You must buy these DVDs

The Venture Bros Season 1 is finally available for shipping from Amazon (or you can find it in a store near you assuming they aren't sold out). Trust me when i say that you MUST have this hilarious series if you have any amount of warped sense of humor at all. Like Southpark -- you'll love this. Like The Oblongs cartoon -- omg, you must must must have this. Like Robot Chicken -- you'll get hours of enjoyment from adding this to your collection as well. Like the Tick -- this series definitely has the same tone of humor as that show.

Trust me, you must must have this. It's 14 episodes and will introduce you to the series so that you are all prepped to watch season two this fall on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block.

For a brief summary of the premise, the Venture Bros are a satire version of the old time cartoon Johnny Quest. Dr. Venture (James Urbaniak from Henry Fool) is an inventor,while sons Hank and Dean's insatiably curiosity lands them in hot waterwith supervillains, robots, magicians, and the like. Brock Sampson(voiced by the very funny Patrick Warburton of The Tick) is the good doctor's right-hand man, who rescues the boys with good old-fashioned manpower. The twist in The Venture Bros.is that every single character, down to the supervillains' henchmen,are complete and utter dolts, and their adventures are inspired more byfoolishness, personal obsessions (for Brock, it's sex and violence, andfor Dr. V, it's diet pills and a daddy fixation), or just plain cosmicweirdness than any sense of post-Kennedy-era adventure and derring-do.

Trust me, buy or rent or whatever this series. You'll thank me one you manage to catch your breath from the laughter.

Well, Talyn did do what I wanted ..

Well, last night since I was no longered in the middle of working on the presentation, I defragged my laptop for the first time in several weeks (I'd been putting it off because since the major problems, defragging sometimes results in blue screens and I didn't want to risk a permanent blue screen).

It did finish defragging...but instead of the normal 1-2 fragged files that I've been having since the last reformat, I suddenly had 8-10. Which is what has happened previously in the past right before critical failure that necessitated harddrive reformatting.

Sooo...not sure if I'll take it in today as I do need to back some stuff up off of it and I'd like to install my wireless keyboard to my pda so I can type on there, but today or tomorrow, Talyn is going back to the computer doctor. Which means I'd better start remembering my new lj so I can log in at work:P LOL.

*whines and shakes nervously*

Soooo, the computer place I went to last time is apparently without a PC technician so they couldn't help me. Which means I'll need to take my computer to the more expensive place over at the university..which won't be done today because a) it's too hot and b) I haven't had enough to eat (sausage and broccolli do not a lunch make).

However, as I ate my "snack" I decided to see what I could do to figure this out. I went into event viewer and under the application error points, I didn't find the specific one that MS told me to look for. Of the ones that did occur before/as I turned my computer off to take it to the repair shop that ended in a blue screen of death and fatal system error (it did restart, so no worries there for the moment), it did tell me hotfixes were available for one, but I'm hesitant to use it.

But for shits and grins, I checked out the system log --- this morning alone there were a series (and by this, I mean 9-15) hard disk errors, possibly due to a bad sector.

*growls* I knew I should have insisted last month that they run a check of the hard disk integrity.

Le sigh.

So now I go off to work and call the other place to make sure they do have technician as I debate whether that will be cheaper or if I should shell out the money to get a dell service contract. And I really don't want to be without my computer this month, but I want this fixed so I can trust my computer again.

Oh, the little guy from the computer repair place ever so helpfully suggested that maybe I have a virus. Look, I know I'm blonde, but I'm not an idiot. I run virus checking often. If it is a virus, I'm frelled because it's obviously a rootkit that my computer can't detect. I just find it interesting that I keep getting it despite zero-filling my hard drive and multiple re-formats.

*pets Talyn* Poor little guy.