Like Sleep

I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like I've seen more dead animals this summer than I have the rest of my life. That's not exactly true, I've noticed many road kills while driving, but rarely have I seen complete animals up close.

Today would be the third of the summer (the first two were a dead baby bird and a skunk), and it is certainly the largest animal I've seen. In this case a dead sea lion or sea otter. It seemed to have suffered some trauma, since each passing tide took with it some blood from near its head.

Some people might interpret this as a sign of evil forboding. Like what I will look like in the future. But then again, won't we all.

UPDATE (7/28/2005, 1:02 AM): Went to see the sea lion again. Going towards her, I could smell, what I only assume to be rotting flesh. She was covered in many white insects that come out from the sand. It definitely seemed like it got hit in the head, as there was blood coming from what I can only guess is her left eye, and her left fin may have been ripped a little. Certainly it seemed as if the some layers of skin were torn from her bottom side. I noticed that it was tagged (its number was 040041), though that means little to me.


UPDATE (7/30/2005, 9:44 PM): Someone mentioned to me that it could be the result of eating a pollution-ladden shells, though I have been unable to corroborate this.

What to buy?

Whoa... two posts in one day. Must be a record. Probably just to make up for a lack of posting. And technicially, the last post was suppose to go out yesterday.

Today I got an idea for what to do with this $100 gift card to Best Buy. I will weigh the options of buying an external hard-drive against buying an internal hard-drive and a kit that puts a case around it (essentially making it external). I could you some space to put various multimedia on and for backup. My other idea was to buy a MobiBLU DAH-1500i Cube MP3 player (completely for the cool factor), but those are only sold at Wal-mart, which probably doesn't honor cards with Best Buy on them.

I guess I just need to do some research on what's less costly and gets me more space. Unless someone else has a great idea that I can get from Best Buy for about $100. Then I'd actually need to get to a Best Buy. This will be one step in my ultimate multimedia server goal.

Now I just have to figure out what to buy with my other gift cards.

Unspeakable Obscenity

On Saturday, a friend and I went to watch The Aristocrats. It's a documentary by comedian Paul Provenza, who I had never heard of, and Penn Jillette, of Penn and Teller fame. In this documentary, they record many famous comedians analyzing and performing variations on The Aristocrats, an in-joke among comedians.

The joke is as follows:
The Setup: A family walks into a talent agent and says they've got a great act. The talent agent asks what's the act.
The Middle: This largely open, except the comedian tries to be as vulgar and obscene as possible. Drawing on anything and everything from incest, beastiality, scatology, etc.
The Punchline: The talent agent asks what's the name of such an act. And the family responds, "The Aristocrats."
To illustrate this, here is a NSFW clip of a South Park version.

The punchline is suppose to be something about the contrast between something so non-aristocratic and the aura of aristocrats, but is largely besides the point. It's the middle that's really the key. Some good performances was a comedian/magic card trick version, and Bob Saget cracks himself up with his endeavor to out do everyone else (he makes a pun on "cockeyed" at one point). Sarah Silverman's tone was such that without listening to what she was saying, you might not think she was joking. And Gilbert Gottfried just sounds funny no matter what he's saying.

In conclusion, an interesting movie watched with good company. Though maybe I shouldn't have shown clips of Battle Royale after that. Hmmmm....