Archive for August, 2008

verStory breaks Alexa 500K mark!

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

In the span of a couple of months, verStory has broken the 500K mark, as of this writing it’s 486,783; which I think is really quite an accomplishment. Obviously, there is still a long way to go, but I’m noticing the extra traffic in the form of roaming spam bots:

verStory Alexa Page

I’ve been and will be busy for the next while, but I’ll try to make time to post more interesting stuff up here for your viewing pleasure.

Cheers!

LARP

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

If you meet anyone who LARPs, it is your duty as a human being to liquidate said person by any means – and as quickly – as possible.

Do you really want these social parasites corrupting your children? I thought not.

Music for Money

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Ice MC is probably from the time when “ice” didn’t mean methamphetamine, and this song is hella cheesy. But I love it. So much. Unggg…

Best explanation ever

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

As you all know, I’m fascinated with this series. Ricky has got to be my favourite. I’ve made an English transcript as well as translated it into Chinese.

English:
I just want to say that just because Lucy spent the night in the drunk tank doesn’t mean she’s a bad mother, I mean, everyone spends nights in the drunk tank. I’ve been in the drunk tank about ten times, and I’m sure you have, and I’m sure you guys have; it’s not a big deal, it just happens once in a while.

The problem is, she lives with this girl named Sarah, smokes a ton of weed, and I mean, that’s what happens. When Lucy gets drunk, she’s fine, when Lucy gets drunk and smokes a joint of hash, she’s fine, when she gets drunk and smokes a joint of weed, she’s… a different person. That’s why she ended up in the drunk tank, because of Sarah and her weed joints.

And as for the open liquor in my car, I live in my car, my car is my home, so that should have been open liquor anyway. You guys probably have liquor in your home, probably all kinds of liquor, if the cops pull you over in your house, how is that open liquor.

The main thing is, oops – just dropped my smoke here – I’m going to have a lot of money coming to me in the next few days, not going to tell you how I’m making it, but it’s going to be a lot of money, going to bail my dad out of jail, and going to buy a trailer. He’ll be living there, I’ll be living there, and Lucy will be living there, so there’s going to be lots of people watching over Trinity, so it’s – can’t ever happen anymore.

If you just release her, send her back to her mom, her mom’s great, a good mother. And that’ll be fine, I’ll look after her once in a while when she gets drinking, but other than that, she’ll be always watching her, and my dad can watch her when he’s not drunk. But tonight I’m getting drunk, because it’s my turn, she got drunk yesterday and this is my day, and … I’m not going to get drunk before I get her home, I’m going to take her home, and give her to Lucy, and Lucy can watch her, and then I’m going to buy some drinks..

So yeah, I think, we’re done here, I’m just wanna pick up my daughter, and take her home to Lucy, and get drunk.

Chinese:
我只是想說,只是因爲Lucy(我老婆)昨天晚上睡在拘留所,不一定代表她是個坏母親,我的意思就是,好像有時候每個人都要至少在拘留所睡一次。很正常的事情吧,我在拘留所十多次,我確定你(法官)有,而你們(律師)也有;這個不是很重要的事情,只是偶爾會發生。

主要的問題就是,她跟另外個叫”Sarah”的女孩一起住,吸非常多大麻,而我的意思是:你這樣做人,早晚要遇到這樣的事情。儅Lucy喝醉了,她沒事,儅她喝醉了又吸大麻膏,她沒事,但是儅她喝醉了又吸一般的大麻,她就變成另外一個人。 這個就是爲什麽她昨晚被抓了放在拘留所,因爲Sarah和她的大麻煙。

關於我在車上有打開的酒的事情,我住在我車子,我車子就是我的家,所以那個就本來應該可以是開著的。你們好像有酒在你們家裏,可能有很多种酒,如果警察檢查你的家,有打開的酒,怎麽可能算是違法的吧?

主要的事情就是 – 哇 – 好像丟了我的煙 – 我等幾天會有很多錢,我不會說我怎麽掙的,但是反正是很多錢。我會交保正金讓我爸爸離開監獄,也會買個活動住屋。我爸爸會住在那兒,我會住在那兒,Lucy也會住在那兒,所也一定有很多人會關心Trinity(我的女兒),所以不好的事情一定不會再發生。

如果你釋放她,送她回到她母親身邊…她母親是好人…好母親。而這樣會好的,儅她在喝酒,我會照顧她,但是除了這些時候,我老婆會一直照顧她,而儅我爸爸沒有喝醉,他也可以照顧她。但是今晚,我要喝醉了,因爲今晚該我,她昨晚喝醉了,而今天是該我的,還有… 我肯定不會在送女孩回家之前開始喝酒,一定要先送她回家,讓Lucy照顧她才去買酒。

所以,我認爲,我們的談話好像結束了,我就是想帶我的女兒回家,送她回到Lucy的身邊,然後喝醉。

Don’t mind my five pit bulls

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Man walking his dog attacked by five pit bulls

I don’t see how it can possibly be necessary to own five dangerous animals. Also – considering that the animals were not leashed, this is completely unacceptable. I could go on, but I think that a comment I read on this news article pretty much sums up my feelings:

So do all the people who think that there should be no limits in what canine you can own also feel the same about other animals? Like felines?

Because I’ve always wanted some pet African Lions, but for some reason people seem to think that keeping them in my backyard would be too dangerous. Obviously they just don’t realize that with the proper care and training, they’ll be completely safe around others, even the elementary school across the street.

Right?

Should I count on everyone who thinks that there shouldn’t be limits on dog breeds to support my petition to allow me to have them?

Trailer Park Boys

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

This series NEEDS to be watched. It’s just fucking genius. The scary thing, is that I happen to know that there are REAL people out there who are not too far off from this guy:

“It’s against my vice principals.”

Why is Beach Volleyball an Olympic Sport?

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Beach Volleyball

Call me a sceptic, but I just don’t see how beach volleyball is drastically different than, uh, volleyball. So – we’re going to play volleyball, but.. wait for it.. in SAND! Perhaps this could be expanded on. How about beach soccer, beach wrestling, and beach diving. I’m not ignorant, I “get it” – the Olympics need to stay current with the times, but I still do not by any means agree that beach volleyball qualifies as a sport of the Olympians.

I think there is probably a reason for Beach Volleyball being accepted though. Olympic judges are crusty old men and women, and crusty old men and women like staring at tanned young men and women. Freud was right – the penis and the vagina truly are the apples of humanity’s collective eye. Personally, I think they should still have Tug of War included:

Fun Facts:
- Ice Hockey was a Summer Olympic event in 1920.
- “Powerboat Racing” was an Olympic Sport, seemingly only participated in by Britain and France, and thus the only medals won in the competition were Gold.

What happened to Vista?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Case and Point – the “Mojave Experiment”

Windows Vista is a good example of a reasonably decent product with a ton of potential — that went terribly wrong. Where did it go wrong? Well, I don’t think it was the marketing, to be honest. I think it was Microsoft’s push to get it launched without further delay (as I recall, it had already been delayed six months or so). They got greedy.

Unfortunately, what happened was that corporate clients ran into mountains of compatibility issues with custom written software, and lost a ton of cash. In other words – it pissed a lot of techies off. These techies whined to their managers and coworkers, to their friends and family, and of course, to the(ir) Internet. And the laymen listened, and they told their managers and coworkers, friends and family, and … well, maybe they wrote about it on their MSN spaces or whatever, but nobody reads those anyway so I suppose that didn’t affect anything.

Anyhow, the point that I’m trying to get at, is that while Vista had a ton of pretty user features, and may (now) better address compatibility issues, it’s probably too late. Microsoft has lost market share to Apple, and anyone who didn’t want to spend twice or three times the cash for a “tangerine” coloured computer, is content to stay with Windows XP. When a company has to resort to case studies to market its product, it’s a sure sign that something major has gone wrong somewhere along the way. People don’t want case studies; they want what everyone else wants.

Apple on the other hand, seems to have this down pat. Take the trendily named and designed iPod for example. When they came out, everyone wanted them. The want was irrational – there were better mp3 players on the market at the time, that actually cost much less. What’s even more amazing about the iPod was its aid in the successful marketing of iTunes; convincing people to pay money for mp3s at a time when people could hop on Kazaa Lite or whatever and download just about any mp3 under the sun (not that you still can’t, and of course there’s bit torrent, but it’s not the “golden days” of p2p). Soon, everyone was buying iPods, and that moved onto iMacs, iBooks, iTouches, and even such monumentally stupid shit as the iFish. As you know, all of this faggotry finally came to a climax with the iPhone, the expensive phone that every trendy person MUST HAVE.

The moral of the story? Be trendy. Sell the name of your product and not the product itself. Sheeple will follow. Oh – and don’t piss off techies.

Referring Keywords

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

My top three search engine keyword referrals:

1. not gracious
2. maha elsamnah
3. fuck barbara porn stories

Nice.

Ranking #4 for “not gracious”:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=not+gracious+&btnG=Search

Ranking #10 for “Maha Elsamnah”:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=maha+elsamnah&btnG=Google+Search

Ranking #10 for “fuck barbara porn stories”:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=fuck+barbara+porn+stories&btnG=Search

verStory.com is permeating the world with its presence, hehehe.