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WTF?!?!

I don't read Shortpacked! much anymore but I happened to look at the RSS feed just now and I gotta admit, sometimes it hits too close to home.

Well... 'cept I don't really do hand-me-down shelves anymore.

However, I seem to recall moments like this with Mr. B., Giga, and a few others who shall remain nameless.

I'm still in 2nd-tier toy shelf drama mode but the literal pain in my neck is more important these days.

But... the 2008 Ikea catalogue arrived today!

*schwing*

And there are a few potential shelves at Pier One (their site is shit so I won't link).

Maybe after dinner (I'm making special nalasausageburgergrilledsammiches) we can run up there.

That is if the oxycodone doesn't have me all trippy again.

I had to leave a meeting today because I kept staring at the speaker and his mouth wasn't moving to what he was saying. Balls trippy I tell ya!

In The Know: Should We Be Shaming Obese Children More?

Ka'Plah!
Originally uploaded by KenekeB

There was a special appearance by certain luchadores as well.

Now if that Stormtrooper legion had been available too...

Anyway, here's a shitload of video from the thing.

I'm actually kind of shocked that bowling is still common.

It just screams 1950s-1970s to me. I can't think of anyone I know that bowls.

Hell... I know more adults on kick ball and dodge ball leagues than I do that bowl! That's a change in the pattern of adult living there!

I am so glad I didn't upgrade this blog installation to Movable Type 4.0.

My god... this has got to be one of the most awful upgrading experiences I've ever had in software in my entire life.

MT 3.35 wasn't great but it was acceptable.

4.0? is just dog slow.

Hell... the user interface to write entries is so slow I get fed up with it and just close the window.

The other sites will need to be wiped and and a downgrade performed.

Thankfully my oh so precious Plastic Crack didn't suffer.

This freak actually called into Stern yesterday.

Cracked.com's The 7 Most Useless Transformers Ever

Some highlights?

#4 Computron

Five unpredictable, badass robots combine to form Computron, whose motto is, we shit you not, “Thorough data analysis is essential for the synthesis of successful strategy.” Right off the bat, we're disappointed in a Transformer who has a motto that isn't “I'm a giant robot who fucking loves fighting other giant robots.”

#2 Perceptor

Perceptor was designed with the sole purpose of going into battle and hanging out with Soundwave to figure out which one was more useless and outdated.

#1 Repugnus

It's still not really clear what Repugnus turns into. Some scholars claim that his secondary form is a metal crab, while still others maintain that he is just a “Monsterbot.” A third school of thought, however, suggests that Repugnus transforms from robot to “Fucking Pointless” in record time.

So I was going through the referrer logs this morning and came across some traffic from a site where someone has posted a review of The Crack.

Not a, but the definitive transformers toys blog. The guy also likes to talk about the Dr. Who robots and other science fiction TV shows, but for the most part is on topic with the transformers toys. Goes to all the Botcons and other transformers trading events, too. How do you know he's legit? Will be able to legitimately explain why some of the G1 toys sucked ass. A lot of information on the toys here that's not found anywhere else either. Mostly I stare at pictures he took of the rarer and more valuable transformers he got, and you will too.

Some day I'll go into how much I love the power of the English definite article "the".

Though I'm not sure when I've ever legitimately explained why G1 toys suck ass.

In my opinion, so many of them, especially the post-Diaclone remakes, suck so much self-expanatory ass that I don't need to even mention them. Yet people love 'em!

Thanks plsburydoughboy. Glad you like the photos too.

And in other stats-related news, a lot of people are hotlinking my pics even though my htaccess redirects these to a a lolcat.

Don't these people look at the final result???

I think I may have to go back to redirecting to the explicit pr0n images to see if that stops it.

The Pulse sent me this. I had forgotten how funny SNL was in the past. This has got to be one of their best commercials ever.

I randomly clicked on a few others and came across one for actions figures from the film Philadephia that's great too.

I was even more surprised at the surprise appearance by G1 G2 Starscream!

You know something?

I'd say that about 70% of you who comment here have IP addresses that spamhaus.org has on various blacklists due to spamming activity.

Those comments get shunted into the junk mail folder and I have to manually approve them, even though they don't contain links or the usual spamtastic keywords.

Just though you'd like to know.

So far this week I received another 2 spammings to get me talk about shitty unlicensed cheaply made TF t-shirts and today I received a new one to whore TF ringtones.

Oh internets... the shit people will do to make a buck.

If he can be a target, I may even be a target too!

He wants to steal my Black Fire Convoy. I know it.

He who possesses Black Fire Convoy possesses ultimate power!

I think he's after my Kielbasa King title too!

I saw this on Hoop's site yesterday and I just have to post it all over because it is the shit.

http://view.break.com/323537 - Watch more free videos

I can't state it better than Hoop... "All of us just collectively got served."

So I was over Kelmeister's house today. She and the husband recently got a Wii and were showing off the features of having it WiFi connected and sure enough, the Wii web browser does a top notch job of displaying The Internet's Most Pointless Website™.

While a Wii would only be a novelty here since we aren't gamers I can definitely say it is a pretty cool gaming system.

It is just fun.

I can't say I've seen fun games on the other systems.

The Second Annual MySpace Haircut Awards are great!

I think may favorite may just be the response to Jay there.

Jay's hair is so unbelievably stupid, even the world of comic books could offer nothing close to the abomination occuring on his head. But if he did have a super hero alter-ego, we assume its origins would involve Boy George mating with a Magic Coral Garden.

Oh.

And would somebody please take a firehose to those people that hang outside the NBC Today Show windows trying to get on camera! It would really be appreciated.

I just happened to look up recent search stats that resulted in this site.

137 transformers crack
64 crack transformers
62 transformers blog
42 sector 7 transformers
40 ultimate bumblebee
37 plastic crack
27 plasticcrack
24 transformers sector 7
19 transformers hentai
19 masterpiece megatron
14 plastic crack blog
12 transformers movie frenzy
10 huge black tits

Yup!

That last one is what I get for having jokingly done this post back in October 2006.

Of course the top 2 make sense given that there's a new TF video game out and people no doubt don't want to pay to have to license it.

What's funny about that?

I am so not a gamer!!!

So I think this video is pretty much like being a Transformer collector, especially for a lot of the G1 purist geeks...

And...

So. Want to peer into my online life? Want to see where I lurk?

OK then.

I spend a good chunk of the week at the following sites in no particular order:

Non-Geek Blogs

The Anthropik Network, hours of enjoyment
Fark.com
San Francisco Chronicle
FreeHand Blog
Photoshop News
Real World Illustrator
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Howard Stern
Bubba The Love Spoonge
Daily Rotation, my favorite way to aggregate IT news
The Inquirer
The Register
Stern Fan Network
Toledo Blade
Creative Pro

Geek-Related Blogs

Behind the Sofa
Seven Hells!
Blockade Boy, The comic book fashion blog!
BeaucoupKevin.com
Branded in the 80s
Postmodernbarney
Please Save Me Robots
Dave's Long Box
The Absorbascon
Zaius Nation: Zome Apes Are More Equal Than Others
Newsarama
Chris's Invincible Super-Blog
Comics Should Be Good
The Comics Curmudgeon, where I learned to love Margo
Dave Ex Machina - A Thousand Points of Articulation
Lameazoid
Polite Dissent
Written World
What Were They Thinking?

Other
The Movie Blog
Hooper's House of Insults and Pancakes

There. That's a small sampling of my day.

There's a lot more buy I'm sick of cutting and pasting.

First there was lolcats.

Then came lolbots.

And now...

There comes lolgoths!

Some day. When I have time. I'll have to make up some lolbots of my own.