I just got back from Peter’s. We watched The Exorcist (incredibly, I had managed to go for all of 25 years without seeing it). Before I get into my rant about it let me just say that I’m not one of those Ohhh.. horror movies make me laugh-kind of guys. In fact, I find that a bit silly. What’s the point of watching horror movies if you don’t get scared??? Seems to me like those guys who brag about being able to drink two gallons of beer straight without getting drunk. It’s not sex, you idiots! there’s no prize for endurance!! and you’ll just end up spending more at the bar.

Ok. Rant aside: don’t get me wrong, of course Friday the 13th part 13 and a half or whatever will have you laughing your ass off all through the murder chain. Not this one, though. This one scares. I damn near shit my pants when freak-o-girl went down the stairs backwards. Thankfully, the dvd was all scratched to hell and it kept breaking down the image and ruining the mood or I would have had a stroke. This one gets a 10 in my Make-it-go-please-O-Meter. First of my Highly recommended movies, which is my made up category for movies that I like and you’d be a fool to miss. Out now.

— sergio at 12:05 AM  

I got moved from testing to development at work a while ago and there’s tons of acronyms to hate and cool stuff to learn, so I’ve been playing Padawan to Peter lately. He’s cool. He’s also the guy who suggested the Overcaffeinated name for this site. Dixon is kind of based on him, too. Unless he wants to sue me. In that case, I’ve never seen him in my whole life and Dixon and everyone else were inspired by these really neat sculptures I made with my mashed potatoes at breakfast the other day. Yes. That should work.

Peter’s website is mafufo.com (that’s a rather… charming picture of him and his wife on the background) btw, mafufo is spanish for kind of weird-ish or something. Be sure to also check out the incredibly neat (I made it) website of the guys at Red Naranja. They provide me with hosting and tons of bandwidth in exchange for web design and imported monkeys. I’m running out of monkeys, so I have to make up for it redirecting traffic their way.

I’m starting to feel more comfortable with the new style, and even tried some new things (thanks a lot to Ian from Machall for his excellent tutorials — you rock, man). I hope it shows.

— sergio at 10:57 PM  

Well, despite my efforts to the contrary, this comic has gone into Tuesday. For the record, I intend to make this a strictly weekly affair, with updates happening on Sundays / Mondays. Updates on Monday when the weekend is too good for me to work on this stuff (as was the case this time). The comic went up shortly after midnight, however, so I guess that it could be said that I didn’t stray too much from the original goal.

This weekend we had a LAN Party. A few important lessons were learned:

• Shooting, killing and maiming your friends in Counter Strike is as much fun to do piss drunk as it is to do sober


• Unreal Tournament 2003, although a multi-Gig beast, is an awesome game


• UT’s version of football is way more fun than the traditional kind. Nothing like chopping the head off the goalie to make an otherwise boring sport interesting.

Well, this is my first entry in this here blog thingie, and also the debut of the new Overcaffeinated style. Hope you all enjoy it. I have a lot of updates for the site planned and I’m slowly making my way through my to-do list. Stay with me and I’ll try to make this work nicely =)

— sergio at 01:04 AM