Devourer of Time

Well, upon the promise of updating more, I was set upon by an enjoyable behemoth of a monster. This Monster i will call Minecraft. Those not familiar with minecraft, I will explain.

It is a computer game, in which you are plopped down in a randomly generated world. this world consists wholly of 1m x 1m cubes, and is heavily pixellated. it is also heavily addicting. you can collect resources, and build items and buildings, and use them to refine resources into better resources. also, there is day and night, and during the day, there are pigs, sheep, cows, and chickens all about. at night however, there are zombies, skeleton archers, giant spiders, and explosive mutant-creepers. It is very fun and addicting, and I have played far too much of it (my number 1 world could give Moria a run for its money).

Aside from that, there was an awesome wedding which I did attend. Kathy got married, and there was sooo much dancing, music, and fun times. Not to mention the ceremony was held at the Japanese gardens.... omg terrace has a Japanese gardens!!!...when did that happen...

I have also been watching some quite good anime's of recent, namely Berserk and Last Exile. Both rewatches for me, bu I like them both, Berserk with its medieval epic, and Last Exile with its deiselpunk themes.

Finally, I have been reading spectacular comics. I now have a new favourite comic book series. Atomic Robo. its the continuing stories of the Atomic Robo, a nuclear powered automatic intelligence built by Tesla, who takes part in ww2 vs. the nazis, and leads a team of Action Scientists to save the world. Yep. Super Freakin Awesome. Read It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats all for now.

- Atomic Robo... I mean.... Andrew

I am Back, Part 2

I am indeed back, and I hurt from glorious combat. The first utterance upon my arrival being an all too enthusiastic "Woo Hoo! the pain has returned!!!" from Keith. It was really fun, but I have fallen out of the limited shape I was in. No Matter, I will return to power.

On the drive home, I was thinking to myself - as I often do - about my latest activities, such as watching a lot of the video's from "That Guy with The Glasses". If you have not heard of it, check it out, as there is much geekery and the like. In any case, I got to thinking of the reasoning - or importance if you will - of the video watching.

That is to say I was contemplating the intrinsic value of watching so many videos. Part of me supposed that it was mindless brain-rot to have on in the background, and it is a viable possibility. However, in an act of self-reflective cognitive dissonance, I argued that there is a value to it. For example, watching the videos of Linkara, who makes it his business to verbally (and occasionally physically) trash bad comics. Although bad comics by themselves serve no real benefit, he imparts knowledge of other good comics and comic book characters as well.

thus was the avalanche of understanding - although being strange knowledge, it is in fact knowledge, which is inherently valuable. Comic book knowledge, although based on entertainment, is a human endeavour. It is an area of human knowledge, with thousands, if not millions of minds thinking about the same thing, knowing the same characters, acknowledging the same characters values, and partaking in the same rich mythologies.

At which point it occurred to me that comic books, for all their childish beginnings, form a strange cultural blip. Consider the following (Bill Nye); in countries across the globe, wherever there is relatively modern societies, people will have heard of the same character - Superman. Moreover, many cultures have taken this character and fused him with their own values, while retaining the original. It would be difficult to find anyone in the modern world who could not answer the simple question "Who is Superman?".

I suppose I will leave it there for now.
- The Andrew

I'm Back...

Oh Hello There!

Well, it has been an age since I last graced the webways with my banter, and due to surprisingly popular demand, I am back on the air... um... nets. Unfortunately I am left with the dilemma that sometimes occurs with the majority of the population when faced with the question of "what has been going on?". From this disharmonious statement, one must draw upon the horrid truth that - in purest fact - nothing out of the ordinary has been happening.

This is the essential reason I have not updated in a while, marching alongside the powers of procrastination and laziness, and then there's the robots.

However, I will note some of the basic events of the past while:

1) Lots of work. holy crap, lots of friggin work, which is both good and bad. Work has been plagued by incompetent coworkers, unreliable coworkers, and other interesting shinanigans involving threats of various kinds upon myself. Nothing serious, but there are some crazies out there.

2) I have not been boffering in quite a while, due to weather, other activities, and aforementioned Laziness, though I will be in attendance tomorrow.

3) I have been gearing up my D&D junk to run James and Alex through some adventures when there is a day where we all have the night off. I will be running them first through a well known dungeon in the andrewverse of gaming history, involving rat people, open sewers, underground lakes, more open sewers, rat-assassins, and jays character falling into open sewers.

4) I have been trying to watch some more movies and shows, because they re fun.

5) I recently finished a book, lent to me - by mistake or design - by Kelly before she moved east. It is called "Talk to the hand", and is about the decline of politeness in our society (with a subtext of the author being driven insane by it).

6) I am a Squarebear.

7) talk like a pirate day is coming up soon, so everybody be ready (September 19th).

8) I recently got to see some dragonboat races, and let me tell you! it was less exciting than I thought it would be. Oh well, still good overall.

9) Back to D&D, when I was just starting university, and I was bored with no friends about to hang out with (which is much the same situation here in the wee hours of the morning), I would make random D&D characters. these characters could be used at a moments notice in the case of a pickup game, and it was fun to make characters. I have started doing this again, though only a few. It is fun, and I am reliving geekness.

That's it for now I think, I am happy to update again!
- Squarebear


Current Music: "Over the hills and far away", by Nightwish

Back in time

I kind of wonder if anybody still reads this. Hopefully.

Last night, and Indeed, all of yesterday was quite awesome. It started with numerous tramping around town in the morning, timmys coffee, getting a good movie, watching a movie, and generally recovering from working. Then, Allison and I went to lakelse lake, the picnic area, and swam across the creek to the gruchies area. I got to see a trout, some golf balls in the water, and a freshwater clam. As it happened, Allison was too tired to swim back across the stream (its a big and deep stream, being about 200' wide where its good to cross), so she hopped on my back and I swam us back (Sea Panda to the rescue!). Then I made her a wonderful meal of KD, and the peasants rejoiced.

Later I went to boffer, which proved to be very good. At the beginning, I ended up taking victories in good number, at one point being myself and one other against 8 people, and unfortunately - we won. This was unfortunate, as I was a team captain, and could not be traded out, so the next battle was myself versus 9 people. I almost won. :)

It went quite well overall. I had lots of fun, worked well with the other bofferers, and eventually I got completely beat to crap. I had to take glorious vengeance a few times for slights against me in previous rounds, including, but not limited to: the god-damned dagger thrower, and the speedy guy named Devon. they cost me many a life, so I had to take such vengeful measures. It was fun overall, and i think everybody had a good time. My wounds were limited to being clocked in the right leg a few times, and having some bruising in the soft tissue and maybe even bone, and I also got blisters on my hand and knuckles from wielding my shield so much. I took good advice and bought some frozen veggies on the way back, which served as a cold pack. Now, I will, for the fun of it, list the mighty warriors who took part in glorious combat yesterday.

Myself = the beast
Keith = our benefactor and foamsmith
Aaron = the energetic one
Matt = the punisher (and also an honourary "the beast")
Trenton = the beast in training
Zack = a new fellow, seemed to enjoy himself a lot
Devon = the speedy one, also a blackbelt in jujitsu
Myles = a foamsmith as well, strong fellow
Amanda = a sneaky and good fighter
Trevor = the pirate
Kyla = the rogue
Kelly = the surprisingly-adept-at-dagger-throwing lady

I believe that was all that were there. It was a good day.
- The Beast

Okay, cool.

Okay, cool. I am kinda tipsy drunk.

Yes, that's right, I am tipsy drunk. I will attempt to spell correctly in my assertion of the evenings events. Well, I worked a long shift, in which i had to continue to teach a new coworker how to job. This did not go well, as she is slow on the uptake, and well.... she is not smart. This is unfortunate, as she is rather nice to the customers, and I think she would be a good addition to the team... if she can be left alone for more than 5 minutes.

Anywho, I was getting to the drunk part. I went to the Spirit after work to wish Alice a happy birthday and possibly dance. I did not dance, as my ankle and neck were hurt from various dancing and headbanging (respectively) during the prior evening. I did dispense hugs in good quality and quantity.

So I ended up having 2 beers at the place, and a shot of tequila. Then I eventually decided that sleep and recuperation were superior to auditory damage. I then began to mosey home, and upon venturing down my street, I was hailed by a neighbor. This neighbor said hello, and suggested I join him for a refreshing beer. I know him from work, so I decided to acquiesce to his proposition, as his recompense to delaying my homeward trek was in the form of alcoholic beverage. I ended up "chilling" in his house/shed/treehouse (groundhouse) while enjoying antiquated music and refreshing drinks. I found out that he was in fact a poet, and very oddly, a good one. He also seemed to display traits of the pseudo-paranoid archetypal leftist, but seeing as how this is rural northern BC, its usually either that or rednecks.

I then decided to venture home, and bid my farewell, thus getting home to watch space operas and draw space ships. And of course write this strangely worded blog. All in all - 5 beers, and a shot of tequila for taste - what a fine recipe.

Sincerely yours
- Lord Admiral Oates

Darth Molar

He's more filling now than tooth....

Well, I had a good thing happen, being that I got the last of my dental work done, and that included not getting a root canal.

Yep.

I started watching the first few episodes of the sci-fi series "babylon 5", and it seems pretty cool so far. Hooray for sci-fi!

- Andrew Man!

The Pandrews Kitchen: Shin Ramyun Gourmet Spicy

Them Noodles

Price: $1.09 at the Superstore.

Cooking: 5 minutes on the stove top.

Okaydoke! Here goes - first taste!.... well, the noodles are fairly good, though omg holy crap... spicy. Quite spicy, but it is grand. It comes with a packet of dried vegable bits, which are pretty good. They still don't have much or any nutrition, but its still quite yummy. Beef flavour. Yum.

I recall getting this before, and now - as then, it is overly spicy, but very good tasting. I think I will try to more water next time, to get less powerful spice. The Spice must flow.

Very goodly overall, good quantity, good flavour, good price, good gravy. I will recommend this to others, but beware the burning greatness which is the hot spice. Muaahaha! Also, as an interesting side note, The Noodle pack is round, to make boiling in a small pot easier.

Lame. Anywho, I watched some god movies recently, such as "We Sell The Dead", which is about grave robbers who stumble upon undead grave robbing. Then of course, I watched "Teeth" last night. Yep. About a vagina with teeth that can cut off certain things during sex. Yep. A movie full of class, no doubt.

That is all for now.

- Chef Pandrew