tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2221597987414307562024-03-13T23:33:25.540-04:00The Queen Is Their Slaveashes in your hair remind me what it feels like...Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-29846916262339190782008-06-29T14:51:00.001-04:002008-06-29T14:58:37.047-04:00David Bowie Comic<div><embed src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v1/IssuuViewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" flashvars="mode=preview&previewLayout=white&username=soundofdrowning&docName=so_long_major_tom&documentId=080604003900-fcd430c8b02b43569c6c6db150d96c86&autoFlip=true&backgroundColor=ffffff&layout=grey" style="width:335px;height:230px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:335px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://issuu.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/previewers/style1/v1/m1.gif" border="0" /></a><a href="http://issuu.com/soundofdrowning/docs/so_long_major_tom?mode=embed&documentId=080604003900-fcd430c8b02b43569c6c6db150d96c86&layout=grey" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/previewers/style1/v1/m2.gif" border="0" /></a><a href="http://issuu.com/embed/guide?documentId=080604003900-fcd430c8b02b43569c6c6db150d96c86&width=425&height=301" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/previewers/style1/v1/m3.gif" border="0" /></a></div></div>Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-31013961111819964722008-04-27T20:28:00.002-04:002008-04-27T20:32:30.336-04:00I'm Tired of this CrapOK, I'm tired of people in my life telling me they're going to kill themselves. <br />Some people might say, "But Josh, you shouldn't be mad about something as serious as that." Well you know what? Yes, I should.<br />The thing is, 99% of the time saying something like that is just a ploy to get attention. I know that to be the case with these people because they've been saying this for months or years and haven't done anything.<br />But screw them. Well, I take that back. Screw the ones that aren't blood-related. My family's here to stay, but everyone else can just go. Just get out of my way and stop moping, Jesus.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-87893324764088726882008-02-24T14:44:00.003-05:002008-02-24T15:00:45.076-05:00I need to do stuffI need to pick up some hobbies. I'm afraid that I'm losing touch with social reality, by which I mean that I don't interact with people very much outside of work. It's really frustrating, and I'm pretty sure I keep getting depressed because of it. I sit at home every weekend and play games with my brother on the 360, but it gets so frustrating after a while.<br /><br />I need hobbies. Unfortunately, this isn't the biggest city in the world, so my choices are limited. Apparently there's a very large hiking group nearby, but I don't know if I'd be into that too much. I've found one--yes, one--book club in the area but have yet to attend a meeting...I'm afraid I'll be too disappointed by it. I could be wrong, but right now I'm not willing to take the chance. I'm half-tempted to start my own book club and get some different people involved. The problem with book clubs is that I hate pretentious, elitist bastards, and more often than not those guys will show up to the meetings. That sort of thing happens a lot in college especially. I always felt like an outsider, even among fellow English majors. I guess that's why I didn't keep many friends after I graduated.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-29887154627682067532008-01-10T18:19:00.000-05:002008-01-10T18:49:44.751-05:00How's This For An Angry LetterDear Comics & Games Management:<br /><br /> I am writing to tell you that I am unsubscribing to my comic box (Box #84). Recently, I was overcharged for my comic books. Let me explain:<br /><br /> I went into the store tonight and bought 7 $2.99 comic books and 7 bags/boards, which are $.20 apiece. This is what I SHOULD have paid:<br /><ul><li>7 comic books=$20.93</li><li>7 bags/boards=$1.40</li><li>10% Discount (for having a box in the store)=$2.23</li><li>Sales Tax=$1.41<br /></li><li>Total=$21.51</li></ul> However, I was charged $27.26.<br /><br /> This situation is partly my fault because I should have inquired about the price disparity immediately. I had just gotten off work, though, and at this point I wanted to relax. I bought a couple more comics than I usually do, so I figured I was just doing the math wrong because I was tired. I realized when I got home that I had, in fact, been charged the wrong amount.<br /><br />Maybe your worker's rose-colored glasses obstructed his vision.<br /><br /> Another problem with this situation is that your antiquated register doesn't scan items, much less identify each item on the receipt. I have a receipt that says I paid $27.26, but that doesn't prove that I only bought 7 comics and 7 bags/boards. There's no way I can argue that I was charged the incorrect amount.<br /><br /> This fiasco goes beyond that, though. Why should I have to argue about it at all? Why can't your worker just do his job correctly? Comic books are for entertainment purposes; you aren't selling medication, health insurance, shelter, or anything of the sort. This shouldn't be a difficult process: I give you money and get charged the CORRECT amount for a few hours' enjoyment. Furthermore, I could have waited for trade paperbacks to come out and bought them from Amazon at a discount. I haven't done this in the past because, frankly, it was more convenient to buy single issues from a local store. It is no longer convenient.<br /><br /> Thus, I no longer wish to do business with you. You can keep the deposit from my comic box as a gesture of goodwill.<br /><br />P.S. My friends and I have agreed for years that the workers in comic book stores should read and be familiar with most comics that come out. You could make a lot more money in the store if you were familiar with what's coming out and if you could recommend books to customers. Chances are, if I see a comic I'm unfamiliar with at the shop, I won't buy it and I'll just forget about it afterward. However, if I could approach a worker and ask him/her what it's about or how good it is, that would go a long way in selling the book.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-66453179664494677472007-12-31T00:24:00.000-05:002007-12-31T00:26:55.397-05:00Regina Spektor Show at The TabernacleSo I'm mad because I just "discovered" Regina Spektor recently, and I also found out that she's going to be playing a show at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA in late February. I don't have anyone to go with, and I hate going to shows like that by myself. The trip, for me, would be about 4 hours if I'm remembering correctly.<br /><br />I wish I had someone to go with...<br /><br />Anyway. If you haven't heard of Regina Spektor, you should definitely check her out. It's weird, fun, kooky stuff. But that's what I'm realizing about the world though, you know? Humor and silliness makes everything so much better.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-51381912346561002642007-12-26T17:23:00.000-05:002007-12-26T17:25:11.269-05:00Shhhh...We're Hunting Monitors!Okay, so it doesn't get good until a minute or so into the video. Be patient...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AAdku9YhSCI&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AAdku9YhSCI&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-48612869721094141132007-12-26T17:03:00.000-05:002007-12-26T17:08:18.908-05:00Bright Eyes--When the President Talks to God<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KIIImiRDnF8&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KIIImiRDnF8&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-82187966473655353942007-12-22T19:50:00.000-05:002007-12-22T19:55:03.302-05:00Made of HonorOkay, so maybe there's too much estrogen in my veins tonight, but the trailer for this new Patrick Dempsey movie <span style="font-style: italic;">Made of Honor</span> looks interesting:<br /><br />http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/madeofhonor/<br /><br />As some of you know, I watch pretty much any kind of movie: foreign, drama, romantic comedy, action, classic, documentary, everything. The romantic comedy genre is not unlike the scifi, horror, and action genres: there can be good movies, but most of them are really bad. Also, I'm not really a fan of Patrick Dempsey. I liked him for about 2 movies back in the 80's, but most of me thinks he should've stayed unpopular.<br /><br />But, nonetheless, this movie looks pretty good. The jokes made me smile at least, and the premise looks at least halfway plausible.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-24214692626579550102007-12-22T18:37:00.000-05:002007-12-22T18:57:39.247-05:00Mass EffectI've been playing Mass Effect on the 360 the past couple days. For me, video games are usually really awesome or really terrible. This is one of the few cases where I'm somewhere in the middle. It's made by Bioshock, the company who made Knights of the Old Republic a few years ago, but I don't really know what to think of the new game. It's like they changed some of the good things and kept some of the bad stuff.<br /><br />Many of the problems deal with the functionality of the game. For instance, in some menus you can't just press B to get out of it; you have to make a selection. Also, equipping items and selling items is a bit of a pain. Let's say you want to buy a new suit of armor from a merchant and then sell the old one you were wearing. To do that, you have to first go to the merchant and buy the new suit. Then, you have to leave the merchant in order to go to your equipment screen, where you will equip the new suit. Then, you have to approach the merchant AGAIN and listen to his stupid speel about sampling his wares. Then you can sell your suit to him. It's all rather complicated. Rather than that, you should have to option of equipping the new suit and selling the old one as you're talking to the merchant.<br /><br />The AI is absolutely some of the worst AI I've seen. And I'm talking about your teammates, the people you rely on to take out enemies and heal you. They CONSTANTLY stand in your way and run into rooms full of enemies.<br /><br />In fact, the combat in general is horrible. Why are there separate buttons for unholstering and holstering your weapon??? The framerate drops constantly, even when enemies aren't on the screen, which makes playing the entire game difficult. You can sprint/ran, but only when you're in the middle of the battle. What if you're running through some huge building? Too bad.<br /><br />The graphics, though quite good, have their flaws as well. The character shadows are kind of screwy, so as you're talking to people their shadows around their neck region are all jagged and deformed. Also, when a characters faces show emotion, sometimes the different pieces to their face (cheeks, lips, mouth, throat, etc.) "come apart" and you can see inside their heads. The bad animations and low framerate make it hard to focus on the storyline of the game.<br /><br />The storyline is the absolute only reason I want to keep playing the game. It's a great scifi story with pretty good dialogue and voice acting. The game takes something like 40-50 hours to beat if you're thorough, which I am.<br /><br />So, I dunno...do I want to keep playing? Yes, but only to see the story develop. If I get frustrated with the fighting much more, though, I might change my mind.<br /><br />Overall Score: 6 out of 10 (Based on the storyline alone, I'd give it a 9 out of 10, though)Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-6581379119519325862007-12-22T18:32:00.000-05:002007-12-22T18:37:22.738-05:00I Hate MoronsI hate morons who wait until the last minute to buy everything for Christmas. I mean really, why do people do that year in and year out? I want to go to Wal-Mart because I NEED FOOD TO SURVIVE, but I can't park anywhere because MORONS WAITED UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO BUY THEIR LOVED ONES CHEAP, CHINESE-MADE GOODS.<br /><br />Anyway. Among other things, I got my dad a Deep Purple album (<span style="font-style: italic;">Perfect Strangers</span>) and a Bright Eyes album (<span style="font-style: italic;">I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning</span>). My dad is one of those people that makes it hard to buy stuff for. I've been in the habit of buying him good books and movies for Christmas, but lately he's been working a lot and hasn't had time to do much reading/movie watching. So, I still got him a book (because that's never a bad gift), but I decided to get him these two CDs this time around. I hope he likes them.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-65931780100876384562007-12-17T23:26:00.000-05:002007-12-17T23:35:25.528-05:00Simple Things Are Destroyed So SimplyHave you ever thought about wind chimes? I mean, REALLY thought about them? What are they, really, but a few sticks (be it wood, metal, or what have you) attached to a base with string, and yet how beautiful they are. The sounds they make. They are an instrument of God, you know. God created the wind, which He uses to make the wind chimes beautiful. He gives wind chimes purpose, just as He gives everything purpose.<br /><br />I don't know who He is, though. That's my problem to deal with, not yours.<br /><br />But I was thinking about wind chimes last week, and it dawned on me how easy it is for them to become tangled and lose their purpose. Maybe the wind blew too hard. Maybe an outside influence, like a person, came by and hit them. Who knows what happened. But just think about it. They're here for such simple purposes--to help people gauge the wind and to sound beautiful--and yet they lose their way so easily. <br /><br />If a simple thing like a wind chime can lose its way so easily, imagine a person. A person is infinitely more complicated, and yet it's actually easier for a person to lose his/her way than a wind chime. Think of all the influences, the chance encounters, the near misses...<br /><br />What is a person, really?Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-78676933835130620812007-12-13T20:23:00.000-05:002007-12-13T20:37:58.918-05:00What Comics Do You Read?What comic series are you currently reading? Here are the ones I pick up on a regular basis. The ratings are based on a 10-point scale. The first rating, the one before the slash, is what I thought of the comic series when it started. The second rating after the slash is what I think of the latest issue or two.<br /><ul style="font-style: italic;"><li>The Astounding Wolf-Man (8/7)<br /></li><li>Punisher: War Journal (9/7)<br /></li><li>Nova (8/10)<br /></li><li>New Warriors (7/6)<br /></li><li>Thunderbolts (10/9)<br /></li><li>Avengers: The Initiative (8/8)<br /></li><li>Marvel Comics Presents (8/8)<br /></li><li>The Order (6/7)<br /></li><li>Welcome to Tranquility (9/3)<br /></li></ul>I know they're all mainstream comics, but I haven't found anything else really good lately. <span style="font-style: italic;">Zombies vs. Robots vs. Amazons</span> came out, but I noticed that there's going to be a collected volume sometime next year.<br /><br />Besides, I'm finding a lot of "mainstream" comics that don't follow the "big events" as closely. I'm tired of Civil War, Planet Hulk, 52, etc. I just like reading about superheroes, for the most part.<br /><br />That's the thing: for the most part, I don't want to read a comic about regular people. I feel like books are better with that sort of thing. I like comics about superheroes only when it's an important story, not just something for the sake of action and explosions.<br /><br />Notice the bad score for <span style="font-style: italic;">Welcome to Tranquility</span>. The series started out SO great. It was about a town that was sort of a retirement community for superheroes, and there was a new generation coming in and throwing things all out of whack. It's comedic at first glance, but there's a lot of emotion built into it. The funniest thing I think in the series so far is this one Shazam-type ripoff character who says a magic word to get his superpowers, but he's old and can't remember the word, so he goes around reading dictionaries for the first 4 issues!<br /><br />But, yeah, the series has gotten really old and tiresome, so we'll have to see. I'm on the verge of not reading it anymore.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-45946187276347351802007-12-13T20:14:00.001-05:002007-12-13T20:20:59.897-05:00Steal My Idea!All right, whoever works on adding features to media players can steal this idea. I'd prefer it to be Windows Media Player or iTunes, but I guess that'd be too picky.<br /><br />Anyway. You'd load up all your MP3s, like usual, and like usual you'd have a boring old list that sorted them according to album title, band name, etc. But THEN, you'd click a button and your screen would go black. Then, each song would appear as a small white dot--a star. The more you listened to a song the bigger the star would get, until finally it would turn into a planet. The planets would be colored according to the music genre that the song was from, and maybe the other songs from the album could circle around the planet after a while. This would keep happening until you had a whole screen full of planets, supernovas, black holes, stars, and whatever else.<br /><br />THEN, the even cooler part would be the ability to go online and upload this "galaxy" file to a website and share it with others. Not the MP3s, mind you, because I'm sure the RIAA would hate that, but just the galaxy files. And the site could be set up in some way that you could mouse over the planets/stars/whatever and it'd tell you what the name of the song is.<br /><br />Is it the next polio vaccine or the next hammer? Surely not. But in this age of Katamari Damacy, technology, and music, this seems like the perfect idea that just hasn't happened yet.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-23133632249232580662007-12-05T18:13:00.000-05:002007-12-05T18:16:38.130-05:00Credit Card ApplicationsI'm really tired of getting credit card applications. I mean, on the one hand it's reassuring because I don't think I'd get 2 a day if I didn't have a halfway decent credit rating, but this is ridiculous. Especially Chase. I've got almost 2 dozen Chase applications stacked up at my desk.<br /><br />I think I'm going to rip them into strips, make a papier mache dinosaur out of it, and mail it to the address listed on the applications with a note saying, "Please don't give me anymore ammunition, or else I'll create something bigger next time."<br /><br />Or maybe I'll fashion them into one of those African fertility god statues...Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-61935368344703079402007-12-05T18:06:00.000-05:002007-12-05T18:13:16.943-05:00OuroborosI learned about the ouroboros from reading The <span style="font-style: italic;">Wisdom of Insecurity</span> (1951), a book written by Alan W. Watts. You should check him out.<br /><br />From Wikipedia:<br /><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">[The Ouroboros, also spelled Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus (IPA: [ˌjʊərəʊˈbɒrəs]), is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most generally symbolizes ideas of cyclicality, unity, or infinity. The ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in alchemical illustrations. More recently, it has been interpreted by psychologists, such as Carl Jung, as having an archetypal significance to the human psyche.]</span></p>Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-811273161826814292007-12-04T00:33:00.000-05:002007-12-04T00:47:41.497-05:00Just When Everything Was Making SenseWhen I was a child, I believed that when someone said or did a certain, very specific thing, they'd be transported to another, more happy world. The difficulty was in finding what that "thing" was. I mostly believed it was a humanitarian effort; after you spend a certain number of hours helping the homeless or volunteering at a battered spouse shelter, an angel would confront you in the parking lot and, just like that, you'd be gone forever to a better place.<br /><br />Take it in another direction and maybe it'd be an alien race watching over us, rather than some godlike force. That'd be interesting, too.<br /><br />I think I invented it as a way of coping with everything. The sad thing is, it's all been downhill since then. Things just get more and more difficult. As things get more difficult, though, you also find more reasons to stay alive. Or do you? I don't know. Maybe those who commit suicide are the ones who realize just how bad the world is, but they don't have anything or anyone keeping them on the planet.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-12246768524291010522007-12-03T20:30:00.000-05:002007-12-03T20:52:57.601-05:00Teaching English In JapanI have a strong desire to teach English in Japan, but I don't know how much I would like the job. I've gone to websites for companies like AEONet and Nova, but I'm pretty sure they're leaving something out of the picture. I've also visited certain websites, such as <a href="http://www.thejapanfaq.com/FAQ-EFL.html">this one</a>, that talk about how these big companies trick you and you end up regretting the decision to teach in Japan.<br /><br />Does anyone out there have any prior experience teaching English in Japan? Or, for that matter, does anyone know of other jobs that are available to foreigners?<br /><br />I'm (hopefully) going to be visiting Japan next year. I won't be looking for a job. I just want to see the country and meet some interesting people. Anyone got any tips for visiting Japan?Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-65162682129215745092007-12-03T20:22:00.001-05:002007-12-03T20:30:45.826-05:00Cake And Ice CreamI work for an IT company. That's all you need to know.<br /><br />A lot of people have been jumping ship for a couple of reasons lately (the past 4 months or so), and someone at work pointed this out:<br /><br />"Every time someone leaves, we have cake and ice cream."<br /><br />So basically, you have situations like this occurring:<br /><br />Person 1: "Hey Joe, everyone's going down to the break room to say goodbye to Susan."<br />Person 2: "Yeah, well, I never did really care for her. She was really pessimistic, you know, and she always tried to get in on other people's business. Plus she always chewed on the ends of her pens. I swear man, there were a few times when we were in meetings and I wished she'd gnaw through the pen and get ink all in her mouth..."<br />Person 1: "There's cake and ice cream..."<br />Person 2: *locks his computer* "You know, I'd at least like to drop in and say goodbye before she leaves."Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-27628679041804767372007-12-03T20:10:00.000-05:002007-12-03T20:21:37.187-05:00Joke of the DayParents don't have to worry about buying their kids the Tickle Me Elmo toy for Christmas this year; just get your kid a regular Elmo doll and it'll shake all on its own--from lead poisoning.<br /><br /><br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">Editor's note to corporate jackals: This is a joke and is not intended to be taken seriously</span>.]Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-64243628545172012212007-12-03T20:04:00.000-05:002007-12-03T20:09:44.548-05:00Josh Brolin InterviewTake a look at <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-11-18-josh-brolin_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip">this interview</a> with Josh Brolin. I was amazed at how humble he is; not only does he realize he's made some less-than-stellar movies in the past, he also realizes that his star power has only temporarily increased because of his roles in <span style="font-style: italic;">American Gangster</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">No Country For Old Men</span>. In other words, even though he's getting a lot of attention right now, he's not going to go throwing his weight around.<br /><br />Kudos to him for marrying Diane Lane, too. I think she's another actor that's very underrated and, strangely, another actor that's starred in a crappy movie from time to time. <span style="font-style: italic;">Judge Dredd</span>, anyone?Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-31111151250628357972007-11-29T22:06:00.000-05:002007-11-29T22:09:07.339-05:00My Profile on TechnoratiSo I'm creating an account on Technorati so that my blog will be picked up by its spiders.<br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/claim/sp3x8hkxdm" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-91339572300395163772007-11-29T21:02:00.000-05:002007-11-29T21:05:49.693-05:00Old Greg<object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DVNXgq2fDGI&rel=0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&border=0"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DVNXgq2fDGI&rel=0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object>Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-65557784587217924932007-11-29T18:16:00.000-05:002007-11-29T18:21:03.343-05:00Viewing YouTube ClipsOK, so has anyone else had trouble viewing YouTube clips from the module on my blog? I find that it doesn't load up properly all the time. For that, I apologize.<br /><br />Now, if only we could get Microsoft to apologize for Vista...Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-49045091934495544872007-11-29T18:11:00.000-05:002007-11-29T23:06:53.113-05:00Check out Meathead!FINALLY! Meathead has updated his site so that there's an archive of all the old Flash animations he's done.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theninhotline.net/meatpers/meatpers.html">http://www.theninhotline.net/meatpers/meatpers.html</a><br /><br />For those of you that don't know, Meathead is this guy who makes silly statements about Nine Inch Nails. The aforementioned Flash animations are all spoofs of NIN songs and that kind of thing. I encourage everyone--even the most casual NIN fans--to check out the site. Click on the Cartoons link.Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222159798741430756.post-38543658961458333162007-11-28T22:53:00.000-05:002007-11-28T22:56:00.957-05:00Posting Third-Party Material To A Blog PostCan anyone explain to me the legality of posting third-party material to a blog post? I'm specifically referring to song lyrics and quotes from books.<br /><br />I like to quote things, you know, because I'm an observant person. But I can't seem to get a straight answer from anyone about whether or not some red flag will go up if I quote a book. What if I include the author's name, the name of the book, and the page that the quote appears on?Rudie Kontfellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169767426615366807noreply@blogger.com0