Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to add to my sidebar links the homepage of one Mr. Kevin Shay, author of The End as I Know It: A Novel of Millenial Anxiety.
Kevin and I go wayyyy, way, wayyyyy back in the Wayback machine to a little place called Creative Arts at Park.
The above link is to the book itself; the sidebar link is to Kevin’s blog.
Listen to Kevin. Read Kevin. Kevin is a very intelligent man. You don’t hear me saying that too often.
Does anybody else get these? The aforementioned “post-Christmas blahs”?
You gotta know what I mean. All the effort and everything that leads up to Christmas, then everybody opens their presents, and you eat your ham, or maybe you open your ham and you eat your presents, I don’t know, but then, damn, it’s all over and New Year’s is creeping up…and I really am kind of sick of celebrating New Year’s, it always feels forced to me.
I mean, back in the day, so to speak, I liked New Year’s, because I’d go out and get totally plastered and then maybe dump a beer on my head at midnight. But now I’m older and my constitution simply can’t take that, even if I was still trying to party at that level.
It’s just an empty feeling, you know? A very empty feeling. I was so close to running to the liquor store and buying a pint of Jack Daniel’s, but that never goes well — drinking alone, I mean — and I always end up calling up some ex-girlfriend at like one in the morning and insisting I still love her (which I probably do, but which none of the poor ladies I have put through the grinder that is known as a relationship with me deserve to be reminded of).
Ah well.
Yes, indeed. Merry Fucking Christmas, okay?
Really.
And a happy motherfucking New Year.
Regards,
Weird Uncle Kip
Here ya go. Here’s a picture of me unshaven and unwashed.
I’m well on my way to dirty old man, don’t you think?
Here you go (click for a larger version):
Ugly son of a bitch, ain’t I? 😉
Alright, alright, I give up, I’ve finally gone ahead and joined the social networking thing.
Not like I really care, but I had skeleton profiles on MySpace and Facebook, and some people I actually like contacted me through them, so…whatever, I give up, I’m in MySpace and Facebook now.
In Facebook I’m under the name “Superpimp Jerky” — there’s another Kip Lange, some crunchy-granola asshole — whatever you do, don’t mistake him for me. *Please*.
Okay, just for the heck of it, I’ve put the Shrine map mod local, here on my own site.
So you can download it right here.
If that link doesn’t work for some reason, the full URL is http://www.kiplange.com/downloads/dm_shrine_ps3.zip.
See my earlier posts for instructions on adding the mod to the game.
Enjoy!
Here’s another tip.
This just happened to me the other day. I synced my iPod Classic, went to look at cover flow mode, and half the albums just showed up as pure black.
I did a little searching, found a suggested fix, tried it, and it worked. Here’s what you do if you run into this problem…
Connect the iPod and open iTunes.
Go to the music tab. Uncheck “Display album artwork on your iPod“. The iPod should actually, at this point, automatically sync again. If it doesn’t, just sync it.
Then re-check the box (“Display album artwork on your iPod“), and sync the iPod again.
Worked perfectly for me. Good luck.
Okay, I’m noticing on my web counter that a lot of searches are coming in looking for a way to unjailbreak an iPhone.
Now, I’ve never jailbroken mine, so I can’t tell you for sure, but I did some searching to see if I could help the people who keep coming here looking for an answer to that question.
The best answer I got was:
Just restore your iPhone.
I don’t know if that’s easy but I imagine that actually would unjailbreak the phone.
Good luck. Tell me if I’m wrong and a restore doesn’t work and I’ll dig further and find something that does.
For those of you who care…
Someone has ported a PC-created mod map, custom, user-designed, to the PS3. It’s a deathmatch map, fairly small, made for maybe six people.
To download the file go here:
http://files.filefront.com/DM+Shrine+PS3+Map/;9292864;/fileinfo.html
Then you need a memory card or flash/jump drive of some sort. Unzip the file onto the flash drive or whatever (not into a folder, just the root directory), plug it into your playstation, fire up UT III, at the main screen go to “Community” and then…there may be one more step I’m missing but it’s obvious…anyway you hit square to import the mod.
Worked perfectly for me, is all I can say, and the map is fun. The name of the map, by the way, is “Shrine”.
Just for those who are interested, thought I’d post my Playstation Network gamer ID:
Kippah9
Inventive, huh?
And yes, I always play the Pats in Madden and I don’t care what you think about that.