Remember when MTV played full-length music videos?  Or are you so young that you didn’t even know it did that?  If so, get the fuck out. MTV is a joke now. To prove that MTV and all it stands for is even more of a joke, I present to you the European Music Awards. Current nominees for “Best Act Ever” include Britney Spear, Christina Aguilera, Green Day, Rick Astley and Tokio Hotel.  As pointed out by Wired’s Listening Post, it’s easy to see that more deserving groups, such as The Rolling Stones are left off the list.

So the stand out of the list is Rick Astley.  Good thing he’s on there, as the EMAs is having an online poll to allow visitors to the site the chance to vote for the winners.  This is great, especially because the site allows for unlimited voting.  So guess who the internet is trying to get to win?

Rick Astley.

Click that link and you’ll be taken to a site that has information (including automated scripts) to allow you to vote automatically an unlimited number of times. The easiest for most people to use will be the RickVoter. Or be like me and open up the link in 5 windows and let it run in the background. In the past 24 hours, I’ve voted for him at least 15,000 times.  Whewps!

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Hey yo, fat girl, c’mere; are you ticklish? Yeah, I called you fat, look at me, I’m skinny. It ain’t ever stopped me from getting busy. — Digital Underground

So I keep hearing about how we’re a fat society and whatnot, but I never really gave it much thought other than agreeing with the notion. Last night, however, I finally found the proof in the pudding. Velveeta mac & cheese that includes bacon bits.

Now, I’m a proponent of bacon, as I love the flavor. But I’ve noticed recently that bacon seems to be getting added to more items. The local Taco Cabana at my food court will add bacon to just about any item for an extra 99 cents. But as I’ve been told repeatedly, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.  And to prove the point, here are some things to think about:

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The other day, I decided to check out the RMo states.  You know, bandwidth, unused databases, file storage, etc.  I noticed that one of our e-mail addresses had 250 MBs in the inbox.  Wtf?  Sure, it was the e-mail account we use to collect e-mails for invalid @rain-man.org addresses, but how could that be so large?

Well, it seems neither Rainman nor I had been checking it (I thought RM tidied it up once a week or so) for the past 13 months. So I logged in to the account to find 50,619 e-mails waiting for me. Holy shit. So I emptied it out without bothering to sort through it.

Two days passed and I checked the account again. Already, there were 200+ e-mails waiting.  I guess I should be thankful this isn’t a popular site, otherwise there could be a lot more spam coming to us. As it is, I average about 20 – 30 pieces a day.

The past few years, I’ve been watching three shows: Heroes, House and Smallville.

Heroes and House are great, but Smallville has rapidly become a shitfest in recent years. I keep telling myself that I’ll quit watching, but I think this will be the year. Lana is gone, Lex is gone (or will be after a few initial episodes), Clark and Lois (who is awful, btw) are supposed to start having romantic interests in each other.

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So a month or so ago,  my dad got remarried.  As a gift for my duties as best man, I received a digital picture frame. In the past I’d seen them, but they never really held my interest. After receiving one, my opinion on these has changed.

I received a Sony S-Frame. The best part about this is that it works with very little set up. Really, you can work this without any setup. Plug it in, turn it on, connect it to your computer with a USB cable, and it’ll pop up on your computer like any other USB device.  Drag your photos over, disconnect the cable and you’re set.  Of course, you can then choose to customize whether it should show a clock, calendar, neither, what type of transitions to do between photos, etc.

The quality is high, with a crisp displace and a good contrast ratio.

Of course, you don’t have to use it for photos.

So after a year of being offline, I think due to issues with our host and deprecated versions of PHP and MySQL, the gallery is back.  Click that little tab at the top of the page and you can once again view the images.

A little known fact: Most of the traffic to RMo, up until the gallery went offline, was from users in Japan linking to images of Koda Kumi, a Japanese pop star, that I took and posted up in the gallery.

In the 8 months or so since my last post I’ve quit my game reviews, have focused more on my Japanese language classes, and been playing games for enjoyment, not just for work.  I’ve been in two weddings, have booked a trip to Japan the first week of December 2008, and that’s about it.