zanzibar106's Journal
[Most Recent Entries]
[Calendar View]
[Friends]
Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in
zanzibar106's LiveJournal:
| Monday, December 11th, 2006 | | 4:15 pm |
A local independent movie theatre is showing the first 3 'Firefly' episodes on their big screen this December 28th. I went to the El Cerrito Speakeasy and it's nice - they serve food to tables as you're watching the show, so it's much more social beforehand. And they serve beer and wine for added fun. I haven't been to the one in Oakland, but they're owned by the same group. Lemme know if there's interest. I'll put together something if we get a few people. Here's the blurb: Thursday, December 28, 9PM Join your fellow Browncoats for a FIREFLY ride on the big screen! We'll begin with the first three episodes of Joss Whedon's cult TV series (Serenity 1 & 2 and The Train Job) returning every few months with three more episodes until we've seen the whole series in order. Think you know Firefly better than Jayne knows guns? Then be sure not to miss Niska’s You Bet Your Life! We’ll be playing for prizes, not for cashy money or Alliance credit. Admission: $5 Info on the Speakeasy theaters at http://www.parkway-speakeasy.com/index.php . | | Friday, December 1st, 2006 | | 12:15 pm |
| | Monday, October 2nd, 2006 | | 5:06 pm |
| | Friday, July 7th, 2006 | | 10:34 am |
PLUG: REALLY GOOD East Bay show
I saw a show in the East Bay last night that was just amazing. Incredibly talented cast, particularly the lead, Jared "Choclatt" Crawford - he's a famous percussionist who helped create, choreograph, and was the lead performer in Broadway's 4-time Tony winning "Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk." He co-wrote this show, which is basically a vehicle for his talents, but there's a lot of impressive talent accompanying him. If you like crazy (loud!) drum action, this show is for you. It's expensive, but I had a great time. It's criminal that there were as many empty seats as there were. Tickets $25, $15 students/seniors Contra Costa College The Knox Center for the Performing Arts 2600 Bell Drive, San Pablo, CA 94806. Remaining shows: July 7,8,19,20,21,22 (Usually 8pm, but some might be matinees) Phone - (510) 235 7800 Ext 4274 for info, including showtimes Choclatt's website: http://www.choclatt.com/news.html | | Thursday, July 6th, 2006 | | 2:24 pm |
Hey, anyone know any game testers that need a short-term job?
My company is working on a Nintendo Wii title, and we're looking for some (maybe 10?) on-site testers to find and write up bugs for the next few months. The job is in Novato, and will probably be 8 hours a day, usually Monday-Friday. I'm not sure of the pay scale, but it will be in line with the 'game industry standard', whatever the hell that means. Post here if you have ideas on who I could contact. Thanks! | | Friday, April 7th, 2006 | | 3:50 pm |
| | Tuesday, March 7th, 2006 | | 4:07 pm |
Bush joke #14,348
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed." "OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!" His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands. Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?" | | Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 | | 10:07 am |
Hell yeah - Big Damn Hero
 | You scored as Captain Malcolm Reynolds.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds | | 94% | Inara, the "Companion" | | 81% | First Mate Zoe | | 75% | Simon, the Doctor | | 38% | RiVER | | 31% | Shepherd Book | | 31% | Kaylee, the Mechanic | | 25% | Jayne Cobb, resident bad-ass | | 19% | Wash, the Pilot | | 13% | </td>
FiREFLY QUIZ
created with QuizFarm.com |
| | Monday, June 27th, 2005 | | 9:22 pm |
Yes...I'm a geek. Here's the proof!
WAAAH - my launch-day Xbox finally started stuttering audio playback - it's the fabled 'Your disc may be dirty or damaged' DVD drive error. I called Xbox and yes, they gave me a return authorization. My guess is that they will send me a refurbished one instead of fixing mine, and with the X360 on the way, it's entirely likely my Xbox will be destined for the scrap heap as soon as I mail it in. I've just finished copying the important savegames in anticipation of its demise. (Curse you, KOTOR, now I'll have to play it again all the way through if I want to see the ending.) My Xbox has a long and storied history. I work for a game company, and it was the first Xbox my fellow employees had seen waaay back in 2001. It introduced them to Halo. So many Halo and Halo 2 LAN parties...such delicious killing. Such fun on Xbox Live. It's had to have attended over 25 LAN parties during its lifetime, being the 'primary' Xbox the entire time. But, there is time for one more shebang. Halo and Halo 2 don't hit the DVD drive as much as they do the Hard Drive during gameplay, so I'm going to have one final Halo LAN party to give it a proper farewell. >SOB< I'm too sentimental for my own good. Farewell, and Godspeed, ZanziBox. | | Monday, January 3rd, 2005 | | 5:47 pm |
eBay Scam of the Day
If you ever needed another reason to be careful on eBay, check out what this clown is offering (read carefully): Used Xbox game system...pictureThat's right, folks, for your winning bid, you get emailed a DIGITAL PICTURE of a used Xbox game system! The gall of some of these scam artists is astonishing. This looks like the SIXTH attempt for this guy to try and scam someone like this. I first stumbled across a similar listing written EXACTLY like this one, but the moron linked to SOMEONE ELSE'S hosted images of a used Xbox. The host realized what was going on and swapped out the images to hardcore porn, with all kinds of text warnings mapped over them telling potential buyers to retract their bids. Y'know, sometimes the death penalty's too good for some people. I messaged the guy the following: 'You are the lowest form of life. I hope eBay publishes your IP so that the hacker community can do to your computer what you're trying to do to some poor unsuspecting buyer. I've already alerted eBay to 3 of your 'pictures'. Did you like the one where the web hoster traded out the pictures for porn? I sure did.'He responded with: 'ha ha ha your such a tard, my auctions are legit, if people dont read then people dont read. I am selling pictures and since i am hosting my own pics i dont really have to worry about that do I. It would be funnny if they published my ip, then i would reset my modem and get a new one and laugth at the poor unsuspecting person who gets it.'Then he replied with another: 'I would also like you to stop your trashy ebay crap and stop harrassing my buyers. There is no need to send them messages with your silly opinions in it.'So I gave him another message: 'LOL!! So making sure that they're clear on what they're actually buying is 'harrassment'? Just out of curiosity, how many of them have retracted their bids? Or are you using dummy aliases to make fake bids and to give fake positive feedback? Y'know, maybe you're right. Maybe eBay won't be able to keep up with all your fake aliases. But I bet PayPal would be more than interested to know about fraud being done using their system. Perhaps they'll suspend your accounts and notify the authorities. Perhaps they'll give out your address and phone number. You stay right there, my friend. I'm sure the friendly people knocking on your door are legitimate buyers and your satisfied customers...'Another response from him: 'none of my buyers retracted their bids, and yes they are real bids, i have one account on ebay, thats right one. So agin your therories are wrong. I yes it must be harrasment what you are doing because they emailed me about it. 'So I gave him back: 'Fair enough. If you feel this is harassment, please feel free to report me to eBay. They're rather familiar with the situation. Oh, and I messaged yet ANOTHER bidder for your scam. Here's what I told him: 'Be careful - read that Xbox listing again. It's a scam - the guy emails you a DIGITAL PICTURE of an Xbox if you win the item. Try and retract your bid if that's not what you're trying to buy. And feel free to contact eBay and let them know about the scam.''Stay tuned...and feel free to contact him via the eBay messaging system. | | Saturday, January 1st, 2005 | | 11:15 pm |
LIES!! ALL LIES!!
| You are 20% geek |  </td><td valign="top">OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you.</td></tr>
Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com | | Thursday, December 9th, 2004 | | 5:50 pm |
I should not be posting this. Ah well.
The Questionnaire Du Jour - only because the Iz wanted me to. As I've stated, I've routinely avoided these, because I enjoy my fantasies of the beautiful women I know answering them differently than I expect they WILL answer. 1. Go out with me? 2. Give me your number? 3. Have sex with me? 4. Let me kiss you? 5. Watch a movie with me...even a really sappy one? 6. Let me take you out to dinner? 7. Drive me somewhere/anywhere? 8. Take a shower with me? 9. Be my GF/BF? 10. Have a fling with me? 11. Listen to me if I called you crying even if you were out with all of your friends? 12. Buy me a drink if I didn't have money? 13. Take me home for the night? 14. Would you let me sleep in your bed? 15. Sing car karaoke with me? 16. Sit in the doctors office with me because I didn't want to go alone? 17. Re-post this for me to answer your questions? 18. Let me give you a piggyback ride? 19. Come pick me up at 3 am because my car ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere? | | Monday, November 1st, 2004 | | 5:08 pm |
Off to Reno to Get Out The Vote!!
I've signed up with ACT - America Coming Together. It's sponsored by George Soros - the multimillionaire that has been supporting hundreds of causes with the same purpose: to show George W. Bush the door as of January 2005. As such, I'm going to Nevada to drive people to the polls. But consider this friendly reminder: VOTE. And tell your friends to vote. Drive them to the polls if they need a lift. It's not too late to help - sign on at moveon.org or johnkerry.com and make phone calls to help get out the vote. If we mobilize, we will win. | | Tuesday, August 17th, 2004 | | 12:04 pm |
Happy Birthday Iz!
Yeah, not sure if it's appropriate to 'out' our own Mustela Nivalis, aka Iz as her birthday, but I think we all know she's secretly dying for the attention. Happy Birthday, m'dear, hoping that you get all your birthday wishes. ;) | | Tuesday, July 27th, 2004 | | 12:40 pm |
| | Wednesday, July 21st, 2004 | | 4:09 pm |
| | Tuesday, July 20th, 2004 | | 4:37 pm |
| | Monday, July 12th, 2004 | | 8:08 pm |
How to get myself removed from a 'friends' list
One word: politics. Yes. I know. I'm sorry. I promise I won't do it again. But JUST THIS ONCE, I need you all to use the power of your LJ to tell your friends to get registered to vote. We had a phone-bank registration party over at my house this weekend (we called unregistered people in districts in Florida and filled out reg forms with them over the phone) and it was awe-inspiring to feel like I was doing some good for the future of the country. This is going to be the most important election in our lifetimes. Regardless of how you feel about the candidates, NOBODY should be on the sidelines for this one. There are no excuses. If you have friends that are on the fence or uninterested, have them talk to me ;) Current Mood:  anxiousCurrent Music: Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire | | Thursday, June 3rd, 2004 | | 12:13 am |
BayCon Story #2:
Foo reports not seeing this happening, so I thought I'd share: WarriorFoo, Fennec, Iz, and Nessa in the Mistress of the Wonder Widget armada, strutting (with authority!) towards the Screamworks ballroom dance on Saturday. Two boys, not older than 11 or so, generally meandering towards us. One of them isn't looking at the Something Wicked Coming His Way, instead he is looking over his shoulder at somebody ELSE'S lame-by-comparison costume. His friend sees the Dominatrix and her Minions approaching. His jaw drops, and he starts hitting his friend on the shoulder to turn around. Friend does. Stops DEAD in his tracks. Slack-jawed. Buggy-eyed. After a brief hesitation, he stumbles, weak-kneed, off to the side and allows our entourage to pass. As discussed later, that boy had in all likelihood been officially purged of any homosexual tendencies in that very instant. Ray (Waywardbound) starts laughing, as do I. WWB makes the following anecdote as to what happened to the kid: 'BLAM! Oh my God! Puberty!!' Yeah, I missed the next few minutes of any dialogue from laughing.
Current Mood:  sleepy
Current Music: 'Stupid' by Sarah McLachlan | | Tuesday, June 1st, 2004 | | 11:40 pm |
BayCon
I should start writing all this down somewhere. Ah, yes, that's why we have this friggin' online thing. Go figure. BayCon was utterly wonderful. Can't say enough about it. Of course, I'm certain that a significant portion of the fun came from the people I was with. Warriorfoo and Fennec for starters, plus the Iz and the Zoltar. And met Waywardbound for a complete breath of fresh air - note to WWB, GOTTA GOTTA GOTTA update your pic with the blue hair. First highlight story: Bottle O' Mead Waywardbound and I dispatched ourselves down to the party floor on a quest for a corkscrew to open Foo's bottle of Mead. We must have looked even more insane than your average BayCon-goer, as we soon were darting from room to room pestering everyone for a corkscrew. Soon, soooooon there came a sub-quest: 'Seek ye the Silver-Headed Egyptian.' Try, try as we may, looking elicited no such creature. So, of course, we then took to asking BOTH questions: 1. 'Do you have a corkscrew?' Followed immediately by 2. 'Have you seen a silver-headed Egyptian?' EACH AND EVERY TIME the eyes would glaze over of whoever it was we were asking as they tried to make the invisible connection of what the fuck those two questions had to do with each other. Slowly, EVER so slowly, they would answer 'No' to the second question with their eyes narrowing ever-so-slightly, thinking they were the victim of some cosmic joke. Obviously, they were the only ones on the planet who couldn't figure out the correlation! Just as we were about to give up hope, there was a flash of silver - I tapped WWB and said 'THERE HE IS! GET HIM!' We tugged on the shoulder of a man with a silver top, and he turned - revealing an INCREDIBLE Egyptian headdress of silver cloth. We spoke in hushed tones. 'Rumor has it...that you...have a corkscrew.' He looked us over. Manservant Hecubus and the Joker's long-lost cousin. Tried unsuccessfully to place if he had seen us before; he had not. You saw the leap of logic happen as he realized that there was no earthly reason why two unrecognizable fools should know he had a corkscrew in his pocket. But, to his credit, he gave up. 'Yes. Yes I do.' We dropped to our knees and offered him the bottle. 'Sire, may we partake of the use of it?' At this point he made another unsuccessful attempt at trying to figure this out, so slowly, without any sudden moves, took the bottle, produced a Swiss Army Knife, and silently removed the cork. Somehow our quest went unnoticed for the valiant deed that it was back in Room 370. 'Why the hell didn't you take the Red Wine bottle too?' |
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
zanzibar106's journal
