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...It's the fresh new episode of the Really Shitty Show!

Join us in episode 8 The Physiology of Fuck as we talk aboot

• The recent launch of Street Fighter 4
• Christian Bale's freakout (on Family Guy!)
• Are you a Bro or a Brah?
• PRESIDENT Obama can't take any more snakes on the mothafuckin' plane
• fuck

As always, join us in the forums for more off-topic, tangent discussion.

Who wears the Watchmen?

One of the neat things about working at a Party City is seeing all of the Halloween costumes before anyone else. Even though we already put in our Halloween orders for later this year, we still recieve flyers and catalogues from the different vendors we buy from throughout the year. Recently, we recieved one of these mailers and I had the chance to look through and see some of the new costumes coming later this year. One that caught my eye, though, was a person with a white, black-spotted mask and hat in a coat. Rorshach, is that you?

Looks like we'll be having a few Watchmen costumes this Halloween. Can't wait to watch the midnight show in IMAX here in Fresno. I'll totally wait in line for that.

FYI

I went ahead and made comments open to anyone. People were having trouble with it in previous posts so I am trying to make it easier.

Being sick sucks. Hope I can get somewhat better before I have to get teeth pulled.

Game Day

Since I didn't get my teeth pulled Friday and was not incapacitated for the weekend, I went over to a new friend of mine's house to play some video games. I met the guy on Facebook and we've chatted back and forth about tech/comp stuff and thought it would be cool to hang out. So he invited me over for a Saturday of gaming.

The plan was to play the new Street Fighter 4 (which was reviewed by Gafoo on the last episode of the Really Shitty Show) and maybe a couple others. I brought along my own controller - just in case - and my copy of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. We ended up playing both and I, as usual with fighting games, got my ass handed to me. I have always been the n00b button-masher when it comes to fighting games. I still had a good time with SF4 though.

I mentioned that I had purchased the new Left 4 Dead game on Steam the weekend before when it was on sale. I still hadn't played much of it because neither one of my computers can run it well. It then became a mission to LAN L4D between the three of us. An extra tower, a VGA cable and a mouse later we started slaughtering zombies. Hours after shooting and bludgeoning through two "movies" in the game, we went back to some more SF4 before calling it a day/night.

It felt really good to be around other queers who could just be regular geeky dudes. I felt completely comfortable. We were able to talk about a range of topics from our partners and gay bars to comics and graphics cards. I witnessed a moment of bliss with a life partner and the next moment that person would be celebrating a Special Combo K.O. with Ryu.

It felt especially good because I don't feel like I have any real friends out here in Fresno other than Nacho. I don't even hang out with him as much as I'd like. I got used to having so many people to be around in Bakersfield. I miss that a lot. I guess I'm still looking for a place to fit in over here. A group of people I can share anything with. I know I will always have that back home, but I want that here as well for the times I can't be at home.

Now there are talks of triple couples dinner and a movie/gaming nights with the guys. I can't wait!

Dinner tonight

Prep
Tonight I wanted to make something nice for Adam and my weekly Date Night. I didn't feel like paying to go somewhere. I really wanted to go all out and cook something.

I guess I was inspired after going to a local farmer's market on the far south side of Fresno to get a free huge bag of citrus fruits. I made the guilt purchase of a few cheap, great looking tomatoes. Then thought of a recipe I saw in the Pampered Chef catalogue I was reading earlier.

I then made my way over to Save Mart supermarket near our apartment to get the main dish. I found the Stouffer's skillet meals on sale and decided on grilled chicken and veggies.

Then I went to WinCo and got the last ingredients I needed. I was on a mission. I knew exactly where to find the WinCo pre-made pizza dough and mozzerella cheese I wanted. Almost forgot fresh basil!


Down to Business
I sliced the tomatoes and sprinkled with salt and olive oil (E-V-O-O). I cut in halves and then set them aside to marinate for a few minutes.

I kneaded some basil into the pizza dough then spread it out flat on my new Pampered Chef baking stone. Thanks Mama!

I grated some mozzerella onto the dough and topped with the tomatoes, grated parmasean (Kraft) and a bit more basil for color. Then bake.

Then the main dish was easy. Cut out contents of the bag into a large pan and heat.

IT WAS DELICIOUS!


What the hell am I supposed to do for Valentine's Day? I try to do stuff like this as much as I can.

Coachella 2009 setlist

So I happened to come across this year's Coachella setlist at random and am posting My Ideal performances if I had the money to go this year. AND the time to see all of them!

Day 1 (Friday)
Paul McCartney
Morissey
Franz Ferdinand
the Ting Tings
Crystal Method

Day 2 (Saturday)
THE KILLERS (definately)
Amy Winehouse (maybe just a bit)
MSTRKRFT
Zane Lowe

Day 3 (Sunday)
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (give it a shot)
Public Enemy (for nostalgia's sake and to see if Benny Benassi would make an appearance!)
Groove Armada
Paolo Nutini

Post-Super Bowl Q

Has anyone else noticed that all the closet Steeler fans have come out in full force with all their bumper stickers, sweatpants, lanyards and hats AFTER their team wins the Super Bowl?

Random thoughts of the day.

Last night I was able to finally clean up my desk. I had tons of bills, receipts, business cards and homework just strewn about. It makes my desk look a lot bigger! Now, if I could just invent a machine that prevents dust...

I am very poor at the moment. After the rent check goes through - and who knows when that could be - I will have about 20 dollars to my name and around 600 total in bills to pay. Yay for the Minimum Payment. (Yes, I know they are just the finance charges.) It's not too bad. I'll have another check come Wednesday so I won't be too short on money. I wanna do something for Adam this Valentine's Day.

This coming Saturday is Valentine's Day. That means we will be busy all week at Party City 379 in north Fresno. All these bitches with too much extra money to spend will get red and pink paper goods that they are just going to throw away the day after. It IS one of our busiest times of the year along with High School Graduation and Halloween of course. Fun fact: October sales make up for 25% of sales for the entire year.

I started reading the Watchmen again to get ready for the movie release in March. I really want to finish the 12 comics before I watch so I can be one of those uber-geeks who complains that the movie left out so much of the book. Based on the trailers I have seen, the only thing that I know will disappoint about the film will be the time constraint of the studio. Otherwise, it would be a perfect rendition of the gorgeous comics.

RSS Episode 7

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After months of laziness gafoo, dnachoh, onekidneyjoe, mizkutie, xlnova and yours truly are back in action. Listen up as we discuss tech, sex, games and rock & roll! You can also catch up with the past 6 episodes at ReallyShittyShow.com. One more thing: don't forget to visit the forums.

Warning: Explicit Language

Networking class tonight...

Routing email by ourselves.

The assignment was: Take everything you know from this class (last 8 weeks) and apply it to the following senario: Track how an email is sent across a network through the internet to another client computer.