Fnord Incorporated

…hippie prostitutes in portland…

Regarding a lack of updates, Lately I have just been too tired to get any news or random thoughts online.
I AM SOO TIRED… Jenn was worried that I have been distant, but it is just cause my brain has shut down. suckage.

I have switched shifts at work, now leading off the day by taking on the morning slot. This has it’s bonuses such as leaving at 3 in the afternoon. It has it’s drawbacks too. The main drawback is that I have to wake up at 4:30 so I can catch a bus around 5am. The 5am(ish) bus gets me to the MAX train at 5:20, which drops me at work just at six.  I then begin the work portion of my day.

Recently, this 4:30 wake up changed to 4:00. the adjustment is due to Trimet downtime. They are adding a new MAX line and have one of the major PDX bridges closed down for the majority of the month. This creates an increase to my daily commute in both directions. Luckily, they are running shuttle busses to get people around the detour.

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now.. what DOES NOT SUCK

Meeting bizarre people early in the morning.
While waiting for a shuttle bus this morning, I was approached by a man. He was wearing a blue hat and was thin as a rail.  He looks at me with a large grin and asks me where he can find the “hippie district”

“The what district? hippie?” I ask for confirmation.

“Yeah, hippie district, like in San Francisco, they have Haight and Ashe..”

“This is Portland, we dont have hippi.. wait.. heh. yeah we do. have you tried the Hawthorne/Belmont area?” My brain is tired and I do not have the presence of mind nor the energy to mess with him.

“Yeah, yeah. where is that at. I have only been in Portland one night. I have four more to go and am looking for some ‘Female Companionship’ and maybe a couple bowls to smoke.”

He walks away and says thanks. I didnt have the heart to tell him that he wouldnt find any hookers tehre before he started walking. I guess he will figure it out when he gets there.

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Image above was found through google image search. It was at the following MySpace URL….

If you want to see some Fucked up photos, check their image gallery out… there is some humor and some horror there… http://www.myspace.com/wonkabar23

You may be blinded at somepoint.. You cant hold it against me.. though I WILL laugh at you when it happens

more groucho + lou reed + dog pee

The song above is Lou Reed’s Waiting for the man (Temporary Thing)

This has been posted because of a comment befril made

to get to the qoute befril likes, you need to get about 10 minutes into the song. the song is about 13 min long or so and contains a lot of rambling and lou reed bitching at people who are being asses in the crowd.

my favorite line “i sing… when you shut up….”

what a badaaaassssss..

anyone who is interested in buying the album should check out the 2 disc live set called “Take no Prisoners”

i highly suggest the album. it cracks me up and is a nice listen.. more so for car rides and long walks than just sitting around the house, but awesome all the same.

If you are n the mood for some bizarreness…

try this on for size

a few years back there was a lot of people collecting george w bush quotes and remixing them. the group RX came out with a GW remix of Walk on the Wild Side… mixed with Lennon’s Imagine. i never noticed until this song that they shared the same piano beat and song structure. it kinda threw me for a loop. i had to pull out copies of both songs and play them side by side to prove that i wasnt imagining the correlation. props to RX for bringing this (probably well known) nugget of joy to my poor mind.

This song was part of The Party Party remix album. dont call it a mash up or i will hit you. remix.. RE-Mix…

check out all the trash and the good stuff on the DIY Media site.. you have to filter through it yourself though as there is a lot of crap and i dont have the patience for it anymore.. i think three days last year were enough for me.

http://www.diymedia.net/collage/truth-gwb.htm

DO NOT go to thepartyparty dot com as the site seems to be acting really phishy (ie.. Infected) when i visited it today. ask me if you want a full copy of the album instead.

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witness napkin art as supplied by a food starved and coffee influenced Jennifer.

click to see fullsize

warning: i am going to geek out for a minute or two.

i have a list of my top five favorite video games of all time.

ChronoTrigger (snes)
Final Fantasy III (snes)
Legend of Zelda: A link to the past (snes)
Secret of Mana (snes)
Lufia II (snes)

i pretty much lost interest with most video games once the systems started moving away from cartridges. i cant stand the long load times, i dislike the emphasis on graphics rather than story. if i had my way, i would go back to all games being purely sprite based. there is a decent culture built around this same feeling. i know at least one friend who is in the process of writing and making his own pixel based RPG because he shares the same feelings.

So back story out of the way, a year or so ago, i bought the new release of Final Fantasy VI Advance. This is basically a rerelease of Final Fantasy 3, but with a new cleaned up translation done by Tom Slattery. It is pretty good, but i miss the old Ted Woolsey translation that was done for the Super Nintendo.

I have played this through three or four times since i got it and have had a hell of a lot of fun. recently i got the itch to play again and pulled it out.. in an attempt to get everything accomplished before the catastrophic point of no return mid game, i decided i would take advantage of a walk through. this is something i try to refrain from doing, but sometimes it is easier to reference someone elses work, especially if you have already hammered out a game ahell of a lot of times.

i am now officially glad that i did so. i have not even referenced what i got the walkthrough for yet, mainly because the writing of the introduction is incredibly incredibly enjoyable to read. i decided that i would back it up, post it for access here and throw a snippet of it up for reading.

i know that most people who visit thsi site will not be interested in this, but, as always, tell me it sucks and move along.. there is no reason to try to force you to read it.. you will be missing out though.. seriously..

if you want a great introduction, read the foreword,
for straight up humor, scroll down to the introduction excerpt,
if you want the whole kit n kaboodle, scroll down to the GameFaqs link

Foreword written by Imzogelmo

The year was 1994.
Until that time, humanity seemed a bleak existence — why, the 20th century alone saw the world ravaged by two world wars, a tense period known as the Cold War, and various regional conflicts. Finally, in the latter decades of the century, a new ray of hope emerged — the video game. Instead of fighting and killing one another, now mankind could do sovicariously or, if it was preferred, two could team up and do battle against
a fictional foe.

Like all forms of expression, the video game underwent many reformations (or generations) before the recipe became “just right.” Several genres of game sprang into being: platform games, shoot-em-ups, action/adventures, sports, puzzlers, fighting games, and RPGs. Each type of game appealed to a different
type of player or interest, and all the while advances were being made both in capacity of games’ data and complexity of the hardware used to run it. By the early 1990’s, the types of presentation that would work with a given genre were well-established, and players could afford to specialize in a particular genre without narrowing the field of games too greatly.

That brings us back to 1994, or, as Nintendo called it, “The year of the cartridge.” In that year,  _Final_Fantasy_VI_ was released, and there was much rejoicing. The genre was RPG; the fictional foe was the evil Emperor Gestahl, and later, the pompous nihilist Kefka. Sure, there were other RPGs before it, but none that struck the perfect balance of character similarity vs. diversity, importance of storyline vs. gameplay, and plot linearity vs. non-linearity.

The depth of characters and robustness of the game engine (plus the time investment required to fully explore the nuances of the game) made this one of the highest-rated games in terms of replayability. Furthermore, the vivid graphics and moving musical score made it a complete experience, not just a game.

“But it is just a game!” I hear someone in the back say.

No, it is not just a game. In the fast-paced world where information is old as soon as it can be emailed, a video game generally has a very small window of time that it is considered new or exciting. For the early history of
video games that may not have been so true, but for the entire history of this game, the internet has been a very influential medium for discussion among players. For many fans of the series, this is still the greatest game, in spite of the hype surrounding some of its successors. So no, it is not “just a game” — it is a culture. And like many great cultures, it needs great works to explain, enhance, and record its story.

To document every piece of useful (and no-so-useful) data on a culture — that’s a difficult task. Many approximations have come forward, but always they have had inaccurate, inconsistent, or insufficient information. That is not meant as an insult on previous guides — like I said, it’s difficult. Much information has been uncovered through deliberate playing and replaying of the game, through hacking its internal code and data, and through combined effort of its many fans. This guide seeks to improve upon and surpass all
previous attempts. This guide seeks to be the great work of which I speak.
This guide covers _everything_.

 an excerpt from Djibriel’s Introduction.

The original document was first released in November 2005, and we’re roughly two years down the road now. It may seem weird to some that ’simply ‘adapting the original 1381 kB file took about as long as writing the monstrosity in the first place, but you’d be surprised at how much work it is! Saint Jerome and Ted Woolsey would’ve shared my pain I’m sure, had they not both passed away 16 centuries ago.

At the very start of this document I’d like to mention that none of this would have ever happened if there weren’t so many righteous characters out there who advised my walkthrough to people on the message boards, who e-mailed me just to say they enjoyed the FAQ in one way or another or otherwise made me feel like I didn’t spend all this time just for personal enjoyment… I had a market to work for. Hotels around the globe replaced their Holy Bible with a printed version of the Battle Tactics Walkthrough. Rumors have comely women carry snippets of my guide in their panties to feel sexier and more confident. Like Stephen King and Robert Jordan, I had to struggle to deliver my ultimate work before Death’s ever-fickle hand took me in its grip. Before you, you see the results. The all-inclusive Walkthrough and Battle Tactics Guide for Final Fantasy VI Advance.

But what is this document you’re seeing? Does it really contain everything? Is it some kind of Hitchhiker’s Guide to FF VI Advance? The Encyclopedea CCLV VI Supremea? The Cosmog Sutra, where you’ll learn all about Tantric Gameplay (lasts for hours; winning the battle is NOT the main goal)?

Anyway, thats all i had. it was just well written and continues to be so all the way through the end.

link to the orgininal file on GameFaqs

The Advance Walkthrough and Battle Tactics Guide; WoB
Version 1.2
Djibriel, August 2007
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“Read this” graffiti image found via google images in a subdirectory called ~epstein on OFB.net
lots of great images in both places, go check them out if you get the chance

Alex goes to the dentist.

My buddy Alex went to the dentist today.

how he returned cracks me up.

i am glad for him being a good sport… otherwise i would not have been able to record this