Badges? We don't need no stinkin'...oh wait, yes we do!

Check out new Flickr badges feature demonstrated to your right. Pretty darned cool. It doesn't blend in well with this template so I guess that gives me even more encouragement to get off my butt and design a real page.

I love the smell of fallen trees in the morning

The first pass at tree removal began behind my house whilst I worked yesterday. I'll work on some before/after pics this evening. They started again this morning at around 7:00 AM...not the best alarm clock I ever heard. These things sure make short work of a 200 year old tree.

Call in the heavy artillery

Today was just a shit day, therefore it required a heavy dose of a certain favorite beverage of mine. That's all the engery I have to say about that. Screw you day, I don't want to hear it anymore.

Always been one to please

Xbox 360 Corset
Originally uploaded by That Will Guy.

I'm posting this one special for you Jimmy. If you liked those other two, I figured you'd be bound to like this one. The design has been floating around in my head ever since I saw the concave shape of the case. Don't know why...

My kingdom for a pillow

Apparently I really need to start getting more sleep. Two nights ago I got up in the middle of the night and tried to exit the room through one of the walls next to my bed. I bet I felt around the wall for a full two minutes looking for a shortcut-door. I even moved a CD rack out of the way because apparently I thought it was hindering my search.

Then last night I woke up and felt my bed shaking and thought I could hear a car alarm outside somewhere. I was sure there was a small earthquake hitting the area. I checked the web this morning. Nothing.

I wish I could say I had been drinking, but alas, I haven't been.

He's seeing monsters, he's losing his mind, and he's feeling it going
 —sample from Convulsion by Skinny Puppy

Need a distraction?

Xbox 360 Reptilian
Originally uploaded by That Will Guy.

I attended a breakfast series last Friday and it was mentioned there that an unofficial contest is going on to create sample faceplates for the forthcoming Xbox 360. This provided a good (probably too good) distraction over the weekend. You can see all the entries over here, or the crap I did here.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn

AFI's top 100 movie quotes was on tonight and apparently I'm a sucker for those count-down shows, so I watched it. It turned out to be quite entertaining as well as very eye opening. What the hell is wrong with movies these days? The past 10 years worth of writing only produced 4 quotes which made the list:

• #100 - "I'm king of the world" - 1997


• #85 - "My precious" - 2002


• #44 - "I see dead people" - 1999


• #25 - "Show me the money" - 1996

And even those are arguably not all that great, when compared to the rest of the list. Plus LOTR really doesn't count since the story was written back in the 50's. *sigh* Such a sad state we're in these days.

The biggest disappointment for me was "Here's Johnny!" coming in at #68. That should have been at least top 50, probably top 25. Oh, and the complete lack of any Ferris Bueller. Or Swingers...that one had a much better "money" line IMHO.

So quick survey of the , er, two people that read this, any good quotes from recent movies? It's late, I'm drawing a blank.

Treehugger state, my arse

Time to say goodbye
Originally uploaded by That Will Guy.

It's official. The yellow tape went up today, the forest comes down tomorrow.

The city decided to mediate with the builder on wetland preservation. All wetland in WA state is protected, unless there are "special circumstances". Apparently the council decided their building contract kickbacks are pretty "special". This means that all of the wetland in the area can be wiped out so long as one plot, the size of the combined wetland space, is set aside, at the most convenient location for the builder. The rest can, and will be stripped to the dirt. (more pictures here)

Cry for the trees today, along with their many inhabitants which I will miss:

• Woodpeckers


• Deer


• Frogs


• One very cool owl


• Cyotes


• Various other woodland friends

FU Washington.

A little Hantavirus with your soup?

Varmit Haven
Originally uploaded by That Will Guy.

Here's where I spent the better part of my weekend. Jealous?

The people are coming by on Tuesday to install central air, and I took it upon myself to do the wiring. It was a heck of a lot easier than the wiring for the hot tub, but still not the best of times. However, I'll be damned if I'm going to pay some electrician schmoe $1,000 to install $250 worth of parts.

It was pretty hot here this weekend so for that I'm glad I was in the crawl space rather than the attic. But man oh man is it a nasty place to spend a considerable amount of time. Several rats took up residence in there last year and the whole place is full of...rat stuff. To top everything off, any Arachnologist would feel quite at home down there. At least the ground is covered with plastic sheeting so I don't have to crawl around on the dirt. Although the dirt is probably the cleanest thing down there.

So now all I have to do is pull the wire, wait for the installers and Tuesday night I'll be chillin' like Willy.

Phriday Phive

Yay, my very first! But alas I am, again, last. It figures my first time would be a subject like this. I also must point out that these questions were posed by someone by the name of pee_truck, so I'm sort of thinking there's a very important question mysteriously missing from the list...

1. What do you wear to bed?
This makes me laugh because it was the evening topic on The Men's Room the other night. The hosts maintained that anyone our age and younger would always have at least boxers on. I disagreed with them. Unless I have family in from out of town, I wear zip, nothing, zero. You know, because that could just cause some uncomfortable situations. But I just can't sleep with clothes on, I get all twisted up (see below).

2. What side of the bed do you sleep on?
Usually the side closest to the door. Unless I'm by myself in which case it's left side, right side and everywhere in between.

3. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
This is a rhetorical question right?

4. Blanket/bed hog?
I'm a total blanket/sheet hog, which is weird because I'm not much of a blanket person, I'm usually too hot. I'm one of those folks that doesn't have a shortage of crazy whacked out dreams so I do a bit of moving around. This is also why wearing clothes to bed just doesn't work for me. I'm too hot already and I usually wake up twisted in the sheet like a mummy. I don't need more stuff to make me a mummy within a mummy.

5. Do you make your bed everyday?
Sure do, every night just before I hop in, I straighten things out and prepare to mess it up again.

Did you ever wonder...

Madelene
Originally uploaded by That Will Guy.

...what would happen if Buddy Lee and The Big Boy somehow had a kid? I know what you're thinking, but it could happen. I mean the laws of nature don't particularly apply to plastic mascots you know? Anyway, this is my interpretation of what said offspring would look like. Apparently it's my brother and sister-in-law's interpretation as well. Speaking of which, don't any of you ever dare show them this post! :P

Just kidding Zach, she's way cute!

My, what cool eyes you have!

So I finally went to see Star Wars Ep. III over lunch today. Here's a brainwave, I ought to start a Weekly Last thing for discussing everything that I've been the last too. Or even better, maybe shorten the blog name to just Everlast. But then I'd be a cheesy band...

Back to the point, I am certainly glad I went to the matinee, $16.50 for one person, thank you very much. I'm not quite sure it was worth even that little, between my popmush and the outstandingly awful acting. Apparently Washington isn't all hip with the whole "butter it yourself" popcorn concept. And as luck would have it, "a little butter please" is actually a code phrase for I want to see my kernels floating.

Overall I'd have to say the storyline was worth the ticket price and most of the visual effects were pretty good. But I was a little surprised at how CGI some of it did look for coming from Lucas Arts. It was definitely cool to finally see the final transformation from light to dark. And those evil, red-yellow eyes! I sure wish they made contacts like that back in the day...before Marilyn Manson came along and made that kind of thing lame.

Oh, I'm (still) soooo Gothic

Shew, for a while there I was worried that I'd outgrown my younger self. Nothing like a good color test to snap one back to reality. (original link to the link courtesy of my pal over here)

PROBLEM UNDERLYING THE PRESENT STRESS -- Disappointment and the fear that there is no point to formulating fresh goals have led to anxiety, emptiness and an unadmitted self-contempt. His refusal to admit this leads to his adopting a head-strong and defiant attitude.

DESIRED OBJECTIVE -- Feels the situation is hopeless. Strongly resists those things which he finds disagreeable. Tries to shield himself from anything which might irritate him or make him feel more depressed.

CURRENT INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR -- Becomes distressed when his needs or desires are misunderstood and feels that he has no one to turn to or rely on. Egocentric and therefore quick to take offense.

Who knew? It's on the internets so it must be true.

EDIT: Okay, so I was curious and took the test again with a little less bias towards black. It's amazing the difference a little color can make in your life. (note to self, I'm still gothic damnit)

PROBLEM UNDERLYING THE PRESENT STRESS -- Takes a delight in action and wants to be respected and esteemed for his personal accomplishments.

DESIRED OBJECTIVE -- Preoccupied with things of an intensely exciting nature, whether erotically stimulating or otherwise. Wants to be regarded as an exciting and interesting personality with an altogether charming and impressive influence on others. Uses tactics skillfully so as to avoid endangering his chances of success or undermining others confidence in himself.

CURRENT INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR -- An unadmitted lack of confidence makes him careful to avoid open conflict and he feels he must make the best of things as they are.

A little fiber with your waxy sugar?

I swear there's no end to the weirdness I've experienced since I've been out here. So I'm waiting in line at the cafe and overhear two people chatting nearby, talking about Starbursts. I have no particular interest in that kind of food stuffs, but I turned my head anyway. Wonder of all wonders, as soon as I look, this dude pops a Starburst in his mouth, wrapper and all, and starts chewing away. The girl he's talking to shakes her head and says I still can't believe you eat them like that. He shrugs and after a little more chewing goes on to explain how he just got tired of unwrapping them and found this to be much easier.

Now I've never been accused of being an unlazy person, but that my friends is L A Z Y.

Tagging

Is it faux pas to fix a stranger’s shirt so it isn’t flying its banner anymore? More importantly, why in the world does this bother me so much? I just walked past two different people in the hallway that had their tags sticking out and I just wanted to reach over there… But then you get into the realm of actually touching a stranger, I can’t go along with that. So your next option is to point it out with a little "hey you’ve got a…" but again that gets tricky too. Sort of like spying broccoli surprise in a random person's teeth. Do you tell them or don’t you?

I closed my eyes and walked back to my cube.

The last blogger

Well I've gone and done it. I think I'm the last person I know who hasn't set one of these things up yet. But then I'm the last person I know that would actually have one. So much for both of those satements. Happy? Thought not.

Probably ill-advised to premise this whole thing on lies and half-truths, but I did it anyway. I'm obviously not everlasting and I certainly don't know it all, but I suppose I can be entertaining in a completley unique and unentertaining sort of way.