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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Mommy’s shoes – world’s biggest parasite
Posted by GNaschenweng on January 23, 2010 No comments
Demoniac scientists were working on a weapon to use against the Christians. This research led them to create the most dangerous and common parasite on the face of the Earth: the shoe. Hats off to mommy Mia N. at Heronbridge College for owning in excess of 120 shoes (the scale ends at 60 – picture below was spotted while picking up my son).
Many people have never learned the truth about shoes. Maybe that’s why I can hear you saying “Bullshit!” to your computer screen right now. But I’m telling you the truth. The early parasite was dubbed “moccasin” by its supporters and was “worn” commonly. In the last thousand years or so, most people were not even aware that the shoes were slowly devouring them. However another theory exists that claims the first shoes were invented when a man stepped on a pair of rabbits. Later he discovered that they kept his feet slightly warmer and thus he had invented shoes. (The Shoe Fashion and fetish started next week.)
The common shoe almost exclusively feeds on the feet of humans. About 98.1% of humans with feet will at some point be victimized by this terrible parasite. While smaller shoe “nymphs” feed on the feet of babies and toddlers, larger shoes feed on (naturally) larger feet. Since most people are unaware of their parasitic state, they go out and buy new shoes when the ones that have been feeding on them are “worn out”, although this actually means the adult shoe has reached its mature age and will soon die.
The most victimized organism by this parasite is women. The shoes secrete some unknown pheromone that makes women want to buy more shoes until she has 50 pairs sitting in her closet. She has just unknowingly set up a Shoe Den. If a Shoe Den gets too big it will merge into one and become a dreaded dance shoe!!!
Almost all shoes are bred in large “shoe farms” in China. Most of the time, these shoe farmers are forced at gun point to breed these beasts; it has been theorized that China is using the parasite to slowly take over the world. All shoes will find a “partner shoe” to feed with, and these shoes always look alike. In order to breed, shoes must live off of the most repulsive feet ever. So wash your damn feet. Once they find repulsive smelling feet, the antennae (or the sole, if antennae are not available) will stem off to form a new shoe nymph. This shoe will live off of babies and small children until it is full grown and ready to consume adult feet.
SBSA – Thanks for deleting my future dated payments
Posted by GNaschenweng on January 20, 2010 1 comment
Makes one wonder, when you get an email from your bank telling you that due to a technical error my future-dated transactions got deleted. Even more worrying is that they could care less of trying to get your information back and ask you to re-capture your transactions:
Perhaps they did it out of spite, as I complained, or if this affects all customers with future dated transactions. Be it as it may, I would have expected that a backup would sort it out. Who else is worried what else they might be loosing?
Businessman gives away Audi R8 to car-guards
Posted by GNaschenweng on January 14, 2010 No comments
One can only hope that this is some ingenious “marketing-prank”. A businessman in Capetown went up to Table Mountain and handed over a R 1,4m Audi R8 to car-guards:
The duo-then decided to carve a slit into the car’s bonnet for people to drop off messages or slip in donations. Around the slit are the words: “A better future for all.” The two car-guards use the car to drive around Capetown and hand out food to the homeless.
This is truly on epic story and everyone is now waiting for the true motive behind this 
My opinion of the above is still that it is a marketing prank. The Capetown car-guards pictured above, look “too-polished” and I think they have been placed for whatever reason/cause. Waiting to be proven wrong/right in this.
The Friday Picture: Ass
Posted by GNaschenweng on January 8, 2010 No comments
Discovery Health “loves” George Bush
Posted by GNaschenweng on January 5, 2010 No comments
Not sure how long it will take Discovery Health to sort this out, but if you browse to the following link you will find all the relevant information about Discovery’s Vitality programme. You will also find a link to a video – which opens the following popup:
Makes you think if the site was hacked or a developer decided to have a “fun-day”, either way embarassing enough for a company to have a problem like this.
Update: This seems to be an issue related to the YouTube API. Makes me wonder why Discovery choses to host their company videos on Google though. They had briefly fixed it, but now it seems to be back (perhaps an issue with their caching-/loadbalancing servers). Needless to say, my email to them remains unanswered.
Dragon Age: Origins
Posted by GNaschenweng on January 2, 2010 No comments
Dragon Age: Origins is the spiritual successor to BioWare’s critically acclaimed Baldur’s Gate, featuring deep character customization and role-playing, morally challenging decisions, tactical party-based combat, and a wealth of gritty, mature sub-plots. It is a dark, heroic fantasy game that combines original storytelling techniques with classic role-playing challenges.
In Dragon Age, your choices change the world and affect the people around you. Certain situations, storylines, and conversation options will change drastically depending on your origin and your motivations. You choose your origin, and from that starting point, your story begins. You play through your character’s early days, defining his or her background and motivation and begin to learn more about the world of Ferelden from your own distinct perspective. Your choice of origin defines how you will view the world and how it views you. Choose a sneaky, disrespected commoner and you will play a story that focuses around subtle skills and careful wordplay. Choose a noble origin and the world will be much more positive and helpful, but those jealous of your status will not be afraid to take what you have, violently if necessary.
The character creation reveals more of Dragon Age’s depth and flexibility. You have three separate races (human, dwarf and elf) and three base classes (warrior, rogue and mage) to choose from. Additionally, your hero will have general skills, class-specific talents and specializations, which you can learn from manuals or other characters willing to teach you their arts. By the end of the game, your hero will feel like a true legendary Grey Warden with a full complement of abilities to destroy the Darkspawn.
Dragon Age provides a ton of customization without a level cap, so it’s possible to take two characters with the exact same background and develop them in completely different ways. For example, do you want a berserker that mows down enemies, a stealthy rogue that strikes from the shadows or a mage that wields the elements?
I am on my 3rd playthrough – played through as human warrior, dwarfen rogue and now as an elven mage. A must-have RPG for the PS3 (I have never run into a game with a gay assassin or a bi-sexual elven rogue). Per storyline the game will entertain you for at least 40 hours (2nd playthrough took 32 hours as I skipped most of the dialogue).
