A continuation…

– Been trying to download Firefox today so I could help them break a World Record and be part of history…but apparently their site is unavailable right now, probably due to unexpectedly excessive traffic loads. Truly, victims of their own hubris.

– I’ve been told that there’s a cool new game the official Hancock movie site. Not for the PS3 or anything, just a browser game, and it’s like flash-based or something. That scientific statement of fact has hardly exempted it from the sheer level of Internet Hate that’s been directed at it. Check out the comments for the trailer…it’s pretty rough in there. I encourage you to take a stroll through all the pages whenever you have like three hours to kill at work, but if you’re not like me and you don’t, then I’ve gone through a little bit and provided some highlights here below.

MOVE BITCH!!! GET OUT THE WAY!!! OF THIS CRAPPY GAME!!!

dude 10/10! im so buying it if it isn’t free!

I am trading in my copy of mgs4 for this

BAD BEHAVIOR. BAD ATTITUDE. BAD GRAPHICS.

Scientific fact – HATE is the principle export of The Internet.

– Further to that point, check out this ridiculous article on the popularization of GPS that I will shortly begin hating on in just a little bit. The basic gist of it is noting how dependency on technology reduces our personal capability for doing things ourselves (For instance, what’s the last seven digit phone number you’ve actually memorized in your head that you can recite without looking through your cellphone for it?), which is not something I completely disagree with. And yeah, maybe having a personal GPS map system in every possible electronic accessory in the future might deprioritize learning maps, directions, and locations in our minds…but to say that it will actual hurt the values we have as a human society in relating and living with each other…that’s just retarded.

Kevin Slavin, managing director and co-founder of area/code, a company that makes games based on geography, said that getting lost helps develop our sense of place, and contributes to a functioning society.

“There is a social function of being lost,” Slavin said. “And that social function of being lost will itself be lost. Think about how many times in the last month or so you have asked somebody for directions, or somebody has asked you for directions. That bit of social communication, in which a stranger and native meet at some point, will slowly ebb away. The question is: Will we feel ourselves to be natives everywhere, or to be strangers everywhere?”

Huh!?! What a pretenious, overly sentimental blowhard. Who the hell cares? So the argument against having a GPS map on your phone is that you won’t need to stop and bother complete strangers for directions? That’s honestly a bad thing? I say good, hopefully everyone will have a GPS programmed into their brains so that no one will ever need to talk to me on the street to ask where the Eaton Centre is when we’re like talking right under its shadow. I say God bless, let’s get an iPhone into everyone’s hands so we don’t need to engage in any more unnecessary human conversation ever again. If I ruled the world, everyone would just live in separate man-sized boxes and only communicate with each other exclusively through the use of carrier pigeons.

(You would still at least get some internet access, although a packet loss ratio of 55% is pretty bad.)

– In stark contrast, here’s an uplifting article that somewhat restores my faith in humanity’s ability to survive the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse. “Green Bay Packers running back Noah Herron fought off intruders during a burglary to his Village of Howard home, striking one with a bed post that he unscrewed from his bed last weekend.” (Like the entire incident happened last weekend or that only that the bed post was unscrewed last weekend and it’s been like lying there on the floor or clutched in his fist while he slept this entire time?) He hospitalized his ass too. Now there is a resourceful man. Remember, a softball bat does not necessarily have to be ASA 2004 approved to be used as a personal zombie defense device.

– Man, I am falling asleep at my desk right now, I feel tired. Might be that pint I had a lunch. I need a coffee. Okay, back. Someone caught me half-dancing while I was waiting for my coffee, and I unsuccessfully tried to play it off like I was scratching the back of my knee. Still really tired though. I should have put some sugar in this thing too, it just tastes kinda nasty right now. I’m going to run into the sick room, do like 20 push-ups, see if I can get the blood flowing back to my brain. If you don’t hear from me again, it probably means I got tired and just fell asleep on the floor mid-push-up.

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