152 insights into my soul

So this Friday (National Donut day, apparently?) Dunkin Donuts is taking their "glazed donut breakfast sandwich" nationwide. Its like a breakfast Luther- a bacon and egg breakfast sandwich with the "bread" being a sliced glazed donut. Of course, if they threw a sausage patty in there, it would be perfect. Hopefully the Tech Dunkin Donuts will have it (though I guess a Dunkin Donuts did just open up down the road from home as well). If they do, I know what I'm having for breakfast that day!

ME blather- Got commando mastery over the weekend, but not starting machine mastery just yet. Been working on Collector mastery to complete the weapons tab and doing some of the weapon challenges under the Aliens tab- so the Kishock and Krysae for now, but I'll also have to do the Javelin and Arc Pistol towards Machine Mastery.

When I first tried the Krysae, I was kinda meh on it, but trying it again months later, its actually pretty fun to use. Particularly with cryo rounds. Sure, the rounds don't penetrate cover, but since they're proximity fused, you just have to fire in their general direction. And with cryo rounds things will shatter and explode with one shot.

Saw Green Lantern today with the usual suspects. The 2D version, because this 3-D trend is stupid and I refuse to pay money that might help keep it going on. In any case, I thought it was fine. Certainly not as terrible as the critics seem to think. Its just not as good as the Marvel movies (well, the good Marvel movies) and the Batmans. I think where it suffers is them trying to cram too much in. Like, why in the world did they have Amanda Waller in this (played by Angela Bassett, though I'm surprised neither this movie nor Smallville used CCH Pounder, because in addition to voicing the Wall in the cartoon series, she actually looks tough enough to play her)? She's not even normally a Green Lantern character! I mean, I guess she is the DC universe's closest analog to Nick Fury. But at least him showing up in the Marvel movies makes sense because they're trying to connect different franchises. As far as I can tell, Green Lantern is going to be standalone- they're not trying to link it to Batman or the upcoming new Superman movie.

Also, too much time with Hal being all mopey and unsure of himself to Carol Ferris (they do make a shout-out by having her callsign be Sapphire), and enough time on OA. As much as I like Serena Van Der Woodsen's rack, I'd rather see more of the other Lanterns. Its like you show all these unique looking fellows, and don't do anything with them. But its like he shows up on OA for like 5 minutes, and then we're done with the other lanterns for the rest of the film.

I think they just tried to have too many nods to various things in the Green Lantern mythos too soon. Its like, they should've just kept it simple and make a decent movie that stands on its own merits, then start into the other stuff.

Also, a couple of other complaints I have, but not specifically about Green Lantern. The whole humans are special in science fiction, I know you can't really do anything about it, but it is still annoying when they act like humans are the only courageous beings in the entire universe in various sources of fiction. Its like, what, no other species has a concept of courageousness or tenacity or not giving up?!

That, and yeah, I understand Hal is a skilled, hot shot pilot, so they wanted to demonstrate that and I guess maybe in these comic/sci-fi universes the US doesn't have the best planes in the world, but do these fictional companies really need to be working on super smart drone planes that dominate the skies? Because guess what? We do that already! Its like they're all, "This super plane can beat anything in the air!" Who the hell are we going to supposed to use it against? No one in the world has planes as good as ours (I think our stuff is definitely superior to anything the Europeans, Ruskies, or Chinese have), and there would never be a war where we would have to find out, because the large scale war just isn't something that will ever happen again.

Anyhoo, afterward finally tried that Rose & Crown tavern place on Powers Ferry that's where La Madeline used to be. It was an interesting menu, it was kinda English food, but not really. But it was pretty tasty.

Awesome, apparently they are releasing "Trouty Mouth" and "Big Ass Heart" since there was such a huge response to them. (Alas, no "My Headband" or "Only Child"?!)

Had dinner with the usual suspects at Heirloom Market BBQ. Its kinda similar to Hankook Taqueria in that they take another food genre (in this case, BBQ) and add a Korean feel to it. I mean, the Koreans have their own kinda BBQ, but this is more American style BBQ, but with Korean themed sauces and sides. Also, Alligator sausage, which I had. It was pretty tasty. And apparently, one of the cooks there is former Korean pop idol Lee JiYeon. And not someone with the same name, the actual Lee JiYeon. Weird! The place is kinda small though.

Hilariously, the lady at the counter kept calling the ex-roomie "Joe", even after he tried correcting her. I mean, it would be one thing if she got his name wrong when it came time to give him his order, but even afterward she'd be all, "Hey Joe, how's your food?"

Oh, I was pleased to get both my tax refund and my carry permit in the mail today.

One thing I forgot to mention about Yeah! Burger last night was I had noticed as I was ordering that they had a url for their secret menu at the register. Although its less "secret items" and more them organizing their different toppings into specific specialty burgers. Though I guess the fact that they offer $1 sliders after 10pm on Fri and Sat is "secret". In any case, that's the one thing about places that offer you a number of different and unique toppings to put on a burger- there's so many things I want to try, but I don't know if they'd all go together! Like if I top it with chili, I would think that wouldn't work with certain sauces. Or if I went for a mexi-burger thing with like jalapenos and avocado and wot-not, that wouldn't go with blue cheese. Maybe they would go with an egg, it'd be like a mexcan omelet on top of your burger)

Last night, decided to try the Little Azio's down the road for dinner. WTF is up with the parking in that complex?! I ended up having to park so far away! Of course, when I walked the friggin five minutes from my space to the place, there was a space open right out front. Anyhoo, I placed my order and sat down, and I'm pretty sure I saw a certain whiny little bitch sitting at the table across from me. Well, I googled him later, and I'm 60% sure (I know my twitter said 75% at the time, but whatever) it was him. Oh, and apparently all those years ago when I caught a glimpse of his wife, and thought she was kinda cute, I guess I was wrong! (Again, if it was indeed him)

As I went to get a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit from Junior's, passed a train of incoming frosh going to whatever FASET thing is going on this morning. And one of them was this hottie nymphet that totally looked like Sarah Hyland in a skimpy little summer dress. Though unlike Sarah Hyland, who just looks jail-baity, I supposed this chick could be actual JB, being incoming and all. You know, I just realized I'm old enough to be these kids fathers! Well, if I knocked their mom up when I was a HS freshman.

Since clevemire posted a review of War, Inc. the other day, which I saw last Christmas, that had me thinking. Is it messed up that I don't see why Minnie Driver and Marisa Tomei's characters are making such a big deal about John Cusack's character(s) being hitmen? Like being all that's something "you never do", isn't that being a little melodramatic?

TV Commentary:

Psych- You know, I'd been lukewarm to this season, but last night's episode had me LOL-ing (That means I thought what you said was funny!). Although the ending was total BS! I mean, I guess that's the way you would have expected it to end, but still! ( spoiler cut )

Degrassi- Ah, the misleading promos strike again! So the promo voiceover is talking about people finding new love interests and show Claire being all, "He is just so (noise that could possibly be "unfffff!")" about Eli as if she really wants to do him. But in the actual ep, in context, she's actually saying "He is just so ugh!", as in she finds him all frustrating. ( spoiler cut )

Its actually pretty warm out there. But if there's an upside to the heat, its the hottie nymphets prancing around their front driveways in their tight tiny-Ts and short shorts soaking themselves with the garden hose.

And is it me, or is there no better nausea remedy than greasy tater tots?

Yesterday, had lunch at Jim N' Nick's BBQ with the usual suspects. We met Jim or Nick and the hostess kinda looked like Cindy the stewardess from Lost. Okay, not really. Meeting Jim or Nick that is, the hostess still looked liked Cindy. A bit pricey, but it is a hop, skip, and a jump away from the house. Since I wanted to try everything out, get the Pittmaster's plate with spare ribs, hot sausage links, beef brisket and pulled BBQ pork, with fries and mac and cheese for my sides. It was all tasty, I liked the sausage in particular. The cheesy bread was nice too. After, headed back to play a couple of games of Arkham Horror with three of the expansions. It wasn't too crazy, and we did end up winning both times.

Hmm, the writer's block of the day for yesterday was: If you were 12 and could see yourself now, do you think you'd be happy or disappointed, and why? I dunno, I've never thought that far ahead, so I don't know what I'd be expecting out of adult me when I was a kid. And I'm one of those people who doesn't get their hopes up for fear of disappointment. I mean, I'll act all egg-cited for some movie or tv show or video game or comic or book or what have you coming out, but its not like I have high hopes for them, just that I know I'm easily amused. So, its not like I was expecting to have conquered the world (not literally, because I have no interest in such a thing, too much work to get there, too much too managed once you do).

I mean, I have an okay job and life, so what more could I ask for? A hot gf, more money, a cooler car, various firearms and electronic equipment? But who doesn't want most of that stuff? I think one would always want more. Like I could be a little disappointed I hadn't yet had a threesome with a short-haired blond green-eyed snowflake and a hot Asian girl with raven hair with a colored stripe in it and an Australian accent of similar heights, but that's not something I expect to actually accomplish. Getting behind the wheel of a sweet sports car/muscle car/rice rocket and getting to zoom down the highway or firing a machine gun or automatic shotgun are easier to attain goals I guess, since there are places you can prolly pay to do either but its not that disappointing that I've never done either. (Actually, I guess there are places you can prolly pay to do the previous as well, but I don't have that kinda money!) I guess 12 year old me would be at least relieved I'm not like a bum or dead or anything. So I suppose I would not be disappointed by future me back then.

So at work, a conversation about some company recalling a bunch of salami because it has salmonella turned into a discussion about curing techniques and some really fancy eye-talian meat or cheese. Which in turn reminded me of an episode of Archer (hilarious show, BTW) a few weeks ago, where the one guy says, "The citric acid cooks the fish". I was wondering if that was for real, and it is, he was referring to Ceviche. It does sounds intriguing, I think I'd like to try it one day.

When I was a kid, I used to hate seafood. But, some cutie forced me to try sushi, and I liked it. I eventually moved on to being able to eat cooked fish (again, because some cutie made me try it. Pretty much a lot of food I hated when I was a kid, I eventually tried and liked, because some cutie made me. Like eggs!), but I still prefer sushi to it. I dunno, cooked fish doesn't taste as good to me. This ceviche does sound appealing. (apparently, there's even Filipino ceviche?)

But heh, Archer does seem to drop random info like that. Like the fact that designer Hugo Boss made those cool looking Nazi uniforms. Now, I'm not saying Nazis are cool, but you have to admit they were pretty snappy dressers. Speaking of Nazis, I was reading this article on the 12 most controversial video games of all time, and I didn't realize that "Ethnic Cleansing" game was for real. I mean, that ep of SVU that first introduced Marcia Gay Harden's FBI character (oops, spoiler!), they reference a similar game, but I thought it sounded way too outlandish to be something that actually existed. But apparently it does. I guess they have referenced real video games before, like the GTA series (where the detectives make a break in the case because Stabler's son was at the station and saw some crime scene photos or something and he was all, "Oh, that's like (the SVU universe's analogue of GTA!)") and Second Life (where some girl is kidnapped because of the similarity of her avatar to some girl Locke's dad kidnapped years earlier. You know, whenever I see Kevin Tighe's name in credits, I always confuse him with Colonel Tigh.).

Speaking of video games, they revealed the final 3 new characters in the upcoming Super Street Fighter IV. As I said, the newest character they introduced, Juri, is a pretty awesome addition, (I mean, how can you not think she's cool from this anime-style trailer I've posted before.) but the other eight characters they added are returning from previous games. They already had Cammy and Fei Long from Super Street Fighter 2, but they had to complete the set by adding T Hawk and Dee Jay. And then there's Guy and Cody from Final Fight and the SF Alpha series, though I still think Cody's prison stripes look totally stupid. Couldn't they have put him in a smarter looking orange prison jumpsuit? And the last new one they had before this most recent announcement, was of course, Adon, who I always thought was cool.

But the newest three are from SF III. I was hoping for Alex, but between Zangief, Abel and El Fuerte (what's with all fighting games not only having a Bruce Lee looking guy, but a Rey Mysterio looking guy? I mean, doesn't Virtua Fighter and Dead or Alive both have Rey Mysterio analogues), and I suppose E Honda, they have enough grapplers. But, instead they have the ninja Ibuki (but isn't Guy a ninja?), the young karateka Makoto (again, isn't Sakura a short haired young girl who does karate?!) and Dudley (don't they already have a boxer with Balrog?).

But, anyways, there's a new character trailer out featuring the new Super SF IV characters from SF III.

Yesterday, went over to the ex-roomie for food and the Superbowl. C-note was in charge of the big samich, and it seems like there was a little confusion, because clevemire calculated we went through a 6 footer last time, but then C-note was all, "okay, I'm getting a 3 footer". So the ex-roomie decide to grill up sausages and make the famous cheese dip along with a spicy bean dip, and clevemire made an apple crumble dessert thing, because its better to have extra food than not enough food. But then certain people bailed, so we ended up with way more food then needed.

We also ended up playing a couple games of Dominion before the game, and I ended up winning the first and tying with the ex-roomie on the second. Which was prolly the highest average scoring game we've had, as we had both the dukes and the harem in play. (51, 63, and 63 overall, I think!) ( cut for your benefit )

Obviously, I'm not a big sports guy, but it ended up being an exciting game to watch. But really, aren't peeps in NOLA basically going to be checked out for the next week and a half? I mean, there'll be the post-Saints win celebrating, but next weekend is Mardi Gras (and Valentine's Day as well, I guess), so why bother stopping the party when its just gonna start up again?

You know, the only commercial sticking out in my head from last night was the Megan Fox in the bathtub one, as well it should.

Oh, and the GMA sent this to ND, who promptly posted it to FB since he's a big Dolph fan, but, its a vid of Dolph Lundgren singing "A Little Less Conversation" on what I assume is some foreign (German?) variety show? But lest you think its just him singing, for some reason he goes into a drum solo(?!) and then does a karate demonstration breaking boards and blocks of ice in the middle of the song for some reason. Foreign TV is weird!

Owel, back on dayshift, which means waking up at 6 in the morning, which I loathe. But surprisingly, I was able to get to sleep before midnight last night! So that's good.

Were the Spike TV video game awards last night or something? Pics of the hotties at the show seem to be circulating around. Like Odette Yustman of Cloverfield fame, and more recently, she of the hot ass in the poster for the upcoming Unborn movie. Though I was shocked to learn she's like 5'10"! I mean, she was on South Beach, and I shoulda realized she was tall when there wasn't that much of a height difference with her and Amazonian Adrianne Palicki. Of course, that was also one of the first things I saw Adrianne Palicki in, before I realized she's like seven feet tall. So between OY being 5'10" (though I guess that makes sense in retrospect, South Beach was about models in South Beach, and models are supposed to be tall), and playing gf to ginormous Sam in the Supernatural pilot thing (another early, pre-FNL thing I saw her in), no wonder it was hard to tell that AP was a giantess.

Anyhoo, yesterday, had pre-geek fun brunch at the J Christophers' near zarathrustra94 and turdburgler's. For some reason when talk of going hear earlier in the week was mentioned, I thought someone said it was a samich place. But it was a breakfast place. Not that that was a problem, I like breakfast food. It was good eating. And all the waitresses were fresh faced and cute young thangs. So I heartily approve.