Look ma, I’m pirating a Wii disk!

After getting my Nintendo Wii several months ago, and almost immediately getting a Wiikey installed, I’ve been slowly downloading the must-have isoz of games I wanted to play. Red Steel, Zelda Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy, you know the ones.

I also have a ton of friends that have Wiis, that all buy games, and I borrow where necessary. I even rent from video shops in the area when I feel the need. The problem so far though, was I haven’t been able to make a copy of these borrowed and rented games, because of some silly protection the disks have, that makes only specific DVD-ROM drives be able to read the disks.

UNTIL NOW!

Check it out:

That’s Zelda – Twilight Princess, the original, being rawdumped on my brand spanking new LG 8164b DVD-ROM. And it didn’t even cost me an arm and a testicle. I found it Digital Planet, via a tipoff from a friend-of-a-friend, for a mere R90.32 plus the mandatory R50 courie fee. Rock On! (Hurry, they might still have stock left!)

I’m following the seemingly overly verbose tutorial in an afterdawn.com thread on how to backup Wii games (which is where I found out about the 816x drive requirements). Other drives may also work. Honestly, it’s not difficult:

• Find rawdump 2.0 (or 2.1) somewhere (or somewhere else)
• Alternatively use FriiDump (or get it here, sources included
• Run it
• Dump the file to an iso
• Then find ImgBurn
• Burn the iso using ImgBurn
• Done

Not rocket science people.

God I love the internet.

Live in the Northern Suburbs, Cape Town? You drive like an idiot.

As time goes by, each day that I sit in the traffic flicking between KFM, Goodhope FM, 5FM, Radio 2000 and CapeTalk, I find that there is one constant that comes to light across all of these radio stations.

Northern Suburb residents drive like complete fucking idiots.

Every single bloody day there’s either a pedestrian knocked down, or a truck broken down, or, the source of my slander above, multiple accidents either on the N1, N2, Vanguard Drive, Borchard’s Quarry, Koeberg Road, Bosmansdam Road, the R102, the R300, or the N7. EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. DAY.

Not one day goes by without some dumb Northern Suburbs fuck causing delays for everybody else because he (or she!) drives like a fuckwit. Let’s explore the reasons for this shall we?

No, you know what? Let’s not. I’m glad I don’t live in the Northern Suburbs. I wouldn’t want that poor driving ability to seep into my brain like a virus, an airborn parasitic virus embedding itself in my brain causing me to think “Oh look! There’s a gap the size of my Subaru, I’ll go wedge in there, just so I can skip past the fuck in the volksie in front of me.” No sir! Fuck that.

If you live in the Northern Suburbs, go learn to drive you fat fuck!

South Africa vs. Sri Lanka – We didn’t deserve to win

You heard me.
The Proteas did not deserve to win this game.

Why?
Any team that loses 4 wickets in 4 balls deserves to lose on the spot.

Malinga was ON FIRE! 4 wickets in 4 balls!!!! I think it had to do with his hair. His do looked asif it was possessed. And really now, his technique can’t be legal according to the cricket rulebooks??? Somebody check!

I’m glad we won though, I like to see South-Africa play cricket, so I’m glad we won. I still think we didn’t deserve to though.

And all you fucking morons that are saying that Kallis should be fired can go jump in the lake. Fucking idiots.
Don’t mind me, I haven’t had coffee yet.

Technorati Tags: malinga, cricket, Proteas

Bob Woolmer dead – Murder on the cricket grounds

Ah, yet another mysterious death in the world. News headlines, press coverage, police investigations. Ooooh, the suspense.
I think Bob Woolmer’s death has received more press coverage in the past week, than any other event I recall. Searching for ‘woolmer’ on IOL’s (rather poor) search came back with 425 hits, of which at least the first 100 are since the day of his death. News24’s (rather pitiful) search confirms the same, although they have less news stories, but still close to a hundred. Why do all these “celebs” get all this damned press coverage? Why doesn’t the murder of some poor innocent 11 year old girl that was murdered and her body stuck into the roof of her mother’s house, get this amount of press coverage??!!??!!?!?!? Oh wait, Sheldean Human’s murder did get lots of press coverage. She wasn’t a celeb. But she is now, maybe her mother should sell some of the paintings the kid did…

What’s wrong with this picture?! It’s a murder mystery in the world of cricket!!!!! Whodidit?! Was it a member of the Pakistani cricket team? A Pakistani fan that blames the couch for the piss poor performance of his (or her!) team?? Was it OJ Simpson, trying to cover up something for the mafia? Good god, it could be anybody! So far as I can see, there have been no arrests made connected to the murder last week, but I suspect they will any moment now. They might very well be waiting for the air to clear. Did you know people were asking for the Cricket World Cup to actually STOP because of the murder? What the hell man? It’s good cricket!

I’m sure that with enough time, the Jamaican police and CSI teams will have read sufficient blogs, news sites, conspiracy theorist sites and newspapers, to figure out who did it… It’s going to be the Iraq war all over again! CNN is going to cover the murderer getting onto a plane to Mexico, and the Jamaican police is going to be watching, and think “Oi maaaaan, dehr goes da murderer maaaan.”. Or something equally unentertaining. It’s best they call in Grissam to come and do the investigation, he always gets his man. Or woman, as the case may be.

But let’s speculate on who could have murdered Bob Woolmer shall we?

A member of the Pakistani cricket team?
Perhaps. But surely that would be too obvious? To easy to get caught I think.

A crazed, disappointed fan?
More likely, and easier to get away, just blend into the crowd. But really now, what idiot blames the coach for the team’s poor performance?

The betting mafia?
Yeah, OK, maybe. He was instructed to throw the second and third matches in the first pool of games, he agreed, but underestimated how sucky his team was going to be in the first two matches, so the mafia lost millions. Less likely than the crazed fan idea.

His wife?
OK, maybe. Insurance payout benefit? She saw the opportunity after the bad losses, and thought that she could let the media’s speculation direct attention away from her. Nice.

OK, those are my candidates for the final conviction of Bob Woolmer’s murder. What do you think?

Britney Spears gives good head

Well, I wouldn’t know about her giving head. But the fact that she shaved her head seems to be quite a hot topic over the past week or so…

Apparently she was in rehab for depression or something arb like that. OK, sure, that’s believable, I’d also be depressed if I’d been married to K-Fed. Or perhaps she was depressed because she has two kids that she has to take care of? More likely than the K-Fed bit, but not bloody likely as with Britney’s record sales, she probably has several nannies looking after the kids, so that’s not it.

OK, so doing some research (Hey, thesuperficial.com counts!), I still can’t quite figure out why she went into rehab in the first place (alcohol? drugs? depression?). Anyway, besides the point.

What *is* the point though, is that there’s this seemingly direct link that the media is drawing between Britney in rehab, and her shaving her head… Why couldn’t she just feel like shaving her head? There’s also a story that K-Fed apparently wanted to check Brit’s hair for drugs, during this whole ongoing custody battle, so she shaved her head because she wanted to avoid them being tested for drugs? wtf? Sure, that’s more likely than just “feeling like it”, sure, I can see that. NOT!

Don’t you think Britney and Sinead look alike now though?

But, the more important thing to note here, seeing that Britney’s a figure in the spotlight all the fucking time, is that she actually looks BETTER with her new head of no-hair. The pics I saw on thesuperficial with that mop of hers falling in her face and making her look like a druggie and/or hooker at just awful. Way to go Brit! Your new head is better than your old head! Keep it up!

Oh, and I think Britney’s a WAY better candidate for keeping custody of those kids than K-Fed is. Honostly, would you rather grow up listening to Britney’s or K-Fed’s music? I wonder if they listen to their own music at home? But, a bigger issue than the music at home thing, is that Britney really should start acting like a mother, instead of a young doll that goes out partying all the time and leaves the kids at home with the nanny. Nannies are there to help, not replace. Have a problem with your kids preferring a nanny more than you? Spend more time with the kids, and retain a good nanny. Look up the meaning of the word nanny Brit, and you’ll see that the role of nanny is really that of “Child Minder” not “Replacement Parent”. Other people I know could do well learning the difference.

Technorati Tags: britney, shavedhead, motherhood, kfed

Bah Humbug!

So today is Valentine’s Day.

Stupid arse that saint.

I hate how the world has come to commercialize every special day in existence.  We get guilted into buying stuff that you wouldn’t normally buy, just to feel better.

I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day.  I don’t need an excuse to tell that special someone “I Wub Roo” and I don’t need to buy expensive gifts and trinkets and fucking R50 long-stem roses that die after a day!  No fucking thank you sir!

So, thanks to Coke for commercializing Christmas, Hallmark (or whoever, fuck, I don’t know) for commercializing Valentine’s Day, and Old Spice for commercializing my birthday!  I HATE Old Spice!  (Remember the TV ads with the guy on the surfboard and that famous classical music?)

Anyway, Valentine’s Day is a farce.  So go buy your loved one a chocolate, melt it into little bitty heart-shapes, pick a couple of flowers, and have sex hanging from the chandelier.  Do that every other day, not just for Valentine’s Day.

Technorati Tags: chocolate, i wub roo, love, old spice, valentine, valentine’s day

Dear World: Lebo Mathosa is dead. Now get over yourself!

Lebo Mathosa is dead. She died on 23 October 2006 in a car crash. Well, technically, she died after the crash, as she was alive a short while after the crash. Sad innit?

She was buried on Saturday 28 October 2006.

In the 5 days between her death and the funeral, there were so many fucking “tributes” to her, it makes me sick. She’s dead! Get over yourselves! SHE’S dead, not you! I get that she was this “icon” and all, but sweet fucking christ! Every Tom, Dick and Sarah is paying tribute to the woman asif they knew her personally! I liked her music (I still do!), some of it anyway. I even listened to some Boomshaka back in the day, but fuck, get over yourselves now and move on.

WWLMD – What Would Lebo Mathosa Do? She’d thank whatever god or goddess is the flavour of the month that she’s alive, and get on with her life, instead of harping on about somebody else being dead.

She’s dead. Live with it.

Technorati Tags: dead, lebo, mathosa, funeral

If you need to go…

I once read somewhere, that if you need to take a dump, try to time it so that you do it at work.

That way, you save on toilet paper, and you’re getting paid to do it!

Makes sense.

I can’t time these things though.

Ya gotta go ya gotta go.

Technorati Tags: dump, toilet paper

Steve Irwin killed by a stingray = Kill All Stingrays!!!!????

What

The

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!

People are so fucking dumb.

So Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin was skewered by a stingray while filming a documentary, and now all these die-hard fans of his are “taking revenge” by killing stingrays and cutting of their tails…

Good god!

The guy is dead. He was killed by a fish. In the ocean. Where it lives. Ol’ Steve was venturing into the fish’s territory, and got dead because of it. How is this the fish’s fault? People swim in fish territory, they don’t swim in ours. So grow the fuck up!

Why on earth do people have to be reminded not to take revenge on the stingrays?! I suppose these are the same people that need to be reminded not to use a hairdryer while taking a shower. They’re all fucking stupid.

I was never a real big fan of Steve Irwin, but I’ve seen one or two of his shows, and I knew who he was. Even if I was a devout fan of his, I wouldn’t go and think that killing all stingrays is going to solve the problem. Hey, here’s an idea! Why not kill all the fucking sharks due to all the shark-attacks that have been happening around the beaches of Cape Town?! You fucking morons! It’s *their* territory, and *we* are trespassing, they’re in the fullest right to ACT NATURALLY AND EAT US! You walk into a jungle not expecting to find a tiger or something wanting to eat you? Then why the fuck do you go swim in the ocean and expect there to be nothing out THERE that wants to eat you?

The human race disappoints me. I think I’ll be picking up my copy of Destroy All Humans this weekend to feel better.

Technorati Tags: revenge, stingray, sharks, Steve Irwin

My tax money well spent

So it turns out the ANC national government wants to spend more of my tax money to put into place measures to boot the current Cape Town mayoral structure out (Which is run by the DA, as elected by those poor sods that actually voted), and replace it with some other form of committee or something, that will give the ANC more of a say in local government issues.  The PEOPLE voted earlier this year, and the PEOPLE voted the DA into power.  And ever since the ANC has been wasting my fucking tax money to try to change what the PEOPLE want!  How fucking bitter can you get?  The ANC is being a sore loser.  Grow up you fucking twats!  The PEOPLE have spoken, now let it be and let the mayor get on with her job!

Or is it perhaps, that she’s white?  OH.  MY.  GOD.  A WHITE mayor in The New South Africa??????????  What does that say about this country??????  Fuck, politics irritates me to no end.  I am SO HAPPY I didn’t vote.  Thabo!  Tell your government to stop wasting my tax money on this crap, and do something GOOD with it!

Technorati Tags: ANC, DA, politics