My family has a long history in the Lansing area, especially when it comes to MSU so of course we all tend to watch the football games when we can.
If you aren’t quite down enough yet about the loss to Notre Dame, listen to this.
This poor guy needs a new hobby or something.
via Deadspin
Severed.
Starring no name actors! With a director you havent heard of!
Now, I’m what you would like to call a “zombie connoseuir”. I’ve seen’em all. ALL. Even a lot of late sixties - seventies Italian zombie movies. I was, “that guy” that forced his friends to sit through such classics as “Dawn of the Dead” and “Dead Alive” way back when.
Severed is about *sigh* an experiment with genetically engineered trees that goes wrong. Now, I’m not going to throw this movie under the bus for that alone. But lets take a look at some better causes for zombie epidemics:
1. Night of the Living Dead- Radiation from a comet! Eeery!
2. 28 Days Later…- Man made virus! Political!
3. Dead Alive- Bite from a half rat/half monkey! Funny!
4. Zombie- Voodoo experiements in the caribbean! Michale Bay-ish!
Its an independent film, so for that reason I will excuse a lot of things. Mediocre acting, so-so special effects, and location are all forgiven. Truth be told, most of that isnt too bad in this one. But its soooo predictable. Hero wanders in unaware. Almost bites it. Gets saved. Gets told. Friends die. Hooks up with camp of neonazi white people. Apparently which is worse than zombies. Heros leave. Zombies get in. Everybody dies.
Although the gayness factor is minimal compared to Land of the Dead, this movie still aint cutting the head off the shoulders, if you know what I mean.
Verdict?
Meh. So so. Ok, sortof. If you have nothing else to watch and are desperate enough, and you can find it, go for it. But if you come crying to me about wanting your two hours back, dont. You were warned….
The Tourist
Oh, how I HATE chain letters…and the people that send them. Here are a few reasons why:
1. You will not save the life of some 6 year old addled with brain cancer by simply “forwarding a message”. If a six year old has brain cancer, God wants him to die. Dont mess with God’s plan. He will FUCK YOU UP.
2. The Make-a-wish Foundation doesnt use chain emails to get donations. People smarter than you use chain letters to entertain themselves. Dont be a retard.
3. I swear to CHRIST, if I get one more fucking email about a little kid and angels, I’m going
to burn down a church. A story about a little kid walking into a pharmacist looking to “buy
a meewacle” with money from her piggy bank for her terminally ill brother makes me angry. I
dont watch the family channel for a reason. I dont want this bullshit showing up in my inbox.
4. People dont use emails to find missing kids. They use the police and television.
And if you think forwarding an email about a kid who’s been missing for two weeks on the
other side of the country is going to help, you’re dumb. And wrong. But mostly dumb.
5. I WILL NOT, repeat will NOT, join your stupid fucking cause because of an email.
I will not save the baby seals, those fur coats they make out of them look too nice.
I will NOT try to stop horses from being killed for food. They’re an animal just like pigs or cows.
I will NOT change my political beliefs which took me 25 years to formulate because I got a
fucking email from a moron.
-the tourist
Mail.app, OS X’s built in email program, is loved by many a Mac user but generally not trusted by support techs dues some known issues with the app in general. Basically it’s a great mail program when it runs well but occasionally it can have problems that nobody but Apple seems to know how to fix.
Today I stopped using Thunderbird and switched to Mail.app. Both are on my system and I’m using IMAP so I can switch between them whenever I want.
Some of my friends might be asking “WHY???” Quite simple: Memory footprint. I noticed today that Thunderbird was using ~30MB of memory when running so I decided to compare them. Mail.app weighed in at about 18MB average.
Not too difficult a decision when you’re talking almost 50% difference.
I’ll be switching back when I can afford that 2GB RAM upgrade 
I could go on for pages and pages about why I hate Windows servers, but I realized today that there is one reason that trumps them all:
Every time I pick up a customer issue involving a Windows server that I don’t know how to fix, thinking I’ll learn something and be better off for having done so, it comes back to bite me in the ass and I end up ready to pull my hair out by the time it’s over. No matter how simple an issue it should be, that is always the end result.
So yeah, Windows servers suck.
Big time.
That is all.
SSH MOTD (message of the day) <-- The only good use for ASCII art I can find.
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