From tacit, by way of joreth:

"If there is someone on your friends list you would like to take, strip naked with, let them tie you to a bed post, have them lick you until you scream, then fuck until both of you are senseless and unable to fuck anymore, then wait about five minutes and do it all over again, post this exact sentence in your journal."

There are several people on my friends list that I'd like to do this with, and as Joreth says, plus a good number of people I wouldn't mind doing this with all at once! But I'm finding this particularly amusing right now in light of my recent party activities so I'm joining the meme.

And for those of you on my friends list who are reasonably or even just pretty sure that this statement applies to you ... it probably does. If I quoted large chunks of your LJ post in writing this one then you already know the answer... ;-)

Holy cow we're making progress! This is great! The presentation is cool, but the demo at the end is so similar to human dexterity that it's almost eerie.

No, asshats, buying pirated DVDs and downloading movies is NOT stealing! It's copyright violation. They are legally separate and distinct infractions for good reason, and the MPAA's attempt to draw a false equivalency between the two only serves to further erode both their claim to the moral high ground and public sympathy.

I'm not endorsing piracy, but the fact is that your campaign is blatantly lying. Good job trying to cloud the issue, though. :-P

Wherever you are.

A malformed HTML tag completely ate half of my last post (the Transformers 2 review). It's corrected now.

I, of course, blame Michael Bay. ;-)

Short version: Megan Fox is hot. The bots look cool. Everything else about the movie was total suck. No ninjas.

Long version: Actually, the short version pretty well sums it up. Okay, the girl/robot that wanted to put her tongue down Sam's throat was also hot, but she was basically a T-X wannabe (and when you set T3 as your goal you've already failed). Every character with the exception of the two leads was a cardboard caricature (Sam and what's-her-name weren't caricatures, but were still cardboard). Megan Fox actually looked better in the first one. The portrayal of college is so far afield that it makes Animal House look like a documentary.

No ninjas were utilized or consulted in the making of this movie. I can only imagine that this is a decision on the part of ninjas everywhere to not associate themselves with Michael Bay. Transformers 2 clearly suffers as a result, but I applaud the ninjas for holding fast to their standards.

And dammit, Jetfire is a VF-1S Veritech, not an SR-71! I've got the toy to prove it! :-)

On the plus side, the bots do look great, and the fight choreography was superior to the first film (which I genuinely liked). That's about all I can say.

On my way through the parking garage this morning, I walked by a car with a bumper sticker that said "Hot Chicks Vote Republican" in a lavender script font. My first thought was "I wonder how many intellectuals and alt porn stars vote Republican?" I then immediately hit upon three conclusions:

1) People are only too willing to draw correlations between clearly unrelated factors in order to promote their ideology, to the point that they will proudly display their flawed thinking publicly.

2) Apparently my standard for beauty is smart women and gothic/industrial porn stars. This is really no surprise.

3) I take shit way too seriously sometimes. :-)

Oh BTW, I really am still alive! I just suck at LJ.

Con:
1) There's now a habitrail between the Hilton and Marriott hotels, allowing passage between the 3 main 'con hotels without venturing out into the accursed sunlight!

2) New programming track: Steampunk & Alternative History. Sweeeeeeeet... (I'll be bringing the rocket pack costume instead of the cyberpunk costume this year.)

3) Registration has moved to the Sheraton, where they have a larger room for it. Most of the music events will be there as well.

Life:
It's 1:30 in the morning and I'm at work. Yesterday I left work at 7 am after a roughly 19 hour day. I still have hours of work ahead of me. :-( On the plus side, however, once I'm done here (probably around 5-6 am if things go according to plan), I'll be done with work until Monday the 15th!

Next week femetal and I will be in California, going to Six Flags Magic Mountain! Not coincidentally, Terminator Salvation: The Ride opened a couple of weeks ago. Win!

Life has been pretty excellent lately, but I just haven't had the time to journal any of it. Hopefully that'll change soon.

Back to work with me now...

I heard that someone had a dream
of angry words and poor rhyme scheme
about how much I think they suck
and wish they'd get hit by a truck.

But truth be told I think they're fine.
Their presence makes for a great time.
He's very cool. She's smokin' hot.
He's sometimes a dork. She's sometimes not.

But if I'm wrong and they *do* suck
and if I'm there and I'm in luck
and if they're willing and I've the nerve
I'd be happy to observe. :-)


(BTW, this is in response to a dream that thisisjessa had.)

It was great the first time.

I liked it even better the second time. It's not T1 or T2, but it's a close 3rd - enough so that I put it on the same general level. High praise!

Oh, and my Cyberdyne Systems ID badge is missing, but the barcode Kim put on the inside of my right arm is simply awesome. I'm not allowed to get it as a tattoo, though. I asked. :-)

Short review: Yay! It doesn't suck! Go see it!

It's not T1 or T2, but it's much better than T3. Saying just that, however, doesn't do it justice. The look and feel of the movie is quite different from the previous episodes, but it's much more of a "Terminator movie" than T3 could ever dream of being. It has a couple of missteps, but it also has some amazingly cool and interesting stuff. They cared about the franchise and it clearly shows, and I look forward to seeing it again. Several times. :-)

Longer reaction: I'm going to avoid spoilers as best I can, but I'll put the rest under a cut anyway.

( No major give-aways, but here it is. )

Terrible: FOX released their fall schedule this morning, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is officially cancelled. This isn't a surprise, but it blow. Dear FOX execs, please die in a nuclear fire (and take that "news" channel with you).

Wonderful: The Machine be praised! nekidsteve pulled off a miracle (or perhaps committed a crime. I'm not asking questions.) and scored extra passes for me and femetal to the advance screening of Terminator Salvation tonight! Holy crap, WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO GET IN TONIGHT!!

Just before T2 came out, my friend Donald and I designed Cyberdyne Systems t-shirts and had them printed up in time to wear to the advance screenings. I brought one to work today just in case. I'm glad I did.

I have no idea how I'm going to get any more work done today. nekidsteve, you are The Man.

Now you've all been warned. BTW, this is subject to change if femetal and I manage to get into the advance screening on Monday. By "change" I of course mean "it'll get even worse." :-)

This is a blatant request for assistance, but it'll only take a moment.

I've located an advance screening for Terminator:Salvation that's right down the street from our place. What I don't have (yet) are passes. They're doing a drawing for them on the 13th, and entries are based on the number of clicks to this URL: http://43kix.com/wap/generic.php?item=1395&subRefId=920291

So, if you'd be so kind, please click this link. That's all you have to do. However, if you're so inclined you can also sign up to win passes to the advance screening nearest you. :-) Win/Win!

Okay, that's all for now. That also pretty much sums up 90% of my life the last month or so. Everything is revolving around Terminator (buying toys, reading books, playing 3 different online games, etc. etc. etc.), with the occasional break to hang out with awesome friends.

For me at least, today could do no wrong. Today, at least peripherally, we became a tiny part of the Terminator saga.

Holy cow.

I knew that it was supposed to be today, but I still jumped out of my chair when I got the following tweet from Skynet Research:
"Skynet Research is very proud to announce our partnership with The Stone Hill Group. http://tinyurl.com/dmpr6e"

This was followed shortly thereafter by this tweet from Resist Skynet:
"The Stone Hill Group, another faceless technological entity, is Skynet's new lackey. http://tinyurl.com/d3kfpv"

"Faceless lackey"? WOO HOO!! THAT'S US!!! :-D

We're currently featured on the front page of both Skynet Research and Resist Or Be Terminated! The Skynet Research link just takes you straight to the video on YouTube. The Resist Or Be Terminated link, however, takes you to the front page of ROBT, where they have a marvelous breakdown of our vid:

"Got another video for you guys to look at. This one, however, was not sent back through time from Strider 3, fighting for man’s existence. Instead, what we have here is a video from yet another company representative who, in an enthusiastic daze, advocates for Skynet technologies. Yet another testimonial for the system that plots right this very second for the demise of the world.

I’m a little skeptical about this video. I mean, besides the empty facial expressions of the Skynet interviewer and the borderline euphoric demeanor of the interviewee, there’s something about this video that just irks me. I might just be overreacting. But when you’re dealing with a disingenuous entity conspiring to murder mankind, where exactly does one pass the overreaction line?

I just don’t know if, at this point in the game, any of Skynet’s actions would not have a hidden agenda. Speculation might be one of our strongest forms of defense. We all know Skynet’s not exactly the type of organization to adopt an open-access policy.

Watch this video. Listen to the bullshit brainwashing Krastel has clearly succumbed to: Skynet’s technologies will ensure that “no human intervention [is] required.” Of course. A robotics-controlled world would not function as smoothly with humans meddling in it. Human participation will be dictated until it is deemed worthless.

Anyone still undecided?"

Perfect!! Before I'd even gone to the site I'd already tweeted, IM'd, SMS'd, and e-mailed half of my address book.

I've been very, very active on the resistorbeterminated.com message boards, playing the skeptic on the front page and a disciple of Skynet in the in-game forum. So I had to post a comment on the front page decrying the whole thing as absurd.

Check that last link. The comments are a riot. I love how my enthusiasm has become a sign of brainwashing, and Mark's more reserved demeanor is getting him pegged as a terminator. (The funny thing is that conspiracy theorists in real life do the exact same thing!)

Please go check out the forum, but for now here (at last!) is our contribution to Skynet Research:


By the way, note the number pattern at the end. That wasn't part of the original video we submitted, but was added by the company doing the marketing campaign as a secret code. Amazingly enough, it only took about an hour for one of the people on the board to decode it! (I'm happy to report that the guy who decyphered it is on the Skynet side, and in my "squadron".)

So there you have it. Barring inclusion as a DVD extra (which I wouldn't count on, but which would cause me to happy-dance to pieces), this is our 10 minutes of fame.

Fun side note: I built the two robots but zensidhe is the one actually controlling them, in addition to playing the technician in the background. As a result, he represents 60% of the cast!

"borderline euphoric demeanor"? There's nothing borderline about it. Not today. :-D

I swear to the FSM I've had this exact dream in the last six months:


Oh by the way, happy Friday, everyone!

It's amazing what kind of propaganda people will post. These are clearly misguided conspiracy theorists...

...right?

* Tomorrow I officially start my Frolicon vacation. Unofficially, I think my brain started about an hour ago.

* Today I labeled the microwave here in our office with cooking instructions for both a small bag of popcorn and a human head. I wonder if anyone will even notice?

* Incidentally, Orlando is the #7 city in the world for Google searches for "zombies", and #2 for "furry porn". You twisted bastards. :-)

* I'm currently catching up on my video game backlog by finally playing "Hexen II: Portal of Praevus" In the game, you play a demoness seeking to avenge her slain master in a dark medieval fantasy world that's become an icebound hell populated with golems, imps, giant spiders, and evil wizards. So of course the game would also include a blatant, unambiguous (and hilarious) reference to "Welcome Back, Kotter", right? I will never again doubt that game developers can include a reference to anything in any video game!

I look APAR straight in the eye with a cold, steely gaze and sternly proclaim "A ROBOT CAT WOULD NOT PUKE ON THE CARPET!!!" He looks back unconcernedly, purrs, and rubs his face against my leg.

Well played, feline. Touché.