Year in review – bike edition

So, this is pretty much how my year went when it comes to bikes.

• Rockadile restoration – fixed up my old mountain bike.
• Realized my abilities to “fix up” an old bike were not exactly great.
• Decided to get a super cheap road bike.
• Spent many hours trying to get that damn thing working.
• Got it working pretty ok, did a lot of commuting on it.
• Got hit by a car on said road bike. Not really into commuting as much.
• My Rockadile mountain bike gets stolen from my garage. Road bike is left behind.
• Cry a little.
• GET A NEW EFFIN NOVARA MOUNTAIN BIKE FOR CHRISTMAS
• ?
• Profit!

Turkey-inspired bits of tid

So it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow, duders.

I’ve recently taken it upon myself to rewatch all of Arrested Development. Jesus dude, that show was SO good. I really hope that movie they’re making doesn’t blow.

I’ve been playing relatively obscene amounts of Modern Warfare 2. I don’t even really like multiplayer games that much, but I’m hella playing it. The same thing happened with Modern Warfare. Go figure? Controversy aside, that game pretty much rocks in every way possible.

Los Angeles weather in the winter is pretty much the greatest thing ever. It’s like, a little cold at night I guess. But it’s totally shorts weather during the day, with sleeves longer than elbows totally optional.

I’ve been learning to play guitar and stuff. It’s kinda hard, guys. I mean, I like that it’s hard, but it’s just slightly harder than I was expecting. Apparently my Rock Band / Guitar Hero skills don’t really translate to real instruments very well. OK, maybe for singing, if that counts? And I’m pretty sure I could play just about any Weezer song on drums now.

Speaking of music, I dig Them Crooked Vultures. They’re good, dudes.

I’m really much to lazy to blog sometimes.

Hey lookie, a new site design.

I took down the admittedly awesome Halloween skin for my comic site and decided to actually change more than just the banner and the background back to “normal”. So, bam.

I mostly wanted to start getting away from the mustard orange/yellow color I had previously. I really like that color, but I’m starting to get sick of it. So behold, lighter yellow. I’m toying with some totally new colors, and even some new layouts, but that is a major overhaul and I’m not sure I want to do that just yet. Maybe next year?

I got a guitar!

The rumors are true: I totally got a guitar! No, no, not a Rock Band/Guitar Hero guitar, dude. A real guitar.

I’ve been thinking about getting one for a few years now, but for some reason was too lame to actually go through with it. Well, no more!

Here’s my new baby: a sweet-ass red Fender Squier Strat! It’s totally beginner, but it’s pretty much perfect in every way possible that I can think of.

New site skin for Halloween

I was a tad bored yesterday, so I decided to give my comic site a new color scheme. Check it out!

DUDES, seriously.

DUDES! I just got a parking ticket from UNLV! Sure, that doesn’t sound like a big deal, until you consider that I haven’t been at UNLV since early 2007. WEIRD. The license plate they list on the ticket is correct, but considering the fact that I have one of those license plates in my room here in Los Angeles and the other is at my friend’s house in Claremont, I’m pretty sure there is no way it was my car they were trying to ticket. And another thing that is weird, I had a “specialty” plate, which means I had a weird short number (it was 4 digits!). So like, how would they possibly make that mistake? Well either way, now I have to deal with this bullshit! I’m curious if they will even believe me, since this isn’t the “real” police, but rather campus parking services. So they really don’t have any way to check that, you know, this car hasn’t been registered in Nevada since 2007, and that it is currently registered in California. *sigh* It’s only $30, so I suppose even if I had to pay it that’s not the end of the world. But dudes, I’ve never had a ticket for anything in my life. Does this like, break that record? There is no way it should count, considering it’s obviously a mistake.

Well on to more exciting topics: I’m almost done with season 5 of my Star Trek TNG marathon. I must say, I’m not really all that sick of it yet. I really dig seasons 5-7 though, so I suppose it’s not a coincidence.

Isn't it funny how when "human" issues of race and discrimination are portrayed with aliens the issues seem to be so silly and clear?

In case you’re wondering: No, I’m not sitting down and intently watching every episode of TNG. Yes, I have been watching them all in order, but I’ve been watching them pretty passively (well, some of my favorite episodes I watch more attentively). I have two monitors for my computer, so basically I put on an episode on monitor two, and do other stuff on monitor one. I played a fair amount of Shadow Complex while watching TNG, and let me tell you, it’s not the easiest thing to watch TV and play a video game at the same time. But that’s how I roll, bitches.

I decided to watch Terminator Salvation last night. And you guys, it was pretty alright. Maybe because it got so trashed by everyone my expectations were low, but it really wasn’t that bad. I mean, have you seen Terminator 3? It’s way better than that steaming pile of shit. It’s funny though, the thing I liked least about the movie was Christian Bale. And he’s like, the star or whatever. I don’t know, I really like him in some movies, and really don’t like him in others. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t his fault in this case, the movie just didn’t really do much with him. The dude that plays Marcus and the other dude who plays Kyle were pretty awesome though, and I think they kind of stole the movie from the bigger star.

The terminators with rubber skin look pretty rad. Did anybody notice that all the terminators look HUGE in this movie? I found that weird.

I just got the most ridiculous email from the damn union I have the misfortune of being in. Apparently there were some elections recently for some bullshit, and of course like 20 people voted in them. The funny thing is, they sent out an email assuring us that the ballots were counted three times, and that the counts were always identical. Like, dudes, I don’t doubt you can count to 20. If you were under 3 years old, then maybe I’d be concerned. But even then, I’m not sweating it that much. So congrats to whomever won that bullshit. Now I get to receive a million emails from some other ass clown instead of the previous ass clown. Yay.

Some more bits of tid

I finally finished transcribing all my comics into ohnorobot. I only had a hundred-ish to do, but man it took a long time. I changed the default search engine thing on my site to the ohnorobot one, so now you can search for stuff pretty darn efficiently on WT! Good times!

Speaking of Wax Turds, the site has seen a surge of viewers recently, for reasons I can’t really pin down. My top guess is “awesomeness”, but it could very well be “radness”. Not sure, but either way it’s sweet.

Also, I made a new masthead for the site:

Las night I went to the Dodgers game with some duders, and got to sit in the all-you-can-eat section. Of course, as lady luck would have it, I really wasn’t super hungry, so I only had a couple of hot dogs and a soda. I don’t think I’ll be in the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest anytime soon..

All you can eat + pretty good seats = good times

I picked up Shadow Complex on Xbox live arcade, and let me tell you: that game is awesome. It’s definitely a throw-back to Metroid like it’s being billed as, but more importantly it’s just friggin fun. This whole “summer of arcade” thing xbox is pushing is pretty damn legit. Viva la side scrollers!

It's rad, guys. Go buy it.

I decided to make a facebook page for Wax Turds! Except, it turns out the word “turd” is frowned upon by facebook, so I had to make the page called “WaxTurds”. Lame! Anyway, it’s there.