Some good quotes from The Late Show with David Letterman when Dave interviewed Vin Diesel:
“A man who represents himself in court has an idiot for a client.”
“So my date pulls up in a car with a guy. I know, I know. Anyway she said he was her driving teacher. Huh? Ha! Huh?
Guess I’m the only one who’s had that. Damn.”
I finally managed to send off my fan mail to David Letterman from the Late Show so I can get a hired-email-message-responder to send me one back :D.
I even got a classy Late Show Thanks image when I sent it off ;).
In the last few years my passing interest in anime and manga has increased slightly and I'm starting to become more interested in different series's, more along the lines of the Sci-Fi oriented shows and books. R.U.B.E.N. with the U taken out and the B turned into a D is N.E.R.D.
Sailor Moon was the first one I saw and the only one of that type I ever really watched, (most guys saw DragonBallZ first, yes I know) so when I saw a special for one of the earlier manga volumes, I was interested.
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Took me a few seconds to realise it was entirely in Japanese, which would be really useful to me!
I know it may sound weird, but I have always had a fascination with abandoned buildings, in particular with ones built in the last few decades. There's something about seeing a gigantic modern structure – a shopping centre, a hotel, an apartment complex – which no doubt had thousands go through them every day, just sit there idle slowly falling into disrepair and nature taking back. I see abandoned buildings in the same way marine archaeoligists may see a sunken vessel: like a window to another time that you can experience. Fascinating stuff.
Anyway I was doing some research into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong for Episode 70 of the Rubenerd Show and came across this mysterious site: all it has is the word "Colors" (American spelling), the phrase "Gunkanjima Index Vol One", and stacks of thumbnails.
Check it out if you're into this sort of thing, it's pretty fascinating:
http://www.jp-hit.com/picture/image2/gunkanjima_reprise01.html
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35:00 – Ruben's Monologue (The SCO Unix LAMP stack, useless Dell laptops, rams in comedy clubs, people who drive 4WDs), the Commonwealth Games have started in Melbourne, why I envy those who've only lived in one country, The Top 5 (signs you're listening to too much of the Crap & Stuff podcast), the South Australian state elections (how backwards Family First is, why Liberal is less than desirable and why I'll be voting for The Greens), and the facinating decline of the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong in the late 1980s.
Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Ruben picks apart the useless spam he receives from the spamming spammers who spam him with their spammingly spammish spam.
I just clicked the "unsubscribe" link in one of the billions of spam messages I get from CafePress, and this was the friendly message I received:
You have successfully opted out of the email cookie "Aloha1WelComeV12_V1" from domain "info.cafepress.com". This cookie had been unique and was used to help domain "info.cafepress.com" learn your interests in the content of these messages. Because you have converted your unique cookie to an opt-out cookie, your interactions with this email can no longer be associated with you.Important – If you delete the opt-out cookie from domain "info.cafepress.com", you will need to opt-out again from domain "info.cafepress.com". Please also note that opting-out from domain "info.cafepress.com" does not opt-out an individual person, or even an individual computer, but merely a single instance of a Web browser. Individual Web browsers do not share information with each other. Therefore, if you are running both Netscape and Internet Explorer, you will need to go through the opt-out procedure for domain "info.cafepress.com" with both browsers.
For Pete's sake, all I wanted to do was unsubscribe to your useless newsletters which I never wanted in the first place, I don't need a lecture on how your cookie systems work.
Hold on a second… in the message it says "learn your interests in the content of these messages". What does that mean? Are they keeping track of what I'm clicking so they can target me with more relevent spam? Am I the only one who's received this message? This is scary stuff.
Anyway I've tried to unsubscribe from this junk twice before, lets hope this try will work.
Netscape and Internet Explorer
I am so fed up with seeing only these two browsers ever mentioned on any commercial site. Firefox? Camino? Safari? And who actually uses Netscape anymore?
Ruben picks apart the useless spam he receives from the spamming spammers who spam him with their spammingly spammish spam.
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Fireman: Ah my kids first day of school, first day he cried, second day I cried, third day he cried… but that was because of that golf cart accident…
This must be one of the worst pair of blog posts ever typed.
Eh, except for all of those:
“okay like today i woke up and had XYZ for breakfast then i went to school it was fun but the teacher was boring at lunch the guy who is tooooooooooootalyyy hot asked me 2 pass the kechap and i was all like sure and he was all like date and i was all like f*ck off hehehehe !!!!!!!!!!!111!!!1!1″
Anyway, the bastard who stole my salsa never admitted (cowardly act…) so I was forced to buy a new one.
And if you even think for a second that you're going to steal it, I'll steal you!.
Didn't make sense I know, but it sounds all macho. Hah, what would I know about macho?
So I was just about to have some corn chips and salsa as a nice mid-afternoon snack, when lo and behold:
If you stole it, you can return it to the kitchen counter and I won't prosecute you.
