I haven't really updated this thing in a while. Which is kind of weird, since stuff has actually been happening.

For starters, my sister is pregnant with her first kid, which is awesome and exciting. She's about three months in, so no idea if I'm getting a niece of nephew yet. But it's cool, and her boyfriend is a good guy, so I'm all kinds of ok with this.

Speaking of her boyfriend, last month I helped him do some home improvements. He brought a house in Baltimore to rent out, and the previous owner left it rather tore up. So there was a lot of garbage removal, he hired someone to redo most of the bathroom, we put up fresh coats of paint on most of the doors and walls, and had to put up two new ceilings and lay down a bathroom floor. I generally did most of the measuring and cutting, some of the heavy lifting, and some of the drilling. Everything turned out nicely, which was good.

I also got a new phone, an LG EnV Touch. Which, since I was upgrading, I got for free. Its awesome, has a fullsize qwerty keyboard, lots of apps, and even came with a demo version of Resident Evil: Degeneration Mobile Game (imagine RE4 if done on an N64, and you're just about there). I didn't even have to adjust my plan much in terms of internet pricing, which is why I passed up an HTC Droid Eris, which would've caused my monthly payments to go up by about $30 a month.

I got Dead Space: Extraction for Wii. Which is basically Darkside Chronicles in space. It's fun, though. Anyone got other good Wii games to recommend?

I think that's abut it. Currently on deck, I got a copy of Windows 7 to install on the laptop, and I got a Network+ Certification exam to study for.

For free.

Because no one should have to pay to see a movie this bad.

http://10starmovies.com/Watch-Movies-Online/2012_2009/

It's mostly Leon and Claire in their alternate costumes from Darkside Chronicles, and a few other things thrown in for good measure.




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I have to admit, Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles is one of the few Wii games I've been excited about in quite some time. I'm looking forward to getting it in just under two weeks.

So, with the new Aim, you can post directly to facebook, twitter, and other sites... and you can read your friends posts on those sites.

So you can type something once, and it'll appear in 14 different sites. And those 14 different sites will feed back into your Aim window.

...which kind of makes me wonder why the 14 different sites are necessary now.

Took most of these from screen caps and grabs of this video and this one as well as this video here

60 Resident Evil icons (Leon, Claire, Sherry, Chris, Jill, Luis, Steve, Carlos, Rebecca, Billy, Annette Birkin, William Birkin)
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I was very disappointed with that movie. Though that's because I was more interested with the aliens (who we didn't learn jack shit about) than the humans.

I mean, the entire backdrop of the movie is "aliens stranded in South Africa", but the whole story still boils down to "selfish white guy must get over himself in time to do The Right Thing."

Ah, well... at least there's the new Resident Evil:Darkside Chronicles trailer to cheer me up.

Is it rude, wrong, skeezy, or ok (pending on how you go about it) to hit on women at the gym?

Generally, I don't, mostly cause I keep to myself anyway. Plus if I do anything more intense than stretching, I start sweating like a pig, which I imagine can't be conducive to flirting.

I get that ogling is rude (and most of the other patrons and staff will tap you on the shoulder and tell you "eyes forward, concentrate on your workout" if you're being creepy and obvious about it). That being said, it's impossible to not notice that there are hot women wearing spandex and they are moving, bending, and flexing everywhere you turn and you'd really like to go over and say hi.

So, I don't know.

Opinions?

This week was definitely a good week at the gym, though my butt is so damn sore from it. Literally.

I've noticed, though, that compared to my off week last week, I've been sleeping better when I work out. I'm also far less sluggish when there's less beef in my diet.

Well, last week was a bad gym week. Which, considering how much bbq I had on 4th of July and in the days after, wasn't a particularly good idea of mine.

I definitely need to hit it this week.

Steve "Air" McNair too?

Damn...

TRANSFORMERS 2 IS FUCKING AWESOME.

There are some parts that'll probably bother me if I think about it, but otherwise, it's giant robots punching the shit out of each other while spouting snarky dialogue. Stop thinking logically, and its a good way to spend a few hours in an air conditioned place.

Also, to my Canadian friends, Happy Belated Canada Day!

To my fellow Americans, tomorrow, get drunk as fuck, grill an animal, and blow something the fuck up in the evening. It is your patriotic duty as an American citizen.

He's only been dead a day, but already I'm tired of the Michael Jackson coverage.

That being said, I'm glad I'm old enough to remember him when he was at the top of his game. There really wasn't anyone who could touch him at his best. Yeah, he was weird even then, but not to the level of batshittery that happened in his later years.

I'm really not sure what I'm sorrier for, that he died, or far he fell before then.




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I've been reading up on the Iranian election and the fallout, and while I'm no fan of Ahmadinejad, does anyone have proof that he cheated to win? I've seen dozens of accusations of cheating, but no one has been actually able to present any actual evidence.

Granted, the only way the Iranian people have to communicate with the rest of the world is Twitter, but...

I can't help but wonder if "Iran's election was rigged!" is the new "Iraq has WMD's!"

Ok, so Iran is exploding.

Well, not quite literally, but it has been a mess ever since the results came in and it showed that Ahmadinejad won re-election with about two-thirds of the vote. There's been protests and riots and police response. It's all nuts.

And also nuts, the most coverage you'll find of this anywhere is on Twitter, of all places. The BBC (and likely other networks too) are being cockblocked by the government, so the Iranian people are going online and speaking for themselves. To quote Neil Gaiman, "If you go to the @persiankiwi page and read it through it's like an apocalyptic novel played out in tweets. Also follow him #iranelection".

It's weirdly fascinating, and the FIRST time I've ever thought Twitter was remotely useful.

If you want to check out the various tweets, there's a stack of links here at ontd_political.

Went to my cousin's wedding last night. Or tried to, actually.

See, the place where the wedding was supposed to have been held ended up getting shut down by the Health Department about a week ago, so it had to be relocated. Only, no one in my family got the memo.

So we go to the place we were originally supposed to go, and they tell us "No, go to this place." Which we did, only to find out that it was the wrong place. We tried calling the rest of the family, but the wedding had already started, so no one had their phone on. We ended up calling back the first place, and someone looked up the right forwarding address, and we finally got to the wedding, just in time for the reception.

There was much in the way of free booze, though, of which I enjoyed. The highlight of the night had to be watching the women practically fight over the bouquet, while all the guys basically ran screaming from the garter. It was a fun night.

So, dear_mun has a tagging system now, and it turns out that someone(s?) was kind enough to go back and tag every single post ever made by someone playing a Resident Evil character (or just about).

Which is cool, since it made it easier to search the archives and find some fun crack posts. Like an an insult contest between the Redfields, plus the dear_multiverse and canonwars RE casts getting together.

Oh, and SPACE.

It's a good move. Go see it.

I also want to see this movie:



And I'm kinda curious about these:

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