I came to sitting on the toilet in my undies. They weren't pulled down, but I didn't have to go so it didn't matter. I was feeling ill, and the toilet felt like a natural place to be. Sometimes when I'm really sick I sit on the can just so that I'm in close proximity to it, the medicine cabinet and the sink, whichever I'll need first. But I can usually remember being sick first. I wasn't sick this morning, but what I felt as I came to was a lot like a flu, my skin was sore, I felt nauseous and groggy, and I was uncomfortably warm even though I knew a dank, windowless room like this ought to be a little chilly.
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I have no idea what happened, I'm not sure I want to know what happened, and I hope it never happens again. But hey, I got a free crowbar.

So yeah... I've been geeking out for the upcoming Star Wars game. I was trying to find character sheets, which was made easier when I found rpgsheets.com. I also found a neat random name generator for Star Wars, which makes random names for different species, check it out here. Jenn was looking around and found a neat character portrait generator called The Hero Machine. Their website links to a demo version, which doesn't have all the options the full version does. The full version costs $20 to download (downloading means to shipping or duty, which I like) and the Canadian dollar is really good right now (relatively, at least) so I thought it was a worthy purchase. They have some samples on their website (the flamer is especially amusing), but here's some samples of what I made ( cut for browsing convenience: )

I'm still playing around to make my Star Wars character's image just right. The problem is that I'm not entirely sure how to play the character, which makes it more difficult to make the portrait (does that make sense? *shrugs*) Also I'm playing a Twilek, but they don't have lekku in the program, so I have to either use pigtails or draw them myself. I'm thinking I'll draw them myself now that I've found the Gimp, an AMAZING freeware alternative to photoshop. Hey, speaking of photoshop, here's a photoshop that's sure to make some of you at least smirk.

It's been a while since I found something cool on brickshelf for people to look at. This is the awesome. If you look at the last two pics, you should recognize the red and yellow droids if you are at all cool (I'm looking at you when I say this, Tim!)

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=111042

On a side note, I finished the Essential Incredible Hulk the other day. The Leader is awesome, and the Abomination is also neat, although he only lasts two issues when introduced. Aside from that, most of the villians are kind of stupid, not to mention the one issue where Hercules is randomly on a train an fights the Hulk. There were also a couple continuity errors in what made Bruce Banner change, so all in all, the only reason why the originals are worth money is because they're old.

Last night I got to introduce Tim, Derek and Rick to the Hulk, as they had never seen the movie before. Tim, in turn, told me about the Incredible Hulk's blog. http://incrediblehulk.blogspot.com/ It's funnier when read aloud in a hulk voice. The one about hostess pies made me think of this site: http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess.htm which in turn made me,MADE ME, buy a cherry filled hostess pie from the 7-11. I love those things. Now I need to take a trip across the border to get some pudding pies and sasparilla!

Today I cut the greens, and got moneys, with which to better afford groceries. I came home and Jenn introduced me to Imperial cheese. For those who don't know what that is, it's an extra aged cheddar which is spreadable. It's tastes the way cheez wiz would if cheez wiz tasted good AND tasted like cheese as opposed to an orange petroleum spread. I mused aloud that it might be great with smokies, and Jenn told me that I was correct. I also tried it spread on a cracker with a little dollop of salsa on top, and that was very nice. It was like a haut cuisine nacho horse douver or something.

Current Lego display: Aquazone.

So, not alot to report for the weekend. Jenn and I watched Big Fish and Underworld. Big Fish was surprisingly not dark, and Underworld was crap. That's all I feel like saying right now.

I also checked the calendar to see what May 19 (ep.III) was like. May 19 is a thursday, and I have that wednsday and thursday off, which means that catching the 12:01 showing is totally doable.

Furthermore... HULK SEQUEL! Script writers are being talked to, and Eric Bana has been secured, although a director will be sought after the script is made. This I partially dread, because if the vision is totally different from Ang Lee's, it won't mesh, but if they try to be similar and fail it will suck. We'll see. The possible antagonists being offered around are the Abomination (http://www.incrediblehulk.com/theabomination.html) and the Leader (http://www.incrediblehulk.com/theleader.html). I think it would be cool if the sequel meshed with the computer game, but I doubt that will happen.

As for Hulk merchandise, at the last Thickets concert Derek was wearing a button down spiderman shirt, and it made me want a Hulk shirt. I looked all over online, and I only found one, which was over $50US, so screw it.

You know, I never was a big comic book person, and I've never read any Incredible Hulk, I just really liked the movie, which may have been entirely because I was stuffed full of Memphis, beer and ice cream while on a date with Jenn when I saw it.

I just watched the Hulk with commentary by Ang Lee. Most of it seemed to involve "I really like this scene," and then you wait for him to extrapolate, but he doesn't. Actually, it's not that bad. You learn a couple of interesting bits of inspiration sources, and he talks about a couple things outside of the film that are neat to hear too. All in all, it's worth hearing if you like the movie, but it's nowhere near as good as Weird Al's commentary on UHF for pure informative value. Random aside: the "rock and roll" song that goes with the Hulk is so lame, so very, very lame. It is such glam rock written by comissioned old guys who used to be big, and then the world moved on without them. Who the hell asks Slash to write a song for a movie that they want for a summer blockbuster? Kids are the major box-office dictators for success, and who among them is going to know who Slash is? And who hires Ang Lee to try to make a summer blockbuster? Ang Lee makes art, and I can totally see it in the Hulk (like, wow man, totally.), but that doesn't mean it will sell to your target audience. Crouching Tiger went big because it was a beautiful film. Spiderman went big because it was a) Spiderman and b) from a Sam Raimi who makes entertaining movies which are a different kind of art. If Ang Lee and Sam Raimi were cooks, Ang Lee is the guy I would go to for filet mignon, and Sam Raimi is who I would go to for pulled pork. Very different cuts of meat, very different in preparation, not to mention the class of people associated with each, but they're both so very good in their own merits. The point is, why do you hire the filet mignon director when you want a cheeseburger crowd who will buy your action figures, playing cards, cookies, board games, pudding, pajamas, posters, skateboards, backpacks, shirts and all the other truckloads of unsold hulk merchandise that you see everywhere? And then you get some burnt out old dude who hasn't made any top whatever hits in years and can't escape a dead music style to make your theoretical chart-topper so kids will buy the soundtrack too? Do the people who made these decisions live in some kind of orbital station with a staticky communications beam to reality or something? If you ask me, it's more likely that the individuals responsible just don't like movies or music, and decided to gamble with names.

Okay, ranting aside, I really like that movie. It's my favourite comic book adaptation. But the song "Set me Free" is like the dead fly on the cake that the icing has hardened to. You just have to pretend it isn't there and avoid that portion. Okay, end rant now.

Stupid song.

New topic! Okay, so I make edge protectors. Non-corrugated cardboard things. The thickness is usually 0.170 inches, give or take 0.005. Today the boss stopped by and checked my work, and he told me I was running a little thick. I looked at the caliper he was measuring with, and it read 0.177". Too thick, unless you're producing our 0.180" ep's, which I was. I pointed this out, and the boss looked at the production chart, looked at the boxes the ep's were going in, and said "in that case, they're fine." I guess it was funnier in person, probably because I had made that same mistake that morning. Okay, fine, it isn't funny at all, nevermind.