tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58325942024-03-14T08:19:08.202-05:00No Boobies HereUmgawa takes on pop-culture! Updated once every so often, generally with a marathon post that will leave you reaching for the Visine and Halcyon!Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-36330624315930407082019-06-10T16:33:00.001-05:002019-06-10T16:33:19.178-05:00Disposable HeroesOne of my friends offered me a job. He wants a résumé.
I can't do it. Résumés (henceforth referred to simply as 'resumes', because the accents aigu are a pain in the ass to type) and CV letters are for people who have accomplished things; for people who have done things; for people who are proud of things. I am not one of those people. They are for people who start jobs and immediately start Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-71652534813219592612019-05-24T22:51:00.001-05:002019-05-24T22:51:53.906-05:00That I Would Be GoodIt's been seven years. I wish I could say that I've grown in the interim, but I really haven't. I've been hurt and hurt people in return. I've done this twice in the last year or so; having caused the Facebook blocking of the only friend I really had, in both cases.
I wish I did anything in this world so well as make people hate me. I'm great at it. I say exactly what's on my mind, in the most Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-32838172082808410232012-01-05T04:10:00.000-06:002012-01-05T04:10:28.191-06:00Waiting For SomebodyI'm not sure when my last post was, and I'm pretty sure it was a few years ago, but I decided to put this wonderful love letter on the internet. See, when you quit a game that charges a monthly fee, they tend to want to know why, and usually people probably give pretty short answers. I don't.
To: BiowareJan 5, 2012, roughly 3:30 AMI'll be honest: The game's just not very good:- It feels like aUmgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-67403846567661680022010-01-01T04:34:00.003-06:002010-01-01T06:29:24.957-06:00The Kids Are AlrightSo I just signed up for Netflix a couple of days ago, basically for the express purpose of saving money on DVD's, because I spend an extraordinary amount of money on bad movies. Most of the time, I know they're bad going in, but I really want to watch them at the time. However, thanks to the wonder of streaming video and $8.99 a month, I'm now able to watch a ton more movies than Hulu offers at aUmgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-33857100244954460942007-10-19T17:34:00.000-05:002007-10-19T17:37:00.835-05:00Clowns of DeathQuick question before I take my pre-karaoke nap. This is the sort of thing that I ponder for substantial periods of time while I'm at work:Okay, so if a kid comes to my door on Halloween and says Trick or Treat, and I produce a rabbit out of a hat, am I then allowed to say, "Good day to you, then," and close the door?After all, the kid is saying Trick or Treat, which implies that he'd rather haveUmgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-27503997834129735272007-10-19T04:31:00.000-05:002007-10-19T05:26:39.887-05:00Liars EverywhereSo, I was bopping around the internet, as I commonly do on nights like this, where I just can't sleep, and I noticed the news story about the Turkish killings of a number of Armenian people, and how Congress is trying to figure out whether or not it's genocide, and whether or not they should condemn it. And this is one of those parts where we realize that Congress, despite being run by the Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-20374890830492126162007-10-07T21:12:00.001-05:002007-10-08T15:20:47.646-05:00We Care A LotSo, I'm typing this post on my nifty new iPod Touch, and it's kind of a rough go, but I'm getting faster by the minute, and the predictive spelling is very nice on the regular occasion that I mistype a word. It's really a neat device, but I don't imagine I'll be using it for this sort of thing very often, as it really is a bit of work. And I have no idea how you kids do text-messaging on phones Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-40458395567001882222007-09-23T01:06:00.000-05:002007-09-23T02:23:23.813-05:00Update 6: Hey There DelilahI'm home, finally. I got my truck back yesterday and drove sixteen straight hours to karaoke, where they made me sing. Ugh. As much as I like karaoke, and as much as I really respect these two guys' ability to sing Linkin Park (they're almost as good as the Stevie Nicks guy, but in a totally different way), but a man can't drive a thousand miles and be expected to sing as Eric Cartman at the dropUmgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-21434687870568728552007-09-16T22:46:00.000-05:002007-09-16T22:53:28.603-05:00Update 5: Hold Me NowSo while I've been stranded at the house here in Denver, I've been watching a great deal of Top Chef and have been considering making risotto for days. It's a side dish, which we had with these really good steaks in a teriyaki marinade and baked potatoes. I wasn't quite sure how the risotto was going to come out, though, since the guys on Top Chef are always bitching about how the risotto came Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-19922886272264492662007-09-13T16:09:00.000-05:002007-09-13T16:49:17.803-05:00Update 4: Edge of SeventeenOkay, so you should have seen this guy at karaoke several nights ago. The guy looked like he should have been the front man for a heavy metal band, and he goes up to the stage, and I hear this guitar riff with a delay on it, so I'm like, "Okay, so is this Floyd?" because "Run Like Hell" and "Another Brick in the Wall" both have this delay effect, and then he starts singing the words, "Just like Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-3121085493886498632007-09-10T15:54:00.000-05:002007-09-10T17:07:38.233-05:00Update 3: Come Pick Me UpSo, about two hours after my last post, I got into a fender-bender in the parking lot of the Denver International Airport, so I haven't been able to get to the local Pantera Bread to keep everyone updated on my vacation. At the moment, I'm quite stuck here, as some broad blew through a stop sign and ran into my front-left quarter-panel and knocked the wheel about ten degrees off of vertical. Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-3775192757927509112007-09-05T17:06:00.000-05:002007-09-05T18:22:00.995-05:00Update 2: NebraskaNebraska smells. No, seriously, it does. In fact, lengthy sections of my trip reeked of cow, pig, and I think I may have passed a lemming farm along the way, which you'd really have been amused by the sign for. Sadly, I brought no digital camera, which I may very well have to rectify sometime while I'm here in Denver, as we do have Tarzhay stores here. Sure, they're all inconveniently located, Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-40377713362870071002007-09-05T14:27:00.001-05:002008-01-18T03:40:59.890-06:00Update 1Have been in Denver for about two hours now. Am currently at the Apple Store, where I've been for about two hours now. New iPods announced, probably not arriving today. Must leave computer before I am discovered.AIM: therbmcc71Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-71163992241548096362007-09-04T09:05:00.000-05:002007-09-04T09:13:16.159-05:00River RoadWell, I'm just about to leave on the Great American Road Trip. No, I'm not going to be seeing all of America, but I'm going to be seeing the most important part of it; the part that isn't made up of tourist destinations and travel resorts. No national parks, no Disneyplaces, just America. Yes, I'm going alone, now stop looking at me like that. I've got 23 hours of music on the iPod, more on my Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-71651292755560367662007-08-25T02:32:00.001-05:002007-08-25T03:13:31.644-05:00EclipseIn keeping with my regular updates on the weekly Trivial Pursuit game, Greg and I lost to Jay in Genus 5 last Sunday. We blame bad rolls, trying to get two pie-pieces and hitting the center, as we were up six pieces to three, and then Jay rallied to win the game in a finish that would have made Seabiscuit jealous.Yesterday (technically, seeing how it's after midnight, so we're talking about the Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-15366494263944161542007-08-08T03:00:00.000-05:002007-08-08T03:14:51.531-05:00Lecture 03: Orbiter Sub-System DesignSo, the coolest thing in the world on iTunes is this whole iTunes U thing, in which you can listen to lectures from schools and courses you might never be able to afford or get accepted into. I'm currently listening to a 44-hour lecture course on Aircraft Systems Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, because the entire course centers on the space shuttle. So I've been doing Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-16511352727304578812007-08-07T19:25:00.000-05:002007-08-07T19:59:23.305-05:00Hot, Hot, HotSo today, because I'm extremely tired and I don't feel like coming up with my own material, I'm stealing it from comments left on other people's blogs and products I found on Amazon, because I found them terribly entertaining.Actually, there was a bunch of potential candidates for this first one, but this particular comment was the one that stuck out, because it made me actually stop, try Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-72329690456571778882007-07-23T03:03:00.000-05:002007-07-23T03:55:26.750-05:00Don't Stop Me NowI went one and one in Trivial Pursuit tonight. I'm pretty impressed with the Totally 80's edition of Trivial Pursuit, in that it was apparently mixing the absurdly easy (for anyone who was actually semi-conscious in the 80's) with the ridiculously difficult. As I see it, since I don't have much experience working as part of a team in the game, the hardest part seems to be coming to a consensus Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-5923853978461980952007-07-16T16:17:00.000-05:002007-07-16T17:11:09.098-05:00Shiny Happy PeopleSo I'm listening to this bunch of 90's covers by The Hunt For Yoshi (appropriately titled Nintendo Goes 90's), and they're really quite faithful to the original material, except they sound like they're being played through a Nintendo Entertainment System (yes, the 1985 one) sound processor. It's fun, but you really have to be into that sort of thing. The cover of Depeche Mode's "Somebody" is Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-41250063511302207162007-06-30T03:01:00.000-05:002007-06-30T03:58:17.496-05:00Over and OutI'm so pissed off about this whole Chris Benoit thing, and in a number of ways.I have to tell you up front that I hope the guy rots in Hell for what he's done. I do. Whatever mitigating circumstances there might be, there's no excuse for what he did. None. I don't care what kind of drugs he might have been on, there's no excuse for killing your kid, unless you've got testimony from at least two Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-16100317516000340532007-05-23T22:35:00.000-05:002007-05-23T22:41:30.562-05:00Stupid TypoSo, I thought I was going to look at pornography this evening, but instead I'm reading about rhotic versus non-rhotic accents. I had no idea there was even such a thing or terminology to define it. I figured accents just vary so wildly that it's impossible to simply categorize them as one or the other. During all of this, I started to read about African American Vernacular English, which is Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-63561411756372421732007-05-15T21:37:00.000-05:002007-05-15T22:09:39.657-05:00Alex Descends into Hell for a Bottle of MilkSo I can't find the notebook in which I placed the review of the opening band for the last show I went to. Oh well, I think we'll all live. I'll find it eventually and cruelty will ensue.At the moment, I'm involved in a war of comments over at Joystiq, with regard to the sales of the Sony PSP versus the Nintendo DS. There's a PSP fanboy over there who seems to think that the DS and the DS Lite Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-26822173422389245432007-04-05T02:53:00.000-05:002008-12-09T12:20:25.906-06:00Come Sail AwaySo it didn't hit me what Danimal's passing really meant to me on a personal level until probably twenty-four hours after I made my last post: I'm never going to be able to sing "Come Sail Away" ever again, because I've lost my Chef. I don't do anything else well at karaoke, and now my Chef is gone. So it reminds me of this tribute to Mel Blanc:I have to be at a funeral in seven hours, so you'll Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-41465816817487514722007-03-31T17:05:00.000-05:002007-03-31T17:11:48.305-05:00Fell On Black DaysSo I was going to post this running commentary I was scribbling last night while I was out seeing the band, but I'm not going to bother doing that today because my friend (and the guy who runs the karaoke I regularly attend) Dan died suddenly yesterday. One of those "just dropped dead" things. So I'm not really in the mood to type up something really extravagantly entertaining. I think he'd have Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5832594.post-7651903503583258952007-03-18T03:13:00.000-05:002007-03-18T03:50:13.194-05:00Boys Don't CrySo I told Kevin that I'd try to update. To be specific, I told him that I'd try to try, but I took the time to hit iTunes and go shopping. I still haven't found anything that I particularly want to buy, but at least I'm out of this bizarre week-long fetish that I had for post-Rammstein European electronica/industrial music that I only use for playing player-versus-player in World of Warcraft, Umgawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021083307702269332noreply@blogger.com1