Talk about a pre-order sales pitch…
As someone who has purchased Audio CDs by Nine Inch Nails, you might like to know that Every Day Is Exactly The Same will be released on April 4, 2006. For the next few days, you can pre-order your copy at a savings of 0% by following the link below.
The actual pre-order savings is $0.03 which makes me want to rush out and pre-order that right now… Someone at Amazon fucked up this pre-order promotion email…
The technology of the 1950s sci-fi movies, today! The Digital Box!
Okay, I like this mostly because of the label on the front, “Digital Box”. Such a cheesy ass B-movie prop title for such a wacky piece of technology.
What is it you ask, well for £149.99 you get a:
12 Megapixel Interpolated Digital Camera
MPEG 4 Camcorder
MP3 Player
Digital TV Recorder
Dictaphone
Games Machine (The important part is that it plays Tetris)
Karaoke Function
Alarm Clock
Calendar
World Time
Calculator
Currency Conversion
Portable Hard Drive With Built in File Browser
USB Access to 1 Gig SD cards
And A Huge 2.5″ Screen!
Heard about it off of Warren Ellis’s mailing list, “Bad Signal” where he claims that it has an additional function of using the camera’s flash to stun muggers, rapists or charging rhinoceri.
So my grandmother is back in the nursing home her delightful children put her in, without bothering to ask her for an opinion about it. Her hip operation was a success and took all of fifteen minutes, though it won’t be load bearing ( How much of a fucking load does it need to bear? I think my trench coat weighs more then she does now. ) for six weeks so she needs to stay off of it. Which she hates. And I can’t blame her. I think I got my stubborness and unwillingness to ask for help from her, god knows I didn’t get it from either of the fuck-ups who are my parents. So she is pissed as hell about the fact that she is supposed to ask for someone to help her get to the bathroom when she has to take a ‘whee’ as she puts it. Not a ‘wee’ but definately a ‘whee’. I think senility is actually starting to catch up with her, instead of her just faking it to take it out on the shits that are my aunts, uncles and cousins. Or her pain meds are knocking her for more of a loop then they should be. Not sure. But as long as she doesn’t fall down again and hurt her hip worse she should be fine. Though I am halfway tempted to slip her some mace or a taser so she can smack the shit out of the condescending prat they have assigned to sit with her all the time.
My grandmother fell and is in the hospital right now. Visiting at the moment. Not critical, well no more then anything is at her age.
Sooner or later I am going to have to invest in an ipod. Not in any rush to do so, but one of those things about four or five items down my list of tech-toys to get (a gameboy DS and a blackberry fight for the top spot, the DS will probably win given how quickly my GBA sucks batteries dry (and they just released/announced a new slimmer profile DS so I will probably wait to see when/if that arrives/is going to arrive stateside before I get one)).
Just got most of my cd collection mp3′d again. Few cds stacked on my desk that I want to rip before the end of the day, Boa - Twilight ( got it for the two mixes of Duvet, the Serial Experiments Lain title track ), the Bare Naked Ladies I’ve gotten copies of, and Buckethead - Monsters & Robots( which I haven’t listened to in two years and don’t actually remember ).
But with it all mp3′d and on my hard drive it meant it was time to put it all in one huge playlist in winamp and shuffled to be as random as I can get it. It makes for a musical mix that I enjoy listening to, but which scares the frick out of pretty much anyone else who comes within hearing range.
So far this morning…
Loreena McKennitt - The Bonny Swans
Green Day - Pulling Teeth
Talking Heads - I Want To Live
Bush - Swim
Sarah McLachlan - Ice
Chem Lab - Elephant Man
Nine Inch Nails - Screaming Slave
Autechre - Rotar
Muthafist - My love
The Golden Palominos - Bird flying
Air - Clouds up
Bran Van 3000 - Rainshine
Cibo Matto - Flowers
Haujobb - Clockwise
Prodigy - Climbatize
The Civ 4 expansion has been announced, Warlords will be out this summer.
“An all-new expansion pack, Warlords pays homage to some of history’s greatest military leaders, delivering six new scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their new powerful “warlord” unit. The expansion pack is loaded with new civilizations, new leaders and more units, resources and wonders that can be used in both single and multiplayer games.”
- from the press release here
Too much time alone,
Strange thoughts do I often have,
My brain slowly breaks.
Language- a weapon of words,
tool of communication.
Modern religion,
Belief, faith, deism, God,
What is it meaning?
An army of huge hamsters,
With this I would conquer all.
Four stories, one world,
But not all work togethor,
Divide into pairs.
Green Day cd is scratched,
MP3s of it I have.
Thinking in haiku,
Gets easier with practice,
But still rather odd.
I added a Babel Fish translation sticker to the site, way down the menu on the right hand side. Just so I could laugh over translating it into foreign languages and then back into English.
English-French-English
Art of cover
Thus I just finished Re-of observing Serenity. Summer spacing it outside during last days in these sparse few minutes while I always sit down and have a meal.
A good always damné film, large watch.
With always a certain ass-ugly art of cover of case of dvd.
English-German-English
Cover art
Thus I terminated straight to RH-WATCH out Serenity. Been distance it out over the last days in those meager few minutes, while I still sit and a meal have.
Still another condemned good film, large clock.
Still something donkey-ugly has dvd drop cover art.
English-Portugese-English
Art of the cover
Thus I only finished re-to give attention to serenity. Been removal it stops outside on last the few days in those scarce few minutes when I to seat me still and he will have me a meal.
Still one has filmed good cursed, great clock.
It still has some donkey-ugly art of the cover of the case of dvd.
English-Italian-French-Dutch-English
You concern art
Thus I have rifinito hardly king - serenity look at. State plays I on the last days in these spreads few minutes whereas I put outside myself anchor and have a paste.
Still maudit a good film, a large vigilance.
Still he has certain art âne-ass - ugly of the cover of caso of dvd.
(’rifinito’ is Italian for ‘finished’. ‘maudit’ is French for ‘cursed’. ‘âne’ is French for ‘ass’. ‘caso’ is Italian for ‘case’.)
So I just finished re-watching Serenity. Been spacing it out over the last few days in those sparse few minutes while I am sitting still and having a meal.
Still a damned good movie, great watch.
Still has some ass-ugly dvd case cover art.
Wish they’d gone with simple and tasteful. Take the Serenity sigil that had been on the “Can’t Stop The Signal” site and just put it with all of its rich colors on a black background and left it with that.
Actually, fuck. Need to get some glossy paper for my printer and I might print up my own insert for the dvd case so I could toss this freakish thing it came with.
Still alive. Still have all the same internal organs I did at the time of my last post. No new injuries. No new tall places fallen from.
Just been either inanely busy, sleeping, or being hermit-like and anti-social.
May post more later.
May not post more later.
Will have to wait until later to see.