The Link Says It All

http://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/ Thanks, Patrick.

3 Comments:
Patrick said...
Glad to be of service, fucker.
1/03/2007 10:35 AM
ilya said...
Not to be outdone, i'm going to start a project called geostationarydickovernewyork
1/05/2007 2:12 PM
Evans Tucker said...
Geostationary dick, huh? That's pretty awesome.You could just stage a sabotage and paint the banana dick-color and then put some big ol' balls on it. Then it'd be like... some kinda cool... uh... New York sabotaging the Texas Banana and like... some... kinda... rivalry or something.You know... like in sports movies. And then we'd steal New York's mascot and put it in a tutu and take embarrassing photos of it or something.Yeah.
1/05/2007 3:16 PM
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Kingdom of Loathing

I completely forgot to mention Kingdom of Loathing. It's another fine MMORPG that I've gotten back into recently. I have a sauceror named Steef Broganoff in that game. It's great, it's free, it's web-based, it's hilarious, and most importantly, it's got SWEET GRAPHICS! I love this game! Please give it a try. It's even got a limit so you can only play an hour or two a day at most, so there're no addicts! Woo!

World of Warcraft: The Scourge of Our Generation

So, I'm playing WoW now. I had a LAN party a couple of weeks ago. My girlfriend attended it - she's quite a gamer, by the way. She learned real time strategy and first person shooter games pretty quickly! Anyway, she'd been getting a lot of pressure from her coworkers to try WoW. At my LAN party, some of my friends showed her WoW and she liked it, so she decided to finally give it a shot. I said, "aw, fuck it, I'll play too". We've both been playing a lot lately. I'm having dreams wherein I am questing in World of Warcraft. It's ridiculous. I amuse myself with creating new characters with funny names. I have a gnome mage named Acorn, an undead warrior named Bitey, a troll priest named Priestzor (an homage to Jake and his love of the suffix "-zor"), and my new favorite, a tauren hunter named Laughter, because you can't have "slaughter" without "laughter", hehe. I'm clever. Anyway, the game is decent. It's a glorified 3D version of Diablo basically. I need to slow down, by which I don't mean "play less", but just play at a slower pace. When you get into this game, people are all about levelling up and questing and killing and PvPing. I kinda just want to see the massive virtual world and appreciate it's beauty. I want to thoroughly explore every town and read every quest, not just run through it. But, if you want to play with your friends, you have to play at their pace. And I'm running behind already. Guess I need to spend more time playing somehow, heh. Stupid addictive game. I don't know how long it will last. I do love fishing with my virtual character in a video game, but I don't know if I will enjoy paying $15 a month for it forever. I still need to explore the world of Second Life some more too...

Andrea said...
WoW is so great I think about it every day all day long and I play it in my dreams. -WoW Addicts Anonymous
12/20/2006 9:54 AM
Patrick said...
I guy I used to work with was in a guild called The Target Dummies. They had a sub-group called the Stunt Club. The Target Dummy Stunt Club would regularly find the tallest peaks and buildings in WoW and jump off of them. Some where out there is movies of these nuts jumping off shit.
1/03/2007 10:34 AM

Crack

I want to have my own flag. The National Flag of Evans... or the Personal Flag of Evans I guess, since I'm not a nation (yet). I don't know what this flag will look like -- feel free to suggest colors, patterns, and/or a design. I want to have lots of these flags. Small ones. The size that would fit nicely on a little stand on a desk. And I want to take the flags and carry them with me all the time. And every time someone bends over and I see buttcrack, I wanna pull out a flag, stick it in the crack, and proclaim, "I claim this crack in the name of Evans!" That'd be awesome. Watch your cracks.

Classy Lady

This is just a random idea. When I was out drinkin' in New York over Thanksgiving vacation, I thought of a new drink you could order called a "Classy Lady". Basically, you ask for a Classy Lady on your way out the door. You order the drink, the bartender puts down an empty glass and slaps you across the face. It's a good pick-me-up before you leave - sort of the reverse of a nightcap. You can order one on the rocks, or with a twist as well, if you're feeling particularly smart. I'd order 'em all the time. That way I wouldn't actually have to drink, but I could still order drinks at a bar, see? Takes all the work outta drinking, but you still get to have rosy cheeks!

FunFunFunFest

I went to FunFunFunFest yesterday. It ruled. There were a lot of good bands. I went for two reasons: first, I've been trying to catch The Octopus Project in concert and second, Quintron was playing. Quintron! Terrible/awesome! So, I got tickets for a mere $20, parked illegally (in front of a meter without paying), and went to the festival!First off, it was cold as a whore's heart. Pretty chilly. I went to a stand and ordered a cup of black bean soup. It was tasty. Then I enjoyed rocking the hell out to The Octopus Project. They weren't as good as I was expecting, but they were good. This was also the first time I've ever seen anyone play a theremin before. Very interesting to watch and listen to - the theremin is one freaky instrument!I went from there to go check out a band called the Applicators - an all-chick punk band - the name is no doubt a reference to a tampon applicator. I listened to them online before the show and thought they'd be good, but they weren't holding my attention.So, I wandered back over to the indie stage to listen to Dead Meadow (who I thought would suck, but I was wrong!) Dead Meadow looked like a bunch of losers - some long-hair flannel dirtbag and what appeared to be a stoned homeless dude/caveman. I don't even remember the bassist. But they ruled beyond belief! Long instrumentals, stoner rock at it's height, and the stoned caveman drummer was amazing. He looked like he was about to puke or fall off his throne, but his body moved independently from his face and head - it went crazy on the drums. Towards the end of the show, the caveman drummer smiled a few times with this almost infantile expression of delight at his own drumming. It was great. Definitely need to check them out later.After Dead Meadow, I headed back over the punk stage to check out the Lower Class Brats. They were fantastic! The lead singer was some skinny strung-out guy with a shirt that had two arrows on it: one pointing up that said "The Man" and one pointing down that said "The Legend". Hilarious. The bassist was a freakishly huge, pasty white beefcake dude dressed up like Alex from The Clockwork Orange. The show was straight up punk. There was moshing, punk style, with elbows flying and dudes slinging beer all over everyone. This is different from industrial/metal moshing, which is more pushing and charging and very little beer-wasting. In a punk pit, I expect you would get trampled, whereas metal pits are a little friendlier. It's weird - moshing subculture. Anyway, there was even a fight - so I consider that a damn successful punk show! The music was great - very energetic. I need to look these guys up too.Next I saw The Black Angels, but only for a minute. They seemed really good. Another band that I need to research further.I had to ditch the Black Angels to go so Quintron! Now, I got into Quintron through this weirdo that worked at Texas.Net in San Antonio back in the day. I think his name was Peter. Don't remember. I liked the dude. He was a strange duck, like myself. I believe I heard about Quintron through him, and I downloaded a few songs (very hard to find). This guy's music, as far as I was aware, was all super lo-fi terrible recordings with organ-heavy songs about Dungeons and Dragons and other obscure topics. It was great stuff. Terrible but great. So Quintron, somehow, is still around and comes to my town to play a show? Hell yeah I'm going! Fantastic show! The music was amazing. He kept talking about "when aliens invade" - he gave some girl in the audience a drum stick if she promised to use it to beat or otherwise defend the Earth from alien forces at some later date. There was lots of crowd participation. At one point he came down into the crowd and was walking around singing one of his songs to us. I doing a pathetic job describing it, but it was cool. Ya had to be there. Hmm. I guess a blog about music is kinda stupid without actually having music to listen to, so I think I'll end it.Oh, I saw Peaches too - crazy bitch. Somewhat entertaining, but mostly just a horny chick on stage singing about vibrators... eh...If this event occurs next year, I'll definitely go again.

Links Of The Day (LOTD)

Started a new blog just to throw day-to-day junk in: links, random thoughts, whatever. Here's the first post - a bunch of links I had on my desktop at work. I'm trying to clean it up so I can focus a little better.

• BarracudaDrive - a free file/web server for you home machine.
• Supreme Commander - the totally sweet (so I'm told) sequel to Total Annihilation.
• Mini vMac - old school Mac emulator.
• PortableApps Suite - a suite of web programs (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc) all designed to run from a USB key (so you don't have to dick up your friends' computers with a bunch of software they'll never be enlightened enough to understand anyway).
• Bootable USB Key - instructions on making a bootable USB key using Knoppix.
• QEMU - open source processor emuluator (essentially an open source VMWare).
• FreeOSZoo Project - a bunch of images of free operating systems for QEMU.
• Portable Virtual Privacy Machine - a virtual linux computer that runs on Windows, Linux, or Mac from a USB key with no install. Basically, a mini computer-within-a-computer that you can run on any machine that has a bunch of builtin crap that makes your web browsing anonymous. It's kinda neat, but kinda slow.
• Topaz - some funky sax player that's worked with Thievery Corp. Coincidentally, he's my co-worker's cousin and he lives two doors down from me. I haven't met him in person yet.
• Meebo - an awesome web-based instant messaging program that works with pretty much all IM networks.