Randool

Fallout 3I want to take a minet to talk about Fallout 3. If you look at the 360 gamertag in my profile, you will notice that I have been playing the game as of late. I don't quite know where I fall yet. (Get it? Where I Fall. And I'm playing Fallout. It's a pun. It's funny.)

For those of you who have already finished the game and this is old news to you, feel free to move on.

I am strangely attracted to the game, and I find myself playing it for hours on end. But that being said, the game is at least in some respect an RPG, and it's really not hard to get me playing one of those. Despite my love of the mechanics of the game there are a few things I can't get over. The first is the (and I use this trem liberally) excessive use of the grey-brown color pallet. Is it two much of a problem to ask for an aesthetic that keeps me attached to a game? This is the opposite of the problem that I had with Assains Creed. I loved looking at the game, but I hated playing it.

I understand that to most of you this will be old news seeing as how the game was relaesed quite some time ago. But I don't have time or money to play games right when they come out. I'm a full time student who works three jobs. I know, I'm sick of my excuses too.

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Randool

Finals are OverI am happy to say that my finals are finally over. I have been very busy. The amount of coffee needed to sustain myself this quarter turned me into this. Three all-nighters this quarter. Three. The quarter ended with a bang when a professor sprung a twelve page paper on us five days before it was due. Fun times.

Anyway, I've just been trying to work off my debt this Christmas. I kind of really need to work or my bookie is gonna break my legs.

I gotta go. My ride is leaving. Anyone doing anything for Christmas?

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Randool

Brought to you by Indentured Servitude!Hello everybody. It's been a while and I said I'd be on here more often. I must blame the infrequency of blogs on my current employment situation. I have myself been lead to believe that my job as a bookstore clerk was mostly to entail frolicking and lording of my superior intelligence over the unsuspecting patrons who enter to purchase overpriced literature. I have come to find that my job is much more like indentured servitude. I immigrated from another country and was promised three square meals a day, a solid ridin' mule, clothing, and lodging. I came to discover that three square meals meant access to the break room mini fridge, the solid ridin' mule was me, the clothing represented the loads I was to carry as the mule (books are FU&*^NG HEAVY), and the lodging was my current lodging in my parents basement. As you might guess, my employment situation has left me in a kind of funk. I took to a straight day of relaxing and enjoying the internet access that my brand new computer allows me. Said relaxing left me in peak physical and mental condition. I spent the day watching Flight of the Concords, and The Daily Show online.

Anyway, there will most likely be several updates this weekend, at least one of which will inform you of my recent stent as a forced juror. I id you all good evening, and a jubilant Saturday.

Yours Always,
Randall

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Randool

News Everyone!Hey! I have a computer again! I should be on here more often now and blogs should start coming in more often. That is all. Carry on.

Yours Always,
Randall

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Randool

I bwoke it.So, as some of you may have noticed I havenâ€™t posted in a while. My excuse is simple. My computer is infected with the mother of all viruses, and it will not relinquish its evil grasp on the internet. It managed to bypass Mcaffe and lavasoft ad-aware. Sneaky bastard. So currently the computer is in the shop having windows re-installed. Like itâ€™s in the shop. There are grease monkeys working on it while they build hot-rods and Brian Setzer plays guitar in the background. Iâ€™m getting a new computer of my own soon though, but it may be a couple of weeks. The one I was using previously was my folks. They arenâ€™t very technology savvy and had been running the computer without any spyware protection for about a year and a half. I donâ€™t think they need any more activity on that thing.

Recently I have been approached by some friends of mine who want to talk about self worth. When asked to create some sort of gauge I proposed that the best measure of self worth was how much you could sell your kidneys for on the black market. Those things are in high demand and are probably the best kind of measure for self worth in some kind of dollar amount. I wonder how you would get an estimate of kidney value. You would probably have to call some mafia member who would set you up with one of their mob doctors who earned his shady online degree at College University.

For those of you who donâ€™t know my sister is now four. I am 21 and this leaves kind of an age gap. She is getting to that age where she wants to know more in depth details about Santa Calus. My response to her inquiry was that Al Roker was Santa. You may think me mentally ill but if you think about it itâ€™s not that crazy at all. The man has made a career off of being fat and jolly, all he needs is the beard.

So Due to the new mod system my contest was a complete failure. Oh well, I kind of like the new mod system. I miss modâ€™s effecting karma but thatâ€™s about it. Iâ€™ll be on here when I get a chance. And remember, it can happen to you too if you follow your dreams. Donâ€™t quit belivinâ€��.

Yours Always,
Randall

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Randool

My FaceHey folks. I'm done with finals, so I'm slightly less deranged than I was when all that was goin down. I'll be posting more regularly as the boredom of summer begins to settle in.

So I've been seeing these contests floating around and I realize that I have not done one of these said "contests." I also realize that there is not a picture of my actual face up in my pic section. So for all you people know I could be some creepy one eyed bear-monkey genitic monstrosity spying on you and you'r loved ones from the treetops. I could be whatever the hell this is. I could be John Fu%$ing Travolta for all you know. So I think this is a good oppertunity for me to try out this contest.

So the first person to bring me a picture of what you think I look like that pleases me most by the morrow at 9 PM PST will get an amout of mods to be decided by me. The winner doesn't actually have to look like me, it must only please me. Greatly. Just whatever you think I look like. Anyway, after this is all over I will put up a picture of myself so you can see what I actually look like. Happy hunting.

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Randool

First post in a while.Hi all. I havenâ€™t posted for a while because Iâ€™ve been pretty busy with my edumacation. Finals are just around the corner, and even now I am procrastinating, stealing precious moments away from the task at hand; a six-eight page paper for philosophy of science.

So, I am highly curious as to what you all thought of the New Indiana Jones flick. I felt that the Lucas/Spielberg cage-match tag-team have some things to answer for. (Caution, slight spoilers) Did anyone notice the bad CGI gofers or whatever they were? I really could have done without those. I felt like a good replacement would have been this guy. I am also not sure how I feel about the alien, or rather, I am not sure how I feel about the alien without the inclusion of anal probing. I have a theory as to the identity of the alien. I think the Arbiter is taking a stab at the silver screen and is cashing in on his new found fame thanks to Halo 3. That corporate whore. Iâ€™m convinced that the alien at the end of the movie is really just an Arbiter cameo.

On the upshot, Shia LaBeouf could have quite possibly ruined the entire flick, but actually wasnâ€™t all that bad. He was certainly better then that earlier attempt at a sidekick â€œShort Roundâ€ from the second Indiana Jones. The only thing I really had to suffer through was some sort of delusion of grandeur where LaBeouf confused himself with Tarzan. Iâ€™ll let it slide this time.

Ultimately the flick wasnâ€™t all that bad. It was actually rather Spielberg-esque. The movie fed my theories that Lucas only succeeds at writing dialog when he is doing so for the past, specifically the 50â€™s. Dialog has always been his Achilles heel except in American Graffiti and most of the Indiana Jones flicks.

Okay, I really have a lot of homework to do. Iâ€™m gonna go do that. Happy Memorial Day. If you were dead Iâ€™d remember you.

Yours Always,
Randall

P.S. The new Weezer video is pretty epic. You should check it out.

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Randool

I'm sickI'm really sick. If you don't read titles. The doctors have put me on an antibiotic though they aren't really sure what I have. I have several theories as to the nature of my condition.

1) Random Future Disease: This is any virus that you can get â€œfrom the future.â€ Basically it could be a super virus, robot bacteria, or tiny microbes created from the DNA of Richard Simmons that kill you slowly and painfully. Kinda like this at a microbiology level. Basically it can be anything but it has to be from at least twenty years from now brought back in time via a time machine built by aliens.

2) Tony Danzaphobia: Pretty self explanatory. Please see the PSA for Winter 2005 for more information on this.

3) Allergies: With me, allergies are the root of all evil. All of my various ailments can in some way be traced back to allergies. My sneezing, my coughing, my slipping grades, my red eyes, my poor relationship with my father, and my left ear being slightly lower than the other.

4) Cancer: Given what I know about medicine, Iâ€™m not willing to rule it out.

5) The Yankees: Of course! It was them all alongâ€¦ The Yankees are evil, and Iâ€™m sure theyâ€™d delight in using their voodoo to make me sick just as much as they delight in punching babies. (Iâ€™d say Iâ€™m sorry to all you Yankees fans out there but Iâ€™m really not. We can still be friends.)

6) Not Narwhals: Whatever it is itâ€™s definitely not these.

Anyway, I hope no one else is sick. Happy Tuesday.

Yours Always,
Randall

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