Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Kittens!
It's spring time and with spring time comes newborn animals and with newborn animals comes KITTENS! We have three cute little kitties this year--an orange one, a calico one, and a gray & white one. Check out the pictures of these little critters or watch this video I took of them (note: I think you need the latest Divx codec to watch it).
Friday, May 27, 2005
Dumb, Dumb Domino's
For my money’s worth, the north Domino’s Pizza here in Rochester is the most incompetently run food establishment that I have ever dealt with. Today only hammered the fact home. I had long suspected that there was absolutely no one of any quality working there and today it was confirmed.
Often on Fridays at work my fellow co-workers and myself will put in an order of pizzas for lunch. Domino’s medium pizzas for $5 a piece when you order 3 or more is such a great deal that it just makes too much sense NOT to order pizza at least once a week.
It hasn’t always been bad experiences, but a lot of the time is has been. One time they screwed up all of the toppings but had the labels on the boxes right while another time they screwed up the labels but had the pizzas right. The second scenario was much easier to rectify back at work than the first. Often it will take dozens of rings when calling them before they pick up and giving your order is always a rough experience. None of this is overly terrible to tell you the truth. Sure, getting wrong pizzas is annoying, but we eventually got the right ones and even got a free pizza out of the deal.
Today, however, I experienced true incompetence. I called to order at 11:00 this morning so we could eat at 11:30 or so, much like we always do. No answer. I try at 11:15. No answer. I actually drive across the road to see if their phones are just not working and see that there are no lights on at the place and no one is there. Wondering what is going on, I call the south Domino’s. The guy that answers hardly speaks our language and after hearing my plight tells me that he’ll check into it. Before I can even respond to him he hangs up on me.
He never calls me back and hoping for a miracle I call the north Domino’s again. No one there. I call the south Domino’s back again and get told that the manager of the north location can’t be located, that the south Domino’s won’t deliver to us, and that they’re sorry for the situation. Awesome.
I call the north Domino’s one last time, crossing my fingers in the hopes that by some act of God a worker will have showed up. Sure enough, someone was finally there. It was now noon. I put in my order and went over to pick it up at 12:20. As I pick up my pizzas I tell the cashier, “Did you know that no one was here this morning and that you had customers calling to put in orders?”
“Umm… yeah.”
“Well, I had wanted to order pizzas at 11:00 and I even drove over here to see if it was a problem with the phone when I saw no one was here. My co-workers and myself wanted these pizzas about an hour ago.”
“Uhh… yeah, sorry. That’ll be $26.”
At this point I had to embellish a little if I wanted cheaper pizzas because I was bound and determined to make it worth my effort for wasting the time I did this morning. While he looked at me emptily I told him, “These pizzas were for a business meeting that is now over. My clients had nothing to eat during the meeting.”
“Umm… I can discount you some.”
I figured that would be good enough for me, so we ended up getting pizzas for half off which meant that each pizza was only $2.50, which all of my co-workers were quite happy about. I was pissed about the wasted time, but at least we finally got our food. Hopefully in the future Domino’s won’t hire complete and utter ass-clowns as workers. It’d also be nice if they axed the current employee roster since they are as far from competent as Pluto is from the sun.
Oh, just so you know, free comic book month is continuing, I just haven’t put together the latest winners. Don’t worry, they’re coming!!!
Often on Fridays at work my fellow co-workers and myself will put in an order of pizzas for lunch. Domino’s medium pizzas for $5 a piece when you order 3 or more is such a great deal that it just makes too much sense NOT to order pizza at least once a week.
It hasn’t always been bad experiences, but a lot of the time is has been. One time they screwed up all of the toppings but had the labels on the boxes right while another time they screwed up the labels but had the pizzas right. The second scenario was much easier to rectify back at work than the first. Often it will take dozens of rings when calling them before they pick up and giving your order is always a rough experience. None of this is overly terrible to tell you the truth. Sure, getting wrong pizzas is annoying, but we eventually got the right ones and even got a free pizza out of the deal.
Today, however, I experienced true incompetence. I called to order at 11:00 this morning so we could eat at 11:30 or so, much like we always do. No answer. I try at 11:15. No answer. I actually drive across the road to see if their phones are just not working and see that there are no lights on at the place and no one is there. Wondering what is going on, I call the south Domino’s. The guy that answers hardly speaks our language and after hearing my plight tells me that he’ll check into it. Before I can even respond to him he hangs up on me.
He never calls me back and hoping for a miracle I call the north Domino’s again. No one there. I call the south Domino’s back again and get told that the manager of the north location can’t be located, that the south Domino’s won’t deliver to us, and that they’re sorry for the situation. Awesome.
I call the north Domino’s one last time, crossing my fingers in the hopes that by some act of God a worker will have showed up. Sure enough, someone was finally there. It was now noon. I put in my order and went over to pick it up at 12:20. As I pick up my pizzas I tell the cashier, “Did you know that no one was here this morning and that you had customers calling to put in orders?”
“Umm… yeah.”
“Well, I had wanted to order pizzas at 11:00 and I even drove over here to see if it was a problem with the phone when I saw no one was here. My co-workers and myself wanted these pizzas about an hour ago.”
“Uhh… yeah, sorry. That’ll be $26.”
At this point I had to embellish a little if I wanted cheaper pizzas because I was bound and determined to make it worth my effort for wasting the time I did this morning. While he looked at me emptily I told him, “These pizzas were for a business meeting that is now over. My clients had nothing to eat during the meeting.”
“Umm… I can discount you some.”
I figured that would be good enough for me, so we ended up getting pizzas for half off which meant that each pizza was only $2.50, which all of my co-workers were quite happy about. I was pissed about the wasted time, but at least we finally got our food. Hopefully in the future Domino’s won’t hire complete and utter ass-clowns as workers. It’d also be nice if they axed the current employee roster since they are as far from competent as Pluto is from the sun.
Oh, just so you know, free comic book month is continuing, I just haven’t put together the latest winners. Don’t worry, they’re coming!!!
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Still Adjusting
When I was first promoted to the position of business analyst a little over a month ago, I thought that not a lot would really change from when I was just the company’s technical writer. At first there wasn’t a lot of changes, but now I’m starting to realize all the extra stuff that comes with the position… and I’m not even fully into the role yet.
The first major difference is the scope of the tasks I have. As a technical writer I usually had one or two projects that I was working on at any one time (usually only one) and they were pretty large in scope. I’d have a manual to write or release notes to put together or something of that nature. It was easy to stay focused on one thing because I only really had one thing to do.
Now, I have so many small things to keep track of. Dealing with customer needs and wants, putting together software requirements, creating mock-ups, continuing to do a lot of my technical writing work from before (since they didn’t hire anyone to take up that position after I vacated it), and tons of other little things now make everything about this position a little more hectic.
The other thing that I’m getting used to is having to go to meetings. In the past I never really had a need to go to them, but now they’re used for all kinds of different aspects of my job. I don’t really mind them, but at times it makes it hard to get what you need done done since there’s less hours in a day to do it. I guess I haven’t gotten into the habit of adding in the extra time meetings take when gauging how long it will take me to get a task accomplished.
What I do really like about this new position is the variety of things that I do get to do. No longer am I relegated to writing tasks. I still do that, but I also get to interface with customers, interact with the co-workers on my team more, do some graphic design, decide project specifications, and simply communicate with people more.
I’m sure it’ll only get more hectic as time goes on, but hopefully I’ll become more acclimated to the hustle and bustle by that time. Who knows, maybe I’ll actually get good at what I’m doing and learn to turn the heavier workload into something that actually benefits me. Crazier things have happened.
The first major difference is the scope of the tasks I have. As a technical writer I usually had one or two projects that I was working on at any one time (usually only one) and they were pretty large in scope. I’d have a manual to write or release notes to put together or something of that nature. It was easy to stay focused on one thing because I only really had one thing to do.
Now, I have so many small things to keep track of. Dealing with customer needs and wants, putting together software requirements, creating mock-ups, continuing to do a lot of my technical writing work from before (since they didn’t hire anyone to take up that position after I vacated it), and tons of other little things now make everything about this position a little more hectic.
The other thing that I’m getting used to is having to go to meetings. In the past I never really had a need to go to them, but now they’re used for all kinds of different aspects of my job. I don’t really mind them, but at times it makes it hard to get what you need done done since there’s less hours in a day to do it. I guess I haven’t gotten into the habit of adding in the extra time meetings take when gauging how long it will take me to get a task accomplished.
What I do really like about this new position is the variety of things that I do get to do. No longer am I relegated to writing tasks. I still do that, but I also get to interface with customers, interact with the co-workers on my team more, do some graphic design, decide project specifications, and simply communicate with people more.
I’m sure it’ll only get more hectic as time goes on, but hopefully I’ll become more acclimated to the hustle and bustle by that time. Who knows, maybe I’ll actually get good at what I’m doing and learn to turn the heavier workload into something that actually benefits me. Crazier things have happened.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
My First Ever Trip to the ER
Yes, I know it’s been pretty silent here for a bit, but there has been good reason—my first ever trip to the emergency room of a hospital. Sunday morning was a rough, rough morning for me. As soon as I awoke, I was greeted with an overpowering feeling of nausea. Minutes later most of what I had eaten the day before was staring back at me from the bottom of a toilet bowl. I figured that I must have eaten something bad the night before, which I most likely did, but I never figured that the puking would continue.
About 15 minutes after my first puking experience I was back in the bathroom hunched over the same bowl upchucking what was left of the food in my stomach. I must have eaten something really icky and it took two tries to get it all out. I should have been fine… but that was just the start.
I actually ended up vomiting four more times before I called Kristin to see what I should do. Her mom is a nurse so if anyone could help I knew she could. She told me to give it a little while to see if it quit and to try to drink some water. If I couldn’t quit vomiting, I should head to the hospital.
After I broke into double digits for the number of times I’d puked, I knew I needed to go in. Thankfully, Burns was around to drive me in. On our way in I only managed to chunder once, and by that time there wasn’t really much in the realm of content in my puke. It was mostly liquid if anything at all.
Once they got me into the ER, they took my vitals and found that I was orthostatic and severely dehydrated from all the puking. They hooked me up to an IV and pumped me full of anti-nausea medication and two full bags of fluids throughout the afternoon. Once they started my IV and got some drugs into me I finally quit puking and could function again.
I was pretty weak throughout the day and felt like ass. Thankfully it wasn’t anything more serious than some bad food poisoning, but nonetheless it was NOT a fun experience. Food is still somewhat unappealing to me, but I’m working my way back to wanting to eat again.
So if you were wondering why it’s been quiet on the blogging front, well, now you know!
About 15 minutes after my first puking experience I was back in the bathroom hunched over the same bowl upchucking what was left of the food in my stomach. I must have eaten something really icky and it took two tries to get it all out. I should have been fine… but that was just the start.
I actually ended up vomiting four more times before I called Kristin to see what I should do. Her mom is a nurse so if anyone could help I knew she could. She told me to give it a little while to see if it quit and to try to drink some water. If I couldn’t quit vomiting, I should head to the hospital.
After I broke into double digits for the number of times I’d puked, I knew I needed to go in. Thankfully, Burns was around to drive me in. On our way in I only managed to chunder once, and by that time there wasn’t really much in the realm of content in my puke. It was mostly liquid if anything at all.
Once they got me into the ER, they took my vitals and found that I was orthostatic and severely dehydrated from all the puking. They hooked me up to an IV and pumped me full of anti-nausea medication and two full bags of fluids throughout the afternoon. Once they started my IV and got some drugs into me I finally quit puking and could function again.
I was pretty weak throughout the day and felt like ass. Thankfully it wasn’t anything more serious than some bad food poisoning, but nonetheless it was NOT a fun experience. Food is still somewhat unappealing to me, but I’m working my way back to wanting to eat again.
So if you were wondering why it’s been quiet on the blogging front, well, now you know!
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Free Comic Book Month -- Day Twelve Through Fourteen
It's been a few days since I've released winners, so here are some more! For anyone still interested, I haven't even received enough entries to fill up the entire month, so I'm pretty sure if you enter, you'll win something!
Danny gets free comics because:
"I'm submitting my FCBD entry because I've been wanting to get into comics and graphical novels for a while and I haven't known where to start. Anything good for someone just starting out would be great. I like the normal geeky stuff, LOTR, sci-fi, HHGG, superheroes, etc."
You will receive:
My Name is Chaos #1-4 (a four issue DC prestige mini focusing on an interesting new sci-fi story)
Ragamuffins #1 (who doesn't love a comic names "ragamuffins"?)
Metaphysique #2 (interesting mystical story from Norm Breyfogle)
Red gets free comics because:
"I'm an avid collector & I love comics in general."
You will receive:
American Flagg #7, 11, 12, 38, 43, 48 (a great cross-section of the groundbreaking series created by Howard Chaykin)
Captain Paragon #1 (just because)
Chris gets free comics because:
"It's FCBD and I'm swamped with grading and classwork because it's the weekend before finals and I can't go get free comics, even though they're free, because I have no free time, which is not really free, when you think about it. Knowing that free comics are on the way will buoy me through finals and help carry me into the promised land of summer."
You will receive:
Showcase '94 #10 (I miss titles like this that have tons of characters in their series run)
End Times #1 (captivating Latino noir)
LEGION '93 #49 (DC's cosmic superheroes always seemed so much superior to Marvel's)
Steampunk #9 (Chris Bachalo's pencils are a marvel to behold)
Vigilante: City Lights, Prairie Justice #1, 3 (modern DC western!)
Darkhawk #15 (just because)
Enjoy! Remember, there's still a ton of comics left to give out, just go here. Tell your friends!
Danny gets free comics because:
"I'm submitting my FCBD entry because I've been wanting to get into comics and graphical novels for a while and I haven't known where to start. Anything good for someone just starting out would be great. I like the normal geeky stuff, LOTR, sci-fi, HHGG, superheroes, etc."
You will receive:
My Name is Chaos #1-4 (a four issue DC prestige mini focusing on an interesting new sci-fi story)
Ragamuffins #1 (who doesn't love a comic names "ragamuffins"?)
Metaphysique #2 (interesting mystical story from Norm Breyfogle)
Red gets free comics because:
"I'm an avid collector & I love comics in general."
You will receive:
American Flagg #7, 11, 12, 38, 43, 48 (a great cross-section of the groundbreaking series created by Howard Chaykin)
Captain Paragon #1 (just because)
Chris gets free comics because:
"It's FCBD and I'm swamped with grading and classwork because it's the weekend before finals and I can't go get free comics, even though they're free, because I have no free time, which is not really free, when you think about it. Knowing that free comics are on the way will buoy me through finals and help carry me into the promised land of summer."
You will receive:
Showcase '94 #10 (I miss titles like this that have tons of characters in their series run)
End Times #1 (captivating Latino noir)
LEGION '93 #49 (DC's cosmic superheroes always seemed so much superior to Marvel's)
Steampunk #9 (Chris Bachalo's pencils are a marvel to behold)
Vigilante: City Lights, Prairie Justice #1, 3 (modern DC western!)
Darkhawk #15 (just because)
Enjoy! Remember, there's still a ton of comics left to give out, just go here. Tell your friends!
Friday, May 20, 2005
The End of an Era
It was bound to happen eventually and last night was the night it did. Reggie Miller has played his last game as an NBA player and with his retirement goes a small part of me. Miller has always been my favorite NBA player and will always hold a place in my heart as the personification of what the NBA is--basketball with attitude.
The NBA is a lot different than college hoops. In college you have teams that have come together because of teamwork, good coaching, and tons of effort. The NBA is a playground for the immensely talented showboaters of the sport of basketball. For this reason a lot of people hate the NBA, but I've always enjoyed a little bit of the cockiness and attitude of the NBA and no one embodied that "I'm going to kick some ass and I know it" attitude than Reggie Miller.
I initially got to becoming a Miller fan when I was quite young and Miller was just finding himself in the NBA. My Grandpa Eddie was a huge sports fan and had decided to buy a satellite dish so that he could watch more sports than were available on the 3 stations he could get out in the country. He bought one of those gigantic satellites that looked like they belonged on a spacecraft of some kind and before I knew it, there was more sports available to watch than I could find time to watch with him.
Sports, especially basketball, was the strongest bond that I shared with my grandfather and to this day every NBA game I watch I think of him and remember sitting in the living room of his house, a mile down the road from where I live, cheering at the television. I'm not sure why it happened, but both my grandpa and I became big Indiana Pacers fans, which was kind of weird considering we lived in Minnesota. Whenever we had the chance we'd watch Indiana play and marvel at how a scrawny, 160 pound guard could do what he did against so many physically superior players and still remain confident.
There are so many "Reggie moments" that I remember. Giving Spike Lee the choking gesture when he was playing the Knicks. Hitting more buzzer-beating, game-winning three pointers than I can count. His rivalry with the Knicks and John Starks in particular. His trademark gaze into the crowd after making a huge shot. It'll be weird not having him in the league any more, and it's also a little sad that he had to hang it up in a year when the Pacers were marred by so much controversy and negative attention.
Even with his retirement, some things won't change. Whenever I play basketball, I'll still always imagine myself as him putting in the last second three pointer for the win. I'll always argue that Miller would be more dependable in the clutch than Jordan (much to Eaton's fury). I'll always remember him whenever I see Indiana play, and I'll always treasure all of the time that I spent with my grandpa watching Miller strut his stuff. I'll miss Reggie, but I hope that retirement treats him well. I don't know if I'll have nearly as much interest in the NBA now that he's not a part of it, but at least I'll always have the memories.
The NBA is a lot different than college hoops. In college you have teams that have come together because of teamwork, good coaching, and tons of effort. The NBA is a playground for the immensely talented showboaters of the sport of basketball. For this reason a lot of people hate the NBA, but I've always enjoyed a little bit of the cockiness and attitude of the NBA and no one embodied that "I'm going to kick some ass and I know it" attitude than Reggie Miller.
I initially got to becoming a Miller fan when I was quite young and Miller was just finding himself in the NBA. My Grandpa Eddie was a huge sports fan and had decided to buy a satellite dish so that he could watch more sports than were available on the 3 stations he could get out in the country. He bought one of those gigantic satellites that looked like they belonged on a spacecraft of some kind and before I knew it, there was more sports available to watch than I could find time to watch with him.
Sports, especially basketball, was the strongest bond that I shared with my grandfather and to this day every NBA game I watch I think of him and remember sitting in the living room of his house, a mile down the road from where I live, cheering at the television. I'm not sure why it happened, but both my grandpa and I became big Indiana Pacers fans, which was kind of weird considering we lived in Minnesota. Whenever we had the chance we'd watch Indiana play and marvel at how a scrawny, 160 pound guard could do what he did against so many physically superior players and still remain confident.
There are so many "Reggie moments" that I remember. Giving Spike Lee the choking gesture when he was playing the Knicks. Hitting more buzzer-beating, game-winning three pointers than I can count. His rivalry with the Knicks and John Starks in particular. His trademark gaze into the crowd after making a huge shot. It'll be weird not having him in the league any more, and it's also a little sad that he had to hang it up in a year when the Pacers were marred by so much controversy and negative attention.
Even with his retirement, some things won't change. Whenever I play basketball, I'll still always imagine myself as him putting in the last second three pointer for the win. I'll always argue that Miller would be more dependable in the clutch than Jordan (much to Eaton's fury). I'll always remember him whenever I see Indiana play, and I'll always treasure all of the time that I spent with my grandpa watching Miller strut his stuff. I'll miss Reggie, but I hope that retirement treats him well. I don't know if I'll have nearly as much interest in the NBA now that he's not a part of it, but at least I'll always have the memories.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
New Toy!
I did it. I bought a new digital camera. I couldn't help myself, it's in my blood. My mom is a professional photographer after all! For the last few years I've been using my Olympus 2 megapixel camera and it's been doing a decent job, but it didn't have all of the options I wanted, it sometimes took unclear pictures, the resolution was relatively low for large prints, and it didn't do video. I've been wanting to take more pictures and try doing some artistic digital manipulation, but the pictures from my old camera just couldn't cut it. My other camera was also bulky so I couldn't just stick in a pocket and go. This has all changed as I just bought the beauty you see below--the Canon SD400.
I'm not going to try to sell you on this camera, but from the reviews I've read and from the playing around I've done with the display models at both Staples and Best Buy, this is a pretty fine camera, especially for being so damn tiny! This thing is absolutely teenie in comparison to my old camera and my mom's SLR digital. It's about the size of a deck of cards, but it has more features than most camera's twice its size (and price).
It does video with sound, which will be really nice. It's 5 megapixels so I can make big prints. It has a plethora of manual settings so I can actually customize how the pictures will look instead of hoping my camera takes a decent looking pic of what I'm pointing it at. It's sturdy and made of metal components so it doesn't feel like I'll break it by putting it in my pocket. It has just about everything I could want and it comes in a tiny package!
There are a few small drawbacks. I've heard the LCD is a little more fragile than those found in some other cameras, so I'll have to be kind of careful with that. It only came with a 16 meg memory card which will only hold like 8-9 pictures when you are taking them at the highest resolution and sensitivity. This wasn't a real problem, though, since I bought it at Staples this week and they are giving out free 256 mb cards with this model (and I used a 12% off coupon for even more savings). I might look into getting a 1 gb card so I can take longer movies, but that all depends on how often I'll want to do movies.
I'm anxious to play around with this little guy and see what he can do. If anyone else has used this model, let me know what you think. Also, if you're looking for a cheap 2 megapixel camera with a gigantic memory card, let me know. I'm looking to get rid of mine and would rather not go through ebay.
It does video with sound, which will be really nice. It's 5 megapixels so I can make big prints. It has a plethora of manual settings so I can actually customize how the pictures will look instead of hoping my camera takes a decent looking pic of what I'm pointing it at. It's sturdy and made of metal components so it doesn't feel like I'll break it by putting it in my pocket. It has just about everything I could want and it comes in a tiny package!
There are a few small drawbacks. I've heard the LCD is a little more fragile than those found in some other cameras, so I'll have to be kind of careful with that. It only came with a 16 meg memory card which will only hold like 8-9 pictures when you are taking them at the highest resolution and sensitivity. This wasn't a real problem, though, since I bought it at Staples this week and they are giving out free 256 mb cards with this model (and I used a 12% off coupon for even more savings). I might look into getting a 1 gb card so I can take longer movies, but that all depends on how often I'll want to do movies.
I'm anxious to play around with this little guy and see what he can do. If anyone else has used this model, let me know what you think. Also, if you're looking for a cheap 2 megapixel camera with a gigantic memory card, let me know. I'm looking to get rid of mine and would rather not go through ebay.
Autoviolet - Autoviolet EP CD Review
Even though there weren’t a ton of copycats, there were some and, as I’m sure you can guess by now, Autoviolet are one of the few that cropped up. With this being an independently released EP, you can’t expect anything near the level of production that a major label band would have, but for the most part this EP comes off very professional sounding. Even with a professional feel, the EP is ultimately underwhelming.
Utilizing a basic hard rock / metal approach, augmenting it with electronics, and finishing it off with melodic female vocals, Autoviolet create a release that is easily listenable, but lacking anything to really bring a listener back for repeated listens. There are positives to this disc, don’t get me wrong, but they aren’t enough to overcome the average nature of the rest of the effort.
One song will stand out amongst the rest—“Fragment Mind”. In drastic opposition to the rest of the songs on this cd, “Fragment Mind” has a poppy and jazzy feel for the first half of the song with a swagger to it that makes you wish the rest of the cd would follow its pattern. Once the middle of the song is reached, though, the band falls back into the basic emotional rock trappings that define most of their songs.
The final track, “No More Now” also takes on a jazzy, flowing feel throughout which sets it apart from the rest of the songs, but at times the song feels a little too basic. This doesn’t subtract from its vibrancy, but the transitions made throughout the song to using distorted guitars in favor of the already established funky flow do take away from it.
If Autoviolet were to focus less on the blasé rock elements of their sound and give more attention to the potential eclectic-ness that they possess, we’d be in for a heck of a jazzy-electo-funktastic-rock treat, but until they break out of the trappings that are holding them down, they won’t be able to create a name for themselves in such a crowded musical arena.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Free Comic Book Month -- Day Ten and Eleven
I'm a little behind so here are today's and Monday's winners!
Hannah gets free comics because:
"Hi, great contest. Thinking about comics I enjoyed and then trying to narrow the field down gave me some kind of acid-like flashback to my barely-pre-adolescent psychological outlook and general thought process. An odd experience, to say the least. So, in addition to my entry in the contest, please find a bill from the local mental-health institution. People became concerned by my re-found Rain Man-like obsessive collecting of every single 80's Xmen miniseries: they became insistent an in-patient stay when they found I'd purchased duplicate copies of, "Kitty Pryde & Wolverine," "Havoc & Wolverine," and "storm & Xavier.""
Hopefully some free comics helps heal your mental state!
You receive:
Dark Wolf #1-4 (demonic superhero action!)
New Triumph featuring Northguard #1 (Canadian superhero action!)
Savage Combat Tales #2 (military action from 1975!)
War Dancer #1 (Aztec superhero action!)
Jason gets free comics because:
"These free comics would not be for me but for my good friend who is currently stuck on his parents' couch for the next 2 months because of a broken leg. Not a good place for any 23 year old male. He broke his leg when our band was about to play our first gig at a house party. The cops raided and, while running he jumped a fence and it broke, he fell and broke his fibula. He has no insurance so he is screwed. So, these comics would be to help him keep a little bit of his sanity during his time stuck on the couch."
Man, that is terribly crappy. I hope he enjoys the free comics coming his way.
You receive:
Star Trek #30-32, 35 (from when Star Trek didn't suck, which means they came out before Voyager)
Iron Man Annual #13 (ol' shellhead kicks ass for 64 pages)
Knights on Broadway #1 (some crazy sci-fi)
Star Seed #9 (sci-fi superhero combo)
Enjoy! Remember, there's still a ton of comics left to give out, just go here. Tell your friends! There aren't a whole lot of entries so your chances are pretty good if you enter...
Hannah gets free comics because:
"Hi, great contest. Thinking about comics I enjoyed and then trying to narrow the field down gave me some kind of acid-like flashback to my barely-pre-adolescent psychological outlook and general thought process. An odd experience, to say the least. So, in addition to my entry in the contest, please find a bill from the local mental-health institution. People became concerned by my re-found Rain Man-like obsessive collecting of every single 80's Xmen miniseries: they became insistent an in-patient stay when they found I'd purchased duplicate copies of, "Kitty Pryde & Wolverine," "Havoc & Wolverine," and "storm & Xavier.""
Hopefully some free comics helps heal your mental state!
You receive:
Dark Wolf #1-4 (demonic superhero action!)
New Triumph featuring Northguard #1 (Canadian superhero action!)
Savage Combat Tales #2 (military action from 1975!)
War Dancer #1 (Aztec superhero action!)
Jason gets free comics because:
"These free comics would not be for me but for my good friend who is currently stuck on his parents' couch for the next 2 months because of a broken leg. Not a good place for any 23 year old male. He broke his leg when our band was about to play our first gig at a house party. The cops raided and, while running he jumped a fence and it broke, he fell and broke his fibula. He has no insurance so he is screwed. So, these comics would be to help him keep a little bit of his sanity during his time stuck on the couch."
Man, that is terribly crappy. I hope he enjoys the free comics coming his way.
You receive:
Star Trek #30-32, 35 (from when Star Trek didn't suck, which means they came out before Voyager)
Iron Man Annual #13 (ol' shellhead kicks ass for 64 pages)
Knights on Broadway #1 (some crazy sci-fi)
Star Seed #9 (sci-fi superhero combo)
Enjoy! Remember, there's still a ton of comics left to give out, just go here. Tell your friends! There aren't a whole lot of entries so your chances are pretty good if you enter...
My World View
 | You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis.
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