Andre's NES Emulator

This... is amazing. I miss a lot of these games. I really do.  ¶ 2:46 AM

  ABC 33/40 E-WARN: Severe Thunderstorm Warning

From ABC 33/40 E-Warn:
WUUS54 KBMX 231922
SVRBMX
ALC127-232000-
/O.NEW.KBMX.SV.W.0266.060623T1922Z-060623T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
222 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 220 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF
PARRISH...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF CORDOVA...AND MOVING EAST AT
10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL SOUTHERN WALKER COUNTY AT 240 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3374 8731 3363 8736 3354 8724 3370 8708

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  ¶ 2:27 PM

  Yesterday, I did pretty much nothing all long. It was just one of those days where the TV seemed warm and cozy. Wait, I did do something. At 4 in the morning, I watched for the very first time an episode of Paranoia Agent. Thanks to wikipedia.org, the episode I watched is called Happy Family Planning. You can read about this episode here and more about Paranoia Agent here. A man, an old man, and a six year old girl who met online decide to met in real life to kill themselves in part of a suicide pact. Suicide is big in Japan because everything is big in Japan (more on internet suicide pacts here). The episode was funny and bizarre and entertaining on some weird level. I couldn't help but be creeped out by the big pink dogs with those big eyes. I kept waiting to figure out what the whole show was about, but that didn't happen in that episode. It ends with a close up of a vending machine that sells condoms and the translation on the screen was Happy Family Planning Extra-thin Condoms. I then turned it on the weather channel and went to sleep.

I haven't bought any anime in a long time. I keep planning to get that Matrix boxset thing. I did enjoy the Animatrix. Weta Workshop (Lord the Rings, King Kong) is working on Neon Genesis Evangelion the live action movie. NGE is just as important as Akira in the world of anime. I'm sure some people will hate the live action movie, but I'm kind of looking forward to it. I'm also looking forward to the live action Transformers movie. Remakes and alternate versions do not take away from the originals. Why not enjoy both? (my opinion may change depending on Rob Zombie's Halloween original-remake)

Original-remake will become a Hollywood buzz world. An original-remake is when somebody is basing a movie on a previous movie but doesn't use all of the original's plot. For example, the last Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. It had some characters from the original but didn't really follow the original at all. So, in effect, it's an original-remake.

Maybe original-remakes will move into music. Maybe somebody will do that to Billy Idol. Take a bit of his look and attitude, call themselves Billy Idol, and then come up with music that somewhat sounds like the original but not be the original recordings of Mr. Idol. Wow. I think KISS already did this with KISS music. You know. One of these days, Gene and Paul will realize that it's cheaper not to hire people to dress up like Peter and Ace and just use animatronics instead.  ¶ 2:09 AM

  I'm not really sure where to start. For I guess over two years, my grandfather has had cancer (it's located below his jaw on his throat). It's gone away and come back a few times. He did chemo a few times. He's had surgery. The last round of surgery wasn't all that great. They did a skin graft which didn't exactly work. Tuesday, he went to the doctor to see about another round of chemo. The doctors decided that there is no more treatment for my grandfather. They gave him six months to live.

Hospice people came to see him Tuesday night and again on Wednesday. They explained that he can not be left alone anymore. They even said not to leave my grandmother alone with him. So the family is going to start taking turns staying with them.

My grandfather, as if cancer wasn't enough, suffers from alzheimer's. Up to now, it hasn't been that big of a deal. Well, Wednesday, he became confused. That passed by evening. I'm not sure that had anything to do with alzheimer's but some say it does. He's on some pretty strong pain medication. He can no longer swallow the medication so they've switched to liquid pain medication. I think that may have had something to do with it.

Six months. While I know that there's really no telling when anybody is going to die, and that it's quiet possible that my grandfather live another ten years, I can't help but to think that he's not going to last six months. I had my doubts about him making it out of the hospital this last time. But everybody kept saying it's okay, he's fine, he'll come home soon. I don't think he's going to die over night, but his death is coming and probably sooner than most.

I'm not even going to try to misspell the type of cancer he has. I have it written down around here, but I can't seem to find it. Doesn't matter much. Cancer is cancer. As to it's cause, I don't ever remember him smoking, but he did dip tobacco up until a few years ago. I'm sure if I said that had anything to do with it I stand the chance of being sued. Dipping tobacco is weird. You keep this stuff in your mouth and then you have to spit this brown liquid out. They call it Dipping Snuff. Hmmm, what other definitions does the word "Snuff" have? I've only known two people who dipped snuff, my grandfather and my uncle Mark. Mark quit a long time ago. When I was a kid, I once went over to my grandparent's and found my uncle's tobacco. I wasn't a 100% sure what it was. I took it and stuffed it up a mounted deer's nose that was in the store room (I wonder what happened to that deer; I haven't seen it since.).

The game plan is to make my grandfather as comfortable as possible. Over time, he'll slowly weaken to the point of not being able to get out of bed. Then he'll die. But he's not there yet. And Wednesday, a lot of my family panicked. I guess hearing the doctors say there's nothing more to do did that. The doctors took him off a lot of medication. I personally think some of the medicine was making him sick. The hospice people even explain how he didn't have to take vitamins anymore. That's got to be pretty depressing to hear you don't have to take vitamins anymore. I hope they didn't say that in front of him.

Well... there you have it. I've been meaning to write this for a while. I just didn't feel like doing it. I decided to go ahead and do it instead of waiting to feel like doing it.  ¶ 1:47 AM

  Apple - Get a Mac - Watch The TV Ads

There's nothing like HD versions of TV Ads from Apple. These are among my favorite Apple Ads. No, I do not own a Mac. No, Apple is not paying me. Though, if they wish, they could supply with any Intel Based Mac, and I'll blog about how wonderful it is every day. I would also dual boot... Linux and OS X.  ¶ 1:49 AM

  Happy Birthday Damian! Here's to many more! Sanguis bebimus. Corpus edimus. Ave Satani!  ¶ 12:01 AM

  I added some crosses to my site. Can you see them?

These are rock lyrics:

Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Hard Rock Hallelujah!

The saints are crippled
On this sinners' night
Lost are the lambs with no guiding light

The walls come down like thunder
The rocks about to roll
ItÂ’s the Arockalypse
Now bare your soul

All we need is lightning
With power and might
Striking down the prophets of false
As the moon is rising
Give us the sign
Now let us rise up in awe

Rock and roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
Demons and angels all in one have arrived
Rock and roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
In God's creation supernatural high

The true believers
Thou shall be saved
Brothers and sisters keep strong in the faith
On the day of Rockoning
It's who dares, wins
You will see the jokers soon'll be the new kings

All we need is lightning
With power and might
Striking down the prophets of false
As the moon is rising
Give us the sign
Now let us rise up in awe

Rock and roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
Demons and angels all in one have arrived
Rock and roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
In God's creation supernatural high

Wings on my back
I got horns on my head
My fangs are sharp
And my eyes are red
Not quite an angel
Or the one that fell
Now choose to join us or go straight to Hell

Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Hard Rock Hallelujah!

Rock and roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
Demons and angels all in one have arrived
Rock and roll angels bring thyn hard rock hallelujah
In God's creation supernatural high

Hard Rock Hallelujah!

There are no better rock lyrics. Personally, I can't get Blood Red Sandman out of my head. I think that's pretty good with me being an American and Lordi being foreign band. But hey, what's more universal than rock. If only people in the middle east would realize that.  ¶ 4:09 AM

  There is no such thing as a third. Three thirds do not make a whole. 33% plus 33% plus 33% makes 99%. So, there is no such thing as a third. Please stop using it.

Yesterday, I stepped on something sharp and cut my right foot. I don't know what it was. I was in a hurry at the time. There's nothing more fun for walking and driving than a foot with a slice in it.

Dear Bill O'Reilly, US Soldiers did not kill unarmed S.S. Soldiers at Malmedy in WWII. S.S. Soldiers killed unarmed US Soldiers at Malmedy. O'Reilly said, "U.S. forces captured S.S. forces who had their hands in the air and were unarmed and they shot them dead, you know that. That's on the record. And documented." That is 180 degrees wrong. Wrong. Very very wrong. When confronted with the facts, O'Reilly said he meant to say Normandy. What?

O'Reilly brought up Malmedy up to possibly defend/explain the actions of US Soldiers in Haditha, Iraq. I don't want to say too much on Haditha until I know more, but it appears that US soldiers in retaliation of another soldier being killed actually killed men, women, and children in a town called Haditha. Bill O'Reilly was comparing those men, women, and children to Nazis that US Soldiers killed at Malmedy. Well, US Soldiers didn't do that. And well, maybe it's not the best thing in the world to compared women and children to Nazis to justify their deaths.

Bill O'Reilly is an uneducated blowhard who will do anything to be the one who tells certain people what they want to hear. When you actually have the time to look at some of the things O'Reilly has said over the years, you can't help but wonder why he hasn't been run out of town on a donkey. He constantly gets facts wrong. Constantly. And does anybody remember a few weeks ago when he threatened to call the police on people who called in and mentioned a competitor's name? It's no wonder why Dick Cheney requires his TVs in hotel rooms to be set to Faux News. Most of the newscasters there and especially O'Reilly see the world as the Bush administration wants the world to be. They, whoever they are, are out to get us. And we have to get them before they get us. And we can make a profit while we're doing it. And it's okay to do whatever it takes to do whatever it is we have to do to get those who are out to get us. And God is on our side as long as we are getting them. And everybody and anybody who disagrees with us are all wrong and unamerican and ungodly and gay. And if we can just get rid of the immigrants, homosexuals, and terrorists, then the perfect 1950's will be here again with red, white, and blue for all. One nation and world under the Conservative God with high profits for all white people. God bless American and the fair and balanced soldiers of propaganda central, Faux News.

Don't get me wrong. I don't think everybody at Fox is this way. I can't name one that's not, but I don't know everybody who works there. And I certainly don't think everybody who watches Fox News is an idiot. I do think that people who watch Bill O'Reilly are either brainwashed or idiots. Who knows the actual percentage on that. There's probably a third mixed in somewhere on that. I'm just tired of propaganda, the war, the spying, and attacks on Americans who speak up. We are not guilty of sedition just because we speak up.

Just for the record, Faux News omitted some of the statements of O'Reilly in their official transcript of his show. Also in the transcripts, Malmedy has been replaced with Normandy. That's what he meant to say after all. Gee, if only the Bush Administration can get somebody from Faux News to work for them they'd... oh wait, I forgot; Tony Snow is from Faux.  ¶ 4:34 PM