Mutant Healing Factor

I knew I was getting older when infamous Mutant Healing Factor… which USED to keep me from getting so much as a head cold for years a time… started letting stuff slip through. My wife has been battling some serious voodoo since before the weekend, and I’ve been dutifully taking care of her while completely unconcerned with catching whatever it was.

Wife: “You’d better watch out or you’ll get sick too.”
Dark Icon: “Heh. Right. Mutant healing factor, remember? I can re-grow an entire limb if I need to.”
Mutant Healing Factor: “…zzzzzz”
Dark Icon: “…cough, cough… oh fuck…”

So yeah, Not feeling too well at the moment.

Spawn of the Abominatrix?!

Yeah, I’m pretty sure this thing was running around in that labyrinth somewhere. How someone managed to smuggle a picture out is beyond me.

Note the claws. And I’m sure that thing in the back is a tentacle.

“The Grudge” just scared the piss outta me.

So I’m in the hotel room and decided to watch some TV. Normally I don’t even bother turning on the TV when I’m on the road. Therefore, I am unaccustomed to anything making noises in the hotel room except me and maybe a cellphone or leaky toilet. But I was board, and “The Grudge” was on.

Remember that movie? Sarah Michelle Gellar vs. some angry Asian ghosts? Yeah, that.

I”m only half-watching the movie, but the sound is turned up kinda high. Nothing interesting is happening on the screen so I decide to to to the bathroom. Ahh, but this is one of those scenes where the ghost pops up in a reflection and makes that weird choking noise out of nowhere. So as soon as I turn the corner to the bathroom:

Ghost: “AAH-AAH-AAH!”
Dark Icon: “…AAAA! THE FUCK!? Oh. Shit.”

Guess ya had to be there.

….actually, this whole post was just me testing the updated blog software to make sure it still works. Although the above sequence of events DID really just happen.

Dark Icon’s Public Key

Below is the my public encryption key. Either you already know what it’s used for and how to use it… or you can just ignore this post.
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They Got It Wrong:

I fixed it.

Five Surprising Things about Hawaii

Hawaii was never high on my list of places to visit before I die. I’m just not a beach and warm-weather person, although the non-beach scenery was pretty cool. So, having never been there before and never spent any time researching the place, I was surprised by a few things:
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Dog vs. Cow

Oh look; somebody brought a dog to a cow-fight:

Always bet on Cow.

Actual Conversation, part 6

As I’ve mentioned before, I am “tech support” at my house when it comes to computers or… heck, ANYTHING. I have no problem with that. What bothers me is when every computer my wife uses mysteriously dies within a few months. It’s never her fault, of course… but it is a noticeable pattern. A pattern which lead to the following conversation while driving home one day:
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Things Geeks Do When The Power Is Out

1) NOTICE that the power is out. This can take a while since the computer, monitor, router, and modem are all on a UPS. …Did it get darker in here?…

2) Determine whether the outage is neighborhood-wide by seeing if any of the neighbors’ wireless connections are still up. Just go over and ask them? Yeah, right. “Refresh Network List” IS going over and asking them.
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Actual Conversation, part 5

As of this moment, my mother-in-law is visiting. Before you jump to any conclusions, I’ll tell you that I love my mother-in-law, and she’s welcome in my house any time. But the presence of additional people in the house does lead to some…well… stuff like this that happened a few years ago:
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