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January 5th, 2010
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 ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) batnandu: dammit, dammit, dammit. why did i never realize that william hootkins played eckhart in batman? or that he played eaton in raiders?
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November 16th, 2009
2009.1116.1524::He's got huge, sharp... er... He can leap about. Look at the bones! |
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November 11th, 2009
April 8th, 2009
March 20th, 2009
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 This has nothing to do with the new Facebook layout. Back in 2002, I started this Livejournal, because, as batnandu suggests, I'm something of an emotional exhibitionist. Drawing compelling content from the dross of my daily life, however, is a Herculean task--were I more dedicated to poetry, short fictions, photos, or videos, I suppose I could have some gems to offer every day. As it stands, I'm that post-modern, neo-geek, sarcastic, hipster-douchebag that only ever drops the occasional grain of wit (I'm guessing this is why Twitter might be so popular) amidst a sea of memes and self-absorbed whining. So if you go back and look at the succession of posts following that November, 2002 debut (no, really, don't waste your time), you'll find a series of memes and quiz results offered from sites like quizdiva.com, quizilla.com, or okcupid.com. With such a frequency that one of the people who (for some yet-to-be-determined reason) follows this LJ said, "please stop taking quizes, for the love of god." And yes, I did eventually tire of seeing the insipid things populating my friends page--I even wrote a filter for my friends page to automatically cut them. So it's with a supreme sense of resignation that I see the latest items scrolling onto my Facebook homepage: - "What painting are you?"
- "Which Great Philosopher are you?"
- "Where should you be living?"
These are the same kinds of things I stopped posting a long while ago, and it seems that Facebook is just recycling the whole Online Junior High Slambook concept again. But here's where it's even worse--each application that Facebook approves for its users need approval from each individual user before they allow it to post on that user's page. The quiz application developers, in their idiocy, instead of creating a single quiz framework application to access the user's information, set their quizzes up so that each individual quiz has to ask for access to the user's details. So every Facebook user wanting to take the both the "Where should you be living" quiz and the "Which 80s band are you?" quiz has to approve access for both quizzes individually, when the access required for both is essentially, "Can this application post its crap onto your news feed?" And all for those unspecific, non-committal gestures at your personality. |
February 23rd, 2009
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 From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) coffeeachiever: Think of 10 albums, CDs, LPs (if you're over 40) that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life. Dug into your soul. Music that brought you to life when you heard it. Royally affected you, kicked you in the wazoo, literally socked you in the gut, is what I mean. Then when you finish, tag 10 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you're it! ( Herbert von Karajan... ) |
February 20th, 2009
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Uncle Patrick's Ball-Punch Theory Punching someone really, really hard on the balls can potentially flip their breaker switch, ideally resetting their personality to something more manageable.
-- http://tr.im/gCRL Unfortunately, there's no shortage of test subjects. |
February 11th, 2009
January 27th, 2009
January 23rd, 2009
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The Rules:
A. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
B. Then pick one of your favorite quotes from each movie.
C. Post the quotes in your journal.
D. Have those on your friends list try to guess what the movie is.
NO GOOGLING ALLOWED. EITHER YOU KNOW IT OR YOU DON'T.
E. Strike out the quote once it has been correctly identified and place the guesser's username and the title directly after the quote.( The quotes... ) |
November 6th, 2008
October 8th, 2008
April 30th, 2008
December 6th, 2007
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 Regarding this article, I'm just way too lazy to register an account to post the following comment: A m00se 0nce bit my sister. |
September 30th, 2007
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 Reading a pan-fandom community, I came across this wrap-up of the entirety of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Quite a wonderful journey, watching Xander make an ass of himself while everyone else saves the world. My response: I don't know whether to classify this as hyperbole or missing-the-point. |
August 9th, 2007
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 xopherg: my favorite part is that when you mention the "republican blowjob scandal" people have to ask, " which one?" |
August 4th, 2007
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 Over on the Suicide Girls Newswire, some person named "TheCoolerKing" has a list of projects that The Coolest Man in the World should be contributing to. An excerpt: Making and selling handcrafted, custom belt-buckles. Yep... Maybe this one isn't immediately obvious. Basically, I'd like to be at a party sometime, when a random lady looks me up and down before saying, "Nice belt buckle."
At which point, I'd get to say, "Why thank you... BRUCE CAMPBELL MADE IT." I don't know what would happen at that point. But I can tell you it would be awesome. |
June 19th, 2007
March 27th, 2007
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Regarding this: batnandu: what is WRONG with you?
batnandu: you and those fucking lego videogames
batnandu: it's weird, i tell ya
batnandu: just weird
batnandu: uh oh
batnandu: maybe this is like the start of my long journey into irrelevance
batnandu: you know how adults never understand the stuff that's cool with kids?
batnandu: shit
batnandu: ok, dude, we needs to play some lego games soon
batnandu: i gotta re-up my
batnandu: something
batnandu: or something And: thepeopleseason: you see the video of Eddie Griffin killing the Enzo?
batnandu: no
thepeopleseason: http://dethroner.com/2007/03/27/clips-eddie-griffin-totals-a-ferrari-enzo/
batnandu: yeah
batnandu: i saw the link to the video
batnandu: i just didn't see the video
batnandu: sheesh. just because i don't get your stupid lego games doesn't mean i'm a total luddite geezer. |
March 9th, 2007
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 batnandu: btw, for the record, any story--movie, book, tv show, song--that's 100% historically accurate isn't a story, it's history
batnandu: which is why i like batman |
February 27th, 2007
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A few notable stories from Angry Asian Man A marketing firm, SnapDragon, has released Ten Things Every Brand Should Know About Asian-American Youth. Of particular note: The 15 minutes of seemingly benign American Idol fame for William Hung had a surprisingly negative effect on Asian-American students. There's a feeling that Hung perpetuated the worst stereotypes about Asian people and gave non-Asians permission to indulge in two years of racial stereotyping and mocking. To which I say, NO DUH. I didn't watch the Oscars, but the announcer indicated that Best Adapted Screenplay winner The Departed was based on a Japanese movie. Bzzt! Infernal Affairs (with Andy Lau from House of Flying Daggers) is a Chinese movie. Yes, I know we all look alike, you uninformed, ignorant round-eye. The New York Daily News reports on a Chinese students' participation in the recent NYU College Republicans' 'Find The Illegal Immigrant' stunt. The piece recounts some of the troubling history of Chinese immmigration in America: ( As early as 1850... ) Beau Sia, an Asian poet, posted an open letter to all the rosie o'donnells in response to her defense and half-hearted apology of her own 'ching-chong' remarks on The View. O'Donnell, after viewing the piece, has apparently taken his message to heart and sincerely apologized, all the racist, sexist, and ignorant shitcocks on YouTube, notwithstanding. |
February 2nd, 2007
January 31st, 2007
December 1st, 2006
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Regarding the batnandu-forwarded link of this football player's name: lazystars: is he a Bond girl?
thepeopleseason: ROFLMAO
lazystars: are you going to post my response?
thepeopleseason: probably not.
lazystars: Okay
thepeopleseason: because if he finds me he'll kick my ass at 5'9" and 208 lbs.
lazystars: uh, you are bigger than that
thepeopleseason: heh
thepeopleseason: I mean, he's shorter and heavier, which means he has mass and power.
lazystars: yes, but the force is with you |
November 26th, 2006
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 Random Redneck Woman at the Georgia Aquarium: I tell you what, foreigners are the rudest people in the whole world.
thepeopleseason: Thank you very much. |
November 17th, 2006
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 Apparently using modern technology makes you a criminal. An astute former colleague just posted this to a mailing list we're on: Steve Ballmer:"Novell pays us some money for the right to tell customers that anybody who uses SUSE Linux is appropriately covered,” Ballmer said. This "is important to us, because [otherwise] we believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability." Doug Morris (Universal Music group chairman/CEO), discussing why Microsoft is paying UMG more than $1 for each Zune sold:"These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it," UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. "So it's time to get paid for it." Damn, I use Linux and I own an iPod. Someone call the cops! Who else wants to accuse me of being a thief? Guess it's a good thing I'm not a BOFA customer... |
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lazystars, a.k.a. the Pink Gator, has been working as under contract for a Big, Evil, Megacorporation (you know, the kind that arrests their own customers). Lately, she's been having some major trouble connecting to their VPN, and I always end up offering, "Do you need me to stab someone in the face?" (because, as stalkyoulater maintains, in the face is always worse). Today we had the following conversation: lazystars: I may stab today
thepeopleseason: stab stab stab
thepeopleseason: there was an old issue of Applause (the Thursday Entertainment insert of the Alligator)
thepeopleseason: where Patrick Hughes wrote some of his poetry.
thepeopleseason: and one of his poems went like this: Eye on a stick!
Eye on a stick!
I'm gonna stab!
I'm gonna jab!
Stab! Jab!
Eye on a slab!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! lazystars: that sounds more like a cheer
thepeopleseason: I would pay money to hear cheerleaders cheer that.
lazystars: save patrick hughes, save the world |
November 9th, 2006
November 2nd, 2006
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Regarding this: PinkGator: when we have a daughter, can she be Princess Leia for Halloween? Although, I gotta wonder why she even needs to ask... |
October 31st, 2006
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After Pinky informed me this morning that the British consider Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker as their top fictional scientists (beating such keen scientific minds as Spock and Dr. Emmett Brown), we had the following conversation: Me: You know, Bunsen Honeydew is just made to look Asian--he's got glasses, a round head, he's kinda yellow--
Pinky: --He's GREEN!
Me: Well, he's *kind of* yellow... and the lack of eyes are clearly meant to imply some squinty-ness. Pinky continues to disagree, however, so I'll leave it to you, fair readers--do you think Dr. Honeydew (graduate of Carnegie-Melonhead University) is Asian? Researching further into this, I also learned that in the unlikely event of a water landing, Beaker can be used as a flotation device. In other news, some guy had such an obsession with Better Off Dead's '67 Camaro, that he hunted it down and restored it. I wonder if he can build a space shuttle out of household items... |
October 20th, 2006
September 19th, 2006
September 18th, 2006
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 The Pink Gator went to a party this weekend, where she got many a question as to my whereabouts 1. Last night, she had the following to say to me: Can you come with me sometime to one of these things? My friends all think you're Snuffleupagus. 1 Incidentally, I was watching the Florida-Tennessee game with batnandu, his wife, and our friend Rob. |
September 14th, 2006
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 The Pink Gator's Mother had the following to offer: PG: "Or you could just make this arrangement with him legal and move into some place as a couple."
PG: that's what she said!!!
PG: no pressure there, MOM.
PG: you're parents would probably say the same thing as my mom.
Me: yeah, probably.
PG: yes, "Your mother and I got married due to a lack of parking." |
August 23rd, 2006
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 The Rules: A. Pick 16 of your favorite movies. B. Then pick one of your favorite quotes from each movie. C. Post the quotes in your journal. D. Have those on your friends list try to guess what the movie is. NO GOOGLING ALLOWED. EITHER YOU KNOW IT OR YOU DON'T. E. Strike out the quote once it has been correctly identified and place the guesser's username directly after the quote. ( And on with the quotage... ) It's too bad batnandu will get all of these on the first try. |
August 19th, 2006
2006.0819.1511::On seeing a man outside of Smoothie King dressed in a big banana costume |
 "Is it me or is that guy dressed like he's in the Chinese Klan?"
-- AK |
June 19th, 2006
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 This Saturday, I went to see An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's movie about Global Warming with the Pink Gator. Unfortunately, Pinky got a pretty bad headache so we had to cut out early. Luckily, at a party the following night, our friend Ben managed to give us ( a wrap up of the movie ) |
June 4th, 2006
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Why would they even put that on DVD? It's like, the only two people who would buy that are you and me, and so, yeah the only person who would buy that now is me...
--batnandu |
May 25th, 2006
May 24th, 2006
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 flattop: dude, you haven't posted in LJ in a week. are you dead? or just spending all your time having sex, like your dad told you not to? flattop: you know when you're playing gin and you knock, and you want to look at the next card on the deck, and you know you shouldn't, but you do and of course it's your card. you know that feeling?
thepeopleseason: yes, I know that feeling.
flattop: well, after you put a contract on a house, don't look at the MLS listings. flattop: i get more said in your journal than in my own. |
May 11th, 2006
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 batnandu: what are you and pinky doing tomorrow night?
batnandu: whoa
batnandu: i can call you guys pinky and the brain
thepeopleseason: Same thing we do every night.
batnandu: um, no details, please
thepeopleseason: Try to take over the world. |
May 8th, 2006
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When you roll over and look at me in the morning sometimes, I can't tell if your eyes are open or not. |
May 4th, 2006
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After reading Patrick Hughes talk approvingly of a former classmate's brother's wife in his latest blog post (which, if you have any sense of humor at all, have a high tolerance for hearing about the stupid, stupid immature crap that slightly post-adolescent men like to do to heckle other people, and don't mind repeated mentions of penises and balls, you should totally read), I asked batnandu if he could find a picture of her. His response: batnandu: try this:(1) borrow a camera (possibly even mine)
(2) go to oz's house tomorrow (he wfh fri)
(3) ask oz where anatol's house is
(4) walk to anatol's
(5) if no one's home, camp out at front door
(6) when you see jill, take her picture thepeopleseason: that's creepy and stalkerish.
thepeopleseason: and I only do that with women I know. Incidentally, if you're currently in a relationship with me, and you're wondering why I'm seeking to find a picture of another purportedly-attractive woman, well, umm, it's because... he mentioned she was Asian... or something. Yeah, I got nothing. And now, ( 50 things meme which is missing two items, for some unknown reason ) |
April 26th, 2006
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 A meme from chinook_wind with the stipulation of the letter D: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along. - digital I am very much a child of technology--I'm a gadget freak, computer programmer, internet addict.
- drumbone Quite possibly the coolest musical instrument ever.
- do Or do not; there is no try. All that I have done since getting to Atlanta.
- dude If batnandu got this as a tattoo, I promised that I'd get "sweet."
- dark A possible translation of my last name, and what my complexion was like the time my fortune-telling uncle told my father that I should not grow a moustache or beard.
- dare This is the title of my favorite song from an 80s cartoon movie.
- desire I am nothing if not a creature of desire.
- devil Any mention of the word "devil" reminds me either of Grendel or the toast Dream makes with Hob Gadling in Sandman:
"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due." It's a wonder I didn't fill this meme up with the names of the Endless... - dragon Despite everything that's been going on with it this year, I still love DragonCon, and hopefully will be able to go next year.
- drury I don't know...it's a funny word--funny-looking, funny-sounding--maybe not as much as "turd" but funny still.
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April 20th, 2006
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Regarding my previous post: flattop: if you were bleeding out of your eyes and didn't post pics, i'd soo have to kick your weakened butt. Regarding my name:batnandu: so tell me batnandu: is it cool having a plural name? |
April 4th, 2006
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 Following a discussion of this bash.org quote: MR: So who's this Krissy girl you talked about stalking when you go get your mail? Me: Oh, Kristen? I don't think she lives there anymore. Or her work schedule has completely changed. MR: ... MR: I don't think I want to see you anymore. On outdated technology:Co-worker: Hmm... What's that? Me (with a folder full of CDs): Heh. CDs. Co-worker: Hmm.. How quaint... Regarding a very drunk public figure's request for the people taking pictures of him not to "fuck with [him] on the internet":thepeopleseason: dude, that rules. thepeopleseason: that he knows enough to say "Don't fuck with me on the internet" batnandu: dude batnandu: it's the 21st century batnandu: we should have flying cars batnandu: and shimmering metallic robes batnandu: but we don't batnandu: we do have a global network though batnandu: which people use for liberal application of public humiliation thepeopleseason: I think I may have to quote you on the liberal application of public humiliation. batnandu: just don't use it to fuck with me on the internet |
March 8th, 2006
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Regarding my response to catnamedbuffy's post. VV: Why are all the smart girls lesbians? ME: I think it may have something to do with assertiveness. VV: I think it's probably because you have to be really dumb to want to date a guy. ETA: and mildly related: Sinfest's take on Love |
March 3rd, 2006
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 I just spent the last two hours rubbing my fingers raw on the steel strings of my acoustic guitar, playing Rumbleseat's "Restless," "Trestles," and Don Gibson's (via Rumbleseat and Johnny Cash) "Sea of Heartbreak" over and over and over again. Why? ( Pastacore ) |
January 25th, 2006
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Regarding this comic: batnandu: i say things like "I'm a genius!" all the time, but i need to start prefacing it with "Wait!"
tmhsiao: LOL
tmhsiao: Who knows what the future holds for me?
batnandu: um
batnandu: the shadow? |
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