Stephan King once said in an interview when asked why he wrote horror

What makes you think I have any choice? It's what's in there."

The quote is second hand, so I can't say where it is from other then a blog that I am reading and considering adding to the side bare. But maybe that explains why I write what I do. I love horror, I love comic books, I love action, I love video games. Kind of makes sense why my writing style and the genres I tend to write are what they are.

to all the people that don't believe me when I "make up" a word or "use it in a way that doesn't exsist", Even Bucky knows the truth!



As I've said it before, if I said it, it exists :p

Saw this while reading the Wikipedia entry for the Metrodome

The indoor venue is particularly welcome in the highly variable climate of Minnesota

Highly variable is the nice way of saying it never gets boring and the weather keeps you on your toes. Don't like the weather, wait 30 minutes and check again.

NaNoWriMo 2009 Is Over!

NaNoWriMo is done! In the end I wrote 7649 words and got an entire month of SPW action done. Not that great, but not bad either. And, if I remember right, it is the most I've ever written during NaNoWriMo! The first year I wrote 26,000 or so words, but those were all re-writes. I was re-writing my old stuff, so there wasn't that much work involved. so this is the most I've written during NaNoWriMo that was original!

Officially I only wrote 5830 words. Unfortunately I forgot that the cut off for updating your word count was at 11:30, and I got my final word count at 11:31 :( Oh well. At least I know what my word count was.

I will be posting that stuff probably this week some time, and for the full summery of the past month, here is the link of the log I kept.

Episode 3 of Ghost Hunters Academy is almost over, and someone is getting sent home!!!!

Also, they added a new cadet, who was horrible and before the reveal looked like the most likely to be eliminated.

Once again, Chris and Heathyr are the ones I want to see gone, although Heathyr was a lot less annoying this week. Ben got in a bit of trouble by letting the new girl, Jane, lead him around even though he was more experienced. In his defense, she was rather good looking and he seems to be a nerd. 'Nuff said.

Jane and Heathyr were up for elimination. Heathyr was eliminated which kind of surprised me since she was honest the whole time and seemed to be doing better, while Jane lied about knowing how to use the gear and did a bad job investigating. I think the rest of the cadets thought that too.

We'll see what happens and if anyone gets eliminated next week, when they investigate Buffalo Terminal Central

WHO INVITED ALL THAT STUPID WHITE STUFF THAT IS FLYING AROUND OUTSIDE!!!!!

Remember when I said Rowdy Roddy Piper should be made the new GM of RAW? If he doesn't get the job, can I recommend Jesse Ventura?

800th POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY!!!!!! I'VE WRITTEN 800 POSTS!!!!!

Ok, so this is actually 803, but there are a few drafts that I'll probably never finish, so once I delete them, it will be 800.

Wonder if I can reach 1000 by the 5 year anniversary of the Freak Show (March 23, 2010 in case you are wondering when that will be.)

I heard Micheal Jackson won a bunch of awards at the American Music Awards. 4 out of 5, which is apparently a record.

Before I go any further, let me state that, for the record, I am not the biggest fan of Micheal Jackson's, but I don't hate him. He had talent, but after Bad I never really liked any of his stuff much. Maybe if he had become more Metal. And I can understand why so many people liked his music so much. but for me, after Bad, most of his stuff wasn't, in my opinion, as good. Not sure why, haven't listened to his music enough to figure that out. It's more of a "you like it or you don't" sort of thing.

the question I have to ask is this. Would he have been even nominated if he hadn't died? The album that got him nominated was a greatest hits collection, which automatically isn't fair to the competition who released original content. But would that album have been nominated had he not died? I doubt it, since I don't recall any other greatest hits albums being nominated for a major award. Likewise, had he not died, would he have won? Since Pop/Soul/R&B (the categories he won) are not a genre I normally listen to, he may have even with a new, original album. But again, would he if he hadn't died?

I asked the same thing of Heath Ledger's Oscar win; would he have won if he hadn't died. He did good as Joker, but I doubt he would have even been nominated if he hadn't died.

Lifetime Achievement awards, albums that are new and deserve to win, artist of the year. These and more are all things that I can see being awarded after death. but the problem you run into is always the same. Was the winner actually the best choice? Was their win a sentimental one? In some cases the answer is obvious (Heath Ledger.) In others not so much. If it had been a brand new album, I probably wouldn't have had a problem with Jackson winning. But since it is a Greatest Hits album, I can't help but question whether or not he should have won.

There has been a fair amount of talk about getting a new stadium for the Vikings, just like the Twins got one.

I'm guessing that there will be one. the deal might be made at the last minute, but it will happen. But it would be stupid to spend the time and money to get a new stadium when there is a perfectly good one all ready available.

Most people that want a new stadium will say that the Dome isn't designed as a football stadium, and they are right. It was made to house the Viking and the Twins, as well as concerts and big events and conferences. With the Twins in their own stadium and places like the Target Center giving event organizers another option, the Metrodome will be empty once the football season ends. With nothing going on, why not remodel it? Turn it from a multi purpose building into a football stadium. It might not create as many jobs as a new stadium would, and that is one of the big reasons most new stadium advocates say there should be one (even though those jobs would only exist for a few years, then allot of the people would be back on unemployment) but in the current economy it is the better choice. And it would make use of a decent building that is already paid for.

Why have I been seeing so many Direct TV ads since I got Dish? It's possible they were there before, I just didn't notice. But there have been a lot that have shown up online. And I usually notice the ads online.

Episode 2 of Ghost Hunters Academy was tonight (it's actually on right now, and I'm basically typing this as I watch it.) they are on the Battleship North Carolina, which is exciting for me because I only vaguely remember the first investigation there.

Unfortunately the show wasn't even on for 5 minutes before Heathyr opened her mouth and brought up the "I'm a medium" stuff. a few minutes later she did an interview segment where she didn't mention it, which I think is a first so far.

Then they get lost and spent 5 minutes of the show lost and getting chewed out. They didn't take notes to find places, which is stupid. They said, in part, that it was to figure out where to put cameras. Shouldn't they have done that during the tour?

Overall it was a better episode. Susan looks like she is the early lead in who will be picked. Ben and Karl are working well together and reminding me of Steve and Tango. Chris isn't nearly as good as he things he is, and Heathyr is still annoying.

Looks like someone might get kicked off next week. Regardless, should be interesting to see what they find next week, at Eastern State Penitentiary.

Why is there no option to lock tabs in place in Chrome? It's been out for a little over a year and is open source! Why hasn't anyone figured this out by now!

Ok, so it is only partially open source. apparently part of the code isn't, and maybe the part controlling tabs isn't open. If that is the case, hopefully the current version is better or is completely open. I might be able to say if it is or not, since the new version (3.0) came out a couple days ago, but apparently it won't connect to the update servers!

you know what, Screw V3. I'm going to update, and I'm going strait to V4.0.2 (got to love Beta releases)



Update: ok, maybe I can forget about that idea. Orbit keeps coming back and saying "I can only DL 90% of this.

Stupid Orbit. Don't make me replace you with an updated version.





Update: YAY!!!! It finished downloading!!!!

Going to update Orbit anyways though. Because I'm evil. Mwhahahahahahahahaha!!!!





Update: I got V4.0.2 installed and so far so good. seemed to load faster and load pages faster, which is always good. And they added Themes! Don't know if you can accidently drag tabs to different windows yet, but I will post something if that happens

Rowdy Roddy Piper is the guest host of Raw tonight and Hot Rod just called Vince out. I just had a very cool thought. As much as I like the guest host concept, how is this for an idea.

Rowdy Roddy Piper, General Manager of Raw.