Mentally Cracked

  You've probably noticed I link to Cracked every so often.

Look, I did it again!

Just for fun, I decided to go back and add a picture. From the future!

I don't mean to spam pictures, but I decided I needed to meta-blog.

  I absolutely loved Cracked, as anyone who's facebook friends with me will tell you.

So that's why it's called Cracked.

Anyway, a question I get from a lot of people (see: one, occasionally two) is, "Why don't you go write for Cracked? You read it enough and you're style has become basically the same."

  I'm sitting here at 2 am thinking about that as usual, and I realize, it's because I don't know anything. Take what I'm reading right now for instance. I don't know anything about wars, technology, movies, any of that stuff. I know obscure things, like Norse mythology and comics. There are a few things I would consider posting, like my Widgets for America post, but it's already been written, and in the writer's forum they ask that you just link to your blog, rather than post it on both because they technically buy the rights from you. Soren Bowie writes blogs, but he's one of the head writers, so I don't think you can just submit a blog like his. Beginners either write for the Funny pages or submit the listed articles like I linked to above. C'est la vie I suppose.

Red Ring of Ragnarok

This whole, '11 thing is messing me up.

  So last weekend, Friday, I was obsessively refreshing my Amazon account to see if Red Dead Redemption had been delivered yet. It did, and I got home that evening to boot up the game and allow badassery to commence. I was trying to be calm and not rush into it, I even finished my Twitter blog! I get my xbox 360 set up and whatnot, load the game into the system, get it installing the update off the CD aaaaaand... Error 79. I looked it up, I played around with the thing, and the best I could come up with was Youtube telling me to basically tear it to shreds and rebuild a ghetto Million Dollar Man at the cost of 20 cents. The thing is shot and I'm pretty sure the fans are dying, so I put it on eBay and got a new one. It's fancy, because they put the fan on top where it hopefully won't get blocked, which you think would have been a good idea in the first place. The price also came down by almost a hundred bucks and it's got 230 more gigabytes. I'm not trying to sell the 360, I just like how this is 3 years later, and I'm probably a year or so away from the next xbox system. The trouble is, I can't imagine what I'm going to do with 230 more GB. I wasn't even close to filling the first hard drive. Also, I've developed a ridiculous case of pre-buyer's remorse. I don't regret buying the console, I like it, it's just that I'm worried that I'll develop buyer's remorse. Because that is how I roll.