So I'm cruising Amazon looking at the latest in technology and I find this:

Hot Dog Toaster

I'm pissed.

First off, this is clearly a total rip off of the amazing and awesome Hot Diggity Dogger. Honestly? "Hot Dog Toaster"? That's the best they could come up with? Here, let me help you. How about "Lame-Ass Sausage Shooter", or "Poseur 2000", or maybe even "The 'Cook Your Dogs in This Piece of Shit' HDD Ripoff Machine!" Catchy, I like it. Much better title. "Hot Dog Toaster"... Pfft!

Second reason I'm pissed: Amazon doesn't let you write a review anymore with an account that hasn't made any purchases. Amazon? More like AmaTHEMANKEEPINGMEDOWN! Honestly, the title of my review this time was going to be "Poseur", and I was simply going to point the customers to truth that is the Hot Diggity Dogger. I suppose Amazonian dictators don't want me pointing the flock to the real deal, and are happy with their customers purchasing a piece of crap ripoff.

Wait a second...

... hold the press! Look at the label on the damn machine, the one in the lower right corner. Now look at the label on the HDD! SUMANABITCH! It's the same freaking machine?!? They didn't even bother to have a different label!?! WTF!?! The HDD is listed on Amazon for $59.99 yet the HDT (Hot Dog Toaster if you didn't figure that one out), is listed on Amazon for $21.87! But it's the same damn machine! It's the SAME DAMN DEMON DOG BAKING BEAST BUT ALMOST $40 CHEAPER! That's bullshit brother.

What other lies is the man keeping from us? And why the hell would I take advantage of Amazon's "Twofer" special deal and save money by also purchasing the Hot Dog Roller W Griddle? I mean, the HDD(Or HDT, pick whatever name you like - I don't care anymore, I've been betrayed; "Et Tu HDD?") already cooks dogs, why the hell do I need YET ANOTHER METHOD OF COOKING MY DOGS? Just how many dog cooking technological wonders do I need in my house anyway?

I have another question: Why does it list product dimensions as "5 pounds" (last time I checked that wasn't exactly how you measured dimensions, but I digress), yet the shipping weight is listed as "4 pounds"? What trick of physics is at work here my friends? Does the HDD open a small black hole temporarily reducing it's weight while in shipping by one pound? That's pretty damn cool for 20 or 60 bucks if you ask me. And: "Healthy vertical grilling technique allows oil and fat to drain off the hot dog". That coupled with the mini black hole thing, that's worth at least $65.

I found this while researching. Response: meh. Call me when you get an automated cereal/milk pouring mechanism that doesn't clog when loaded with Crunch Berries.

Oh, and this is just animal cruelty.

Tuesday night the gang of four (for the true geeks in the house, not to be confused with the OO gang of four), that is me Alex, and my droogs... oh wait, that's not me. I mean, me, Perri, Ad, and Sam taught RockBand that we had the power to open the final seal of the apocalypse with our bad-assedness rock powers.

Seriously - we rocked so hard I actually split my kick drum petal in half. No, that isn't hyperbole. I think I was so energized by the sheer power of my droogie rockers - all three of whom was personally dealing a hardy spanking to the RockBand gods.

Oh, so I've developed a new equation:

N * (A + U) ^ 2 = F

Where N equals the number of RockBand players, A is the average badassedness coolness of said players, U is the universal constant of Rock (69 - That is short for 1969, the year Led Zeppelin I was released, not something else you perv). Similar in nature to newtons which are used to measure force, the result is measured in "Funtons" which are the measure of fun - or funnage in technical speak. In case you're curious, previously the equation graphed had an asymptote of absolute fun, but we destroyed the definition and crossed that line.

Gary Gygax passed away today. May he continue to roll favorable charisma checks, and get plenty of free rolls for treasure table III.G. Peace brudda, and good travels - thanks for all the fun times.

Just before Ninakawa passed away, the Zen master Ikkyu visited him. "Shall I lead you on?" Ikkyu asked.

Ninakawa replied: "I came here alone and I go alone. What help could you be to me?"

Ikkyu answered: "If you think you really come and go, that is your delusion. Let me show you the path on which there is no coming and going."

With his words, Ikkyu had revealed the path so clearly that Ninakawa smiled and passed away.

So I have tons of these notebooks around the house, that over the years I write random thoughts and ideas, do strange math problems (My eye is still on proving you Collatz conjecture! Damn you! DAMN YOU!)

Anyhoo... I'm starting a new series: "From The Secret Dalé Notebooks".

Without further ado:

Issue 1, "Ideas for a Great Roleplaying Game"

• Include a magic eight ball: Magicke Octum Sphere


• Helm - Immune to petrification/-6 to attack (no eye slits) ("Acme Helm of Protection"?)


• Death Doors (That's all I wrote, but I still remember the idea. Basically, at the beginning there would be this big elaborate test where you "had to pick the right door" to proceed, but face death if you picked poorly! (you know the ole setup) Anyway, When you get near the doors, one clearly has the sounds of people screaming, ("OH GOD STOP RIPPING THE FLESH FROM MY BODY!") that sort of nonsense, so that it was pretty damn obvious which was the right door to pick. Prediction: I think that those too clever for their own good, will pick the door of doom about 90% of the time.)


• Codpiece of Wonder - Immune to knockdown


• Cattle Prod of the Gods - Casts chain lighting


• Quest puzzle: Must blow an entrance through a cave wall using a mixture of pop rocks and soda


• Tavern band: "Yanky goes to Neverwood" - if you don't get it, you probably didn't grow up in the 80's


• Quest Idea: Must deliver brochures for a church - "Good News!"


• "Mexican jumping beans instead of gems" - No, I don't know what I meant either.


• "Geodes!" - Once again, I have no idea what I was thinking.


• +3 Letter Opener


• Bridezilla Crossdressing Dress - Basically, this would look like a seriously cool set of armor, but it bares a curse. Upon donning it, the wearers sex immediately becomes female (or stays female for the female adventurer) and they become a raging Bridezilla attacking their own party screaming insane gibberish such as "I CAN'T GO DOWN THE AISLE WITH HAIR LIKE THIS!" Of course, it would also temporarily grant the wearer ogre strength. I wonder if ogres have "Gauntlets of Bridezilla Strength"? *writing it down*


• Mood Ring - obviously this needs no explanation. Mood rings are awesome.


• Sharp Pointy Stick - A weapon (duh). -2 to hit, but causes temporary blindness upon hit


• Wiffle Bat - Fast, but extremely low damage. Hehe, even now the idea of someone beating the shit out of someone with a wiffle bat is hilarious. "Hey! Stop! Ok, this is ridiculous! Seriously, knock it off! I'm gonna punch you jerk!"


• Aspirin - Replaces "healing potions"


• Band Aide - You get the idea


• "Up!(tm)" Caffeinated Candy - Acts as a potion of haste


• Silly String - Web spell


• Rap Bomb - Causes serious sonic damage. Slogan: "It's da bomb!"


• Flying Monkeys - I don't know, but just reading the words "flying monkeys" makes me think "AWESOME!" Not those sissy ones though, the pimp ones from "The Wiz"


• Music Idea: Have a beautiful soundtrack for the game with choruses, strings, the works — only, occasionally, the orchestra screws up the music and recovers hastily. No silly music. Silliness through serious music with mistakes. Brilliant.


• Hair Gel - Bonus to Charisma


• Mouth Wash - same


• Bicycle Streamers - increases speed. "Go Fasters" Doesn't the idea of a knight in shining armor with bicycle streamers coming from his shiny elbows just make you smile? I think a bell on the wrist would be awesome too. I would think no other knights would screw with him, thinking him quite loony. So, the armor would act as the perfect defense. Quoting Bruce Lee, "the best way to win a fight is not get in one." Ok, paraphrasing. I'm sure it was him though, and I think it was in "The Art of Jeet Kune Do". Maybe he said it in Chinese originally though, I don't know. ("Was it Henry Ford, or Harrison Ford?") Still, bicycle streamers on a knight of the round table, give it a chance.


• Yellow Venom of the One Eyed Trouser Snake - Obligatory dick joke: check


• Can o' Spinach - +Strength - Too obvious (revision: +Strength, but decreased speed due to the shits. Bingo! Much better.)


• Poo - Stink Cloud


• Lil Sharp Throwing Thingy - Shoori... Shuri..Shurikin..ken... star. Throwing star.


• Giant alligator named Snuggles in the sewers. Nothing else. Nothing. Definitely not giant rats.


• Banana Tree's with creepy spiders


• Water Based Lube - Grease Spell


• Roman Candle - Magic Missile


• Biggie Drink - Haste (personal favorite squishy: Coke flavor mixed with Cherry flavor

Popcorn is delicious isn't it? (That is a rhetorical question, of course it is delicious.) My popcorn secret? http://www.popcornlovers.com/

Now, you may think I am getting kickback from this company. (Not that I am opposed to this thought: Fireworks Popcorn, please note - I'll have 20 free bottles of your "Starshell Red", and assortment of free toppings. You know my address, just look me up on your list of top 5 customers.) I'm not however getting kickback. (Fireworks, please note the previous note again, and consider it noted.) This popcorn is just wonderful.

Do yourself a favor and pick up some real popcorn from these wonderful willy wonka's of exploding maize. It will (hehe) amaize you. Sorry, I don't mean to be corny. I guess I get it from my pop. There really is a kernel of truth about that.

Where was I again? Oh yes, popcorn. So, for the record, my favorites:

• Starshell Red (OMG THIS IS SO GOOD! And you can even eat the unpopped kernels! Seriously!)


• Baby White Rice


• High Mountain Midnight (I particularly like to use the Maple Cinnamon seasoning on this one)

Toppings:

• White Cheddar


• Butter Burst


• Caramel Pecan

Now go try some. You will like it. If you do not, then give me your leftovers.

Fireworks Popcorn Company Nota Bene: If you prefer to ship free popcorn in shipments larger than 20 bottles, I will be amiable to such larger free shipments.

Rocking hard, rocking long: So orangerful already mentioned, but we had a seriously awesome moment while rocking out on rockband. At a moment during "Black Hole Sun", we were suddenly sprayed with a shower of glass particles. Honestly, it was like something out of a rippin wicked video. I could be wrong (but if I am, I don't care and will remember it this way), but I think it actually happened right on beat too. Of course, the awesomeness of the moment (read: WTF just happened?!?), was quickly changed to one of mirth, as sammo melted down into laughter. I think it was her laughing anyway, it's hard to say between the glass in my eyes and the fact that I was laughing my ass off. Anyway, contrary to what she's says, we did NOT fail the song. Sure, she "died", but we rezzed her with the pure power of rocking goodness, and we completed the song. We're that good.

Oohh... our 16th anniversary celebration is right around the corner! I'm excited! We have a good size crowd coming, and I can't wait. Sixteen wonderful years with a beautiful and most wonderful woman. I'm so lucky.

Mike Birbiglia coming up! April 5th at the Improv in D.C. Good times! I love his stuff, and I hope everyone going with us loves him too! I'm sure they will.

Hey, I just noticed the new drop down on livejournal for "Adult Content". Hmm, how on earth will I ever decide what to set that thing to with my postings?!? Here are the choices: "Journal Default", "No Adult Content", "Adult Concepts", "Explicit Adult Content". Well, for starters I know if I talk politics I can certainly skip the "Adult Concepts" -- now I just need "Child-like concepts". Hmm; Explicit: "precisely and clearly expressed". Does that mean if I precisely and clearly describe the idea of age and someone who has passed the age of 18, then I should mark the article as "Explicit Adult Content"? Conversely, as a child I knew I had a Mr. Winky, so are dick jokes "No Adult Content"? I'm so confused. Wait, is waterboarding torture or not? Is this my drink? *drinks*

No I'm not speaking of some grand corporate scheme to unite two big blogs. (Big Blog, wasn't that a Robert Plant song?) I'm just referring to the fact that I am experimenting with using the RSS monitor from facebook so I can post on one blog and have it publish to both. If you ask me, I think that is more exciting than the big corporate thingy.

Alright, this is the first week where I have really started to feel good like my old self since the surgery. So, I'm trying to get more active again in posting and the like. Have I mentioned, I'm just happy? :)

Anyhoo, I've started a facebook account now (and see that orangerful is there. Is there any net crevice she hasn't penetrated? Ok, I didn't mean it to come out like that but... ew.)

I just finished writing a response to some "new Buddhists" in a group there, and thought I would share it:

( A response to a new Buddhist )

orangerful had this one. Fun test. If I didn't recognize the quote, and it sounded stupid, then I picked something like Buffy. Kidding! I just said that to send her into one of her "Joss is God" rants. Seriously though, on several questions, I had to rely on process of elimination, where I didn't recognize the quote but I knew three of the four films listed REALLY well. And then, generally there would be one I hadn't seen.

One thing that did make me laugh: "Twin ceramic rotor drives on each wheel! And these look like computer controlled anti-lock brakes! Wow, 200 horses at 12,000 rpm!" One of the choices was "Akira". I picked that immediately (and after the test googled to confirm if I was right), even though I had never seen the film. The reason, goes back to one of my earlier posts. During a time when I was trying to "give anime a chance", one of the things I bitched about hating in anime, is that there always seems to be a scene of someone talking to another about some gun/car/robot/dildo and rattling off a whole slew of made up technical jargon about how awesome this thing is. Take "Ghost in the Machine", there is an almost identical type quote as that above, only they are talking about her super duper, gas cartridge fueled pistol, or some stupid shit like that.

Anyhoo, that really made me laugh. Oh, and it doesn't show above, but I scored better than 99% of my age group, which I think means I'm either an old geek, or just very young at heart. I bet qtbuglet would kick ass on this test.

Link: The General Geek Knowledge Test written by mister_ibis on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Don't you just love capitalism?

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/27/ap3960953.html

Excerpt:

"Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled "P.W.S." The new labels will spell out "public water source."

Hey, let's take tap water, give it a snooty name, and make millions!

Post Op: I'm doing well everyone. Though, I generally have about enough energy for a half hour of activity before burning out and having my nose hurt like hell.

Overall, I am doing quiet well though. Most of the pain is gone, though occasionally it still feels like I got punched right in my snozz five or six times.

On Wednesday, I had my first appointment with the doc after the surgery. At that appointment, he had to take the stints and sponges out of my skull. Alright, let me just say, I had no idea you could fit that much shit up your nose! Seriously, when he started pulling stuff out of my nose Perri went "Oh my god!" The stints, were about the size of my ring finger, only slightly taller. When he cut the stitches and pulled those out, it really was a strange sensation. Then, after those, he pulled the sponges out. How do I put this; they looked like tampons. About the same size as well. Now, that wasn't pleasant when those came out, as it felt like pressure was building in my head and it was gonna explode.

So after all that, there was some aching going on. I'm still on painkillers, but they are slightly weaker ones now. Unfortunately, they still make me dizzy and stuff. Good news is, so far the doctor says things are looking good, and he also says the bleeding is to be expected with all the work that he ended up doing in there.

Despite the pain, I still feel ten times better than I was feeling before the surgery. I don't feel nearly as fatigued, and my head doesn't feel like it is going to explode. I have also not had any problems focusing anymore, or pains in my eyeball. And, even with the bleeding and stuff, I can still breathe through my nose! It's amazing, I don't ever remember breathing this well through my nose before. So, I think, mission success.

Based on the comments of my last post, I felt I needed to do two follow on posts: 1) How my post op is going 2) My Second Life Experience. This post is number 2. I realize that makes this post sounds like "shit", and yes the number 2 reference was intentional. But you knew this.

Anyway,

My Second Life Experience:

When I first heard about Second Life through one of those "Whole New Human Relationship Paradigm!" articles. (Thanks bittertwee for the awesome categorization) My first reaction was "bullshit". But then, my second reaction was "bullshit". However, my third reaction came after I heard about the ability to create user content. The ability to create programmable items and objects, and incorporate them into the world. Now this intrigued the computer science geek weeny side of me, as I wanted very much to make a buddha statue that giggles like the pillsbury doughboy when you rub his belly. (Hey, have I told the story of when I was going through this store that sold various statues, with a workmate of mine, and he rubbed a buddha's belly and said "for good luck!"? Not long after, we came across a Jesus on the cross, and I tickled his feet and said "for good luck!" He didn't like that. The workmate I mean... I think Jesus found it funny.)

Anyhoo... but I digress...

So, after talking to a geeky buddy of mine who was also interested in the user generated content, I signed up for their free account. (I'm probably still counted as one of their active users, though I haven't been in second life for many a moon now--it's not even installed anymore) I fired up Second Life, and began the tutorial. My first thought was:

"Wow, this tutorial is amazing...

...ly broken"

It is. It sucks. I must have encountered at least 5 or 6 bugs on the starter island. And the island is stupid too. Nothing cool at all. The graphics are lame as all hell, and look like german shareware in action. And hey, how about that amazingly unintuitive interface! Oh, but I did see one other human playing while I was there! Of course, said human stood at a street corner the whole time and stared at the ground. I'm not sure if that is because in "the real world" they had a heart attack, or whether they had simply been disconnected from second life. I'm guessing the later, as there really is nothing thrilling enough in second life to cause a heart attack. In fact, I would prescribe it to anyone with high blood pressure.

Now, I'm not gonna lie: Second Life sets low standards, and fails to achieve them. Oh, I also thought it was great how they never really explain HOW to get off the starter island! I finally figured out a way off (I had to tell my fellow geek friends how to find their way off, as there wasn't anything in the "documentation" on how to do this). (How many computer scientists does it take to find their way off a poorly written virtual island? -- I have no punchline yet)

But wow, when I got off the island! More of the same old shit! I wish I had seen a mechanical teddy bear man humping a giant cat. Nothing so exciting occurred. I jumped around to several islands, and the whole time I think I saw one other person. Now, perhaps I didn't run into more people as I didn't go to any of the seedy locations like casino's, virtual brothels, etc. As much as I joke about pr0n and the like, believe it or not, I'm actually the tame boyscout type and I don't engage in those sort of things on the net. Hey, you know me, if I did... I'd tell ya! It's not that I have anything against those things, they just aren't for me. And I realize I am probably the %.001 of the population that doesn't look at internet porn. I'm more boring, and look for things like obscure scriptures and videos of singing squirrels and the like. (Or the holy grail of squirrels singing scripture)

So what am I trying to say? Don't believe the hype. I truly think Second Life sucks sweaty balls dipped in spoiled mayonnaise. When I read those articles about how Second Life is the "new revolution", I get the feeling that the author hasn't actually tried the "game", and is only parroting what the propaganda writers at Second Life tell them.

Sign one that it is lame: politicians actually invested in advertising in Second Life.

Sign two that it is totally lame: said politicians pulled all funding, as it wasn't doing shit for them.

(P.S. As I write this, I am accompanied by the sounds of "WWRRAAAA!!! HSSSS!!!! pitterpatterpitterpatter HSSSS!!!!!" as my cats go ape shit, and chase each other around the house)

I just liked this description of Second Life, that I saw on Digg:

"Linden Labs, the company that makes Second Life, likes to brag about its membership numbers. In reality, the actual number of active players is always much, much lower than the sum total of all registered users. That means that people create an account, build a house for their in-game avatar to masturbate in, and then they stop playing and never come back. What does that mean for you, the curious, newbie player? It means that walking around Second Life is like walking around in some weird, virtual post-apocalyptic zombie movie, only instead of encountering zombies, you occasionally stumble across some dude dressed up like a mechanical teddy bear having sex with a giant cat."

With the thrill of HP7 come and gone (Jebus, talk about several years of foreplay followed by a thrashing orgy of reading), I've been thinking of ways to fill the void and cash in on the void left by magic boy. Now, I haven't even begun to read the new one yet. In fact, I do not even have the book. No matter, doing things out of order is fine with me.

So here is the idea for my book:



"Jerry Motter and the Twizzling Loo of Wonder"

Jerry is a special boy. Not special as in "needs a special helmet" special. No, Jerry is naive. Living a life of slavery, day in and day out he is forced to sew Nike swooshes on the sides of overpriced "shoes".

But one day, he receives an email that will forever change his world! It turns out, there is a whole world out there under our very noses, that Jerry had no idea of! A world of prostitutes, perverts, drug users, police, politicians and mimes.

In Volume One, the Twizzling Loo, Jerry is taken to "The Redlight District". This neighborhood lies in an alley, and is a crossroads of sorts between the normal world and the real world.

Here, Jerry gets to touch his first wand. Jerry also gets to see the man arrested for having Jerry touch his wand. (no worries, the man is back on the streets the next day). There is also a striking musical number as the "Ladies of the Night" and Jerry sing a song called "How can I tell you how much the sex will cost? (without engaging in solicitation for prostitution)" It is also here that Jerry learns of Boldimort, a crooked politician determined to control Redlight District and screw everything that moves.

But in the end, the real lesson Jerry will learn, is love.

As a computer scientist, I have always had a love hate relationship with computers. Though, the hate half, is probably more related to the application of computers and not the computers themselves.

Take for instance: http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/65108.html

On the one hand, I love this sort of stuff. I've always been interested in game trees and their possible application against a multitude of things from cryptography to strategic warfare. (If you need help sleeping sometime, I'll tell you about a concept I have of applying game trees to various musical instruments in an effort to "discover" new types of music)

On the other hand though, I hate these types of applications. With each turn (or press?) of the key, I feel the humanity being stripped out of us inch by inch. I heard on NPR the other day that a recent study showed that cell phone users are demonstrating less memory skills. One possible explanation? They are relying on these infernal devices to do the work for them, and their own brains are getting no practice. (You heard it here first, I'm predicting that we will see a steady increase in Alzheimer's Disease over the next fifty years. Hopefully, at that time, you'll remember it was me who told you.)

Man, can you make a game of checkers any more boring? "Say, wanna play a game with me where the goal isn't to win, but instead not to fuck up and lose?" Thanks computer, you just made checkers a bit more boring. I think that is why I do things like minimize my exposure to TV. Or, the fact that I only shave with a straight razor. Or prefer to light my room by candle at night instead of electric light. Or the reason why the cell phone that I do own, generally lives in my glove compartment, off, and occasionally I remember to charge it. (And of course, the only reason I even have the phone is in case I'm abducted one night by aliens while driving, and I just need to call someone and tell them all about the trip.) Maybe these little quirks of mine are just a way for me to keep my fingers dug a bit into humanity, while still being immersed in field that is one part Fritz Lang to one part THX 1138.

Ugh, more ice for the nose time.

Well, with my spare time, I get to catch up on reading articles and such. Which, means I get plenty of time to be annoyed by stupid little things that annoy me. Maybe only me. I don't know if that means I'm visionary, or anal retentive. You be the judge.

For instance, look at this gem: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul19/0,4670,SexualPhotosOnline,00.html

WOW! 1 in 25?! You don't say! Wait a minute, hold on here:

"Of the 65 youths in the study who reported receiving a request, only one actually complied."

65?

Sixty Five? So that means they "surveyed" about 1,600 kids? Um... is that we what like to call a statistically significant sampling? I don't think so. And it hardly accounts for any other social break down. For instance, how many adults online are asked for sexual photos? Or better yet, how many children online ASK for sexual photos.

Now, maybe if all 1,600 were interns working for congress, then it might be a statistically significant sampling. And probably more believable too. Then again, consider this is the wiz brains over at Fox reporting this. Say, did you know that 100% of those who work at Fox are complete assholes? I base this on my survey of one employee named Ruport Murdoch.

P.S. This could just be the medicine talking.

Just wanted to let everyone know I'm home and doing fine. The doctor found a few more problems that didn't show up on the MRI, so ultimately he ended up doing 4 different surgeries and the operation lasted about 3 hours. I've got my breathing tubes in, sponges in place, and my face is bandaged. (Perri says it gives me gangsta street cred.)

Of course, I'm drugged and feeling fine. :) I can't really breathe through my nose yet because of the bandages, but already my head just feels 10 times better. I can feel a lot of that pressure in my skull has left.

The facility was great, and the staff was fantastic. It is so nice to have folks with bed side manner, smiling faces, and genuine concern for my well being. They really helped calm my nerves too. Perri also read to me about Canada in the recovery room, and that is always the best medicine. :) (Perri that is, though Canada isn't half bad.)

Anyhoo, I'm good. Peace. :)

I really like this stuff, but Wikipedia makes it sound gross! Ech! Ech I say!

Zoogleal Mat? That sounds like matted fur off a bunch of dirty animals at the zoo.

*Takes another drink*

Ten dollars says that the Livejournal spellchecker chokes on "Zoogleal".

Based on the following article:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=12&articleId=9026622&intsrc=hm_topic

I'm am dropping the official price rating of the PS3 from "Completely Fucking Insane", to "Fucking Ridiculous".