Mastication is for the weak!

David, what the hell was that first paragraph about? The anniversary of what-now? Must be some literary thing..

I don't really have anything of note to say, so I figure I'll just ramble on for a bit and see where things go. Please note that I'll also be including footnotes for explanation of any jargon or "lingo" that I may use, so as not to confuse the grammatically pure.

For any uber-nerds out there it may interest you to know that my favorite message board, Club Si participated in some e-thuggery* last week. It seems the board has a history for taking out smaller boards when they feel the members are assholes, ignorant, pompous, or otherwise annoy someone from CSi. Unfortunately for them, the members of Aces High 4 Eva (quite possibly the biggest ricers** I've ever seen) got on CSi's bad side after reacting badly to some good-natured ribbing at their expense.

The story, as I understand it, is as follows. Someone on the board found this Aces High board and made a post on CSi about how ugly the girls were and how lame in general they seemed to act. The CSi-ers got the bright idea to start registering on the Aces High message board and post retarded stuff, just to mess with them. Well, their boards membership went from 43 people to 96 and the number of topics went from 33 to over 200 in the span of about 36 hours. The admins for Aces High weren't smart enough to know how to ban someone so things got out of hand. CSi had taken over the board, with some resistance in the form of bodily threats and challenges to street race (ha!). The Aces admins flipped, and shut the board down and purged the entire site to get rid of us. 4 days later, presumably after having read the manual on message boards, the site came back online and the CSi members got IP banned*** and the membership went private (a mod needed to approve you to be able to post). In true internet**** style some of the members of Aces tried to bring down CSi like we had brought them. But with over 17,000 members and a rock-solid server administered by people who know a hell of a lot more about computers than I do (and I think we can agree that's saying something), not much happened. So now they want to sue CSi for "conspiracy to propagate spam", a charge I'm 99% sure they invented.

So while I don't necessarily think we weren't really big jerks in this situation, it's been funny as hell. As a PS, it's definitely worth checking out some of the Aces High Hotties to see where all this started.

A few highlights from their guestbook:

I don't really know what "coral" means here:
"Everyone make sure they get the new *Air Pharrells ! They are they new hot item, get them while they are coral. Fosho...I keeps da hot shiet...for those of you who dont know....The *Air Pharrells are new shoes, they are the replacement for Air Force Ones...so if you want to be Coral like...well...ME !...you will get them ! $200 at your coolest shoe store...Also Enyce just came out with a new Summer line up...they are hella coral, so get yourself a outfit, best bet go to www.Drjays.com they have the hottest Enyce wear on the internet...Stay Coral Aces High, represent the flyest gear, and make hollywood rich!.....EnZo Out
Philippines "

I like ellipses as much as the next guy, but come one:
"Holla to all my Aces High.... old crew... The new people probably dont know me but I used to be a part of the best family in the world. Aces High... I love all of you guys.. Holla to all the members including the old and the new... To any one one reading this who remebers me dont forget to holla... my email address is andreita1225@yahoo.com..... Yall be good and keep in touch and by the way yall looking really good.. keep it real in Fayetteville cause yall the best.... Remember dont let anybody come in between you guys....
Much love,
Aaliha
United States"

Mmmmm, cupcakes...
"Well guess who it is? Its me, its spud d-a-w-g. ha ha. On the front page of the site you ask the question. WHO ARE YOU WITH? Well I have the only answer possible. ACES HIGH. I just want to thank a few people while i got the chance. Thanks alot first off to mom for baking them delicious cupcakes for my bday. They were outstanding, next to snoop and jerry thanks for putting on my body kit for me. If you ever need a favor holla at me you know i got yall back, and last but not least the whole aces high family who made me show at last car show where i won my first trophy.
Got to go to work now love ya.
United States"

A post from CSi regarding IP bans:
"Dynamic IP owns you. Have fun getting rid of me!
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Canada"

*Sigh* They'll let anyone on the internet these days.

Footnotes:
* To act bad-ass on the internet
** Car enthusiasts who feel that style is more important than substance. IE, it's better to look fast than to be fast.
*** To have your entire IP address banned from a site, not just your username.
**** A collection of interconnected computers from all over the world, allowing vast repositories of information and revolutionary channels of communication to be made open and available to the average person, invented by Al Gore sometime in the early nineties.

Oh are they?

→Yes it's Bloomsday today the hundredth anniversary even but here I am sitting at home watching the footy like everyone else in this country spain and greece drew and portugal ran all over russia I found it something disappointing that nothing is going on in London to commemorate this blessed occasion except some pub up in Highgate that's having a reading but it's a couple of Irish writers whom I suspect are just reading their own work not even declaiming the true and monumental Ulysses I guess I should have gone up to Dublin where of course the real celebration is taking place with a big breakfast of kidney and guiness flowing like the liffey down the gullets of hundreds and hundreds of sun starved nearsighted ginger bookworms as they tramp all over the loved and hated hometown of mister Jimmy Joyce Yes •

→Happy Birthday Willy! I'm glad to hear you had some semblance of a good time after the horrible story of Ned and Ved. I wish I could have been there. I'd like also to extend some hearty birtday wishes out to Brian Dietz, Brian McIntyre, and Matt Wood, wherever you are.

→I bought me some draw-string trousers yesterday, and I'm not sure how I feel about them. They sorta look like O.R. scrubs (also known as a "busta").

→It figures. After coveting a gmail account with all my covetousness for months, I get one, only to have two invitations that no one seems to want. On top of that, blogger has finally deigned to offer me an invite. A lot of help that is now. Maybe I'll mosey on over to gmail swap to see what I can get.

→A recipe for Chinese roast pork!

→Welcome Gordon! Nice to have you aboard. But if you keep hitting that "reply all" button, I'm going to shove a sausage down your throat and stick starving dogs in your butt. Then I'm gonna use your tongue to paint my boat.

→Gooblar tour dates just announced:
June 23rd-July 10: playing all over Jersey and NYC
(venues to be announced; June 28th-July 10th with opening band Katarina Perovic)

I did not know that department, vol. 1.

Jesus Christ! Wilson Alvarez is still alive?!!?! And pitching for the Dodgers!?!?!!?

He came to life. Good for him.

p.s. Pokey Reese > pwns all jew

Stargate, it's a great big world...

...with a great big swirl
and you step inside to another world.

Stargate, it's a crazy trip.
You can go real far and
you don't need a car or even a ship.

Sorry, I've been watching the 5 Days Till Midnight miniseries and there have been mad crazy commercials for the new Stargate: Atlantis show premiering next month. Betcha' didn't know the Stargate theme song had words :)

Well, another week has gone by and my love affair with Netflix continues. Only got to see a few movies this week, this whole Reagan-death-thing delayed a few of my movies till Monday. But I did get to watch the first 3 discs of the second season of Buffy, and also The House of Sand and Fog (much better than the previews led me to believe), and Chasing Liberty (my first Mandy Moore movie, and crappy as hell). I also got Yojimbo today, but I saw it a few years ago and I already know it kicks ass. So I'll give that and THoSaF Pauly's Seal of Approval, while CL is only for hardcore Mandy lovers.

David - First off, thanks for the gmail, I have a feeling it's going to rock my world. I guess this means your little experiment with this here blog worked out. Secondly, good post about the poker tournament, though hotlinking > pwnz joo (to use hip intraweb message board lingo). Lastly, you better bring your A game with Tetris when you make it back to the States, cause Willy and I have started playing again and I'm getting tired of consistently making him look silly. We won't even get into what happened when Gordon tried to go up against the two of us...

David and Nish - I knew you guys were gonna say that. And to a certain extent, you're right. Although that explanation seems to require the belief in fate, and since I happen to lack that particular quality...But no worries, I'm ok with it now, I basically just wigged out for the day. Although I did have to send her an apology email, since I pretty much blew up at her when she told me.

Ok, that's all I got. Looks like it's gonna be another lonely Saturday night with nothing but the boys from ultimatebet to keep me company.