Happy birthday to spam this month! Turns out somewhere around here marks the 30th birthday of spam. Ain’t that something worth celebrating! To mark the occasion, I’d like all of you to pass on any chain mail you receive this month to any and everyone you can think of, and make up half a dozen addressess at popular domains to see if you can spread the love even further! Remember to attach a link to the article (or to here!) to them all to make sure you spread the love properly!
In all honesty, who has ever heard of someone replying to some spam or at least gleaning some useful information from some? Someone must have done it at some point to warrant so much traffic (I’ve heard anywhere from 60-80% of all internet traffic… that includes all the porn), but besides that first bit of success, when has it been useful? What have you done for me lately? It’s just mental.
Car decision: I’m selling it.
I have GTAIV.. it’s great. The city is more immersive than any other digital creation, the characters are engaging and the gameplay is lots o’ fun. And no, I didn’t import the UK version to get hookers, although I think the OFLC (bunch who rate games here) are fuckwits for not having an R18+ rating for these sorts of games, the average gamer is in his late 20s, so on average they ‘protecting’ people who are either old enough to know better or who are already complete wastes of space so really seeing a car rock back and forth due to someone else getting into it isn’t going to change anything anyway. And before anyone mentions the fact that kids under 15 are probably playing it anyway, that’s a parenting FAIL. I’m all for heavy fines preventing the sale of these things to yoofs, doesn’t bother me at all. I object to being told that I’m not able to discern these things as being fictional. Ergo, fuckwittery.
We went and saw I, Ron Man today. I enjoyed it rather a lot. It’s not groundbreaking at all, and I’ve no idea how close it sticks to previous Ron Man cannon as I know nothing of it (except all the words to (one of?) the theme songs) but they did a great job of containing all the tech to believable levels within the fictional reality, inserting the CG into the live action, and giving acceptable levels of both fun and amusement. If you want some fun afternoon fluff, go see it.
On a similar level is Shoot ‘Em Up. That is the title of the film, and everything you need to know about it. The story is ridiculous, the bad guys farcical, the disregard for the laws of physics immense, and the one liners plentiful. Recommend to watch over beer and pizza. I even managed to enjoy it without those.
Hawaii’s Mt Waialeale is the wettest place in the world. It rains about 90 per cent of the time (480 inches per year).
That’s pretty damn wet. The driest place on earth is in Antarctica…