The Meticulous Geek » fuckups http://themeticulousgeek.com Life, rantings and small portions of not too useful information Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:46:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Chileans Got Him http://themeticulousgeek.com/2010/06/03/they-got-him/ http://themeticulousgeek.com/2010/06/03/they-got-him/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:31:03 +0000 basp http://themeticulousgeek.com/?p=658 Finally, that asshole Joran van der Sloot has been captured. Apparently, by the Chileans. Not surprisingly, as allegedly he crossed the border with Peru some hours ago. This post is solely based on tweets and a somewhat arcane blog but the Twitter storm is picking up and more and more other sources are popping up via Google search too.

I almost forgot to consult the Global Consensus for advice but lets see what it has to say about our beloved Joran van der Sloot:

Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot (Arnhem, 6 augustus 1987) is een Nederlander die sinds juni 2005 verdacht wordt van betrokkenheid bij de verdwijning op Aruba van Natalee Holloway, een jonge vrouw uit de Verenigde Staten. Van der Sloot wordt sinds 30 mei 2010 tevens verdacht van betrokkenheid bij de dood van Stephany Flores in Peru. Van der Sloot ging naar school op Aruba, waar zijn vader werkzaam was als rechter in opleiding.

Ok, that’s Dutch so it will probably not be very useful to a lot of readers. Let me fix that for you:

Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot (Arnhem, 6th of August 1987) is a Dutchman who is suspected to be involved in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, a young woman from the US. Since the 30th of May 2010, Van der Sloot is also suspected to be involved with the death of Stephany Flores in Peru. Van der Sloot went to school in Aruba where his father was working and studying to become a judge.

Supposedly, he is currently hanging around the Cuartel Borgoño de la Policía de Investigaciones in Chile.

Many thanks to Chile for doing what our puny nation could not: capture this son of a bitch and put him on hold for a while. I sincerely hope that this crazy monkey sphincter will be put on hold indefinitely because there is just a little too much unnecessary death in too short a timespan surrounding this guy.

I am fucking ashamed to share a native language with this donkey turd and he should be taken care one way or another. It doesn’t fucking matter, just put him away indefinitely or kill him outright – we don’t care. He’s a fucking piece of waste and while we’re at it, we just as well might fucking take care of his motherfucking parents because I hold these people responsible for doing a piss poor job on bringing this piece of megalomaniac scum into the world.

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Over the course of last year, the amount of games and the time I played that console grew larger and larger and now it’s definitely the most played console in my house. At least, until three minutes past five yesterday. After spending the last few days achievement hunting together with my brother we managed to unlock the infamous red ring of death.

Before that, I was hoping (but never fully confident) that my Xbox would be devoid of any problems. Sadly, I was wrong and it seems that the buzz around the failure rate of Microsoft’s console is not entirely unjustified.

The good news is that I can send it back to Microsoft for repairs for free. The bad news is that repairs will take two to three weeks and I’ll be damned if my two days old copy of GH5 has to gather dust for all that time.

So this afternoon, my brother will pickup a new Xbox and we will just transfer the HD from the broken one as it has to be removed before sending it anyway. In the end this means that we will have two Xboxes but that’s not a problem. We’ll just put one at my parents house and use that for backup in case the new one decides to bail out too.

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