| Puns...- |
[Dec. 4th, 2008|03:54 pm] |
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1. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was excellent.
2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'I'll serve you, but don't start anything.'
3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted.
4. A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
5. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and says 'A beer please, and one for the road.' 6. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: 'Does this taste funny to you?'
7. 'Doc, I can't stop singing 'The Green, Green Grass of Home.' 'That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome.' 'Is it common?' Well, 'It's Not Unusual.' 8. Two cows are standing next to each other in a field. Daisy says to Dolly, 'I was artificially inseminated this morning.' 'I don't believe you,' says Dolly. 'It's true; no bull!' exclaims Daisy. 9. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either.
10. Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
11. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I couldn't find any. 12. A man woke up in a hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, 'Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!' The doctor replied, 'I know you can't - I've cut off your arms!'
13. I went to a seafood disco last week...and pulled a mussel. 14. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.
15. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says, 'Dam!'
16. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too! 17. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office, and asked them to disperse. 'But why,' they asked, as they moved off. 'Because,' he said, 'I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer.' 18. A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt , and is named 'Ahmal.' The other goes to a family in Spain ; they name him 'Juan.' Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, 'They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal.' 19. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him. (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good) .. A super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. 20. And finally, there was the person who sent twenty different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least ten of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.
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| My Work History |
[Nov. 21st, 2008|08:47 am] |
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My Work History My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned. I couldn't concentrate. Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe. After that, I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it - mainly because it was a sew-sew job. Next, I tried working in a muffler factory, but that was too exhausting. Then, I tried to be a chef - figured it would add a little spice to my life, but I just didn't have the thyme. I attempted to be a deli worker, but any way I sliced it I couldn't cut the mustard. My best job was a musician, but eventually I found I wasn't noteworthy. I studied a long time to become a doctor, but I didn't have any patience. Next, was a job in a shoe factory. I tried but I just didn't fit in. I became a professional fisherman, but discovered that I couldn't live on my net income. I managed to get a good job working for a pool maintenance company, but the work was just too draining. So then I got a job in a workout center, but they said I wasn't fit for the job. After many years of trying to find steady work, I finally got a job as a historian - until I realized there was no future in it. My last job was working in Starbucks, but I had to quit because it was always the same old grind. So, I tried retirement and found that I'm perfect for the job! |
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| My Head and My Heart fighting a battle... |
[Nov. 12th, 2008|11:26 pm] |
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...and I let my heart win again. I should think with my heart because it only leads to bad things. It leads me down paths I've been before and bad things have happened when I went down those paths. I guess going down those paths really isn't a bad thing. The only one that ends up getting hurt is me. |
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| Cover Songs |
[Oct. 29th, 2008|10:25 am] |
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| | The Last Kiss - Wendesday | ] |
I have been thinking a lot today about artist/groups covering other artists/groups' songs. Some covers are good and some covers are bad. Sometimes people don't even realize that a particular recording is a cover of another artist/group's song. This is often the case when the artist/group's doing the cover records the song in a music style different then the original version. For example I know a lot of people who don't know that Marilyn Manson's song Sweet Dreams was originally recorded by the Eurythmics.
Why did I start thinking about cover songs today? Well I heard the band Wednesday's cover of Wayne Chocran's song The Last Kiss this morning and thought it twas a really good cover. I then starting thinking about all of the other covers I'd heard over the years and started to compare them to the originals.
Some covers are hard to compare because they're recorded in a style different then the original recording. Johnny Cash's Hurt is a good example of this. It also happens to be one of the few covers I think is better then the original. Another cover along this line is Marilyn Manson's cover of the Eurthymics song Sweet Dreams.
Some covers are bad because the artis/group doing the cover just doesn't have the voice (or in some cases musical talent) to do the song justice. For instance William Shatner's cover of the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is terrible. The Counting Crow's just butchered Joni Mitchell's The Big Yellow Taxi. Hillary Duff just can't do justice to The Who's My Generation. Neither can Madonna's version of American Pie hold up to Don McClean's. Brittany Spears doing The Rolling Stone's Satisfaction just makes me shutter.
They say emulation is the highest form of flattery. Some cover songs are a pretty good tribute to their originals but aren't as good. Some of these include Smashmouth's cover of The Monkey's I'm a Believer. Two examples of this are Peter, Paul and Mary's and Chantal Kreviazuk's cover of John Denver's Leaving on a Jetplane.
What do you think of covers? Know any good ones? Know any bad ones?
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| Gaming - Pirates vs Ninjas... |
[Sep. 18th, 2008|10:21 pm] |
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| | Weird Al - Trigger Happy | ] |
I've been on the Storytelling team for Waterloo by Night for some time now. I enjoy running the game but I've been thinking about starting up a table top game again. The question of course is what kind of game to I want to run?
I've been thinking of running either a Legend of the 5 Rings game or a 7th Sea game. I've been reading a little about both of the settings and they have some appeal to me. They're both fantasy settings based on the real world. Legend of the 5 Rings is a fantasy version of feudal Japan and 7th Sea is a fantasy version of 17th century Europe. Both settings seem to be ripe for telling interesting stories in. Both setting's quasi historical bent appeals to the historian in me.
The question is which of the two settings to I want to use. I haven't decided that yet....Though I must say if I choose Legend of the 5 Rings I know I'd have trouble pronouncing those Japanese names. |
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| Something I'm Proud to Hear |
[Jul. 27th, 2008|01:12 am] |
I just came back today's session of Waterloo By Night. The session went extremely well and I think for the most part to players had a good time. After the game everyone went to our usual cool down session at Mel's Dinner.
I could help but overheard a conversation between a few of our players. Some players were talking about the low turnout (most of our female population was at a Stagette). It was mentioned that games with low turnouts tend to be slow. I then hear Ben pipe in and tell the group how that's not really true.
He then spends about 15 minutes or more talking about the Dark Ages game. He told the group how good ST and a good (if small) player cast can make for a great game. He held up the Dark Ages game as the perfect example of that. He then went on to tell those that we listen about the Dark Ages game.
Ben often speaks highly of the Dark Ages game at WBN. It makes me proud that even after the game has been over for about 2 years that the players speak so highly of the game. |
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| Stephen Hawkings Near My Library... |
[Jul. 16th, 2008|01:06 pm] |
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According to this arcticle physicist Stephen Hawkings is considering leaving England and taking up a research post at the UW Perimeter Institute. It seems that his disappointed with funding cuts in the UK and the Perimeter Institute has more then enough money for him. |
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| Trip to Montreal |
[May. 22nd, 2008|10:35 pm] |
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| | Irish Rovers - The Drunk Scotsman | ] |
A while ago someone told me I needed a vacation. Actually for a while people have been telling me I need a vacation. I guess I'm a bit of a work-a-holic and have trouble prying myself away from my job - even if I'm not enjoying it. A while ago I decided that since I had a ton of vacation time (almost four weeks) that I would take a vacation. I struggled for a while on choosing a destination. I balanced several factors including cost, time of year, time of vacation and my desire to visit. I finally ended up choosing to go to Montreal. So I am spending Monday, May 26th to Sunday, June 1st in Montreal. I'm taking the train since that was the cheapest (though not by much) method of travel and I wouldn't mind seeing the scenery. I've found a reasonably priced hotel that seems nice from the pictures on their website. The hotel is located right in downtown Montreal. I've been trying to figure what to do/see while I'm in Montreal. There is so much to do/see in Montreal. I've decided that I am going to make a must do/must see list. I will make sure I will go to those sites and do those things. After that I am going to do what ever catches my fancy! I definitely want to go see The Bell Centre (home of the Montreal Canadiens). I had some strange fantasy about going to see them play. This would have involved them making it to the Stanley Cup Finals. This would have also involved me being able to get a ticket. I would have had an easier time finding the Holy Grail in a Tim Horton's then getting a ticket! I've been told that Montreal has some great architecture. I want to see some of their famed churches. I plan on going to visit the The Cathedral of Mary Queen of the World, Christ Church Cathedral, Notre-Dame Basilica and Saint Patrick's Basilica. I also plan on going to see some of Montreal's many museums and tourist attractions. Such as the Montreal Planetarium and Biodome. There are also many museums both historical and art. Of course I plan on doing some things that are less intellectual. I plan on visiting Montreal's Underground City to do some shopping. I will definitely be taking in some on Montreal's famed nightlife. I even have a club picked out already. I also plan on gambling away a few dollars at the Casino! Now I just need to acquire a camera so I can take pictures! |
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| Class Trips and Criminal Activity |
[Mar. 18th, 2008|02:57 pm] |
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Stealing while you in a country like China is really stupid.
I am also wondering why we didn't have class trips to China when I went to McLaughlin. |
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| RIP Gary Gygax? |
[Mar. 4th, 2008|01:18 pm] |
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There is a rumour that seems to be floating around cyberspace that one of D&D's creators - Gary Gygax - is dead. I haven't been able to confirm this yet. |
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| New Year's Resolutions |
[Jan. 1st, 2008|08:41 pm] |
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Happy New Years everyone! I hope that the year to come sees you happy, healthy and wise. I am often optimistic about the beginning of a new year because it allows me to look forward and think about making positive changes in my life. I look upon New Year's resolutions as a way of setting goals for the coming year. I'll admit that I haven't in the past actually followed through on most of my resolutions. I managed to follow through on one of the two resolutions I made last year. My resolutions for 2008 are as follows: 1) Reduce the stress in my life 2) Start taking time to do more of the things I enjoy like watching movies and reading books. 3) Get my G2 driver's license and then a car. 4) Take a trip to Origins. 5) Continue the resolution from last year that I followed through on. Anyways that's all I really have to say. Thanks to all my friends for being my friend. |
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| Amusing Error Messages |
[Nov. 30th, 2007|04:07 pm] |
I was working on creating a tar ball of our databases. I mistyped the UNIX/OS X command. This is what happened:
cemc-dev:databases jdunnett$ tar -cvf cemcdatabase.tar tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
Its the line 'Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive' that makes me laugh |
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| Weird Dreams |
[Sep. 20th, 2007|10:09 am] |
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Last night I had a really strange dream involving daunicorn. No its not that kind of dream!!!! In the dream I was driving a long with him in his car (his old car). Then all of the sudden we were involved in a hit and run accident with another car. His car did the hitting and then he did the running. Then rather then acting rational he became more and more irrational. There was a chase scene between us, the guy we ran into and the cops across the tri-city area. It end with us getting gunned down after he pulled a phaser on the cops. |
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| Apple and Rysnc |
[Sep. 19th, 2007|09:34 am] |
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As someone who has been using a OS X (including Server) for a while I am generally happy with it. I am generally really happy with OS X as an operating system for my personal work us and development. I am reasonably happy with OS X Server as a server. There are at times when OS X Server annoys the hell out of me. Right now is one of those times.
On of the good things about OS X is that it is based on FreeBSD. It includes a lot UNIX tools that system admins know and love. Of of those tools is rsync which is an specialized file transfer utility. Apple in their infinite wisdom decides to package with OS X Server a version of rsync that they KNOW doesn't work with their default file system. In fact some of their engineers are apparently been involved for some time in a project that fixes the problem.
I mean whether or not rsync is a useful tool you'd think that company would avoid package software with their OS they know doesn't work with it. |
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| Dear Companies... |
[Aug. 31st, 2007|09:46 am] |
...You know its pretty sad when I get straight forward information from your product wikipedia as opposed to your website. All I wanted to know was what pieces of software one of your suites came bundled with. The page for that product on your website didn't clearly give me the information I wanted. On the other hand wikipedia had a nice feature chart. |
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| GenCon Update |
[Aug. 22nd, 2007|10:53 am] |
Well I am back from my vacation to GenCon. I really needed the vacation as a chance to unwind and to forget the stress of life (especially work). I had a fantastic time and do not regret for a minute going to the convention. I spent 6 glorious days away from Kitchener-Waterloo and then spent 4 of those days gaming. It was an amazing time.
Of course as I have already stated many times I traveled down with Sean. Early on the Wednesday when we went to pick up our badges I ran into Penn and Heather. Then later on the Thursday I ran into Sandy. I also ran into a few other people I knew from Guelph including Scott Unger and Andy McWhirter.
Some of the Highlights of the trip including: *Wandering around the dealer room and sampling the huge selection of games *LARPing at the massive Camarilla LARP and actually winning one of the role-playing rewards. *Playing "Who's Line Is it Anyways" *Picking up Changling - the Lost *Getting drunk on White Wolf's tab (maybe a little to drunk) *Meeting a bunch of new gamers *Picking up a bunch of new stuff *Meeting the designers of some of the games I enjoy *Seeing how massive the convention was
Some of the Lowlights include: *The hotel on the first night *The a little too drunk I got on White Wolfs tab *Getting to a game and seeing all other 11 players who had registered and not having the GM show up *Finding out an event was moved to a building 4 blocks away
Some of the things that told me I wasn't in Canada: *Asking 3 times for a cup of tea in a restaurant only to get something that was cold and had ice it in. I realize that the Boston tea party occurred not because of taxation but because American's can't make a decent cup of tea. *Being asked what exactly the Mounties do. *The rather bland money.
Games I picked up: *Changeling the Lost - For myself and my buddy Jason. *Reign - For my friend Laura. *The Battlestar Galactica RPG *Damnation City *Shadowrun 4e *Classic Battletech Total War *CBT - House Davion I mean to pick up more but forgot a few things
Some Games I enjoyed demoing: *Reign *Og - A game of caveman role-playing
Some Games I enjoy playing in: *Clans, Covenants and Cotories - A really big Requiem LARP ran by the Camarilla *Warmachine - A demo of Shadowrun 4e *"Who's Line is it Anyways?" - Yes based on the British improv show. *Swashbuckling 101 - A game of 7th Sea.
It was nice to see some of what's in the works by various gaming companies. I like a lot of what I see and think it will make things interesting.
All in all I had a wonderful time. Would I go again? In a heart beat.
All in all it was a much needed break. I am not looking enjoying the fact that I am back at work. |
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| OS X officially UNIX |
[Aug. 7th, 2007|08:20 pm] |
Apple is set to release in October a new version of their operating system (OS X 10.5). Following with their tradition of naming versions of the OS X operating system after large cats they've dubbed OS X 10.5 - Leopard. This new version has been given UNIX 03 Certification which means that it is consider a full UNIX operating system. This is good news since means some of the quirks in Tiger (OS X 10.4) that prevented certain pieces of software written for UNIX have been (or should have been) worked out. |
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| Woof |
[Aug. 1st, 2007|08:46 am] |
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We really are in the dog days of summer. We are definitely in a late July/early August heatwave. I take the bus to work every morning and I pass by a local credit union that displays the temperature on a digital sign. It was 8:22 in the morning and the temperature said 25C. Man its hot out side. |
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| Lazy Sunday |
[Jul. 29th, 2007|09:48 pm] |
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| | American Pie - Don McLean | ] |
I figured that its the end of the weekend and I should probably post something. Looking at my most recent posts I realized I haven't posted here in a while. I guess I just really haven't had a lot to say here. I figure I will try to post here more often but no guarantees.
I went to WBN yesterday and it seems that my character has managed to come Prince. I've spent a long time scheming and plotting towards the goal but never actually figured I would make it there. I am thinking that the easy task was getting to the position in the first place. I now have to try and keep it for a little while. It should be an interesting ride.
Today has been a pretty lazy and relaxed day. Its been lazy and relaxed despite the fact that I have actually gotten a lot of what I intended to do accomplished. Things like grocery shopping, cleaning and other household chores.
I've also spent part of the day doing some final planning for my holidays. I figure I haven't actually taken any holidays since I started my job at the University of Waterloo two years ago. I am taking a pilgrimage to the gamer Mecca of GenCon. A bubby of mine and I are driving down there for entire duration of the convention. I'm very much looking forward to the experience.
I've been formulating a list of things I am interested in picking up when I am down there.
1) Changling - The Lost - This is the new World of Darkness' version of changeling. It being released with much fanfare at GenCon. I am also picking up a copy for a friend.
2) Damnation City - This is a Requiem product that deals with the construction and make up of cities. I've read a lot about it and its got a lot of good tips for creating a city to set a game in.
3) CBT Total War - The most recent book containing the rules for Battletech. I saw that book at a demo not that long ago and it was an absolutely fantastic looking book.
4) The Battlestar Galactica RPG - This is an RPG based of the new run of the shown. The game is being developed produced by Margeret Weiss Productions the same company that produced the Serenity RPG. It supposedly using the same base mechanic as the Serenity RPG. I am told that they are fixing some of the breaks that the Serenity RPG's system had.
5) Prime Time Adventures - Developed by the small press company called Dog Eared Press. Its a game that supposedly encourages your campaign to run more like a televisions series. I've heard a lot of good things about the game.
6) Dice - Because lets be honest what gamer couldn't use more dice.
I will probably pick up a lot more stuff then that but that is all I plan on picking up for sure. |
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| Internet Service Providers |
[Jul. 6th, 2007|01:17 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | internet | ] |
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This is a question for my friends that are within the Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph area. What ISP do you use? What have your experiences been with them?
The reason I am asking is because I currently use Bell Sympatico. While my experiences with them haven't really been bad they've just increased their price again and I am not sure I like paying that price.
I am thinking of switching to Primus. They have a nice phone, long distance and high speed internet plan. I am willing to consider other options.
Anyone have any other options? I am don't really care of the ISP is cable or DSL. Though I am looking for speed similar to what I am currently getting. |
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