Awthum Empire Interview With VidKidz.

Vidkidz are pretty awesome. Destroyed For Comfort has had the pleasure of working with them a couple of times and they do great projection work. Click here for Awthum Empire's interview with them.

A REGULAR GUY SEEKING A REGULAR GAL.

You laugh, but this guy already lists about three things that could make him a better catch than me. And can you really afford to be so picky in these insane computer times we live in?

I Can't Possibly Be The First One To Think Of This - Volume 1

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Beat My High Score: Van Van Car

I'm not claiming to be some sort of video game master, but the above is a score I achieved on an actual arcade machine. No emulators, no codes. Can you beat this score? If so, upload some photographic evidence and link to it in the comments. Then I'll come back and try to beat your score.

In this case, it's currently: 48000 at Van Van Car

Creepy Facebook Ad Is Creepy.

I was kind of a late starter to the whole Facebook thing, and now that I'm on there and found most everybody I know, people are fleeing in droves. Many of the reasons they've given were perfectly reasonable, privacy issues and such, but one has just never seemed to match up with reality for me.

If Facebook has spent the year or so I've been on it gathering some sort of database on my interests to customise the ads that show up, something has been going horribly, horribly wrong. Why else would I be getting this ad for what I can only assume is a referee job for some Italian sport that has recently come into fashion:



And when the ads aren't completely baffling, they advocate a position so far removed from my personal beliefs that it's staggering:



Seriously, it's like I've got a personal Tea Party protest marching up and down the right margin of my Facebook front page.

I mean, Facebook can offer adspace to anyone they want. I'm not arguing that. But if the ads that show up on my front page are generated based on the interests they have logged for me, I can only infer they're deliberately chosen to upset me and piss me off. That just seems, well, counterproductive.

I'll be 33 next month; a postage-stamp sized ad in the corner of a social networking site is hardly going to inspire me to reverse my political stance. Have they just given up on ever getting click-through revenue from me and want to be bitchy about it now?

Then a week ago I get the ad that nearly makes me delete my Facebook profile right then and there:



Then I shake off my knee-jerk indignant response that I was already a teenager by the time Paxil was invented, much less possibly prescribed to anyone in my family, but frankly I resent what you are implying there Facebook. I shake off the idea that Facebook could somehow have access to my medical records or even my Myspace blog (where I've mentioned my experience with Paxil), because that is the kind of thoughts a crazy person has.

Frankly, even as a randomly generated ad, it's creepy enough.

Then it hits me. Paxil was invented in 1992. That would make the kids of some of the first prescribed patients 18 now. A bunch of 18 year olds with emotions running rampant. Probably away from family for the first time in college and confused about life. And there, in the corner of their social networking site, is an ad suggesting that all that confusion could be blamed squarely on a parent.

Damn, Facebook. You shady.

Beat My High Score: Shao Lin's Road

I'm not claiming to be some sort of video game master, but the above is a score I achieved on an actual arcade machine. No emulators, no codes. Can you beat this score? If so, upload some photographic evidence and link to it in the comments. Then I'll come back and try to beat your score.


Admin edit: In the comments section from a different post, a guy claimed to have reached a score of 755,300 at Shao Lin's Road. Unfortunately we were unable to arrange a situation for him to provide proof of my defea-OH HOLY SHIT...



What do we have here? Looks like I managed to OH HOLY MOTHER OF GOD-



What's that? Is that what I think it is? Is that me just fucking totally fuckstomping the fucking fuck out of that fucking score, pic or no pic?

'Cause that's kinda what it looks like. Just sayin'.

In all seriousness tho, thanks for writing in Tony. It was fun taking you up on your challenge.

Current high score: 127700 at Shao Lin's Road. Bitches.

The Extent To Which The Internet Has Broken Me.

Did you watch the video? If you haven't already seen it, it's of an unweened cat that suckles the air around him, flapping his little tongue around. It's very cute, and very funny. So how terrible of a person does it make me that the following was the very first thing I thought of:



You can be honest. It makes me a pretty terrible person. I know. I wasn't always this way, tho. The internet has broken me.

Fine, then. Go follow the fucking cat on Facebook and stop looking at me that way. You know you laughed.

While you're here, you might as well leave all your most terrible, um, "cat" licking jokes in the comments. It will please me.