Cheating in Tony Hawk

I have started cheating in THPS 2 for my computer. I was almost done with the game before I started using codes I found online. I am surprised how much fun physically impossible combos can be. Perfect Balance plus Moon Gravity often get my score over 1 Million. I can play as Spider-Man, Private Carrera [attractive black woman], and Officer Dick [overweight police officer].

Helpful guide to writing your first novel.

The "Real Heroes, Bomb Tech" Action Figure is my favorite item on The Onion's Cheap Toy Round-Up.

Sounds rather interesting.

I'm rather disappointed with my employment at Manpower. I am not getting enough hours to justify the commitment of time I have put into the application and screening process.

The Velvet Underground has some amazing music on their album Peel and Slowly See. So much good music came out of the 1960s.

New Years Eve? Anybody? I didn't think so.

The Winter Break

has begun, and with it my new employment with Amway. Actually, I am working for Manpower [not a high-intensity male strip bar but a temp agency] and actually, it's the Pressure Packaging Plant at Access Business Group [not Amway]. I applied at Manpower the Friday after Thanksgiving and I couldn't have gotten employment sooner. If I don't screw up then I get to keep the job this summer.

I started reading Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk. So far so good. Classic Chuck and his Crazy Creativity.

The "Oh-my-God This-is-a-great-idea-for-a-book" idea I had in early November which faded into obscurity with my exams and papers has resurfaced and revolved 180 degrees. Now I have a plot to wrap around this spongy core. I will be spending my free time writing. I am avoiding the Television as much as possible.

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is getting 100% on Rotten Tomatoes [currently at 32]. I am going to see it on Wednesday with Mulder and Stern.

Since I won't be adding new content regularly I suggest you [anonymous reader] check out the links to your right [if you haven't already]. They are the places I go to find interesting stories and creative writing. If you have a weblog or similar site that you read I would be happy to check it out and possibly link it here. Just leave me a comment by clicking on "comment."

After using my computer to watch Fight Club on Jon's TV I decided to change my background. I was surveying my options when I found a series of white backgrounds with obscure cartoons and pro-Mac slogans. I probably downloaded them back when I was very excited about OS X and all that jazz. Anyway, one had a cartoon of "Professor Pat Pending" that I was curious about, so I did some research.

The first site that turned up was this one outlining the different participants in Wacky Races, a 1968 Hannah Barbara cartoon loosely based off the film The Great Race. Here is a good drawing of Pat Pending's Ring-a-Ding Convert-a-Car.

I'm glad MLive has a whole section devoted to covering Granholm's Cool Cities initiative. They also have a section where you can vote on comics for the Grand Rapids Press.

"The river is where shopping carts go to die. It collects dead animals along its banks. It accumulates light bulbs, motors, couches and other effluence of affluence." Guess that river. If you said "What is the Los Angeles river" then congratulations. A journalist kayaks down it for the New York Times. [Login Required]

I recieved an e-mail from Tony, a sophmore at WMU, about a traffic fine he recieved recently. It is very intense given the subject matter but I think Tony has done a tremendous job voicing his opinion. Click Here to read it.

Firebird

Mozilla was acting up. So I tried to upgrade it. All my bookmarks vanished. So I got mad. But then I downloaded Firebird. Now I am happy.