And the robogods looked down from their icy heavens and bestowed upon The 'Crack some hopefully working templates.

I so want to make sweet sweet robot love to you.

Soon.

Very soon.

We'll be making the robot with two backs.

So there I am, minding my own business on the interwebs, googling for some Tranformers shit when I came across a rather... hmm... how does one say in English... interesting site.

Yes. I came across a site with some "giant transforming robots macking on other giant, transforming robots".

I had to look up what Yaoi was, though I think I came across the term months ago and didn't realize what it was.

There seems to be a lot of bizarre implications of sexual domination of Red Alert implied on some of these.

You've got Stasis Cuffs, a very angry Inferno protecting a boyish Red Alert from Starcream, and a couple of others.

But quite frankly, if I was forced at gun point to pick a favorite, I'll have to go with Lamborghini Fun.

Obviously, this homage to Headmasters comes in a solid 2nd. (There's actually quite a lot of those.)

Wait. Maybe the incest one is the best.

And then... well...what can I say about this one.

Yup. Absolutely nothing.

Oh internets. What wonders you bring me on a daily basis!

What scary gay robot wonders.

Ya know... I'm kinda think'n I need to jump on that "hope for change" bandwagon now.

I've been looking at Animated Strika and ya know, out of all the Beast Machines characters you could reimagine, the old Lesbot looks pretty damn good in that sketch at Tformers.com.

I can't wait to see what she looks like in color and especially how the toy comes out.

At least I hope there's a toy.

And I can hope for it to be at least Leader class can't I?

Is there a word in English that means "I hate something 1000 times more than I hated in yesterday and will likely have it even 1000 times more than that in an hour"?

Because if there is a word in English like that then that's truly what I think of Movable Type 4.2's templating.

I actually came across someone with the same complaints I have and someone from MT commented and said something along the lines that MT has such "grokable templates" now or something like that.

Um. No.

I've come to the conclusion now that if you want to remotely customize the design of your site beyond changing simple CSS colors, Movable Type really isn't for you any more.

You need to be an expert at understanding all of this and how it interacts and so forth.

Well.

After 200+ hours over the course of the past few months I certainly don't grok this shit.

Where was I going with this?

Oh. Yeah.

I really hate Movable Type 4.2.

It is a fine example of an application that went from being incredibily simple and functional for the intermediate user to a dog slow piece of shit that is now more confusing.

I'm pretty much back to looking at new blogging software and just abandoning this mess.

I've wanted a decent little Wall-E and EVE as soon as I saw the movie and now I gots 'em!

More crack for my work office.

On the whole, he's not bad. His blue face leaves a lot to be desired, especially with the shitty paint job mine has.

TF Universe Ironhide is the 2131st Transformer that I've acquired.

Found some transforming and non-transforming robots today.

Put back a lens I wanted though. Several Circuit City stores are going out of business here and have a rather piss poor sale going on. Hell, it was obvious that some of their shit was raised in price so that the "sale" basically brought it down to what it retails for most places.

More later.

Ok. Paper crack moment here.

Speaking of the delays, Legion of 3 Worlds #3 is now scheduled for Jan. 14, 2009 and issue #4 is scheduled for Feb. 25, 2009. Issue #5 has not been solicited yet...

I've spent a good chunk of my life in the publishing industry.

Why the fuck can't a companies like DC and Marvel remotely keep shit on a monthly schedule?

They have so many months lead-in and yet these companies, as publishers, are totally incompetent.

How is that in the pre-digital hey-dey of paper crack, writers and artists managed to produce a ton of shit on a monthly schedule and yet now, in this digital world of fast transmission and everything else Adobe has touched can't a goddamn comic book company put books out on schedule!??!?!

It can only mean that they are totally incompetent or that they just don't care.

If any of our publications failed to meet deadline heads would roll.

Obviously, these companies must view us, their stupidly retarded customers, as utter shit!

Have I told you lately how much I hate Movable Type 4.2's templating system?

Take balls.

Add nasty.

And you have my general feelings on the matter.

ALL I WANT IS TO GET RID OF THIS DAMN DEFAULT!!!