Today's Word of the Day

Herck.

As in a noise of annoyance.

Apparently iTunes doesn't automatically default to copying the music you add to the iTunes folder. So, consequently, it was trying to look for my music on the external hard drive. Which I don't keep connected.

So, now, when I am trying to sync my iPod, I am discovering that its not working so well. That, and since I've transferred computers, apparently I have to erase everything off, and then put on the exact same stuff. Only this time, its the copy of the stuff that comes from this computer...

Also, there was/is a GP2 driver named Michael Herck. Which was fun to say. Unfortunately, he isn't very good.

The Post Where I Make A Comparison Between Underpants and Pokemon

So, I was at the store the other day buying myself some new underpants. And in the interest of being the most fiscally responsible consumer I could be, I discovered that there were multi-packs of underpants for cheaper than buying them individually. So that seemed to definitely be the way to go.

Once I had decided on a multi-pack, it was time to choose the appropriate colors. And it was at this point I discovered something that I found interesting.

The packs had names. In the end I ended up with the "Modern Prints" and the "Blue Plaids". Not only did they have names, but all the packs of the same name seemed to have the exact same color/style/pattern of underpants.

And this is where the Pokemon comes in. It would appear that your standard American Underpants Consumer (or at least those who frequent the same underpants establishments that I do) is not interested in collecting the entire set of colors. (Gotta catch 'em all) Because, if they were, I think the underpants companies would do there packaging quite differently.

If I were an underpants manufacturer/packager, and the average underpants consumer was attempting to collect the entire set of colors and patterns, I would not have standard packs of underpants that always are in the same package. That way it would be more complicated, and I would likely sell more underpants, as people would have to purchase underpants patterns that they already had in order to get particular patterns.

Also, I'd probably add in a rarity type scheme similar to what is found in collectible/trading cards. Particular underpants patterns would be quite rare, while others would be very common (so they'd be in most of the packs). I would also ensure that the rarest ones were only available in the most expensive packs, and were only paired with extremely common other ones.

So, aside from this sentence (foreshadowing!), and a brief quote, I haven't actually mentioned Pokemon at all in this post. I guess a more accurate title would have been "Underpants Economics". Anyways,I guess it was more of an implicit comparison, rather than an explicit one. So, for my clever readers, you'll have already made the connection before getting to this paragraph. For my denser readers, I think you should be able to figure it out at this point. But that's as explicit as I'm gonna get. Not gonna spell it out for you any more than that. If you still don't have it, you should probably stop eating the paste.

Inspirational Sports Story

Just saw the tail end of a sports report thing. Where they told an inspirational story.

About Clemson's football kicker.

Who apparently isn't that good. Because the inspirational part of the story was that he kicked a field goal.

After missing a whole bunch. The run up to the story was that he "struggled" last year. Basically, that means he was terrible. And then he apparently missed a bunch this year, including one earlier in the final game.

So, final seconds of the game. It is tied. If he misses, it goes to overtime (oh no!). If he hits it, they win.

And, against all the odds, he made it!

Uh...

So, we're celebrating this guy because he actually lucked into being passable for a game? Or more accurately, one play. Man, there must be nothing to talk about these days...

Absolute Zero

'05. A man learns about a deadly drop in temperature within days. Starring: Jeff Fahey, Erika Eleniak, Jessica Amlee, Brittney Irvin, Fred Ewanuick, Michael Ryan. Director: Robert Lee. From Canada.

In a shocking change of pace, it would appear that Bill Dow (Better known as the bumbling Dr. Lee from the Stargate franchise) isn't playing the role of slightly bumbling heroic scientist. Instead, it would appear that he is the administrator type guy who is keeping our plucky heroic scientist (in this case Jeff Fahey) down. No word on the scientist's bumblingness at this point.

Also, I'm cleaning up my apartment while watching this, so this is likely gonna be one of those sparse reviews. For example, we're already a quarter of the way through, and that's still all I have to say.

Also, this movie's been over for about an hour...

Word Conglomerations

Well, since my earlier attempt didn't go over so well, I figure I'll try again.

You may remember my attempt to coin a new phrase by combining two other ones. In that case it was "A barrel of laughs" and "A whale of a time". Which I attempted to combine into "A barrel of whales".

Well, like I said approximately 4 sentences ago, that one didn't go over all that well.

My latest attempt has actually come up multiple times independently. All of which have been involved with driving around the Tysons Corner area.

This time I shall attempt to combine "trainwreck" with "clusterfuck", which ends up with the combo of "trainfuck".

How It's Made

Looking at the scheduled recordings on my DVR, I see that I have an episode of How It's Made on tap for tomorrow.

And one of the subjects will apparently be "Fish Replicas".

I'm not sure if you can fully comprehend how excited I am by this prospect.

Rage of the Yeti

'11. A legendary creature wreaks havoc. Starring: David Chokachi.

I'm slightly impressed that the description doesn't include the true star of this movie. Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay. Or, he is more commonly known (by people who aren't nearly as obsessed with the Stargate Franchise as I am) as David Hewlett.

Also, it has Robin Hood from that new(ish) British Robin Hood show.

And I actually have no idea who David Chokachi is. After looking him up on Wikipedia, he seems to have been in a whole bunch of stuff I've never heard of. And Baywatch. So, I guess that's why he gets mentioned, while our intrepid SciFi hero doesn't.

Although, aside from McKay as the ridiculous gazillionaire bankrolling this ridiculous expedition, David Chokachi and his partner are the best part of this movie. A pair of sort of happy-go-lucky, carefree, wisecracking sort of people with ridiculous guns. Also, in other news, I am unsure if they originally used actual curse words or not, but the edit of the movie I'm currently watching has swapped in "Frak" and "Frell". Which amuses the Farscape and Battlestar Galactica fan in me. Sadly no "Felgercarb". But that was more of the orignianl BSG than the later, more recent one.

Also, in other news, this was directed by McKay. I think.

And Robin Hood just pulled the ring off his dead wife's finger. And then put it on himself. And it was supremely loose in a closeup shot. I wonder how often that occurs. The wife having thicker fingers than the husband... I suppose that's the sort of thing no one actually cares about, and thus we will never figure out.

Oh, and there's Yetis. Or Yerrun. Or something. Some sort of backstory. A ship, and some Chinese gave these ship guys a pile of Yetis for some apparent reason. And then the ship got stuck in the arctic. And now McKay wants some sort of book that was on the ship along with the Yeti.

There. Now you're caught up to speed.

Oh, wait. There's a guy named Enzo, who is apparently trying to get the book thing for himself. Who is causing random defections on McKay's team. I wonder if Enzo is or has a Ferrari.

That could really make this movie quite memorable. Some sort of wacky Bad Sci Fi crossover with Cars. Currently lacking any signs of Larry the Cable Guy, though. And you can't have the Cars franchise without him.

Also, tip for life, if a Yeti gets anywhere near any sort of aircraft that you are on or nearby, run for your life. Yetis have incomprehensibly taken out a Blackhawk helicopter and a C130 cargo plane.

Also, this movie's definition of "ice axe" seems to coincide squarely with my definition of "hatchet". Regular hatchet.

But they haven't really discussed the whole "baby yeti" issue that they covered earlier. My guess is, it'll be the final shot of the movie.

Also, why does McKay's submarine have windows?

Dancing With The Stars

Unless you get Jewel Staite as a contestant.

Then, we talk...

Proof of the Downfall of Western Society

So, I don't think I've blogged about it yet, but I have been watching this season of Dancing With The Stars. Or, more accurately, I have been watching selected portions of the current season of Dancing With The Stars.

But now that's over. Because my real reason for watching is no longer there.

If you've been keeping up with the results, and sundry blog posts from my archives, you can probably figure out the timing of this post.

For those of you keeping track at home, the reason was Hope Solo. Because she's hot.

Anyways, Hope Solo was on this season. As were a whole bunch of other people. But no one cares about them. I did enjoy selections of Incessantly Drunk Guy (David Arquette) and Incredibly Gay Guy, With All Particular Meanings Of That Word, Except For The Pejorative (Carson Kressley (or something like that)). But the true reason I was watching, was for Hope Solo. In other news, I'm relatively certain that the comma doesn't really belong in that last sentence. But that is neither here nor there.

Anyways, apparently, in the latest episode, Hope Solo was eliminated. Again with the mangling of comma usage. Granted, she wasn't the best dancer, but I still think that her elimination is evidence of the title of this post.

Granted, 2 of the contestants that outlasted Hope Solo were actually pretty darn good at dancing (although, what the hell do I really know about dancing?). The other, though, was Rob Kardashian. Who is pretty darn terrible. And randomly gets absurdly high scores. Mainly from that chick judge.

So, basically, what I'm saying is that if that Kardashian clown wins this season, I am done with Dancing With The Stars Forever.

Hypothetical Situations

I was about to ask: "Hypothetically speaking, if you were my iPod Shuffle, where would you be?"

Technically, I can still ask, and you can feel special if you answer it correctly.

Because it was formerly hiding under the couch. And I'm glad it was there. Because my other suspected hiding place was the trash can.

The one nice thing about the iPod Shuffle is that it is so dang small and light. The problem with it is that it is so dang small.

So, if you wish to play, where is my iPod Shuffle?

Zombie Apocalypse

'11. Survivors seek refuge on an island when zombies take over the world. Starring: Ving Rhames, Taryn Manning.

A film by the Asylum. You know how much we generally loves those sorts of things.

There's a black guy in the first scene with an impressive afro. Unfortunately, as he is a black guy, and in the first scene, he is quite unlikely to survive. Although, his chances are slightly better than they might be, since there is another black guy.

And true enough, it is the other black guy who ends up biting the proverbial dust. I am happy, because that means we get to experience that guy's afro for more of the movie. And they've even added another black guy to the mix. And this one is likely to survive. Or at least survive a pretty significant amount of the movie. Because this one is significantly Ving Rhames-ier than the other.

Guess he had so much fun making the remake of Dawn of the Dead a few years ago that he just couldn't pass this one up. And the remake of Day of the Dead. Which was apparently in the same universe. But he played a completely different character...

Also, it seems that our intrepid survivors have implemented a Pee Buddy system. Or that might just be the females. So we were treated to a random scene of peeing and shy bladder discussing. So, there's that, I guess. Yay.

Also Ving Rhames' weapon of choice is a sledge hammer. Which is amusing. Why is that amusing, you may ask? The answer is, I have no idea. It just is. So, take that.

In other news, you can mess with Ving Rhames. But you can't mess with his horse. Or perhaps "shouldn't" is more accurate than "can't". Apparently zombies killed his horse. He was none too pleased.

Dangit. Now this movie is significantly less worth watching. Because Mr. Afro Guy seems to have been eated. Which just supports my earlier assessments of Ving Rhames' survivability due to his Ving Rhames-ness. Because Fro-do (ah hyuk) didn't even survive half the movie.

And now Ving Rhames is talking about his horse. Again.

Also, this pile of survivors are pretty dang terrible. They're pretty spectacular about attracting shit tons of attention. Although they do seem to be pretty dang amazing shots. Not sure if they've missed yet.

And although Ving Rhames just chainsawed the ever-loving crap out of a zombie, he is completely clean of any blood. In fact, none of them have any blood on them, even though they all have been using very close quarters weapons with lots of blood splatter. Guess it all goes the other directions, and not onto our intrepid adventurers.

And now there's a love sub-plot... Oh good. I guess it is a new one. Since we've already discussed the apparent love sub-plot between Ving Rhames and his now-deceased horse. Oh, dammit. Now it looks like there's a possibility of a third one. This one involves Ving Rhames. But no horse. Unless he has a human horse. Which just opens all sorts of possibilities. That I don't even want to think about it.

But in other news, we have been introduced to a new set of characters. And one of them has a hairstyle which seems very much inspired by Fro-Do's. Even though they never met. Perhaps she just admired Fro-Do from a far. Although, this is less of an afro, and more of of a real-life interpretation of the hair one would expect from your standard Dragonball Z character. Although I can't be certain, as I have never actually seen that show. But I think we all know what I'm talking about.

And back to the previous topic: Looks like the guy who was attempting to initiate love sub-plot #1 has been bit. But, true to every damn zombie movie in existence, he has chosen to hide that fact, and will likely convert to a zombie at the most inconvenient moment, and cause all manner of chaos. But no! He is revealing his bitiness. And offering to act as bait. That's what you get for randomly quoting poetry and literature and culture shit. That, and really wanting to poop. Because that is in fact how he died. Opened a porta-shitter to take a dump, and got ambushed by the zombie inside. But still. He is turning. And the "most inconvenient moment" mentioned earlier is inside a van, while there are a gob of zombies outside. So, close enough.

Also, I am pretty excited for an Asylum movie that I have discovered will be released in 2012. It is called... wait for it!

Drumroll please!

2 Headed Shark Attack.

That should be pretty dang cool.

Also, in The Asylum world, hand grenades are approximately the biggest explosives ever. Or more accurately, make explosions that can be seen from miles away, yet create no crater, and only blow the hood off of a nearby car, without causing any other damage, and also set minor fires. But luckily they're pretty good at zombie killin'.

And now the epic weapon choice of ".50 caliber machine gun mounted on a shopping cart". Which apparently doesn't need to feed any ammo, and also doesn't recoil at all. Even when mounted on a shopping cart. Which has wheels and is super light. Way to go... This would probably be a good time to bust out that picture of Jean-Luc Picard facepalming. Although, does one really require an excuse for such a thing?


Also, you know what every zombie movie needs? Zombie tiger. Giant zombie tiger.

And even though there are still 10 minutes to go, I'm pretty certain that's the best way I can end this post.

Although, for the record, Ving Rhames appears to have used up all his Ving Rhames-related invincibility in the fighting of the tiger. And thus, the horror movie maxim holds true once again:

Black guy(s) die(s).

Today's Word of the Day

New.

Got's me a new computer.

I won at Beltway today

Driving from work to the gym, I took the Beltway. I made a grand total of 5 lane changes, and managed to time them all perfectly, so no one passed me (unless they were speeding).

I was pretty happy with myself.

Today's Word Of The Day

Cock-a-whoop.

Came up in the book I'm reading. Not really sure what it is. I'm thinking minstrel or bard or the like, based on context.

Today's Word Of The Day

Orangutan.

Chuck some more

Also, feel free to note that on a shelf on the back wall of the armory in Castle are large jars of candy.

Also, highly disappointed that Morgan seemingly doesn't know about Indiana Jones... In quite possibly his most famous scene.

Never mind. Scratch that. Looks like they handled that appropriately.

Chuck

Sarah Walker/Bartowski wears Evolv climbing shoes. Just thought you should know.

Also, the letter g is relatively hard to type without an actual g key.

Also, I'm amused that Casey using an over-under hunting shotgun as his weapon while attacking a house.

Also, I'm glad that they're giving Morgan a bigger role this season.

Also, also. Just because.

Gotta Poo

Quite a lot

Today's Word Of The Day

Alpaca

Halloween

The new Rob Zombie one.

Again, like most horror/slasher flicks, when you find yourself in such a situation, it is probably best to wear as many pairs of pants as possible.

Potentially stealing pants from people you don't particularly like.

Today's Word Of The Day

Popsicle.

I wants one

Random Place that Just Popped Into My Head

Lake Okeechobee

Terra Nova

Really?

In your third episode you're already doing the "Person is immune to the disease of the week because they have a cold" thing?

Well played. And oh so original.

(I'm a few weeks behind)