Crearmy goodness

creemynougat @ 2008-12-13T02:25:00

2008-12-13T07:26:07Z

I high-fived Liz Enthusiasm. All y'all can suck it.

creemynougat @ 2008-10-24T16:32:00

2008-10-24T20:33:28Z

Hay guys.

My cell phone stopped working. I got it replaced, but I lost all my frickin' numbers.

If I should know your number, comment it here. (I'm screening them and won't approve any, so no worries there.)

(EDIT: Now ACTUALLY screening!)

creemynougat @ 2008-07-14T22:07:00

2008-07-15T02:09:49Z

Stab wounds! Many many tiny ones!

creemynougat @ 2008-04-26T02:14:00

2008-04-26T06:14:53Z

You guys seriously.

Denny Blaze, Lemon Demon, Toscadero, Leslie Hall and the LYs, and Group X.

I HAVE CONDENSED MILK IN MY HAIR AND IT WAS SO FUCKING WORTH IT!

creemynougat @ 2008-04-04T18:38:00

2008-04-04T22:38:54Z

Meaux's moving out in September; anyone want to move in?

creemynougat @ 2008-03-28T23:11:00

2008-03-29T03:13:10Z

Sweet. Just got back from seeing They Might Be Giants at the tiny theatre a few blocks down the road. In retrospect, I was not as excited about this event as I should have been.

I saw Particle Man performed live.

Also, this same place will be hosting Dr. Katz in a couple of weeks. I am so unbelievably down for that.

It's LJ - I HAD to use song lyrics.

2007-12-31T06:01:24Z

It hasn't been a long December so much as a long March-through-now.

For now, I am finally actually happy. I'm not ecstatic - things could be better. But I'm perfectly okay with everything where it is. And I don't know that that's actually been true for many months. And I haven't been single and content in probably around six years.

Things with Ivy have dissolved because she doesn't know how she feels about some things. What're ya gonna do? It was a great few weeks and although it might have grown into something better, it did at the very least let me get my head on straight about a few things.

I can now actually live with one of my ex-girlfriends without feeling twinges of nonsensical jealousy regarding her new relationship. I can hear about friends' success with the ladies without feeling bitter and resentful. I can walk by couples in public without wishing I melt their brains with some sort of laser death gaze. ...dammit, now I'm sad because I don't have some sort of laser death gaze. And Christmas is over, so I'm pretty much out of luck.

Speaking of Christmas, that was good times. I spent a few days in RI chilling at my house playing my DS, and staying up until after 5am playing Risk: 2210 A.D. It's more fun to call it Space Risk.
Then I went back to work for a couple of days. I'm not thrilled with how things are going there. I have bosses who are just douchebags in many ways. One of them is cool because there are many ways in which is NOT a douchebag, and thus I can overlook his idiosyncrasies. But the other is just one of those assholes that gives out as little information as possible, even when there's no reason. It's unnerving and I greatly dislike it.
But on to better things. Had people over on Friday and it was cool, although a bit too boozy. The next day was another RI DDR tournament. I failed as hard as possible because in the time I haven't played, everyone else everywhere has become better than I ever was. But I still won the "most pimpin' dancer" award (yes, I have the certificate to prove it) and there are pictures of me with several DDR bitches, so that's cool. Also, that whole community is as rife with drama as ever, and I feel grateful that I am not actually involved in any of that crap and can be amused by it from a distance. God, I hate DDR people - minus a select few that I hope know who they are.

But anyway. I am doing well, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.

creemynougat @ 2007-12-04T21:00:00

2007-12-05T02:01:37Z

So no Super Smash Brothers Brawl yesterday.

But I think my night was better without it anyway.

creemynougat @ 2007-12-01T03:05:00

2007-12-01T08:07:03Z

So I FINALLY went to the god damn doctor to fix my pink-eye.

That much was pretty routine. It's not like the problem isn't obvious. I have a salve to rub over my eyeballs and a cream to rub outside them. Had they not been prescription medications, I could have picked them up at any time. But the doctor also looked at my height and weight and BMI and it turns out I'm fat. WHO KNEW!? I had no idea.

Basically I paid an old white guy to insult me. I feel kind of dirty and perverted, and not in the good way. D:

Thursday night was good. Very unexpected, but very good. Bed was difficult to leave this morning.

creemynougat @ 2007-11-19T02:09:00

2007-11-19T07:08:13Z

Things I did today:
9 hours of my new Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel board game. Yes. It's that good. Cody and I started at 9pm with my friend Julia. She left at midnight and the two of us kept going until 9am.

I cleaned some stuff in the house and did laundry.

Chatted online, watched some cartoons, got in some U R Mr Gay.

Not too bad.

DDR tomorrow, then Thanksgiving soon. And then Thanxkcdgiving.

creemynougat @ 2007-11-11T22:18:00

2007-11-12T03:16:36Z

Today was pretty bitchin' too.

Fora brunch turned into fora DDR run and fora game store run (it was closed D: ) and then fora dinner. TWO MEALS!!!

Plus I won the eBay bid for Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel. So, y'know, that's getting played fuggin' ASAP.

Also I have an Initech mug and a jump-to-conclusions mat.

creemynougat @ 2007-11-11T02:45:00

2007-11-11T07:52:19Z

I was so ridiculously depressed this week. To the point of seriously considering counseling for it, but I think all I really need is to make sure I socialize more often. Or even just get out of the house for some DDR.

The tournament in RI today was a good time. Lot of people showing up, and even though there douchebags, the cool people made up for it. Plus there was hanging out after the tournament which was actually douchebag-free.

I didn't get particularly far in the tournament, since in the two years I haven't really played, everyone who DOES play just got...really good. So I went out, but I went out well: I at least took one victory out of three, picking Ordinary World, hitting the turns perfectly. The result was the other guy beating my best of 6 with 5, and I got 4. Then I got Max 300'd and was too tired to play the random at any appreciable skill level. But then I got new AAA after the tournament and headed off for food.

Brunch tomorrow with the forafolk, and an hopefully winning an ebay auction for the Doom Troopers: The Mutant Chronicles board game. Parties will be had. Dorkily.

creemynougat @ 2007-11-03T09:44:00

2007-11-04T01:51:51Z

I am happy about nothing, and angry at pretty much everything.

And my eye's been infected for about a month and I'm really close to just fucking ripping it out.

creemynougat @ 2007-10-21T23:52:00

2007-10-22T03:56:12Z

Hey maggots. Metalocalypse marathon at my house on Halloween. Come thirsty for booze and metal.

(I can has headcount plz?)

Brutal.

2007-10-18T06:07:39Z

Which member of Dethklok in Metalocalypse are you?

Nathan Explosion

Dethklok's American frontman, lead vocalist and lyricist. Is obsessed with making everything blacker than the blackest black times infinity.

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creemynougat @ 2007-08-31T19:59:00

2007-09-01T00:03:31Z

So I've got a three-day weekend.

I've got Metroid Prime 3, and Super Metroid to boot, and about 48 cans of Mountain Dew.

Anyone have any other ideas?

creemynougat @ 2007-07-22T15:13:00

2007-07-22T19:19:45Z

VOLDEMORT HAS REESE'S FOR BREAKFAST PAGE 873

Now selling one (1) copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for $20. Also a sony mini-disc player and about 10 discs for it for $50.

ALSO, I'm out and heading into Rhode Island for the week. If you don't have my number, I don't want to talk to you. (Or you can leave me a comment with your number and we can trade that way. I'll screen and delete phone numbers.)

To quote Al Gore,
Peace out y'all.

creemynougat @ 2007-07-19T23:33:00

2007-07-20T03:33:48Z

Holy shit, what a fantastic last 30 hours!

I was feeling mopey at the end of the work day, and felt like I need a hot meat injection - OF BUFFALO CHICKEN FROM CHRISTOPHER'S! So I call up Joe P and he brings Alex (who I now know now by name rather than appearance) and we split a double order of boneless buffalo wings, a large plate of chicken nachos, and what the restaurant literally refers to as a 'pile of fries.' Mm, delicious. There was talk of SSBBrawl, which led to cravings for some Melee. We head off toward my place, detouring into Shaw's to satisfy my need for cold soda.

At the self checkout, I notice who else but CatProximity/Sarah/Proxi/haven't figured out quite what to call her yet. None of you know her; I've known her in real life for about a week. There were vague plans involving Guiness brownies that didn't get finalized before I left work. And we ran into her at friggin' Shaw's! Even more fatefully, she had lost her ID and so I had to myself procure the Guiness, but we then all journeyed back here for Smash and Guiness brownies. 'twas a great evening.

Chilling happened again tonight with Proxi and with BakeMaster as well.

But the REALLY cool thing? My boss boss and my coworker boss (owner of the company and immediate superior) sat me down today, and let me know I've been a terrific job and that a raise is in the works as well some more interesting job duties. But the REALLY REALLY cool thing? I got a bonus.

A shiny new black 30GB video iPod. <3

Vacation all I ever wanted...

2007-07-16T19:30:54Z

I'm taking a vacation and will be spending it in Rhode Island. I'll be coming down this weekend or early next week to chill out and such and also for the St. Swivens' Day madness.

Let me know if you want to book some chill time, or offer to pick me up from a train station or drive me back to one. (No obligation, but if you feel like it, my mom will appreciate not having to do it. =P )

creemynougat @ 2007-07-07T22:07:00

2007-07-08T02:16:03Z

Friday was alright. Bread's a douchebag and won my iPod. (stfu, Tom, I sincerely doubt you could beat me in a DDR match, not that it matters because it's just arrow-stomping anyway, so get over it so I can stop, overusing, these, damn, com,mas.)

Spent like fifteen hours in a car with Tom looking for Damian's place because darkness + lack of street signs makes directions from the Internet hard to follow.

Once we got there, I gave Damian his gift of Wild Turkey (he's an elite businessman, after all) and proceeded to have a water balloon fight. I went all Goku and blocked two consecutive balloons with my hand alone and then nailed my assailant. Then I got crunk off of Mike's Hard Crisp Apple and fell asleep some time later. I managed not to be hung over, caught Transformers with Goofy/Cody, pet my mom's cats, and got a ride back up and did dinner.

Have you had drunk Bailey's from a shoe?

I'm FUCKING tired and listening to 80's music, and I am sad that Loverboy is not making an appearance on the 80's Guitar Hero mix.

Apparently, Patty Smyth is the Warrior. Who fucking knew?

creemynougat @ 2007-07-05T22:03:00

2007-07-06T02:09:49Z

Alright bitches.

I'm heading to Rhode Island for Damian's birthday party tomorrow night. Before that I'll be attending a DDR tournament from which I expect to walk away with a video iPod.

Probably meeting Sara at the mall on Saturday, and doing R.F. O'Sullivan's with my mom back here in Boston.

Now if only I can pick up a nice girl somewhere in all of that...but if not, hey, I get an iPod at least. =P

Lil' Bush

2007-06-21T02:41:33Z

I staunchly believe that Lil' Bush would have been better off as a short comedy sketch, and I want my damn Sarah Silverman Show back.

creemynougat @ 2007-06-19T03:49:00

2007-06-19T07:54:02Z

Do note the time.

If I am online tomorrow after 8pm, please IM me and ask why the hell I'm not coding or sleeping. If I don't have acceptable answer, threaten to stop being my friend unless I immediately take up one of those two activities.

creemynougat @ 2007-06-17T08:25:00

2007-06-17T12:33:53Z

I played some drunken Apples to Apples last night. And then some Strip Flip-cup.

I went and hung out with Justin and a bunch his coworkers and some other people last night. And everyone was actually cool, even the 18-year-old effeminate-looking kid with the studded bracelets and the Happy Hardcore CD's. It's been so long since I met anybody new outside of an arcade environment, where the average social IQ is "abysmally fucking retarded." Last night ruled.

It was so good, in fact, that that I have begun to question the excellent mood I've been in for the last week or so. I believe last night may have been so good that its excellence actually radiated backward through time and started affecting me over a week ago.

I didn't pass out, didn't vomit, and am only slightly hung over. I call it a win.

Made for xkcd fora, crossposted for you! Re: Gay Marriage

2007-06-15T01:39:50Z

I truly hate that the gay marriage argument often boils down to petty semantics. Marriage vs civil unions, saying that gay people still "have the right to marry" but just not other gay people...it's all ridiculous. Call marriage whatever the hell you want, define it however the hell you want. I argue below that even should marriage be defined as between man and woman, such is a definition is entirely against the ideals of equality that this nation represents. It is undeniable that sexual preference is NOT A PREFERENCE. It is biological, and no law can make a gay woman be attracted to men, any more than it can make straight woman be attracted to other women.

Marriage is about love and/or money and/or familial units.
Love is private and between two individuals and shouldn't need any legal recognition to make it valid. And no such recognition is required. Anyone is legally allowed to love anyone else. Although we do still have states with sodomy laws broad enough to include oral sex between consenting heterosexual couples, I assume we're all in agreement here that such laws are unjust. If we agree on that, and on the fact that no one should be able to vote on a motion to ban such conduct between lovers, then straights and gays now have equal rights to love and its physical expression. Either way, whether or not a person is "married" to another has no impact on their legal ability to share and express love.
Money and finances are another reason that people marry. Now we're getting to an area in which the law truly does, and should, hold great sway. Laws determine how money in a single household is factored into taxes, and lot of other more complicated issues that I am not qualified debate. A gay couple living together cannot simplify their taxes, while a married straight couple, living together or separately can. Clearly, from a logical point of view, the finances of a live-in gay couple and a live-in straight couple will be extremely similar, given that all other variables such as income level and location are taken into account. Does it not make legal sense to treat both situations as the same? It does make sense, but it's not possible if gay marriage is not legal. (Whether or not such treatment is financially beneficial is moot. If it is not beneficial, then marriage for this reason would not occur, so there is no reason for us to pursue this path of discussion.
Lastly are the social and familial implications of marriage. Marriage is a wholly convenient way to make a bond between two people socially and legally "official." It lets people and the state know that "We are sharing each other's lives and I trust this person with certain responsibilities in the event that I cannot fulfull them." In the event of a tragedy such as a death or a hospitalization, certain actions can only be taken on behalf of the affected individual by that person's legally defined family. This means that heterosexual members of a marriage can make decisions for each other if necessary. Homosexual members of a pair-bond which is cannot be legally recognized do not have these rights. Why is this so? Given the similar interaction and emotion between the different types of couples, members of each type are uniquely qualified to represent loved ones. Yet the law does not recognize this in the case of a homosexual partnership.

The below is not a quote. It is italicized for emphasis.
The very nature of a bond of love means that the individuals in that bond pool their thoughts and resources regardless of whether it is legally recognized. This means that whether or not the law agrees, a gay man whose lover and partner is hospitalized is as qualified to make decisions for that partner as any wife is for her husband. The law gives this right to a husband or wife regardless of whether he or she actually knows his or her partner well enough to make such decisions.

THIS is the heart of the idiocy of not legally recognizing gay marriages. Heterosexuals can enter marriage for reasons pertaining to any, all, or none of the realms of effect described above. Yet people argue the law should not recognize a similar bond between homosexuals. Such a bond, such an implementation of the legal benefits described above, imposes no harm upon anyone outside of that bond. If it does, such harm is in no way different from that caused by the same bonding between a heterosexual couple.

The deliberate illegalization of or refusal to recognize such a bond between a homosexual couple thus demonstrably and unforgivably infringes upon their legal and civil rights.