Herd of Cats

This is an old one, but still brings me to tears. Tom Mabe is a specialist at making telemarketers squirm:

I'll leave it up to Weird Al to portray the sentiments. He's an honourary Canadian anyway.

Which, says something about Canada, but I'm not sure what.

So, Pebbles forced me to buy Rock Band for the Wii. Revek forced me to unwrap it at his place and play 4 songs. Pebbles forced me to sing Roxanne. Cyn forces me to play bass daily. I am sure Gabba will force me to play drums for 5 hours straight this afternoon when she comes back from her grandparents and sees we have bought this game without her here.

As you can see, Rock Band has a lot of Force.

And I am weak.

OMG DIABLO III!!!!

When it comes to video games, occasionally I obsess
It's rare though.
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Well over the weekend in an email loop for some of the volunteers for City Chase Ottawa.

So here is my actual response:

Hey guys since the majority of us are in the West end why not meet at the Local Herpes (Local Heroes for you non Ottawans) on Clyde.

It was a typo which I didn't realize until one of the girls who happens to be one of my "special friends" replies:

I hope that is a Freudian slip....lol

xoxo
See you tomorrow

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This time it's MoriceRevek's fault

What the ???: my Xbox 360 Console trying to play GRID.So the latest step in Revek's campaign to make sure I never loan him anything again my Xbox 360 Core system, recently returned from a weekend visit with Revek and his cousin, has stopped reading DVD and game disks. And it doesn't read them in a very loud manner.

The latest twist (see picture) happened in the most recent attempt to convince it to play GRID, apparently it thinks its a Wii. While I am not sure what Legen sie diese Disk zum Abspielen in eine Xbox 360 Konsole ein means I am fairly sure its similar to "You're screwed, send us (Microsoft) even more money." And yes, I am probably going to. Sometimes I hate myself. And sometimes I hate MoriceRevek.

Version 4.0 of Xbox Live Friends on OSX actually works now. It's about time. Get it while it is fresh.
It supports real gamer info as well as full Xbox messaging, as confirmed by a confused Revek...

...to our next LAN party

I can picture HoC doing this now.

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I think I would be shooting at the hot chicks first

Tonight's Sega Night game is GRID. It's a fun, semi-realistic, semi-arcade racing game with pretty graphics and slick gameplay. It's a great game for the gang of losers who make up HoC but can't bring themselves to pick up a gun and shoot the bad guys. Read more

So Guba fixed it

While I did update the Operation Petticoat post with a couple of photos yesterday, I am adding them here with a couple more of the finished (first) coat of paint.

The Blizzard web site has a new splash screen. No words, just an opening through ice with three sigils lightly concealed within. Speculation is it may be a teaser for Diablo III

OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE! OH PLEASE!

Cool feature in GRID only cool for common(ers) folks

As referred to in many of the reviews GRID allows you to select real names from a list and have your crew chief use it to refer to you over the radio. It adds significantly to the immersion.

Close enough

It's a refreshing change to hear your real name in the mid race radio chatter...

Unfortunately, while it is a fairly large selection, many unique and wonderful real names are not included. Boring commoner names like (for example) Christopher and Patrick are all over the place. There is also a substantial list of female names and for those left out, nicknames. I use, appropriately enough, Crash.

Fortunately, for one of our Herd Members, he has not been left totally out in the cold as Victoria is available.

I look forward to seeing you on the race track Ma'am.

Yes, there is a way. And we wouldn't have to go to jail.

Lego has provided us with an out. A solution to the problem.

Of course, I'm not sure Guba will be able to collect on the life insurance. At least not until he's forgotten to eat for long enough.