Has it been a year already? Still miss you Lisa… I wonder what you would have thought of all my misadventures this year.

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

This post brought to you from a toilet seat.

Do you have a mental picture yet?

Your welcome, internet.

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) and 2 other games in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played From Dust (XBLA), Pinball FX 2 (XBLA), and Sonic CD (XBLA) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played From Dust (XBLA) and Sonic CD (XBLA) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

I have a scratchy soar throat and general aches. Sick? I bet Christy Jedigoddess brought it home to me.

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Europa Universalis III (PC) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

Remember the real reason for the season: The Winter Solstice!

Tonight at 12:30am (Eastern) is the official point of greatest tilt away from the northern hemisphere.

HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!

My Xbox Gold is gone! NNNnnnnooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

And I don’t have the money to reactive it!

Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

I think me and Christy are going to visit Kathleen Twardy at Harmony Health Foods tomorrow. I need some healthy nom noms. :)

We are a diminished people for the loss. There can be and should be no consolation, no soft words that encourage an illusion of heavenly rescue, no balm of lies. We should feel as we do with every death, that a part of us has been ripped from our hearts, and suffer pain and grief — and we are reminded that this is the fate we all face, that someday we too will die - P.Z. Myers

played Pinball FX 2 (XBLA) and Batman: Arkham Asylum (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

Someone needs to remind us NOT to have our dinner at the same time my grandfather is watching Bill O’Reilly. I must be the first person in history to rage eat rice and beans until red in the face.

Well, never mind. I wasn’t offered grant money to go to school anyways, only a loan. I sure don’t have $1600 plus the price for books sitting around so… no school for me this semester.

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) and 1 other game in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

Awwww. Sent a Xbox Live friend request to Kittie Robinson and was denied! Haha

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) and 3 other games in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

So… the community college up here is too small to take part in the federal loan program so I only get the grants. HOWEVER, based on my past years income tax they expect that I should be able to cover about $8000 of my education… basically I’m most likely not going to get any assistance with education. I may have to pull out of classes :(

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) and Pinball FX 2 (XBLA) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) and Avatar Legends (XBIG) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Carcassonne (XBLA) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Pinball FX 2 (XBLA) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

I put the “sexy” back in “dyslexia.”

played Pinball FX 2 (XBLA), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360), and 1 other game in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) and 1 other game in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

Shouting “terrorist!” is the modern day equivalent to shouting “witch!” or “commie!” One day our descendants will look back in shame.

Election season… here comes the crazy train. RT @thinkprogress: Bachmann: Teaching evolution only is “censorship” http://t.co/YfUK2Ssp

played LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 Demo (360) and 2 other games in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Pinball FX 2 (XBLA) and 1 other game in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Pinball FX 2 (XBLA) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Alice: Madness Returns (360) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

Thinking of our friend Nina Danhorn. Hoping that peace can follow.

Just imagine if Republicans were living in a country built by immigrants, following a middle eastern religion and speaking another country’s language… … …

oh, wait!

It’s almost Thanksgiving. Time to get my fatigues on, this War on Christmas isn’t going to fight itself!

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

Why does every picture of Jesus have him as a white dude with early 2000s rocker hair and a neatly trimmed douche goatee?

Anyone have some good free computer D&D tools - specifically for running a campaign as DM?

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) and Magic Online III (PC) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

Best paragraph I have ever read summing up US politics,

“The relentless sameness of the two-party political system is beginning to feel like a Jacob’s Ladder nightmare with no end; we’re entering another turn on the four-year merry-go-round, and the thought of having to try to get excited about yet another minor quadrennial shift in the direction of one or the other pole of alienating corporate full-of-shitness is enough to make anyone want to smash his own hand flat with a hammer.”

played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) and 1 other game in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 (XBLA) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

I awoke to cat puke on myself and the dog. Delicious start to the morning…

played Pinball FX 2 (XBLA), Castle Crashers (XBLA), and 1 other game in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) and 3 other games in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360) in the last 24 hours. http://raptr.com/Dubhghlas

Boy: Hey!

• girl doesn’t say anything * Boy: I really like you!

• girl doesn’t say anything * Boy: Ok… I love you!

• girl still doesn’t say anything * Boy: and I never want to let you go…

• girl remains silent *

• boy kisses girl *

• boy eats girl *

• girl was a Doritos the whole time *

GameFly actually shipped Modern Warfare 3 to me! Pleasant surprise.

So I’m back in Michigan and trying to find a job. Oy!

If an American has a common ancestor with a European, why are there still Europeans?

If humans have a common ancestor with Chimpanzees, why are there still Chimpanzees?

Evolution, it makes sense if you allow yourself to really think about it.

Watching a good program on @current called Missionaries of Hate. American Christians take their brand of hate to Uganda.

Liberty University is thinking about founding a medical school. This can’t end well.

Please remember that stars died for you to exist. You are stardust.

Aliens love and protect us.

60 years ago they sent their representatives to Roswell, to show us the way to live. And we killed them.

But the aliens forgave us. Still to this day, they remain here with us here on earth. Through their powers of telepathy they can hear your thoughts. All you have to do is love them, and think about them, and a millisecond before you die they will teleport you to their ships and you will live forever with them in happiness.

Phone service has been cut from our phones so while we’re on the road there will be no way to contact us - except by e-mail. doug@doug.vg

You can also call my number (407-900-1003) and leave voice mail.

We should be at our destination (Brimley, Michigan) before 3pm Friday. If I can get a solid signal at a Starbucks somewhere I’ll call (via Skype) everyone with our travel status.

Grand Theft Auto V trailer this November 2. I’m game!

Wow wow wow. Anyone seeing this New Orleans Saints game?

What do you get when you divide a pumpkin’s circumference by its diameter?

Broke :( Living out of the car starting Saturday until things can turn around.

Voice over work! I’ve got a pretty fancy microphone and a quiet corner. Maybe I can get a little cash doing that.

I thought I was the 1%… then I realized it was a dollar sign, not a percent sign, and it was actually my bank account balance.

I think I’m going to run out of money before I get any student aid. Still no returns on my job apps. :(

My good enough diploma transcripts are on their way. Last step is placement testing.

Being the only liberal in a heavily conservative family can be an interesting experience.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams

Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum = Yum, but I can’t feel my tongue.

Well hell … … now what?

… … … … … … …

Computer nerds: Dennis Ritchie has died :(

I shall be at the Occupy Orlando this weekend :)

Detroit Lions… 5-0? Really?

Got to experience my first real heavy tropical rain this morning as I picked up Christy’s uncle. Good stuff.

Ten years ago, we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash. Now we have no Jobs, no Hope, and no Cash.

Christy just said “It’s like eating my own vagina” right around the time Olive Garden’s crowd volume went from 8 to 4. Awkward.

Some guy must not haver been happy with my driving and drove up next to me yelling and cussing and flipping me the bird… I just cooly looked at him and pointed forwards and mouthed “go”.

He stopped and moved on.

Why can’t I have a real hangover? Seriously. I’d welcome a raging headache. What do I get instead? Heartburn and nothing else. Horrible heartburn.

Love him or hate him, there have been no truer words:

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” -Steve Jobs

Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying, to get what they want.

Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that.

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in The Big Club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe, what to think and what to buy.

The table has tilted, folks. The game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people - white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue - these are people of modest means - continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all. At all. At all. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.

That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth: It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."

-George Carlin

Collingwood lost the AFL Grand Final to Geelong on my birthday. :( Final score was 119 to 81.

So it looks like I’m actually going to do this… 12 years late, but I’m headed to college. Yay me. I’m approved for financial aid BUT because of how much money I made last year it isn’t as much as I could get. I have to figure a way to get a little more moolah.

Looks like I’m going to be taking this “new start” in Florida as an opportunity to continue my education past my present Good Enough Diploma.

I’m going to pretend that everyone remembered my birthday and is NOT being reminded by Facebook ;)

31? I’m not ready for 31!

Damn… so does anyone know the formulas for plotting the X and Y coordinates of latitude and longitude on an orthographic projection?

Two executions in the United States tonight. Can I get a “USA! USA!” chant from the pro life crowd?

American justice system… as fucked up as ever.

Grocery shopping in Florida… guess that s is when you know your move is official.