mcrib

Life just isn't fair. They brought back the McRib again, which is the most delicious and glorious sandwich ever created at a fast food restaurant, and it's apparently only available in Tucson.

They have a website, www.mcrib.com, and it tells you if the mcrib is available in your area. I just tried plugging in the zip codes of several cities on my route back to the bay area after thanksgiving, including my home town of Santa Clara, and they all say FUCK YOU NO MCRIB FOR YOU. But if you enter 85739, a Tucson zip code, you get like 100 hits.

Do any of you have McRibs available near you? Do Californians just hate delicious pork sandwiches? Why does McDonalds hate me so?

I'm strongly considering trying to stop at 8am tomorrow around here somewhere and getting me a damn McRib, I haven't had one for years. It shouldn't be so hard to get this goddamn sandwich, it has its own website, which you think would indicate to McDonalds that it's popular. Fuckers.

my Wii ID

Here's my Wii ID:

4734 4939 9578 1894

It's freakin hilarious, if you friend me, let me know, and we can exchange Mii's.

I woke up this morning, and onto my box pops the little avatars for Gulkis, Richard, and Nina.

Then I go to play baseball in Wii Sports, and who's on my team? Gulkis, Richard and Elaina. That's so awesome.

So yeah, make some Mii's and friend me, and we can have them wander between consoles.

I don't think privacy is a concern with the Wii since both people have to friend each other, so you can just post your Wii ID in my comments section on my blog, or email them to me.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I got a Wii!

Gulkis, Richard, Yuzo, Elaina and I all sat outside a Toys R Us for 10 hours today to get one of 100 Wiis that went on sale at midnight.

The original plan was to get there at 6pm with plenty of time to spare. When I called Toys R Us today at noon to see what was up, they said "Well, there's about 35 people in line already." Fuck!

So we raced up there, and about an hour after we arrived, the line was completely full, and remained that way the rest of the night. There were no stabbings or muggings like the PS3 launch, people were really well behaved, and they numbered us and herded us along like little happy Nintendo cattle.

You might wonder why I'm sitting here typing a blog entry instead of playing with my wonderful new toy. Well, that's because it's been updating its software for 30 minutes, which apparently in 2006 is still too hard to do in the FUCKING BACKGROUND. So I wait. I'll probably get to play about 10 minutes before I pass out.

Wii!

Oh, I got Wii Sports, Zelda, and Rayman.

nonspeak

Of all the sins you can commit in this world, the one that aggravates me the most (or at least in my top 5) is talking without saying anything.

The main culprit of this that I've been seeing lately is people who disagree with something, but they're not willing to say it, so they say that it "needs more study" or it's a "very serious issue with lots of hard questions".

Take for example, human cloning. Conservatives come at it from the God angle, and they're pretty much done. Liberals who oppose it, however, are usually coming from the anti-science camp. They like to say that we need "strict reviews" and that we should "consider all the consequences", etc.

Anyone with a brain would agree that we should consider consequences when we do something. What bothers me about sentences like this is that they don't suggest a course of action. No review will ever be strict enough, and we will have never considered all the possible consequences thoroughly enough, because what they're really saying is "I don't want you to do this."

I've ranted on here before that if you don't have constructive criticism, you should shut your goddamn mouth, but this is one of the sneakier forms of nonconstructive criticism. When you assert something, your words should suggest a course of action. If you're talking, and you're not saying anything that can be acted on, you're wasting my time.