Wii? But why?

Scott's note: the below pic was added on May 1, 2006 as an appendix to the story below. From VGCats.com:





I just read a report on the MTV News site (which is just about the only thing MTV is actually good for...and even then...but that's a whole different blog post altogether) that Nintendo has officially named their new system "Wii" (pronounced "we")...and to think the system used to be called "Revolution." Their reps go into a whole line of thinking defending the greatness of such a name that could be used worldwide, but I just don't get it (well, I 'get it,' but I'm not over the moon about the new system in any way, shape, or form). First the weird controller...now the funky name...and the first games they'll be developing are Madden, Tony Hawk, and Super Monkey Ball... ... ...my, how revolutionary...

The only cool thing I've heard about this system is that gamers will be able to download older titles released on previous Nintendo systems...although I'm sure that doesn't mean EVERY Nintendo game (will I be able to download Sqoon by any chance?)...and does that mean it'll download to the system's hard drive and you get to keep it, or is it a subscription deal? Hmmm... needless to say, I don't think I'll be buying this system...and if I do, it'll definitely not be when the damn thing first comes out. Nintendo's last two systems flopped harder than a fat wet tit (well, the N64 did have Goldeneye and the GC brought us the first incarnation of Animal Crossing), so yeah...I'm perfectly happy with just my PlayStation 2 right now (and the occasional trip down memory lane with my NES and SNES systems)...

I'm actually not really looking forward to any of the new systems (especially with the PS3's $700 price point). Gaming is just getting too huge and complex. I can't handle Socom and these massive 3D environments where things are coming at you from all angles constantly... I can handle World of Warcraft because at least in that game you can choose to go at your own pace and there are virtually no time limits... But yeah, I miss the times when gaming was fun and relatively simple. I had (and still have) so many games for the NES and SNES. I remember when I could go to a toy or game store and want so many titles...now it's hard to convince myself to buy a new game. As the systems get newer, bigger, better, faster, my library of new games gets way smaller. It means nothing to me to have pretty graphics if it's a craptastic and/or way too complex game. I'd take Gemfire over all of this new 'better' shit any day.


Red Queen: I've been a bad, bad girl.

The previous post's quote was from "Jason X"
Brodski = Peter Mensah
Rowan = Lexa Doig

Trivia for Squiggle #53

Yet another step into the realm of Trivia for Squiggle. This week's installment once again features a motherlode of random crap. =)

1301. In 2003, the Transportation Security Administration dropped a requirement that air marshals pass a marksmanship test. Some applicants were even hired after they repeatedly shot flight attendants in mock hijacking episodes.

1302. A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 annually. The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year.

1303. Former keyboard player for Jethro Tull David Palmer is now a woman named Dee Palmer. He waited until his wife died before going through with his longtime desire for a sex change.

1304. During Bill Clinton's entire eight year presidency, he only sent two e-mails. One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system.

1305. The UK's best selling hiking magazine published faulty coordinates for descending Scotland's tallest peak (Ben Nevis), and recommended a route that leads climbers off the edge of a cliff.

1306. The Mars Rover "Spirit" is powered by six small motors the size of "C" batteries. It has a top speed of 0.1 mph..

1307. The Amish have a diet high in meat, dairy, refined sugars and calories. Yet obesity is virtually unknown among them. The difference is since they have no TVs, cars or powered machines, they spend their time in manual labor.

1308. Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com.

1309. As of January 1, 2004, the population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds. There is a birth every eight seconds, an immigrant is added every 25 seconds, but a death every 13 seconds.

1310. There is a Starbucks in Myungdong, South Korea that is five stories tall.

1311. The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of an aspirin tablet.

1312. The world's smallest winged insect is the Tanzanian parasitic wasp. It's smaller than the eye of a housefly.

1313. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.

1314. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

1315. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

1316. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

1317. There are more plastic flamingoes in the United States than real ones.

1318. The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries.

1319. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

1320. Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.

1321. An average of 100 people choke to death on ball point pens each year.

1322. The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

1323. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

1324. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

1325. Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.


Brodski: What's going on?
Rowan: Jason-fucking-Voorhees, that's what's going on!

The previous post's quote was from "Evil Dead II"
Henrietta = Ted Raimi
Ash = Bruce Campbell

After All, It's All About MeMe

A meme I swiped from the one and only High Desert Diva.

List 6 weird or little known facts about yourself:

1. I am an obsessive hand-washer...and it’s not because I’m trying to cleanse my sins away (Out, out, damn spot!) as there is no amount of water or soap in the universe that could do that. I just really like to keep my hands clean. I don’t mind getting them dirty, as long as I can clean them immediately afterwards. My obsession leaves the skin on my hands dry and cracked all the time. I put lotion on my skin, but it gets washed off not too long afterwards…

2. Another obsessive thing: now, I don’t think this is such a bad OCD to have. After locking the door to my house or car, I have to hold and turn the doorknob or pull the handle on my car door to make sure that the door is locked before I walk away…this also goes for windows...I check all doors and windows before leaving somewhere/something. There have been times when I’ve been in a rush and was in my car on the way to work and had to turn around and go home to check the door before being able to proceed with my day.

3. I interned at Miramax for almost two years. I worked mainly in Standards & Practices, which is getting to watch movies and read scripts and flagging all the profanities, obscenities, and nudity…then making a list of all that to be sent to an editor who took all that good stuff out. Not a bad gig. After about a year I also started to help the DVD production department with chapter stops…and a few DVD menu approvals. Basically, 'chapter stops' is the 'technical term' for what goes in to making the scene selections page. It involves watching a flick (preferably with VISIBLE TIME CODE!) and cutting the movie into chapters. I decided where a chapter/scene should begin and end and noted the time code where that happens. Then I titled the chapter and chose a thumbnail image for the scene selections page. They didn’t let me do the really big titles, though. I didn’t get to do "Sin City" or "The Aviator"...I was given all the stuff that the DVD production managers DIDN’T want to do...like all the foreign acquisitions, bad sci-fi acquistions, the really crappy Miramax/Dimension titles...like "Sharkboy & Lavagirl"... I have so many stories...which I won't get in to...but here's a few closing bits: I think the 'biggest' Miramax title I worked on was "The Great Raid" (the theatrical cut, not the extended version...although they did use my theatrical cut stops as the template for the extended)...the title I’m most proud of was "Hellraiser 8: Hellworld" because none of my chapters or titles were changed (and I even used the title of a Marilyn Manson song as one of my chapter titles!...hehe)... Even if a title sucked, it was still fun to do the chapter stops...it’s kind of interesting to have your work 'immortalized'...and then to be able to go to Best Buy and see the DVDon the shelf and be like "I worked on this DVD!"...good times...

4. I dress in black almost every day...and at my job I deal with mainly girl-targeted properties like "Strawberry Shortcake"...so I'm constantly surrounded by tons of pink (or, rather, lightish red!). I feel like I work inside a pink fortress...and I usually listen to black metal (black as in Satanic, not African) at my desk...helps get me through the day...

5. I have two tattoos: one of a cartoon porcupine I used to draw (named Porci!) and the other of the Grim Reaper holding an hourglass. Yeah, I don’t really have a theme going with the pictures I have permanently etched into my body. I’m looking to get a third (and possibly fourth!) one this year...

6. I have seen some very disgusting and filthy things in my lifetime so far (some things real, but mostly staged stuff in movies) and I can handle almost anything...except ANYTHING involving eyeballs. If it involves an eye popping out of its socket, being stabbed, or whatever, I cringe, have to cover my eyes, and even get nauseous...and I have Sam Raimi (a talent I truly respect) to blame for that. I’ve been this way ever since I saw "Evil Dead II" when I was young (and this was before I knew who Sam Raimi or Bruce Campbell were or what Evil Dead was). It’s all because of a scene involving what people involved with Evil Dead called a "flyball"...an eye that came out of a ghoul’s socket and flew across the room into a screaming girl’s mouth...yecccchhh...


Henrietta: I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul!
Ash: [Aims shotgun at Henrietta's face] Swallow this.

The previous post's quote was from "Coming to America"
Rev. Brown = Arsenio Hall

Hamster Backflips

A short video I found on MySpace.com of the above mentioned...


Rev. Brown: He helped Joshua fight the battle of Jericho, he helped Daniel get out the lion's den, he helped Gilligan get off the island.

The previous post's quote was from "Finding Nemo"
Dory = Ellen Degeneres

What's Your Top Score?

Swiped from my ex-boss's myspace page.
I was able to get a 'score' of 22.047 seconds.

Escapa!


Dory: Would you quit it? What, the ocean isnt big enough for you or something like that? You got a problem? Huh? Do ya, do ya, do ya? You wanna piece of me? Yeah, yeah! Ooh, I'm scared now! What?

The previous post's quote was from "Four Rooms"
Ted the Bellhop = Tim Roth
Margaret = Marisa Tomei

"Baby, You Mean the World (of Warcraft) to Me"

From 'The Onion'...a bit more humorous for gamer geeks, I guess, but still an...uh...interesting read...

Baby, You Mean the World of Warcraft to Me


Ted the Bellhop: Later, in another room, some crazy fucking maniac sticks a gun in my face and forces me to play out some psychosexual drama with his wife.
Margaret: He made you have psycho sex with his wife?
Ted the Bellhop: No, he didn't make me fuck his wife, he thought I'd fucked his wife! He held me at gunpoint with a loaded gun!

The previous post's quote was from "Labyrinth"
Jareth = David Bowie

David Bowie is Very Disappointed in You

David Bowie is Very Disappointed in You


Jareth: And I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?

The previous post's quote was from "Monty Python & The Holy Grail"
God & King Arthur = Graham Chapman

"I come in the name of Jesus, bitch!"

Based on the language, I'd say this is rather unsafe for work...

The Spirit of Truth

God bless YouTube...


God: Arthur, King of the Britons, your Knights of the Round Table shall have a task to make them an example in these dark times.
King Arthur: Good idea, O Lord!
God: Of course it's a good idea!

The previous post's quote was from "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"
Prince John = Richard Lewis
Latrine = Tracey Ullman

Trivia for Squiggle #52

Welcome to the latest issue of Trivia for Squiggle! Sorry the TFS posts haven't been coming out on a set day like they used to...I'm working on that...hopefully the flow of things will get back to 'normal' by next week...

And just because I don't think this thought merits it's own post, here goes: Tom & Katie named their baby Suri, which is pronounced the same as the word "surrey." A surrey is a four-wheeled horse-drawn pleasure carriage having two or four seats (also a four-wheeled family 'bike' that can fit up to four adults & two children). I could make a really dirty comment about that right now, but I'll leave it up to the sick minds of my readers to 'fill in the blanks'...geez, yet another opportunity for a dirty thought...yeah, I haven't grown up yet...

1276. There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.

1277. 3,400,000 Americans are considered "Extreme Commuters". These people commute over 90 minutes round trip every day to work.
(Scott’s note: so that makes me an ‘extreme commuter’??? I drive a total of 44 miles round trip to work every day and due to fabulous L.A. traffic, it takes me about two hours round trip...it sucks balls, but hardly seems ‘extreme’...as long as there's good music on, I guess...)

1278. Oslo, Norway is the world's most expensive city. A gallon on gas costs almost $5, and it costs $1.32 to use the public restrooms.

1279. In 1965, auditions were held for the "Monkees" TV show. Some of the people who responded (but were not hired) were Stephen Stills, Harry Nilsson, Paul Williams and Charles Manson.

1280. Kevin Spacey's older brother is a professional Rod Stewart impersonator.

1281. The prison system is the largest supplier of mental health services in America, with 250,000 Americans with mental illness living there.

1282. Newest trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.
(Scott’s note: EGAD! WHY?!?!?!?)

1283. Researchers have found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery than surgeons who didn't play video games.

1284. Hostess Twinkies were originally filled with banana filling. The filling was changed during World War II when the United States experienced a banana shortage.

1285. A deployed air bag adds as much as $2,000 to the cost of repairing a vehicle. That's enough for insurance companies to often declare the car "totaled".

1286. One out of five people in the world (1.1 billion people) live on less than $1 per day.

1287. The New Yorker magazine now has more subscribers in California than New York.

1288. 35 Billion e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.

1289. Life Savers got their shape by a malfunctioning machine, which mistakenly punched a hole in the center of each candy.

1290. There are 150,000,000 cell phones in use in the United States, more than one per every two human beings in the country.

1291. A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.

1292. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.

1293. In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Today it's 36C.

1294. There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped.

1295. Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.

1296. A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.

1297. Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.

1298. In a nod to astronauts, Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.

1299. Eleven top executives of the Direct Marketing Association (the telemarketers' group that is trying to kill the federal "Do Not Call" list) have registered for the list themselves.

1300. Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".


Prince John: Such an unusual name, "Latrine." How did your family come by it?
Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century.
Prince John: You mean you changed it TO "Latrine"?
Latrine: Yeah. Used to be "Shithouse."
Prince John: It's a good change. That's a good change!

The previous post's quote was from "Interview With a Vampire"
Lestat = Tom Cruise

The Apocalypse?

Ok, so the tiny human spawned by Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes has been brought into the world and the heavens have not yet opened up to rain down the apocalypse upon us. Either the rest of us are doing something very right or the day is still young...


Lestat: The dark gift is different for each of us.

The previous post's quote was from "Four Rooms"
Man = Antonio Banderas

The Hat

One of the weirdest things I have seen on the internet...
Ladies and gentlemen...I give you...the hat...

Hatten är din

(it is safe for work...and I can assure you, it DOES end!)


Man: Did they misbehave?

The previous post's quote was from "Blazing Saddles"
Church Congregation = various actors

Best headline of the day so far...

University Ninja Ambushed By Feds On Way To Dining Hall

It was for a "Pirate vs. Ninja" mixer at the University of Georgia! hehehe...that is so fucking cool...


Church Congregation: [singing] Now is a time of great decision / Are we to stay or up and quit? / There's no avoiding this conclusion: / Our town is turning into shit. Amen.

The previous post's quote was from "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"
Achoo = Dave Chappelle

Trivia for Squiggle #51

Ok, so instead of playing catch-up with the two issues of TFS that I missed these past two weeks, I'm just going to consider these recent days as yet another 'season in the abyss'...yeah, I'm lame like that. Work has just been insane and I've been having chronic back pains, so my mind hasn't been on blogging as of late...yeah, again, I'm lame like that. So here is the new issue of Trivia for Squiggle. Number 1275 is one my favorites so far, and I was just wondering if my British readers could verify number 1269...the sad thing is, I'd probably watch that show at least once...or twice...is it still airing?

1251. One of pitcher Nolan Ryan's jockstraps recently sold at auction for $25,000.

1252. The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35.

1253. Gerald Ford once worked as a cover model for Cosmopolitan magazine.

1254. Gillette spent $1,000,000 to place razor samples in the welcome bags handed out at the Democratic National Convention, only to have them confiscated as they were considered a threat. This caused huge delays at all security checkpoints.

1255. Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World.

1256. Jim Carrey voted in 2004 at the Beverly Hills City Hall. He had an assistant wait in line for him, however.

1257. As part of a charity event, 500 cats were spayed and neutered in the cafeteria of an elementary school. School was cancelled for days and $10,000 was spent on cleaning and sterilizing the room.

1258. The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.

1259. Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.

1260. The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.

1261. There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States.

1262. The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.

1263. 32 out of 33 samples of well-known brands of milk purchased in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California had trace amounts of perchlorate. Perchlorate is the explosive component in rocket fuel.

1264. The leading cause of on-the-job deaths in workplaces in America is homicide.

1265. Americans take an average of just ten days per year vacation. In France, the law guarantees everyone five weeks of vacation, and most full-time workers get two full months vacation.

1266. The IRS admits that one in five people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question.

1267. The thong accounts for 25% of the United States women's underwear market.

1268. When you hear a bullwhip snap, it's because the tip is traveling faster than the speed of sound.

1269. There is a television show on a British cable called "Watching Paint Dry". Viewers watch in real-time. Gloss, semi-gloss, matte, satin, you name it. Then viewers vote out their least favorite.

1270. The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy.

1271. A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.

1272. The spring thaw finally allows cemeteries in Alaska to start digging graves for those who died during the winter.

1273. Orthodox rabbis warned that New York City drinking water might not be kosher; it contains harmless micro-organisms that are technically shellfish.

1274. David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts, but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the bunny was on board.

1275. If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves.


Achoo: Let's get out of this ladies clothing and get into our tights!

The previous post's quote was from "Shanghai Knights"
Chon Wang = Jackie Chan

The Bitch is Back

Sorry for being gone so long, folks. Things have been ridiculously busy here at work and I've been so tired when I get home after such long days that I haven't updated my blog or visited anyone else's in about two weeks...but it seems the storm has passed and now the bitch is back. I'm aiming to post this week's and last week's Trivia for Squiggle in a bit.

So with my (not so) triumphant return, here is my gift to you: David Hasselhoff...hooked on a feeling...
http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2006/01/26/
david_hasselhoff_is_hooked_on.html


Chon Wang: Who loves you, baby?
(Ok, so this one's easy, but today is the birthday of the person who spoke this line!)

The previous post's quote was indeed from "Adventures in Babysitting"
Gang Leader = Clark Johnson
Chris = Elisabeth Shue