The Fall of Californication

Did I change, or did Californication? I thought the first two seasons were pretty good. Hank Moody was a flawed, but likable character. His supporting cast was the same. Maybe they were running out of storylines, or maybe they lost a good writer. So to compensate, they decided to go from very sexual and funny to downright raunchy and annoying. I like a rimjob joke as much as the next guy. But it's a fine line between being clever and just plucking low-hanging fuck joke fruit. There's nothing really left to like about Hank or the writing.

Also, I find that watching Dexter in fast forward is better than actually having to listen to the writing or watch the acting. His sister on the show, Deb, is the worst. Weeds went downhill as well. And that new HBO show Bored to Death sort of stinks.

That's all.

This song ruined my weekend by never leaving my head.

Another Quality Adult Purchase

Someone else realized that as an adult they're allowed to buy anything they want. We now have two sets of these at the office:



The Shocking Duel. This is a game that electrocutes you. Each level features shocks of increasing lengths. As you move up levels, the shocks get stronger and stronger until someone lets go. According to the box, "The first person to let go of the shock handles is the wimp!"

I played it. At first it feels sort of nice, like a little vibrating massage. At the final level, it feels like you're holding a hand full of stinging bees. I was pretty sure I wouldn't ever let go, but I had to. I think I can smell myself burning from the inside. I was the wimp.

One of the best things about being a grownup.

Is that you can buy whatever you want and no one can stop you. For some reason we were having a discussion about ants at work and I realized, I've always wanted an ant farm. I'm 31 years old, why have I never had an ant farm? Especially in this age, when you can buy just about anything online. Even an ant farm, complete with live ants.



It was about $35, including ants and shipping. But I basically doomed my colony by not ponying up the extra $8 for some sort of overnight delivery. Instead, my two test tubes full of ants sat suffocating in a box for about a week. When they arrived, there were only about 1/3 left alive. Morale of the remaining ants was pretty low. Then, to make things worse, I didn't try to filter out the dead ants. They all went into the farm with their brothers. Which led to an interesting discovery. As the ants were building their tunnels (they built some pretty nice tunnels), they also moved the dead ants to two little ant graveyards and buried them.

As of today, there are only two ants left, still working away, carrying sand around.

The good news is, new test tubes of ants are only a few clicks away.