I've got to apologize for the fact that most of the updates are pretty persona, but hey, what can I say? It's my website.

Anyway, just to fill you guys in on what I'm thinking, I rented Dogma last night (DVD of course), and it is one fantastic movie. I saw it in the Theaters, but it's even better the second time you watch it. Jason Lee makes a great Loki, and Jay and Silent Bob are pure entertainment. Watched the first of the only two aired episodes of Clerks: The Cartoon, and I'm damn pissed that the show was cancelled. I'll be sure to buy them as soon as the only six produced episodes are released to video. What can I say? Kevin Smith kicks ass.

Now, settle back in your seats folks, things are about to get surreal. Or campy. Depends on your definition. I don't know who said this originally (and every search for "famous quotes" landed me either on a humor site or a stocks site), so I'll just paraphrase: If it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly, or something like that. Let me explain.

Driving: There are a few basic rules that if everyone followed to the letter, we'd cut our accident rate in half. Firstly, don't use your god damned brakes on the highway. You would be amazed at how much you'll slow down naturally if you'd just let go of the accelerator! If you hit your brakes, the person behind you doesn't know if you're just easing up, or coming to a complete stop, so now they've got to hit their brakes. And here's a hint for you Buckeye's out there: the very left lane is not the fast lane, it's the PASSING lane. So if someone comes up behind you, get the fuck out of their way. As a matter of fact, I usually don't change lanes at all unless I'm slowing down the guy who's behind me. Here's the formula for those who can't figure it out. If you're more than two miles away from your exit, stay in the passing lane (unless you're slowing people down or impeding them from passing, as mentioned above). Once you get within a few miles of your exit, hop into the middle lane. Then, a mile before your exit (but not before any other exits if you can help it!), drop into the right hand exit lane and thank you for driving my highways. Lastly, and this is a COMMON misconception, you do not need to slow down (much less hit your fucking breaks) when changing lanes! By doing so, you slow down both your lane, and the lane you're merging into, resulting in people wanting to break your legs. Find a hole, keep the same velocity (that's 'speed' for the nit-wits out there) and merge over. If you can't concentrate on finding a hole and keeping the same speeds, you don't deserve your license. Which is what it boils down to. We Americans take one (1) test to get our license and no more. Ever. I think we should rethink that particular stroke of genius.

MP3s: This kinda counts, but kinda doesn't. I know everyone's got their own style of labelling/modifying their mp3s, but I'll go ahead anyway. I just added five albums to my mp3 collections. Most of my mp3s are albums that I've owned throughout my life, so piss off on your "MP3s are Communism!" bullshit (mad props to SteveW). Fact of the mater is, CDs are, like any rotating physical medium, susceptible to degradation, and most of my favorite CDs harken from the days of 1988 Heavy Metal. Most of these CDs are almost ruined due to scratches and scuff marks. So, I burn them all. I don't plan on ever using a CD player again, if I can help it, with the exception of taking a new album and burning it to MP3s. Anyway, I just spent quite awhile doing this, because damnit, I'm gonna do it right. Each of my MP3s is labelled with the title of the song, the band name, the album name, publish date, etc. I've got over fourteen hundred of 'em, and each one is labelled properly.

Don't be a half-ass. That's all I'm sayin'. When I work on a webpage, I don't whip up some shitty generic graphics and a primitive college-days layout. And I make sure that the page looks decent in IE and (shudder) Netscape. The guys who made Vampire just released a major patch for the game, not a fucking week after the game hit the shelves. How could they have found so many bugs and fixed them all so quickly? Couldn't have been by user feedback, not within a week. They knew about the problems as the game went to press and said, "We'll just keep working on it, and slap all the fixes in the fucking patch." Well, guys, I didn't like the game much when I first put it in, and I doubt I'll spend that much time downloading the patch for a game I didn't enjoy much at first impression. Why didn't you wait a week and *then* publish the game? Producers hasslin' ya? Tell 'em to fuck off. In the words of The Tree: "Take a lesson from Blizzard". Daikatanna waited until the game was done, and it was a shitty game, but they waited. And I'll respect Romero for that at least.

(hehe, whaddyaknow, I turned this rant into a gaming article! w00t!)