I taped a lot of stuff on them.) Once my current VCR goes, I may never get to watch some of that stuff again. It’s heartbreaking!

yeah i don’t think I’d even consider another smartphone after seein the iPhone, it trumps em all

How much did you pay for it? I work for sprint and they were giving ‘em away for 199.99.

Speaking of video games, have you guys seen this EBay auction? WOW! Hope you have over $200,000 to spare.

Not sure if I have posted this or not but I miss the days when there was some form of industry standard in the technology world. EX: Nintendo debuted in 1985 and for 5 years, it was king. VHS 15-20 year reign. Now, my students swap ipods more than socks. Sigh.

hey anonymouS And manimal..
i have a beta VCR and a TON of old sat. mornin cartoons, and they all work perfectly, which is fucking incredible considering the fact that the player was bought in 83 i believe!

and to anyone else who would like to know, (spesh K, mystie, etc) im still around, my health HAD taken a turn for the worse but im starting to feel a tiny bit better these days, SpeshK: thanks for the msg’s, its good to know that someone out there actually cares.
sorry if i depressed you cats! hope everyone else is doin really well!!
and matt: dont mean to sound like a dick or anything, i know you’re maaaad busy and all, but any chance of an article soon??
i’d love you forever!!!

Ugh, some ass was on his the whole trainride home today. He kept elbowing me while using it. I wanted to smack him.

Josh C, good to see ya. Exactly what cartoons do you have, eh?

I’m always looking for rare stuff. Also, Doho: So glad someone else is annoyed by the whistle. I thought I was the only one who noticed it has no real “songness”.

My cel phone is pink and cute and I love it. It doesn’t have a camera anymore, though. I tried to compensate by getting a keychain camera and I wasn’t expecting anything great but maaaaaan they suck. This guy I’m dating made some comment the other day about how he’d buy me a pink Razr if I wanted, and my Bullshit Detectorâ„¢ just about blew up.

I have a couple decent gadgets and gizmos like my pink DS lite. My computer I built myself, though my capture card is begging me to put it out of its misery. I do have my pink camera which I love love love love kiss kiss kiss. But still no iPod and the only gaming console I own is a Sega Saturn. Kinda want to splurge and use my tax refund on a Wii, but I have to be a boring adult and pay bills. @_@

That is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen, JLAJRC. I’m not saying I’d pay that amount, but seeing it alone was pretty special

1. Where’s Zelda?
2. Could I convince him to sell me Bill & Ted’s Excellent Video Game Adventure alone

1st Zelda is under L, for Legend. I saw this the other day and the only way you can really justify that price is by saying your paying for the ease of collecting it all (and it’s only licensed games, bummer). At the current bid you’re paying some 38 dollars per game which is a good deal for a handful of the rare ones but outrageous for just about anything else. Especially when you get to something like SMB3.

Forget this insignificant garbage, we need to bring back Fruit Islands cereal! We must pay respect to our true messiah, King Ayummayumma! Hail, my fellow diciples, the great fruit tast in Fruit Islands cereal. All together now my brothers and sisters, “Ayummayumma, you can say it too!”

Kumbayah my fellow diciples, the commercials and cartoons of the 80’s hold all wisdom. King Ayummayumma calls upon you

For whoever’s interested, I can name one game that’s missing from that eBay auction: Gilligan’s Island. It may not be a big deal, considering what I’ve heard about that particular game.

I was in a local discount store today and I passed the shelf filled with boxes of kids Valentine’s day cards. While most were fairly recent (Simpsons, Shrek, whatever) there were also boxes of “THE PAGEMASTER” valentines from 1994 (yes, based on the Macaulay Culkin movie).

I feel sorry for any kid in 2007 who would have to give out Pagemaster valentines to his classmates because his parent just grabbed the first box of cheap cards they could find.

So I got my new computer in, put all the pieces together, nothing exploded, everything seems to be working. But now I’m a little scared. I think it might be too powerful. I mean, I gave it a dual core. That means it’s got two brains. That’s at least one more than I’ve got. So it’s got one brain to sit around and kick my ass at Civ IV or whatever and a whole spare brain just to make plans for the eventual domination of humankind. And it’s got this big window in the side with all kinds of blue LEDs in, which makes the whole thing seem even more ominous. Plus, I’ve got this sneaking suspicion that it’s chatting up my Roomba when I’m not around. I’m convinced that the only reason the Roombas haven’t banded together to take over the world is that they have most of the same intellectual characteristics as a spaniel. Plus, they run into walls a lot. But if they forge some sort of unholy alliance, and the monster I and Newegg.com have wrought manages to harness the Roomba’s mobility, we’re all screwed. And since I’m probably going to die in the first wave (on account of karma) I need you guys to remember the respective weaknesses of our PC/robovacuum overlords so you can fight back. The computer’s running XP, so its main weakness is laser printers. Plug and play my ass. The Roomba is a different story. Now, as we all know, the natural enemy of all wheeled robots is the staircase. But screw that, there’s ramps everywhere these days. Once again, the handicapped and the elderly have sold us down the river. So you’ll need to fall back on a hazard more specific to the Roomba species: loose extension cords. Phone cords are even better if you’ve got ‘em. In my experience, the trailing ends of cords attract Roombas like delicious, delicious candy. Of course, little do they know that their beloved cords will get all tangled in the brushes, and then pull their guts out when they run out of slack, spilling dust and debris all over the damn carpet. It’s generally an annoyance, but in the upcoming mechanical jihad, it’s the last, best hope of the human race.

Hang on, I’m going to go make some coffee and then come back to see if any of this makes a damn lick of sense.

Oh. Oh, I see. I’m sorry, guys. Wake up, then coffee, then posting. Got it.

Jedoc, your vision of the not-to-distant future frightens me and also fills me with joy. I, too, know that the robo-acolypse will come soon and swift. Technology is becoming more advance at an alarming rate; have you seen that android reporter from Japan. She will bring our DOOM. I just hope that the day the robots decide to fight back will be the day I sleep with a sexy robot Christina Ricci and she snaps my neck during ‘the deed’. Atleast I’ll die happy knowing I died by the hands of a Christina Ricci sex robot, than of falling down the stairs because I’m old or something. Although, getting pushed down the stairs by a Christina Ricci robot, or perhaps a Chuck Norris inspired Killbot, would be pretty cool.

Doho, I commend you on your dedication to the list. After the apocalypse it will be a holy relic, the 600-something commandments. And you will be its keeper.

That’s because VCRs of old were built to last. (At $600-$1000 a piece they had to be.) My parents bought a VCR in 1978 that I could still plug in and use right now (if I could lift it.) I think it gets a little hung up now and then, but otherwise it works just fine. Every VCR that I’ve bought has had to be replaced within three years. (Of course, if you added up what I paid for all of my VCRs, it still wouldn’t be half as much as my parents paid for theirs.)

Don’t look at me! I’m still stunned by the fact that Daleks can now hover(!) up stairwells. Of course, I believe the world had gone irrevocably round the bend with no return ticket the day someone put ham on a bagel. And no Kosher Event Horizon resulted. Although, we might just be in Hell, and not know it. Oh, well, I know where I can buy Primus with the Unicron head accessory for 25 bucks, so I’m content.

I spotted one game he didn’t have, although it maybe because it wasn’t officially licensed by Nintendo. I bought a video game off of one of those home shopping channels years ago called “Big Nose the Caveman” and it was basically a sidescroller where you use your club or rocks to kill dinosaurs and other prehistoric creature. It was also a gold cartridge ala Zelda and was actually pretty fun to play. I asked for that and Battletoads for my birthday that year and got both.

I remember the day….night, actually. It was cold outside- my brother and I were bundled up in the backseat of the car on the way to the mall. The mall itself was glorious- such an exciting shopping trip. My family and I paid $700 for our first VCR…it lasted about 16 years.

My current DVD player cost $25 bucks, and probably won’t last the year. Oh well- the cheap ones don’t have region codings, so I can play my DVDs from Korea!

Matt- I’ve got some recommendations if you’re interested in spicing up your programs. TCPMP is the best video player, plays most codecs, and is free (they have a new version called beta-player, but it’s not as good as the old TCPMP). Opera for Windows Mobile kicks the crap out of Pocket Internet Explorer, but costs $20. Make sure to get the Flash plug-in so you can watch homestarrunner.com on the go. And I have a good Bible reader, if your interested… Some of the must haves I have on my phone.

Josh C: Glad you’re well, but now that you just mentioned you have Saturday Morning recordings, everyone and their dog is going to be after you.

JLAJRC: Posting links leads to a deleted post 90% of the time around here. I posted the link to the NES auction before you came back, but it was zapped away.

oh cool, I thought Everyone had a damn cell phone…. I won’t get one just because everyone else has one. Regular house phone, no extras…
if pple want to call they can wait til I get home. Works great for me.

Jess, my cuz is the same way: if there is a popular item he will not get it because it’s too popular. No polular bands. No MySpace. No iPod. No new video game systems. However, he has no problem using everyone else’s toys

I didn’t know (or forgot) that the “Gilligan’s Island” game had the “Adventures of” part in it. I wonder how long it took for that guy to get all those games.

You posted your message at 1234! Don’t make a wish, though. That’s reserved for 11:11.

For the love of a Tito Santana velvet Spanish pupiya dish, PEOPLE…..we must bring back Fruit Islands Cereal!!! KingAyummayumma is real, he is NOT a fictional ghost like David Lopan in Big Trouble in Little China. This dynastic cultural icon of the 80’s must come back, and only we loyal diciples can do it. ALL TOGETHER NOW, “Ayummayumma, you can say it too!”

*IMPORTANT NOTE* Grimace is lavender, NOT purple which is a common misconception. Fruit Islands Cereal people, get the bangwagon rolling!

Grimace?
-!-
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-?!-
-!?-
-!!-
must not think of melting grimace, must not think of melting grimace, mustnotthinkofmeltinggrimace….
errrkkk! *thump*

(crawls off to stick a Mini-con up each nostril and listen to “Baka Survivor” until numbness passes)

Yikes! Michael Bay turned Bumblebee from a VW Bug to a Camaro in the new Transformers movie? What hath God wrought?

Okay, one more double post and I’m gonna have to suggest that Josh Ednoff is spamming. I’m not being mean, and I’m not rallying against double posts or even off-topic posts or repeating the same thing over and over for that matter (I am the king of all of those, I know that), but when all those factors combine it makes one suspicous and/or annoyed.

Man I miss a picture party or a rocking article about some obscure movie like The Gate or something.

Matt, your January must be like mine. The ugly reared head of work. Oh well. We both have a birthday in less than a week so that will be a bittersweet event for me at least. One year closer to thirty. shit.
Are you going to have a wish list for your Bday? I saw this thing I want to send you but you have to right a review about it. That’s the deal.

Mars: Yea, I was curious because I never used to have trouble doing that, until now. Oh well, whoever allowed my link has my gratitude.

So, how about a new topic, then. What does everyone think of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force ad backlash from yesterday in Boston and various places. I found it funny, but I would probably be annoyed if I lived there. It’s was hilarious watching reporters getting rightous and pissed off for be conned (especially on Fox News). If I was CN, I would move the upcoming ATHF movie to this weekend or next to capitalize on the publicity.

I wish I lived near one of the target cities. I would have tried to snag me one of those magnetic Mooninites. I wonder how many they’ll get back?

My favorite part about the stunt was reading about some spokesperson-type saying, “In this post-9/11 world…” Ten years from now, they’ll be saying, “In this post-9/11 world, we HAD to raise the turnpike toll. There are too many details that are crucial to homeland security to explain, but trust us. It was necessary.”

Hey, Matt. You work at Nick US, right? Any chance you could try to get your uppers to air the new DP episodes soon? Like any of the 6 that have ALREADY AIRED IN LATIN AMERICA? Thanks!

Well, thankfully is seems a few of the Mooninite signs managed to make their way onto eBay.

I just watched a video on YouTube of all these reporters not knowing what Aqua Teen Hunger Force is. That is just inexcusable.

I also have never owned a cellphone or pager (early 90’s). I never really want to be contacted when I am out doing stuff. Of course now these devices take pictures, play movies, play music, send text messages, keep appoinments, wipe your ass, send/receive emails, browse web pages, make people jealous, and give the user a false sense of importance. Still, I am thinking the 100-200 bucks could be better spent on gasoline and keeping the lights one. When I can be sexually serviced by my cellphone that may be the ice breaker. Lucky women can already do this though. Then again maybe she was faking that orgasm?

I’d voice my opinion on it, the this board is not letting me post, let alone links about this.

I found this hilarious, and while [as] was right in giving an apology, this ATHF superfan found it lame. They should’ve aired the clip of Ignignokt & Err insulting Denver after finding the Ooghix Micxtagghh (sp?, the klingon phrase for Superior Galactic Intelligence) at the end of Super Computer where they say “How are ya gonna make omlettes now?!”

I was watching CNN Headlines News on this ytesterday, and when they originally revealed it was ATHF-related, they called the characters on the LED ads “The Mooninite Marauders.” What the hell?! Those friggen immigrants! Right after I got rid of all of those “Gnats” jerseys!

Clicking on my name lead you to a great thread about the subject, not to mention a fark thread I tried posting that won’t post about having everyone making just about any ATHF reference imaginable. (clicking my name sends you ATHF’s TWoP thread)

Well, even with all the crap about overreacting, Boston knew how much of a threat the Mooninites are, as they’ve assembled their supervillain team Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday whose evil endeavors include adopting a highway in order to shave the world under the pseudonym “Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Click.”

I also misspelled OoGhij MIQtxxXa. It cures all diseases and features The Legend of Zoltar!

Mystie I think the people you pay bills too would understand if you just blew them off for a month to get a Wii. Matt, Have you had a chance to play WarioWare yet? I think its fun, but not as re-playable as I had thought it would be.

CNBC is about to premiere a new product from the Magic Bullet people! What will it be?

OMG, Bullet To Go! Cordless! Portable! A new infomercial! A crap week is suddenly looking up.
So did any Harry Potter fans catch Extras this week? Mystie? Manimal? Bueller?

Ignignokt: Those are suspicous devices, tell them Err.
Err: Those are Lite-Brites.
Ignignokt: Lite-Bri…WHY THE HELL ARE THEY FREAKING OUT OVER LITE-BRITES, Err?!?!?

Nah, Squee didn’t catch it. Did it involve the erotic photos of Dan Radcliffe touching naked boobies? Those pics are all kinds of wrong. Like you can tell the hair on his belly is leading a pathway down to a mess of wirey pubes, and I totally don’t want to think about that.

I can’t believe the next book and movie are coming out within a few days of each other. It’s gonna be maaad chaos.

I was watching CNN Headlines News on this ytesterday, and when they originally revealed it was ATHF-related, they called the characters on the LED ads “The Mooninite Marauders.” What the hell?!

Most of the media is still referring to it as a “hoax”, a word not even remotely applicable to what it was.

As a former journalism student, I speak from first hand experience: These people aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed. Occasionally you’ll get a smart cookiee in news editorial, but the vast majority of them are about as capable and intelligent as a drunken newborn.

The best thing about living in the post 9-11 world is that if you’re having an argument with someone and get boxed into a corner, you can just fill your voice with all the scorn you can muster and tell them “That’s pre-9-11 thinking right there.” It doesn’t actually help you win the argument, but it generally distracts them long enough for you to slip around to the side and punch them in the back of the head until they lose all memory of the debate, making you the victor by default.

Forget Blackwatch Plaid, I jumped all the way past Rush’s “Moving Pictures” (good album, btw) and went straight to “Illustrated Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” It’s the last step before implementing the Stangelove Protocols. Any women wanting to be breeding stock (I’m looking your way, Mystie), keep your calendars free.

Ew, no. Kids are expensive and they break your shit. If I decide to breed (fat chance), I’ll probably breed with pirates so I can at least attempt to decrease global warming.

feel free to drop it Matt. I have one, and it looks like it’s suffered one too many bad days in a DMZ, and it still works perfectly fine. of course, it looks like a pile of shit now… but it works.

I’ll probably breed with pirates so I can at least attempt to decrease global warming.

Wow. Sex, pirates and global warming. There is a movie plot in there somewhere that is every bit as good if not better than a lot of the stuff Matt reviews. Throw in a a lavender evil homicidal robot with a pitchfork and it would be perfect.

I didn’t say you had to raise ‘em. There are secret govenment machine for that. Just nine months every two years. Plus your weight in gold-pressed latinum, and twice that in premium ice cream. The only possible drawback is, you have to be subjected to Roger Miller’s “King of the Road” and Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps” on endless loop to ensure healthy worker drones for the cause. But, you do get ice cream!

For those of you who didn’t get my last rambling, it’s a reference to the episode where the Mooninites are trying to cash a check that isn’t

Hands down my favorite ep. ever. I not sure anything has made me laugh more than that single line. Besides the Corey Haim Full Video Diary review. And if no one outside of myself and Norbert knows what the hell we’re talking about, that’s okay. We’re having fun, anyway.

I was watching CNN Headlines News on this ytesterday, and when they originally revealed it was ATHF-related, they called the characters on the LED ads “The Mooninite Marauders.” What the hell?!

Most of the media is still referring to it as a “hoax”, a word not even remotely applicable to what it was.

Jedoc, they just now raised the threat level from Blackwatch Plaid to the cover of Rush’s “Moving Pictures” Album.

LOL Mystie it wasn’t that, but you’ve given me something to Google. He just played himself as sex-crazed. Funny stuff. Warwick Davis was in it too.
Thank God this week is finally over. Fuck.

“This girl I know told me from this girl who was talking to this guy who’s going with the girl who told it to the guy who knows this girl who saw Matt pass out at 31 Flavors last night! She said it was pretty serious.”

Happy Friday (and groundhog day!) I just got over the funky flu. yay for feeling better. I’m in the so hungry I’ll eat anything cause I haven’t eaten in three days phase.
kingklash, you are so strange/funny

I’m glad today’s getting over with. I had somewhat of a bummer of a night. I had a great aunt pass away earlier tonight. She was in bad shape for the past few weeks becuase she fell down in her nursing home, wanged her head, lost her memory of her relatives, and her condition has been getting worse. I heard there were talks over the past few days on what they should do, and everyone agreed that pulling the plug was the best thing to do (she herself was in bad shape, but, like the people in my family, she was a fighter). We were gonna visit on sunday, my parents left the house earlier tonight when they heard the condition was worse, but were too late. To bring some happy back into this, the weirdest part about all this that surprised everyone that her living will stated that her body should be donated to science. o_0;; (awkward, confused face) I do not envy those people who get to examine her.

Groundhog’s Day…Punx. Phil didn’t see his shadow! He’s now 96-14-9 and is going to State! (the 9 being the years they didn’t do it for some reason) I’ll be slightly happy tomorrow waking up knowing that it’ll be Groundhog Day all over again. And tomorrow. and the day after. I’m on…17 Groundhog days now, and I just know that this post is gonna reset and I’ll have to post it again!

Sorry about your aunt Norbert. That sucks. However, that last comment about those who have to examine her made me drop my beer on my lap. Very funny. But sorry at the same time.

So, after 135 posts or so, I’M going to have to be the one that it isn’t a “Pilot”?

I’m gonna postulate the theory that for a certain segment of the population they will always be known as “Pilots”

Kinda like how adhesive strips are known by the brand name Band-Aid. There’s a term for this phenomenon, but I dropped out of that economics class 6 years ago

I was listening to the radio the other night, either NPR or a Sacramento AM station I listen to Coast to Coast on, when their intrepid reporter did his thang on the ATHF issue…

…and stopped rather embarrassedly when he realized that listing all the characters by name and describing who they are just revealed to millions of people that he actually watched the show.

Mine’s always been a Treo, but I definitely feel that I pilot it. Verb-wise.
I found those risque HP photos, LOL. They’re really not that racy, but for a 17-year-old I guess they are a little. I can’t even try to lie, I think he looks pretty good, to be honest. Maybe a little pasty, but, you know, he’s British. Obviously, I have been single way too long.

K-”Kinda like how adhesive strips are known by the brand name Band-Aid. There’s a term for this phenomenon, but I dropped out of that economics class 6 years ago”

Proprietary eponyms. It’s one of my favorite English-language phenomena. It is one of the biggest ways that our language is evolving today. For instance, Google is noy synonymous (eponymous?) for web searching.

I am also reminded that iPod seems to be one now, used for any MP3 player. I am reminded because my iPod has had that frowny error face for a few days now. Depressing!

Iâ€™d like to request more 1980s TMNT cartoon-related articles, especially ones that feature Krang.

Hah, that rocks. If I ever have a band, a boat, or a child, I’m naming it Proprietary Eponym.

If you still want Wii game recommendations, you should really get Rayman: Raving Rabbids. It is incredibly funny and fun. We just played it for 5 hours last night. My arms hurt.

I second the motion calling for more “comics.” I remember reading those Donatello/Tunnel Rat “comics” that came with a couple of articles of while back. I don’t mean to put pressure on Matt, but I would personally love to see more of that type of thing. A resolution to the “Chia plot” sounds like a very good idea.

I am simply bringing back to glory some of the best ideas ever from the 80’s. K-with officially the most Boolean post ever, you are missing out on greatness like a retard misses the point. My sage-like knowledge of insignificant nostalgia is what this blog YEARNS for. To accuse me of spamming or whatever techno-nerd babble you use is akin to having an “I love the Mr.T cartoon” tatoo on your forhead while wearing the cutoff denim jacket. That kind of attitude leads me to see nothing in your future but bottles, cans, and a ripped-off ten speed.

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