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Saturday, July 12, 2008

  • So I have a new goal in life


    I've discovered something so completely awesome that I want to take part in. The Mongol Rally, a charity rally that goes from London to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Here is a brief description of it:

    "Travel a third of the way around the earth, from London to Mongolia via a plethora of countries most people haven't heard of in any crap car that has an engine with no more than 1 litre of power.

    Starting from London, the rally finishes in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar around three weeks and a whole heap of adventure later. It's between about 8 and 10,000 miles depending on the route you choose to throw your crap-mobile at. We don't believe in telling you what to do or where to go as this is supposed to be an adventure not a cozy guided driving tour, so the world is pretty much your oyster. To get to the end teams have gone as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as Afghanistan on what can only really be described as somewhat circuitous routes. What happens to you between London, the deserts, mountains, bandits and wilderness is anyone's guess. In a normal year just over half the teams make the finish line in one piece.

    If you want a full support crew (or any support crew) you're in the wrong place. If nothing goes wrong, then everything has gone wrong. You only start having fun when you break down in the desert with only a short stick and some chewing gum to fix your car. If your automobile completely lets you down and all else fails, e.g. the sky has fallen on your head, you may be able to get to Mongolia by scabbing a lift from other cars. However, you are supposed to be on an adventure not in a nursery class so if the sky does fall on your head, prop it up with a windscreen wiper and carry on. If you're worried, stay at home.

    We can't guarantee your arrival at the finish line, or your safety.
    "


    Dangerous? Yes. Crazy? Yes. Stupid? Definitely. But this is something that I want to do. I talked to Eric about it and he seems like he's down to join me in the adventure. It'll be a few years before we would enter though. Thousands of dollars must be saved. And much research and planning must be conducted. But no matter how stupid the idea, I am determined to take part in the Mongol Rally one day.  It'll be the adventure of a lifetime.

    Here are some random facts from the 2005 Mongol Rally (some are pretty amusing):
    • 43 cars left London.
    • 27 cars reached Mongolia.
    • 14 cars reached the finish in Ulaanbaatar.
    • 2 teams were robbed at knife point.
    • 1 car snapped in half.
    • 3 engines fell completely out of the cars.
    • 1 team was held for 5 days in no-mans land.
    • 1 team cycled 200km to get to the finish when their car gave in.
    • 100's of tyres were blown.
    • 1 team got engaged.
    • 1 team found a 10ft deep pot hole.
    • 1 team found a 25 tonne crane rolled by a pot hole.
    • 3 teams attended weddings
    • 1 team had to reverse up a mountain after losing all bar one forward gear
    • 1 person spent 24 hours in a Kazakh jail charged with 5 crimes against the state.
    • 1 person was stoned by a Mongolian nomad (who he then shot at with a gun).
    • 1 team was rammed off the road after an argument over water melons.
    • 1 person spent a day in a Turkish hospital.
    • 3 people were banned from Turkmenistan for a year.
    • As a result of an incident with a cow 1 person was detained by police in Azerbaijan and threatened with a beating from a dwarf.
    • 2 cars flipped over in Mongolia.
    • 3 teams were chased by armed bandits.
    • 0 teams died
    It's not about reaching the finish line. It's about the fun and adventure on the way there.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

  • I didn't just save America, I saved the world!!


    Tentacles had once tried to take over the world . And like all of humanity's epic struggles, I was involved. On this occasion, I was just minding my own business and trying to see how big of a snot rocket I could launch out of my nose. When all of the sudden I was approached by two giant tentacles.





    "Pitiful human," the purple one said to me, "your world will soon belong to us and you will forever be a slave to our race!"

    "Oh yeah?!" I retorted "Well... your mother is already my slave!" (2nd grad humor FTW!) I could tell my reply angered him quite a bit as his eyebrow arched downward.

    "You will regret that comment filthy human," he snarled. "Now instead of enslaving your kind, we will unleash the hellish fury of our alien allies! They will kill you all!!!"

    Unphased by his threating threats of threatosity, I yelled, "Bring it on skank!"

    As they hopped off into the distance, I began to prepare for war. Earth belongs to us Terrans, and I will not let any aliens take it from us.


     


    I got into my battle armor and comanded my troops to build some bunkers for defensive measures. I sent my trusty comrade, Pen Pen, to our lookout post.

    Minutes later, Pen Pen sounded the intruder alarm. The aliens were here already! No army could mobilize and mount an attack so quickly! How could this be?! As I shifted my eyes to a security monitor displaying the lookout post, my eyes widened and I now understood how we could be attacked so quickly. I yelled to the other men in the barracks:


     


    "ZERG RUSH!!!!1!!1!!one!"

    I saw Pen Pen get ripped to shreds on the monitor. But there was no time to mourn his death, I had to fight. And just as I turned around, I was confronted by several zerglings. I killed as many as I could, but they just kept coming and I was overwhelmed. I was knocked off my feet and the zerglings began to leap at me. But I kept fighting. They cannot have this planet. I won't let them.


     


    I was able to kill a few more, but for every one I slaughtered, two more appeared. I knew the end was near and that I didn't stand a chance. "If only I was a Protoss," I said over and over in my head. If only...

    Just when I was about to be killed, an old friend came out of nowhere and saved me. He took out the zerglings with ease.


     


    "Bender!" I exclaimed. "Boy am I glad to see you!" I regained my composure and stood back up, we high fived in celebration (Well... he high threed).

    "Come on Meat Bag," Bender motioned to me, "let's kill the rest of them. These zerglings can bite my shiny metal ass!"

    And bite his ass they did. But bite through it they could not. We killed every last Zerg and defended out planet. But we still had the Tentacles to deal with. Rather than kill them, we exiled them to Japan.


     


    After being sent to Japan, the Tentacles lost all of their violent tendencies. They actually got into acting and were offered many type casted roles.





    And that my friends, is the true story of how tentacles ended up in hentai.

    The end.

Friday, June 27, 2008

  • What would you do if a zombie outbreak occured?


    Some of you already know this story, but some don't. And when I saw the featured question of the day, I thought that it would be worth retelling a first hand experience of what I did during an actual zombie outbreak






    *ring ring ring*

    Jack: This is Bauer.
    Chloe: Jack we have a problem!
    Jack: Dammit Chloe! It's Sunday and I just finished disarming a nuclear bomb, I don't need any more problems!
    Chloe: Jack, there has been some sort of outbreak (Starring Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman).
    Jack: What kind of outbreak...?
    Chloe: Some sort of bio-weapon created a viral outbreak and resulted in people becoming zombies!





    Jack
    : There's only one man alive that has survived a previous zombie attack...
    Chloe: Who...?


     


    Jack: Paul Turnbach... he spends his days verbally abusing little kids through Xbox Live.
    Chloe: You need to get to him NOW!!
    Jack: I'm on my way! Chloe, do me a favor... call Kim and tell her to stay inside and lock all the doors. I'll come for her as soon as I recruit Paul.
    Chloe: I'm on it.

    *click*



    *ring ring ring*

    Kim: Hello?
    Chloe: Kim this is Chloe. There's been an outbreak and zombies are on the loose. Jack wants you to lock the doors.
    Kim: Zombies? Don't worry Chloe, I've got my boyfriend with me. He'll protect me!
    Chloe: Whatever, just stay inside and lock the doors. Jack will be there shortly.

    *click*





    Minutes later, Jack arrives at my house and pounds on the front door.

    *door opens*
    Jack: Paul, I'm agent Bauer, CTU. The zombie holocaust is upon us, we need your expertise to stop this before it gets out of hand.
    Paul: Jack Bauer?!?!! OMGHI2U!!! A/S/L?!?!!
    Jack: Shut up and lets get going. We need to get to my daughter.


     


    So I go into ninja mode and grab my trusty katana and shotgun. Jack and I make our way to Kim's while disposing of every zombie along the way.





    By the time we arrive at Kim's house, she's already a zombie. You know why? Because Kim is a total douche that never listens to her father even though he has single handedly saved the world eleventybillion times.

    We kill all other zombies in the area, but leave Kim standing. I stand back and let Jack deal with it since it's his own daughter. But if he can't pull the trigger, I'm ready to take her out. Jack pauses a moment, but as soon as Kim starts charging for him, he pulls the trigger and takes her out. A truly sad moment...


     


    Jack and I go on killing every zombie we come across until there are none left. We went up on a hill and watched the sunset to reflect on the day's events. I took part in saving this country from a zombie outbreak yet again. But just like last time, this will go down unrecorded. You won't read about this in any history books. But take my word America, it happened





       

    I just answered this Featured Question, you can answer it too!

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

  • Enjoying Nature


    Back when I lived on Planet Zebes, I was going for a walk one day and just enjoying all of nature's beauty. I would stop to smell the flowers and wave hello to the friendly wild life.





    I had come across a cute infant metroid. I said hello, but got no reply. It just kept floating there looking so squishy. And when things look squishy, it is extremely hard for me to resist poking them. I fought the urge to poke the metroid, but that only lasted about seven seconds. I poked the little bugger and I think I freaked him out.





    It attached itself to my head and began to feast on me. Normally this would've been no problem, but since I left my power suit at home I couldn't turn into a morphball.

    I quickly came up with a plan to get this guy off my head. But just as I was about to execute said plan...


       

    The metroid exploded, bukkaking me with his squishy ectoplasm. But it didn't explode on its own, somebody had shot it. As my vision refocused I found out who did it...





    It was Earthworm Jim. I was about to get out of the situation on my own, and was extremely pissed that Jim shot at my head. He could've killed me! Twat...

    I quickly filled with anger (luckily this was before I was exposed to gamma radiation, so I didn't hulk out). I grabbed Jim and pulled him out of his super suit.





    I began pulling on both ends of his wormy self, stretching him until he passed out from the pain.

    I was no longer in the mood for a nature walk, so I went home and showered to get all the squishiness off of me. Then to unwind, I phoned my booty call, Chun Li. At first she didn't want to have sex, but as soon as she saw my ninja turtle blanket, she jumped on top of me and we went at it.





    Oh how I miss those days. But now Chun Li is too busy filming a movie and competing in a new fighting competition. So I don't ever get to see her. Poor sexless Paul...

Friday, June 13, 2008

  • ub3r pwNag3


    So as you've probably realized by now, I'm a little bit of a nerd. And a qualification of being a nerd is playing video games. So the other day I was enjoying life and playing some games in an arcade.





    After kicking ass and achieving a world record shattering high score, something strange happened. I was sucked into the arcade machine.


     

    Everything went black for a moment and I had no idea where I was. But within moments I could clearly see again. And standing infront of me was a Rabbid and Dan Hibiki. Wtf...? At this point I realized I  must be inside some sort of video game world.





    Dan and the Rabbid came running towards me with a look of bloodlust in their eyes. I had no choice but to defend myself. I grabbed the Rabbid by his ears, stepped on his feet and pulled as hard as I could. He fell all too easily. As his carcass dropped to the ground, I busted out a ninja jump kick. My foot met with Dan's kidney and he was out cold.





    I thought victory was mine, but then came three more challengers.





    It was Megaman, Iori, and King. This group was going to be much tougher to beat. But I had faith that I could still kick some pixelated and polygonal ass. And without hesitation, I threw my discus at Megaman and laid a massive beat down on Iori. But unfortunately, I had underestimated King....





    I let him get too close to me and in turn he was able to bust out some crazy wrestling body slams on me. I sustained major injuries and King ran off letting out a victory growl. That cocky bastard...

    But King made one mistake... he left me alive! *DUN DUN DUN*

    I slowly picked my bruised and beaten body up off the ground and began limping towards a nearby parked light cycle.


     


    I hotwired the light cycle and quickly sped off in King's direction. I caught up to him within seconds and greeted him with a friendly hello





    Ah sweet revenege!


    P.S. - If you don't know what Tron is... either find out and love it, or just end yourself.

    Have a great weekend