I was walking through my den the yesterday and caught site of what my son was watching, SWAT Kats. For those of you who don’t remember or don’t know, SWAT Kats was a animated series that once ran on TBS and was about this crime fighting/heroic duo of anamorphic felines (called kats) who were junkyard owners when not saving Megakat City. A pretty standard action cartoon that ran from 1993 to 1995 that had an interesting way of animating the characters. It is not to say that the animation was all that good, it was fairly standard type of animation for its time, it was the difference in how the genders were animated. All of the male cats were almost regular cartoon cats that walked on two legs where as the female cats all look more or less human. In fact, if you didn’t know the females were supposed to be cats you would swear they just had bizarre skin colors. Which leads into what I saw last night.
I never paid much attention the show when it first aired and only caught a few episodes. It seems the one that aired last night I missed entirely. The episode featured a female villain by the name of Turmoil, a character bent of world domination with her ship full of female soldiers.
As you can see, Turmoil is quite an attractive (by anime standards) platinum-blond female at looks nothing like a feline. What you don’t see (I don’t have a screen grab of) is the quasi-Nazi uniform she is wearing and the fact that she has porn star body proportions (big boobs, wide hips, tiny waist, and about 70% thin legs). For a moment there I thought I was watching a lost scene from Heavy Metal. And yes, she had the sexy commanding voice. Did I mention that the uniform was skin tight? Anime-uniform-furry fetish people would go nuts over this character. I can just image the volume of animation porn centered around the character Turmoil. And with a ship full of similarly uniformed females. Yep, I think some animators were sneaking in some cheesecake if not downright erotic fantasies.
Luckily my son is too young to really notice how provocative the character is drawn.
And now that I have ruined your childhood……
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I received an email (I was so excited someone actually read my blog and wasn’t a spam bot) asking me about my blogging history. Blogging history? I had to send a reply to exactly explain to me what she (yes, it was a she which means girls do exist) meant by “blogging history” (yes, I’m doing the “fingers” quotation “movement” as I “type” this) and she replied that I was an idiot and should stop stalking her… uhm, that she wanted to know a timeline of when and what about my blogging, like when I started, how I started, what phases the blog went through, if I was wearing pants at anytime I was blogging, that sort of thing. I was going to the story of stone soup today, but I guess I will do a LIST!
The history of Yoggie blogging…
- Mid 1997 – buckled down and created a website. Nothing much there as I copied most of the elements from other people’s website, though I used my own design. Included on the front page of the site was a thing I called “Site News” that I updated on what was happening with the site. This a plain HTML page that was updated maybe every 20 days or so, primarily about the site itself with some clever (at least I thought so) anecdotes included.
- End of 1997 – “Site News” morphed into “What’s New” becoming a server-side include text file that was easier to update, and the content became more of a journal.
- May 1998 – “What’s New” and the web site news separated into two distinct entities and old “What’s New” entries went into an archive page. Pretty much was updating the information every couple of days.
- June 1999 – found this wonderful software that allowed you to install and update a weblog on your site. It was still all HTML but it used templates and had a built in archive system. All you had to do was type in your blog entry in the software and it rebuilt your entire index page and added archive HTML pages. Beat doing it by hand. At this point I was posting just about everyday except on weekends and holidays.
- Late 2000 – started playing around with Java, Javascript, PHP, and MySQL to come up with some way of making it easier to post blog entries. Was not aware of the work being done in Movable Type and other blogging software. Never got very far with it.
- Early 2001 – I was invited to share my blog hosted by another person so I started blogging using more sophisticated server-based blogging software.
- January 3, 2003 – I started blogging with a sub-domain of a dear friend who decided to share some server space to host my blog.
- Mid 2004 – I felt bad about smooching on my friends so I bought my own web hosting plan and set up my blog there with Movable Type. This was the point I lost everything prior to January 3, 2003 (always do backups). I was at this time blogging one to five times a DAY EVERYDAY. This was also back when I had a list of blogs I checked daily, had lots of fellow bloggers on my blogroll, and was up to a B-list blogger with A-list bloggers consistently leaving comments.
- Late 2006 – decided that the name of my blog “A Lackluster Blog” was too mundane (and there were other blogs using similar names) and went for the less descriptive “The Mighty Yog Blog” and picked up the domain name yogblog.com and .net (funny, when I picked the name, no one was using Yog, now there are hundreds of them). This is caused a bit of a problem and I ended up loosing my contacts because the person that picked up my previous domain name ruined my reputation. This was also the time I switched to WordPress.
- February 2007 to mid 2008 – I got into such a funk that I was blogging less and less, sometimes going weeks with no entries. That kind of thing kills you readership and your rating in the blogosphere.
- Mid 2008 to present – I climbed back on the horse and forced myself to start blogging again. Currently up to blogging once or twice a day and looking into getting myself back in the limelight of the blogging ranks.
Yes, I was one of those early bloggers, one of the dinosaurs. Not like Justin Hall, who was the pre-life ooze that spawn us bloggers back in 1994, but I pretty close to the original source.
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It is list daaaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!! (Yes, I just made it up.)
- Sometimes I wonder just who is deciding what will be on the news. Is there some supercomputer sitting in a frozen warehouse crunching up numbers, statistics, and probabilities or is it some guy with a dart board and too many martinis.
- Why when you see one ant on you that you suddenly feel like there are thousands of ants on you when you know there isn’t? Do ants have some sort of mind control that they used to protect themselves from giants like us that convinces us that we are wearing ant coats?
- When it gets dusty in space (and it does so quite often) do you use a vacuum cleaner?
- Who decided that yellow paint on the curb would mean no parking? Why not orange or pink? Was the paint store having a sell on yellow paint that day?
- Why is the glass half full or half empty and not the glass being too tall?
- Why in Star Trek: The Next Generation does no one listen to heavy metal? What happened to the punk rockers and the spiked hair? I mean, the most contemporary music we hear is jazz played by Riker.
- Another thing about Star Trek, why has no one thought to transport (through the transporter no less) a bomb into the enemy’s engine room. My strategy would be to weaken a part of the shields enough to transport a photon torpedo near a power conduit or inside the engine. One boom and the ship is either destroyed or incapacitated. (That bothered me the whole Kazon story line during Voyager when the Kazon supposedly did not have strong shielding technology.)
- What possesses me to come up with these lists? Why does possesses have so many s’s?
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I was in Wal-Mart store this afternoon picking up some things I left off my list for Saturday (yes, I go to Wal-Mart more than once a week) and I thought I would cruise over to the seasonal isle to see what there was to see (and get some chocolate bunnies). To my surprise I see this on the shelf….
Edible Easter Grass Imported from Germany….
strawberry flavored no less (there was also orange flavored). The stuff looks like pink shredded paper or weed whacker wire…
This stuff is made out of potato starch and corn starch with flavoring. Because I know you are all wondering what Edible Easter grass taste like, I ate a little. Good news is that it doesn’t taste like real grass or that grass stuff you use in Easter baskets, bad news is that it is almost tasteless. I can taste the potato and after a few mouthfuls I can taste strawberry, kinda. From what I have been able to gleam in a few seconds of Googling, the stuff was created as a green alternative to plastic grass as it is biodegradable.
I’m waiting patiently for the edible Easter basket (or rather the life-size edible Playboy Easter bunny).
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Durn it! The Falcons lost in the 2008 wildcard playoffs.
Yes,I am quite perturbed… and upset… no to mention mentally disturbed, but that is another fish on the hotcake.
My upset is right up there with the news that the arena football season (2009) has been canceled.
And, no, I will not be watching any more football this season… that is until I get this overwhelming urge to watch the SuperBowl.
And there is nothing on TV.
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Here is the news that is not even CNN would report on. Okay, if CNN knew about these stories they would report on them, even though they are completely made up… not CNN, but the stories… though I have my doubts about CNN.
- Scientists declare that sky is blue – After years of research and billions of dollars in grant money, scientist at I S*%t U Not Institute released finds that indeed the sky is blue with occasional spots of white stuff. The researchers have acquired another grant to investigate that white stuff in the sky.
- Cell phones make you smell funny – The FCC released findings today that the use of cell phones while showering causes people to not get as clean therefore making the cell phone users smell funny.
- Man runs down street – A man was spotted running down the street of some unnamed city yesterday. Witnesses were baffled as to why anyone would care.
- Newspaper report crappy news – There has been a dramatic increase in the reporting of crappy news in newspapers of late. One example is the “Man runs down street” story and the Presidential debates.
- Stocks go down to zero – Stupid man was quoted as saying “how low could you go.”
- Women found on the moon – It seems that women have been exploring space all these years while men have been in the bathroom with the newspapers. When asked about the accusations, Sen. Hillary Clinton said “Err-ror! Does not compute.”
- E-mail makes your brain swell – Spam e-mail expected to flood inboxes with cures for disease.
- Stocks rebound sharply to yesterday’s high – Reports state that someone tried put a USB plug into a serial port in the NYSE’s main computer and shorted out the big board making people think that the stock market tanked.
- Banks rolling in dough – Reports indicate that banks were trying to make cookies and mistook the dough for the cash they have been rolling in for decades.
- U.S. troops invade Georgia – Governor Perdue shocked that his state has been invaded again. “First the Russians, then the media, now the U.S.! Next it will be Microsoft!”, the governor was quoted as saying.
- “Joe the Plumber” arrested for crack possession – Joe was arrested today at an unnamed woman’s house after she alleges that Joe bent over to fix her sink and his butt crack was exposed. Senators Obama and McCain have no comment, though Gov. Palin was quoted as saying that she could see Joe’s butt crack from her front yard.
- Brooke Shields pregnant – Father is reported to be a Volkswagen Routan. Shields is reported to have been impregnated via German Engineering.
- Blogger resigns after calling Palin’s children “props” – Palin responds that children are not props, children promptly become two-dimension and fall after grip knocks over children with mic.
- Zombies stage protest for dead rights - Crowd of zombies disbursed when offered brains. Paris Hilton seen joining zombie protestors searching for promised brains.
- VP Chaney leaves hospital after heart procedure – Is now searching for Sarah Conner.
- Female teacher arrest for not sleeping with students – Students complained that they went to her boring lectures and brought her apples everyday for nothin’. School board shocked, will consider hiring prostitutes to teach classes.
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Here is the news that is not the news that could be the news even though it is too stupid to be the news but could actually happen in some parallel universe.
- Man robs bank, leaves owing $20,000 – When asked by authorities why he robbed the bank, man responded that he had a temporary bout of insanity and thought there was money at the bank. Police released the man without charging saying that they would have to arrest the bank officials with robbery as well if they charged him.
- Zombies protest exclusion from national elections – A representative of the zombies stated that “zombies must be given the right to vote in national elections, after all they have been voting in Chicago for years”. When asked for comment on the issue, Governor and VP hopeful Sarah Palin grabbed her gun and started shooting zombies in the head.
- Senator and presidential nominee John McCain has balls – When responding to a recent SNL skit concerning Palin and Clinton, McCain stated that he does, in fact, have balls, it is just that his wife keeps them in her purse.
- Obama is white – it was revealed today that Senator and presidential nominee Barack Obama is actually Caucasian and that every television set on the planet has the colors mixed up. On a side note, McCain is green with orange dots.
- Man wins lottery, buys Wells Fargo – Quoted as saying, “what the hell else could I do with $100? Buy gas?”
- Poles put Obama a win in debate by a slim margin – Still no word why poles can vote and zombies cannot.
- Jamie Lynn Spears pregnant again – no really.
- Palin vows to have shotguns in every home – “Best damn engagement ring for unwed pregnant teens, like evar” Palin reported as saying.
- World Series canceled – All baseball teams somehow eliminated in playoffs. Commissioner Bud Selig at a loss to explain, will host world spit throwing finals instead.
- Stock markets around the world crash – All are being charged with DUI.
- George Clooney snorting hairy caterpillars – see picture.
- Gas now at $1 million dollars a gallon – Protected by sharks with freakin’ lasers.
- Vampires gathered at the Capital at noon to protest lack of blood bank oversight – Mysterious grayish powder found at protest locale minutes later.
- What Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious really means – is SNL getting better?
- Undying serial killers protest rising gas prices – One protester stated that it took three arms and a leg of a victim to get one gallon of gas. Presidential nominee Jason Voorhees and VP nominee Michael Myers, both of the Horror Party, have no comment.
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I have proof that the evil squirrels are trying to discredit the war kittens by stealing the latest issues of Cat Fancy from the shelves and putting out a false rumor that the issue was pulled by the publishers.
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