Witty title withheld, pending investigation.

So, here I am once again.

Here we go again. I've got a few things to post up from the internet, as well as how I spent my night last night... Cinco de Mayo, or as I call it... Mexican Beer Day. Please note, I had no Mexican Beer.


We'll start with the Cinco de Mayo...

Cinco de Mayo. Simply, the 5th of May. It bothers me, to some extent, that many people believe this is the Mexican Independence, much like America's July 4th. The truth, however, is that Mexico's Independence Day is September 16th (1810) (it's not surprising that this mistake is made, it took 11 years from the declaration before the first Spanish soldiers were forced to leave).

Cinco de Mayo is actually a fairly minor 'holiday' in Mexico. It celebrates the defeat of the French forces by the at the Battle of Puebla (one of the few places in Mexico that actually celebrates the 5th).

The reason this is not a major holiday in Mexico is that this battle only stalled Napoleon and the 8,000 traitorous Mexican soldiers. The French eventually occupied Mexico City, and Napoleon was able to install Prince Maximilian as the Emperor of Mexico. It was another 5 years before the French were eventually booted from the Mexican capital.

Now, the reason for all of this being important to Americans is even lesser known. This defeat prevented Napoleon from supplying the Confederate soldiers during the American Civil. This meant that a huge debt to the Union defeating the Confederacy is owed to this outnumbered army beating the odds. Some time later, the Union sent one of their Generals to the Texas / Mexican border to start arming the Mexicans, making sure they were able to expel the French from their country once and for all.

I've often wondered what would have happened if we'd had French to the north and south.

Enough history lessons, on to last night.

So, last night was the 'celebration of Cinco de Mayo'. However, I drank no Mexican beer. Instead a had a few Blue Moons and hung out with some friends and co-workers at Bostons in Maple Grove.

It was a good night, over all. I went out to meet one group of friends, and as usual, we quickly took over most of the restaurant. All in all there were a total of 18 people there at some point or another.

Melissa had been out playing poker, but afterward, came to join us for the fun. José is the center of all the people that came out, although I knew quite a few of the people that came, most of them were his friends, and some I hadn't met. We all had a good time talking and what not. As usual, I had my camera on hand, and snapped a few shots, although, not until later in the night, after many of the people had already come and gone.

And now, some photos...

Above we have José, Katie and Pruse, and when Katie didn't think the first photo was good, a second photo of her she thought was better

Here we have one of José's friend, whose name I can't remember, and her financé, Yusef. I promise you, she WAS looking at the camera before I took this photo. Really... she was. Then we have Ashley. In the next photo we have one of Katie's friends, another name I can't remember, and Matt, who is actually Ashley's ex-boyfriend, and shouldn't have come out since he was sick as hell.

Finally, we have José again. Melissa's breasts (it was a trend that night...), and then her hand on my thigh for a couple shots...

Anyway, it was a good night overall. We closed the place as usual, and then figured out who was sober to get those that were less so home.


Super Sopranos Bros. 3

Check out The SuperMarios... a Sopranos spoof with Mario Mario...




Vista BSOD



Alright, it's just plain funny. I do know that HP has a huge problem with the wireless keyboard wanting it's batteries replaced every few days.


Truth Happens

An interesting Linux ad.




[Adult Swim] doomed to an eternity of hellfire...

I mean, the deal was sealed a while ago, however, they've really just decided to flaunt it with their new flash game Bible Fight. It's almost as fun as 5 Minutes to Kill (Yourself).

Speaking of wasting time...

Line Rider is insane. You can do some really insane and crazy stuff with it...


Webcomic Terror!

This is just unbelievable. I'd been trying to not touch these, because we all know they are stupid, but, I can't help myself on this one. Ever since the VTech massacre, there have been even more reports of stupid terrorism arrests. Most recent that I couldn't help but want to scream was the kid that got expelled over making a Counterstrike map of his high school, as most people have agreed is insanely overboard.

Now, Matt Boyd, formerly of Mac Hall fame, is now doing a comic called Three Panel Soul, which I've been reading for a while now. According to him, he was talking to a co-worker about buying a gun, and his conversation was overheard, and he was reported and fired for it. Now, if that wasn't bad enough, he was actually contacted because he's being investigated for making Terroristic Threats, the catch all charge.

This is just so unbelievable. There's a great interview with him over at FLEEN.


That's going to have to be it for now...

There's a lot more I could talk about... but I just don't have time. But, if you need more... this is good for a laugh...