Just wanted to be the first to ever post on a Leap Year.

Also, I thought I’d enlighten you with a Random Neural Firing:

“You know it’s bad when the ass-wipe at work is softer than the stuff you got at home…”

Also Also…this is pretty damned funny: Garfield Minus Garfield

…don’t ask.

I just want to thank the millions of my readers who have deluged the lab wondering where Rodeo is.

Rodeo is alive and well.

Rodeo has NOT left the building.

It’s just that every time I went to post a new b-labber, another one of our intrepid staff had beat me to it.

But that’s a good thing because we all love to read each others b-labbers and you, the reader, gets to enjoy a more varied content. Meanwhile, I’ll keep looking for opportunities to slide in my posts.

I love my Playstation One.

I love it! It has brought me hours of joy and enabled me to waste many good hours of studying time when I was in college.

I loved PS One so much, I wanted PS2 of course. Who wouldn’t? (I know the die hard XBox people are putting their hands up. Well put them down, this doesn’t concern you). But what do you do when your favourite time waster turns on you?

Here’s what happened…

Enter Gran Tourismo 4. I’ve played 2 and 3 before. Loved 2. Not so much love for 3 as there is a shocking shortage of muscle cars but it’s still a decent driving game (simulator if you will). I was working away at the races, had almost all my drivers licences, had tons of cars, most of the rally races and driving missions done, was one race-set away from being in the Extreme races, and was a total of 30% done the game. What happens? In PC terms it would be the blue screen of death. That’s right. The data on my memory card was suddenly corrupt. Irretrevable. Forever gone. S@#t!

Breathe. Calm. Serenity now, I say to myself. Called the guys at the game store. They’re no help other than to say “Whoa dude, that totally sucks man. Nothing you can do now except erase the file and start over. Man that sucks.”

So I do them one better. I get my sister’s card that has hardly been used (as my other card was a used one) and proceeded to start over. Once again, had almost all my licenses, had finished most of the driving missions, had built up some cash and was starting to race the professional races when what happened. Oh yeah. Corrupt data strikes again. Surprisingly, I didn’t use language that would turn your mom’s hair blue. I just sat and wondered how could this be happening? At least I only wasted 15 hours and was only 10% done this time. Called the games store again. They said to bring the disk and the card down and they’d look at it (ie fire it up on their PS2 and see what happened).

For 10 points, guess what happened….Nothing. That’s right, the file is still corrupt. Now there’s a big surprise. All the gamer guy could tell me was that this was really rare but that they would replace my GT4 disc and see if it happens again. In an effort to make me feel better the one guy said that at least this wasn’t like is PS3 which he had to reformat the hard drive! Thank goodness for small favours I guess.

So I’m, once again, back on the GT4 trail. Man, I’m going to be the best driver out there by the time I’m done if this keeps up!

Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks

Somebody got paid to write that headline…