Which of the X-Men are YOU?

You Are Cyclops

Dedicated and responsible, you will always remain loyal to your cause. You are a commanding leader - after all, you can kill someone just by looking at them. Power: force beams from your eyes

Which of the X-Men Are You?

Goddamn it.

Random quotes from my past, provided without context #37

SPIDER-MAN AND SHIT

-- Steve Kwan

Current Music: Super Furry Animals - Hermann Loves Pauline

1000th game

Over the last ten months, since my 500th game -- a memorable loss, unfortunately -- I've played another 500 games of Minesweeper Flags, 300+ of them against Rachel, who has definitely supplanted Jim and Adam as my bitterest rival. (Jim, in fact, stopped playing for so long that his record has been blanked on the MSN servers.) This recently put me at my 1000th game, and this could only go to said bitterest rival (although I did try to get a game in the week preceding with Jim that was aborted due to MSN games troubles and a Blue Jays game, and I played several with Adam. Thanks guys, you are formidable opponents).

The game itself proceeded as follows:

We started with some good HDM. It is tight though and neither of us gains a convincing upper hand.

After this first flurry, despite my being distracted by repeatedly hitting "Print Screen" and pasting to a Paint window, I manage to open up a decent lead. This is probably attributable equally as much to her mistakes as my solid play, as evidenced by this mistake:

Alas, she gets on a roll and the game evens:

However, while I am infuriated at this point and beginning to curse the MF gods who would make another of my milestone games a loss, I remember the errors that caused my 500th game downfall and maintain my cool, continuing with my methodical and responsible play, waiting for a mistake, biding my time. At least I can hold my head high and say, "It was no one's fault. I'm not an idiot," I think to myself.

Fortunately, it didn't come to that.

Cost you the game. Cost you the game.

A late desperate bomb was, alas, too little and much too late, and I swooped in for the kill. gg, Rachel.

My record over 1000 games: 745-255, for an 0.745 winning percentage exactly. A slip from my 0.75 winning percentage over the first 500 games, but most of these games were against stiff competition - not a lot of newbie fodder this 500 games, nosireebob. Hey, I'll still beat your ass.

Good times.

Current Music: Ron Sexsmith & The Uncool - Grand Opera Lane

The Fiscally Unsound Misadventures of Dickolas Wang

About four months ago, after at least one encounter with a very pushy salesman, I bought the cheapest cell phone I could find to go with my prepaid plan. At first I wasn't sure I wanted to keep it, but, well, it's been four months now and I haven't looked back. I finally sat down to take care of the mail-in rebate, only to find that the rebate form had to have been sent by April 30, 2006.

While I might just be a moron for this, I specifically remember the salesperson telling me that the rebate could be sent in anytime in either the next six months or the next twelve months. She didn't give me a fixed date like April 30, in any case. Tomorrow I suppose I will call T-Mobile and plead my case, but I see nothing but a headache and growing frustration in my immediate future.

Why did I wait so long? Firstly, because at first I wasn't sure I would keep it. Secondly, because after I had decided to keep it, I thought I'd have until at least July. Lastly, and this is stupid, cutting the proof of purchase out of boxes is my pet peeve. I'm a packrat, and I like to keep all of my packaging pristine. So much so, in fact, that I'm now asking myself whether or not, if I'm being really really honest with myself, deep down I always thought the $30 wasn't worth it to keep the box that my very first cell phone came in intact.

What am I saying? Of course it fucking wasn't.

Current Music: Feist - Mushaboom
Current deep-down personal feeling: Yeah, maybe it was

Somebody needs to wash their hair

Ever mixed Diet Coke and Mentos? I haven't, but Slashdot has.

For the non-Slashdotters out there: what happens when you mix Diet Coke and Mentos.

Current Music: Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain

Is Ross Perot still alive?

Dunning could probably take Ross Perot in the octagon.

Things I have learned from the Durnken Dunning podcast thus far:

• Grimace (of McDonalds fame) was a tastebud.


• The world vinegar market is tied to the US dollar.


• The Hambliger, ninjas, albino giraffes, the survivors of the Hindenburg, Hugo Boss, all switched da knobs.

Current Music: Feist

Where have you been all my life, Golden Oreos?

Today in the cookie aisle of the Safeway on Shattuck I discovered New! Golden Oreos Original.

I did a double take -- could this be, at last, the white Girl Guide/Scout cookies of my youth, available through channels that don't require me to speak to a real live girl?

Yes!

Now that's a good cookie, and with zero grams of trans fats per serving!

Tomorrow I will try some more of them in combination with decaffeinated green tea. Take that, free radicals!

Current Music: Eisley - Marvelous Things