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i made a new mspmky strip on thrusday and posted it today. it’s becoming more and more of an excuse to just doodle on ms paint. there’s something about it’s lack of features and really terrible interface that makes it so much fun to use. isn’t mspmky pretty?

ah jeez, i just forgot that i neglected to draw in his tail again! moments after i posted the first one i realized that i should have given him as tail, since he is a monkey. oh well. who would have thought i was going for realism anyways.

in me and my toys news, i got cool new speakers for my comp. i’m going to go out and buy some dvds tomorrow to play with the surround sound. any good dvd recommendations? i’m also ordering a couple dvds in the mail tonight so with any luck, i’ll get those some time in the next few weeks. by that time i should have realized that i’ve been spending way too much money and that I don’t have any money left for the holidays. and that will be a total bummer, since i need at least a grand for the christmas and beyond period. not forgetting that i’ll be left in debt for my school term, which should be enjoyable. it’s a hard knock life. i’m trying to make ends meet. i’m a slave to money then i’ll die. doo doo doo doo doo do dooo… doo doo doo… doo do doo…

mail me to sign up for Survivor Woburn!

hey, want to own this game? it’s only for the xbox and it costs just as much as an xbox. it’s on pre-order and, most places have it on back order. it’s a mech type first-person destroy other robots game. a 40-button 2 joystick control that is packaged with the game and looks like it kicks virtual on in the ass. hell, this thing has foot pedals! i’m crying already. i have nothing more to say, as the drool is affecting my speech. read more here ::

count’em. thirty-five days until chrustmas. in past years, my situation was: very little money to buy a lot of presents. this year it’s: a bit more money to buy a lot of presents. why can’t my friends and family make my life easier by having an amazon.com wishlist? even santa’s been telling everyone what he wants on the big two-five. he’s been putting out radio commercials to leave him a KFC holiday feast. i guess cookies and milk weren’t greasy or cholesterol thickening enough for him.

as a public service announcement, i’ve decided to use a bulleted html list right here on my weblog so that everyone who wants to give me something special, will know exactly all i want for christmas. okeydokes? alrighty!

• entertaining christmas cards with personalized thoughtful/funny messages scrawled inside
• time set aside to come visit me for a grande ole day of multiplayer videogames/street hockey (just like old times!)
• my two front teeth (haha, ohmanshootme) straightened! damn worthless orthodontics leaving me with crooked front teeth
• pictures of girlies kissing ms. santa claus (the biographical song of santa’s lesbian teenage daughter goes straight to the top of the charts! yo know it would! at least if it was produced by timbaland it would. that guys makes any song a hit.)
• no more snow until i don’t have to walk to work anymore. then let is drop like a mofo. several snow wars ensue.
• my damn cds back you ungrateful bastards! haha, i kid, i kid. but no really, i want my cds back.
• postcards from any christmas vacations
• lots of photo ops
• jessica alba wrapped with a bow.

yeah that sounds like a pretty complete list, or at least all i can come up with at the moment.

thursday is the day of the week when garbage and recycling gets picked up in my neighbourhood. on the way to work, i noticed my next door neighbour’s recycling bin. filled to the top with nothing but empty cans of Pepsi and Five Alive! goodness gracious. here’s hoping that the parents of that family didn’t force their children to swallow that mudwater. of course there’s nothing really that bad about five alive. it’s okay i guess if you have nothing else to drink. but oh man, there must have been at least a full case of pepsi cans there. i wouldn’t have even wanted to pour it out into the garden for the risk of killing all my plants. if pepsi can’t get britney spears to do naked commercials, why should i bother to kill my stem cells and become impotent drinking it?

in some webdev news, once my server tells me how to login to the mysql db, the forums should be good to go.

for this post, it’s good to keep in mind that i walk to and from work each day. thirty-five minutes per trip.

not to be a whiner, but i thought the last time i wrote about snow it was bad. that snowfall didn’t even stay on the ground for an hour. this morning i wish i had snowshoes. i trudged through the thick winter blanket, which though great for building snowforts and making snowballs, would make terrible quinzees. it was boot piercing wet and cold, and generally a bad place to hold a party. but the worse part? the bottoms of my pants (the leg bottom, not the butt) were soaked from the black snow it was dragged through.

the whole weekend, i tried to plan ahead, thinking of how to prepare myself for the twice-daily snowcovered urban wilderness hike that each day this week would bring. i got a pair of old winter boots ready to keep my feet warm. i got a new pair of incredibly expensive ear muffs, to keep my ears warm, and hopefully a bit stylish. i readied my winter jacket, gloves scarf and even contemplated getting some snowpants, but they’d look kind of funny at work. i even foresaw the wet pants bottom problem and attempted to engineer a solution to keep my pant leg bottoms dry and comfortable for my work day (some kind of velcro-saran wrap-elastic contraption). but that probably wouldn’t work out well, not to mention look ridiculously dorky. coming to terms with the fact that there was no reasonable solution to my problem (i’m not paying 2.25 for a 2 minute bus ride! dammit!) i left my house imagining the worst walk to work yet.

it could have been worse, the optimist in me sees that. it would have been wet and slushy and the speedy cars could have splashed all sorts of wet, liquidy dirty goo all over me (much like how it is when it rains). the snow could have not been fluffy. it could be rock hard and rigid, a terror to my ankles and wonky knee, or slushy and a terror to my hardly waterproof boots. heck, there could have been wild emus hiding behind path bushes waiting for the right victim so that they could pounce on me and devour me whole. i should be glad to be alive dammit! (and i am). but that’s where the goods just about end. they didn’t even shovel or plow my sidewalks! although from the footprint collection in the snow, no other pedestrians that use these paths exist. so you can imagine how much fun walking in 20 cm of snow would be for the entire part of a day when i’m not at work or in my bed sleeping. and it’ll only get worse when i have to walk to class in january. someone buy me snowshoes!

and wow, i wrote a whole post on walking in the snow. it was pretty good that i stayed somewhat on topic most of the time.

now on to other things. the argos lost yesterday. damn you montreal! they’re elimated from grey cupc contention. and with that, there goes the toronto hopes for a championship in football. it can join the lack of a hope in basketball, baseball and and hockey. when does lacrosse season start?

i’ll upload karaoke/hot pot photos with my university friends later today. too bad nothing really exciting happened though. good eats and some good alcohol at least. however, my brain is in a current state of canto-pop overload. ten canto fans plus me makes for me ordering more alcohol. i wish i could get totally wasted on a beer or something like that. it would make my drinking nights a lot cheaper. anyhoo, time to go back and work on the website a bit more.

omg omg omg! omg omg omg! jessie’s in town and i’m missing it! she’s filming and she’s showing up and making appearances and i’m missing it! omg omg omg! jessie, if you read my blog (omg omg omg i wish she did), visit meeeeeeeeeeeeee! pls! omg omg omg! jessie totally roxors my soxors! omg omg! this is better than the time rachel was in town! omg omg omg! (rachel, if you read my blog too, much love, and visit meeeeeeee!) omg omg omg!

i recently decided that i’d have a list of things that i have to do before i die. it looks like this:

1. meet jessica alba (and perhaps maybe save her life in some sort of dramatic (and impressing) fashion)!

that’s it. i’ve been thinking about it for a while, and it’s probably the only real goal for me outside living a normal life. i’ve been thinking about how i should document my list (something more official than posting on a blog). i was thinking about either a laminated card i can keep on my person at all time, and hopefully get to check off one day; or instead print on fancy presentation or diploma paper or something and carry it around either on a clipboard or in a nice frame or something.

in the oh so improbable chance (oh please please please let it be), and i reach the unattainable (you know what i’m talking about::), you can bet that i’ll never tell anyone or even post about it here. but, if you see me at my funeral, dead of a heart attack, buried with a ear to ear grin, at least you can be comforted with the fact that i will have died the happiest man alive.

jessie: if you read my blog and hover over links, *winkwinkwink* baby baby. hot hot hot ish. man, i totally forget where i was going when i started writing the post. oh well, i’ll take some time off to think about jessie. go surf somewhere else for a few weeks.

My webmaster rage is climing at an exponential rate. Keep visiting the site for updates on whether I explode or not.

I forgot to mention that I saw Jackass the movie. Totally great movie. A family film people of all ages and backgrounds can enjoy. I don’t think anyone is will ever make more money as the Jackass guys for electricuting their own testicles. And to think that there are millions of teenage American adolescents who are doing this kind of dumb thing in their parents’ basement for free. It took a real genius in Johnny Knoxville to cash in on it.

Another exciting day of work. I made some pdf files today. They’re totally cool. Adobe makes some of the best programs around. Yeah… I think that was the highlight of my day. You can check the replay on Sportscentre at 11.

Oooh, I wonder how hard it’ll be to SQL up this whole thing. If i can figure it out, it can sure make my life a lot easier. And forms! Oh my, forms galore! And a real forum even! And more forms! Generated content out the wazoo! These are exciting times we live in. Yee haw! Oh wait! I can do XML and RSS feeds too! Hot-t-t-t-t dog-g-g-g-g!