-"Hey do you like Bob Marley and Doritos?"

-"Yeah."
-"Do you want to hang out?"
-"Are you serious?"
-"Yeah."
-"Um..."
-"Do you need a ride?"
-"I think I already have one. Hold on. So what are you guys doing right now?"
-"This."
-"My ride's on its way already. Do you guys want to come to my house though?"
-"We'll be there in an hour."

*Conversation edited for conciseness. Pic extremely related.

Million Dollar Idea 1

Blastoise Eyedrop Dispenser
(Patent, rights to use trademark and clever name pending.)

Not only, but Also

SO, if you think you're just about done with your preconceptions about films you should watch "The Holy Mountain."∴
Even better than listening to June on the West Coast on a 5am drive home.





∴If you already have, then "I conquered the holy mountain horizontally! Horizontally!"

Under construction

I bought a Radeon Powercolor HD3850 about 6 months ago, to add a year or two to my aging AGP system. It seems like it's been one long blue screen of death since I installed it.
My computer has always had its quirks, and even though I've been able to play Runescape almost turned all the way up since installing the card, I can no longer deal with the constant bsoding, crashing and failure to boots that have come with the new hardware. I could do nothing but ٩๏̯͡๏)۶ when I tried playing KOTOR for nostalgia's sake and my machine straight up bsoded. I acquired a copy of KOTOR2 and the same happened. Once again, I could do nothing but ٩๏̯͡๏)۶.
Mind you, I've tried every solution, patch and hotfix I've found on the tubes, but to no avail.
I will try to fix my system one last time before giving up hope of ever finding a solution. I will document my last attempt here.
First, I'll uninstall my current 8.5 drivers. I'll (hopefully) reboot, run drivercleaner (thank you afterdawn) and reboot again. Then I'll install SP3, shut the system off and see if I can feed the card more power. Start up again and change the AGP aperture to 256 from the BIOS (I read somewhere that Powercolor recommended this.) Boot Windows, install the 9.6 hotfix drivers. Anything that can be fixed should be fixed at this point. I'll (try) update this entry before I go to work.
-Update-
Fail. Working on safe mode.
Did all that and increased the AGP voltage to 1.6 and it still BSODed when I booted. I'm gonna try to start it up again in an hour and/or after work. If it boots like before then at least I'll have SP3 and new drivers. If not then I'll just read Atlas Shrugged instead of playing KOTOR. At least Rand understands my troubles...
-Update update-
Hurrah! I didn't try to start it until this morning and it worked, to my surprise. Catalyst Control Center is pretty cool. And I don't know if it's the new drivers or Catalyst or SP3 but my display is way sharper. Now I can play DotA with AA. Mama mia!

TL;DR version:
New graphics card=bsod. New driver, bios setting and control center later still does, but performs better.

For your convenience

A couple of friends of mine
decided to apply at Ralph's a few days ago and I came along to support them spiritually and make sure they were in top minimum wage job application-filling shape. This all fell apart when I noticed the mobility scooter next to the application computer.
It all started innocently enough: I had just gotten from work that night--my legs ached terribly and I sought nothing from the scooter except a little relief from my pains. But just as Satan tainted Iscariot's heart when the bread of the Last Supper fell into his traitorous hands, so my heart was filled with a delinquent desire as soon as my buttocks fell into the inexplicably warm leather seat of the scooter. I rode off into the great unknown of Ralph's. Everything seemed so different; I'm used to walking around with a 6ft eye level, but while on the scooter I must have been at least a foot and a half shorter. It took all my willpower to keep the huge shit-eating grin off my face when I passed the other customers. It wasn't until I tried to parallel park the scooter in one of the isles that I lost it, the beeping sound emitted when I went in reverse made me laugh pretty hard. I wouldn't have been satisfied unless I completed a full circuit, even though it required me to scoot past the registers and the manager. She gently requested that I get off the scooter unless I needed it when I passed her, bringing my journey to an end.
It was decided that we should make up for my transgression by loitering in front of the store. We hadn't gotten 5 minutes of good loitering before a heavily tattooed man approached us and asked us if we were there Hey Mistering people. An employee happened to be walking by right then, and to everyone's delight he suggested that we were engaging in illegal activities, a statement which was not only original but also quite amusing.
My friend that first applied has finished at this point, and my other friend went inside. The tattooed man came out of the store and began to tell us about his life after a brief introduction: his four year incarceration and the riot during which he stabbed a child molester 26 times (I gave him the brofist when he told us this, though I regretted it when he told us the guy almost died) his fortieth birthday celebration, etc. My friend seemed a little uncomfortable with the dude and lied when he asked for our names and ages. I thought he was awwwright.
Shortly after the manager came out of the store and I wished her a good night. A guy was bumping Loveline on the parking lot when we left.
So
I'm 5 weeks into my summer and I've had relatively little excitement. I'm halfway through my financial goal; maybe a little ahead.
And as much as I enjoy dippin' my pudding pop in milk, I couldn't help but dip a little into horticulture (paperwork pending.)
I hope to have something a little more interesting to write about next time.

p.s.
MHFU rocks.

21(+10)

21 PL Kyodan Precepts
1. Life is art.
2. Man's life is a succession of self-expressions.
3. Man is a manifestation of God.
4. Man suffers if he fails to express himself.
5. Man's true self is lost when swayed by feelings and emotions.
6. Man's true self is revealed when his ego is effaced.
7. All things exist in mutual relationship to one another.
8. Live radiantly as the sun.
9. All men are equal.
10. Strive for creating mutual happiness.
11. Have true faith in God.
12. There is a way (function) peculiar to every "name" (existence)
13. There is a way for men, and there is another for women (Blogger's note: I'm hoping they mean for both "ways" to be equally important, not the women's way to end in the kitchen or something. )
14. All is for world peace
15. All is a mirror
16. All things progress and develop
17. Comprehend what is most essential
18. At every moment man stands at the crossroads of good and evil
19. Act when your intuition dictates
20. Live in a perfect unity of mind and matter
21. Live in Perfect Liberty

Decalogue
1. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; Do not have any other gods before me.

2. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

3. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.

5. Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

6. You shall not kill

7. You shall not commit adultery.

8. You shall not steal.

9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

10 You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.
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Just because I don't want this entire post to be copy-pasted. I read the Precepts and I thought they were awesome (I'm looking at you 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 18 and possibly 13) and I'd love to share them.
I also read the Ten Commandments in class. I hadn't read the "real" Bible commandments in a few years. I just wanted to put the two of them together to (try to) illustrate that

Religion, in all its forms, is beautiful.

Propaganda

I've always liked propaganda. Something about making government appealing to the public lends itself to humor really well. It's even better when the propaganda tries to appeal to a culture I'm not familiar with.
For example: "I want a guy like Putin" from the album "One like Putin."

These are the lyrics:
"My boyfriend is in trouble once again:
Got in a fight, got drunk on something nasty
I've had enough and I chased him away
And now I want a man like Putin

One like Putin, full of strength
One like Putin, who won't be a drunk
One like Putin, who wouldn't hurt me
One like Putin, who won't run away!

I've seen him on the news last night
He was telling us that the world has come to crossroads
With one like him, it's easy to be home and out
And now I want a man like Putin

One like Putin, full of strength
One like Putin, who won't be a drunk
One like Putin, who wouldn't hurt me
One like Putin, who won't run away!"

That's right. The Russian government paid for that music video. I wonder if our goverment will follow suit since it seemed to work pretty well for the Kremlins.
Oh boy I can't wait until Obama is up for reelection!