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Sorry its been so long since post, been kinda busy lately with two cousins moving in and one moving out. Updates will happen more frequently now that things are settling.

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This flickr user has made the point that video games have always been violent...and has illustrated how he viewed kills from early video games. He notes in his description that while Mortal Kombat was the first graphic representation of murder or death, the idea has long been a main theme in videogames.

My cousin Zach made the Cutters team as a sophomore this year, and they went on to win this year's Little 500, which is a 200 lap bike race. This marked the first time that any team has one 3 years in a row.


Zach getting ready to mount the bike

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Zach on the bike


Around the bend


Chasing down the dude ahead of him


Leading the pack


One of the seniors came back from a 30 second penalty (which was bullshit) with 18 laps left to cross the finish line for the win!


Victory!


Winner's Circle


The Bike


The Trophy

Hey everyone...its been nearly a month since my last post...I had a major video project I was working on and then ended up with Pneumonia. Sorry for the absence. I came across this the other day, and I think it might be the most epic thing I've ever seen.



Mike Patton is the lead singer...he also lead Faith No More, but I think this is probably the coolest thing he's ever done.

Notice he creates the effect at the beginning by wearing a gas mask...later creates distortion by exerting air as he sings in the mic and also creates an echo/reverb effect by using two mics with different compressions. Epic and genius. Hope you enjoy.

Adam got an e-mail from our cousin Carson, who is 10 or so today, and he wanted to know what was going on and if we had been watching any Tom & Jerry lately. We decided to put together this video response for him.

This is a commercial I shot and edited with a few friends of mine for the E-Fair, which is a jobs fair. It is insanely cheesy, but it kind of is by nature. Either way, I think its hilarious.

These come out this summer. Looks like I will be drinking a good bit of blue Mountain Dew!

Also, my guild in WOW (Care Bears) now has a website - Care Bears

I created our logo, which I am very proud of!

Tricky with Dirty Little Rabbits
Sunday March 15 - Slowdown - $20

The Whopper Bar!

In my opinion, this will ONLY work if they serve actual burgers...not the cheap shit they serve at every Burger King restaurant ever. What do you think?

found at: Inquisitr.com

Found over at Cinematical.com

This is, in my opinion, the coolest thing about the new Safari BETA aside from the speed increase. I have all my most frequented sites arranged on one page as a thumbnail thanks to the feature called "top sites."

The way it works currently is to monitor which sites you use most frequently and then populate thumbnails of those sites on the top sites tab. I don't like this as it is since I am all about customization so I developed a workaround.

Clear all the sites from your top site tab and then go to the site you want to add and switch back to the top sites tab. Repeat this two or three times until the site gets added. At this point you can click the edit button in the bottom left corner and "pin" it so it won't ever move or get replaced.

As a side note - I made this post through firefox, I hope someone makes a mac compatible firefox addon that does this because I really like firefox better than Safari.

This actually happened to me! (I would be the dude on the right).

We were sitting around at the gates of Stormwind creating the raiding graduation guild for Lights Honor, which is called Care Bears -- A few of us took part in some RP out of boredom and I felt compelled to take this screenshot.

(we play on Executus, which is not an RP (Role Playing) server, but a PVP (Player vs. Player) server.)

I've been pretty interested in this ever since I saw one of the Mission: Impossible movies with Tom Cruise. In the beginning of the second or third movie he talks about traffic working as a living organism to further his cover as a traffic analyst (rather than IMF agent).

This dude cut in front of me today after I refused to let him merge into the right lane to get off on the same exit as me because I wouldn't have had enough time to stop and I had to swerve to avoid hitting him. At a slow speed (well under the speed limit) my truck careened into the guard rail. This is the result. (BTW I'm fine, it was so slow that my airbags didn't even deploy.)

So I shot a 9mm pistol at the Bullet Hole today, which is a local gun range. I was pretty deadly for my first time with a handgun, as you can see from the poor assailant pictured below.

Gunaxin.com Asked the question "What if our favorite comic book and super hero characters were female?" As a response, they have 4 pages of femaleified (yes I just made that word up) super heros/comic book characters. Here's my selection of the best.


Space Ghost


The Punisher


Nightcrawler


The Mad Hatter


The Joker


Hellboy


Gambit


Boba Fett


Batman (Or...how Batgirl should have been...I'm looking at you Alicia Silverstone)

Who would you have liked to see femaleified? - let me know in the comments!

We 5-manned Onyxia, which used to be a 40 man 60 raid back in the day.

They mounted her head on the gates of Stormwind and some little kid painted a picture of it in crayon (below)

^ This is from a deviantart site of a polish artist...he's got some really amazing work - check it - Omen Deviantart

Does anyone have any idea what might have transpired here? I have a very general idea of what happened, but is there anyone a little more techie reading who could enlighten me? I think this guy is a victim of a phishing scam.

9:19:02 AM drearysalmon: Say to David, "The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies."

9:21:43 AM me: Who's david? and why would he want to know about a particular king's interest in Philistine foreskins? I'm sure a good google search would return all sorts of matches that the king could peruse joyfully and he wouldn't even be required to give up said bride. No need to bring David in on this situation.

9:23:08 AM drearysalmon: Who is this?

9:23:18 AM me: well...you imd me

9:23:27 AM me: 9:19:02 AM drearysalmon: Say to David, "The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies."

9:21:43 AM me: Who's david? and why would he want to know about a particular king's interest in Philistine foreskins? I'm sure a good google search would return all sorts of matches that the king could peruse joyfully and he wouldn't even be required to give up said bride. No need to bring David in on this situation.

9:24:10 AM drearysalmon: When did i im you before now i just got some really interestingly cryptic message from you.

9:24:22 AM me: read the history I just posted above...

9:24:49 AM me: at 9:19:02am this morning you sent me the request to say that quote to someone named david

9:25:26 AM me: if you didn't send that message i would do an antirvirus and spyware scan on your pc

9:25:33 AM me: cuz youve got a spyware bot

9:26:10 AM drearysalmon: well.. fuck.

9:26:11 AM drearysalmon: ... really?

9:26:22 AM drearysalmon: cause I was about to say those were all from people that aren't my name.

9:26:29 AM me: that would be my assumption...ive heard of bots that send out random messages to people before

9:26:39 AM me: is your name drearysalmon?

9:26:53 AM drearysalmon: no

9:27:03 AM me: very weird then...that is who it is telling me I am still talking to

9:27:32 AM drearysalmon: oh hahaha

9:27:38 AM drearysalmon: ************* is this screen name. (***CENSORED***)

9:28:09 AM drearysalmon: are you agnosticcoho?

9:28:15 AM me: lol no

9:28:23 AM drearysalmon: ....

9:28:29 AM drearysalmon: interesting.

9:28:31 AM drearysalmon: well its telling me your agnosticcoho.

9:28:35 AM me: ....i think you have a serious problem with your IM client

9:29:23 AM drearysalmon: maybe its a serious problem with your Im client?

9:29:26 AM drearysalmon: cause you're the first and only person who has ever done this to me...

9:29:46 AM me: doubtful. im on a mac on a cross-platform client. this would be virtually impossible to spoof

9:29:58 AM me: what client are you on? yahoo? aim?

9:29:58 AM drearysalmon: mmmm

9:30:38 AM me: also...most ppl probably would have ignored your message

9:30:46 AM me: i thought id have fun with what i thought was a spambot

9:30:52 AM drearysalmon: mmmm

9:31:07 AM drearysalmon: well I can look into it I just doubt its from my computer...

9:31:55 AM me: i dont have any more info for ya...but so you know...you are sending out random IMs from the SN drearysalmon

9:33:31 AM drearysalmon: the reason I don't really believe that is caue I wasn't even hooked up to the internet at that time.

9:33:33 AM drearysalmon: so I couldn't have sent anything.

9:34:01 AM me: well....then someone may be using your account to spoof spam when you are offline

9:34:18 AM me: simply put...i got a message from drearysalmon...responded...and it went to you

This is the end of the convo...very weird. Does anyone have any ideas?

This video is absolutely amazing and has inspired me to create a rogue character (Viciousvamp - level 17 - Lights Honor - Executus)


The Craft of War: BLIND from percula on Vimeo.

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Was at this concert last night...and they rocked my face off! I recommend all the bands on the flyer - go check them out!

Nightdred - Level 77 - Lights Honor - Executus

Click the picture to go check it out and sign up!

Its been a while since I've posted...I've been really busy this holiday season. Initially meant as a Halloween post, this post is having its debut later on in the year.

To preface -- Jason pointed out that I am very much like a vampire...here are the 5 reasons he came up with.

1. I ate Papa John's garlic sauce and felt sick afterward...just as I do anytime I ingest garlic...and I abhor the smell of garlic. This is due to an allergy to garlic.

2. I'm light sensitive...I hate having bright lights on for long periods of time and abstain from sunlight as much as possible.

3. I like my steak a little bloody (medium)

4. If I am sitting somewhere and there is a tray full of alot of somethings I have to play with them and count how many there are. There are no exceptions to this.

5. I can't cross large bodies of running water without a vessel of some sort.



I'll allow you to make your own determinations...

A friend of mine, Miles Landaw, was at Slowdown here in Omaha for the filming of the As I Lay Dying music video of "Within Destruction." He appears several times throughout the video, but is best scene in the screen grab below...crowd surfing.



Video Below (He's also on the starting thumbnail):

Adam's birthday was this past weekend and my cousin Drew (Adam's brother) got him a sweet Sword of Omens replica! AWESOME!


Adam


Adam attacking Chad


Desire (Adam's g/f)


Thundercats Wallpaper!!!

...had a few run-ins with teachers when I was in school also. I'll have to see if I can find any of my old detention slips.

Hilarious, but not entirely accurate. One can easily upgrade the battery (if applicable) hard drive & RAM in a Mac.

Found at: http://trunks.fireball20xl.com/twats/comic/comics/096.jpg

LOL...Jack took this picture of me sleeping the day after the rave party in Jason's basement. Pictures from that party soon to come. Who put that blanket on me? When I fell asleep I was blanketless...whoever you are, thank you.

Continuing the below post, I followed them from Dustwallow Marsh to Ironforge and then on to Stormwind, and never could actually find them. I then noticed they were in Westfall so I flew there from Stormwind and took these screenshots. I asked them how they all managed to stay the same level and within 30 seconds they all logged out.

I have a suspicion that this dude plans on selling lvl 70 druids...anyone with me?

**if anyone missed it...the screen names are all the same except they each contain a different vowel. A, E, I, O, U.

Found at This Website

LMAO...at the end, the partner looks sooo pissed! Classic!

Just completed two new WOW comics. Posted for your enjoyment.

This thing...which I am told is a "necropolis" is floating over every major city in Azeroth. This on the heels of a massive plague, triggered by the Lich King and scourge, spreading throughout the World of Warcraft (Outland included) seems to mark the start of an invasion of some kind...I am not versed in the mythologies of WOW having just started playing in June...so if anyone can shed some light on what the hell is going on, it would be greatly appreciated.

Adam (my cousin) and I dressed up in Yahoo's signature purple color for the announcement today.

(click the above picture to read the whole story)

I attended this announcement, and it was certainly an electrifying event. Armed with my digital rebel and plenty of photo opportunities, here's what I ended up with.


Governor Dave Heineman took the stage first and actually made the announcement.


This is David Brown, President/CEO of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, otherwise known to me as Dad. He introduced alot of the people involved with the project to bring Yahoo! to Omaha.








The Yahoo representatives were presented cowbells with silk-screened graphics and a large husker hat with the Y! logo attached to the side.






Here stands Governor Dave Heineman...but what's this? (zoom sound effect)


The Governor is rockin' purple cons in honor of Yahoo! Pure awesomeness.

As an added bonus, three of my pictures are now featured on the Governor's state website. See two posts above for the links.

This is my first attempt at landscape as photographic art. I have full-res wallpaper sized versions available on request.

The recently implemented pedestrian bridge from Omaha to Iowa. Hi-Res versions are available on request.

My personal favorite - The dude would be a bachelor based on his chick's credit report? WTF
Runner up - "They say you should dress up for the job you want, so why am I dressed up like a pirate in this restaurant?"