TV CASUALTY

Thanks to Mr. Horse, I now know this awesome/scary factoid.

"A recent study found that at peak times, Netflix represented 20 percent of Internet download traffic in the United States."

To look at this information inline with other trend setting studies, the internet is basically 3 things to Americans. Cats, porn, and reruns of the A-Team. And the way things are going with our useless government elected officials - we are going to have to enjoy it in the form of regulated cats, porn, and reruns of the Incredible Hulk. "Netflix is gettin' too big fer hem thar britches, I reckon.", an inbred Comcast wonders aloud, as it pulls at it's suspenders and chews on a long stem of grass whilst wearing a top hat, "Best slow that down to dial up speeds."

What does this mean? Perhaps we should look to England for advice on how to best spend the twilight years of an aging empire. If so, then we can at least look forward to some superior comedic programming - if our ISPs deem it a good thing.

POST 250! LIL' MANS!

250 posts of junk! What a run!

Yes, I will continue to call out useless milestones.
They make me feel good inside. Onwards>>

Recently, I managed to:
A: Find my stupid paint tray thing.
B: Paint models using it, as opposed to stacking crap on it to collect dust.

As a certain giant nerd tournament approaches, I've been tossed back into the potential throes of my accursed addiction - painting stupid lil' mans and growing my back hump further. I'm currently in mental preparation for building an army from scratch and painting it in, more than likely, a last minute marathon. So, to ease back into things with the most minimal of effort, I shipped some totally unrelated 20mm models off to friend for painting! Woooo cash rules!

Then I got off my butt, due to guilt, and painted 26 of my 20mm Germans that have been in a near state of completeness for years now. These will complement the ones I sent out nicely. The fun thing about this batch is that they were guinea pigs of sorts. I picked up a can of this insta-shade stuff for near to nothing the other day. People claim to have painted entire armies in a weekend - with decent results - using the stuff. All you have to do is lay down a decent, neatly executed basecoat. Then just dip 'em and wait. I've been quite dubious of the technique for years, but gave it a swing on my tiny Germans. You can see them crummily photgraphed "pre-dip" above and "post-dip" below.

Much to my surprise it worked out great. Saved me hours of pain. I will be using it for just about all my smaller scale (below 20mm) needs in some form. It really did do a super job of shading. Though going forward, brighter colors will be needed for basecoats, since the shading does knock the colors down a bit.

THE CRIBBAGE MATCH or HARRY POTTER TAKES A DARK TURN, NO NOT THE END OF THE SERIES DARK TURN, THE DARK TURN I WANT IT TO TAKE.

There's no hiding my love for MST3K and it saddens my nerd heart to be so behind on this one. Something called Wizard People, Dear Readers from our internet friend/comedian Brad Neely. (The George Washington Rap) Basically it sounds like a mean drunken uncle slaying the Harry Potter film, MST3K style, after a full bottle of 4 dollar gin. (the plastic unbreakable hobo bottle) The voice over track is all growly and bitter. Below is a link to the YouTube clip (one of many), since it won't embed. The bit is about the "cribbage" match and the dude misnames stuff left and right, adding to the gold factor. If you gots 10 minutes to have look while eating a sandwich, it'll be worth your time.

Just blow the fucking whistle.

SLAYER VS THE INTERTUBES

The dude named Horse brightened my Sunday morning with a link to this fantastic youtubery mash up of folks in church going ape to Slayer. Motha-suckas got moves yo! Then I started to look at related videos. So here's a sampling of the better TV shows redubbed to Slayer. And of course one which goes up a notch into what the kids call "brutal".

SLAYER GOES TO CHURCH



GROVER RIPS



ANIMAL SLAYS



TUBBIES GET BRUTAL

FOR JP: KENKU. AND: I'M A DANGER, MOSTLY TO MYSELF.

Looking at some olde tyme illos.
Found this gem.
Kawwwwwww.

And it appears that I can add pyrex cookware/making tea to the list of things I shouldn't touch/do. (lamps, lawn mowers, etc.) Luckily it melted already callused tissue, so it ended up only baking dead skin a bit further.

TARGET AND WALMART PEDDLE THE DEVIL'S WARES! THE DEVIL I SAY! GITHYANKI APPROVED!

It's about time they flat out admitted that shit. Weeedle weedly weeeee chugga chugga chugga chug chuggaedta weedleieeeeeeeeeeeeee. Grells bitches!

Rad.

HALLOCHRISTMAS LIVES!

I dunno about these spooky light up finger candles I saw at the supermarket. Kinda gross, but in a manner which they aren't intented to be.

But more importantly, this photo is from 2 weeks ago, just one isle over. Christ. (Indeed!)