The Special Ed Mix: 8/27/06

Damn Wachowski brothers

In the Matrix Reloaded, the scene involving Neo and the Architect borrows heavily from Final Fantasy X. Stealing from a mediocre game to make a mediocre movie. Brilliant.

What if there was world war 3 and you were drafted into the army

Here’s a way of injecting some fun into your favorite real time strategy game. Lets use Starcraft as an example. Select single units and make that unit a subgroup (ctrl - #). Then name that unit using the names of one of your friends. For example, when playing as the Terrans

Battlecrusier – Edward, sub group 1

Marine – Jowen, sub group 2

Ok, I think I’ll let group 1 patrol the base and we’ll send group 2 to the front lines or on a solo recon mission. Aww shucks, looks like group 2 was torn apart by a pack of zerglings. At least group 1 survived. Yay team!

Good Match

Apparently Jenna Jameson and her husband have seperated and now she's dating Tito Ortiz.

Tito Ortiz specializes in ground and pound while Jenna does her best work on her back. Good match if you ask me.

Are you now or have you ever been.....a real LUG (part 3 of 3)

No one has ever specifically told me not to do this post. Only one person knew about this post and they didn’t object, so how could anyone tell me otherwise.

Two years ago, a friend and I posted each other’s picture on hotornot, which is part of the inspiration behind this hotornot post. Otherwise, this idea mostly came to me during that daydream session in class.

The pictures used

The results

	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3
	Score	Votes	Score	Votes	Score	Votes	Overall
Victor	5.4	81	3.5	79	8.7	52	5.50
Derek	6.0	61	4.7	63	3.3	65	4.64
Jowen	5.0	77	6.5	83	4.9	59	5.54
Rich	4.6	64	4.5	75	6.2	58	5.03
Will	5.7	86	4.0	105	5.8	67	5.03
Edward	7.3	82	5.7	75	5.1	62	6.13

Overall score = [ Σ (score j * votes j) ] / total votes

Comments

Somehow Jowen and his old skool hair came out as the LUGs king and second place overall. It would be interesting to see what score short hair Jowen would receive. On his absolute worst day, Rich managed to soundly beat Derek and tie Will. At least Derek has the built in “I only did bad because it was an awful picture” excuse whereas Will selected his picture (LOL). I’m sure a couple of you already think that I rigged this contest so I’d win (oh joy, 6.13). My response: run this experiment yourself and see what you get.

Then again, who cares about hotornot scores

	Wat
	i was going to laugh about you being last place in the third run
	but it turns out i'm in last place
	^o)
	see it's so random
	ah well
	8-)
	rich is kicking your and my ass
	^o)
	with his gross pic?
	Lol
	victor is really kicking our asses
	rich has 6.5
	you have a 4 something
	i have 3 something
	victor has 8 something
	Ha
	so the moral of the story is anyone can get lucky
	Yep

Look at the scores. Relatively speaking, everyone had at least one good run,

Two years ago, in the original hotornot contest, I beat my friend (4.7ish versus > 4.7ish). I figured my sensitive friend would be upset, but instead they didn’t let the score get them down in the least bit. Why? Because my friend is very confident and self assured. Since then, they’ve gone on date “two of the hottest people [they’ve] ever met”.

So I decided to pose a question to another self assured friend.

	you know about hotornot.com
	?
	Yeah
	say i'd posted a picture of you on there. after the initial shock and "wtf dude" factor, how would you feel about it?
	Curious
	about my score
	what if it was good? what if it was bad?
	let me guess
	good = yeah. i'm the man. bad = ah who cares. lame internet people
	right?
	Right
	no, actually, bad = they are just jealous

Did I mention my self assured friend has a hot girlfriend and that he gets some regularly?

Confidence LUGs. Not something stupid like penny arcades or Tetris DS skills.

Lastly, I noticed, a long time ago, that Jowen used my vitals for his profile for his band. This could be constituted as identity theft and an invasion of privacy. But I’ll let it slide….for now.

Appendix

Victor

Run 1 Run 2 Run 3