Misc. news

I Like to Move It, Move It

I have finally finished moving into my new place of residence for the following two semesters! After my time in this house is up I guess I'll be homeless, updating from behind the KFC using a pizza box as a laptop. Damn it! Who ate the pepperoni I was using as my Shift key?!

I did a bit of updating before I started moving, so now the little thumbs-up "Promote This" buttons on comments and in the forum stand out a bit more, but you have to be signed in to see them so only three or four people even know that they exist anyway.

More shit will follow, but at an irregular pace as always (I don't get enough fibre in my diet). University may get in the way, but I'm taking English 3800 - Creative Writing so perhaps I'll put some of that to use here. I probably won't, though, because I hate you. Lose some weight.

Minor Upgrades

I've just finished a few modifications to the site that will hopefully make finding posts easier. There's now a search bar at the top, and each of the main links above now has a sub-menu so that you can select a specific category or section. Some of the sub-menu items are going to be empty for a while, though, because in a lot of cases I just needed to fill space. That, boys and girls, is a prime example of poor design!

I probably broke half a million things while doing this, though, so just leave a comment here if you find something that's all fucked up—like your face! Ooh, burn! Up top!

RSS Feed is now Active

After having an RSS feed link on the site for over a year, the fucking thing is finally working. Click the RSS icon on the sidebar or your browser's toolbar, or right here to subscribe. If you don't know what RSS is, don't worry you're pretty little head about it. You are too old. Yes, too old to begin the training.

It's Time to Experiment

For the past month and a half, since the launch of 34D Version 6, I've been trying to do the daily news thing and only occasionally succeeding. I simply don't care enough to find more than one or two stories per day and apply what I consider to be humour to them, so I'm not going to try that any more. I'm taking the site back to the good old days when I only posted if I had something to say.

I'm doing this in the hope that operating this site won't drag my will to live down any further than it already is. It's been a lot of effort with very little payoff (27 registered members and about 50 readers per day), which is a lot less than I had hoped we'd have by this time. The GOG contest will still be going, of course, though most of the new members haven't fulfilled half of the necessary requirements to actually win it, so I have a feeling that I'll never be required to pay up. Your faults, not mine.

So, because updates are going to be a lot more sporadic, my first priority will be to get the RSS feed updating properly. When it's finished you'll be able to subscribe and maybe once every couple of weeks you'll get a notification that, hey, maybe Eek or Psycho Gorilla posted has something new!

The Hottest Thing You'll See All Day

I knew I'd find something to post today! There were the trailers for Sherlock Holmes and The Dark Knight Rises, but I correctly figured that every site would already have those by now. Then I saw the news that Zooey Deschanel will be writing and performing songs for the new Winnie the Pooh animated film, but I realized that, despite her cuteness, Ms. Deschanel is just Katy Perry for fans of flat chests.

Then, when all hope seemed lost, I found the perfect thing to post on this Wednesday afternoon. The thing to lift up your spirits and make you say "Hey, everything is going to be all right."

I give you our feature presentation: Jia Jem in Sexy Tank Girl Cosplay.

   

Soviet War Memorial Vandalized by Capitalist Pig-Dogs

A Bulgarian memorial to the Soviet Armed Forces in World War II was vandalized last weekend and now features the faces of such notable heroes of capitalism as Captain America, Superman, Ronald McDonald, The Burger King, Santa Claus and The Joker. Ah, The Joker—now there's a capitalist!

Bulgarian authorities are of course labeling this an act of petty delinquency rather than the directed attack on socialist idealism that it so clearly is. As a Canadian and therefore a godless socialist, I must say that I am appalled. If only Papa Khrushchev were alive to see this, he'd set those vandals straight!

Via Gawker.

Make Me Your Bitch at the 2011 Calgary Expo

I'll be heading to the annual Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo on Friday, so I'll finally have the chance to rub elbows with all your favourite nobodies like Felicia Day and Jonathan Frakes. I'm kind of at a loss for what to talk to these sort-of-celebrities about, though, so I'd like some input. Check out the guest list for the expo here and leave a comment with something you'd like me to ask/tell/give to any of the scheduled attendees.

Should I ask Tia Carrere how many executives she had to sleep with to get on Relic Hunter, or perhaps I should ask Teddy Wilson what it's like to be overshadowed by a former YTV host. You decide!*

* I reserve the right to not embarrass myself in front of people whom are more famous than myself, so I probably won't take your erotic drawing of Hellraiser's Pinhead to Doug Bradley.