Eddie Money is the hardest working man in the music industry.

Yes that is the original Star Wars movie in animated .gif format. Yes you should be amazed. Yes you should feel sorry for the poor soul who has such little going on in his life that he actually made that.

So Blizzcon was down the street from me. Wish I would have known that back in July when tickets were on sale. Speaking of which, I've also applied to Blizzard for a job. So if anyone working there is reading this out of pure randomness...hook a brotha up.

Also apparently Disney is about 20 miles from us, along with a million other theme parks. One more reason to move here people.

Speaking of Disney, ABC called me today to set up a job interview on Monday morning (ABC is owned by Disney). I'd be the assistant to the Vice President of Technology there. It sounds like I'm just a tech support dude for all the execs. So we'll see how that goes. Nothin' like workin for the man...hopefully it will involve a big pay check and a company Beemer to zoom around in. Hey, I put "Negotiable" under salary expected.

That's really all the news I have on the job situation. I'm trying to get a crazy awesome job that I'm actually qualified for at Vivendi (mother company of Blizzard). It would involve me playing video games all day and capturing the footage. HUHUHUUHUHUHHHUHUH!!!!

I'm done freelancing for AnimAction...until they need me again. Which will probably be in winter. It's cool though, they work on a regular basis with the dude that created Spongebob (and does his voice), as well as the girl that does the voice of Bobby on King of the Hill.

I have MySpace account now. And I'm ashamed of it. Hence I dragged Chester into it too.
http://www.myspace.com/derekxiii
http://www.myspace.com/chesterxiii

So Kai has discovered through IMDB, that in the future I will be the ex-husband of hottie Jenny McCarthy. You may know her for her tv variety show (that I used to watch religiously) that used to be on at 2 a.m. and had special guests such Bloodhound Gang and Presidents of the USA. Or perhaps you know her for laying rug and sucking the chrome off trailer hitches in BASEketball.

Anyways, her ex-hubby's name is John Mallory Asher, and goddamn that motha fucka looks like what I probably will in 10 years. Do yourself a favor and click this link or you'll definately be missing out on some major hilarity.

here's the link if you need to copy and paste it. seriously people, you need to check this picture out, it's scary how much we look alike.
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3069/Events/3069/JohnMallor_Vespa_4903014_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Asher,%20John%20Mallory

Moving forward, Alaska is huge! I was playing with Google Earth the other day, and was just amazed at what the planet actually looks like. It's been a long time since I've really thought about it, you know, since I was probably a kid.

Did you know China and Europe are land locked. Amazing! and the bottom and top of the Earth have floating chunks of ice! but they're a LOT smaller than you'd think they'd be.
The weirdest thing to me was how pretty much all the land is on one side of the Earth, and the other side is pretty much just water.

Oh, man! I printed out this paper dragon the other day (yeah...that's how awesome my life is) and constructed him, this is the most awesome optical illusion EVER! Seriously, if you have a printer hooked up, just print it out right now. I'm a lazy guy, I wouldn't be telling you to do this if it wasn't worth it, I promise. It takes about 10 minutes to make, and it's the most goddamn awesome thing ever. I put the one I made above our TV, I play with him ALL THE TIME. Because...my life is awesome.
http://www.grand-illusions.com/dragon.htm

Here are some other amusing links you should check out too!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/moresexthanme.html

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/cursortheft.html

http://www.goodtobesquare.com/


So I was having a video game conversation with Ron the other day. Basically it started with cartoons, and how they used to be so awesome, and now they generally suck. I'm not talking about Invader Zim, Aqua Teen, Teen Titans, etc. We all know what cartoons are freakin' awesome, and there are a good handful of them. But they're all half-hour shows. What ever happened to the amazing Looney Tunes? Those 3 minute cartoons were so freakin' good. Wile E. Coyote was by far my favorite. I also REALLY like the cannonball run race episode all the different Hanna Barbara cartoons would have every now and then.

So anyways, back to video games. My parents yelled at me quite a bit when I tended to play more video games as I was aging. Specifically I remember them always being mad when Eli and I would play them without sleeping, which is like, the most badass way to play a game. We beat SO many games in one or two nights. (they would get mad that I still watched cartoons as I was getting older too)
I'll always remember thinking "man, I hope I still play them when I'm 18." Then when I turned 18 and was obviously still playing them, I was like "I hope I'm still playing them when I'm 25." And of course, I'm well on my way. I used to be so afraid that I was going to stop playing them...I play them more than ever! In reality they're aimed at 18-35 year olds anways...I hope I'm still playing them when I'm 35 ;)
So like, I remember when guys my dad worked with would give me free copies of games (when cd burners were 1x and took all night to burn A cd), and I pictured them being 40 year-old guys. In retrospect they were probably just guys roughly my age, 22-23, who graduated college and got jobs working at my dad's company. I hope someday I can pass that on to someone else's kid that wants free games.
Why did my parents think it was so weird that I played games as I got older? I can understand cartoons SLIGHTLY (but not really, I guess just the ones specifically aimed at children, but I don't think Looney Tunes was because it had propaganda and tons of dynamite in it), but like, they didn't have video games until they were older! Space Invaders didn't exsist until they were like, 18, so what the hell.
If my generation is the Nintendo Generation, isn't it natural that we be interested in video games our whole life, since it's been a form of entertainment (such as tv, movies, and music) our whole life?

So the best I can come up with is that my parents had trouble accepting that kids in my generation had different lifestyles, and technologies.
Hell, think about how weird it's going to be when our kids have cell phones, laptops, and virtual reality games.

Well that's all I gots to say I guess. Other than the other day I COMPLETELY forgot I was boiling water. I was boiling water for Chester (to sterlize it) in the morning, and after a while I was like "damn, who's bbq-ing at 11 am." So I smelled out the window next to me, didn't seem like it was comming from there. Then I bent down and smelled my computer, thinkin "Crap! This thing better not be catchin' fire inside!" then I wandered around different sections of the house because it was getting stronger. Then as I got close to the kitchen I was like...damn...DAMN!
I've never seen a smoking pot before...i FUCKED UP boiling water...I am a failure at life.

Sorry, no lyrics today, hell you got the whole Star Wars movie at the top!