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February 2003
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The End? Nah.
By Spoonfan - 9:22 AM, Friday, February 28, 2003 - 8 Comments |
Over the past couple of days, you may have heard rumours that Sarah Michelle Gellar has confirmed that she is leaving Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the end of this, its seventh season.
Well 4BitterGuys (and me) can confirm to you that these reports were nothing more than a practical joke played by Sarah herself (No doubt with the encouragement of Freddie, that guy's a bad influence). We have exclusively obtained an early issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine, in which Sarah goes into great detail about this elaborate prank.
 "It was pretty funny, huh?" Sarah laughs. "All those suckers on the internet completely bought [the story]. It was a thing of beauty."
When asked if she had in fact renewed her contract with Mutant Enemy, producers of the show, Gellar replied: "I've signed on for another 8 seasons, that will take us past 300 episodes.
"It will be the second longest running vampire series in television history, right after Duckula. I loved that little guy."
Entertainment Weekly hits news-stands on February 28. |
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Don't Ask Me, I'm Just a Girl
By Nadia - 11:17 PM, Monday, February 24, 2003 - 14 Comments
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Michael has insisted that I make an honorary post whilst I'm in Melbourne, despite my un-guyness.
So in the last 5 days, I've managed to get into Miles' and Michael's bed, but seeing as the former is out of the country and the latter just wanted to talk about the logistics of girl-on-girl-on-girl-on-boi escapades and show me his game (but not as in the 'are you game?' game) I'm afraid that both remain untouched by the Yellow Fever.
And I'm trying to spread the word!
Michael and I have been working on solving the important questions of life - like why girls don't get excited about 2 bois kissing or Denise Richards and why bois have change drawers/boxes. What we don't know, the Internet will. God bless the Internet.
Nadia sleep now. I suppose you'll never hear from me again as a bitterguy. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. |
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Pointless Anecdote #348957389457
By Adam - 6:57 PM, Monday, February 17, 2003 - 21 Comments
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My local art gallery is being refurbished. Outside they have a big sign that says:
art like never before
That's just crying out for a big F at the start of the sentence, and someone actually did it, but the bastards scraped it off. It was funny but now it's not funny anymore.
The end.
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Let's have a Haiku competition
By Michael - 11:25 AM, Monday, February 17, 2003 - 57 Comments
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Come up with your best bitter Haiku and submit it in the comments for this newspost. The prize is pure unadulterated street cred, and also free membership to our exclusive forum*. Here's a sample Haiku to get you all started:
I saw a girl slip,
And get mud all over her.
I got a boner. Thank-you.
* Forum may not be exclusive. |
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Holy. Fucking. Shit.
By Tim - 8:28 PM, Friday, February 14, 2003 - 7 Comments
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So there I am today, I'm getting ready for an anti-valentines BBQ for tonight, giving the place a little bit of a clean, and about to go out shopping, when all of a sudden, I get a call.
"Hey darls, it's me!"
"Oh hey sweetie, where are you?"
"I'm in Dublin... don't have much money on this payphone... just wanted to make sure you were home and then I'll go buy a phone card."
"Oh, ok. Sure, I'm home... give me a call back. I was going to go out but now I'll wait."
"Cool, cause there's also a valentines package arriving for you soon... well I'll ring back in the next half hour."
"Sweet, speak to you soon."
Next thing. Bzzzzzzt. Ah, great, the package is here. "Hello?"
"Happy Valentines sweetie"
Jesus H Christ, talk about the scare of my life! My woman who is meant to be overseas for another week and a half turns up on my doorstep and she's been *back in Brisbane for over 24 hours*. Bloody hell eh. Still, great surprise. :D |
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Happy Valentines Day!
By Michael - 9:28 PM, Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 10 Comments
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 No really, I mean it! Sure, just because I'm single, that doesn't mean I can't wish all you couples the best, does it?
Valentines Day is a chance to celebrate the beauty that is your love for one another. Why not spend the day getting to know each other on a deeper level? Find out what really makes your partner tick. Go on a picnic? Pack a yummy lunch, with healthy salad sandwiches and maybe a treat for afterwards, and don't forget to tuck a little furry teddy bear in the middle holding a red love heart to surprise your better half! Be sure to include chocolates! It is a special occasion, after all.
Love is a beautiful thing; embrace it. Fuckers. |
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Rove interviews 4BG
By Adam - 5:39 PM, Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 6 Comments
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 Rove: So have you guys met any celebrities?
Miles: I met Bert Newton once.
Rove: Cool! He's famous!
Miles: Uh... yeah.
Rove: Did you ask him what it's like to be famous?
Miles: No.
Rove: So what's your favourite ice cream?
Michael: Splice.
Tim: I don't eat ice cream.
Miles: Golden Gaytime.
Adam: Heaven.
Rove: Heaven! That sounds like Bevan! I've met him! He's a celebrity!
Adam: What?
Rove: Hey, do you guys know any famous people?
Michael: You asked us that.
Rove: Cool! So do you sleep with the light on?
Tim: Actually I've got a funny story attached to that...
Rove: Tuh-hyuh-hyuh-hyuk!
Tim: ...um, because once I turned the light off...
Rove: Tuh-hyuh-hyuh-hyuk!
Tim: ...er, and I tripped over a shoe...
Rove: Tuh-hyuh-hyuh-hyuk!
Tim: ...and nearly fell over.
Rove: Tuh-hyuh-hyuh-hyuk! That's great! Did you fall on a celebrity?
Tim: No.
Rove: So what's your favourite colour?
Michael: Blue.
Rove: Is blue famous?
Michael: No.
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Ogg Vorbis
By Adam - 3:18 PM, Monday, February 10, 2003 - 4 Comments
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Jesus christ. Vorbis is the shit. The more I play with it, the more I'm impressed with it.
I encoded a song in 64kbps stereo, and it came out half the size of an equivalent MP3 in 128kbps stereo; and apart from a tiny bit of distant gurgling, it sounds bloody fantastic.
Not to be beaten, I did three songs in 45kbps stereo, one of them producing a 1.41Mb .ogg file with a 3:54m song, and they all sound absolutely incredible. Of course the stereo kind of swishes about the place, but with a file that small you'd expect that. To be sure I wasn't going nuts, I did one of them again as a 48kbps MP3, and it sounds like fucking AM radio, and it's 10% larger.
As a final test to push the bastard to its limits, I encoded an old Beatles number from back in the days when they mixed with completely separate stuff going on in each channel, effectively creating two largely exclusive mono channels; and it's a master with the stereo phase so far out of alignment that shoving it through Dolby Pro Logic mangles it to buggery. Even at 45kbps, the compression is so well managed that you can't tell the stereo separation has been tinkered with unless you stick your head right between the speakers or wear headphones. Still, it's way better than MiniDisc LP4 encoding, and heaps smaller too.
Maybe I just copped a few good sample songs, I don't know, but the fact that they all came out sounding this close to the original, at such a tiny bit rate, is phenomenal. More than adequate for me to play while I'm at work, and certainly acceptable for a walkman.
Beyond all that, from a user's point of view it makes a hell of a lot more sense than MP3. Instead of pissing about with bit rates and such, you've got a sliding scale of -1 to 10, -1 being worst quality [roughly 45kbps] and 10 being super-hyper-best quality [roughly 500kbps].
If this is the future of open source, I'm all for it.
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See!! It's crazy!!
By Tim - 9:02 AM, Friday, February 7, 2003 - 7 Comments
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I direct your attention right here. Wow. Fat ambulances. That's crazy... You know what the US needs?
Norm.
 And with the wonders of the Internet you can find him here.
Good ol' Norm. He taught us Aussies what it was to be fit and healthy. In fact, I think we need him back too. I saw something saying some horrid proportion of Aussies are overweight. Just not obese in the numbers that Americans are.
I don't really know why this issue has got my goat so much... I guess it's because rather than try and fix the problem, people just accommodate it. People start to think it's okay to be XXXXXXL. Let me put it this way, do you want to see these lovely ladies as the majority at the beach?
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Ches Photoshop pics are in!!
By Miles - 10:44 AM, Sunday, February 2, 2003 - 6 Comments
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Thanks to Spoonfan, Michael, Andy and Sal respectively.
   
And a video entry too (Divx required) from Trev:
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I am a Consumer Whore
By Michael - 8:59 AM, Sunday, February 2, 2003 - 3 Comments
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 I was sitting in my room yesterday and took note of the fact that I own many DVDs which I have never watched. I bought the Back To The Future box DVD set for under $50 because it was a "bargain", but not once have I sat down and watched Mr. Fox pursue his wacky time-travel antics. I purchased Predator - my favourite film of all time. Sure, the behind the scenes stuff and interviews were an interesting watch, but I know for a fact I won't watch them more than once again. I still haven't actually watched the feature, and given that I've seen it over 10 times, I probably won't for quite awhile. (Well, maybe just a bit to hear Arnie say "Stick around," and throw a knife into that guy. Heheheh.) I ordered Brain Candy over the 'net, a cult film by a Canadian comedy group called Kids in the Hall. This disc has no extra features, and I already had it on tape. I still have my copy of Metal Gear Solid 2 for Playstation 2 because it was a fantastic game, but, you guessed it, since I completed the game it has just sat on the shelf, watching me play Halo or GTA:VC in clear view. (I've also noticed it has put on weight and has started smoking.)
So what the hell is the deal? It makes me feel good when I buy something because it's mine forever. I thought I was above that materialistic crap, but it appears I am a consumer whore. I suppose I should be happy. Happy that I can afford this way of life, that my country isn't at war, that I own a car, that my health is good, and that I love my job. But one wonders about the long-term effects of this lifestyle. I've had Catch 22 (the book) sitting next to my bed for the last 4 months. I really wanted to read that book, and a friend just happened to get it for me on my 22nd birthday. I've read about 20 pages so far. It's a good book and all, but the words are like, really big and stuff. Ya know?
Like, Whatever. Pfft. Cssh. Snuh-- OOH!!! There's a sale on at Electronics Boutique! Quick boys! To the shopping centre! |
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