Bad spelling makes it funnier

Ok, check out I Can Has Cheezburger . If you like cats or funny things, or water, or air, or maybe the city of Constantinople, you may or may not like it.

Here's just a taste of the awesomeness that awaits you...



u liek that taest! yes you dos!

"The Music Band"

There are lots of good band names. There are some bad ones. If you want people to be able to find you on the internet, don't name your band "The Wedding". And don't make your first album self-titled.

Try to find their first album on google or amazon... I dare you.


oh, "Live" is another one, but they're excused since they made their name before Al Gore made the internet. And before Ted Stevens identified the internet as "not a big truck; it's a series of tubes"

This post will be here all week.

Old Lady: That's a lovely parakeet! I'll take it!
Salesman: Certainly. That'll be $49.95.
Old Lady: Fine. I'll give you my address, and you can send me the bill.
Salesman: Sorry, ma'am, you'll need to buy the whole bird.

Good thing we have a nice floor, because I no longer have the strength to lift myself off of it.

Before...


After...




Here's a little game you can play at home:

Say, "Darren's X is sore", where X is any part of the human body, and it will be true!

My powers will floor you

What really makes a superhero a superhero? Superness? Herotivity?

I lifted 1.5 tons of wood tonight.



Over a 1-hour period.


No, no, nosirree no, no exaggeration.

The math: 35 lbs * 32 * 3 = 3360 lbs ~ 1.5 tons.


Spidey, are you feeling some tingling? Supes, set heat vision on kill!

... cause suckas, I'm about to take your jobs!


~ The Caped Marveler ~

(no, no, wait.. umm...)

~ Bastion Watercress ~

(dang it... umm.. aha, got it!)

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~ Slordvakk, The Ikean Warrior ~
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Me hand love cookie!

Evelyn has a unique relationship with my hands. It all started when she was crying in the car one day, and I reached my hand back in a puppet shape and started talking to her in a Cookie Monster voice. This entertained her enough to keep her from crying, and so it seemed like a worthwhile endeavor.




Little did I know, that was only the beginning. Cookie Monster now gets "called out" quite frequently. The most recent example was when I was putting her to bed tonight. I had her give Faithy a hug and kiss, and then me. I was carrying her toward her bed, and she yelled "COOKIE MONSTER!". I didn't figure out what she was saying until she repeated it, and then I dutifully brought out Cookie Monster to kiss her goodnight. She gave him a ton of kisses, and he asked her for some cookies, like he always does. She said she didn't have any, like she always does. He started crying. (like he always does). And, like she always does, she managed to find some and give them to him.

Anyways, I never expect it, and I rarely initiate it, but she'll occasionally just start yelling "COOKIE MONSTER!" until he comes out and talks to her.

#8^)

~ I love being a dad. ~

Final daze

Well, it's almost time to say "guh-bye" to one of my old pals. We've played together for hours and hours, and I won't soon forget the feeling of her cool blackness in my palm.

That's right- it's my last week with my Xbox. I'm passing it on to Brian next time we go home, which happens to be Easter weekend.

Faith bought it for my birthday about three years ago, and it lasted through all the Halo and Halo 2 parties I took it to.

Sayonara, old pal. I'm sure you'll appreciate that, since most your components are made in China. (Chinese components like Japanese goodbyes, right?)




This post is pathetic. :)

Horror must end, but seriously.

So I watched The Invisible Children tonight. It is so sad.


You should watch it.



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DarrenB

Horror must end

I am posting this because I hate staring at that ugly sunburned dude...



adding some carriage returns here...



a few of these...


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and a few more for you high-res browser types!




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Ok, that freak should be off the page now.

WHEW!

WARNING: scroll down at your own peril.

I will pinch you

So, I attended the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, immediately followed by Battle Cry, also (conveniently) in San Francisco.


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I got nicely sunburned... turns out California has sky-windows that let that big yellow shiny thing blast through.



Not as bad as this dude, but you get my point.


Brian, I got Ninjas & Samurai + Samurai and Lawmen in the mail... we have to play Heroscape again, old pal. I'm currently in the middle of a game with my friend at work- we had to pause it because it was taking too long. So at lunch tomorrow, the war continues...


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Learning Japanese Made Fun!

I like my game. Brian, did you like it? It took me a couple hours to get up to speed, but now I'm having a blast.

We took Evelyn to the zoo yesterday. It's surprising how hard it is for me to believe that zebras are real. I totally believe that pictures of zebras are real- I've seen hundreds of those. But real ones blow my mind. I keep thinking, "What happened to that poor donkey?!!".

We took some pictures of the creepy zebras.




See? Pictures of zebras are fine.

Geek Status: Verified

Well, today I joined the realm of the true video gaming elite. There was one final step I needed to take, and I have taken it.

I am importing a game from Japan. In Japanese.

Appropriately, it's a game about giant robots. Ironically, it's for the DS. So it's a tiny giant robot game.

Japanese developer's site, Sandlot

Also, check it out on IGN- Chousouju Mecha MG

More alike every day...

Brian...



Britney...




She's one step behind you, bro!

Hookin & Cookin

Well, I've networked the crap out of my house... there is no more crap in my house, it is all networked out. Hmm.

I hooked up my Xbox 360, Wii, and PC to my wireless router. I played co-op Crackdown demo with my friend on Xbox Live last night... it was really cool. You can talk with the included mike/headphone set and everything.



I can also pretend I work in customer service.

Also, I traded in the basketball game that came with my 360 for a copy of "Cookin Mama" for the DS. It's silly fun. Faith even played it. She made a "boiled egg".

Housework Helper has arrived!

Yup. Got one.




DarrenB

360 degrees of Xevin Boxin

I'm thinking about getting an XBox 360. It feels like the right time.


Crackdown comes out Feb. 20.

Earth Defense Force comes out March 20.

Yes, yes, and yes.

(then, on the other hand, there's the PS3, but it's $200 more... blast! And the games are... umm... lacking.)

I just have to convice Faith that a new console will help with the housework.

Doom Letter

I am manually feeding one piece of paper at a time to our printer.

I am printing our new year's letters.

They are double sided.

(Feeding 1 at a time) * (50 letters) * (2 sides per letter) = blogworthy. Besides, I've been sitting here long enough that I've run out of things to look up on the internet. Next year I think we will pay someone else to write it, or get rid of all but one of our friends/family. Then we will just hand-write them a letter. Or blow them off... it's not so bad when it's only one person.

Actually, our original plan was to print one letter, then color copy it 50x. However, that was before we realized that a color copy cost $1. Per side. It didn't seem worth the $100.

Then we couldn't get our printer to print the border. Then we couldn't get the printer to refrain from sucking up 5 letters at once and printing a little on all of them. Then we almost ran out of ink. And every time we cancel a print job, we have to shut down and restart our computer to get it to flush the thing.


It's a very good thing that I wrote the letter before I started printing it. If I had to write the letter now, it would be a very despairing letter. (some might argue that it would be impossible to print the letter before writing it anyways, but that doesn't change my point...)

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Okay, the thing is finished. Sad time over. Rest, little printer. Rest.


Happy time!

#8^)

Harry Potter & Evelyn

Well, we just cleaned out and "interior decorated" a playroom-under-the-stairs for Evelyn. We still have some work to do, and these photos don't represent it very well, but you get what you pay for. Yes, I mean YOU. We still plan on painting some clouds, and maybe setting up a little table or something. But Evelyn is pretty happy with it as it is.

Faith and I painted the walls...

(evie enjoying the new view)

Left Wall


Right Wall

Evelyn likes to play with the stud finder, as you can see above... When she went to bed tonight, I was singing her some songs (total requests live), and she wanted me to sing happy birthday to "tuh fer". We went through all the things and people we could think of, trying to figure out what she was asking for. I even got her out of bed and walked her through the house, trying to get her to point it out for me, because she was very insistent. Finally I had to give up, and we put her to bed and shut the door, with her little voice crying for "tuh fer". I walked downstairs and was looking through the house, thinking through all the things we had done that day, and finally guessed that it might be the stud finder. I went back into her room and asked her, and she said yes. So we sang happy birthday to the stud finder.

Maybe we'll bake it a cake.

Man bites car

I just spent 3 hours in my car. Driving 10 miles. From 8:30pm to midnight.

Western Washington + Snow = 773H. That, of course, is an overstatement.

Faith was glad to see I was alive.

I was glad to see something besides my car's dashboard and a truck in front of me. Faith is much nicer to look at than the dashboard + truck duo. Even if you have a cool dashboard.

Mission Accomplished

So I got an Aero Ace remote control plane yesterday, and took it out flying at lunch with a friend from work (he has one as well).

You can do a lot with these little things- they're only $30, but they fly great, and they're very durable.

Aero Ace Mods

Mine looks like this, except it's orange..




So the INTERESTING part of the story is this:

I discovered that the weather in Bellevue today was TOO WINDY FOR FLYING. I know this because my plane got blown up onto the third floor terrace of the Bellevue City Hall building, right on top of the police station. This was not good.


My friend and I went into the building looking for a way up to the terrace, but quickly realized that the third floor was for employees only. However, a kind gentleman swiped his card in the elevator and let us up to the third floor without verifying that we worked there. Heh. After arriving at the third floor, we stared at the terrace out a big glass window, but couldn't see my plane from there. We went around to the other side of the building and out a door, and found ourselves a mere two feet from the terrace walkway, but blocked but a door with no handle. (where the red circle is on the map). We were going to give up, but I decided I really wanted that plane. So, I crawled up on the 3-foot wide edge of the roof, around the door / pillar, and back down onto the terrace. I walked to where I thought my plane would be, and there it was. I walked back along the terrace and out the door (which had a handle on the other side, hey!)

We fled the scene with the police firing at us and helicoptors in hot pursuit.

The End.

* note: words in italics are not true. words in bold are probably true.

This guy is alive

Elebits & Nexus Ops

Games, games, games. I likes 'em. I got to try my new Elebits game at a friend's house. It's fun. Faith played "Nexus Ops" (a new board game I got at ToysRUs) with me a couple nights ago. It was fun too. It's kind of a combination of Risk and Settlers of Catan. Sort of.

Evelyn is sitting in my lap, as I sing her a song I wrote. Here's the lyrics:

Uncle Brian, Aunt Bethany,
Uncle Brian, Aunt Bethany

It was inspired by a picture on Brian's blog. I'll let you guess which one.

Evie got a cut on her toe by stubbing it on the edge of the sliding closet door. Her first bleeding owie. She got a band-aid.

2007 is here. Act accordingly.