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Bonus annoyance: I'm thinking of that one ATHF episode where Karl gets the magic Foreigner belt. Sadly, I think that's hilarious.
$not_first_time is not a good variable name:- Not the first time for what, exactly? (This isn't helped by the fact that this programmer doesn't believe in using inline comments. Ever.)
- It's awfully rude to use an inverse boolean like that, where it's false if the thing it tracks is true, and vice versa.
not($first_time)reads much better thannot($not_first_time), no? - I can't get that song from Foreigner out of my head now.
Bonus annoyance: I'm thinking of that one ATHF episode where Karl gets the magic Foreigner belt. Sadly, I think that's hilarious.
I finally just got the joke in this PBF comic after encountering it for the third time. It's pretty funny, but it should have emphasized more that the book-people aren't looking at each other in the middle panel. In fairness, I suppose this is tricky to do if your characters lack faces.
(At first I thought maybe the man-book was apologizing for impotence or something, but that didn't really explain why they're books in the first place. I found myself feeling a whisper of 6th-grade anxiety that here was a dirty joke that all my friends were laughing at while it only perplexed me.)
(At first I thought maybe the man-book was apologizing for impotence or something, but that didn't really explain why they're books in the first place. I found myself feeling a whisper of 6th-grade anxiety that here was a dirty joke that all my friends were laughing at while it only perplexed me.)
Tobias 's Queen Mary
Mar. 23rd, 2007 08:44 amHas anyone written a treatise on the (male) homoeroticism of Arrested Development? Once the show gets going, it has gay-sexy-jokey streaming from no fewer than three characters. At first you're like, "Boy, this show sure does like to wink at teh gay", but then you see that this humor is textured entirely differently for each of the three; it's not (entirely) the "ha ha good thing we're not gay" stuff that any guy-oriented sitcom can sledgehammer around for a cheap laugh. The writers put a lot of thought into making it nuanced. (And funny enough that I laugh like an ape.)
I'm starting to suspect that Gob was supposed to be openly bisexual, and that it just never come up as an overt statement during in-show conversation. (Then again I'm only midway through season 2.)
I'm starting to suspect that Gob was supposed to be openly bisexual, and that it just never come up as an overt statement during in-show conversation. (Then again I'm only midway through season 2.)
Speaking of game systems that aren't the Wii: it's time for another installment of Jmac is totally calling this.
I am totally calling this:
Before 2010 there will be a megahit $60-or-more FPS game where players, after pulling off a particularly stunning takedown, can have their onscreen dudes literally and explicitly rape their fallen opponents. Boys everywhere will delight in proxy-assfucking their friends in humiliating HD, before topping it off with a curbstomp or chainsaw-to-the-head or whatever. It will be all over the news and O the outrage and it will sell a nillion copies.
I am totally calling this:
Before 2010 there will be a megahit $60-or-more FPS game where players, after pulling off a particularly stunning takedown, can have their onscreen dudes literally and explicitly rape their fallen opponents. Boys everywhere will delight in proxy-assfucking their friends in humiliating HD, before topping it off with a curbstomp or chainsaw-to-the-head or whatever. It will be all over the news and O the outrage and it will sell a nillion copies.
My take-away is that any time a congressman starts obsessing in public about all the sexual perversion on the internets, he's quite likely deep into whatever-it-is himself, and is trying to assuage his own guilty feelings by making a public stand against the thing that leads him into temptation every night he's in a hotel with a net connection, or at home after the wife's gone to bed.
Maybe he feels that if they just make the internet illegal all these bad feelings will stop.
Maybe he feels that if they just make the internet illegal all these bad feelings will stop.
Acid mod enabled.
Sep. 29th, 2006 11:38 amI have been playing too much Ratchet & Clank. I must have just sunk half an hour into this game's version of grinding-for-gold. OK, I have the stupid qwack-o-ray now. Time to hang up the controller for a while.
The job thing has been resolved! The long delay was, I have been informed, due to egregious internal miscommunication at the company. I am holding a contract in my hot little hands. I have not read it yet. It has been summarized verbally, and I certainly don't expect anything untoward from these folks, but I intend to examine it closely and settle the matter today.
I got new shoes. They are just like my old shoes, except that they have yellow details instead of blue. Crazy-looking brooks running shoes again. I wish they were more low-key but they feel so good and they wear down evenly despite my horrible pronation.
I still need to get a pair of dressier shoes for business stuff, though. Ugh.
I watched three more Losts and thought they were great. Shrug. The audience was great, though one of our number has dropped out. Most of the rest of us are going to gorge on the remainder of season two Saturday.
( Small spoiler; actually me complaining about TV tropes again, and reminiscing about 1990s comix. )
I have a mixed bag of observations about the show's treatment of things like race n sex n body types. It does some things that I like and has disappointed me in other ways. This is a post for another time.
The job thing has been resolved! The long delay was, I have been informed, due to egregious internal miscommunication at the company. I am holding a contract in my hot little hands. I have not read it yet. It has been summarized verbally, and I certainly don't expect anything untoward from these folks, but I intend to examine it closely and settle the matter today.
I got new shoes. They are just like my old shoes, except that they have yellow details instead of blue. Crazy-looking brooks running shoes again. I wish they were more low-key but they feel so good and they wear down evenly despite my horrible pronation.
I still need to get a pair of dressier shoes for business stuff, though. Ugh.
I watched three more Losts and thought they were great. Shrug. The audience was great, though one of our number has dropped out. Most of the rest of us are going to gorge on the remainder of season two Saturday.
( Small spoiler; actually me complaining about TV tropes again, and reminiscing about 1990s comix. )
I have a mixed bag of observations about the show's treatment of things like race n sex n body types. It does some things that I like and has disappointed me in other ways. This is a post for another time.
Where the action is
Jun. 12th, 2006 06:22 pm5:00 PM
Though relatedly I saw a well-drawn comic today where the protagonist seduced someone by making a vaginomorphic peanut-butter cookie.
5:00 PM
It was on a wall of supposedly autobiographical comix
5:00 PM
at the cafe.
5:01 PM
Speaking of genitalia, a friend of mine decided Second Life's assortment of third-party in-game purchasable penises was lacking, so he made his own designs for sale. Put them up for sale two weeks ago, maybe three.
5:01 PM
So far he has made a coulpe hundred dollars US, and has paid for his premium account in SL for a year with lots to spare.
5:02 PM
THEN THE CROWS FOUND THEM
5:02 PM
Wow.
5:02 PM
Weird, huh?
5:02 PM
Not especially.
Though relatedly I saw a well-drawn comic today where the protagonist seduced someone by making a vaginomorphic peanut-butter cookie.
5:00 PM
It was on a wall of supposedly autobiographical comix
5:00 PM
at the cafe.
5:01 PM
Speaking of genitalia, a friend of mine decided Second Life's assortment of third-party in-game purchasable penises was lacking, so he made his own designs for sale. Put them up for sale two weeks ago, maybe three.
5:01 PM
So far he has made a coulpe hundred dollars US, and has paid for his premium account in SL for a year with lots to spare.
5:02 PM
THEN THE CROWS FOUND THEM
5:02 PM
Wow.
5:02 PM
Weird, huh?
5:02 PM
Not especially.
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Mar. 8th, 2006 01:43 amI had a strange sort of sex dream last night, in that it had no sex in it, but rather focused on navigating the emotional aftermath many days after I had a fling with someone. Basically, I was just having a conversation with the person at some neutral location. We were ironing things out. It was so convincing that when I woke up my first thought was "Ah, so I just dreamed about this conversation that I will inevitably need to have in real life soon." Awake, I felt bad that I was putting things off, and worried about what I'd actually do. As full-on waking context finally asserted itself, I experienced both relief and disappointment. The end.
(As I reread this I can name things in my life that I'm putting off and which may be causing trouble to others, though they have nothing to do with sex. (Or Volity.) It'd be vaguely hilarious if those were the anxieties that got recast into that context, by my subconscious.)
(As I reread this I can name things in my life that I'm putting off and which may be causing trouble to others, though they have nothing to do with sex. (Or Volity.) It'd be vaguely hilarious if those were the anxieties that got recast into that context, by my subconscious.)
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Jan. 6th, 2004 05:15 pmClearly there needs to be more geography slash based on accidentally erotic juxtapositions of countries. (link from Gene Weingarten's chat)
