Oh... My... God... I love these things =3
~Jay Mason~
Friday, March 26, 2010
Deadpool's C2E2 Commercial (made by ItsJustSomeRandomGuy on Youtube)
Friday, March 19, 2010
Another Dream of Note
This was one of my favorite dreams I ever had because it took itself seriously and was cool, funny, sweet, and creepy all at once.
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I was standing somewhere in NYC. It was starting to get dark and it was raining. The sky was kind of grey in color and you could still see clouds. I was leaning up against a building, just watching people walk past me. Just letting the rain fall on me. I smiled at a random couple that walked past me. Then my cell phone rang. I looked at the Caller ID and it read "MOM." I answered it and she said that she needed me to come back to Headquarters and that it was urgent.
The next thing I know, I walk into this room to see my Mom reading files and Christopher Chance (yeah, from Human Target) getting off the phone. He turns to me and says, "It's a good thing you got back when you did. He's still out there, you know." I nod in agreement and apologize for being out so long. I go and sit down on the sofa and flip open a laptop to start doing work. My Mom asks if I found out anything new while I was out and I tell her that I didn't find out much. "Not many people even realize that he's still out there, Mom. It doesn't seem to matter how much we attempt to get the word out it just... Fades." Chance responds, "We still have to try, Jax" ("Jax" is a nickname that some of my closest friends sometimes call me).
I tell them that I'm getting nowhere on the internet and that I need to go out to find more intel. They both tell me to be careful as I'm on my way out. I suddenly find myself back in that same grey world I originally entered. I walk down a different street as people pass me by. All of a sudden, I hear screaming, along with a familiar, crazed laugh. That's him! I think to myself and draw my gun. Everyone is running away while I run toward the laugh. Then I see him. It's The Joker from The Dark Knight. He looks right at me and says, "C'mon! I've been waiting for you three to come after me! C'mon, c'mon, c'mon!" He takes out a machine gun and starts firing at me. I duck for cover and take some shots at him. I start hearing other shots fired, and see my Mom and Chance running toward Joker, guns drawn and firing. I come out from my cover and take a shot. It hits Joker in the shoulder as he starts running away, still laughing.
Chance looks at me and asks if I'm OK. I nod and my Mom says, "Next time, we need to get this bastard. It just got way too personal." We hear a loudspeaker blaring with the Joker's voice. He says, "You all think you can get me. I've given you chances and chances again to put me out of my misery [laughs]. So, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. If you don't kill me by this time tomorrow night, I will release a toxic gas and lay waste to this whole city [laughs]!" The three of us look at eachother with that "oh, shit" kind of look.
The next thing I know, I'm in a random McDonald's with my Mom. Chance isn't with us. My Mom says to me, "I should get him something, too. He hasn't eaten in two days. He's running on fumes." I smile a little to myself because I realize that, even though she's a kickass crime fighter in this dream world, she is still very much my Mom.
The three of us are in HQ, eating and looking over files and whatnot. I'm back on my laptop, apparently trying to hack into something. Evidently, I found the plans to his massive poison plot. I call over to them and hack into the system. I completely cripple the program and any chance he has of going through with it should we fail to kill him.
Next thing I know, we're in a standoff with the Joker. It almost seemed like a Boss Battle in a video game. Chance manages to apprehend him and we get him sent to Arkham. I look around and say, "Good job, team" (I actually do say that a lot in real life).
This is where I woke up.
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So, my Mom and I are crime fighters and we got to work with Christopher Chance. I told my Mom the short version of this dream earlier and she said, "Hey, that sounded like it was a good dream!" It was.
~Jay Mason~
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I was standing somewhere in NYC. It was starting to get dark and it was raining. The sky was kind of grey in color and you could still see clouds. I was leaning up against a building, just watching people walk past me. Just letting the rain fall on me. I smiled at a random couple that walked past me. Then my cell phone rang. I looked at the Caller ID and it read "MOM." I answered it and she said that she needed me to come back to Headquarters and that it was urgent.
The next thing I know, I walk into this room to see my Mom reading files and Christopher Chance (yeah, from Human Target) getting off the phone. He turns to me and says, "It's a good thing you got back when you did. He's still out there, you know." I nod in agreement and apologize for being out so long. I go and sit down on the sofa and flip open a laptop to start doing work. My Mom asks if I found out anything new while I was out and I tell her that I didn't find out much. "Not many people even realize that he's still out there, Mom. It doesn't seem to matter how much we attempt to get the word out it just... Fades." Chance responds, "We still have to try, Jax" ("Jax" is a nickname that some of my closest friends sometimes call me).
I tell them that I'm getting nowhere on the internet and that I need to go out to find more intel. They both tell me to be careful as I'm on my way out. I suddenly find myself back in that same grey world I originally entered. I walk down a different street as people pass me by. All of a sudden, I hear screaming, along with a familiar, crazed laugh. That's him! I think to myself and draw my gun. Everyone is running away while I run toward the laugh. Then I see him. It's The Joker from The Dark Knight. He looks right at me and says, "C'mon! I've been waiting for you three to come after me! C'mon, c'mon, c'mon!" He takes out a machine gun and starts firing at me. I duck for cover and take some shots at him. I start hearing other shots fired, and see my Mom and Chance running toward Joker, guns drawn and firing. I come out from my cover and take a shot. It hits Joker in the shoulder as he starts running away, still laughing.
Chance looks at me and asks if I'm OK. I nod and my Mom says, "Next time, we need to get this bastard. It just got way too personal." We hear a loudspeaker blaring with the Joker's voice. He says, "You all think you can get me. I've given you chances and chances again to put me out of my misery [laughs]. So, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. If you don't kill me by this time tomorrow night, I will release a toxic gas and lay waste to this whole city [laughs]!" The three of us look at eachother with that "oh, shit" kind of look.
The next thing I know, I'm in a random McDonald's with my Mom. Chance isn't with us. My Mom says to me, "I should get him something, too. He hasn't eaten in two days. He's running on fumes." I smile a little to myself because I realize that, even though she's a kickass crime fighter in this dream world, she is still very much my Mom.
The three of us are in HQ, eating and looking over files and whatnot. I'm back on my laptop, apparently trying to hack into something. Evidently, I found the plans to his massive poison plot. I call over to them and hack into the system. I completely cripple the program and any chance he has of going through with it should we fail to kill him.
Next thing I know, we're in a standoff with the Joker. It almost seemed like a Boss Battle in a video game. Chance manages to apprehend him and we get him sent to Arkham. I look around and say, "Good job, team" (I actually do say that a lot in real life).
This is where I woke up.
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So, my Mom and I are crime fighters and we got to work with Christopher Chance. I told my Mom the short version of this dream earlier and she said, "Hey, that sounded like it was a good dream!" It was.
~Jay Mason~
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
A Phone Scam >:(
I live in my grandfather's house. He is an 89 year-old man who does not always understand English (he was raised in Italy). Sometimes when I don't have anywhere to go during the day, I notice through his Caller ID that he gets strange calls. The name just says "Jamaica," and the number is almost always different. I just typically ignore them because I do not know who it is, nor does my grandfather. I always just figured that if it were important, they would leave a message. No messages were ever left by this caller.
Just today, however, I got a phone call from my younger brother who is home with a bad cold. This caller phoned the house and my grandfather answered. My brother picked up the other line to hear the conversation because he had seen this come up in the Caller ID as well. The caller had an accent and repeatedly asked my grandfather what his name was and, after he answered, kept telling him that he had a package for him. My brother then stepped in from the other line and started asking this mystery caller who he was, what he had and what he wanted. The caller just hung up.
My brother then proceeded to tell me that he immediately researched this number (we wrote down 2 of the numbers used under the name of "Jamaica") and found out that it is a call-back phone scam targeted specifically at the elderly. The way it works is that a caller, in this case from Jamaica, will call an elderly person and tell them that they have something for them. The caller will then hang up, causing the elderly person to think the call simply dropped. When the elderly person calls back, they are charged heavily for calling the number (especially since it is an international number). These scammers are said to have made upwards of 300 million off of the elderly last year alone.
If this is happening to you, the way to deal with the problem, at least according to the news sources my brother viewed, is to contact your local authorities who will, hopefully, in turn be able to contact the proper authorities, such as Interpol.
The two numbers we took down are (876) 486-7793 and (876) 460-4618. I hope this helps someone out there.
Just today, however, I got a phone call from my younger brother who is home with a bad cold. This caller phoned the house and my grandfather answered. My brother picked up the other line to hear the conversation because he had seen this come up in the Caller ID as well. The caller had an accent and repeatedly asked my grandfather what his name was and, after he answered, kept telling him that he had a package for him. My brother then stepped in from the other line and started asking this mystery caller who he was, what he had and what he wanted. The caller just hung up.
My brother then proceeded to tell me that he immediately researched this number (we wrote down 2 of the numbers used under the name of "Jamaica") and found out that it is a call-back phone scam targeted specifically at the elderly. The way it works is that a caller, in this case from Jamaica, will call an elderly person and tell them that they have something for them. The caller will then hang up, causing the elderly person to think the call simply dropped. When the elderly person calls back, they are charged heavily for calling the number (especially since it is an international number). These scammers are said to have made upwards of 300 million off of the elderly last year alone.
If this is happening to you, the way to deal with the problem, at least according to the news sources my brother viewed, is to contact your local authorities who will, hopefully, in turn be able to contact the proper authorities, such as Interpol.
The two numbers we took down are (876) 486-7793 and (876) 460-4618. I hope this helps someone out there.
~Jay Mason~
Friday, March 5, 2010
That's Me In The Corner, Losing All My Music...
My iPod inexplicably lost all of the songs (it was well over 3000) and videos I had on it. Deciding that I should be oh-so-very used to things like this happening to me, I've decided to TRY TO REMEMBER every artist I had on there and, in turn, whatever songs of theirs I had. Most of them are easy, but I'm going to have to search song lyrics and what have you to remember some of the others. I've also been checking Music On Demand, as well as my bios on web sites such as Yahoo, MySpace, and Facebook to try to jog my memory. Interestingly enough, quoting R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" in the title of this entry made me remember to put R.E.M. on my list. The videos are easy enough to remember. All I had on there were three of my favorite movies (Gladiator, Braveheart, and 300), and the Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series podcast [which isn't on iTunes anymore from the last time I checked], so that's not much of a burden.
Called Apple Tech Support with fingers crossed that there would be a small chance that they could've told me something to do that would take me not having to jot it down. I spoke to a really nice guy named Samuel, but there really wasn't much he could do other than suggest different sites and stuff to help me hunt down my collection again. For now, I just need help recollecting [both in memory and in actual collection] these songs again, especially since I don't own the hard copies [CD's] of most of them.
Your slightly crazed friend,
Jay Mason
Called Apple Tech Support with fingers crossed that there would be a small chance that they could've told me something to do that would take me not having to jot it down. I spoke to a really nice guy named Samuel, but there really wasn't much he could do other than suggest different sites and stuff to help me hunt down my collection again. For now, I just need help recollecting [both in memory and in actual collection] these songs again, especially since I don't own the hard copies [CD's] of most of them.
Your slightly crazed friend,
Jay Mason
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