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Matt and I have this "traditional" method of greeting during IM conversations. I don't know how it started, but we've been doing it for a while. One person starts with "word", the other responds with "pwnt". That sequence happened once again today, and I reflected upon it.

Matt: word.
Mike: pwnt
Mike: I have to wonder how many times we've opened up conversations with those two exact words
Matt: haha, i'm sure a mysql query could answer that for you
Mike: heh, yah
Matt: but now i have to wonder exactly how many questions could be answered by mysql queries on your servers. lol
Mike: rofl
Mike: oh you know me too well

I found that rather funny, so I pasted it over to my buddy Justin, who had this to say...

Mike: I just think it's comical that I've got so much logged on my machines
Mike: I had this vision of running a query against a DB on my boxes to solve the dark matter mystery
Justin: haha
Justin: i think your logs ARE the dark matter

I'm not really a fan of posting youtube videos as content, but this is too good to pass up.

I realize that beauty pageant types aren't typically expected to be rocket scientists, but ... wow. Just... wow.

EDIT: Apparently there are others that feel that U.S. Americans, South Africans, and Iraqis don't have enough maps, so they've made a site where you can donate your maps! Please! Think of the children!

(13:22:24) widow: my roommates make a lot of noise when they wake up
(13:23:12) widow: i dont know what that strange noise mark makes is
(13:23:37) widow: but i wouldnt even know how to try replicating it, i have no clue what part of the body it comes from.
(13:25:01) mike: rofl

I've documented before that I very rarely remember detail from my dreams. I just woke up from a dream that had me laughing. I was back at my parents' house, which has a large field behind it that's owned by the township, and was recently converted into a park. Jurassic Park apparently. In my dream, there was a very large meat-eating type dinosaur, visually similar to the T-Rex from Jurassic Park, trooping around on the far side of the field. I remember being out in the back yard and not thinking much of it, so apparently the four foot high cyclone fence my parents have in the back yard is good at stopping a T-Rex. I remember some incident with it coming up towards the fence and getting all pissed off because it got caught in the power lines. I think that prompted me to go inside.

While inside, I walked into the bathroom to do my business apparently, and I notice that something is trying to wedge the window open. Whatever it is starts to succeed, and I see a head start to emerge. Yep, it's a Velociraptor. So rather than doing something intelligent like grabbing a knife or a very large blunt object, apparently my first thought was to punch the thing. So I start punching this Velociraptor, who has succeeded in getting stuck in the window, with only its head abd neck showing through . The thing I laugh at is look the thing gives me when I start punching it. It rocks it's head to the side and gives a look in a fashion that can only say "Are you daft?! As soon as I get out of this damned window, I'm going to splay your guts open for spite, because that's just the way I roll." I woke up after that. Apparently I didn't want to stay around to see my guts splayed.

I welcome all comments to my site, even if I don't agree with them. That doesn't mean I won't highlight something I think is hilarious. The following comment was posted to my Nickelback video post last night - a post over two years old.

I dont know wut u guys are thinking Nickelback doesn't suck. U know wut sucks is The people at Portugal aren't very smart..because there are people there who like Nickelback but now thanks to the people who happened to be at the concert ruined it for the people who do like Nickelback.Because now Nickelback wont and shouldn't go back to Portugal.

First and foremost, Nickelback does stink. They've gained fame by releasing the same song in about 10 different forms. It's proven. Second, I have a very hard time listening to points made by someone who can't spell or use something at least resembling proper grammar. I'm too distracted by things like "wut", "U", "at Portugal", and capitalizing "The" in the middle of a sentence.

To address the point though - you're right. Nickelback shouldn't go back to Portugal. They shouldn't go back to Europe at all. They shouldn't go anywhere. There's a reason why people threw rocks at them*. They're a poor musical act. These people of Portugal saw through the crap that too many Americans believe is actually good music. People who were somehow duped into buying their CDs or concert tickets should be asking Nickelback to live up to their namesake - they should be asking for their nickels back.

*Note: As mentioned in the original post, I don't condone throwing rocks at anyone, for any reason. It hurts.

I've been wanting to take this picture for a week or so - I just kept forgetting. For those that are curious, those are the eye guards I've been given for protection after various eye procedures. They look a lot like bug eyes though.

In other news, I re-upped my subscription to XM tonight. My dad and a co-worker both mentioned that they had revived their heavy metal offering, Liquid Metal, and that I should give it a shot. I tried it out on my dad's account last night online, and I love it. My biggest gripe about XM was that they didn't have a good heavy metal station, and now they do. They had a couple hard-rock-ish stations that played metal now and again, but nothing that I would consider heavy. I've only heard maybe 5-7 songs that I didn't like in about 8 hours of listening, and four of them were Slipknot songs. Man they blow. I can't understand why people like them so much.

While working on a server today, I happened across the following error while reading the output of dmesg...

irq 169: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option.

Alex: i think i saw kiss at cobo
Alex: ...
Alex: naw that was silverdome.
Mike: or tiger stadium
Mike: I know they played there too
Alex: on they're final farewell tour?
Mike: along with aerosmith or something crazy like that
Mike: with AIC opening
Alex: what?
Mike: if I remember right
Alex: AIC opened for KISS?
Alex: WTF
Alex: AIC will always reign over kiss in ways we cannot even comprehend!
Mike: http://www.bacus.net/alice/aliceliv.htm
Mike: scroll to the end
Mike: 6/28/96
Alex: i see
Alex: goddamittttttt
Alex: thats just not fair!
Mike: yah, it's an embarassment
Mike: a sacrelege
Alex: seriously. I saw kiss as my first real concert. AIC is ACTUALLY an awesome band.
Alex: not fake awesome.

Alex is right. Alice in Chains is an awesome band. Kiss? Eh, not so much... in this dude's eyes at least.

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