Okay, so I've been doing a lot of on the field research lately, and I'm noticing a rather disturbing trend.

Your level of attraction to a girl is inversely related to her availability. (h/a) when h = hotness, and a = availability.

I'm not sure if this law really qualifies as a law of thermodynamics because it isn't really that dynamic, but it is definitely thermo with all the hawtness involved.

If you like her she will have a boyfriend, if you love her then she will be engaged, if you are obsessed with her she will be engaged to your best friend. (LOL JK)

Yep, that's the way things go for me. All da good wimmens are taken. He who procrastinates is left with scraps, I guess. I think I need to shoot younger, and find some girls that are still in high school or something. At least I can assume that they aren't engaged.

I'm still hoping that some girl with a thing for nerds will come sweep me off my feet someday.

Tags: emo whininess, girls, thermodynamics
Current Music: Happiness is a Warm Gun - The beatles

I haven't written on here in a long time. But now I'm back. It's over two months since I've written anything on here. Whatever brought me out of retirement must have been pretty important, right? Well, yes indeed it is quite important. My jaw dropped recently, and I just had to share this jaw dropping sensation with everyone:

Judges 15: 15-16

Finding a fresh jawbone of an ass, he grabbed it and struck
down a thousand men. Then Samson said,

"With an ass's jawbone
I have made asses of them.
With an ass's jawbone
I have killed a thousand men."

I'm not really a religious person but if the bible is this awesome I might just be questioning my faith. More can be savored at this location right here.

Tags: badassery
Current Music: The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love

What does a man gain when he loses everything
when he stops caring about the stones thrown his way
Or at least realizes that they weren't directed towards him
when he stops caring about what is most important

When a man realizes a knife in the back might really be a spork instead
or that that fork in the road was really a linear path the whole time.
When the heart that he wished so desperately to exercise has once again turned black
returning back to the road he originally traveled he realizes that a broken heart and a broken dream are one and the same

Longing for a return to the past, he realizes that there is no going back
you've chosen your path, the only thing left is to walk it.

Tags: poetry
Current Music: Trashed and Scattered - Avenged Sevenfold

    There's been a feeling that I've been holding onto for most of my life and that I really need to shake. It's kinda hard to articulate it into words but I'll do my best. When you are born you are insulated from the horrors of the world, you are only exposed to the things your parents want you to see, but it doesn't take very long for you to lose your serenity. I'm convinced that everyone had one singular event in their developing years where they realized that the world was really a "bad place." I can't remember what mine was but I'm sure it must have been really bad, because for the rest of my life I've had an extremely negative view of the world. For many years I was convinced that the world was filled with evil people that only cared about themselves. It was for this reason that I had trouble socializing with people, because I assumed that the world was filled with so many "evil" people. With so many "evil" people in the world, the chance of a new acquaintance being evil was extremely high. Somehow, I had elevated myself over everyone that I didn't know. What made me so much greater, what made me so holy.
    I don't know. I'm an extremely misguided person. By assuming everyone was evil, I was contributing just as much to the hate as everyone else. I had in turn become evil myself. Perhaps sensing this, I developed a low sense of self esteem. I not only hated everyone else but I hated myself for being just as evil as them, and this double-edged hatred became a vicious cycle which ended up bringing me down.
   I eventually found myself a back door, not necessarily a solution, but just another outlet. I started to look down on people. Not the kind of general all purpose snobbery that I had suffered from before, but instead a more selective variety. I would look for people that were not quite as well off as me and I would think, "At least I'm better off than them." It's a horrible thing to do but it's extremely common. The internet is filled with people insulting each other to boost their ego. But it's just a crutch. What happens when your crutch pulls itself out from underneath you and starts living and betters you and then you have nothing to lean on?
    You fall over. Sometimes you fall harder than others. Recently, I fell hard. All this time I've been looking for something else to grab onto to pull myself up, with no results. I need to find some new kind of support, not because there aren't any more crutches around, but because I need to walk on my own. Rather than feeling jealous that the crutch can walk, I should try walking too.
    There is a line in the movie Fight Club that applies here: "It's only after we've lost everything that we are free to do anything." I just have two concerns:
    1. I hope I've lost everything, because I don't want to lose anymore.
    2. What do I need to do, to walk on my own?

Current Music: AC/DC - Back in Business

I've got an interview with Lowe's. It's on Thursday at 2:30. Hopefully, my brother Eric's connections will help me get the job. Eric started at $9.50 so hopefully I'll be making some decent money if I'm hired. In the mean time I need to prepare a video like this.

Tags: lowe's, work
Current Music: Sucked Under - Buckethead

There is a new strategy RPG coming out for PSP, Jeanne D'arc. It's created by Level-5 the creators of the excellent Dark Cloud 2 and Dragon Quest 8. It's been getting some good reviews. As I learned from playing Fire Emblem on GBA strategy RPGs are some of the best games to play on a handheld. Looks like I finally have a reason to pick up a PSP, and lo and behold there is a new PSP redesign coming out next month. Now I might have to decide between getting a 360 or a PSP.

awesome live action Jeanne D'arc commercial

Tags: dark cloud, dragon quest, fire emblem, jeanne d'arc, level-5, psp
Current Music: Paranoid - Ozzy Osbourne

I leveled up a little in Dragon Warrior 7 today and then I tackled Hellcloud again. I won! It only took me 6 days to beat him. I learned some spells that hit all enemies and I used the hell out of them. So it did good damage to Hellcloud and to the babyclouds. I still barely won though.

Here is some good advice that I found on the internets. Maybe I can use it if I ever go out with one of those girls that the allman brothers were talking about.

Guns n Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

Tags: dating, dragon warrior, guns n roses
Current Music: Ozzy Osbourne - Steal Away

Lord, I was born a Ramblin man
Trying to make a livin and doin the best I can
and when its time for leavin
I hope you'll understand
That I was born a ramblin man

Suddenly I have an urge to date all of the girls that are in the titles of Allman Brothers songs.
Nancy
little Martha
In memory of Elizabeth Reed
Jessica
Melissa
Duane's tune ... wait!

Maybe not that last one, but certainly the others, if they haven't already been done.

Allman Brothers - Jessica

Tags: allman brothers, girls
Current Music: The Allman Brothers Band - Melissa

This is the face of terror.
This is Hellcloud.

I hate Hellcloud, he's one of the most annoying, bastardly bosses I've ever fought. If this was a fighting game than he would be considered an SNK boss. He's so bad that when I played Dragon Warrior 7 the first time I got so mad at Hellcloud that I sold my copy of the game.

So here I am six years later trying to beat the game again, and once again I'm stuck on Hellcloud. I've been trying to beat him for 5 days and still no luck. What makes Hellcloud so hard?



These guys, Babyclouds. Hellcloud by himself is hard but it would be doable. The problem is that he constantly summons babyclouds. Kill one and he'll make another. He can have four of them out at once. Babyclouds are weak but they are just stong enough to bother you and have just enough life to make killing them an unviable option. Hellcloud can attack two times per turn and he is strong, then you got four babies adding on extra damage, it gets hard, real hard. So the best strategy is to use the sleep spell to put the babies to sleep and then concentrate on hell. This would work great except for two things:

1. Sleep is not very accurate. It only works about half the time.
2. They know sleep too, and they aren't afraid to use it.

It's a struggle to keep yourself alive during this battle, but when they put half your party to sleep it becomes impossible. I usually die right after one of them casts sleep.

Oh well, I guess I'll try again tomorrow.

Mastodon - Linoleum Knife

Current Music: Pendulous Skin - Mastodon

Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah - I wish I had armor

Tags: lordi, metroid
Current Music: Crystal Skull - Mastodon