How is this thing still here?

I'm always shocked when I come here and this blog still exist.

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2. Fuck you NSA.
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4. So, you want to troll the NSA do you? Ok, here are some suggestions... every email you send, make sure you send the entire group of key words along with it under the messaged you just typed with a brief description of why you are doing so.
5. Example:
6. The list of words below are key words that the NSA targets for monitoring on their #Prism system.  I am protesting the monitoring and illegal activities that are directly bypassing the 4th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
7. Or, you could just email your friends and family crazy emails scripted with the words enclosed.  Besides email; you can use these words on social media such as twitter or FedBook.
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9. ***  Good luck, and happy trolling.  ***
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Spring Tease

Is spring here, yet? I see trees trying to bud but the weathermen keep telling us of impending snow. Maybe spring already happened and summer/autumn just called it in.

Snow Day

It's weird that I can remember loving the cold and snow. I guess adulthood has just made a bitch of me. I can't stand more than 20 minutes outside in the cold as an adult. Anyways I should go shovel snow now.

Teen Dream

Even more paperwork before Sarah and I can achieve our teen dream: the adoption agency has asked us to draft a proposed hobby and interest list for potential teenagers to consider before they sign on to live with us. The agent said this was the fun part, but it’s actually quite stressful, because the teens are going to look at whatever we put together and ask themselves if they can really live with these hobbies and interests for the next . . . well, for the rest of their lives, basically, if they become our children.

The agency sent a sheet of hobbies and interests clustered into three groups and we get to do a 2/2/1 selection or 3/1/1 or 3/2/0 or, warned against, a 0/1/2.

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British television
Fantasy literature
Drug culture
Conspiracy theories
Professional wrestling
Retro video games
Genealogy
Cinema (mainstream)
Dogs or cats
 
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Skiing
Body building
Modern video games
Internet comment threads and discussion boards
Sport (1-2 sports)
Rock climbing
Cooking
 
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Writing
Arting
Software development
Cinema (art house)
Automobile repair
Amateur magic
Sport (3 or more sports)
Religion

Sponsorship options for our teenager

So today I borrowed Sarah’s car and drove downtown over lunch. I got kind of lost because I was looking for playground equipment or school buses but the teenager adoption agency is its own little mess, entirely separate from the child-children orphanages. The building looked like any office building, so that I expected drab desks and paperwork inside, but upstairs a nice lady quickly greeted me outside the elevator and toured me through two floors of teenagers. The teenagers were on their lunch period, idling in hallways and clustering outside bathrooms. They all looked great! Teenagers!

Sarah and I both have full-time jobs, so the approval process was pretty quick. I had to let a middle-aged man roll my fingers through ink and then ask if I understood like 12 pages of legal material. The last step is paying the adoption fee which is, okay, a little daunting. To help chip down the cost, I’m selling sponsorships.

For $10: Our teenager will wear a logo, your name, or anything else on a t-shirt one day a month until the age of 18.

For $25: Our teenager will wear a logo, your name, or anything else on a t-shirt one day a week until the age of 18.

For $50: Our teenager will wear a logo, your name, or anything else on a t-shirt three days a week until the age of 18.

For $100: Our teenager will occasionally blog about any projects you are working on or endorse.

For $500: Our teenager will enthusiastically champion your projects or projects you endorse among his or her peer group.

For $1000: Our teenager will spend a considerable amount of his or her free time championing your projects or projects you endorse.

For $1750: Our teenager will spend a considerable amount of his or her free time championing your projects or projects you endorse and will be rechristened with a first name of your choosing.

Let me know soon if any of these sound good! We’re hoping to get a teenager in the apartment by this weekend.

We are adopting a teenager

I’m writing to let you all know that Sarah and I have made a massive step forward in our relationship: we are going to adopt a teenager. Sarah's got a good job now and we will soon have an apartment with a second bedroom. I considered saving for a wedding or maybe picking up a PS 3 for the spare room but then today as I transferred buses downtown I saw the sign on the side of the number 16: You can adopt a teenager! Sullen teenagers stared at me and I knew the path forward.

If any of you want in, we can split the teenager or there might be a discount for bringing a friend.

Still Alive

This blog is not.

Des Moines Weekends

Whenever I describe my weekends in Des Moines to my coworkers or Denver friends, I hope that people imagine something like this:


Stolen from a certain site.

F:NV: Number Three: Ungratified Expectations

Nine days ago I left you with the blistering question: what was being projected by the crashed satellite at the desert drive-in? Some of you probably quit your jobs because you couldn't concentrate on anything but the mystery. Well, what was being projected was this: an eye, a searching, frantic eye.

When I began activating the satellite I received a warning that I should probably have a much higher level than mine, so I gave it up for now and wandered off. The bulk of the mystery remains. Of course, no other wanderers would approach the satellite and certainly none would activate it and be levitated or teleported (Blogger thinks that's not a word) into wherever the related action takes place. I'd like to come back here when I'm ready and find the crash site swarming with yokels, maybe a few corpses, maybe see someone zap out, bwip. It's something missing from games like this: NPC curiosity. The game's various scorpions and robot/brain hybrids and drug fiends and military personnel know to run toward me, screaming or firing weapons, but not to check out this bright-lit anomaly in the nothingness of the sand.

 
Anyway, a small adventure ensued. I visited this theme park (really a town surrounded by a roller coaster track) and shot up a bunch of fuckers in a hotel. Dynamite, grenades, I was almost entirely crippled afterward, blood-soaked, but I saved a wiener of a deputy and now have a secondary mission that requires me to find a new sheriff for the roller coaster town. This can be the wiener himself, I think, or a military entity, or a robot, or maybe something else. Who knows? I got distracted from this quest when I saw an enormous dinosaur silhouetted in the distance.

This dino is actually a tourist attraction, a sort of billboard for the hotel which is at the heart of Novac (its very name derived from the hotel's neon no vacancy sign, with its burnt-out letters). Inside this dinosaur is a gift shop and some stairs leading to the mouth. There is also, after the first DLC download, a set of controls accessible from behind the gift shop counter that lets you uproot and pilot the lumbering beast and roar and smash ghouls. The scratchy holotape instructions tell you to be careful how you aim the radioactive breath, but, alas, the radioactive breath mechanism is broken or stolen, who knows.

Okay, I made up all that about piloting the dinosaur just to confuse anyone's who's played this game. Really what you do is climb the stairs from the gift shop and exit into the dino's mouth, where you find this sniper, who has some information on the guy who shot you but will only give it up after you clear a nearby rocket facility of its ghoul infestation. Of course.

*Fallout New Vegas is a HUGE PIECE OF SHIT... I would love to write more witty comments but am knee in Vault 11...*

F:NV: Number Two: More Evidence of Dave

Today I found more evidence of Dave in the Mojave wasteland:

A wee little dino, left atop an ammo box.

How did I find this dino? By blowing up a bunch of jerks, of course. I have been slinging lit dynamite like a robot made to sling lit dynamite and have somehow not run out. Every time I separate someone into little disgusting bits, I reach into their remains and pull out more explosives. And one interesting thing about the engine used in Fallout is that I can reach into the smallest part of the person's body--into a leg or a portion of skull--and extract what I need. Yes! In this game you are able to root around in someone's brains and extract bottle caps, a weapon, a suit of leather armor. I am curious--is this an artifact of carelessness or a carefully considered mechanic to keep you form losing access to loot if an exploded torso goes over the edge of a cliff or glitches into a boulder?

Well, whatever. My real mission today was not to rob corpses but to track down a radio signal, picked up by the boombox strapped to my wrist, and I found its source at this drive-in movie screen.

Well, it was late morning. There was no movie to see. There was a crashed satellite, twitching in the lot.

Can you guess what happened? Yes, you can: I waited for the sun to fall. Some jerks came along at some point and got so close I had to give up the dynamite for a shotgun. But then the night came up and the satellite clicked to life and projected--what?

F:NV: And Dave's Body

Two nights ago I dreamt that a new Fallout game was released. Yeah! Well, it was either that or an expansion for New Vegas. I don't know. The premise was that you explored a desert waste again but this time on a scooter. And you could buy a peripheral hard plastic scooter to sit on at home. And it vibrated and tilted around and probably had controls or something, who knows. Rominger was so excited that he showed up to buy the game in Fallout cosplay gear. He also dyed his hair a cool nickely silver.

Anyway, this inspired me to pick up a copy of New Vegas and Dave, via gchat, challenged me to a dual/duel blog series of our New Vegas playthroughs. Okay! It's on! Get ready for shaky photos of my television taken while I wobble in a crouch, trying not to fall over into fresh cat vomit.

New Vegas is pretty much Fallout 3 but with more sun and a brown filter over everything instead of a green. Also there is an army of weirdos who dress like Roman soldiers and a sexbot and a mysterious guy who commands you via video display and, of course, mutated animals and lawless violence. The game opens when you're shot in the brain for implied but unspecified reasons by this asshole:

Well, okay, dick! Luckily, a friendly (?) robo digs you out of the earth and takes you to a kindly old doctor who not only frees ammunition from your skull but also helpfully asks you to make sure your skill points and various acumens are in order. This is of course ultraconvenient. If this kind of thing went down in real life I would likely shoot myself in the jaw for the chance to suddenly be good at HTML or motorcycling or handstands.

After I left this doctor I, well, I went and made some salmon quesadillas. Then I came back and shot some enormous geckos. What happened was, this guy came up out of a busted trailer and claimed his girlfriend was trapped by the beasts around a few hilly twists in the desert ahead. I chased her trail through the dust and finally had to start chucking dynamite, bang, gore everywhere, bits of gecko, and when I finished them off the dude appeared again and admitted his lie. There was no girlfriend. He only asked me to clear out the geckos so he could get "the stash up there." Well, I blew him up too, and what was the stash up there? A little table, a camera, a few bullets, and Dave's body:

3800

We Are So Close to 3,800 It Is Sad

I can't post this anywhere else because of the raging ass trauma some people have.

Blogger, for the shit I shouldn't post on facebook.

What the Hell

Ummmmmmmmm

Mass Effect 3 Ending

So the web has been crazy with controversy over the way Mass Effect 3 ended. I'm going to have to say I don't see what all the complaining is about. The post credit cut scene alone was enough to let us know the story ISN'T over. I have a feeling the ramifications of the public outcry have definitely already made an impact on how future games in the series/new DLC will be handled. I love the fact we can give real time feedback to game developers about our experience so they can do better or different next time. I just think it is unfair for us as consumers to demand that our expected outcome options become a reality. While Mass Effect is different in that you own some portion of the story telling I think it's best to remember that it's not our story. We did not spend thousands of hours crafting these characters and we aren't the ones who know the future of the franchise. I for one would excited based of the current ending to see how the future would pan out after what happened, but apparently others just can't be bothered to have some patience and see what could have been. Now I'm almost certain the free DLC that will be coming out in the future will clear things up, but at what cost to the future of the franchise?

FAILURE

That's what I am. In this endeavor.

Taking the easy way out today.

8 years ago was a very strange day in blog history

If you read the post from April 8, 2004 the trend seems to be that everybody had obviously had a case of WBS: Whiny Baby Syndrome. I tried to read all the post but there was so much negativity going on I couldn't bare to read it all. I was kind of considered to be a lesser member of the group back in those days but I have to say at least I was(usually) more emotionally stable then most of the people involved in that donkey show of a day. Needless to say I will not review that day in blog history nor will I review any other. It brings back all of the complaints about people back then that I never was willing to air because well, people were too damned sensitive.

Speaking of the past. I went to Albia today and saw Shannon's and my family. It was fun to see everybody but it also like the blog reminded me of lesser times in my life. As much as I miss the high school days in Nick's basement, I can't say I have too many more fond memories of Albia. I used to look back on things regretfully wishing that just one person in my time there would have recognized my abilities and potential. Luckily I had a group of people that I could relate with/outlets to friendships I had formed in Ottumwa. Now I just look back at it with sadness. There is nothing there for me. MOST of the people who are still there still look at the world from the same narrow lens that they were looking through 8 years ago when I finally left.

Timestamps on Blogger

I started this blog this morning then walked away and completely changed it, however it maintained the time stamp from when I initially started it this morning. Weird.

The Latest Arcade Craze

The Miniseries

I just watched the hunger games and while it was pretty good it was also rushed. Strange thing to say about a movie that over 2 hours long but it's the truth. The build up was great but they rushed through some of the good stuff. Granted I haven't read the books but I feel like there was probably a great deal more involved with developing the characters. Perhaps in the end it won't matter but it frustrated me.

My initial thought was that perhaps this would have been better suited as a television series, but what you run into with that is story lines being prolonged for no good reason. Then I realized it may be more suited to be a miniseries. With a miniseries you lose the obligations of a set number of episodes that TV shows often require. You also don't have to deal with time restrictions that a movie forces you into. You have as much or as little time as you need to complete the project. I understand from a business perspective why they aren't used as much but really it could be the perfect setting for a book to film adaptation.

Minutes to Spare

I nearly already failed my quest on the first day no less. It's currently 11:48 and I don't even have topic. This feels a lot like high school. I would often wake up with a make or break my grade paper due in an hour and not be done. I would usually succeed in these situation. I was good at using the internet search engines to complete papers, even without Wikipedia available to me. Kids these days seem to have it easy in these matters, so long as the student isn't straight plagiarizing. I usually successfully put in some complete bull shit to throw the scent of plagiarism. I often times forget how clever I was back then. If only I had the communication skill back then to convince people I wasn't a complete waste of DNA. I suppose that will be my first of 15 days. A fairly weak entry but an entry none the less.

Post A Day

I, Kevin Henderson, hereby do vow to blog 1 time every day for the next 15 days. Tomorrow will be the first day of my pledge.

Wrestlemania

So I watched Wrestlemania last night and it was for a change of pace actually good. The matches were good, they didn't waste too much time, all in all it was a pretty good show. Some moments were memorable even for an old school fan like myself. This lead me to decide to post my top 10 WWE moments of all time.

Honorable Mention: Mr. Perfect vs Bret Hart (Summerslam '91), Kurt Angle's Milk Truck, Booker T calls Hulk Hogan a Nigga(OK not really but it's funny)

10. Jericho wins the title.....no wait, but he

Back in the day I never missed a Raw and I nearly skipped this one. I remember the feeling on the show that night. Chris Jericho was playing a face and he was finally getting his shot at the title against HHH. Jericho beat Triple H that night and the crowd went absolutely ballistic. Only thing is that once we got back from commercial HHH forced the ref to overturn the decision. It was bittersweet but I actually cared about the product and the character back then. It would be a while before Jericho would, well I'll get to that later.

9. Papa Shango puts a curse on the Warrior.

Man, oh man did that shit terrify me. You don't need the full story odds are if you read this blog you know what I'm talking about.

8. Is that a tooth in his nose?

Mick Foley vs Undertaker's hell in a cell match was an instant classic. While the two of them will not earn any points from the perspective of a wrestling purist it was still an iconic moment.

7. HBK wins the World Title at Wrestlemania 12

He beat Bret Hart in the first ever(it think) 60 minute Iron Man match. It was an iconic match and the beginning of a new era. It was the last time I probably enjoyed a match with the naive eyes of a child. His emotional celebration after his victory was truly an amazing way to end the Bret Hart era.

6. Shane McMahon coast to coast on Vince

Why? Because I didn't expect it. I can usually call a move in advance but this shocked the hell out of me. The below video illustrates a coast to cost.



5. Warrior beats Hogan

22 years ago the industry was all about 1 man, Hulk Hogan. That was until The Ultimate Warrior. We loved this guy and as an adult I can't for the life of me figure out why. His promos are nonsense, I guess it was just the energy. This was the moment that finally put another "good guy" on top. Sure there was Macho Man before this but Hogan never would have even dreamed of putting Savage over. This moment is truly priceless and allowed WWE to begin to flourish.

4. Chris Jericho beats the Rock and Austin back to back.

I watched this PPV with Eric Jourdan, Scooby, Britt Ogle, Joe Bricker, and a few others. I'm also pretty sure I was stoned like a mutha-fucka. I walked in arguing that Jericho would be the man to unify the titles and they all doubted me. Jericho had for years been a top name in the WWE but hadn't yet been given his due. He beat the Rock and my confidence soared as all the others in the room doubted me. Suddenly the sound of broken glass hits and out comes Austin, just seconds after Jericho beat the Rock. Well my confidence wavered for just a minute. Ultimately Jericho would unify the titles and finally solidify his legacy as one of the greats.

3. Macho Man wins the World Title @ Wrestlemania 4.

In my childhood I had a strange infatuation with tournament brackets. So WM4 was definitely up my alley. Hogan was eliminated early in the tournament in a double DQ with Andre. So my little heart was crushed early on watching this one. However, Macho Man would go on to win with a Hulk Hogan assist(which further proves my argument that Hogan would never have personally put Macho Man over)

2. Undertaker goes 20-0 at Wrestlemania

The streak would continue last night and I don't think I need to say anymore.

1. Shawn Michels vs Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania 19

In my opinion the single greatest match of all time. This was a true match that showed two different generations greatest going head to head. HBK was Jericho's hero when he was coming up and if you watch Jericho wrestle you can really tell. Jericho developed his own style off of watching Michaels and adapting it to his own strengths as he traveled the world before his ECW days. Michaels was a seasoned vet at this point and had seen it all. The two of them together was as pure as it gets. The match itself was a mixture of old school grappling, combined with high flying antics, and mixed in with a little submission. For me this was probably truly the swan song for my fandom. I still watch the PPVs with Ryan from time to time, and get a little nostalgic, but the fact of the matter is I will probably never enjoy anything WWE does again as much as I enjoyed this match.

Polyphonic Spree

May 12th....Anybody wanna go?

Here's my thought leave on Friday and stay here this hotel is about 40 minutes from the venue in Lawrence but there isn't anything available in Lawrence. I figure if four people go the cost per person would be about $125 bucks per person (including gas/hotel/tickets).

Banana Sprit

The only thing to cleanse your internet pallet from P-I-Z-Z-A.