Blitherings from an Irken Invader named Zen

I've finally decided

2005-09-30T21:40:43Z

So... after much self-debate I've decided to stop running 2 journals and just stick. with the Livejournal...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/belushi81x

Go ahead and update your bookmarks...

Just FYI I will keep checking the Crazylives I read now... corwin... volton... others... so I'm not exactly completely gone, but if you want to read the post I'm writing about the Serenity movie... you hsould just click over to the LJ now...

-Dave

zen @ 2005-09-27T05:44:00

2005-09-27T10:48:14Z

Although I'm sure most of you (especially my bride) have no idea what "get smart" was... I thought it was important to note that it's Star (Don Addams) died recently...

If you don't know who he was... he was also the voice of inspector gagdet...

Two shows which I have fond memories of from my childhood...

We have truly lost a great comedic actor...

Source (via google news)

ROFL

2005-09-21T06:10:16Z

After Coie posted this one, I had to post this one

zen @ 2005-09-20T10:13:00

2005-09-20T15:21:24Z

Browsing on-line this morning I have found 2 movies "comming soon" that I feel the need to comment on...

Firstly... Aeon Flux... this brought back some good memories of high school... the trailer looks pretty good... looks like they borrow some plot from the TV series... I hope this movie is good, I'd hate to have it DESTROY my happy memories from High School...

Secondly The Legend of Zorro... I've been waiting for this a while... I only wish it had come out sooner... movies that came out when I was in high school shouldn't have to wait till I'm out of college over a year to have a sequel come out... tho I have noticed more and more movies are doing that... Meet the Faukers... the Mrs. Clause... etc. etc...

couple o memes I found...

2005-09-20T12:15:19Z

Your Political Profile

Overall: 45% Conservative, 55% Liberal

Social Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Ethics: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

How Liberal / Conservative Are You?

Your Deadly Sins

Lust: 80%

Greed: 40%

Sloth: 40%

Wrath: 40%

Pride: 20%

Envy: 0%

Gluttony: 0%

Chance You'll Go to Hell: 31%

You'll die from overexertion. *wink*

How Sinful Are You?

Last night I wished that I lived in a communist state...

2005-09-18T03:42:51Z

So I was playing warcraft last night for a while... and I saw 4 infomertials straight... 2 of them made me wish I liven in a communist state so that things like that could never be shown on TV...

Firstly there was a guy who was selling a book with natural pest controll stuff... thingsl ike Lavender oil repels fleas and ticks... ok... that's not bad, tho I don't see why it needed it's own infomertial...

The second one that didn't make me mad was the "Jack LaLane power Juicer"... this is my second favorite infomertial of all time... nothing wrong there...

Now thw two that pissed me off were the get rich quick scheme... and the guy selling a book with "natural cures for all diseases"...

First the get rich quick scheme... these always piss me off, tho this one more than most. These schemes always ALWAYS prey on the stupid and desperate...

NOw the one that really made me mad was this last one... natural cures to diseases... sounds good... most of these treatments probably do help... but the guy who was pushing it made a few boldfaced lies... he said (and I'm not makign this up) that he was risking being arrested for claiming the scurvy could be cured by eating oranges... his basis for this statement??? One of the FDA definitions for "drug" includes that "anything which can cure a disease is a drug"... firslty scurvey it probably not considered a disease in that case... secondly you don't get arrested for saying things which are common usage, even if they don't fit with dictionary defs or FDA defs... GOD that pissed me off so much... he said so many other things like that... GAH!!!!!

zen @ 2005-09-10T05:25:00

2005-09-10T10:26:28Z

OMFGROFLBBQ!!!!!!!!!

zen @ 2005-09-09T00:58:00

2005-09-09T06:07:32Z

I had heard previously that Google had their own instant messenger thing... tho I wasn't interested since all the people i've wanted to chat with were on AIM... yesterday night Coie's sister gave me the ultimatum... she said she was only chatting with google.. her reasoning was RETARDED... basically she didn't like the aim client... all the geek friends she has you'd think one of them could show her GAIM or Trillion or somthing... but 'm getting off topic...

I am now available... most of the time... on google's Jabber server... connection instructions for anyone with a gmail account and an IM client with Jabber capeabilities here...

My username is my gmail address... if you don't have it, ask... if I want you to be able to find me, I'll give it to you... if not I'll give you the address I have all my spam sent to.

zen @ 2005-09-06T06:16:00

2005-09-06T11:18:41Z

FUCK YOU Mr> BUSH, AND THE ADMINISTRATION AND AGENCIES YOU RODE IN ON!!!!!!!!

This is why Homeland Security shouldn't have power over ANY federal agency... let alone FEMA...

zen @ 2005-09-05T15:13:00

2005-09-05T20:31:34Z

much like Volton from CL.... I am excited about this saturday at 10pm...

Naruto is probably the best manga I've ever read (yes better than Inu Yasha... tho I do LOVE that too)... I've seen SOME of the Jap version subbed... and I am REALLY looking forward to seeing it on Cartoon network. My fear is that since it's in with the kiddy cartoons that the translations/voice casting will be aimed at the kiddyies... which would suck... but i am somewhat hopeful... CN has rarely let me down in the past...

Which reminds me... at Otakon I saw a japanese version of a fighting game that was based on naruto and really REALLY cool... I hope it get's to america soon after the anime.

As much as I think Naruto deserves a post to himself... i've got tother things to say...

On Sunday, they'll be showing the escaflone move... I haven't seen that yet and I feel I should... if for no other reason than I liked "Nescaflone"

Some of the buzz on the net has me even more excited about Serenity... I had been intending to wait a while after it came out to go see it... but now i"m thinking opening night... or at least that weekend...

I am less excited about the DOOM movie than I thought was possible... I don't think they have EVER made a good movie out of a video game... and I really wish they would stop trying... sooner or later they will destroy memories of some of my favorite games (Marathon... Warcraft... Starcraft... Diablo... Fallout... Final Fantasy)...

Tho I will allow thet shots in the second trailer that are designed to look like they're someone PLAYING a FPS were worth watching the trailer for....

I usually test a little higher than this...

2005-08-31T06:06:47Z

Your IQ Is 115

Your Logical Intelligence is Exceptional
Your Verbal Intelligence is Exceptional
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Exceptional
Your General Knowledge is Above Average

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

zen @ 2005-08-25T19:51:00

2005-08-26T00:52:10Z

Modern, Cool Nerd
56 % Nerd, 86% Geek, 17% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.

Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

Congratulations!

Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in either of the following:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Professional Wrestling

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 51% on nerdiness
You scored higher than 99% on geekosity
You scored higher than 13% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid

zen @ 2005-08-25T19:43:00

2005-08-26T00:44:23Z

Found this on a randumb LJ...

Dairy lesson in political science:
DEMOCRATIC
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.
REPUBLICANISM
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.
IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.
POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.
BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best-looking cow.
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegals.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udder

zen @ 2005-08-25T19:04:00

2005-08-26T00:31:33Z

So Otakon was GREAT!!!! I had intended to do a long update detailing all of the interesting activity of the weekend... but I've gotten lazy... so I'll just post some highlings... and later some pics...

Someone arranged to be able to propose to his g/f on stage with Piano Squall Performing... I wouldn't care, but one of the coolest things I have ever seen is Squall pounding out the "victory fanfare" after she said "yes"... tho it probably would have been funnier if she said "no"...

I saw Joel working on sketches for new epp(s) of House of Fools and I'm excited becxause there's at least a %10 chance that I'll get another update in 2005...

The Naruto Fan base is clearly grown from last year...

The new "undiscovered" Anime/Manga that everyone seems to have found at the same time is "Bleach" whose fans are in similar number and similar attitude to what Naruto was last year... Yeah... I'll be checking that out.

I met 5 guys who were the Voices for... Ranma, InuYasha, Yuske Yurimeshi, Rat-Trap, Dinobot, Silver Bullet, Waspinator, Master Roshi, Ed Elric, Piccolo, Koga, Wolverine, and lots of other voices that don't immeadiately come to mind... They were ALL cool with soooo much excess personality too... ;-) Got Signatures from all of them in one form or another... I'd post said pics, but that would be breaking copyright laws for the artwork which the sigs are on... I may post a pic of the White Page I had them sign with the Otakon pics I plan to post later in the week.

Bought a cool set of swords for display in the living room... this was Coie's and mine 1st anneversary gift to eachother... They look so cool...

Today We went to the Zoo and another place or two in Indy with Coie's folks... it was a fun day filled with "moments"...

My "WTF!" Moment: Saw a billboard for "Menopause: the Musical"
My 8th grade humor moment: An Elephant at the Indy Zoo pee'd while I was watching... 40 gallons or so...
My "Good Karma" moment: Considered using my Student ID to get the "student rate" at the Native American Exhibit, and decided to be honest
My 7th grade humor moment: I saw a monkey's penis
My "MMMmmmmm good" moment: Friday's Jack Daniels Steak
My "Too much Warcraft" moment: when we got the the African part of the zoo I kept looking for the Kodos...
My "Too much Anime" moment: When we saw some modern Native American art where the artist had admited to being inspired some by Anime... and the plaque then had to define "Anime"... the combination of the two made my afternoon.
My "Oh that's cool... what else in on?" moment: Saw numerous adds saying that Chubby Checker will be doing a show in Indy in September
My "I have lost faith in Humanity" Moment: Saw a billboard for "Menopause: the Musical"

zen @ 2005-08-23T14:18:00

2005-08-23T19:35:14Z

Pat robertson Quotes... out of this article...

He's talking about assinating the VENEZUELAN president...

In his broadcast, Robertson said: "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."

"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said. "We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

Dumb-ass said all this because he thinks that Venezuela will become a terrorist launching ground just because their leader is "leftist" and is a big Bush criticizer...

I keep a decently close eye on political news... I've not seen anything to make me believe that Venezuela would be an area rife with Muslim, anti-US Terrorism... In fact Venezuela is a big trade partner with the U.S. and I think a lot of Americans go "on holiday" in Venezuela.

How does he still have a show making statements like this??? Does anyone actually believe this???

on a lighter note... I'm goign to put up a big Vacation update soon, which will ocver all the high points of my vacation.. Might be up in a few parts, but maybe I'll do it all at once...

zen @ 2005-08-13T04:04:00

2005-08-13T09:19:39Z

It's been a while since I've done a REAL update... so here we go...

I promised Coie I'd mention this...

The other day I was warcrafting with Coie's sister, and We were going through Shadowfang Keep... I was too high level for that area, so I was basically leader her (and some others) through... then, we added another guy to the group who was about halfway between the level you "should" be at to go there, and my level... he asked of Kathi was a girl in real life because he wanted to know if he'd be rescuing her all the time... she told him that she was a dude who liked sexy unded zombie type chicks.

Speaking of Coie... she has good news, tho I'm not going to tell you what... I'm just going to take this opportunity to point out how I DON'T spill her news the way she always seems to ~~spill~~... ~~blab~~... SHOUT TO THE MOUNTIANTOPS any news I have that I want to be the one to tell people... like how she announcd MY SISTER'S WEDDING on the LJ before I even had a chance to... or when she told Heather about my old high school love interest getting engaged to her old high school love interest (thus robbing me of seeing a priceless expression on Heather's face and the experince of one of those "it's a small world" moments like none other in the universe)... still a little miffed over that one...

No... I don't pull crap like that... I just wanna make it clear that I could, and choose not to cuz I'm a better man than that... I'm just not so good that I won't rub-it-in a little

Did anyone else just think of "Shindig"???

On Tuesday at roughly 11:10pm I will leave work... and not go back untill the following Monday... I am sooo ready for vacation... I want it to happen NOW!

Chris is a "Poop-hole-pirate"... Arrrrr....

I am soo PUMPED for OTAKON... I get to meed InuYasha, AND Ed Elric... and I get to see MrMadsen again... he's so cool. And Joel... I haven't seen him in person since the last Otakon...

But what I think I'm mostly pumped for is women in skimpy anime costumes...

Mead is good... just not served the way I expected.. at least not at the irish lion...

Copied out of the Des Moines Register...

2005-08-10T19:11:03Z

By TOM ALEX
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
August 9, 2005
If you're going to criticize someone else's driving, make sure you're not breaking any laws yourself.

That advice may be coming too late for Jessie Joe Hill. Police said Hill ended up in handcuffs Sunday after he used a flashing yellow light on the dashboard of a stolen pickup truck to pull over a fellow motorist and caution him about his driving.

As that was happening, a real police officer rolled up behind Hill at Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Day Street and asked him what he thought he was doing. Hill said that the other driver ran a stop sign and that he pulled the driver over to warn him about it.

Des Moines police apparently weren't impressed, because they arrested Hill and charged him with impersonating an officer.

Hill's problems were just beginning. The 32-year-old Des Moines man was charged with driving on a suspended driver's license - his 11th suspended- or barred-license arrest.

Police also charged him with second-degree theft - because the pickup truck with the flashing light was stolen.

Edin Beganovic, the man Hill pulled over, was not sure of the motive. "I saw the light flashing," he said. "I thought it might be an undercover cop, so I pulled over. He said, 'Can you slow down?' I said, 'Sure, no problem.' "

Beganovic, a truck driver from Des Moines, said officers pulled up and questioned Hill. "Then an officer just took my information and said I could go."

Sgt. Todd Dykstra advised motorists to be cautious: "Any time you question whether or not someone is a police officer, you may drive slowly to the closest well-lighted, well-populated area to pull over. We will be glad to send an officer to check it out."

zen @ 2005-08-08T16:08:00

2005-08-08T21:10:07Z

Well I'll be a son-of-a-monkey....

A museum exhibit I'm EXCITED about...

We'd best check the temperature in hell, eh?

http://www.in.gov/ism/MuseumExhibits/lotr.asp

zen @ 2005-08-08T15:55:00

2005-08-08T21:04:12Z

Last night I got home from closing work... and as I was walking up to my apartment I saw a lump of grey on the grass that I thought was a rabbit in the shadows.... but when it started moving it was clearly a stray cat.

This particular little grey fur-ball was a stray I had seen around a few times before, but had never had a chance to grab. This time i could clearly see some tags, including the little blue tag that means it has had it's state-required rabies shots Also it means that at some point the stray had a home and that it wasn't "born in the wild"... and that whoever tagged it in the first place, may want it back. So I set my stuff inside and tried to get him/her... But the cat would have none of that.

Using some of Vash's kitty treats I was able to lure it close enough to pet it on two occasions... but he wasn't interested in the petting... just the food... and when I tried to pick it up gently (and later grab it quicky) the cat ran like a mo-fo...

To sum up.. the stray is still stray... I have a cut on my and from it's right rear claw... and I'm down about 12 kitty treats... I guess my good deed for the day was feeding it instead of getting it back to it's home... waste of 25 minutes apparently...

zen @ 2005-08-06T00:12:00

2005-08-06T05:13:57Z

LOL... warcrafters... check this out...

Why we all love those dirty, gargantuan Sweeds...

2005-08-03T16:42:38Z

zen @ 2005-08-02T00:08:00

2005-08-02T05:12:26Z

I know what I forgot to include on my last journal entry... reviews of the Farscape DVDs... I checked out the first 2 disks (4 epps) of farscape from the Monroe County Public Library. I LOVEd them... they include average 2 min of material (per ep) that didn't air on Sci Fi... they're the euro versions which have less add-time, you see. Also the commentary was really REALLY good. I laughed my ass off...

I intend to get the whole series from MCPL one volume at a time in order... should be 22 volumes, I think... This will occupy me for at least a year... good,

I know what they charge for a season of Farscape... so I'd never buy them... but it's really good.

zen @ 2005-08-01T13:57:00

2005-08-01T19:19:07Z

Quizes aside I haven't done any real updating in a while...

Just as sure as pure white snow, sleighbells, and the end of Halloween signals the start of the Christmas season, the mass of moving vans has signaled the start of another season for those of us who live in a college town.

That's right everybody is moving... yesterday, running errands I saw 3 moving trucks in my apt. complex... statistically speaking there should have been 3 more in front of buildings i couldn't see...

I saw one guy moving within our complex using a TAXI... what kind of mo-fo does that???

I just keep hoping that some nice eye-candy will move in next door... :-P

Battlegounds is a CTF PVP game in a UT style... if you don't know what this means... you're not a real gaming geek...

Coie and I both have been gettign into battlegounds a lot lately... it's a lot of fun... it's really REALLY cool!!!!!

Let's see... My Orc Shaman is at lev 34, he's won in Battlegounds 8 times, and lost once. Hoard only seems to loose when we're outnumbered 7-10 or more... actually we only get SCORED on when it's that badly outnumbered...

My Undead warlok is at 32... hasn't done battlegounds tho he has dona a fair ammount of PVP outside...

My Cow (Taureen) Warrior is only at lev 13, but he can make machanical squirrels... nice profit in those...

My NIght Elf Druid is 27... and hasn't beel played in a while...

My Gnome mage is 18 and hasn't been played in a while...

Not a lot else to say...

zen @ 2005-08-01T13:53:00

2005-08-01T18:54:25Z

143,990 descendants
- you're more genetically fit than 48% of the current population -

143, 990. Not bad. You're no Mongol warlord, but to have that many copies of your genetic code running around 800 years from now is pretty impressive.

You're at the lower end of the scoring spectrum, but, honestly, when you consider that the cheaters, swindlers, and football players of this world are statistically best-equipped to create children, scoring low is something to be proud of. As you'll see below, some of your lines will die out, but nonetheless your genetic material will thrive here on earth for a long time to come.

A close friend of mine created a program to generate family trees for this test. It's based on your unique answers. We accounted for sterility, birth rates, death rates, disease, drug abuse, nitwitism, and accidents and came up with this, for you:

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on fitnessfactor

Link: The Genghis Khan Genetic Fitness Test written by gwendolynbooks on Ok Cupid

this is mostly for matt...

2005-07-28T08:46:29Z

Yoda
You scored 62% wisdom, 57% aggression, 61% power, and 57% morality!

One of the most powerful Jedi of all time, you possess the best of all worlds. Your wisdom is vast and unquestioned, and you use it for good. You are an amazingly powerful and skilled fighter, and only use aggressiveness for battle, and only battle when necessary. Lastly, your sense of morality is without peer. You always do what is right, and know that the dark side is hollow and unnatural.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 37% on wisdom
You scored higher than 63% on aggression
You scored higher than 31% on power
You scored higher than 33% on morality

Link: The Famous Jedi or Sith Test written by SarumantheMad on Ok Cupid