According to the ESRB, it looks like SNES version of Street Fighter II Turbo is heading to the Wii’s virtual console. I purchased the original Street Fighter II (The World Warrior) for the virtual console not too long ago. Some people are pissed that they bought the first one not realizing that SF2Turbo would be out so soon. Aside from the fact that both are fun and solid fighting games, they both have nostalgic value to me, and I will gladly get SF2Turbo when it comes out.
I was thinking about it and the funny thing is that I never actually owned SF2Turbo before, at least not the US version.
Back in August of 1993, a friend of mine (Rodney) was in Dallas to see a band. The day after the show he stopped by a video game store in the area and they happened to have an import copy Street Fighter II Turbo for the Super Famicom (SNES). Due to import pricing, this game cost $100. He called me from the store and told me about it. Within an hour, I had rounded up 100 bucks and some gas money. Then another friend (Chris) and I were off. We made the 2.5 hour drive from Wichita Falls Texas to Dallas in what seemed like no time. Normally, that drive sucked (though not as bad as the drive from Wichita to Austin) but at that point in time I didn’t care. I was too excited. After we got to the store, I happily handed over $100 dollars and we were on our way back. The drive back was grueling. The 2.5 hours seemed to take for ever then. Here Chris and I had the coolest game on the planet and we couldn’t play it yet. After we got home it was pure video game nerd bliss. In then end, I spent 5 hours round trip and $50 extra for a game that was:

• In a language that I couldn’t read.
• Scheduled for a U.S. release 8 days later.

Ahh… good times.

Amusing.

I’m sure a lot of you have seen this before but I ran across a good copy of this on the net the other day. By good I mean large, as most of the other ones I saw were really small resolution images. Anyway, this is probably my favorite owned/pwned picture ever.

Here’s another one I really liked for the video game reference.

These and a lot of other funny ones can be found here at UrbanDictionary.

And for those who don’t know, here is UrbanDictionary’s definition for owned and its derivative, pwned.

I thought it would be funny to play sounds of cats meowing to mess with the kitties. I found this great site, Cat sounds. After about 10 minutes of playing various cat sounds, I was getting a really big kick out of watching them hunt around the office for this batch of kittens that they could hear, but not see. Then I scrolled down a bit more on that site and saw Lion Sounds. I thought, “Oooo… this ought to be funny,” and let this one rip. The cats ran out of here so fast. It was funny. They’re scared of the office now.

Tonight there was this Trains for Tots thing at the train station by our apartment. Sarah went into more detail about what this is here. Anyway, there was somebody dressed as Santa, a reindeer, and a bear as well as elves and stuff. But there was also somebody dressed as Frosty the Snowman. I took pictures of all of them but I noticed when I got home and looked through them, that my camera’s flash had shown right through Frosty’s eye hole leaving me with this really creepy picture:

After closer inspection, I guess it could be Frosty the Creepy woman but whatever.

This weekend I went to get my haircut at a local Ultra/Super/Pro Cuts. I can never remember which it is. Anyway, my haircut is always simple. I ask them to use the clippers and use a number 1 on the sides and a number 2 or number 3 on the top. When it was my turn, I got this happy smiling Vietnamese guy probably in his mid thirties named Minh (I think). So he’s about done with my hair and he starts to make conversation:

Minh: Is that your girlfriend over there?
Me: Yea.
Minh: Ah, she real pretty. You’re lucky guy.
Me: Thanks.
Minh: So you two have big plans tonight? Going to go to parties?
Me: Well, probably not. We’re probably just going to watch a movie.
Minh: Ah, you’re lucky guy. I have nothing.
Me: What??
Minh: You’re lucky. I have nothing.
Me: What do you mean?
Minh: My wife is in Vietnam.
Me: Why don’t you bring her here?
Minh: I can’t, I have to wait five years until I can (something, something, I’m not sure what he said).
Me: 5 years?
Minh: Yea, it’s a long time. I can’t wait that long.
Me: Wow, that sucks.
Minh: I need to find a temporary.
Me: I don’t know about that.
Minh: Don’t you think? I need to find a temporary. Five years is too long.
Me: I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Minh: You don’t think so? Five years.
Me: I don’t think you’re wife will think it’s a good idea.
Minh: But it’s too long. I need a temporary.

After that he finished my hair and showed me the back of my head in the mirror, just like the barbers always do. We went over to the register to so he could ring me up. Minh commented on my hair being so short and I told him it’s because I like to have a zero maintenance hairstyle. He laughed, reached over the counter, rubbed my head and said, “You look like the Buddha.”

According to Mike, members of the animal kingdom, and not just people, hate smokers. This is his photographic evidence of a trap that was set for an unsuspecting, nicotine addicted human.

I got off work early today, around 3:30, and that worked out perfectly because the people at DAS called me to say that my car had arrived and was ready to be picked up. When Sarah and I got there, there was this man there with his son dropping off his son’s Ford Explorer. When they brought my car around front, they told me to look at it make sure they hadn’t messed it up or anything and then I could go sign off on it and take it home. While I was outside looking over my car, that kids dad came out with a somewhat worried look on his face and asked if the DAS people had done that to my car. By that he meant all the dents, broken bumper, missing grill, etc. I told him no, that my car was a piece of crap when I gave it to them, and that it actually looked better now because the DAS people had washed it.