Meet a True Madman!

I want you to meet a person who is, quite possibly, the most sick and twisted sentient being to ever exist! I introduce Dolcett! If I say anything more it'll ruin the surprise.

Touch Guitars

For some considerable time, the only touch guitar companies I knew of were Warr and Stick Enterprises (of Chapman Stick fame.) So, fiddling around with Google today, I encountered some companies of interest. The two companies I can recall are Bunker and Mobius Megatar (Megatar, what a dumb name!) Bunker is the first company to make touch guitars, in fact, Touch Guitar is a trademark of theirs. Their touch guitars have two necks, one standard guitar, one four string bass, made out of the same piece of wood, and joined together at the head, which really jacks up the price; in fact, these are the most expensive touch guitars available! However, if you are looking for a unique instrument with a vintage vibed sound, this is the way to go.

Mobius Megatar makes the most affordable touch guitars on the market today. They all have VOX Phantom inspired bodies, concentric vol/tone pots for each side, and stereo capability, though through a single jack, so a special cable is needed. They are not as annoyingly bright as Chapman sticks, and claim to be very versatile; thus they shall be my weapon of choice; screw the Chapman Stick.

The C family of languages suck!

Seriously! They are hideously complicated, confusing, and silly. I have no personal knowledge of the languages, I admit, but a programmer friend of mine has expressed frustration with C++, and frankly, I would rather use RealBasic, In spite of it's instability and USD 99 price tag (it used to be USD 30, WHY!?!?! WHY!?!?!)

Never talk loudly next to drug addicts kids!

Yesterday I experienced a harrowing one, I did! Mike, my support worker and I were out buying lunch in this chinese restaurant in Moncton when this couple came. They sat down, then as we were ordering the woman—a tall, thin, dilapidated figure—burst in in a narcotic drawl, as if she were talking to me. I had half a mind to tell her to be polite, but I kept quiet, and I don't know why. Anyhoo, as we were sat down at a table to wait for our meal, Mike was reading the paper on the table, and I kept talking about that woman, as if she wouldn't hear me. Mike kept telling me to be quiet, but, of course, I wouldn't shut up. Eventually, Mike sent me outside, and later brought out our meals. Meanwhile in the car, Mike chewed me out with unprecedented ferocity. I exploded into a screaming fit, and threatened to knaw one of my own legs off. So, eventually on the way to my home, Mike discussed his concerns. He was worried that the man might have been a killer notorious around Moncton, a shameless monster who, for some reason consistently gets away. Another possibility was the two were drug addicts and were high, and that one of them could've been carrying a knife or a used syringe. When I got home, I incompetently discussed the matter with my mom, we chewed each other out, then finally she called up Mike, and got the information from the more reliable source. Turns out they were drug addicts, and were high (probably a police report Mike got, his dad's a former policeman.) Anyway, after a period of beating myself up, I finally realized the importance of shutting up in public, or at least how drug addicts behave.

I finally carried my genesis and associated stuff home from school today, and man, does my arm feel weird. See, a teacher of mine had started a videogame club and I had lent my genesis and games. Since school has perogued for the year, that teacher had left a message asking me to pick it up. So today, I took my dog (might as well,) went to the school, carried it back. Imagine walking your dog home while carrying a second generation genesis, and a clear, plastic carrying case carrying an RF adapter, two type 1 controllers, fourteen cartriges in case, 11 cartriges without case, a very heavy AC adapter and a mouse—all over a 1 kilometre walk. My arm is incredibly tensed up and is being difficult to control—rather unpleasant when you're trying to cut a watermelon or type. I had a similar experience carrying the things to school, I had difficulty working for the whole day.

Listen to Goldfrapp

The recent spate of Nintendo GBA ads are using some of the best music I've ever heard in a long time and wondered whoever did that music what album it was from. Well, today I was looking around the "Dance & DJ" section of Amazon.ca music department, when I saw the the name "Black Cherry", an album buy a group called Goldfrapp. I listened to a few samples, recognized them from the Nintendo ads, and I was hooked. I also discovered today the genius of a Norwegian pop artist named Sondre Lerche (Pronounced Sondra Larkay) who I first red about in a magazine; At first I didn't buy the hype, then I actually listened to him on Amazon (following a link on the aforementioned Goldfrapp page) and I loved it; this man has actually won an award.

My views on Self-Defense

Like most Canadians I feel that the U.S.'s "right to bear arms" is of dubious value; however, I think that owning weapons is a priviledge, not a right—like owning an auto. I do believe in the right to self-defense, but not fatal self-defense—incapacitative self-defense, definitely. Unfortunately, I've heard tazers can cause heart attacks, but the New Brunswck RCMP are using them (oh no!)