Games - If JC played WoW

This is from a chat on linkfilter:

Hugh2d2> My favorite Manah-Manah
r03> ROFLMAO!
* * * pneum0nic tries really hard not to laugh....
crataegus> That's fscked up, hugh. What's funnier is that they have "all glory and honor to Jesus Christ" at the end of that video, and they play WoW.
Hugh2d2> JC would play WoW. He'd be a holy spec priest of course.
r03> ah. same ol same ol
Hughd2> Unless he wanted to f' with some people... then he'd hava an undead warlock alt.
pneum0nic> if JC played WoW would he be horde?
pneum0nic> or alliance?
Hugh2d2> He'd play on a carebear server... he'd have alts on both sides
Hugh2d2> I don't see JC having a high PvP ranking
Hugh2d2> but I bet he'd dominate in capyure the flag matches
crataegus> Unless he was into that whole "vengeful jealous" mode...
crataegus> Jesus could hide the flag in his stigmata.
Hugh2d2> he'd be like *boop* speed hack! or *boop* walkin on water hack!
r03> ouch....waiting for lightning
Hugh2d2> his guild "Da Ap0stlz" would be like ROTFLMAO! JC pwnz u noobz!

Personal - Car accident

On the way home from the funeral yesterday, I was hit by a guy who was high on painkillers. No one was hurt, and there was minimal damage to the car, but it was terrifying.

My pregnant wife was asleep in the passenger seat. We were coming up on an on ramp and I had just taken the cruise control off. I saw a guy in a little black car coming up behind me but didn't pay too much attention. As he got up next to me, he drifted over into my lane and I laid into the horn. He never stopped coming over, and after he bounced off of me, he kept driving. my wife woke up and started freaking out. I was livid. He showed no signs of stopping so I was going to follow him.

All of a sudden, a red car came flying past me and got up next to him. There was a girl in the car and she was screaming and gesturing at the guy. I assumed he must have hit her as well. She got in front of him and basically forced him to pull over. She was out of the car and screaming at the guy before I even got out of my car.

I came out of the car ready to beat the guy senseless.

The guy got out and stumbled. I thought, "crap... He's drunk." The guy looked at his car and up at me and was totally confused. All this time the girl is still yelling at him.

She finally tells me that she's his girlfriend and that he's on prescription meds for a torn rotator cuff and she told him not to drive, but he did anyway. He's stumbling around so I turned him around and made him sit in his car. (I was afraid he'd stumble out into traffic and become road-paste.)

I get her to find his insurance card and I go back and call the cops. He basically passes out in the drivers seat.

My wife stepped out of the car and the girlfriend sees that my wife is pregnant and she melts down. She starts screaming at the guy all over again.

The cops get there and I tell them what happened, they take pictures and statements and the girlfriend left. (She was on her way to work.) I asked the cop and he assured me the guy was going nowhere in his condition.

The best possible thing that could have happened to that guy was bumping my car. He could have killed himself or worse, someone else.

Personal - Rest well, G.O.M.

My godfather died.

I have to go to his funeral tomorrow.

He taught me what it meant to be a man, how to live up to my responsibilities, how to be a better friend. He did that all without ever telling me how to do it... he just lived that way.

He was a very faithful catholic and I hope that faith gave him comfort near the end.

I'll miss him terribly.

Geek - I think I found the Geek Holy Trinity

The KC Comicon this year will feature what could be the nexus of Geek... Darth Vader, Apollo and JIM FREAKIN' LEE!

(That's David Prowse, Richard Hatch and JIM FREAKIN' LEE for the non-geek crowd.)

Media - If it bleeds, it leads

I think I'm pissed at MSNBC for airing the videos and pics from Psycho-Cho.

It's salt in the wounds of Virginia Tech and reeks of sensationalism.

EDIT:

Once again, I can't put into words what others can...

So Mr. Cho gets his fifteen minutes. The question bewildering journalism observers--why'd he send his goodie bag to NBC News?--has an easy answer: it was in gratitude for their firing of Imus.
Not so easy is the answer to the question: what is the possible journalistic explanation for splashing Cho's self-dramatizing poses and self-justifying bullshit over network and cable air? Did we learn anything useful during the spate of interviews of Charlie Manson years ago, except that he was one crazy motherfucker? Cho's pathetic outpourings deserved to be put back where they came from--in a small room, with FBI guys sentenced to read/see and parse them Instead, a hundred thousand self-pitying mentally ill young men (and women?) have just been shown the road to glory one more time. A society in which it's easier to become famous for killing people than for doing something useful or constructive is one remarkable place in which to live.

via HuffPost - Harry Shearer

Personal - Wednesday data dump

What's on the droids mind this week?

Baby boy on the way... he's gonna need a name.
Must sell house.
Must find new house.
Zero day exploits sure are a P.I.T.A..
Trip to Boston for training.
Proud of my nephew.
Documentation sure would be nice.

Tech - I'm lucky this email attachment came in or I'd have no idea I was infected!

"There's no patch for stupidity." - Unknown, but very wise.

Media - Who said what now? I'm offended!

Was Imus wrong to use those words? Yeah.
Is it as bad as the media is making it out? No.

Had any of the Rutgers team EVER listened to Imus? Probably not.
Had any of the Rutgers team ever listened to gangsta rap? Most likely.

Is a dumb, old, white guy with a comedy radio show a real threat because he used a distasteful phrase? Nope.
Are mainstream, black rappers and hip-hop artists who glamorize prisonand drugs, mock getting an education and condone beating and degrading women a threat? Yes.

Will Imus lose his job over the comments? Yeah.
Will "Half-Dollar-Cube-Killa" lose his recording contract for his lyrics? Nope.

Common sense - 0, Victimization - 1.