DarthTofu

lol- Mad on lead vocals... that amuses me far more than it should.

Good luck with it all, mate, and happy holidays. Things will turn out alright in the end- hope you're nice and warm for the rest of the winter season.

I imagine the poor guy will get a legal name change ASAP once he's a legal adult... potentially even before that.

No, I agree wholeheartedly with you. That's just... okay, yeah, if you're tolerant, that's cool, but why oh why oh why-why-why, would you so clearly name your child for a psychopath mass-murderer? Further, little "Aryan Nation" and "Himmler" are VERY disturbing. If they're all for tolerance, what's with the schwasticca? It's kinda like telling a black person that you like him, and giving him a burning cross.

... 'cept that Christmas trees, Santa, etc. have all been deemed secular, and so okay. Plenty of folks still say "Merry Christmas," and I don't understand why on earth one would be offended at being told, "Happy holidays" when there are, in fact, multiple holidays at this time of year. It just seems silly to me to warp good wishes into something "offensive." It's like interpreting, "You look nice today" as "You don't look nice on a regular basis, but today is an exception." You're really looking for trouble in the compliment. *Shrug*

So now I feel slightly stalked by Google maps.... I don't remember any men setting up camera equipment outside my house over the summer, but they clearly did...

It's a fundemental problem all over the place, mate. You can bury the power lines in newer areas, but some areas still rely on older, above-ground power. Same goes for a lot of the folks down here- we live on an island, so you can't dig too deep before you hit water. Water + high voltage electricity = bad. Thus, we have to have the aboveground power lines that can be damaged in storms, or short-circuited by birds with abnormally large wingspans and the like. It isn't just here, though- it's everywhere. It's kind of like saying, "I have a hard time understanding how a jet that can go faster than the speed of sound can be disabled by something as simple as a goose." There's really no way to design so that that won't happen. Not without a tradeoff, at least.

That sucks. I hope you brought your PS3 or Wii with you, Rob! BTW: It's getting cold down here, too. All the way down to *checks thermometer* 72 F! Brrrrrrr!

Oh my God.. that looks amazing! I must see this film! Hahahaha! It's like Road Trip From Hell, only much, much, much better... with actors, and a budget... and a legitimate script that doesn't involve Teletubies....

Hahahaha! I wish I was in a big enough school environment that I could get away with something like that! Edit: ... from, you know, back when the Olympics were actually going on. I'm aware of the typo. Shut up.

I think I've got a room in hell reserved for me after laughing so hard at this...

This stuff is just too dumbed-down for me. Everything makes me think "you know, if I were ten, I would totally think this was awesome... but I'm not."

That's an awesome cover, Edit: Mad. If I ever manage to get my bloody video projects going again (hopefully a serious one, potentially based on my old story Superman) I may snag a song or two from you for the soundtrack...

That thing has no spine! ... much less a soul.

Ugh- I hated what I read of Walden (two chapters, then I felt I was going to vomit all over the book). I find your words amusing, though. I now picture the men of yesteryear, wandering about in homespun clothing, shouting "n00b!" at the guy they have just pwned on Doom online.

Those Transformer Star Wars toys bug the hell out of me... they have no connection to cannon, but I suppose that an eight-year-old probably doesn't really care all that much- it's just something that looks "cool." All the same, it's sad to see that something so stupid as a Death Star that transforms into a winged Darth Vader is selling so hot. If there's a Luke Skywalker doll that transforms into an X-wing, or a Chewbacca/Han Solo doll that turns into the Falcon, I may have to plan a strike mission against hasbro and LucasArts. So far as my own Star Wars-based gifts go, I'm sort of hoping for a copy of Millennium Falcon. I'm too ashamed to really ask for it (my folks seem to prefer books by folks like Thoreau more than Luscendo), so I'll probably just wind up buying it with holiday cash (assuming I get any). Personally, that's all I really go for these days- the books. There's a large collection of nineties-based "Special Edition" toys that we collected up in the attic from when my sister and I were younger geeks, but now that she's on to college and I'm on the verge... not so much.

Uh... slowly. And they need to start going quicker, because the deadlines are coming up. I've applied to Rose Hulman Institute of Technology and Colorado School of Mines. I have my essays completed for Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University, but I haven't finished my common App essay, so I can't submit either. I have a rough draft that I like for my Yale essay/could be my common App essay, and I haven't managed to get anything but the "fill in the blank" stuff done for Stanford so far... This stuff is hard to write about.

... whereas I have another two weeks until exams. Exams that I'm not looking forward to: AP Statistics, AP Physics, AP Calculus, AP Literature. Exams I'm indifferent to: Advanced Volleyball, AP Economics Exams I'm looking forward to: Latin III. I had a 180 percent average in that class at the issue of Interim Reports. Thank you, trebuchet project. AP Stats, though not horribly hard, is taught by a mentally retarded teacher, who will take points off for getting the correct answer and showing your work, but not writing out the original formula in variable form. My personal favorite "Really? You're that stupid?" moment was when I answered a questions reading, "Find the value of P(X=5)." I proceeded to solve it and drew a circle around my final answer. She wrote "is equal to P(x=5)" and took off half a point. Wanted to throttle the stupid woman for it... AP Physics is going to be tough- everything from the simple, basic kinematics, to the complicated world of gravity and rotational kinematics. AP Calc... I've got a low A going in (93%), and the test promises to be difficult, seeing as it's going over everything that we've studied since the start of the year, and L'Hospital's rule is a pain to remember in full.(as are the derivatives of every trig function and every trig function's inverse) AP Lit: That one would be so much easier if the teacher were more open to dissenting opinions. As it stands, if your interpretation isn't her interpretation, you're wrong, and that's that. No room for different viewpoints. Anyway, yeah... that's my rundown. Who else has some fun exams coming up?

Tofu, if you could get an oversized mask, you could put a "cutout" where the left ear would be (or next to it) and stick your hand out of the mask. Then get a jacket with a "fake right arm" so your body would appear "normal", except for the extra hand sticking out of your head. You could be a "mutant"; well, at least a costumed mutant I'm already a , lest you forget... and a freak.

I want that hat! I already have the jacket, and folks call me Indiana Jones on a regular basis when I wear it... 'course, mine's a motorcycle jacket, but still... Some random pictures from Halloween that my friend just got around to uploading: Jedi Tofu... with a plastic stake. Lunge! Zombie Tofu (no makeup, special effects, or editing involved; it's the original cell phone image from that day) Bloodied up Tofu (This one does involve a mask and fake blood. I'm going to go ahead and call you uncreative for saying, "I wouldn't have guessed that this was the only pic with a mask/I wouldn't have guessed that that was a mask" in advance, so that you won't say it. Of course, now we enter an infinite loop, where to do something unexpected is expected, and everyone loses. Cheerio)

Fifty Fun Things To Do In An Elevator: 1. Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off. 2. Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your tissue to other passengers. 3. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!" 4. Whistle the first seven notes of ''It's a Small World'' incessantly. 5. Sell Girl Scout cookies. 6. On a long ride, crash from side to side as if you''re on rough seas. 7. Shave. (Especially if you're a woman.) 8. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask: "Got enough air in there?" 9. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down. 10. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off. 11. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves. 12. Lean over to another passenger and whisper: "Noogie patrol coming!" 13. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you, "Admiral". 14. One word: Flatulence! 15. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom. 16. Do Tai Chi exercises. 17. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce, "I've got new socks on!" 18. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back, "Oh, not now. Damn motion sickness!" 19. Give religious literature to each passenger. 20. Meow occasionally. 21. Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose. 22. Frown and mutter "Gotta go, gotta go," then sigh and say, "oops!" 23. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected. 24. Sing, "Mary Had a Little Lamb," while continually pushing buttons. 25. Holler, "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends. 26. Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side. 27. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce, "You''re one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator. 28. Burp, and then say "Mmmm...tasty!" 29. Leave a box between the doors. 30. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them. 31. Wear a puppet on your hand and make it talk to the other passengers. 32. Start a sing-along. 33. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask, "Is that your beeper?" 34. Play the harmonica. 35. Shadow box. 36. Say, "Ding!" at each floor. 37. Lean against the button panel. 38. Say, "I wonder what all these do," and push the red buttons. 39. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope. 40. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space". 41. Bring a chair along. 42. Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: "Wanna see wha in muh mouf?" 43. Blow spit bubbles. 44. Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings. 45. Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host body." 46. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively. 47. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button. 48. Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at other passengers. 49. Stare at your thumb and say, "I think it's getting larger." 50. If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler, "Bad touch!"

Perhaps adjusting the color will fix things? What does it run on, 16-bit? It's been a long while, and I've lost my manual, else I'd have better advice...

Oddly enough, we actually had some cold in Florida for the fall. I say 'oddly enough' because it usually doesn't start getting cold down here until... like, February. At the earliest. Seriously- Chritmas and New Years are shorts-and-T-shirts holidays.

But it's not terribly destructive, Eagle. There are actually more complaints about submersibles communicating via radio and/or using SONAR technology which interferes with wales and their migration patterns than there are about the offshore oil drilling. The rigs are designed to be very, very sturdy (They can stand up to category four hurricanes in some cases; I believe about 75% of the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico survived Katrina) to avoid leakage, and the hole that they drill isn't usually very large. There's a brief disruption of ocean life during the drilling, but for a very, very brief time. Besides that, the ocean floor is such a vast expanse that sacrificing a few of the creatures of the deep to get oil is no less condemnable than sacrificing a few creatures of the land for a city to expand, or for your dinner table. As you can see in the video, the oil rig didn't harm that newfound creature, and they never took any steps to harm it, either. I think you're overreacting a tad, mate. Edit: Prepare to see a sudden, sharp decline in your productivity: http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi Highly addicting...

http://jokes.comedycentral.com/random_joke.aspx?joke_id=11058 >.< Quite possibly the best joke I've found on there...