Year of the Freak

NARF!!

Do do... Do do...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet...

Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeak!!!!!!!!!!

Batman Goes Insane

I follow the blog of comic artist Scott McCloud (who has written Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics, amongst other things) and yesterday he had a link to a review/analysis of the first half of what appears to be a recent Batman comic. And O.M.G! It is soooo weird. I just had to share the link with my readers: here it is.

I think it kind of blew my mind.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Babble, Babble

We want to do some things, that are like things, and some other things, that are more like stuff. When something is done, or when stuff is done, there is a reaction to a perpedicular vector. Or maybe a canteloupe. Regardless, the other stuff is roasting to a sizzling height of consciousness. I know not what that means, it's just all gobbledegook. Where does it all end? For that matter, where did it start? Nothing is the same now that everything is nothing. A dollar bill fell on my head the other day and that causes the wall to collapse, because dollar bills are coins now. Haven't you heard? The eleven o'clock train came by at ten. But that was then and this is not then. Perhaps it is now. Or maybe it will be now later. Whichever is the case, I am wearing socks, and my socks are wearing little velvet hats covered in sparkles. But they don't sparkle because they're defective. I know that because they were made by badgers. Lousy, lousy badgers. My mind reels at the mediocrity of it all. Or it would if there were anything mediocre about, but it's all sauce, sauce covered in noodles and topped with a plate. My glasses are too tight and maybe that's why I'm babbling like this. Er. So, stuff...

'Tis the Season... Not

So, I was at the mall today to get some thank you cards to send to my references since they were pretty awesome about getting the reference letters in for the Vanier scholarship on such short notice. When I went into the card store I couldn't help but notice that they ALREADY HAD CHRISTMAS STUFF OUT. And it's only early October. I mean, cripes! I know capitalism/materialism is getting a bit out of hand these days, but still, couldn't they at least wait until after Thanksgiving? (*)

Sigh.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

(*) And by Thanksgiving, I mean Canadian Thanksgiving which is this weekend.

Moon Weasles

I finished the DS version of Final Fantasy 4 recently. As I've previously done a detailed report on FF4, I'm not going to say too much here as the DS version is largely similar to previous versions, though much prettier. Overall, though, I think it was a pretty good remake. I thought the transition to 3D graphics was well done and, as a result, it looks much nicer than the old SNES version. The general look and feel of things, including spell animations and such, was pretty faithful to the original. The redone translation was also nice, injecting some more character into some things while retaining fan favourite lines such as "You spoony bard!"

One thing I will say about the DS version is that it seemed harder than I remembered it. Monsters seemed to generally hit harder and when fighting the final boss, Big Bang hurt a lot, nearly wiping me out each time it was used. Well, keeps you on your toes at least.

Also, I still say the voice actors in the cut scenes mispronounced "Cecil"

In a not in any way related to Final Fantasy note, as I was walking to school along Erb this morning, I saw a driver at an intersection (not a major one) do a U-turn from the right-most lane into the left-most lane and proceed the wrong way down Erb for a bit. They seemed to have realized their mistake (the oncoming traffic was probably a hint) and turned around to go the correct way. I did notice that the driver was on a cell phone at the time so I don't know if they just weren't paying attention (brain melt down due to the phone or something) or if they aren't from around here and just weren't aware that Erb is a one-way street. Anyway, just a bit of a WTF moment there.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Spam wth a Side of Spam (and a little bacon)

As is the case with many people, I suspect, I get a non-negligible amount of spam in my spam folder. Today there was one in there with a title that seems to have broken my brain:

"Your car's window broken"

The first line of the message (which my e-mail reader graciously provides me without having to actually open the e-mail) suggests it's a spam regarding cheap pharmacuticals. I don't know why this particular title/contents combination has broken my brain, but it just left me scratching my head going "WTF!?"

Oh well, at least it was mildly amusing.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Not Wearing Underwear Today

Well, actually I am, but the song from Avenue Q has been bouncing through my head the past few days. And, yes, this is a post about underwear - my underwear, to be precise, so if that seems like its going to be too much in the realm of "too much information" then theres a nifty post about a couple of my projects just below this one to read instead.

Anywho... I needed to get some new underwear recently and decided to get some boxes, for something different (nearly forgot I'd gotten them, too) and I have to say the feel weeeeeeird! It's like wearing a pair of shorts under my jeans. Yes, I know they're called boxer *shorts*, and while I was expecting them to feel a bit odd at first, I was just expecting them to feel a little less odd.

Oh well. I think I'm starting to get used to them now, so that's fine.

Freak Out,
-TFitC