Rufus Honker IV's Ramblings

Hm...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:52:14 GMT

Anyone else having trouble getting to Facebook?

i'm posting!

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:44:45 GMT

Because quickly_9 told me to! :D

TOO TRUE.

Mon, 11 May 2009 20:35:46 GMT

Writer's Block: How'd You Get Here?

Tue, 05 May 2009 05:44:49 GMT

There are many roads to LiveJournal—how did you first hear about LJ?

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My older sister (and only sibling), spasmsproject, had a Livejournal which was quite popular - she wrote a very short story each day for a full year (and succeeded, too!). I had been checking in from time to time, and finally created a name to use for commenting.

I chose the name rufushonkerivbecause my mother had mentioned it to me a year or so before when she had been playing with anagrams. I was bummed I couldn't put in spaces.

I bounced from user icon to user icon, until one day when I was watching School House Rock on a DVD compilation I had bought for the kids. (I've always been a huge SHR fan!) Rufus Xavier Sasparilla came on and I let loose with an interjection in my head: "Hey! I'm Rufus!" So later that day I put the DVD in the computer, screencapped around 10 seconds in, and did some photoshopping of the text from throughout the video. Ta-da! I had a personal default icon.

So there you have it. Though I may not post as often as I used to, I stil chek my friends list every day to see your entires and all the communities I'm involved in.

This will be dumb, but that doesn't mean I'm not intrigued.

Mon, 04 May 2009 21:21:56 GMT

Looks like the Old West meets Tremors.

"Don't jump until I say so" Talk about trying for dramatics....

Ah, these aliens are slower than molasses in January and need eyeglasses.

Aliens with special footsteps so loud you can only hear them AFTER they pass the window.

Strange

Sat, 02 May 2009 11:12:31 GMT

I had to disable commenting on this January 2007 post about the comic For Better or For Worse, because for some reason spammers LOVE posting ads on that and ONLY that post.

Writer's Block: Musical Affliction

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:14:40 GMT

Have you had an earworm lately? Exorcise it by inflicting it on your friendslist. Post the lyrics or - even better - a video.

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Poker Face by Lady Gaga. (link is to the video - can't embed it)

I first heard it on the radio on the way home from work. I asked Amber about it when I got home because she's usually on top of things - but she not only hadn't heard of it, but gave me a confused look when I quoted "pah-pah-pah poker face".

She caught it a week or so later. Now it's stuck in my head. Get it out!!!!!

Lyrics:

Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah

I wanna hold em' like they do in Texas Plays
Fold em' let em' hit me raise it baby stay with me (I love it)
Luck and intuition play the cards with Spades to start
And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart

Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh,
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

I wanna roll with him a hard pair we will be
A little gambling is fun when you're with me (I love it)
Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun
And baby when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun, fun
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh,
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

I won't tell you that I love you
Kiss or hug you
Cause I'm bluffin' with my muffin
I'm not lying I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunning
Just like a chick in the casino
Take your bank before I pay you out
I promise this, promise this
Check this hand cause I'm marvelous

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

Writer's Block: Gamer's Choice

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:08:32 GMT

What is your favorite old-school video game?

Submitted By 2hated2care

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Robot Odyssey and Adventure Construction Set.

About time!

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:33:12 GMT

The Air Force has finally comes clean on Area 51!!!!!!

No joke. the article seems pretty solid.

Best. Video. Ever.

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:02:09 GMT

Where the Wild Things Are

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:38:57 GMT

The Trailer for Where the Wild Things Are is out.

I'm unimpressed. All we know is that the costumes look good and lots of things seem seem to explode or fall.

Writer's Block: Grab and Go

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:10:03 GMT

Scenario: For exactly 1 minute, you get access to all the databases of all the intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, FBI, KGB, MI-5, etc). What do you want to find out before time is up and you're caught and jailed forever?

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UFOs. I'm not really expecting to find anything, but sometimes they do seem a little secretive on the subject. I'd just like to know a solid yes/no or "we have this evidence we're having trouble figuring out".

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:53:25 GMT

You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations - you got 9 out of 10 correct!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

What a load of...

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:41:29 GMT

This feller right here spends two minutes quoting the Bible about how God promised not to destroy the earth with a flood, and only he will decide when the end comes. Then he basically says that man cannot destroy the earth through climate change because that's in God's hands. He then says he believes God's word is infallible.

*sigh*

I'm not getting started on where I stand on the validity of the Bible as God's complete word. Or I will in that it gives subjective, personal direction to your own life - but it is NOT a code to be deciphered, nor something to rally dimwits to your own cause using carefully chosen verses.

If we can destroy the earth or not, we are capable of LARGE SCALE DESTRUCTION upon it. The way this guy is putting it, we can do what we want - we're not going to destroy it. However history has proven that when people are permitted to pollute freely it's the poor and destitute who suffer, not the wealthy nor the senators.

His saying "I see we have members of the clergy here to open up the theological discourse" might sound innocuous, but to me it sounds like "So go ahead, give me your best shot! I brought an army!"

Sorry, I'm ranting. *steps off soapbox*

As if their silly sappiness isn't enough...

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:48:56 GMT

..the Family Circus is recycling whole cartoons!!!

Left is from the early 1970's, right from last week. The Comics Curmudgeon had a reader send in the scanned comic from a 1970's compilation.

By the way, if you want a funny but sometimes fairly disturbing take on the Family Circus, check out the Dysfunctional Family Circus - now closed, but still lists the comics plus the user submitted captions.

Writer's Block: Change for the Better over a Decade

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:40:09 GMT

How are you a better person today than you were ten years ago?

Some thoughts on the changing state of news.

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:52:08 GMT

Things are changing.

When I first started using the Internet as my primary news source back in 1999, things were great. I could hit several different news sources and get several different takes on a story. Still, it felt odd not to have a newspaper coming to the house - there’s something about holding it in your hands! So I started a newspaper subscription, which I had to drop because someone kept stealing my paper. In January of 2001 I took on my current job at the apartment building I work at, and each morning I buzzed six different newspaper delivery people into the building.

Now here we are ten years later and there are great, sweeping changes happening to the news.

I only buzz two newspaper delivery people into my building every morning now. USA Today, the Post-Gazette, and The Tribune Review no longer maintain kiosks in my building - no one buys papers from them. The Wall Street Journal, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, and the Tribune Review are all delivered by the same carrier guy now, and he says they’re in talks to deliver the New York Times, too. The scary thing is ONE carrier could indeed carry every single paper to be delivered to my almost full 240 unit building… tucked under his arm.

This past December it seemed like every other long-standing reporter at several of the papers I read (I get free copies at the front desk), was retiring. They had been offered retirement bonuses for dropping out a little early. In the past month I’ve read articles about two major US newspapers either going online-only or closing altogether.

My local grocery store, Kuhns, doesn’t stock any news magazines anymore. It’s all gossip stuff which I’ve privately dubbed “magazines for people who don't want to operate a computer”. Outside of chain stores, it’s sometimes hard to find a news or science magazine - their biggest target audience tends to use the Internet a lot.

Amidst all this you would think that the quality of news online would be going up - and to some degree it has. But… on the other hand with the droves of reporters leaving the news field the different news sites are all posting the same Associated Press articles, removing my desire to surf to multiple sites. CNN.com no longer differentiates between US and international news headlines on its main page - the headline “Bus crash kills three” could well be either New Jersey or Pakistan these days, you have to click it to find out.

The news is changing. Is it for the better, or for the worse? Well… probably for the same. But its means and systems are definitely changing.

My take on stem cell research.

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:55:03 GMT

Do you think stem cell research is good, bad, or dangerous? Should it be funded by the government?

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RESEARCH IT! Find out EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT IT!!!!!! For crying in the night, somebody has to find it out!

Science is about learning. All of our lives have been greatly improved by doing edgy research like this. Understand that there have been times in history where a doctors had to pay people to steal bodies just so they could autopsy and learn - because the religious establishment wanted to keep the bodies intact for when the dead would rise at judgement. But those examinations have brought us life.

If we can figure out how to grow new organs - or to be able to repair nerve tissue (there's a holy grail for you - stem cells might be the way to do that), then by God we should do it.

Some may say "we can't do that, we'd be playing God!" but I disagree. No one can play God. Ever. Trust me, if there were a way to "play God" God wouldn't put it anywhere NEAR our grasp. We're only using the tools and possiblities that God has laid out already.

Life without randompictures, 50 minutes in...

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:38:55 GMT

Randompictures suspended!

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:50:51 GMT

Hey,_urination_burn and benchilada! One of our favorite communities has been suspended! :(

Quickie Watchmen Review

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:37:14 GMT

NON-SPOILERS:

I'm happy. That's all there is to it. It may not have been the greatest movie ever, but I think Zack Snyder can absolutely stamp Watchmen as "Filmable". I'd go back and watch it again!

I was going to go to the 10:15 but my wife had an appointment with a friend cancel and we made the 8:00, which made me glad because it's two hours and 40 minutes long. Our movie ended a half hour after the 10:15 movie started.

I posted to we_watch asking when during this looong movie would be the best time to go take a leak, and they said during the Owlship nookie scene, so I left after the tenement rescue when Daniel started turning off the Owlship systems, and got back just before the scene switched post-sex. Perfecto!

If you haven't seen the movie yet, or darted out of the theater after the end, there is no special scene at the end of the credits. You may go to the bathroom.
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Spoilers:

They nailed it. It wasn't a "WOW" nail, but a very comfortable fit. I'm not hopping up and down, but dammit I'm happy. They hit everything important. I expected Dr. Manhattan's story more watered down, Laurie's background and father reveal tossed out, and Rorschach's psychologist scene sliced away clean - but instead I left the theater feeling like they had hit everything I wanted them to.

Veidt was the weakest character, but still decently done. Actually pronouncing his name "vite" instead of what I always say ("Veedt") annoyed me more than pronouncing Rorschach as "Raw-shack". But that's all small potatoes.

I liked having Daniel visit Viedt instead of Rorschach. I always thought it was silly that Rorschach could scale that high undetected. Plus they're both orphaned rich playboys, and probably related well.

Gory, gory, gory. The alley fight scene. Rorschach and the child killer. Doc Manhattan destroying the guy in the crime den and the bits stuck to the ceiling. Wow. All well done. I'm not a big fan of gore, but I was expecting it going in and thought it was all well done. I only really cringed at cutting the guy's arms off with a handsaw during the prison riot. On the other hand, they said Sally's attempted rape scene was very graphic and I didn't think it was - but I knew it was a rape scene going into it.

This was a movie worth sitting through the gore for. Very well done.

Rorschach getting his face from the psychologist's office and saying "what do YOU see?" was just brilliant. And did you notice his blood splotch in the snow at the end was a Rorschach print?

It may not have had the squid, but the ending was solid, believable and worked within the Watchmen universe without introducing any new elements. Good job, folks. Gooooood job. *clapping*

Watchmen Opening Sequence

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:36:34 GMT

The link I posted yesterday to the opening sequence is dead, but here it is again!

Watchmen Opening Sequence

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:58:42 GMT

You can watch the opening titles for Watchmen here. I still haven't seen it (tonight!) but this was a wonderful sequence! (Watchmen is rated R, sequence has some R things in it) They do some neat plays off historical photos.

EDIT: They killed the link.

More Powers to You

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:31:05 GMT

I loved Tom and Jerry as a kid, and am glad my daughter likes them now! I don't usually watch the newer episodes, but happened to catch this play off The Fantastic Four and really enjoyed it.

Called for a motivator.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:32:43 GMT

I was driving to work last night and at least six or seven emergency vehicles zipped past me and turned onto Termon at the McKees Rocks Bridge. I told Amber about it when I got in to work, and sure enough there was coverage on the news. When I got home this morning and checked the story myself, I started chuckling at the format the writer used. It felt like reading a Curious George book.

It was so funny to me I made a Macro!