The way the news organizations have been talking about this, it's like it's Judgement Day.

D, Why do you always have to post about old news?

Because no one else has.


And I have found a loophole around the fact that I can't make new topics anymore, because my new topic button is missing. Of course, I have a feeling this loophole will be closed up shortly, but it's been a fun run.

And since I've had a real shitty day today, and had to deal with some real bullshit, I don't give a shit about anything else at all anymore! Fuck the world, let's party until we're dead! 

I think Nuri complained that she missed last year's Talk Like a Pirate Day, so heads up, it's in a few days, the 19th of September as usual. Arrg!

I only remembered it because the Michigan Renaissance festival is having a "Pirate" day that day.

Speaking of the Michigan Renn Faire, this may be yet another year where I'm too broke to dress up... again. All I need is a shirt too. I have a cloak, pants, (cheap ass) boots.... maybe I could go SHIRTLESS! O_O

The only other person on this board I would think would dress up for a Renn Faire would be Bernie, but she's probably too busy bailing out water right now. Once she gets back, if she has some pictures of her dressed up she should post them!!!!!!

Apparently I can't be under my mother's car insurance anymore so I'm looking for new coverage. Every site I've been to requires pretty personal info in order to give a quote... name, phone #, ssn, address, age, info about current coverage. The insurance companies you'd think were cheapest aren't even.

I used to pay around $60 a month with my mother's plan

Rates: Monthly
Progressive - $51.49
Geico - $79.24
Allstate - $93.90
Esurance - $136.90
Farmers - $171
Liberty - $192.38

Nationwide, State Farm couldn't give me a quote over the net, and AAA's site isn't working. I have no idea why Progressive is so damn cheap, and it makes me wonder.

I know the high rates may be because of my accident last year, but I've only had one accident in my life.. that should count for something.

I'm one week late, but Detroit's corrupt gangsta mayor plead guilty to 2 counts of perjury, for a sentence of 4 months in jail and 5 years probation, and resigned from office.

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex scandal, forcing him out of office after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city. He was ordered jailed for four months and fined $1 million. "I lied under oath," Kilpatrick said in court.

During a separate hearing moments after Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner accepted the mayor's plea, Kilpatrick offered a no contest plea in an assault case.

The rest of the article goes into more detail about the trial, what he was charged with, the back story, and all the other controversy surrounding him.

Some wanted worse charges but I'm just glad to see him out of office. Most other political figures who have affairs or are charged with a crime apologize or resign almost immediately, yet this hip-hop mayor thought he was above the law and even played the race card. We don't need stuck up greedy powet hungry assholes in office.

Also:

A one-sentence letter signed by Kilpatrick and filed with the court states his resignation will take effect Sept. 18.

Once sentence? 

On another board, I had quotes in my sig, but I always wanted to put new quotes into my sig, and the sig size was restricted.

So I created a PHP script that will take a text file with a bunch of quotes and sayings, one per line, and randomly select one to display. Unfortunately, most boards do not allow php tags in a signature. So now that I have the code written to pick a random quote, I'm going to write code to have the quote placed into a small image file. Then the image file is displayed in the board's signature.

But I need cheap ass server space, enough just to put a few megs of data in.

I'll make the code available to people here when I'm done with it, if you want to use it as well.

I'm glad I'm not having kids, I'd have trouble thinking up names for them. Although I think I'd name a daughter something like Becky, Evangeline, or Mackie, or something.

I'm trying to figure out an exotic character name for a character, and it may be nice if it can be shortened to Lee. In fact, is Lee short for anything?

Edit: it's not even a new character, it's an older one I called Lee, and I want to give him a full, exotic sounding name.


and in case most of you don't care about this thread or what I'm asking (which you probably won't anway), here's a clip of Bleach the Musical, with IDE's favorite character stealing the limelight.

That's a real street sign in a neighboring town.

(and I'm suprised that fit as a topic title).

I'm in shock to see commercials for a new CG St*r WarzzZZ movie, in theaters. I had heard rumors but expected it to be one of those straight to DVD things, like many shitty Disney movies are released.

Of course, I'm going to see it eventually. But it makes me wonder if maybe Lucas is just mentally unstable, that he's not happy or sane unless he's constantly making more movies for his franchises. Either it's a case of unending greed, or he just can't let go, and spends hours in his basement writing screenplays and going "Must.... make... more... star... wars.......... can't.... let.... my... baby... die... can't... let... star...wars...fade... away...."

250 hours later, and I have completed what could be considered the longest Final Fantasy I have ever played, and it drove me nuts at times. Most FF games I never put in more than 100 or 150 hours, but FF12 has been different and a pain in the ass at times.


I enjoyed the storyline and the awesome airships and the pretty cg and landscapes.

But...I had gripes of varying levels.

-  Biggest issue was difficulty of the side quests. Even at level 70+, the side dungeons like Subterra and Henne section 2 were brutal not because of the enemies, who were level 60ish, but because they'd attack en-masse, so you'd have 10 enemies raping you at the same time. worst part was that most of the enemies were undead so you'd think an area was clear and 3 more guys would appear out of nowhere.

-  I was killed 3 times before I beat Zodiark, all when his health was critical, because when he gets to that point he becomes all but immune to physical attacks and magic. I've beaten all but Yizmat and Omega... One elite mark I fought had 2 million HP, Hell Worm has an insane 8 million HP (he was easy but it took almost 2 hours to beat him), Omega has 10 million hp, and Yizmat has an amazing 50 million HP. I wish Square wouldn't insist on all their games being insanely hard. It must be a Japanese thing.

-  And of course, something Square still has yet to figure out, is the proper placement of save points. There's still places where there's no save crystal right before a boss and after a very difficult hack through a long and insanely hard dungeon.

- Fishing? Running? Is this the best they can do for side games? Gay!

- The final air battle was shiny and pretty but needed to be longer, and less "can't we just stop war and live in peace" Japanese hippy bull would be nice.

- Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the difficulty in getting the best weapons in this game. Difficulty not in how hard, but the fact it takes a very long time to get some of them, since most of them either require a certain rare monster to "drop" the weapon (which happens once in a blue moon), or getting certain very rare drop items to sell at shops so the weapon appears in the Bazaar. The most powerful sword requires 10+ hours of collecting 20 something rare items.






... is it just me or are lead FF characters pussies? If I were Vaan, I would have tapped that.... all three of that... well maybe just two since one seems to be accounted for... and there were so many mostly-naked Viera around the world willing to "explore" human culture...




I'll add one good thing about all Final Fantasy including 12... it's easy to get higher levels, even if the side quest and dungeons are hard. The last Square-Enix RPG I played, it was insanely hard to level up past level 50, which sucks because you got some of the best attacks of the game at level 60-70.

First off, I have to say one thing... Fuck you Wimbledon! I'm tired of seeing nothing but tennis on TV nowadays! Fuck your gay ass sport.



Anyway, I didn't want to waste an entire topic for just that....


Yesterday I heard something crash down the chimney into my fireplace. I thought maybe it was just debris, but about 10 minutes later I heard animal noises, and got up and opened up the cover to see what was up.

I expected it to be a squirrel or a full grown bird or something, but I saw two fledgeling baby birds (fledgelings are birds that have feathers and have left the nest). One of them seemed injured and died after another 10 minutes. The other one was alive and kicking, so I put in in a box with what was left of it's nest that had fallen too.

I called up a bird rescue and found out the baby I had was a chimney swift which makes their nests in chimneys. The people said they didn't take care of the birds because they were too difficult to handle, and suggested I go up to the top of the chimney and let it cling to the inside of the chimney. One problem... my chimney is 40+ feet tall and is 10 feet above the steep roof.

I tried another option... I put it in a makeshift nest on a ledge inside the fireplace near the flue, but it seems like the parents haven't come back for it, which suprises me since what I've read about it the parents tend to make the nests deep in the chimney around the flue area. I hope they haven't abandoned the baby.


I'm considering trying to care for it since it's survived a day already and is clinging to life like Lance Armstrong with ball cancer, even though it's a protected species and you have to have a licence to legally care for it. The ladies over the phone told me to feed it liquified canned dog food with an eye dropper, and I was able to get it to eat a little, but a site online says it's better to feed it mealworms dipped in a vitamin paste.

I've also named it Nekhbert, since I was hunting rare game in Final Fantasy 12 when he fell, and one of the rare game is a Cockatrice named Nekhbet.

Baby Borrowers

I actually think this may be a good idea considering how stupid some teens (and hell, some adults for that matter) are when they're thinking of having a baby. They only think of a baby being cute and cuddly and shit, and never consider that they'll have to take care of that baby for 18+ years, through teenage years and into adulthood, not to mention being woken up in the middle of the night, constant crying, diaper changing, the baby turning into a toddler and demolishing the entire house....


I Survived a Japanese Game Show

As retarded of a show this is, I find it amusing none the less because of the culture shock that all the Americans (ignorant yankees) have when they get on the show. Unlike them, I know very well how wierd and bizzare Japanese game shows can get.


America's Got Talent

I hate American Idol... in that show the whole thing boils down to one thing: Either you sing or you don't sing. In this show there's a variety of odd and unusual and crazy ass acts that people have, and it's the amazing abilities that the people have that make me enjoy this show. If it doesn't wow me, I'm not interested.

Apparently bad luck follows me in spades. Either that or God's telling me to get the hell out of my job.


Last night one of the other drivers had one last run which was acually supposed to be my delivery, but I told her to take it instead. Either she came back or didn't take it at all because it seemed too suspicious. So my manager tells me to jump into a coworker's van and I'd be his backup in case something happened.

The instant we got there I thought something was very suspicious. The people were acting wierd. I stayed in the van hidden. I watched the driver disappear behind a truck with the food, and then a minute later return and start walking back towards the van.

I thought everything was cool until I saw the three black guys who had ordered the food come running up behind him and try to grab him. He shook them off and ran for the van and was able to get into the van while fighting them off and drive away, all while I was on the phone with police.


I told the assistant manager I hated working the job and he told me to leave, and I told him "fine, see you later asshole."

I'm sick of hearing about delivery robberies every single damn week and all of them by young black men under 30.

And yes, I have been looking for a job, just not very hard. I've had three places tell me they weren't hiring and actually were cutting back hours for their employees.

Apparently it's now unsafe to eat tomatoes. Which might explain why all the fast food joints will not serve tomatoes.

Is it safe to eat tomatoes?

Yes, FDA officials say grape and cherry tomatoes and tomatoes sold attached to the vine are safe to consume. Any tomatoes grown in California also can be eaten, regardless of the variety.

What should I avoid?

For now, stay away from the standard round tomatoes and also plum tomatoes, which is some stores are sold under the name Roma.

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Yes Detroit won the Hockey championship. Move along now. Nothing to see here.

Not having cable, I found this out secondhand. Fuck, now I have a reason for gettting cable or sat. Death Note is well worth watching!

Also, what the hell is this Ben-10 and why is it played more than Death Note?