CAT | General Tomfoolery
I had a horrible lunch today. I will repost a conversation I had with Mandie about it.
Robot Chris says:
man
That bread
is NASTY
I’m bringing it home, you can eat it if you like it
She and Her Cat =^..^= says:
what bread?
Robot Chris says :
fucking rye bread
I love the rye bread from the bagel place
She and Her Cat =^..^= says:
no way! it’s good toasted
Robot Chris says:
this bread was like ’shoot me in the mouth, this tastes like throw-up’
She and Her Cat =^..^= says:
toasted?!
Robot Chris says:
yeah
Toasted
She and Her Cat =^..^= says:
no way
Robot Chris says:
Smelt like mint
or something equally as disgusting
She and Her Cat =^..^= says:
no no
Robot Chris says:
I have never felt such epic disappointment at lunchtime
I was like ‘YES, this is going to be AWESOME’
She and Her Cat =^..^= says:
that’s a bit intense
Robot Chris says:
then I smell it, and it’s like ’smells funny, like almost a mint’
‘hope it tastes good’
then I bite it, almost puke my guts out
Throw the bread in the garbage, keep the turkey, grab a bagel from the freezer, toast it
then the bagel is gross, too!
UGH!
What a horrible lunch
IT was all stale
and dry
bleh
In the end
It was back to the chicken pot pie
never lets me down
Sorry about my rant
but
god
lunch is supposed to be delicious
How are you doing?
She and Her Cat =^..^= says:
oh fine
just getting ready
had soup
it was good
Robot Chris says:
you’re lucky
LUCKY
I would’ve killed for a good bowl of soup
to rid that horrid taste out of my mouth
She and Her Cat =^..^= says:
oh you are a little monkey baby
Robot Chris says:
I’m going to post our lunchtime conversation on my blog
She and Her Cat =^..^= says:
i hope not
it isn’t that good
The Wall Street Journal, recently purchased by News Corporation, has decided that their readership needs to be educated on lolcats. Check the article out here.
Favourite quotes ahoy:
If lolcats were jazz music, the refrigerator-invading cat would be a standard — an example of the art form that every practitioner is assumed to recognize and understand. And much like a well-known melody, the “IN UR …” phrasing is a recurring source of riffs and references within the lolcat community.
“An in-joke used to be constrained by geography and who you knew socially,” says Anil Dash, occasional lolcat critic and vice president of Six Apart, which creates several popular blog-software programs. “This is a very large in-joke” that blurs the old distinction “between Net geeks and the normals,” he says.
Where can I buy stocks in these lolcats? Can I incorporate them into my business plan? Maybe I should partner with them, take advantage of the obvious synergy between my products and their funny faces.
Mandie and I have been busy with wedding plans for the past couple of months. Actually, we haven’t really done any sort of planning just yet, mostly visiting venues and seeing what we want.
Yesterday there was a Wedding Open House @ the Spencer Leadership Centre on Windemere Road here in London. The place, it is very nice. We have a couple of other places to check out, but we may end up going with this one. Then we’d actually have a date set! Hot damn!
After I dropped Mandie off to work, I just sort of lounged around and took a day off from productive doings and decided to enjoy the company of my 360. Since I can’t play BioShock unless Mandie is around, I’ve really started to get into The Bigs. It’s an arcadey baseball game with a cool Rookie Challenge mode. I created my own Chris Ysebert rookie, made him the 1st baseman on the Blue Jays and got down to business. The game doesn’t follow your standard season format. Instead, you unlock challenges in different cities, play mini games (usually 3 – 5 innings) with specific challenges (e.g. make sure your rookie gets at least one hit), and get points to upgrade the stats of your rookie. It’s crazy addicting. It’s also the only baseball game I know of that supports 4 players, so next time we get together and play some video games, I recommend The Bigs be on the agenda.
The night before Mandie and I were Strathroy-bound to meet up with this fellow, this fellow, my sister and her friend. We hung out at Copperfields, drank some beer, wandered the deserted Strathroy streets and generally enjoyed ourselves. The pitchers were cheap, the food was generally tasty, but in typical Strathroy fashion the place was nearly empty on a Saturday night. Boo on you, local Strathroy population!
Mandie and I have gotten into BioShock, having recently acquired it for the Xbox 360. I’m glad she likes it, because I can’t play scary games by myself (see: Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, F.E.A.R., etc.). If you have the means to play BioShock either on PC or 360, I suggest you do so. It’s rare that a game can pull off such fantastic art/writing/soundtrack all in the same package. I believe I reviewed it on ClickScore. Maybe if you’ve played it, you should do the same. 
I’m writing this blog post from my couch using my handy new wireless mouse and keyboard. I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but Microsoft makes HORRIBLE wireless products. Don’t be deceived by the fancy look of the box! I exchanged the MS keyboard I had bought for a nice Logitech set. It’s working great. Let this be a lesson.
Anyways, it’s raining outside, so I’m going to build some new TrackMania tracks. I think I’ll post them up here when they’re done. Another TrackMania/other games LAN needs to happen soon.
Thanks to Dr. Tackabury, SockWorld has been successfully moved onto a real server, with real solutions to real problems. I had to change the theme back to the WordPress default for now, but I’ll come up with something better soon.
Mario Bros are so hot right now. Speaking of the fine Mario Bros, I beat Super Paper Mario the other day. While there was a lull of sorts around Chapter 5/6, the rest of the game was fantastic. It makes me want to steal Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door from this fellow.
In other news, I bought a bicycle on the weekend, and will be biking to work come rain (like today) or shine (??) until it pays for itself via gas/parking savings. I haven’t biked in ages (since I was a wee lad back in Strathroy) but I’m sure that once I get used to it, I won’t be passing out as soon as I get to work anymore. The multi-use pathways take me straight from my house to downtown, which is great. The Harris Park – to – Dufferin Street mega-slope will be the death of me.
I’ve been hosting my website off of a notebook computer with an attached USB 2.0 drive for about a month now. Yeah, it died. Luckily, I created a VMWare image of my old server before I switched. Unluckily, I’ve probably lost a couple posts (anything since March 19th). Did I post anything? I don’t even remember.
Anyways, I’ll be rocking this virtual machine until I can come up with something a little more permanent. Do not shed tears if the site goes down again. 
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Andrew Raycroft invents verbs
4 Comments | Posted by SockBoy in General Tomfoolery, Sportsness
Read this quote, laughed to myself. Funny part bolded.
“I can’t explain how hard it is to stay sharp and keep your focus when you don’t face a lot of action,” said Raycroft, who saw only eight shots in the first 40 minutes of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ important 3-2 victory over the Lightning.
“You try to follow the action in the other end,” Raycroft added. “You do a little play-by-play to keep from getting bored. I really had to Harry Neale it in the second period.“
I, too, will invent verbs. Check this one out:
The other day I saw my cat David Thuss it while talking on the phone to his birth mother. I immediately brought him a cup of orange juice to replenish his vitamin C.
And just like that, I am the new authority on the English language. Wizzam!
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And then the camera died. Maybe next time, new camera, maybe next time.
… I think SuperCar is going to be okay! Without the need for costly repairs!
