First Presidential Debate Summary

"kekekeke zerg rush iraq kekekeke ^_-" - Bush

"What in the fuck are you saying?" - Kerry

Half-Life 2 Editions Announced

So we're getting pretty close to release now, only thirteen months late, so Valve have announced their super cool packages for Steam. I was on the fence as to whether I was going to buy retail or not, but this all has sort of decided it for me. I'd bother posting the details here, but I don't think it's worth it. Just click on the title above.

All in all, I told Steam to start pre-loading HL2.

Lessette: have you gotten to take care of any cute puppies or kittens at the hospital yet?
Brad: well duh
Brad: that's like asking "have you ever bagged up any dead puppies and kittens and put them in the cooler yet?"
Brad: done that, too... sometimes I have someone hold open the bag for me and I try to make a 3 point shot with the kittens' body
Brad: when I don't make it in, the sound is amazing.

Street Dates and Warez

You know what, street dates for games really make me angry. You know the store has the game, they have a bunch of copies sitting right behind that counter. You say, "Please, Mr. Cashier, let me hand you my money so I can take home that game and play it all I want!" And then they say, "No, sorry, street date is not until tomorrow, I will not take your money!"

What is up with that? This hurt Doom3, not enough admittedly to make a huge dent in their income, but enough to make it noticeable. Doom3 was received by stores as much as two days in advance of the street date, and many stores ended up selling it when they got it despite the fact that they're not supposed to. This resulted in the game being warezed online before the street date of the game, resulting in people such as myself, angry at not being able to play the game, just downloading it instead. I planned to go out and buy the game as soon as I could, but it took too long for the stores in the area to want to hand me the game, so by the time I could buy it, I didn't want to bother anymore.

Right now, I really want to buy Full Spectrum Warrior. I want it in my hands. I want to give my money to the developers and the publisher so I can have that wonderful gaming goodness. But, will they sell it to me? Nope, because all these places I call have different release dates in their system... some say tomorrow, some say two days from now, some say even three days from now. None of them, however, say today. Why is that? I don't know. Apparently when they get confused as to a game's release, they only get confused into the future, and not into the present.

So what's going to happen? Someone is going to get their hands on Full Spectrum Warrior before I have a chance to buy it, and they're just going to rip the ISO and distribute it on eMule and Usenet and I'm going to download it, and probably never buy the game. This is your fault, Publishers. I know it's no excuse for me to steal, but it's enough.

Why don't you just do away with this Street Date bullshit and just let places sell your product when they receive it? Is it really that hard? It's not like the majority of stores get your product on the street date, anyway, so what's the point? Even if you like to set a street date, and not actually enforce it, that drums up really good word of mouth. "Hey, it's two days before street date and I got my copy at this store in the area, it's bad ass! Go and buy it!" Customers feel special that they got a game before the "release date" and you get their money. It's a win win situation, right?

The best way to prevent piracy is to beat it. Get your product into buying customer's hands before they have to warez it to play it when they want it. It's a no-brainer, people.

Good Ol' Janine

So apparrently everyone's favorite porn star Janine has come back to porn and, get this, is doing straight films now! I got a chance to look at some of the first professional pictures to come out of this endeavors and, though impressive just because it's, well, Janine with a human penis, I do have to say that Janine sure is starting to look old. She might only be 36, but the fact that she's lived another good 20 years in her head is readily apparent. This begs the question, when will she stop, if ever? Will Janine bring senior citizen porn into the mainstream? Is this come back just one last try for all the millions of dollars she will assurededly make off of all the horny teenagers who grew up just wishing that once they'd see her riding a real cock? Retirement can't be all that far away for Janine. Either that or a bunch of plastic surgery that would only make her look older.

Probably the surgery.

The Sims 2

I've been having a lot of this stuff called "fun" with this game called "The Sims 2" as evidenced here and over here. It's good stuff.

And I may as well wish for the moon in hand

I own this river, I own this town
All of its climbers and its wino's sliding down
But I can't own her and I never will
No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill

Taken with rain
'Til the gutter shines like the swirling sky
Like the swirling sky

I've got all morning, I've got all year
It's down in my pocket with the daylight folded there
But I can't own her and I never will
No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill

Taken with rain
How I'd wash her hair like the swirling sky
Like the swirling sky

And when I say I can't own her
I don't mean to buy her
It's nothing at all to do with money
I simply want her in my arms forever more.
Is that an odd request?
Is that something so funny?

And I may as well wish for the moon in hand
Yes there's more chance of that coming true

But I can't own her and I never will
No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill

So I can't own her (Of all the things you've got the thing you want the most is her)
And I never will (And she's the one thing that you just can't have)
No I can't own her (Of all the things you've got the thing you want the most is her)
And that's a bitter pill (And she's the one thing that you just can't have)

Taken with rain
Which I swallow down with the swirling sky
With the swirling sky

But I can't own her
And I may as well wish for the moon in hand
No I can't own her
Yes there's more chance of that coming true

Brad: so i think that will be a good time to give up, if that happens
Brad: then, suicide
Jess: umm no?
Brad: ok fine ;(
Jess: there you go.
Brad: self mutilation it is!
Brad: ;P
Jess: "now remember kids, it's down the road, not accross the street, Make it Count!"
* Brad has a blank look on his face
Jess: I saw it on a shirt once
Brad: i still dont get it
Brad: ooh
Brad: oh shit
Brad: haha
Brad: woo
Brad: took me a while
Brad: man that took me a long time

Firefox 1.0 PR Out

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is out. It's pretty swanky.

Firefox 1.0 PR Out

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is out. It's pretty swanky.

Pup shoots man, saves litter mates

A man who tried to shoot seven puppies was shot himself when one of the dogs put its paw on the revolver's trigger.

Jerry Allen Bradford, 37, was charged with felony animal cruelty, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. He was being treated at a hospital for a gunshot wound to his wrist.

Bradford said he decided to shoot the 3-month-old shepherd-mix dogs in the head because he couldn't find them a home, according to the sheriff's office.

On Monday, Bradford was holding two puppies -- one in his arms and another in his left hand -- when the dog in his hand wiggled and put its paw on the trigger of the .38-caliber revolver. The gun then discharged, the sheriff's report said.

Deputies found three of the puppies in a shallow grave outside Bradford's home, said sheriff's Sgt. Ted Roy.

The other four appeared to be in good health and were taken by Escambia County Animal Control, which planned to make them available for adoption.

I really get confused on who would make all this.
Everybody says join our religion, get to Heaven.
I say, no thanks, why bless my soul,
I'm already there!

Invisible Glass from Stoner

I picked up a can of Invisible Glass from Stoner on a bit of a whim, as I needed a glass cleaner for my car and most spray products I've tried work about a swell as spitting on my windshield, so I figured an aerosol product might be better some how. For about what I think was $5, if it didn't work, it wasn't a big loss really. I took it home and immediately tried it out on my windshield, inside and out.

It sprays on clearly and then quickly becomes foamy-white looking until you start to smear it around using a good applicator, notably crinkled newspaper is the best kind of applicator you can use for cleaning glass, so I recommend you do that. Basically, you just keep wiping it with newspaper, I went through about three sheets on the front of my windshield, until the glass is completely dry. At this point, I was a little upset, as it looked like my entire windshield was covered with a filmy streaky horrible looking residue. I grabbed another wad of newspaper and it all wiped away, leaving behind truly invisible glass.

Rock on, fools. This is damn fine stuff. Works great on your mirrors, etc, too. Check it out if you're anal about streaky windows and want the most streak free look you can manage.

Note: I applied out of direct sunlight, most cleaning products work best if you use them away from the sun, but the can says nothing about whether or not this is true in the case of Invisible Glass. I would recommend you do it out of direct sunlight just because.

Brad: crazy, man, crazy
Brad: never in a million years would i have guessed myself here, now, like this
Brad: in this situation
Brad: so excited
Brad: man
Brad: isn't it amazing how life is?
Brad: look at us
Brad: would we have guessed that we would have done what we have done since we lived together? not that that equals too much for you, but for me, WOW
Dan Crum: ...
Dan Crum: yeah well... I'm going to go commit suicide, laters

Logitech MX 1000 Laser Mouse

Logitech has announced a new type of optical mouse, which uses Agilent Technologies laser. What makes this mouse different is the way the laser light is used. Logitech's MX 1000 mouse relies on a short wavelength, which makes it 20 times more sensitive to surface details. Meaning you can use this mouse on just about any surface (glass, photos, highly polished wood, etc...). As you may or may not know, today's optical mouse’s work by detecting movement using an optical sensor, via a LED used to illuminate the surface. Because of that, today's optical mouse’s are limited to certain surfaces. The Logitech MX 1000 mouse holds charge for about 21 days, has 10 control buttons, a 4-level battery indicator, and has a U.S. price tag of $79.95.

This is the sound of Brad having a severely painful but wonderfully extreme brain orgasm, people.