Velocity Equals Position Over Time

This offbeat animated short from Korean director Oh-Sung Kwon tells the story of a talking piece of canine excrement. Doggy Poo becomes forlorn when no one wants to be his friend on account of him being a mass of smelly waste.

I just added this badboy to my queue. Score.

While visiting my friend Deanna, she handed me the oddest birthday present ever: a used disposable camera. "Uhh, thanks?" But as she explained the story behind it, I realized how effin sweet this thing was.

On the back of the camera was a set of instructions very crudely taped on. The instructions are simple, take a picture, and pass it to a friend. A chain letter of sorts, but at the end, you mail it back to the dude that thought it up and he develops them.

Interestingly enough, the camera started in Connecticut, made its way across the Midwest, and then to Washington state. Finally, I have it here in Florida, but I don't know what the hell I'm going to take a picture of.

I wanna clean my face with it. It's like taking a single-finger virgin up the dudehole, for reals.

What am I talking about, you ask? It's the blackbook, kids. The bitch is going off.

I have requested that Alex provide an update on what has been done in the beta and what's left to do according to his older list. From there I think we should open things up and have everyone fool around with it (gang rape) and see if there are any little additional suggestions/tweaks that will fill this puppy full - she's already about as robust as it gets. Hats off again to the collective team that has concepted and created this great tool. I know it'll be a breath of sweet relief for me and my lack of organizational skills when it comes to managing birthdays, phone lists, addresses, waist size, etc.

Now at least if I lose my cell phone I'm not completely fucked.

I'm also glad to see that things here at POS have been so busy while I was away in Mexico getting a massage and lots of stuff for free.

So uh, I'm making these cartoons of people (i'm still getting there), and Jack came up with this sweet idea which I then elaborated on.

First, because comics are pretty much all the same anyways (emotion+voice bubble=comic), I wanted to make a dynamic comic where you just picked the emotion and text for each panel.

Then Jack said something today about how our conversation about today's posts would be a sweet comic.

Well, I agreed, and thought POS would totally be sweet if all our posts and comments were dynamically made into comic strips.

I don't mean to insult POS, because it is already so beautiful in its simplicity, but work sucks, and I'd much rather post to POS. And judging by how successful bbook has become, I think POS Projects totally rock. I just gotta finish these damn cartoons. Speaking of which, Alex, do you have any other characteristics I can add to make your guy unique? I was totally thinking you'd still have your beard, but you don't, so I think your character will have to be permanently set in your awesome bear pose.

'Vengeance' swipes cake, eats it, too
August 30, 2004

A 6-foot-tall, 275-pound bearded man crashed a children's birthday party in Oak Forest, identified himself as "vengeance," then helped himself to a piece of cake, police said.

The incident occurred earlier this month at a home in the 14800 block of South Landings Lane in the south suburb [of Chicago], Deputy Police Chief Nick Sparacino said.

When the owner of the home asked the man who he was, the intruder replied, "I am vengeance. I am the knight. I am Batman." Then the man went into the kitchen, cut a piece of birthday cake, took it into the living room and ate it.

After continued questioning by the homeowner, the man left the house and drove off in a red 1988 Cadillac.

Police haven't found the man yet and want to charge him with criminal trespass.

"I've been on the job 31 years and I've seen a lot of weird stuff, but nothing like this," Sparacino said.

Art Golab

Original Article

now to find a good zombie pic for a braaaaaaaaaaaaavy!! sticker.

It's good to see more people participating in this contest, cause I've got about a thousand ideas right now.

Here are two of them.

(I guess if someone is offended by the combination of baby and blender I could rearrange it to read: (baby) + (jackrabbit) = (http://pos.bburbank.com [blender image])

Oh...and way to break the hscroll, jack.

Will is trying hard to get a pos account now. He's made two sticker designs, one which I like conceptually, and one which I abhor on all levels.

This one I can appreciate. With a little redesigning an maybe a quick character drawing it could be neat:

This next one, though, I hate, as should all people who know happiness or love.

Here it is, the 1000th comment:

"Shit. Forgot about that."

Posted by jack at August 29, 2004 04:27 PM.

So perfect.

Beta Testers: You may now begin adding contacts to your blackbook. Editing and deleting doesn't work yet, but I want to make sure I've got the whole 'you can't view other peoples' private blackbooks' thing working yet. So go ahead and start adding some junk to yours. A mix of public and private entries would be swell.

So here are the first three things that came to mind:

1 (joke entry)

2 (dinosaurs)

3 (something dead)

Question: If this 'sticker guy' wants files less than 100KB, how the hell are you supposed to give him something that's 300DPI?

It's this game coming out for the PC soon. At first, I was like, OMFG, not another stupid historical RTS.

And then I saw this.

On a slightly related note, we are at 991 comments through 561 posts as of this posting. That's incredible. It's been a damn communicative 7 months. Thanks again for making pos best of all.

Also, I have a new contest in honor of our upcoming 1,000th comment. Here are the official rules:

Go here and download one of the templates. Design a sticker that will make strangers want to come to POS. Post it here. Your posts should be NO LARGER than 100k, so try and resize the images to have a width of 500 or 600. Images should be black and white (not just grey scale).

Also, keep it fairly clean. By clean, I mean no abortions or pointing prison guards or uncensored swear words. This should be something that I can put on my car without getting pulled over. The winner gets a king's supply of POS stickers in their design. I don't care what template size you choose, I'm footing the bill as a birthday present. I'd prefer the rectanglur templates to the circles, but make something cool enough and I'll gladly shell out for the ovals.

Added bonus: the winner also gets one grace pos account of their choosing. They can create one for somebody else or use it for teh hahas, I don't care.

Jack
Why are you signed up for DA498. This class is for Seniors working on their senior proposal. You also need to have passed your junior review before taking this class. Please drop the class as soon as you can or I will drop you by next week.
Matt

Will, Mike: I know you want blackbook accounts. We all do. But I'm afraid I was being a total douché when I said I could start divying out accounts before. I hadn't quite thought it through when I said that. See, it's probably a bad idea if I let you play around on it when I'm still building it. Bad things could happen. So, I'm'a have to ask you to just sit tight for a couple more days while I bring everything up to speed.

Now to bring everybody else up to speed. Here's a list of things done and to be done:

Logging in, logging out - works.
Changing personal info - works.
Changing password - works.
Viewing BlackBook members' info - works.
Personal/public blackbooks - doesn't work.
Viewing other Members' public blackbooks - doesn't work.
Adding people from other peoples' blackbooks to yours - doesn't work.
Adding pictures to records - doesn't work.
V-Card import - doesn't work.
V-Card export - doesn't work.
Butt sex - doesn't work.

Hopefully this weekend I'll have the ability to add people to your blackbook working. Then I'd like to invite Ben to add some legitimate data to his so I can get the whole 'subscribing to people' thing working (e.g. Ben puts Hawkeye's info in his blackbook and makes it public, I see Hawkeye in Ben's blackbook, think to myself "Hawkeye is neat, I want him in my blackbook," hit the 'Add to My BlackBook' button, and Hawkeye's info shows up in my blackbook - Ben retains full control over Hawkeye's info, though).

Also, that list is pretty much the order in which things are gonna get implemented.

Also, I think we pretty much have the sweetest login page ever.

Dear Users,

I done broke-ded my navvy. Send help now?

-POS

NAME  BENMFG!       

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2. POTATO SACK PANTS
3. 9 inches
4. PUT A BOMB ON THE BUS WATCH OUT KEEENO BOMB ON BUS!!!1
5. HOT TOPIC'S BLOOD BARF PUNK SKA COOKIES
6. GIRAFFE HEADS.
7. ELECTRIC TONGUE HAT
8. POOPY PANTS
9. THE "CEE" WORD
10. WILL
11. BOX FROM "not-gay-porn".com that I opened. DIDN'T OPEN!
12. WILL. HOW MANY DICKS. HOW MANY GODDAMN DICKS.
13. WILL CLONE SANDWICH. HOT!
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The final war has ended...
Yet, the final batman remains.

[Ben's note: click picture for movie]

Last night I dreamt that George Bush and John Kerry got in a fist fight. As a result, John Kerry was sent to jail and was therefore barred from the presidential race, even though Bush totally started it. Then all the people who were gonna vote for Kerry voted for Nader and I think he became the next president.

today was pretty awesome, overall.

Most awesome, though, is the instant development progress on blackbook. She's looking good, Alex. I know you're probably on it, but in the template for browsing a blackbook make sure that everything that can be is a link (aim, email, etc.). It will make communication more productive than ever, and will run the latest games, or the tribe will die 95.

Of course, Erik M. has joined the fold now, all the way from SUIYUYIOIoiuuwoiu'aaaaaaauiol, Korea, where he probably drives humvees with his bone-tar.

Tried to preorder Star Ocean 3 today and they were like OMFG UR SO GAY F8G G8 OUT OF UOR STOER F8G8!!!!!!! OF CORSE W EDON"T HAVE THUT AGME FOR PRERORDER F8TG.!!!!... GO HOME AND WAHCT ADLUT SWAN ON THE INTOERNOG.

I guess I'll just buy it after work.

Eric mentioned that he's surprised that we still have an NFL team called the 'Redskins,' and I'll agree that I am, too. Where are the Miami 'Runners, or the Detroit Pipe Hitting Enns? The US is so strangely biased at times. I say power to the ratially inhibitting sports team, it's good for business.

http://www.computerpranks.com/download/media/wmv/real_drunk.wmv
[a href'd by Ben]

anyone wanna bet will has done this before?

My boner is the hardest for this blackbook. Big thank you to Alex for pioneering all the databasing and getting this thing going right away. I now want to look into possibly getting a new phone just to be able to sync information like Juls and Ben and all you other brah-dawgs with newtech [scsi] nano-pilot gigabit enabled car phones.

I'd also like to fast track "Celebrity Buck Fucker" for development. This game involves pitting some of your favorite big game hunters against some of the season's best bucks. Chain them together with a giant shotgun dick interface and watch the action develop! Please visit our sponsors here and here.

Oh, and I guess I should say that I'm not sure if that second link is "work friendly." I haven't even looked at it myself yet, but damn I can't wait till I get home.

November is Votetime. Make sure your Batman is registered. If dog rabbit.

Polish your revolver.

© Frito-Lay Company, 2004

hmm...
first time posting on this mug. hopefully this worked. if not, then ill just punch my desk so no biggie.

erik

what goes here?

I wanted to bring our public vs. private discussion above the fold so that we could all lift our skirts on the subject and come to a concensus.

Here's why I think having the contact info wide open is bad: We have to keep the larger goal in mind. My original intent on suggesting this was just for me personally to have a nice, safe and secure place online to keep contact info for peeps that would be accessible no matter where I might be at a given moment. I knew that the POS crew on the whole would also benefit from such a service, and I figured we could all have a hand in the creation of this fantabulous tool. One of the side benefits of developing it as a shared resource is that there are contacts that others on the POS crew might have that I don't and vice versa, so being able to make some records public and commonly shared is very appealing.

That being said, I don't think it's a good idea to have these public records available to casual viewers. I like the idea of sharing my info and selected records with members of the POS crew, but I have no interest in extending that privelege to anyone casually browsing the site or happening across that info accidentally. Making contacts of my choosing public to the broader group (Ben, Alex, Juls, etc.) I like, but making them public to the world makes vomit pour from my face.

So, I'm a proponent for public viewing in a controlled setting. Any person that wishes to have their own blackbook and be able to share and view contact info should simply just request a blackbook account and have it added. That way we're conscious of who has an account and who has access to public contact info within the system. I don't even anticipate everyone using this feature necessarily; this is mostly just for those that wish to have easily accessible contact info at their fingertips. The public side is just a happy byproduct of us making this a collective resource. We still need that "must have account" layer of security though, I think - mostly as a precaution for the people who's contact info I'm entering and posting up online.

Does this make sense?

DL me.

I think I might just end up uploading this b to my galatea account.

Juls did his part. What do I do now?

Burnout 3 is game of the month in the current EGM.

Fuck yes.

How about once blackbook is rolling, we add in a section to update release dates for DVDs, movies, games, and music?

And boobies.

So, I gave this some thought, and with Ben's comment in mind, I came up with this:

(VC stands for VARCHAR)

Main users' records (Alex, Ben, Chris, Jack, Juls, Mike, other POSers):
(bbUsers)

Personal Black Books (this would hold information on my mom, for example)
(blackbook)

Anything anybody wants to add to this? What other types of information do we want to keep in here? Height, weight, hair, eye color, blood type, cock size, crap like that? The 'notes' field is intended as a catch-all for anything else you might want to include with someone's info. But if enough people think something like cock size is important enough to be included for everybody, it would be best incorporated into the database design (this way it would be possible to search on these parameters - so if you wanted a list of everybody whose cock was bigger than three inches, you could easily get it).

What else do you want to be able to do with the blackbook?

Right now, I'm thinking importing from and exporting to .vcf isn't a bad idea. This way us Mac folk can dump our current Address Book content into the site, and download new info when it's updated. Plus, it's cool.

I know Ben wants to make a sexy flash interface, which I'm all about using but not making. So maybe Ben wants to let me know how he wants to interface flash with the database so I can plan on incorporating that into the OO design (XML is probably a good choice since AMFPHP might be overkill for this site, but it's up to you, really)

I guess.

Also, I think we somehow missed Mike's birthday in the past couple weeks of rabid working. We're sorry, Mike, we still love you.

As a result, Chris has proposed that I add a section to pos that lists all of our birthdays, addresses, turn ons, and stuff, so that we can better keep track of this stuff. It might be a good idea, but the people whose 'special days' we would miss are the kinds of people who wouldn't give us that information very easily.

FOUND

You have to read the first few pages at the very least.

What the hell happened to the end of August / beginning of September?

THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF AMAZING GAMES INCREASES DAILY.

We have Gradius V hitting US shores. This is good, but not nearly the best news.

Half-Life 2 has begun preloading content to Steam members. This basically means that they can go gold at any time, and then the game will just be out, without any warning. Also not the best news.

Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time is finally coming out. Incredible.

Phantom Brave, the next entry from Nippon Ichi, is going to hit, and I have a feeling it will hit big. The reviewers are rating it as bigger, better, longer, and more crazy than Disgaea. I'll be the judge of that when they get my $50. This, however, is not the biggest news. Not by a long shot, I'm afraid.

The big news... The big fucking news...

Those are shots from the PS2 version of Burnout 3. In the past 4 days, we have invested at least as many hours in the demo of this game. Maybe more. To put this in perspective, the demo lasts all of 1 minute, since it's a short, 1-lap track where you don't get to choose your car. It is, without question, the most amazingly fun racing game I've played in a forever, and it's probably the funnenennenest game that I've had my hot little hands on since Celebrity Buck Fighter: Psycho Gold Edition. It's a racing game, except it's more like a Tony Hawk game where your extreme sport is wrecking the ever-loving shit out of cars. There's even a mode where you have to drive your car into busy intersections and cause as much monetary damage as you can in under 30 seconds. It's also beautiful, and I'll be picking up the PS2 version, as I prefer its controller to the Xbox (and it's not coming out for Gamecube). To quote Eric, who hates everything, "[Burnout 3] makes me feel like a little kid. I haven't felt this way in a long time [because I don't know happiness]."

If you have the means, get the demo, it's on the 'nova. I've pre-payed for my copy now, and all I have to do is waltz in and pick it up. In the meantime, I'll be playing Burnout 2, which I bought last night for gamecube, but which is nothing compared to the Burnout 3 demo. We were playing Burnout 2 for about an hour, and I got up, promising Eric that I would make the game more fun. All I did was toss him the PS2 controller and turn on the Burnout 3 demo again.

To use a term I once heard Chris use to describe a movie, Garden State is Pure Love. Garden State is pure love coming out of the screen and kissing your loveports (usb). Love is what this movie is, and love is what I've been shooting out my dvd's all night. Go see it and be in love with your love-holes.

REZ SOUNDTRACK BIIIIIIIIIIIITC.

REZ SOUNDTRACK BIIIIIIIIIIIITC.

DOWNLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Fighting Robots
Even more fighting Robots

WHICH IS IT?!

So uh, I've been trying to keep this quiet, because I've gotten a whole bunch of job offers that have turned into: "Umm, your site is good, but we're looking for something more commercial."

In which I reply, "oh, well eff."

But good news is here. I have been having phone interviews with EA for the UI Design position, and I've made it to the last of a three part process. I'll be going to EA in Maitland for an interview on the 27th.

Holy hell, this is the only place that have seen my website as a good thing. On top of that, they don't leave me waiting for a phone call, only to see the job being reposted on monster.com, in which I again reply, "oh, well eff."

So I ask you, Mr. POS man, for strength as I journey to my dream of playing video games for life, while I try to hold in the laughter as I tell them, "why yes, I love Madden."

Scattered throughout Project Game's gameworldpad will be countless arcades with playable games. Among them will be the POS classic, STFU Fighter 2. Here's a screencap of the emulation.

Just so everybody knows, Erik McCulley has a pos account now. He probably will only be posting in the 3am EST timeframe, but I just thought I'd give a heads up. Also, my sister grew 4 more arms, but these latest ones seem unrelated to the storm. That brings her arm total to 11 (2 originals + 5 hurricane mutation + 4 random growth).

I just got this sony ericsson bluetooth phone, and I'm trying to make the most of it. I found some applescripts to control DVD player and iTunes, but theres this software that it says you gotta get. Is there any way around that?

Check it. I nabbed this from ultrashock.com. It made me smile, especially his illustrations.

This one's from back in the day:

I was walkin' down the halls,
scratchin' my balls,
when my dick got caught in the elevator walls.

My dick turned green,

made a lady scream,

and that's the story of my ding-a-ling

Ta-da!

so yeah... my mom's become an avid eBayer this past few years, buying and selling JEWelry and such. naturally when being involved in such a market there's bound to be a jerk face who's going to want to attempt to screw you over. my mom had one instance that came down to her making repeated attempts to have the situation remedied (some douche purchased a bauble for like $4.50 and lied in it's resell description and turned and sold of for like $450 based on such description)... they weren't easy to right their wrong. so in the end after much work and determination on her part, eBay collections, PayPal corrective action division, and the internet fraud division of the FBI got involved. needless to say she was refunded her money.

so this morning she reminds me of this alleged 14k gold bracelet she purchased from eBay last week, and how upon receiving it she found that she was pwned and it was actually gold plated (signifigant difference)...

long story short... my 57 year old mom pulled an STFU NOOB... even utilizing the "noob" vernacular. and she's getting her refund.

good times... good times.

BUT BEN FIXED IT!

"best webcomic please be first", or something.

We recently had an oppurtunity to sit down with MTVs hottest raprock. Here's our photo:

So I just had this dream where I was in a sweet DA camp. It was out in the woods, and we did DA. And we fought monsters, and had this museum where we had rooms with Batman wallpaper and impossibly cool gundam toys, and I had a bandolier full of gba carts and dv tapes. Plus there were babes.

Therefore I've decided, upon my return to Stetson, to take over Greenhat Media and turn it into DA Camp, and shift their current focus (sucking) to more DA Camp-oriented ones (killing monsters, DA, rocking out, babes). I'll totally pretend that Stetson is DA camp, and look into the Batman/gundam museum. The babes, as usual, will follow.

There will be three rules in DA camp.

1) Kill all monsters, unless there's some kind of nice monster.
2) Make sweet DA.
3) Rock out.
4) Be excellent to each other.
5) Always remember BB (babes and batman).

So, my friends and I had the brilliant idea today of going to Paramount's King's Dominion, which is like Islands of Adventure, but without the broken Spiderman ride.

Anyway, we knew it was gonna rain, but we went anyway. After all, I was at Islands of Adventure once in the rain, and it was pretty cool. Riding the Hulk in that light drizzle felt like I was being pelted with hundres of tiny needles at 70mph. I figured our experience at King's Dominion would be equally awesome. Pretty retarded, right?

Wait, it gets better.

So, we fight traffic for about 2 hours over 100 miles to get there, after leaving about 12:30 we arive right at 3:00. At first we were like, "Yaaay! There's cars in the parking lot! It's not closed!" But the nice lady at the parking gate said they were closing at 4 o-fucking'clock.

And that all the rides were closed.

Well, shit. Why the hell not just drive on home? After all, we didn't drive over a hundred miles just for shits and giggles. And like the weak souls we are, we went home. Fucking pussies.

At least we stopped at a Cracker Barrel on the way home. We bought some penny candy for 10 cents. One of mine was flavored 'Horehound'. I'm still not entirely sure what it's supposed to taste like.

Oh, and on the way home there was more traffic. Wooo.

To recap:
Time spent in car driving - 5 hours.
Time spent riding rollercoasters, vomiting excitement and fun - 0 hours.

I have bees in my head!

Also, a list is on my website:

• Dell Axim X30 Hi 624 MHz Pocket PC, capable of playing super nintendo and playstation games
• Firefly DVD Boxed Set
• Plexi / Acrylic UV case for new computer
• hurricane
• visit Chicago!

So last night I had a pretty crazy dream.

I was at my office, taking this math test which was impossibly hard. Most of the questions were in this format:

32 = __ ÷ __ __ __ x __ = 4

And we had to solve for all the blanks (that's 4 separate numbers, the three blanks in the middle were each individual numbers, apparently, and I think I had to solve for their operators, too). It was so hard I started to cry, and then I realized that the test was being administered by none other than my high-school english teacher. What the hell, right?

So, after the test was over, I guess that was the end of the school day cause I walked out side with a couple of other kids. There were a bunch of cops in the parking lot surrounding the building. Apparently some terrorst a-holes were in the convenience store (which was part of the high-school?) threatening to blow the place to kingdom come.

So, naturally, I began to mingle amongst the police. Unabated. While they set up a bazooka. About ten feet away from me.

They yelled, "Hit the dirt!" Which I obeyed, and they sent what was more like a rocket round hurtling into the store, which proceeded to explode and send shards of glass and debris into the parking lot. Then, somehow, the terrorist a-holes ran from the building into the parking lot. I was pretty scared at this point, since that bazooka round went right past my head and cause the a-holes were kind of crazy looking, so I tried to hide between some cars. Except that the terrorist a-holes had stolen a car and were presently driving around the parking lot smashing into whatever they could.

They were also gunning for me, it seemed. Since I was in-between two cars at the time, they slammed into the side of one of them in an attempt to smash me between them. I fooled them, though, since I had the presence of mind to fall on my back and shimmy from underneath the wreckage. It was a good plan, except for the fact that it tore my entire face from my skull.

Funny thing was, it didn't hurt until I started to cry (I guess I was still upset about the math test), and people were like, "oh shit, oh shit, your face is off." And somebody tried to put a t-shirt on my face to stop the bleeding, but I woke myself up cause I was pretty upset at that point.

I think the next dream I had after that involved me trying to escape a swarm of angry bees. I foiled them by running into my basement and closing all the window blinds and hiding in the back room, which was apparently in Chicago cause Ben and Chris were there. They also had this really big dog that was shaped like a beagle, but it was huge. And it was crawling on the walls and staring at people.

Oh, and after that, I had this dream where I was wandering around with Adrienne Harvey and a bunch of other goth people. At some point I broke my arm, and we spent the better part of six hours trying to get me to a hospital. Honestly, they were the most incompetent people on the face of the planet.

First, we walked everywhere, despite the fact that she had a car. Second, someone had the brilliant idea of applying a belt as a tornequet to stablize my arm. None of my Eagle Scout traning was telling me to GET AWAY FROM THESE PEOPLE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BEFORE YOU DIE, so I gladly obliged. After a while, though, I did start to become concerned for my safety. I removed the belt and applied a somewhat cold bottle of coke to my arm in a lame attempt to stop the swelling.

After that we wandered around for hours trying to find the hospital. I think we walked around so long that my arm began to heal on its own. Eventually, though, we found some EMTs who just happened to be milling around a secuirty desk in a subway station. For whatever reason, they wanted to administer 150ccs of Dramamine (used to prevent motion sickness). Not knowing what the hell Dramamine was for, I obliged, and one of the EMTs led me up this flight of stairs in an abandoned house to where he kept the medicine. Apparently, it was supposed to be in a bathroom, which was stocked full of all kinds of bottles and boxes of stuff. None of which contained the Dramamine.

The EMT was pretty upset at this, and he sat down on the toilet and cried. He was so upset that he would ordinarily wreck the place, but he knew that peoples' lives depended on the medcine, so he held his temper.

At some point, we left him there, cause the next thing I remember was driving around at night (I have no idea who I was with anymore) looking for the hospital. We eventually "found" it, although there were a suspicious amount of people changing into swimsuits out in front of it. And that was pretty much the end of the dream.

So, there you have it. One crazy night.

Half-Life 2 fans rejoice! You've finally got footage of the retail game.

US retailer Toys-R-Us is considering getting out of the toy business after being hit by intense competition from discounters such as Wal-Mart.

The company, whose shares fell 6%, may also spin off its Babies-R-Us unit.

Decisions on store closures will come once the end-of-year holiday season is over, the firm said.

Aggressive discounting by general retailers, led by the giant Wal-Mart chain, has hit the toy business hard, sending several big names to the wall.

Iconic toy store FAO Schwartz was forced to declare itself bankrupt and seek protection from its creditors in December 2003, with KB Toys following suit in January.

Shoppers have increasingly turned to Wal-Mart and other low-cost superstore chains such as Target, which have been able to undercut the specialist retailers.

The idea of separating Babies-R-Us was met with approval by analysts, with Prudential's Mark Rowan dubbing it the company's "crown jewels".

Moving into property

Toys-R-Us is expected to give up between 100 and 200 stores.

Given that many have long leases at low rents, they could prove a profitable source of revenue if offered to other retailers.

Deutsche Bank has estimated that the group's property could be worth more than $2.9bn (£1.6bn).

There are some 700 Toys-R-Us outlets in the US and 600 more abroad, as well as almost 200 Babies-R-Us stores.

But analysts said the firm should not wait to make up its mind, following its poor showing in the past year.

"Sure, it's before the holiday season," said Sean McGowan of Harris Nesbitt.

"But after 2003, what more do we need to find out?"

In the meantime, Toys-R-Us is expected to take $150m (£82.3m) in markdowns in the second quarter of the year, to account for inventory build-up.

Courtesy of BBC

So, normally I'm not into the whole 'art' thing, but this guy is just too cool.

I'll let you decide for yourself, though, 'cause I'm not better than you.

I just happened to buy the only copy they had at my local comic store the day it came out. It's beautiful. It has such a wide range of stories and styles. I'll post images from the book soon.

Or "Bulius", as thou art known in some kircles. I have taken photos of myself, at great expense. Please find them enclosed.

♥
Alex

Here is a picture of me getting ready to hump the air.

Here is a picture of me successfully humping the air.

I figure, maybe you could animate those into a 2-frame GIF. Or DIV-X file. Or dead-baby.

If I were to die, I would want to be stuffed in this, the "King Bear" pose.

I am not one-hundred percent sure what I was trying to do in this picture. Let's just call it "trying to grow boobs."

I figured I should do a "serious" image, so here it is. This is as serious as I get, anyway! lolwtfasl?

So friggin Charley is on the way up to Julsland.

Anyways, this thing is said to be a level 3 by the time it makes it up here, so if I don't make it, I'm giving all my toys to POS.

thank you for being involved in bringing forth "before sunset"... this in addition to "school of rock" will now enable me to forgive you for "waking life".

... and go to my mo-blogg to see my superfluous third nipple.

    I have this "friend" who's making a DVD video for another friend of his. He's got his movie all finalized in FinalCut Pro, but the thing is, my "friend" doesn't know what the best way is to burn it to DVD format. He's tried using Toast 6, just as a test, but his DVD player wouldn't play it, and his PC would play it but it would drop frames.

Can you give my "friend" some advice?

Your biggest fan,
    Alex.

There will soon be pics.

Anyway, I thought you guys might be interested in these (courtesy of vgtalk):

preowned PS2 with Madden 2004 and Metal Gear Solid 2, $99.
preowned Xbox with Splinter Cell, $99.

Enter the coupon code FRSHPXB to get free shipping on the Xbox.

Help, please. I want to make cartoons of peoples. Can you guys send me random pics? Full-body if possible, I need references.

"Burger King Corporation is deeply saddened by the events that occurred in Deltona, Florida and the tragic loss of members of the BURGER KING family who were employed by a local franchisee. We extend our most heart-felt condolences to the families, friends and co-workers of all of the victims. The franchisee is working with local authorities and Burger King Corporation is supporting the franchisee and his team through this very difficult time."

By the way, I have a sick desire to watch Kill Bill again.

So PEAR is totally awesome. Has anybody been able to install it without admin access to a server? I want to use XML_Serializer on my new site but we don't have it installed.

It's weird for me to talk about something as as simple as Gush for so long like this, but holy crap. I had a nice, quick, chat with one of the people from Gush. They IMed me today cause I was messing around with trying to put up an away message. "Is this an away message?" it said, to which they replied "No. Idiot."

Anyway, I found out that Gush = Flash + Python;

That makes Alex.pants.meet(shit);

And they're working on doing file transfers next.

for(i=0; i<theEndOfTime; i++)
{
    Alex.pants.meet(shit);
}

Yeah. So AIM, Trillian, and gaim are all pretty much dead to me now. Fuckers.

Howdy, folks, little while no see.

I've been a ghost lately because I've been rebuilding our web and email server form the ground up at a fevered pace, but things are cooling down and I should be posting a lot more now.

To Alex: Gush is very sexy. Quality interface for a bunch of things that I do all the time.

To Windows Server 2003: I had no idea that you weren't as crappy as I thought you were. While you're certainly no *nix, it's nice to see that you've stabilized a little. Your memory requirements are unbelievable, though. I appreciate, however, that you've managed to speed up remote desktop access, especially for OSX.

To everybody else: You see, I inheritted this old Win2KServer box at work, a little guy that's been hosting our clients' websites (ASP.NET being the reason for the choice of Windows). Sure, we deserve to get hacked, and interestingly enough we were for about an hour while I was running Windows XP Pro before I started the full install.

On a funny note, I haven't slept or eaten much at all since Wednesday. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOLERBLADES. We also just recently broke 500 posts. DOOMFG.

UPDATE: couple things I forgot about. My jabber ID is iGetShotInFace@jabber.org . And Alex mentioned something about 'properties' being affected by the new tween classes. In flash, I'm pretty sure they are officially member variables. Some people call them properties, but they are fools. That is all.

So I'm not entirely sure how this happened, but apparently somebody from Gush has been reading POS. It's kind of creepy, actually, since my only theory is this: I added POS to the list of News feeds so's I can know when it's updated without having to check it like 50,000,000 times a day. I figure maybe one of them saw POS, read it, saw my Jabber handle, and IMed me. I have evidence, you know. Look at this beauty.

(click pop)

Is it sad that the most disturbing thing to me about this is not the fact that the Gush people have, and take advantage of, access to our accounts? No, it's the fact that whomever used "you're" in stead of "your".

Also, Will, I'm sorry I didn't respond. I forgot that I had Gush open and I didn't leave a away message. This also proves that I can use AIM with it, so I can still talk with the rest of you losers.

So, yeah. That's that.

Ben, and to a lesser extent Jack, know my struggles with AIM. Mostly in the file transfer department, but also in the excruciatingly annoyingly 'constantly re-arranging your buddylist' department.

Well, I think I've finally descided to fuck it. Fuck it with style. Fuck it until it Gushes.

Gush is actually a Jabber client, but I think it'll also work on AIM, so maybe I'll still be able to talk to you. Gush is also an RSS reader, and damn sexy. Oh, and maybe I should mention this. It was done in FLASH for fuck's sake. Seriously. Jesus Christ himself uses it, why the shit don't you.

amcclung@2entwine.net is my new handle. Use it or lose it.

Keep checking back at DesignDesign.com to see if I can repair the server. Otherwise, we just lose tons and tons of money constantly, as our server died today at approx 2:40pm CST.

Hurray, Trial By Fire!

haha i'm gay

Am I behind the times? Did I spend too much time living in that cave with my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears? Am I the last person to know about this?

Flash MX 2004 (and probably MX, I dunno) has got these Tweening classes. Jesus Fuck it all, I've spend a good 10 hours working on my own before I found them. Don't believe me, try this fun experiment at home.

1) Make a new flash movie. I don't give a shit what you call it. Just make sure it has one layer with an empty keyframe in it.
2) Make a movieclip, I don't give a shit what you make it of.
3) Drag an instance of the movieclip on to the stage. You don't need to name it, but you can.
4) In 'ball's MovieClip Script, add the following:

onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
  new mx.transitions.Tween(this, "_x", mx.transitions.Bounce.easeInOut, 50, 500, 1, true);
}

5) Hit crtl+enter (or apple+enter if you're on a mac)
6) Watch
7) Crap your pants
NOTE: It might be too quick the first time the movie loads, so do the crtl+enter (apple+enter) to reload the swf without re-compiling it.

For those 'not in the know', here's a more detailed explanation.

amcclung@gmail.com

Suck it, bitches.

We now have desks.

doooooom 3 is the ultimate game
just look at the fun that is all over the game
don't buy project game cause you don't want to buy that game
you just want doom 3 best. game!

there's no time to read pos now that job isn't out and game
is out now
don't be fooled by not the real mangame
and all the 4g8s will be playing the game!

Too! Game is so game.
We love to play game.
Happy happy, game game...

A GAME IS ME.

There are like 50,000 people downloading Doom 3 right now. That's totally nuts.

Of course, this got me thinking, what if Project Game were to be released again (this time in the Present)?

The internet would invariably fall, and the Mayans would probably summon Chipotlemon in order to Regenerate the World.