Ranting of a Sorta Madman

More than Meets the Trailer

2006-07-02T19:38:00.000-07:00

Alright folks after the 80s have made such an impact on that lifestyles, cultures, and millions of other things. From that came thoughts of how movies should be made, the way people want to live their lives and about a 1000 other ideas. Of these the people of my generation have claimed certain things as our personal spae, you invade them without knowing certain things we will rip you to shreds without a second thought. One of these illustrious things are the Tranformers, those robotic renagades who are more than meets the eye.

For those of you who DONT know here is the short backstory. Born and breed on Cybertron the race of transformers has become split into 2 seperate factions, the Decyptacons and the Autobots. In a scheme to try and end the war some of the higher ranking Decyptacons fly off into space to find a larger supply of the energy source of their world, Energon. Catching wind of the plan the Autobot leaders, specifically their ultimate leader Optimus Prime, set out to stop it. During the ensuing battle the autobots and decyptacons fall to earth during its primitive time and reawaken around the early to mid 90s. With the technology at their desposal the 2 factions copy and transform into these everyday items and pervert their orignal functions so they can use them as weapons to finish this war.

But in truth the war never really ends and the movie will recap what actually happened and how the autobots are the heros that they are. So the trailer can be found here. Enjoy it all and know that if they screw up one person, specifically soundwave, megatron, hot rod, or optimus prime ill personally create a transformer just to destroy that movie studio.

The Ready Smile

2006-06-14T19:25:00.000-07:00

You know i got some sorta crappy news today that i have to move out of my kick ass apt to not bigger or better digs in less than 5 days. Now how do you suddenly realize that you no longer can live in your place and move in 5 days, its complicated but it happens. Its times like this that I try to remember the good things in my life. My friends, family, and those few things that make me smile bigger than anything else. When those are needed i always swing over to Sargeworld.com the internet nest of one of the coolest people ive ever talked to, Internet's Martin Sargent.

Of course i mention this cuz he mentioned me, thats right the Sarge and i have crossed pathes on this crazy road of life when he did episdoe 8 of dear blog with me and zack. And of course he was nice enough to mention it on his site, right HERE actually. It just always makes me smile.

My E3 Wrap UP

2006-05-16T10:32:00.000-07:00

E3 wrapped up last week and though every single person on the planet is rolling out their opinion and whatever else they can say to make their point. So here is mine.

1) Gear of War: only three words descirbe this game OH MY GOD. This game is beautiful, scary, gruesome, and insanly fun looking all at the same time. Not to mention I might jump back aboard the X-Box bandwagon just for this game. Not Halo 3, not DoA 4, not anything in their line up just this game.

2) Halo 3: Ok I might have lied because I have finished the other two installments and I really want to finish this fight. Halo 2 did leave me with a bit of a let down feeling at the end. Seriously unless you stuck around after the credits to see what Cortana was up to then you REALLY were disapointed. Just when you hit the highlight of the game, the best part, they cut you off. Its like a good drug gone HORRIBLY wrong.

3) Duck Hunt 2: Thats right the dog is back laugh and all not to mention with the stylish Wii controler making shooting the ducks that much easier.

4) Super Smash Brothers Brawl: Ok there are some lame character, like oh say metaknight from the Kirby series. However I have wanted to see Kid Icaris from his sereis make a come back, his games were a little cool and they way they powered him up with his bow becoming 2 swords is awesome. Oh did i forget to mention the best part of the whole thing Solid Snake. Thats right uninformed masses Soild Snake is now a playable character in Super Smash Brothers. Prepare for some insane moves.

5) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Nuff said, i mean seriously if you love the series youll love this game, if not you wont.

The Lighter side of Gwen Stephani

2006-04-30T15:20:00.000-07:00

Well technically its not about the former No Dobut front girl its something much more fun. Random interent searches sometimes reveals some incredible stuff. All I really want to show off is this. Its funny, its random, and its smart. I mean comon think about it.

People need to lighten up

2006-04-28T20:11:00.000-07:00

So a friend sent me a video that at first i thought was funny then i watched it a few more times, cuz you know if its funny you can always watch it again and laugh. The bad part this isnt as funny the second or third time around you start to listen to what the guy is saying. Now keep in mind that the guy in the is video in the Texas A&M shirt is the victim and obviously had something very large and painful crawl up his ass and stay there for a prolonged period of time. Now the disclaimer did lead me to believe hie is also the guy who travled to DC but that doesnt give him an excuse to go off like this.

Before i go on watch the video.

Ok if your done watching the video let me ask you guys a few questions that I still cant figure out. 1) WTF is wrong with this guy? I mean seriously cant he take a joke, at ALL, something much worse than that happened with my roommate doing stuff in my room and i did laugh. Hell i keep laughing when i think about it. It did take a bit to clean up but it was still funny.

2) What is all this "good work" he was doing. Obviously if he was doing good work he would have been in a better mood so whatever he was doing must have gotten shot in the head faster then a lame horse in the wild west. That or he REALLY needs to get laid.

3) Why is he suddenly worried about student activty fees. Does he think someone is going to take money from a college in order to play a prank. What an idiot.

I mean dont you agree.

WTF Moment 2

2006-04-27T18:12:00.000-07:00

This week's WTF moment comes to us from the good ship Nintendo. It seems that in an attempt to make their system stand out from all others, or to take advantage of a really weird but funny Family Guy joke, It was announced that the new system from the Japanesse toy company will be wii (pronounced we). The jokes you can make are immediate of course.

Can i play with my wii now mom?

Man I need something to play, lets whip out the wii.

I wish I could play with my wii now, i cant till fall.

I need a wii.

That concludes the lastest WTF moment

WTF Moments

2006-03-16T18:47:00.000-08:00

Sorry the EXTREME lack of updates but school, as well as my sudden decline in health, have lead my away from updating my lackluster blog. But to those 3 of you who still do visit a day thanks it means something. Since most good blogs a have series or basic image they keep up ill be starting one called WTF Moments. Things that happen around the week from TV shows, News, Sports, that just dont quite make it to the general public but are still worthy of noteriety.

This weeks WTF moment, the American Inventor. Actually the show iteslf doesnt get the WTF prize but more noteably one of its contestants that was allowed to move into the next round does. The year was 19XX (XX cuz i have no real clue and am to lazy to research right now) and brothers Evan and Jerret hit the scene and young girls bedroom walls with their hit crazy for this girl. The song was pop bubblegum at its finest and suddenly the brothers fell from the limelight and fell hard. So what happens they return in 2006 on American Inventor with a PIT BOWL. Ok let me explain.

One of the brothers, assuming he was smart, decided that since his brother, the band, and bascially every other person on the tour bus left pits and shells everywhere that there should be a bowl that you can put these to where you can also put the aformentioned items before they become trash. Its a 2 teir bowl the top for display the bottom for the pits, shells, etc. Whats worse the PAST THIS THROUGH. They already have a version of this out on the market that has been around since I've been alive. Its called ANOTHER BOWL. I mean seriously WTF.

The Man with the One Bullet

2006-02-26T16:02:00.000-08:00

Most of you may not be able to remember the Andy Griffith show and in all honesty so am I. But I have grown up in an area where Andy is like a part of the family. He is renown, known, and considered the gold standard of how a family should be. Everyone knew all the cast by heart and not to far from where I am is a place that calls itself Mayberry. One of the most famous people in all the show is bumbling deputy Barney Fiffe, played by the string bean Don Knotts.

Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Bevery Hills. He was 81 and quite possibly one of the most reconisible faces in all of television's history. Actually he is an alumni at my college registered 1984, oddly enough the end of my birth.

His most famous counterpart - Barney Fiffe, was only allowed to carry around one bullet after he accidently shot himself in the foot. It soon became a sight gag used by the writers to reinforce Fiffe's incompetance. A prime example is where the sherrif heads out of town for 8 hours and by the time he comes back Barney has arrested the entire township for breaking the law.

Knotts has been in 7 TV shows and 25 movies, the most famous of which were Disney films and probalby one of the most famous of them was the Amazing Mr Limpet. He played a goofy marine/marine bilogist who gets turned into a fish and is forced to learn about the changes he is forced to endure and uncovers a navy plot to use a new weapon that will sadly mess up the aquatic life.

As my last words on the topic let me say this; Mr Knotts you are in heaven because you are a man of my area and I know who you are. Sit back relax and enjoy the ride, you earned it.

I just got FIRED

2006-02-23T12:54:00.000-08:00

No not from work, or school, but from my show Dear Blog. Well not really fired as much as the guy who ran our servers decieded that we werent holding up our end of our deal. Since we havnet dont an episode since sometime in November, or October, we made one literally yesterday edited it, and sent it out. Later that day we got the info that our host, Jake Fisher, decided we didnt mention his site enough so told us that he was pulling the plug. This shocked us, we thought we had mentioned him in every single episode. It turned out we didnt so we tried to aplogzie and created an intro before every show that we would put in saying "Dear Blog is hosted by Big Fish Hosting.com.....etc etc". He still said NO.

Ok im no expert but if the guys who have done something wrong to you try hard to make it right i do give them the benifit of the doubt and you know...FORGIVE THEM. This is some CRAZY stuff, not only have i been dropped but i've been fired by a 14 year old....WTF. For the full info visit thefifthrule.com.

Time after Time

2006-01-16T12:42:00.000-08:00

Alright if any of you listen to my podcast you already know what Im about to talk about and can skip down to the end of the page on this one and check out what movie i think you guys should take a minor interest in before it comes out next month.

Many people have always spoken about what the signs are for the end of the world. Some say they will be obvious, like the oceans drying up or turning to fire. Pestulance would reign over the land and the dead would walk the earth. Others think they would be subtle signs, the onset of a nuclear war IE the anger, hatred, and violence involved with them. Though all the signs are probably really good ways of noticing the end of the world the single most important of the underlying things of the end of the world.....Kidz Bop.

I despise the idea, the sale, the advertising, and even the children involved in it. This is singlery one of the worst bastardization of music since the idea that any band on the planet is entitled to do a cover of any song they choose. I understand that kids are suppose to appreciate music but isnt forcing children to sing and make that high pitch whiny noise while some adult is in the background making the song sound like it belongs on seseme street just a bit wrong. Also a huge problem I have with every single album is how much they butcher the meaning of every single song by making its cutsie so kids can get into it.

The best example i can provide is when Evansecense first hit the scene with bring me to life. That was a good song. It was dark, yet catchy, and made ya wonder where it all come from. Kids bop turned it into a bunch of 11 year olds, who dont know better, making it sound like belonged on Barney and friends. Im not 100% sure how they even license all these songs. Somewhere in a dark room Wezzer is crying as they remember that Beverly Hills is on the lastest encarnation of the Kidz Bop collection. I wish the entire craze would stop or all those dumbass parents would just wise up and buy their kids Now thats what I call music if they want a collection of good songs SUNG BY THE ARTISTS.

Ok im done with my rant. The movie I spoke of earlier though for those of you who just skipped down to the end of the page is Date Movie. Its more or less the scary movie appraoch to all those crappy stupid and plot points that you can see coming from space date movies that litter the theatres ever now and again. It stars buffy alum Alisson Hannigon as a girl who is out to find that perfect love. The movie, as advertised, is written by 2 of the 6 people that wrote the first scary movie. No its not some of the Wayans bros. but two of the other people. It looks fairly interesting, well not even interesting just something to spend seven bucks on and laugh at for however long it lasts. The trailer for it is funny as well, the whole dance thing at the begging is amusing but for my money the best part is Lil John saying Get Crunk as a drink proposal

Simple and Clean

2006-01-04T15:10:00.000-08:00

Its the new year which means only one thing......i JUST woke up from my hangover and decided to finally throw some news up on the old website that I get for free from blogger because well im broke and I do like doing this online website thing.

My christmas and new years are nothing of real interest but today while working on some stuff online i found some of the best news I could find short of it stateside.....KINGDOM HEARTS 2 footage. In my freshman year in college I got bored one day talking to a friend of mine and she has just started playing Kingdom Hearts and was getting bored with it. Though me without my own PS2 couldnt play it to tell her what I thought about it.

Much to my suprise my roommate at the time brought back his PS2 after one weekend and I asked if i could borrow it one weekend and he agreed which was awesome on his part. Actually he, in the brief stent of roommates i've ever had was one of the cooler ones. I've had like 5 and 2 of them needed to be drug out into the street shot, resurected, castrated and allowed to bleed to death, then revived again, and burnt alive and after all that their ashes dumped into acid to make sure any trace of their existance exists. Ok sorry that was venting, neccessary, but vented. Back on topic, I got a chance to play Kingdom Hearts and got WAY to into it. I almost missed doing a major spanish assignment becuase i got so deep into it on the weekend.

Around 30 hours in I realized it was well past an addiction considering those 30 hours took place over friday and saturday. My friends came over asked me WTF i was doing playing a video game for that long without some kind of monetary prize waiting on me when i finished. That sunday my roommate came back to me playing and asked how my weekend went and why it looks like i hadnt left the room all weekend. To that I paused the game looked at him, looked at the TV, smiled, and he said I had a problem. He was right but i got it under control but really got into the story line of KH, it was heart warming.

After awhile I lost all track of what was going on with the games sequels, yeah there were two. The first of which was released during the winter of 04 called Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories. With that single game my love of the series was renewed even though I had never beaten the first game before that point. So i sat down with my GBA beat the crap out of that game 3 times over and then just let it all rest.

This summer when I purchased my PS2 i was wondering around for a game to buy with it. But since this was the time of God of War i was looking for that and found Kingdom Hearts right next to it and I grabbed it like it was the last copy of a best selling thing of all time. I took it home beat it and fell right back into what I was when i first played it....IN LOVE. Look if youve played it and liked it in any way you know what im talking about. The game was just WOW when you first really took a good hard look at it. But now with KH2 in Japan its only a matter of time before it makes it way state side and i MUST own a copy of it. I dont care what its for ill buy a X-box 360 if that is what it takes. Especially after the animation for it I saw today.

If you havent seen it ill try to find the links again for it and put them up here. At the very least upgrade the opening movie. Its just an incredibly eyecatching remake/retelling of the first 2 games.

Happy Holidays

2005-12-14T06:30:00.000-08:00

Hey all, sorry I havent updated in over a week. There is a very good reason, its call FINALS, and they are a pain in my ass. Saturday I had my all or nothing Prob Stat final. I say all or nothing because if I failed that one then no matter what my grade in the class was. Thats right make an F on that test and even if you had an A you FAIL, so no drinking the night before needless to say.

Today, which is wednesday...which is still a suprise to me, I have two exams. One of which might I add was at 8:00am and I have one tommorow at 8:00am as well. In the time I wrote this I realized how much time was kicking my ass and just woke up from a very relaxing 5 hour nap. I never really understood why people took naps. I mean you sleep at night anyway why do you need to sleep during the day as well. It takes all the fun out of the day, well I was WRONG. Naps are awesome and I highly suggest them if you need one. True it might screw up your sleep schedule if you do it wrong but hey stuff happens.

One last note, this is my last blog entry for the rest of the year as well as most of Januaray as I will be out for the holidays. My school lets me out as of Friday and makes me come back over half way through Januaray. So thanks alot to everyone who checks my site. It means alot, and feel free to comment on what youd like to see in the new year.

Say it aint so Honkey

2005-12-10T18:03:00.000-08:00

Today marks a sad day for all of us enjoyed a good laugh. Richard Prior, the man who more or less recreated comedy, died at the age of 65. Prior's death marks the end of an era as in the 30 some odd years as a comedian he had always tried to help break the barrier for black entertianers. All he had set out to do he accomplished and paved the way for comedians like Eddy Murphy, Chris Rock, Robin Williams, and so many more.

Staring in several movies Prior, at one time, was the highest paid black actor in the country. He was in such films as The Toy, Superman 3, and Lady Sings the Blue. Most notable though were his movies with Gene Wilder in Silver Streak and Stir Crazy. Prior and Wilder were an excellent pair and though they tried not to Prior stole every scene he was in.

I wish I could say more about such an insperational man but its hard to put into words all he has done to create a better place for black actors and comedians. God Speed Richard Prior, God speed.

Not in the Know

2005-12-07T10:57:00.000-08:00

I'm tired of a prevaling trend in my site hits. It seems that I've become the place to go for info on past and present G4 personalities as hits for Sarah Lane, Laura Foy, Tina Wood, Kevin Rose, and many others have become almost daily staples for me. Listen folks I know what I know about these people which may or may not be more than what you do. But I can tell you a few things that I for sure DONT know.

1) I DONT know why Sarah Lane and Kevin Rose broke up. All I know is that it happened, its sad, and it shouldnt be probed into. Its their lives, leave it alone and move on. But if you would like my opinion, and im guessing from the number hits about it you would, distance would have been the prevaling problem with the relationship. Keep in mind Kevin now resides in San Fransico working for Revision 3 while Sarah stayed in LA with Attack of the Show.

2) I DONT know if Larua Foy and Tina Wood have ever/will ever be lovers. This sorta trails back to the first one, its their life leave it alone. I swear people can be like stupid kids wondering around. They want to get their hands on everything they see without thinking of weither they should or not. Just as long as it captures their interest they dont care they just want to get involved with it.

a) There have been ALOT of hits about these ladies so i saw fit to seperate it out into subsections to help seperate out what is what. This section deals with Larua Foy directly. I do not, nor do i even want to know, if she is a lesbian or has had a lesbian lover. I also have no idea if she has kissed the foot/feet of Tina Wood...nor do I know if the opposite is true. Also I have no pictures of Ms Foy, either clothed or nude, so STOP SEARCHING. Even if you find any they are most likely faked so give it up.

b) Well if A had to do with Larua lets guess who B is about, thats right Tina Wood. Oddly I havent gotten as many hits about Tina as I have Larua but thats probably because alot of the time Tina dresses a little more conservative than Laura. This isnt a bad thing as it does add a bit of mystery to her but it also apparently makes fanboys want to run for the net and search out pictures for her. Also a bit number of hits have also made mention that Ms Wood may in fact be batting for the other team, for those of you who know what im talking about. Well lets get one thing straight....I DONT CARE. Her life is her life, if I meet her and got to know her it might become of some slight interest to me. But since im havent and most likely never will STOP LOOKING HERE.

In closing I'd like to as you everyone, though a huge majority are guys, to stop looking for this stuff. There isnt going to be one tell all site that will reveal/show/dictate to you what is going on in these peoples personal lives. Leave them alone.

Fine and Dandy Warhols

2005-12-04T18:22:00.000-08:00

Sorry about the total lack of posting for almost 2 weeks life has been hectic. Acutally I have some minor good news, for me anyway. While working through all the stuff i need to take/not take to graduate as fast as i possibly can. Because its this is my 4th year of college but my first at my new college. Its suprising that I can get out of college much sooner than I expected. It could be as soon as next year that I get up and get gone, it all depends on a few things that will happen over the summer. If it works then shabam im gone. Which is suprising considering i thought I would be here ANOTHER 3 years. The fact that it might be 2 years or even a year and a half is insanly cool for me. It could make the difference between of weither I choose to go to graduate shool or not.

If I choose to go it would be at the prodding of a few people. Actually more like only 3; my parents, my professors, and the guys who will give me jobs in the future. The graduate school here at ETSU doesnt really revolve around improving upon what I learn for my BS. It more or less revolves around making whoever takes the course incredibly capable of running a TV or Radio studio effectively. I would like to go to grad school but seriously its going to be boring and more stuff than I think I'll need but if I really want to make it I will most defiantly want to take it.

The final peice of business is about more Veronica Mars. The series has taken an horrible turn, not horrible in writing but in what is going on. After the last season where the Kaine murder had been totally solved Veronica though it was going to be smooth sailing. Sadly for her, her senior year is full of anxiety, a lost relative for her best friend, and a bus crash that changed the town. Now she and her father are searching through all the remains, the clues, and the unknown to find what made that bus fly off a cliff and what really was the reason behind it all.

To raise the ratings UPN has also offered veiws of alternate scenes from the show. The best of which was this past weeks alternate ending. Meg, a former girlfriend of Veronica's now boyfriend, has been found to be pregnant and the baby's life as well as her own are in jeopardy. That was until at the end of this weeks episode Meg woke up as Veronica left the room. However in the alternative ending to add to the drama someone kills her. The most obvious option would be her mother. Meg was forced, no free will here, to be raised up in a religious home and as we all know sex before marriage is a BIG no no. More to be told this week on a brand new Veronica Mars.

Cant get enough Veronica Mars then I suggest buying season one or getting the soundtrack. Which is headlined by the Dandy Warhols. They wrote the theme song "We use to be friends". Its a bit of a haunting song because its so out of the ordinary. Pick them up, they are worth it.

How to Get a Job: College Style

2005-11-15T17:31:00.000-08:00

Winter time means several time. The most important of which is that fact that no matter what school your in (elementary, middle, high school, college) you are about to receive about a month off with very little effrot. You get gifts by being in a family and realizing that religion can lead to things that you want in present form.

This is also the most important time to be putting in applications for jobs, and being the helpful guy I am, I will share with you some suprising facts that might help you get land that cushy job that pays out without you doing any real work.

1) Talk to the people behind the counter: This seems kinda obvious but if your more likely to learn more from them about what you will do in the job and any job interveiw could tell you. They always sugar coat it to make it seem like your getting one of the best and easiest jobs ever. LIARS, the guys behind the counter though will help you decide weither you need to finish your application then and there or to take it home and never return it.

2) Write it all down: To make yourself look smarter what would be best would to be simply to write down all the info you need for any application, old school locations, Referance names and numbers, etc. that way when they hand you an application you can just use it like cheat sheet and make yourself look great when you come back in 5 minutes with the application filled out in full.

3) Suck Up: Ok you have to do that pretty much the whole time anyway but try and see if the hiring manager is there and be like "oh hi, i was curious what kind of responsiblities are here". If your a member of the opposing gender, or in some cases same gender, talk up how nice they look (even if your lying through your teeth). An example of this was I was filling out an application yesterday and randomly the people, including the hiring manager, behind the counter were talking about something or another and he turns to me and says "Hey you ever heard of Shadow of the Colossus" ME:"yeah it just came out, I cant wait to get it (which is the truth)" HM: "Ok one more question PS2 or X-box" ME: "PS2" HM: "Cool well your on top of the list man thanks for the application." He actually did stick my application top of the list which was suprising cuz there were about 10 or 20 already there and they keep them in order of turned in first, which meatn mine would be at the back of the list. Hopefully ill get a call.

Ok those are the rules for getting a job, now go out and attack the job market like it just stole your I-Pod and is trying to put some Yani on it.

Breaking Into the Big Time

2005-11-14T18:08:00.000-08:00

Over the past little while I've been trying to figure something out, how to break into the big time with my website. Its hard to figure out why I havent yet, I've had offers to be a writer for a few tech sites which is flattering. There have been those who thought of a few idea that would help me out. 1) Shorter Posts 2) more links less content, in a sense. 3) um there is no three i just like things in order.

Anybody with any ideas on what could actually improve the site let me know. Till then go play one of the hardest freaking games ive ever laid my eyes on. Alot like a puzzle game with insanly hard i've ever seen at notpron.com. The puzzles are hard and make you work for it, i mean REALLY hard to make it from level to level, it can be found here.

Oh one final thing when tonight was my first on air credit as an extra on our local access comedy show Buc's Up. So far id been doing camera work, VTR (Video Tape Record), and Assitant Director work so far. But tonight we were bored doing an extra thing and they let me put on a Cosby show looking sweater and BAM i got to be Bill Cosby for ETSU at the BET awards. It was of course a huge joke as A) im white, like whiter than rice and B) We made the gag of everyone not being who they said they were. Hell sometimes we just confused gender to make the joke more obvious. Out host, who actually looked like Neil Diamond, was interveiwed as Ashley Simpson. My big debut though ended as quickly as it began as I was dragged off camera screaming "buy more jello pudding pops" in my best impression of him. I think they just let me do it cuz I'd been pitching in all season though im not in the class and it was great to do. I felt like i was being accepted. But that is enough of that later folks.

Rocky Mountain High

2005-11-08T08:12:00.000-08:00

Today the best news since the birth of one Mr. John Denver has come from Colorado, the legalization of pot. As we all know pot has long been considered the scourge of our society because of the "horrible side effects". Though if you actually do keep up with some of the medical research done with it you'll realize that its actually useful. I guess that was what the residents of Denver were shooting for last week when the legalized marajana. Actually all they really did was legalize anything under one ounce.

The big stink might actually come with the fact that this was a state matter but the legalization of such drugs is more or less considered a federal manner. For those of you who dont remember your Civics lessons federal trumps states on all matters that the government feels it need to trump. Though the federal government has not really said much to address Denver's new drug there will most likly either be a backlash or full on support for the cities decision. I dont really see this as much of a social progressive step as much as I do a really good excuse to go get baked and have a Cheech and Chong-a-thon.

Speaking of people with new drugs lets take a quick look north of the border to check out the going ons at a McDonalds in Toronto. In case you all havent seen it ill add a link to one Ms. Ashely Simpson drunk off her ass demanding a little service at the home of the Big Mac. She was being beligerant to a fan who wanted an autograph which she throughly denined him because he wouldnt quote "kiss her foot". Listen I've been drunk before and I think it would take a HELL of a lot of liquor to make me demand people to kiss my foot for an autograph. Of course considering she was seen in the Four Seaons bar before she even got to the McDonalds that liquor might have been easily enountered for the 21 year old.

Following her little foot worship wannabe session with the fan she begins to go after an employee who, according to the rules, asked Simpson to remove her rump from the counter and then called for a manager to take care of the smashed star. The video sadly doesnt go to much further into the video short of the fact that Simpson starts making a bet with the worker that the manager will be much nicer to her than the worker would. Actually she bet 5 million on it. Now considering she was drunk I would have taken her up on that because you could always play it off as "oh you were drunk, I knew you werent serious" if you lost. Of course if you won, the words "Pay up NOW!!!" should come flowing from your lips like water from a faucet. The video then skips, not really letting us know if she got whatever it ws she came from or not, with Simpson stumbling away and saying a few unaudiable things. If youd like to see all the hilarious hijinks here it is. Ashley seriously slow down take a look around and realize that your carrer is slowly turning into the Titanic, minus the people large amount of people caring its went down.

More Then Meets the Eye

2005-11-06T15:26:00.000-08:00

The Transformers movie was announced to be in production at this past year at Gencon. Speculation has been flying forever about this movie for longer than its actually be green lighted. It all began when the movie itself was even listed as being slated for writers, directors, talent, etc., etc. At first everyone who was a fan of the 80s thought it was going to be a horror show that mangles each and every character into some form fitting mold of what the current politically correct model should be. Like oh say, for example, the Autobots would still be the heros from Cybertron but the Decepticons would be more like intergaltic terrorists, instead of the other power of Cybertron.

But there is some good news though, it seems that the source material will be held in tact and more the point that all the autobots and decepticons will be from the Gen 1, ie the first season. The real draw of this is that only 10 transformers will be on screen, 5 autobots and 5 decepticons. What is really exciting is that if the rumors are true the orginal voices of Optimus Prime and Megatron will revise their roles and return to the big screen. Thats right the 80s will come back in full force. The best part is that their will be no non descript cars as their has been a deal struck over who will turn into what and what they will be when they transform. Optimus Prime will be a Convoy Truck. Bumbblebee will actually be a Voltswagon, Jazz will be a sports car, etc, etc. Plus even if this movie blows they have already slated a sequel for this film and chances are they will make them combine into a good series of films

Getting Some Booty

2005-11-01T08:25:00.000-08:00

Thats right folks its time to talk about how you get your booty....wait like pirate booty, not what Beyonce is shaking around. Of course the pirates im talking about take the high seas of the interent and set sail for the latest and greatest booty of them all, music and movies. Now the navy of the net, the MPAA and RIAA of course want to catch each and every one of these "criminals" and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Though an article in The Daily Vanguard, a newspaper from Portland State University, says that the RIAA should stop trying so hard to stop piracy and just let it go.

A spokesman for the RIAA had this to say "No black flags with skull and crossbones, no cutlasses, cannons, or daggers identify today’s pirates. You can’t see them coming; there’s no warning shot across your bow. Yet rest assured the pirates are out there because today there is plenty of gold (and platinum and diamonds) to be had. Today’s pirates operate not on the high seas but on the internet. The pirate’s credo is still the same — why pay for it when it’s so easy to steal?" I actually like the credo in all honesty, though my morality pretty much hounds me like a really obbsessive girlfriend if I ever even think about stealing so that shoots that in the foot. But that kind of thinking is so out of date.

True when Napster started up it was more or less to get around paying somewhere in the range of $16 bucks for a CD that maybe had only 2 good songs on it that youd listen to for more than an hour or so. But it has evloved so much since then, newer artists who want to spread their music through the means of P2P sharing. So many artist have done this its not even funny. You guys ever hear of a little band called Switchfoot. Well a few short years ago before they busted out with their debut album they played here at ETSU for an incredibly low fee. Acutally they played for absolulty nothing, they just wanted people to come and enjoy their music, spread word of mouth, etc., etc. Then they realized file sharing might be the way to go and today they are one of the hottest bands around, well sort of but you get what I'm saying.

So I say go out, file share, and support indy bands, they need all the support they can get. Then again I could just put up some links to cool bands I've heard of. Milka is a good band headed up by the sexy front woman that is the bands namesake. They have a unquie blend of spanish beats and hard rock edge that make their music occasionaly infectious but always interesting. Low Water might be a band you've heard of because of their 2003 stent on the Call 4 Help-a-thon on Tech Tv. They were in the in house band for the entire 12 hours and kept on keeping on recuriting some of the ladies of Tech Tv to do a music video with them. Of course plugging bands I like would also mean plugging my friends band Calling All Cars. Its a trio of talented fellows from Virgina that blend sounds from rock, pop, and sometimes even country to keep cranking out great songs that always impress and entertain. These are the only bands I can personaly vouch for but if you guys have bands youd like to plug please put their names and links to them.

Since yesterday was Halloween I guess I should put some spooky story in this entry. Of course not actually getting dressed up myself, they costume shops around here were out of Spiderman outfits, I surfed good old interenet a little. Actually I caught up on my digging over at Digg.com. I swear I dont know what I'd do without digg, I would never get any news about what is going on around me. I swore a long time ago I would not watch news that much anymore because of the way the media seems to twist things around so you never get the real story you get their slanted veiw of what is real. Which in itself is scary enough but I found something truly freaky. Vampire Bats can RUN. Thats right you heard me they can run, and its rather distrubing to watch it to. There is an article but the video is much more um well freaky to watch, dont watch this if you are afraid of bats, trust me.

Refleciton

2005-10-30T20:33:00.000-08:00

So I decided since this is actualy only the 70th post I've ever done I should take some time and reflect on what I've done in my life in the past little while. As you all know, because I can talk about it ad nasium, I started a podcast called dear blog with my buddy from up north. Its a ton of fun and much more intersting than I thought would be possible. Since we started it like mid summer we expect to be no where close to successful we were just doing it for fun because it cost us 0 money to do and it was meant for a niche audience anyway. Now we have done around 11 episodes, we are taping tommrow night I beleive, and have had interveiwed with Martin Sargent, and Joey Rabier (aka Joey the Intern). And we have emails in to most of the guys from Revision 3, and a few people from G4.

Actually who I would really like to get a skype chat with would be Sarah Lane. Not for any moment like "OMG IM TALKING TO SARAH LANE" more to know what it is like to be a tech girl in a guy gaming network. She is, from what I have heard from her, an incredible girl who makes you feel really comfortable when your around her. It makes sense though she seems like she is really grounded and sweet. But yeah i got the dish about people from Joey about alot of stuff I wish I could say but it sorta solidified some of the thoughts I always had about the people from Tech Tv that I had always thought were cool were now proven cool by someone who actually met them.

Oh who am I kidding I want everyone I've gotten into contact with to email me telling me the when, where, and what, they want to do for our show. I understand like Kevin Rose and Dan Huard might not be as readily avaialbe as the other memebers of Revision 3 might be. Actually that sounds like an ass thing to say. Keith Harrison, cameraman extordinare, is probalby busy editing, doing lighting for each episode of diggnation, figuring out locations for the Broken and Systm and about 1000 other things he has to worry with with each new episode of every show. I could actually blab on about these sort of things for hours. Actually more than hours I could scrutinize these sort of things for days. But with an hour extra of sleep I think I better take advantage of it and get my butt in bed.

Game Over

2005-10-27T09:47:00.000-07:00

As Im sure you all know the Wolrd Series ended last night in all out duel between pitchers in Game 4. The Astros fought hard to keep the Soxs down and did a great job during the first seven innings. Unfortuanly in the top of the 8th the Soxs sacrifcied 2 outs to get a man on third and scored the first run of the evening by drilling a shot right between the pitcher and shortstop and finding the hole in center feild. And of course since one more than your opponent is all you need the Soxs were able to hold off the Astros and finish the game with an out at first to clinch their first World Series Title since 1917.

Now Im sure most everyone knows about this but for those of you who I dont know lead lives, or like to sleep, you might have missed it and totally zoned out or missed the banners, news stories, and other such things posted around the internet and news stations World Wide.

Now that that fun little nugget of information is out of the way lets turn our eyes toward the sky....actually if its day where you are right now um dont do that staring at the sun REALLY hurts. What I'm talking about is space, the final fronteir. These are voyages of the USS WTF, its never ending mission to find new threads and new stories about space travel. To boldy go where quite a few have gone before and reported back that everything was entirly ok.

It seems that sex is going to hinder space travel. This bears repeating so here it is again, SEX will hinder space travel. Its seems that NASA is worried about relationships becoming a problem with space travelers in their next few round trip missions. NASA hopes to return to the moon by 2018 and then later go to mars itself. But of course considering that the entire round trip to Mars could take somewhere in the range of 30 months meaning there would be plenty of time to well get to know the your crew mates "intimatly"....if you catch my drift.

This has many scientists worried because they feel that such emotional, or at the very least, physcial attractions could jepordize the missions. Not to mention in all the planning and astronauts they've trained, this sort of thing never really came up. The real problem stems from the fact that should the astronauts hook up in space and decide to become a couple it immediatly would take its toll on them. The Couple would most likely be together all the time, have little privacy and no way to get away from each other in such an encolsed space.Not to mention if tensions run really high and they break up and there could still be lingering feelings of hatred or resentment toward one party or the other. Its just a mess. But since this wont come up for like 13 more years I figure NASA will figure it out....eventually.

X-ing it out

2005-10-23T21:30:00.000-07:00

Random searches can lead you into some intersting finds. A great example can be found in my site meter, which has been freaking out over the past few days by the way. Some of the things that have brought me visitors are kinda obvious. I have talked about everything for Lindsey Lohan to Revision 3 news, which by the way I know WAY more than I can say. But that is beside the point. Actually one of the funniest things I thought that brought me users was the search for "UVA-Wise Porn". Thats right somebody is actually trying to try and search for porn from my former college. I can understand that some of the guys would DEFINATLY want some of the girls from Wise to do porn, of course by doing porn I mean banging the crap of them in their rooms. But really searching for it, thats kinda um well stupid.

But I said all that to bring you guys to this, yeah even the porn stuff. I was searching some fun stuff on Newgrounds.com. Newgrounds is the best place to go to see flash madness and humerous situations abound. Of course being the geek I am I search for things that I like and for those that make what I want to watch. This brought me to Matt Gardner and his unique creations for the Marvel and DC universes. Matt doesnt do what alot of people do, ie he doesnt draw mouths nor arms to all his characters. This means that you have to pay ALOT of attnetion to the dialog and it is hilarious. Im going to list them all he has done and give them links.

"Death Becomes Them": The first of the X-Men Trilogy pokes alot of fun at the fact that death does not exactly mean your dead in the Marvel Universe. Not to mention the fact that I had no idea Magneto died that many freaking time.

"Revisitng Profits": In the middle of a murder investigation Apoclyapse, the biggest bad guy EVER in the Marvel universe, learns why he keeps getting foiled by the X-men and all their leader Charles Xavier. You know that guy Patrick Stewart plays to a T in the movies.

"Dark Phoenix Rising": Once again Jean Grey has died, yeah she actually does it 3 times in grand total so far. So as her name sake, the Phoenix, she rose once again to wreak havoc across the world. And AGAIN the X-men have to kill her. I mean god doesnt anyone stay dead at the house that Marvel built.

"Marvel Villans Assemble": The most haneous and dangerous of the entire Marvel universe to combat one of the most large scale attacks that they have ever encountered, being fashionable.

"Justice League: Countdown": After the last huge Justice League fiasco where alot of members died (does anyone else see a patern here). Batman has discovered a conspiracy to cover up that some memebers might have covered up a few things. And now has to explain it all away to Beetle, cuz he hates him. This is also Matt's first trek into the DC universe.

Whack-o Jack-o

2005-10-20T16:20:00.000-07:00

Though the title of this little entry might make you believe that I speak of Michael Jackson you would be wrong. I speak of a different person, one infanlty more dangerous than Jackson could ever even imagine being. Jack Thompson, thats right Mr. Video Games Incite Violence and Must be Banned himself has done enough in the past little bit to make himself an ever present thorn in the side of gamers everywhere.

If you havent kept up with Mr. Thompson's activites here is a little background/update. Jack Thompson has gone up against the likes of 2 live crew, Ice T, and sex websites for their either explicit lyrics or sexual acts that have graced their respective genres. This gained him the attention of the media outlets sadly allowing this man's ego to grow at an alarming rate. No Im serious if global warming grew at this rate Antartica would be a lush tropical forest by now. Oh by the way he did actually win against 2 live crew which is to his credit. Of course considering almost every single person who even knows of 2 live crew can quote the offensive lyrics on command its sort of a hollow victory. He most recent stab at making a national name for himself cam in a 2 fold attack. The first came when the Hot Coffee mod became known in the PS2 and X-box versions of GTA San Andres.

**NOTE** Before I go any further I'm going to voice my personal opinion on this subject. Rockstar was in the wrong for releasing the code for GTA: SA knowing that this mod was in there. It was just a cheap stunt to gain popularity and sales figures and would of course thrust them into the national spotlight for being lude, rude, and explicit thus making everyone want to own their game to see what the hell was going on. **END NOTE**

Thompson, along with Senator Hilary Clinton, achieved their goal of getting this game removed from the shelves for its offesnive and explict content. Though then again the ESRB was most likely goning to remove it anyway when they found out about all of this so its once again a hollow victory...im sensing a pattern here. After the whole Hot Coffee mod dust settled Thompson still took aim at Rockstar by filling suit on behalf of the familes of two slain police officers by Devin Moore. Moore, as Thompson said " obsessively trained on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to kill them". Good ol Jack then made a landmark statement, though it is in landmark in the sense of being horrbily morbid and incredibly insensative. Thompson guarnteed 10,000 dollars to charity if a developer would make a violent video game in which the people that were killed were leading industry executives and their families. The main character was to be Osaki Kim, a father whose son was beaten to death with a baseball bat by a 14-year-old gamer. The game would feature Kim extracting brutal revenge on the video game industry itself, including beating game company executives to death, removing their heads and urinating on their brain stems. Now is it just me or does that sound almost vendictive. Of course this was a bold move by Thompson, no one in their right minds would make this sort of game. Its what those in the gambling world would call a safe bet. Though when the mod community answered by actually making the game he quickly renounced on his 10 grand offer and was off to face his next self made problem.

Now Mr. Thompson is going after people who are "threating his life". I can understand that there is a legitimate fear here for him. A single man has turned the entire attention of community that spreads from coast to coast on him and in an incredibly negative way. I can also understand that the FBI has a need to investigate to make sure that Mr. Thompson does actually make it to the next day without a gaming system being thrown at his head....though i do think seeing an X-box fly by Thompsons head would be mildly amusing, but that is beside the point. Jack, I call you Jack because my parents taught me when I was a little boy to show the proper respect to those I admire/need to show respect to and you most certainly dont fall into either of these categories, if you want the hate mail to cease, the "threats" to end, and to move on to your next national attention grabber here is a thought from a gamer, you know THE ENEMY. Stop. No im serious stop doing whatever it is your doing right now and just dont do anything else.

Ok that is actually quite vague so let me explain. Jack Thompson in all his lack of glory has taken to assaulting Penny Arcade for "commencing and orchestrating criminal harassment of me by various means" Hey Jack a minor hint for you, you made youself a public figure of opposing gaming in a community that gets its news faster than you can get a cup of coffee, chances are you going to be the butt of jokes, satire, and parody as long as you keep up this little campaign of yours. Also keep in mind currently you are making money of the pain and loss of others. Though filling that lawsuit is sort of in the right you are bound to make money from the settlement or merely the television appearances you are making money from pain. How is that any better than the video games you go after. Then again going after such a well known organziation like Penny Acrade who raise money every year with their "Childs Play" charity isnt exactly in the realm of bright ideas either.

But now there is light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel of course occasinally confused for that space between Jack Thompson's ears. With his attack on Penny Arcade many people on their forums have launched a full on assualt. Not on his stance with video games or his incredibly underhanded tactics while running aginst former Attorney General Janet Reno (in case you want to know he called her a closet lesbian with ties to the mafia and higly suceptable to blackmail). No, those these are great reasons to get rid of him, they are urging the Flordia take a good long look at license to practice law. Though this might actually work I think I have to agree with Mike "Gabe" Krahulik of Penny Acrade. "Jack is not special. Imagine him as an actor playing a part in a play. If he were to be fired a new actor would simply take up the role. We are actually fortunate the current actor is so impotent in his role. Imagine what might happen if some charming, efficacious attorny took his place. The more I consider it the more I think we may be lucky to have Jack playing the part of the alarmist. The alternative might be someone who is actually capable.

The Return of an Intern

2005-10-12T06:20:00.000-07:00

No not that intern someone a little more um well.....not known for giving the president a sitting salute in the oval office. Its Joey the Intern from Unscrewed with Martin Sargent. Joey has been down and well um not really down but more or less off the radar for some time now. If you missed the little guy with the wild hair, glasses, and insanly cool stories of behind the scenes antics dont worry he will be back soon on a podcast with Martin Sargent for Revision 3.

I was lucky enough to get in touch with Joey thanks in no small part to that fact that well I'm a freaking moron and didnt realize I had had his email address sitting in my gmail box for well over a month. Its amazing the things youd see if we all just paid a little more attention to what was going on around us. Anyway I just wanted to ask him to be a guest on Dear Blog and forutnatly he agreed. So for the sake of the pre interveiw thing we got in touch over skype last night at around 12 or 1 am, but it was like 9 or 10 his time. We did the whole pre interveiw and then went off on a tangent about his old job and funny stories about the behind the scenes goings on.

I wish I could tell you guys all the stuff I learned but thats sort of personal but what I can say is if you all knew what goes on behind the scenes you would probably laugh your asses off. I mean seriously all the debatchery is a little hilarious...ok I can say this there is a funny story about a drunk Adam Sessler and an early moring call from the cable guy but that is all I can say without Adam coming to hunt my ass down and murder me. But its funny trust me.

Sell Out

2005-10-11T11:39:00.000-07:00

Thats right yours truly needs money to help um improve the site...yeah thats a total lie. Well ok its sort of true. I want to make improvements to the site, actually ive gotten some requests to move my site over to my friends zack's severs. His site is The Fifth Rule it more or less a bit personal tribute to the movie Fight Club, which he adores beyond all life itself. Well ok maybe not all life itself and it isnt really a tribute but he likes the movie. But what im really pointing to are the Google ads that are now littering the right side of my site. Normally I wouldnt do this but I think I've finally gotten to the point to where i get enough traffic in a week to try them. If i get a bunch of emails that say take em down ill do just that but in the mean while let me ask you guys all a favor.

1) Click on the ads, the more you click the more money I get, you dont even have to like what your clicking on just click on it and hit back button. It would really help me out here. Id like to be able to reinvest into this site to make it better for everyone.

2) Um...there was something I was going to say but it isnt coming to mind right now.

There really isnt much more for me to say today. Not much has happened that I would like to post about. Well there is something that happened and it made me really look at the world and realize how stupid it can be and how there really are good people left. I'm gonna post about it a little later cuz its so amazing that it just deserves its own post.

Death, Rebirth, and Death again

2005-10-10T09:54:00.000-07:00

So tonight is the night the next nail in the coffin of G4 the premire of the Man Show with original hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla. Now re-airing this show after its X amount of years on the shelf isnt that bad of an idea it is just the venue in which it has choosen to reer it head. G4, as its orignal business plan stated, was intended to play to the core gamer community and allow a look into what is coming next and reveiw what was already around. Thus shows like Electric Playground, Judgement Day, Cinemtech, Pulse, Etc. reigned supreme over the airwaves. Then came the announcement about 2 years ago that G4 had purchased Tech Tv. This of course sent shockwaves around both companies and the eventual merger caused even more.

Lately though it seems as though G4 is trying to bucket out water of the ship. They have started blocks of programming like The Whip Set which has a very niche market but doesnt appeal to their core audience, gamers. Now they are starting again trying to use sexual charged shows such as Fastlane, Street Fury, and now the Man Show to bring back their audience but are unintionally pushing them further away. The hope was that with a new CEO that G4 might have gotten back on the right track. It even seemed that way when repeats of EP and Judgement day were lessened and Call for Help from Canada was aired on the American Network of G4. These were steps in the right direction but now it seems that they are just trying to keep the ship above water.

**And on a side not I want to point something out if your in a sinking ship and are throwing out water back into the ocean congradulations your completing an exercise in futility because you are throwing water back INTO water.**

I do hope that G4 does keep the ship above water. There are alot of talented people on screen and off that do alot of work to create the best show they can create. Good luck to them.

A Little Dose of Venom

2005-10-06T20:39:00.000-07:00

In case it isnt already incredibly obvious alot of people who run websites check their traffic fairly often, espeically on certain days of the week depending on weither or not they have the time. Im no different as I actually check my traffic daily with much antcipation of who checks my site and where they check it from. Suprisingly people all the way from Spain, Germany, Canda, and the west coast.

But one of the more suprsing things that I have found is that I get a few links from sites where I've posted comments, or from my podcasting site. Actually where I get a ton of my hits is from searches on the interent. No im serious apparently im good enough to get a few hits on good ol google but not good enough to gain merit with my writing to gather readers. I mean I appreciate how those who actually check my site daily take time out of their days to do so and I like to try my best to give them something good to read. But alot of hits just seem to be coming from searches, which is ok.

I even check where I get reference link from. Mostly, as I mentioned, they are from the Dear Blog site or from other posts else where. I even have some links from some really kick ass people like Rob Padury. Most suprisingly though is that I have a link from a super hero....sorta. It seems that lurking elsewhere in the blogspot servers are a few webheads. More specifically Spiderman and his evil alter ego Venom. Spiderman's site is cool as it lets you take a bit more of a look into his private life. Its cool that "Spiderman" takes the time to post and you even get to look into some of his heroic encounters.

Venom on the other hand, as any Marvel fan knows, is a big bad brute who can crash and thrash through any villian or for that matter hero that gets in the way of what he wasnts to do. His blog sort of reflects this as he doesnt really update that often because most likely he is off beating up whoever he feels like beating up. What really confuses me is that I've checked the site out every so often and he has quite a few links and some alright entries but I've never taken the time to comment on any of them. But then today im trolling through my sites traffic and someone went directly from Venom's site to mine. This is odd cuz I cant find the link anywhere on his site though I cant really say im not flatered. Venom is one of my favorite Marvel characters, he ranks just even with his hated enemy Spiderman and im sure he reads this he wont be a to happy with that but its the truth. I guess I just found it interesting, oh well links happen.

Random Thoughts

2005-10-04T09:46:00.000-07:00

Today is one of those days. The bad days the all or nothing days....wait sorry thats a line from Sin City. No what im talking about a news light day. It just seems the world is calming down and everything is just a groove now that we all flow through and work our way around in. That isnt why I havent posted for the past few days though. Its because the world at large decided to look at me and in its eternal wisdom say "Hey lets kick his ass." And so the world did, its been a hectic few days as i've had tests, homework, and about 1000 other things to do. I mean I havent done an episode of Dear Blog in quite some time, and thats easy to do. Time has just become a very very vauluable commdity that I cant seem to get enough of with out running out of it. But since I did find SOME new worthy stories that i hope arent old news ill fill you all in.

Google has recently announced their plans to make Wifi signals free and open to the public at large. This of course would mark an end to most ISP because of the functionality and availaiby of Wifi to the communities in which googles has it. This all seemed well and good, I mean comon who wouldnt want Wifi with google picking up the bill for the whole deal. Sadly Google dropped the ball on City one.

San Fransico, the city more notriously known for its bridges and um....excentric people, than for its tech was getting some free Wifi courtousy of Google. That was until it was found that the signal didnt reach all of Union Square, San Fran's local park, it was spotty at best and created some problems throughout the park. This is sad news for those of us who wanted Google to succeed so badly but I guess its just gonna take a little more time.

In other news the strangest baby name EVER. Nicholas Cage recently had a son, actually it was even recently it was like yesterday. The infamous actor of such movies as Matchstick Men, Fact/Off, National Treasure, and most recently Lord Of War has always had a bit of a passing fasination with Elvis, which lead many to think he son would share the King's name. But to everyone's suprise he came up with the freakest baby name EVER. Nick Cage's son's name was announced today as Kal'el Coppola Cage. First and foremost thats is a lot of hard concenant sounds which already makes him sorta sound like a bad ass....second. HE NAMED HIS SON KAL'EL, that is name Jor'el gave his son aka SUPERMAN. I realize that Nicholas Cage has actually be considered for the role of the Man of Steel off and on for a little while but going as far as to name your son Kal'el dude WTF are you smoking.....and can I have some.

Veronica Mars is Back

2005-09-28T19:15:00.000-07:00

In an update to my very first post on this blog Season 2 of Veronica Mars has arrived with a bang. The series stars the ever so lovely Kristen Bell as the lead character and first let me make a small confession. Kristen is a lovely charming and rather sexy looking young lady who actually fits the bill for Veronica Mars perfectly. I dont think I could imagine some brunette/red head playing the role. It just seems wrong. Anyway the first episode aired tonight of the new season and made me fall in love with the series all over again. So a note for everyone im gonna ruin the episode in case you didnt see it and want to be in the dark dont read the rest of this.

First and foremost the season starts with a recap of Veronica's summer. A good idea since the begging of her summer was finding the killer of her best friend was the father of her current boyfriend and that she found out the guy who she lost her virginity 2 while they were both pretty messed up was NOT her brother, which was almost the case. Actually now that I wrote it all down as what was the begging of her summer seems like the Jerry Springer show.

Now as her summer progresses she dumps her bf, Logan Ekles, after it seems that her little town of Neptune seems to be falling into a huge state of disarray. It seems the 09ers, the high class teens of the town, have started a bit of turf war with the have nots. It all began with a horrible prank, well not a prank a full on attack, as Logan looses his damn mind and set fire to a pool after pouring oil over it making it useless to those who are not in the 09 area code. It escelates more as the local motorcycle gang tries to retalite by unloading a shotgun round through Logan's backwindow. It all makes a feeling of anger, hatred, and seperation that looms over the town like a disease just waiting to break out.

Ok enough about her ex its time to talk about Veronica. After finding the killer of her best friend, Logan's father Erin Ekles, Veronica decides she is out of the spying/P.I. game and takes up a job as a server at the local resturant/coffee place in Neptune. This leaves her with a bit of a sense of normality in her life, something that she probalby needs, as her dad goes around and makes some serious cash talking about how they found out Erin Ekles was the killer, etc, etc. In the meanwhile her former bf, Duncan Cain, has suddenly found his way back into her life by visiting her everyday at work, and even on her 18th birthday actually proposing that they get back together. She of course accepts and they make such a cute couple since they actually play of each other really well and do alot of things that you probalby wont be seeing any real life couples doing.

So as the year starts for school Veronica feels that she is free for her senior year. That is until her best friend Wallace tested positive for drugs, and considering he is a pretty good kid it seems impossible for that to be true. This starts Veronica back on her P.I. trail again tracking down clues, and eventually fidning the truth. That some privlidged kids had bought their kids starting positions on the Neptune sports teams. Nice to know money can get you anywhere. But with one problems end there is always the inevitable start of another. Veronica is trying to mend fences with Duncan's ex who is upset at them for feeling like they betrayed her. So she begins to take it out on Veronica. Even to the point that she leaves her behind on a school feild trip to fend for herself. Veronica gets a lift from Weevil, the leader of the biker gang, and comes across a horrid scene. The bus, the one she was suppose to be on, has skidded off the road and crashed killing everyone inside. So now the questions start stur.....how did a perfectly normal day turn into a disaster? What happened on that bus?? Who is responsible??? and most importantly how can Veronica once again make a difference???? Those questions and more will be answered this season on Veronica Mars UPN Wednesdays 9:00pm eastern 6:00pm pacific.

Ok a few final things. If your wondering what the heck I'm talking about Veronica Mars Season 1 will be on DVD oct 11th I highly suggest picking them up and seeeing what im making such a big fuss about. Oh and most importantly today is a mildstone day for me. At 10:09:09 eastern time I got my 1000th visit to my site. In a little under 6 months I've managed to get enough people rumaging around the site to get that many is amazing to me. It been fun guys and Im gonna try to keep improving on what im doing so spread the word on my site hopefully it wont take 6 months to get another 1000 hits. Wait one more thing, and yest its Veronica Mars related. Charisma Charpenter, the girl who played Cordelia on Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is back this season as the yet to be named mother of one of Logan's friends and let me just say she looks absolutly stunning and is a seductive as ever. She plays a more adult love interst for Logan and at the end of the first episode it seems that she and he are having a love affair. But enough of that im done and less anyone that actually read this whole damn thing.

I'm loving it

2005-09-27T17:58:00.000-07:00

Wow yesterday I was told about Don Adams passing and now the death of another icon of my childhood. Well actually he hast dies as much as he sorta went through a big change. It seems that the world no longer requires the bushy hair, and odd clothes of Ronald Mcdonald. Actually it isnt the world as much as it is Japan. It seems that turning Japanese might also meaning turning into a woman. It seems that Ronald McDonald is no longer needed as the spokesperson for their burgers. In an atempt to capitalize on the sexual fun that was Paris Hilton washing cars and chomping down on burgers in next to nothing has spawned a copy in the land of the rising sun.

In exchange for the red clown, painted face, yellow overalls, gloves, and red shoes we now have a sexy woman in a red bikini with yellow overcoating along with stockings and arm stockings to match. Hiding it all is now a main of long red hair. Now that the entire idea in and of itself is a good idea I mean with time comes changes and this is just one of them. Well actually the entire idea is for Japan only as it and the home market for McDonalds here in the US have been on shakey ground for a long time. Quite posbily the more suprsing thing, actually more suprising than the fact that I now want to sleep with the McDonalds spokeswoman, is the this quote from Japan's president "The reason Japanese people are so short and have yellow skins is because they have eaten nothing but fish and rice for 2,000 years. If we eat McDonald’s hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years we will become taller, our skin become white and our hair blond."

One more instersting thing before I go tonight is the kindness of strangers. If you check out Tina Woods website, currently in my side bar under cool people, then you will read one of the nicest things about animal kindess ever. Mrs. Wood took time out of her life, time, and everything to try and help a lone defensless dog. She does the story infantly more justice than I ever could even if i lived it....though i will say this as a good jesture buy the poor girl a new sweatshirt for her trobule. She certanly went through enough to get it.l

Would You Believe 86??

2005-09-26T18:04:00.000-07:00

A sad note today I found a news story that made me frown. Sunday afternoon/night Don Adams, the infamous agent 86 from Get Smart, passed on due to lung infection. Don Adams was a icon when i was a kid, true he got type casted as due his four year role as Agent 86 but it was so well worth it. The show Get Smart was based around the secret organizaion CONTROL as they gathered their agents to fight against the foul and dangerous agents of CHAOS. More or less what this really lead to was agent 86 and agent 99 foiling the silliest schemes you could possibly ever think of and the funniest dialogs between heros and villans youve ever heard as agent 86 tries to convience all his captors that he had backup just waitng and as his stories wained he would still stick with it.

Adams however, has been in bad health for a year now after breaking his hip. Its sad though because of all the things he has done in is life. Many people will eternally remember Adams for his Get Smart role but he did much more than that. Behind the scenes he directed, produced, and later on did voice over work. He was the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo, a penguin who traveled around with a walrus and doctor getting into madcap adventures during little asides during the Underdog show in the 1960s. Most noteably he did the voice work for Inspector Gadget as the lead character as the bungling Inspector who couldnt get any of his gadgets to work poperly. Don Adams you will be missed, and im sorry you had to go.

G4 No More??

2005-09-25T19:14:00.000-07:00

Interesting news came across my web browser a few days ago, actually more like almost a week ago. The CEO of G4, the gaming channel most well known for what fans call the butchering of Tech TV, Charles Hirschhorn has been fired from his position after his parent company, Comcast, was bought. Hirschhorn is "passing the baton" to Neal Tiles. Tiles has been the executive vice president of marketing at DirecTV until his left in June, which was publicly called "voluntary." Before then he was executive vice president of marketing for Fox Sports and Fox Sports Net.

Hirschhorn sent out an email informing his staff of this event and said "My cable TV/video game adventure has been extraordinary and nicely complemented the efforts I've made over the past 20 years in movies, network TV, animation, and live-action programming." Alright with all the actual bull out of the way its time for the truth to be told. With this man gone an interesting new shift might occur at G4. Of course it wont happen overnight nor will it happen in around 6 months as the new CEO will have to get his bearing straights.

The uproar around this news is massive as old Tech Tv fans cling to the thought that perhaps this is the age of rebirth of old shows to make a comeback. Personally I dont think this will happen. There is no possible way after all the change, growth, and more of the same that the shows will make a come back. Despite the best efforts of the old TTV fans there will be no massive return of The Screen Saver, Tech Live, etc, etc. It just not possible. First and foremost time for the people who worked at the San Fran offices did not stand still. It marched forward and most certainly did NOT give them a moments rest.

For one Patrick Norton, Leo Laporte, and more started TWIT. Its not an omage to their old show as much as it is a cotinuation with their own brand of commentary thrown in as always. Kevin Rose, Dan Huard, and Alex Albrecht set off to create R3evision 3. Their own private tech/educational iptv network to fill the void that G4 inadvertantly created. Not to mention the side projects/JOBS that the TTV gang has gotten.

On a personal note I once sat among those huddled, starving masses that wanted everything to continue on and wanting more and more to things keep going as they were. I was heartbroken to hear of the "piliging" of Tech Tv and the shows and people their in. Not to mention the shifts of people, manpower, and more from the merger of the networks. It was potentially nothing short of a miracle, though a man made one not one to do with the almighty, to save it all. So I've done a little growing up and realized that. Money, sad as it is to say, does make the world go round and round, so it will forever force those who use it aka the world to seek it out and use it as currency. I'd really like to contiune on with this but since i need money and good grades i have to shuffle off and do 1000 other things.

Hands On with Rise of Apyoclaipse

2005-09-22T08:24:00.000-07:00

So yesterday was the big day as two of the major three Marvel games on the month his shelves. The most highly anticipated was of course the new EA fighter, Rise of the Imperfects. However another great game was there by its side sporting new graphics, increible new powers, and a whole lot of Mutants. Thats right Rise of Apocalypse is here, and much has changed since the first game.

First off the game begins in a unique way. Prof. Charles Xaiver has been captured and is being tortured for information on Cerebro and The Xaiver Protocols. Cerebro is the machine, as seen in X-men 1 and 2 the movies, that allows Prof. Xaiver to telepathicaly locate any mutant on the entire planet from the safety of his home in New York State. The Xavier Protocols are the listings of all mutants known of on the planet as well as a complete listing of their strengths, weaknesses, alliances, and mutant powers. To save Xavier Magneto and his group, The Brotherhood, form a tempoary alliance with the X-men; and so the story begins.

It seems that before the game even starts Apocalypse has risen up from his slumber to wreak havoc across the globe, though this is fairly obvious if you have played the first X-Men Legends game. He starts by attacking Genosha, a private Island that Magento governs as a free land for all mutants, in his search for....um....I guess I should keep that a suprise. But the game does give you a big suprise by actually telling you how long the game is, which is suprisingly disapointing. The game is split up into 5 acts, in the first four you face off against the Horsemen, the generals of Apocalypse's army. So far in game there are Mister Sinsiter, Abyss, Archangel, and the strangest of all of them, Candyman (**NOTE** im not sure if that is his real name or not). Which is whom comprises Act 1-4. Act 5 is obviously your team making its way toward the ultimate showdown with Apocalypse.

This is of course different than the first game which had a twisiting, semi dark story line that allows you to play from the begging of the series of events all the way to the end. Personally I would have liked to played as the X-men when Xavier gets kidnapped then follow through to the allience and so on all the way through the game. It would have just emerced you in the world more, but that is my opinion and besides im only one Act 2 of the game.

One of the big let downs of the game also has to do with one of its greatest improvements, the graphcis. They are lovely in this game and give you a real sense of everything around your characters. Also character animation, models, and well everything got a much needed upgrade. To prove it watch the characters talk during mission breifings their mouths actually move, a bit step from the incredibly blocky movements of the first game. Also load screens are killer, in both senses of the word. They are gorgeous and look like they came right out of your imigination of how you want every character and location to look but they also take you right out of the action and seem to load forever.

Another problem with the game is simply that everything seems to be much more work than in the original. Each mutant gets a grand total of 10 powers, that is 3 powers per button and then their grand master attack mapped to the top button of every controller (ie the Y for gamecube and X-box and the Triange for PS2). This is nice but it also causes a small problem as every mutant seems to have difficulties leveling up and though the powers are interconnected to the one they originated from, like Iceman's freeze beam, it seems they all have different abilites which makes them a bit less effective than from the first game.

Since were talking about Iceman lets use him as an example. In the orgianl Legends game you got the freeze beam which originally slowed eneimies down to a crawl making them much easier to dispatch, then later after you upgraded it enough it froze them in place AND slowed them down. In legends 2 you have to choose between weither you want to slow them down or freeze them in place. Its very confusing.

Leveling up, as stated earlier, is a bit of a problem. Though you can choose from 11 mutants at the get go choosing between them becomes a tough choice due to the fact that alot of them seem to have recuring powers, like Wolverine, Rouge, Colossus, and Juggernaunt are all tanks and all seem to share a similar slaming punch power, it all comes down to who you like the best. But there in lies the problem. In the orignal Legends game no matter how much you level up the lowest level X-man will always be around 3-4 levels behind your highest. In Legends 2 that is no where near the case my Highest X-Man, Magneto/Wolverine, are level 15 and my lowest is level 4, a great differance. This makes switching out X-men a tricky proposition as they could easily get killed in a big battle.

But the game does have its up. The gameplay mehancis are back as is the ability to customize your powers to your liking, Nightcralwer is whom I would choose to take a personal hand in due to his Leap of Faith ability. There are some good things to say about this game that its hard to actually not recommend it. The story is good, there co-op online for PS2 and X-box live, the powers, speical features, customizable skins for each character. There is something for everyone in this game. So if you were a fan of X-men Legends be sure to go out and pick up Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse.

The Mavel of Marvel

2005-09-20T08:27:00.000-07:00

Today, Tuesday September 20th, is the day it all begins. The day in which you can be there for the rise and be part of the fall of something new. Of course I'm speaking of the sequel to one of last years greatest RPG games X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse. The game boasts a great new story as well as more mutant powers than you can shake a beaststick at. Almost all the characters from the original games make yet another go of beating down the bad guys and are this time accompanied by the strangest bedfellows the Marvel world could possibly think of, The Brotherhood. Thats right you can have Magneto himself, Wolverine, Cylops, Toad, Sabertooth, Juggernaut, Phonenix, Rouge, Colossus, Iceman, Avalance, and Scarlet Witch; all together and all beating the living crap out of whatever it is they come across.

Other than the HUGE array of characters there are even more specials hidden within the game. The return of the skins which now add an powerful new ability. If all the characters in your party are wearing costumes from the same era your entire party will get energy/health boost. I cant really say much more because A) Raven studios would have my head and B) Its just more fun when you figure this sort of stuff out on your own. There is even the promise of X-box Live and PS2 online multiplayer that will unlock new things for all parties involved.

But today isnt about just the X-men. Today also marks the launch of the long awaited, and highly searched for on google, Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects. Boasting 8 characters you will play through the story lines of Heros like Spider-man, Iron Man, Wolverine; as well as the Imperfects. Johnny Ohm, a supercharged lighting rod with legs; Hazmat, a dangerous biohazard just waiting to infect someone else; and Paradigm a lovely lady you would just love to get her claws around you. The story on the whole has to do with an alien trying to create the perfect fighters. To do so of course they will first need a few test subjects, enter the imperfects. After being given their powers they are sent out to see if they can match up the Marvel heros.

The game has some serious thought put into it. Every level has alot of destructable enviornments as well as a few scattered items around to throw the way of your eneimes. This of course can lead to some pretty intersting ways to stop attacks, block, dodge and cause some serious damage as needed. Enter the fray today with Rise of the Imperfects.

And finally the last of the great games for the month will be unvealed next week as Ultimate Spiderman, were as you play the lead role of spiderman. The story, set in the newest incarnation of the wide wide spiderman univerise, loving titled Ultiamte Spiderman, will have a young, and still in high school, Peter Parker dealing with his duties as Spiderman and his repsonsiblites as Peter Parker. Along the way you will face down villians like The Rhino, The Bettle, and The Green Goblin. The story itself will feel like one really big comic book as the whole of New York is cell shapded and ready for some webslinging. The enviornements though will feel a bit linear as they want you to head toward objectives, though this can only be said because all footage/gameplay released so far has been boss battles.

So you might be asking, Ok Rise of Apolcpayse and Rise of the Imperfects have some bit twists in the story, whats so freaking special about another spiderman game. Well there are 2 things, 1) its being made by Activision and Treyarch, you might remember them as the guys that made Spiderman for the N46 and playstation. It was arguably one of the best spiderman games to date, before Spiderman 2, and still holds up under todays standards. The other big suprise is you get to play as Venom, the big burley, and more or less evil incarnation of Spider-Man. Though throughout the game they will be mortal eneimes along they way they learn to co-exist. Even when you play as Venom there is a boss battle where you actually have to protect Spider-man throughout the entire fight. So get ready to be caught up in the web of Ultimate Spiderman.

**Addendum(which for those of you who dont know that means and add on/P.S./or most importantly OH SHIT i forgot something and dont feel like rewriting the whole thing)** It appears that you cant trust what you see. Which is a duh but i still feel for it anyway. The date Rise of Apoyclapse was suppose to be in stores was today but as someone over at Gamestop told me it shipping/arrival date were today the actual game wont hit store shelves till tommorow.

Dont Panic

2005-09-15T11:40:00.000-07:00

So during this week, well actually its been most of this month, I've resparked my love/WTF am I doing of reading. My last book that I had been able to rifle through was, obviously if you keep track of things going on my blog, Bruce Campbel's If Chins Could Kill. The some few hundred odd pages of sorta biography and sort of how to make a 3 months, could easily be described as one of the best reads of all time because of the wit, humor, and all around peak into how certain things in the Hollyweird are done. Particulary the part about the Evil Dead movies and his few series, Hercules, Xena, The Adventures of Brisco Country JR (A personal favorite), and the short lived but still cool Jack of All Trades.

However I somehow riffled through the whole damn thing in little under a week, which is suprising because I usually dont read things very often and in all honesty my reading spead isnt exactly lighting fast, quite the opposite actually. Much like my writing haha, well is actually very very very slow cuz I've been trying to devlop the script for a few movies that just popped into my head and all of which are just hitting brick walls. But that is beside the point.

Since I finished If Chins Could Kill I resorted to reading the only book I have left in my collection here at my apartment, The Complete and Unabridged Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Though the entire series is suppose to be only four books the entire sereies is actually 6, which were left off of the collections put out before. Which makes sense because one is about Zaphod Beeblebrox and his own collection of adventures. The other is something I cant quite remember but its cool nontheless. But the entire book is great. Personally, and dont ask me why later, I have identified with Marvin the robot. Most of you, whom read the books, will probably easily remember him as Marvin the Paranoid Andriod. Though the rest of you who saw the movie will problely know him as the soildary robot who was voiced by the guy who plays Proffesor Snape in the Harry Potter movies.

There are a few things to be learned from the Guide though. Number 1) Wherever it is you go in the Universe remember, bring a towel and your most prized possession and the occasional 30 Alterian dollars woudlnt hurt either. 2) When attempting to fly dont forget to throw yourself at the ground and try your best to miss. Well actually dont try to miss as much as try to catch something out of the corner of your eye to where you will actually miss the ground as your entire mind and body will be distracted. Of course once airborn try best to NOT think of the fact that you are flying and that it is impossible. If you do gravity will suddenly notice your flying and polietly pull you down to the ground as fast and hard as it possibly can. 3) Should the Earth actually come under Vogon attack and we are told that we are being detroyed remember. Death is alright because then we wont be forced to listen to Vogon poetry, ever. Though in retrospect the entire Vogon poetic society being blow away might have solved the problem altogether. Oh all the and remember Dont Panic.

Podcasting's Martin Sargent

2005-09-11T17:59:00.000-07:00

Its suprising what a difference a day can make. Most of the week I had to do alot of cruddy jobs, not the least of which was lugging around the heaviest crap around I have ever in my life. But also I had to inventory the backroom full of outdated stuff. Why we had to inventory it is beyond me but I had to keep doing it and it sucks. Then came Friday, the day that changed my week. If you've been keeping up with my Podcast Dear Blog, then you know that we've been trying to get an episode in the can with Martin Sargent.

Intially I thought that was gonna be damn near impossible. When we started, which was around a month or so ago, it was with a simple message on his website Sarge World. Fortunatly for us he was genually intersted in talking to us about what we were doing and even trying to do an episode with us. We started the long and arduous process of trading back and forth e-mails about when would be the best time for us to all get together and tape. It almost didnt happen though. At one point we thought the only way for us to do it would be for me to tape with Martin and leave my Zack, the guy who really started all of this, out for that week. Fortunatly Martin was willing to wait and so were we so Friday night we set up shop, jumpped on Skype, and did one of our best episodes ever.

Well ok in all honesty the episdoe isnt as great as I hoped it would be. My audio is a little bad and there was some funny stuff we had to cut out due to time and that fact that after it was said and we were done laughing about it I was thourly freaked out that I laughed at it. Lets just say Dr. Laura Anatomy was involved, it was kinda like laughing at some parts in Theres Something about Mary. You know you shouldnt but god if you cant help but laugh your ass off. You can get the episode now at our site, which was mentioned and linked 2 above. If you guys have half as much fun listening to it as we had making it, well then we had twice as much fun making it then you did listening to it.

Quality of Life vs Qualtiy of Education

2005-09-09T09:43:00.000-07:00

This posts is brought to you in part by friends. Thats right friends, you have em, you may want more of em, and you cried when NBC was forced to pull the plug. During my time here at ETSU, all 2 weeks of it, I've noticed a bit of a change from what I was expecting. For three years prior I was an alumni at UVA-Wise where I had my fair share of frinends, buddies, amegos, aquitances, and people I just said hi to to be nice to them. Actually the school is so damn small that its very easy to meet the entier populus in less than a semester. Even more suprising than that is you can easily tell who you need to go to for what. Got a computer problem go to these guys, need some alcohol for your big party talk to hit up these guys. Need a gf these girls are single/rebounding and are very nice. It was all a very simple system of hunt and gathering what you needed. I, being by nature a shut in, needed friends and I found them in DROVES. By the time I reached my 3rd year I was more or less familiar with all the RAs, RDs, and everyone who was everyone on the campus. This made getting away with stuff far easier than when I was a shut in by the way. Then came my life changing decision, to transfer schools.

My friends, as friends are suppose to do, supported me whole heartedly as they saw outside of spending my time with them I was absolutly miserable walking around the campus. A few even commented I might need counseling to get over this funk but then we all realized all I really needed was some medication. But I applied to the school where I knew I could be happy in my major, a senestaion I had only had once while at Wise that was killed very quickly by the fact that I was as excited about the course as I was the girl sitting beside me. I was excpeted and well you guys know the rest.

But now as the school year is starting Im looking around campus and drawing this conclusion. I most likely will never have as good of friends as I had in Wise...maybe ever again. I knew everyone of their quirks, their like, dislikes, tastes in music, favorite places to eat (there and at home), I mean these guys were more like family than friends by the time I left. I hope they feel the same way about that but there is no way of telling short of just asking and I really just dont want to do that.

Thats not the point though let me get to the real point. In Wise I was miserable in my major and happy in my social life. Here at ETSU the reverse is true. Yeah I have a few friends but they arent ones I've made were pre-exisitng to here, hell most of them I knew before i even got out of high school. Sadly I dont see them enough to actually be not so depressed in the friends department. I'm sure eventually this will turn around but I thought since I do get a few readers in here a day, and i hope some of you arent in college yet, that you can learn from me. Here are your options as I see them. When you go to college the vast ideal is to have a good time and a good education. I've found that you can only do one most of the time and the other only a some of the time. WIth me at Wise it was mostly friends and shcool work whenever I damn well felt like it. So while choosing your options of colleges to go to kiddies I suggest you take a few of these points into consideration. As I write these I realize some of them wont apply to you but still warp them until they do ok.

1) Location: Even if you hate your parents try to go somewhere close by. Eventually you will need something from them and if they are to far away you will be faced with the grim realization of how good you had it when your folks gave you a hand.

2) Education: DUH, I mean dont just go to the school cuz you saw this blond girl/guy with a body to die for and want to meet up with them at some random time to have your first college one night stand. THere is plenty of time for that on the weekends. Go to school to ACTUALLY go to school. FInd a place that makes you happy with its cirriculum. Slip away from your tour group and actually ask some students whats up there. Are the professors insanly hard, are they easy, do they like to play D and D, anything jsut ask. Nine times out of ten youll get some good responses that will help you figure out if that place is good or not.

3) The People: While your busy questioning the populus of any college ground take the time to do one more simple thing. Listen to them, how they react will sometimes tell you how the entire campus will be. If they are overly bubbly though or to enthusiastic to answer your questions you've run into a PR man/woman. Tell them you need to use the bathroom or randomly point your finger in a direction and scream "oh my god what is that" and run in the opposing direction of where they are standing. Bias veiws only lead to brick walls.

Ok that is my advice to the younger generation. Now go forth children and frolic elsewhere in this infinate pasture known as interent.

Spideman 3ish??

2005-09-08T14:12:00.000-07:00

While trolling around the interent this afternoon I found a very intersting topic. As many of you know I'm a HUGE fan of Spiderman and more speifically of the Spiderman movies because of 3 very important things. 1) Because I believe that Spiderman is one of the greatest heros of all time, 2) Sam Raimi is directing, he is quite possibly my favorite directors of all time because of his inovations in horror, his unwillingness to just go by Hollywood standards when he think there is a better way to do things, and about 100 other reasons. 3) 2 words Bruce Campbell, do I really need to say more than that.

But really what Im refering to is the latest in the long lines of big villans to make their big screen debut. This time around Spiderman will have not one, not 2, but 3 big villans in the third and final installment of the Sam Raimi masterpeice. Though the plot line isnt really know the focus will be around Venom, Sandman, and Hobgoblin. Hobgoblin will be Harry Osborne, instead of becoming the second green goblin as he did in the comic books. But then again the story has gone a little differently than the comic history. It make sense that Harry would become Hobgoblin, he is different from his father and would of course warp the deminor and attitude of the Green Goblin go to be his own kind of villians.

What the real suprise is about is Tv's Topher Grace of Thats 70s show fame will be playing what is arguably the best villan in the spiderman univers: Venom. In the comics Venom was created during a story arc known as the Secret Wars in which Spiderman lead an all star Marvel cast against a whos who of Marvel villans. Somehow in the fray Spiderman obtains a costume that is actually a symbiote and bonds with him. Unfortunatly it tries to take over and Spiderman forces it off. The symbote then finds Eddy Brock, former photographer for the Daily Bugle. Eddy hates Spiderman and Peter Parker, due to the fact that Parker is always catching the best shots of Spiderman. Eddy bonds with the symbote and becomes Venom. Eventually Venom comes around to the side of good and heads off to San Fransisco to protect the populus there. The only real problem I can see with Topher Grace playing the role is the fact that he to tiny for the part. Being such a small fellow it would make it hard to believe that he could be the burly beast Eddy Brock, or the even stronger Venom. But with reports that Grace is beefing up for the role I think he should be a welcome addition to the cast

Sandman, one of the older Spiderman villians, will be played by Thomas Willam Church. Now known for his work on the movie Sideways you will most likely remember him from his more lucerative role as Loyle, the bumbling mechanic, from the comedy series Wings. For a little backgroung on Sandman he was a simple man who had some sort of accident that allowed him the ability to change his physical shape into sand and control sand. This of course made him a pain in the ass at the beach but other than that his real power was he changed his form into weapons that could take down bank vault doors and engulf the fortune in his body to make his get away. Well if he didnt he really should of it would have made him hard to catch.

Though Raimi, always keeping his audiences guessing, has recnetly said that only one of these villans will make an appearance in movie. Its a big suprise as rumors have been leaked again that the camelon will make his big movie debut. No name for who would play him and it makes sense. Currently Im reading If Chins Could Kill Confessions of a B movie actor, written by Bruce Campbell. Which by the way is a must own for all Evil Dead fans as it will more or less let you learn all the secrets of their film making during that movie. One of the real lessons learned through that movie is 2 things. 1) Sam Raimi is a madman if he likes you and will torture you endlessly but its all out of love. 2) Most movies will go through the process of signing on more actors than neccessary just in case one of them fall through. Actually something amazing is the fact that before you even interview sometimes studios will negotiate your contract just in case they choose to give you the part. But you can all ready this and figure it out for youselves it a great book. Its worth a thumb through.

Trolling for Bots

2005-09-07T12:36:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I as astonished by the mere number of hits I got on my site but wanted to just say thanks to everyone who visited and made it a true red letter day in my sites hsitory. I know that the post on the retrospective of the MGS sereis had played so far was a bit long so this is going to be considerably shorter. Hopefully it will make up for making you guys actually read all that stuff. But my serious gripe today is bots. I hadnt even noticed they were hitting my site till a friend messaged me with the bad news. Nothing bothers me more than when i actually put work into something, not entierly worthwhile mind you, but something only to have the lowest form of life on the internet, trolling bots that comment on any site they encounter.

Ok its not like they are a plauge upon the online community but I realize that they are sadly going to be a part of the Internet. People will always want to spread their words and truths across the net to every corner of it they can so people will in the end have no choice but atleast see it once. Its not really right but its sorta of like saying only certain people can use the interent. Thankfully though this matter should be resovled with a little behind the scenes tweaking that I did earlier today. I guess i should be thankful though atleast it wasnt a porn bot....wait i get more hits when i mention porn. Hold on a sec

sexy girls, women, hot, legs, breasts, college, sororities. Ok that should atleast ensure me a few more hits that i normally get. Hey what can I say sex sells. Just gonna play to it, i mean comon. Hell a friend of mine said I should try to put up incerdibly small pictures of women on it and call it porn for those with very good eyesight. But thats it for today, little entry to make up for the huge one. I think thats fair right??

The "Truth" of Shadow Moses

2005-09-05T19:24:00.000-07:00

Alright first order of business, well for me that is, is going to me trying to STILL wrap my head around the entire Metal Gear Solid series I've played thus far. Today I just finished up MGS2: Sons of Liberty. Now the first thing you have to realize is that I know im behind the times, that I'm like the only person on the planet who has not played Snake Eater yet. True it makes sense of all the other plot lines of the other 2 games but I think I've been able to peice together some of the main ideas of each game, and some of the sub text. And since I'm all about spoling good things for other people or educating those who dont want to play the game I'm gonna take this opportunity to spread the events of MGS 1 and 2 to you my readers. **WARNING** this entry will contain huge spoilers for the games if you havent played them and would like to then dont read this.

In Metal Gear Solid, as we all know, you as Solid Snake infultrate a training station in Alaska and set into motion the events that will be come to known as the Shadow Moses Incident. This incident lead not only to the dissolving of the secret organization known as FoxHound but subsequenlty to the demise of serveral high level power figures due to a mysterious disease later to be named Foxdie. Snake went through a cavalcade of craziess including the Gattling gun weilding Shamen, Vulcan Raven, the beautiful Sniper Wolf, and the Psychic Phenome Psycho Mantis. Most mysteriously of these was the appearance of a Ninja who was later to proven to be Grey Wolf, a memeber of Foxhound thought long to be dead and Snake's former friend. Wolf blamed Snake for the destruction of Outer Heaven, a sinister plan created by Snakes fathe Big Boss. During one of their many in enounters Wolf cuts off one of Ocelots arms making him useless in a fight as he relied so heavily on his gun weilding techniques. This all paved the way for Snake to fight through the entire Alaskian base to face off against the worst enemy he has faced since the incident in Outer Heaven, his own brother Liquid Snake. Through a combination of indomitable spirit, unwavering heart, and Foxdie Solid defeated his brother and Metal Gear.

Metal Gear was a secret project funded by the government as a way to create a mobile nuclear launcher to use in extreme combat situations. Now with Liquid dead Metal Gear Rex, the latest incarnation of the project, lays in ruins. Along the way though there were countless victims and if you were patient enough to listen at the end of the credits you would learn that another Foxhound specialst Revolver Ocelot had actually gotten information for another entity, the president of the United States.

This leads way into Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. You, as Snake, head out to a tanker being poileted by the Marines. Since the incident at Shadow Moses, 2 years earlier, a wide variety of events have happened. The first of which is the president resigned due to waining health and a new president has taken his place. Also the entire course of events at Shadow Moses, the base in Alaska, has become known to the public making Soild Snake a hero. But also with the entire knownledge of Metal Gear has been released making anyone with a few hundred million dollars to spare was one massive death machine richer. The latest version of it created by the marines Metal Gear Ray, a Metal Gear that defeats other Metal Gears. Unfortunatly Ocelot has returned not content with just surving Shadow Moses but he also wants his own Metal Gear. So he steals Ray and confirms with his bosses that he has created the evidence needed to make it look like Snake has become a terrorist and sank the ship Ray was on.

Flash foward another 2 years as Raiden, the latest and only memeber of the reconstructed Foxhound organization, enters an enviromental cleaning facility known as the Big Shell. It was originally desined to clean up the spill of the tanker that Snake was on during the Ray's theft. Terrorist have taken over the Big Shell and are threatening the lives of their hostages, including the current president. So Raiden sets off to solve the problems that they create as he runs into events similar that Snake had at Shadow Moses. As you continue down your path, as Raiden, you run into an odd cast of characters including Vamp, an almost immortal and unstopable beast. Forutne, a lady luck who doesnt need to fear bullets or death. And finally there is Fatman a bomb expert who loves nothing more than seeing a large bomb go off. Suprisingly Revolver Ocelot is among the terrorists and is acting much like the he had during the Shadow Moses incdient, as second in command. The leader of this assault on the Big Shell Solid Snake, the hero of Shadow Moses. Though this is later thought to be a lie because Soilde Snake died 2 years prior in the tanker disaster that made the entire Big Shell complex necessary.

Raiden works his way through the facility taking out the terrorist and making odd allies, such as Plisken a marine who seems to know more than he is letting on, and a 2 memebers from a stragne sounding place known as the La-le-lu-le-lo. This all comes to a head as Raiden makes his way to the president and finds that the entire country is being run by a group of individuals subsequently named the "Patriots". The "Patriots" had been around for over 100 years making the real decisions that shaped the coutnry and its future. They were also in charge of creating "truths" for the public at large to know. Thus was the way the world has worked and functioned for decades. But the current president was unhappy merelying playing a role and had decided to try and force his way into the "Patriots" ranks; by working with the terrorist to obtain their true objective Metal Gear Arsenal. On board Arsenal Gear was an increidbly advanced AI system code named GW. GW was a new type of AI, it wasnt meant for interatction it's true purpose was to process information in this new digital age and alter it to fit the Patriots needs and help them further their plans for the coutnry, creating context instead of control.

Throughout the mission Raiden has began questioning his supiors he has been in contact with and it finally is revealed that the cornel, the entire mission, was part of Metal Gear Arsenal's programming, in truth it was a plan of the Patriots to defeat the leader of the terrorists, Solidius Snake. Solidius was in fact the president Ocelot was working for during the Shadow Moses incident, which is why Ocelot survived the Foxdie virus. Eventually the final showdown begins as Solidus forces you to fight many of the Ray units being mass producded to create a defensive unit for Aresnal Gear. Though a little luck the help of the current Ninja, the position once held by Grey Wolf, you succed and learn the truth. Solidus, Ocelot, and Forutune appear with Plisken, who is the real Solid Snake, as their prisoner. Snake had use the body of his brother Liquid to fool authorties into making him think he had died at the tankers crash site.

Ocelot explains that this has all be part of the S3 program created by the patriots. S3 stands for Solid Snake Simulation. Because Snake was considered such a hero after the Shadow Moses incident the Patriots become enfurated because they did not plan for him to become a hero and he was beyond their control. So they intentionally sank the tanker Metal Gear Ray was on to create the big shell as a cover developing the systems for Arsenal Gear and also to frame Snake and make it seem as though he caused the disaster. It did all seem to familair, the unique soilders like Fortune, Vamp, and Fatman, seemed incredibly like the fallen memebers of Foxhound. The computer virus named Foxhound, even Ocelot's involvement. It was all planed to see if Raiden could be put into the situation to become like Solid Snake.

He contiues on be telling them that since their participation is no longer neccessary that he will kill them all in the only operating Ray. Unfortuantly he is taken over by another force, that of Liquid Snake. It seems that to replace his dismemebered arm Ocelet used Liquids body as a suitable substitute but his hatred for Snake, Big Boss, and Ocelot returned and engulfed what the Ocelots' conciousness. Liquid tried to destroy them but Forutne used her powers to guide all the bullets and missles away from them. Solide then follows Liquid in his Ray leaving Raiden to deal with Solidus. GW contacts you again and explains something more. The Patriots had lied to Ocelot, they knew Liquid might be a threat even though he was dead so they told him that the S3 program was to make new soilders. When in truth it was something far more serious; S3 stands for Selection for Societal Sanity. It was devised by GW to make sure that the "truths" that were passed on by everyone in this new digtal age we could actually be carried one. Likes Snakes truth of finding something worth fighting for and living to fight for it. These truths seem obvious to us now in this age beyond the digital age. Digital has become common place, and even someone in the middle nowhere can spread their words and truth through the interenet. Of course these are just my thoughts/summary of the Metal Gear games ive played so far. I guess i better get a move on and get Snake Eater so I can be caught up for when MGS4 comes out next year.

The Stuff Legends are Made Of

2005-08-30T10:06:00.000-07:00

A long long time ago in a dimension way cooler than ours Prof Charles Xavier decided that the world needed protection from those people with extordinary skills caused by mutation, so he made the X-men. Of course Stan Lee thought it up made it into a comic and this lead to a string of video games from the NES on. Ok alot of peope like to forget the NES game cuz it sucked because all you could see is bad looking polygons that were horrible looking like it was hard to tell between wolverine and cyclops.

But from its humble beginings raven software came forth a few years ago and brought out X-Men legends. X-Men Legends is quite possibly one of the best super heros games I have ever played. Personally I love the newest character in the univerise Magma, aka Allison Crestmere. Not to mention that if you know how to do it right you can be double digits for all your X-men before you even begin the first mission after rescuing Allison, and its fun. More importantly the story is so great. Not only do you get to match wits with the likes of Magneto, Sentials, Juggernaut, Sabertooth, and Shadow King but the story also follows through for this falls great sequal X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse.

Rise of Apocalypse is a great sequal because of the true background in the X-Men universe about Apocalypse and his story arches. In the anols of X-Men history all of his plans have been to spread widespread chaos with the eventual destruction of all humanity and mutant kind. His eventual destruction was a true acomplishment for the X-Men and it cost them dearly. But as for the game I dont know what the exact story is but I do know that as usual there will be a shakey allience between the X-Men and the Brotherhood to stop Apocalypse. Thats right in this sequal you can use ally up such villans and heros like Cyclops, Wolverine, Magneto, Sabertooth, Blob, Juggernaut, Storm, Rouge, and many many more.

Now with all these great villans by your side you might think that there wont be that many baddies to beat up on. Well your wrong. First off you have to take on and out all 4 of Apoclypse's horsemen, including future X-Man Archangel. This is also the only boss fight that has been mentioned on as you have to not only avoid Archangel's attack but take down 4 diferent sheild generators that are protecting him. It was mentioned that you might want to bring your best and most powerful flying mutants to the fight to take down Angel and his sheild. Personally I think the team of Rouge, Storm, Magneto, and Cyclops. I say Cyclops because of his strong distance attacks and team leadership skills that are integrated into his stats.

A few of the new suprises in the game include bonuses for all characters as long as they wear clothing from the same time period. An example would be if you dress up Jean Grey in her Phoneix Outfit, as well as making Wolverine, Cyclops, and Magento dress up in their 80s apparel then the entire team would get a boost in one of several ways; including attack, defense, health, and energy. Also how people react to you will be affected by which character you use to approach them with. Those with a strong dislike to Magneto will make snide remarks toward him and address the other team normally. Not to mention the graphics are gratefully inproved over the last version. Its definalty worth a look when it hits all consoles soon.

Gas my Ass

2005-08-24T18:46:00.000-07:00

So today I made a decision, well more like today I made a few good decisions and a few bad ones. The bad ones well one of the bad ones is stupid the rest are things I have to deal with in my own time and in my own way. But one of the good decisions is that I wanted to get more involved in digg.com. You know digg the place where Kevin Rose and crew have created a social bookmarking library of all the latest and greatest from the world of tech, gaming, etc, etc. Yeah and if your reading this site and arent a member of/or have heard of digg then go there NOW. Dont read the rest of this go there come back to here later. Also in a bit of pleeding and arrogance I woudl ask that if you are registered with digg that you please digg my first story submitted to digg.

So if your ready to contiue after that digg rant i just went on, which by the way i just used digg 8 times now, lets continue. With the latest WTF moments happening at the pump it seems more and more Americans might be pulling the dine and dash at the gas stations. Case in point is a horrible tragedy in Montgomery Alabama. The gas, priced at 2.60 a gallon, was doing its thing heading from one tank into another, if you know how they store gas what I said totaly makes sense. The man racked up a tab of 52 dollars in gas before he decided he had no intention of paying, got inot his car, and speed off. The brave guy running the station jumped into the path of the car and got run over for his trobule, he was killed instantly.

With prices of gas rising to staggering heights authorities say that this sort of bailing on the bill may happen more than anyone would like. The sad part is for every penny lost like this gas stations have to seel 1000 more gallons of to make up the difference, meaning that that particular station in Alabama would have to sell 5,200 more gallons of gas just to make up for that one person who ditched. The worst part of all of this is the fact that no one realizes that they have the power. It is prediceted that if only half of America did not buy gas for one day it would almost bankrupt the gasoline industry which would mean that since demand went down and supplied stayed the same, even for that one day, gas prices would go down. Not significantly mind you but it would show them that they cant raise prices to raise their profits. Anyway that is rant for the day. Just remember we have the power.

In my Day....

2005-08-22T23:25:00.000-07:00

Ok I truly realized the difference between my generation and the one that is growing up right now. Its only the way of the world, the state of the economy, its television. When I was growing up parents spent as much time as they could with their kids but they also left a little bit of their raising to the television and its wonderful glow and shows. When I was 8 I watched Thundercats, GI Joe, and Transformers. These shows were meant to teach me how teamwork is great and a cornerstone of having friends. It also taught other moral lessons, hell i mean common GI Joe had special segments at the end of each episode that told you what is right, wrong, and what to do in case of emergencies.

Thats right I'm not ashamed to say it I watched those shows till they were dead and buried in the forgeten memory of human history till 15 years after the fact. Nothing was cooler than coming home sitting down in front of the TV and turning on the Thundercats and learning that if you just relay on your friends when you need them it will all work out for the best.

Now the shows arent that informative and they leave you behind when you grow up beyond the age where guys in werid outfits, or when you figure out that the Power Rangers were cooler when Amy Jo Johnson was still on the sereis. Not to mention that series has been on forever and you know what it should have died a long time ago. I mean comon how many encarnations of a show can there be of people gaining super powers while wearing mutli colored costumes while taking orders from omniptant beings or commanders who just dont know better than to just go out and kill the main source of evil.

Ok now that I'm done with that rant I want to address my comments section. Ok i went through the time of Paranoia Agent and what an interesting show it is and what happens two bots post comments on my blog, I freaking hate that. Anyway If i seem distracted in my writing tonight its because im up at my old school, UVA wise. Im visiting some friends, with some mixed reveiws from my parents. But its not important right now, later all.

I Think Im Paranoid

2005-08-21T17:33:00.000-07:00

Recently I've noticed a trend in Anime I watch. First is that alot of them are from the Geneon group and the second, and more importantly is that apparently, is that alot of them are being run by commities which in and of itself are a good idea. I mean if its run by commities as I know them which is a group of people who make all the big decisions. But that is beside the point what I want to talk about is a show that I think the commitie must have been on some STRONG drugs, Paranoia Agent.

The story begins in the oddest way. An animator, Tsukiko Sagi, is riding high after her success with her dog character Maromi. However one night she is attacked by the strange assailant and left hospitalized. She describes hes attacker and the police begin to dismiss her story as they think she is just stalling for time because she is under stress to create a new hit character. Until several other victims of the the same attacker. They all say the same thing "He has golden skates and swings a bent metal bat, and before he hits you.....he smiles."

A widespread panic arises in Tokyo as everyone wonders who will be the next victim of Lil Slugger. They dont have to wait long as victim after victim arises and the police finally find someone who not only matches the description but also claims credits for a few of the attacks. Lil Slugger proclaims himself to be a holy warrior and though he did attack people he did it to free their souls. He claims all the people he attacked were backed into a corner and need him to free them. The police couldnt make him confess but have enough evidence to put him away, which they do. That night another attack happens and the detectives in charge of the case rush back to find that Lil Slugger is dead and they find his attacker.....Lil Slugger.

A strange new series of events occur which leads to even more attacks with horrible outcomes than those before. People are not seeking out Lil Slugger to help save them from their lives and seeking out salvation. The only salvation for those who dont want to be attacked by Lil Slugger are the detectives who have been released from the force and the only lead, Tsukiko Sagi, is now no longer keeping in touch with the public.

Ok that is as much of the series as im gonna let you in on. No point in runing the whole thing to satisfy some lust for knowledge. Lets just say that Maroni and Lil Slugger have a link deeper than anything you can imagine until the very last. But I like this show, its a cautionary tale. Its not that Lil Slugger went after just anyone, he attacked those who felt death was their only release. Desperation can sometimes only lead to that path but its always important to remember as much desperation can linger in your soul thier is always a light that can shine through another salvation other than death. Im not talking religion here folks im speaking metaporically and besides organized religion seems like little more than a scam to me but that is another post for another time. But what I am trying to say is watch the entire show of Paranoia Agent and you will be amazed at how good a show it is. It shows everything from all sides of a story. From the people involved to the lives of the people in the city it is happening in, short of Sin City I cant think of anything I have seen recently that is that good at story telling and keeping you hooked till the very end.

Sinfuly Good

2005-08-16T21:16:00.000-07:00

Sin City, my kind of town, a town of dirty cops, angelic hookers, and dark alleys where you can find anything you want if you just know where to look. And tonight I was looking for answers, but to find the right answers you have to ask the right questions. Though the right questions might get you killed and you have to ask yourselves do you want to ask them. Sometimes you got to prove yourself to your friends by dying...or by killing alot of people. A town that no longer exists in the world. A town where you can be a hero by commiting alot of violence and still be a villan to others.

Those are just some of a few thoughts you might pull away from Frank Miller's personal masterpeice Sin City. Though just a blip on the radar of mainstream publicity Sin City left its mark for the whole world to see and it left in beautiful black and white. Color in truth was use to only make you realize how incredible the characters were or to bring something you would ordinally miss. By the way this movie made me realize what incredibly beautiful blue eyes Alexis Bledel has. But that is something beside the point. The story revolves around 3 of the of Miller's Sin City stories; Sin City, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard.

The most incredible thing about this movie is simply this, the number of stars that appear in this movie. Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, and so many more. Quite possibly the creepiest of these has to be Elijah Wood as a silent killer who can cripple you faster than most people can move their heads. I wont go into detail and ruin everything for you but if you havent seen this movie and like remotly anything Troublemaker Studios, Frank Miller, or Quinten Tarinteno has done then WATCH THIS MOVIE. Its worth the time, the money, the whatever else you have to do to get your grubby little mits around this movie. Every part of this movie is interwining and doubles over onto itself. But without question it has to, you almost want everyone in the movie to meet in one great mass brawl with all the good guys watching each others back. Not to mention there is nothing cooler than gun toating hookers who will kiss you, sleep with you, and kill you all in the same hour.

But that is enough of the town that Miller built lets talk about me. Well more specifically about the traffic im getting. Offically today I have reached over 600 visits with more and more coming every day. Its amazing that in less than 6 months I could get some dedicated visitors. Well in honor of that I think Im gonna change around the site some, get back to trying to make some things work that I wanted to a little while back, and have some fun. I wont tell you what it is but ill let it be a suprise.

Add one on....take one away.

2005-08-14T16:57:00.000-07:00

First I want to aplogize for not updating this past week. I actually had a few interveiws for jobs, lucky me, and was busy with other things that are actually boring as hell so I wont elaborate on. But when I did finally get a chance to get some relaxation I turned on the TV to see what i consider a great stride for old school TV veiwers like myself, Thundercats Season 1 part 1 on DVD. For a bit of time recently good old school TV shows like G.I. Joe and Transfomers it was about time to complete the trifecta of my childhood. Growing up in the 1980s, as I did, you did 3 things 1) watch TV, 2) played with your friends, 3) and spent time with the family. But it so great to know that I can sit down and reminice about the day that I use to sit back watch Lion-o and the other Thundercats kick some serious Mum-Ra butt.

However I guess when you get something great like a good show on DVD you of course have to get something taken away. I guess that is the rule of equivilant exchange. One of the most greatest series of characters ever created, the looney toons, have gotten a make over for the new millenium. Now that orginally didnt sound like much of a problem with me, the looney tunes have gotten several makeovers over the years. However I didn't know about the artwork proposed until recently. The new style of the Looney Toons, or as they will be know the Loonatics, is like a hard edge horrible, evil looking, group of the orginal looney toons I grew up with. I personally think this has to be stoped so please get in contact with WB and tell them to not change who we grew up with. Some art work has been posted on websites that can describe this probelm better than I can, like ohh say here at MSNCB. Well thats all for now folks.

My Date with ???

2005-08-02T07:21:00.000-07:00

The ??? might throw off some of you off. Im not going on a date with the random guest celebrity on some tv show or the time in which parties go to when people put those annoying time frames on invitations. Its just a thought that came to me after veiwing one of the oddest trailers for a very interesting ideas for a movie since Super Size Me. A man, and might I add a very brave man, has decided to make a movie called My Date With Drew. More or less he has decided that he deserves a date with Ms Drew Barrymore.

He decided that he was the perfect canidate even though he is broke, not famous in anyway, and has lived in LA for 5 years without probalby every setting his eyes on her other than in a movie theatre. But by god he had a dream and he ran with it, he decided to use the 6 degrees of seperation rule to try and find someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Drew Barrymore. All he has is 30 days, $1100, and a dream. To see what happens you have to go see the movie "My Date with Drew" in theatres August 5th. Actually they already made a movie like this back in 1992 called Calinder Girl with Luke Parry and Jerry O'Connell. They play 2 of 3 young men who choose to drive to LA to try and get their dream date with Marlyin Monroe.

This in and of itself is a great idea. Find someone you truely want to date, who you believe you would have a legitimate shot with and devote yourself to the idea. Not quite in a stalker sense but in the sense of "Hey this is a good person, someone i could see myself with, not for money, or fame, or glory with my buddies, but because I want to be with this person and I think I could truly make her/him happy". Sadly I think if anyone did try this idea it would be for celebrities, and with the countries strange but obvious obsession with celebrities. Though I wouldnt aim high. For some reason I'm not really infatuated with people from the movies. In truth I would much rather have time with some people from a sub sect of celebrity.

In my movie of this caliber it would me "My Date with (insert g4 personality here)" Thats right im a sucker for thoes ladies. Though that is an incredibly insensatvie statement its the truth. I have no personal preferance. They all seem like nice ladies and most likely all have a very healthy social life and i'm sure are all in the middle of good realtionships, if not they should be. They are all lovely ladies with alot to offer whomever they choose to date. But that is just me, im sure none of you feel that way.

Ok I realize this is a long, boring, and rather silly post but that is because its the only one you guys get this week. Sadly I wont be able to update my blog for the rest of this week. My family needs me as my sister is making her way to a wedding up NJ way and I am being put in charge of dog sitting our 6, thats right I said 6, dogs. Two of whom are still in their infant stage, but we love them all the same. After all that is said and done ill be there at home for the rest of the week and helping as best I can around the house.

My final point of interest is something that is begining to make me smile a little. I appreciate that you guys who check my blog do so on a daily basis and I realize that because of my one and only post this week will hurt my traffic but hey its fine. However, there is something going on in the day to day traffic of my site. Because of some of my latest choices in topics to write about have gotten me traffic in some of the oddest places. MSN is now carrying what I said about Brad Pitt in Troy on searches about oddly enough Trogan warfare. Its obvious cosidering some of the search words are the same but its cool to get traffic like that. Also I have some of the oddest referals on the planet. A PORN site somehow and in some way connected to me. Now I dont mind porn its a multi BILLION dollar a year industry and I support it as long as you do it out of your own choice. I enjoy the traffic, I enjoy the links, and hell i really dont have a problem with any of it as a matter of fact the more links the happier i am. Also i wouldnt mind a few comments coming in folks. I do actually check what you guys do so why not tell me what you think. I appreciate the feed back, as a matter of fact here is a question for you all. If you could get your dream date with any girl who would it be??

The Family Guy Movie

2005-07-28T22:20:00.000-07:00

Now that its offical that there has been a leak in the production of the Family Guy movie "Stewie Griffen the Untold Story" most everyone has been trying to find it on the internet before Fox tries do whatever it is they need to do to stop sites from having it on their servers. But before that happens let me give you a simple spoiler free version of the movie. The movie, which lasts around 3 to 4 times the normal length of an episode, focuses around, obviously, Stewie and his madcap mis-adventures which lead him from coast to coast and beyond.

A major thing you'll notice when you watch the movie is that there is actual cussing and bit more focus on some of the things that are normally used for a few second jokes, such as the channel 5 new team. Thats right you didnt read it wrong there is cussing, every single character it seems like has a moment where a obscenity that would normally get bleeped or delted is just thrown out into the ether, especially Stewie and Peter. Sadly as the movie progresses you also find some of the jokes a bit stale while others are worth watching over and over again. Thats pretty much all I can say without going into the story which is a bit rude of me to do considering some of you may not have seen the movie yet.

One thing I do want to say that wont ruin any single moment of the movie is the fact that it is currently out almost a month before its DVD release makes me wonder who leaked it in the first place. As you watch the movie you almost feel as if youve seen it before because some of the scenes and jokes used in the movie were also used for the summer commericals that promoted Family Guy's return to Fox. This means that well before we even knew Family Guy was coming back this movie had been written, animated, dubbed, and edited for the US to the point that it could be put into commercials. Also there is a joke in the very beggining of the first segment that makes mention that Channel 5 news is having someone make them a bootleg copy of the movie your about to watch.

All of that seems a little suspicious to me considering that Fox would most desire to make a huge profit of this DVD only to see it go up in smoke with the bit torrent floating around the net. Even if its proven that later somebody at the Fuzzy Door, the prodcution group that makes Family Guy, leaked it it wont really matter. Should that be the case Fox would either fire that person or release Fuzzy Door and cancel Family Guy on their network. Which would work well for Fuzzy Door as Willams Street and Cartoon Network would probably chomp at the bit to get them so Adult Swim could be the only network showing Family Guy. Of course with a later time slot it means that Family Guy could be a bit cruder and ruder than it normally is giving Seth McFarlene the true creative vision he sorta wants for the show as the 9:00pm time slot = limitations on what you can and cannot show because of the veiwers that could be watching. But then again that is just me talking...I could be wrong.

Brad Pitt is a Jack@$$

2005-07-28T01:20:00.000-07:00

Actually I dont think that is true. I feel I have to say this after writing the title of this posting, Brad Pitt is a good man who spends his time and money the way it should be spent. Making good movies and spending money on charities and providing a bit of betterment to the world. Ok now that I'm done being the 2 cent PR man I have to admit right now im more or less stunned at what a good actor he is. I realize that acting is the unequivical faking of any emotion at any given time, and the ability to make believe that your right there in the moment, like you were really living your role, but WOW. Since its a late night for me again I decided to watch Troy. In case you live in a cave, like apparently I have been, Troy is the story of the infamous Trogan war against the Greeks which eventually ends thanks to the Trogan Horse. By the way the Troy....totally not the birthplace of Trogan condoms, somebody else thought of that all on their own.

But anyway back to what I was saying. Brad Pitt takes on the role of Achilies, the man of legend who was dipped into a lake as a child to make him invincible. Of course as we all know the only part of him vulnerable to anything was his right heel, loving now known as the Achilies heel. Now accordingly Achilies is a bit of a jack ass. Its sort of like when you put on God Mode on a FPS dont you act a little like a jack ass to all the NPCs. Of course you do, you run around let them waste ammo on you knowing all the while all you have to do is pull out your rocket launcher and give them the proper time to kiss their asses goodbye. Achillies is recruited by the Greeks, more or less against his will, to fight the Trogans and give them a good ass kicking. Though his hatred of who is in control of the army and decided to show his distaste in rather inventive ways. Not having his forces fight in the first battle, telling off the general, and of course sending his men home. All of these actions have a purpose in the movie of course but he is a SERIOUS jack ass.

The one true moment that made me realize this was when Achillies was being summoned. A young boy approaches his tent, carefully makes his way in, and find Achillies on the outskirts of his bed which is also occupied by 2 women. The boy tells Achillies the message he came with and walks him out. The boy also talks about how he doesnt want to fight a large man Achillies is going to face. All Achillies can say is "And that is why no one will remember your name" and rides off. That right there alone screams jack ass. Normally I wouldnt post about this but I've been watching alot of movies lately and just getting into character development. It also doesnt hurt that I have to write a script for one of my classes coming up this semester in college. Anway its late and I think i'm rambling, later all.

I Want To Live in Hawaii

2005-07-25T09:26:00.000-07:00

Of course who wouldn't want to live in that great state. The weather is great, short of the minor storm or whatever happens, the women are lovley and the basic idea of winter wear is probably wearing shorts instead of your swit suit. Though those actually arent the reasons I currently want to live in Hawaii. The true reason is they are finally doing what I believe ALL states should do and putting legislation on the books to put a cap on gas prices. The law, which goes into effect on September 1st, is asking to be delayed in order for 3 major oil firms to make sure that this is economically and ecologcially significant for the state.

Listen I'm no expert on state legislation, economics, etc, etc, but it really sounds like a good idea, sadly its only in theory. With politicians, Big Oil, and other power houses trying to squash this bill before it becomes law. A gas cap would mean that people would have to use the oil manufactuors would have to find cheaper way to produce gasoline which would mean no longer would we have to worry about growing gas prices and we could finally settle and hopefully maybe even see a decline in the burdening gas prices. But then again I'm so old I can remember when gas prices were .75 a gallon. Which means a 20 gallon tank would be like 10 bucks instead of 40. The story can be found here, thanks in large part to Fark.com. In case you dont know Fark.com is a great website in order to find news, both real and funny, about almost anything.

Waiting Till December

2005-07-20T19:31:00.000-07:00

Recently I got a PS2, quite possibly one of the best systems currently out. Once I got it I immediatly knew what game I had to have for it, Kingdom Hearts. In my freshman year of college my roommate was away for a weekend and he told me I could use his PS2 if I wanted. Well I was talking to one of my friends that thursday night and they told me they had a copy of Kingdom Hearts and they let met borrow it. So Saturday afternoon, yeah right like im gonna spend a friday night in college in their room, and started playing. I kept playing up to a point and then had to stop and never got a copy and PS2 in my hands for almost 3 years after the fact. But today is a grand day for me. I FINALLY beat Kingdom Hearts and sadly I was very disappointed with the final boss. Not that he wasnt hard or anything but at one point I didnt find it much of a problem to beat him down. His final form was truly unique for any villan though. Personally I would have rathered heard him and Sora go into a verbal battle because Billy Zane voiced the villan and he was incredible at his role. Zane has always been able to pull off great villans and this time was not any different. But now with the Kingdom Hearts behind me I'm forced to wait until this December for the sequel to hit store shelves.

In other gaming news Cacpom the root of all Resident Evil has announced their next installment in the Zombie saga will be out for not only the PS3 but also the X-box 360. A bit interesting considering that RE4 is still a best seller for the gamecube. That might lead you to believe that Capcom is leaving Nintendo in the dust even after all the money they are surely making from RE4 it makes ya wonder. But there screen shots which can be found here.

An APB on CAC

2005-07-17T17:35:00.000-07:00

Friday night I went out to Downtown Raftors to hear Calling All Cars. Fear not if you havent heard of them they are a local band in my area. I know the lead guitarist and the drummer through the fact that we all use to go to the same college. Unforutanly since I've now transfered we hadnt had time to keep in touch but this was a good way to see each other again. They were suppose to be 2nd in a 4 band show, however things rarely go as planned. After the first band, another local group called "The Jessica Defense", wrapped up their set my friend, the drummer, was asked/told, to go 4th in favor of a band who had driven around 6 hours to come up to JC to play.

Though they should have stayed where they came from because they were nothing more than a heavy metal band with horrible choices in how to perform. Their front-woman didnt have very good vocals, and by that I mean you couldnt hear her over the sound of her band. Though they actually werent that good. Neither was the band that came after them. Actually the only good bands that were The Jessica Defense and Calling All Cars. Their sets were great and I hung out with the guys after the show and they were all very cool. Well I mean the guys in the Jessica Defense, I already knew eveyrone in CAC. Actually every other band said how good CAC was, which was odd cuz I hung around backstage since I said I was with one of the bands and no on questioned it and nobody talked to anyone else. It was more or less your there, you play, you pack up or stick around. But I'm oddly tried today so im gonna get gone. Later.

A Few Words to Tom Cruise

2005-07-14T19:44:00.000-07:00

Now I'm not one to blatently open fire on celebrities, though in truth I have a few problems with them but the remarks made by Tom Cruise a few weeks ago on the Today show left me in a bit of astonishment. Normally I try to stray away from interviews that are A) not direclty talking about a movie and or show the actor/actress is a part of OR B) Way to early/late for me to give a damn. Forutnatly it was the second for me on the date the interveiw with Cruise aired. Now you might wonder what exactly I'm going on about this. Well its simple, I never have really hidden this since I found out I've had this condition. I suffer from a chemical imbalence in my brain that forces me to have depression to an extreme extent. For the longetst time it always seemed that I was unhappy compared to the people around me and that I was unable to find a way to get happy. So in the latter part of my existence on this earth, actually the last 6 months to be exact, I found I have this problem.

This brings me to Tom Cruise. Mr. Cruise got off topic from his latest film War of the Worlds and began to express his love of scientology and how this country had become over drugged and maybe misdiagonosed. His interveiwer, Matt Lauer, decided it was time to bring up the fact that he personally knows people that have had an improved life due to Ritalin. Cruise immediatly dismissed Lauer's argument calling him a glib. By the way what the hell is a glib, I'm very curious about that. Anyway Mr Cruise I have a few words for you. If your not suffering from a illness that affects you in a profound way your SOL. You can read reports, you can try your best to understand what stress it puts you under but you NEVER will be able 2. I understand that your a very powerful, busy, and popular man but i perosnally think you have no place discussing something you have no true understanding of. Your probalby never going to see this but I hope the people who do understand what I'm saying. Along to way I feel that my message might have been lost due to my extreme ties to topic.

Im gonna add this last part with the realization that it may never happen. Mr. Cruise on some off chance you do see this entry and you believe you can make me see it your way then by all means e-mail me, message me, somehow get in contact with me I'm very curious to see if you really can sway me. I'm not a stubborn man if you can bring up a good enough argument I'll be more than willing to say your point of veiw is better than mine and in the right.

Waiter There Are Commercials in my Movie Preveiws

2005-07-12T20:40:00.000-07:00

Tonight I decided to indulge myself after my interveiw, which by the way I think went well. I arrived early, as is my custom, and spent some time playing around with my I-Pod Mini. Which by the way is so choice, if you have the means I highly suggest you pick one up. *note* I'm just curious if anyone can name the the movie that line is from. If you cant do it without google thats cool, but try at least. *end note* So they decided to give us a simulation of what a normals day work would be like after we were asked to fill out another application. I hate when businesses have to do that, I gave them all the same information earlier on the application I gave them so why do I have to do it again. But I finished their simulation rather quickly, actually I did it in about 20 minutes which was about the second best time of everyone in the room.

So as for the indulgence part I came back, printed off some flyers for a upcoming music show, and went off to the mall and spread them around to promote the show. Actually I was suprised that I got all the stores I went to to accepted the flyers and put them up. Even a few places that I thought would never do it. There is a store in my mall called wet seal, a very odd sounding store I give you, but its basically a womens clothing store. They almost snatched the flyer out of my hand and said they couldnt display it in the store but put it back in the break room, or so they said. So hopefully all my PR work will work out and we will have a big crowd come friday.

Finally I went to go see War of the Worlds staring Mr. Tom "I know the history of mental health" Cruise. Thats another tanget entirly which I will get to trust me, what he said on the Today Show was a huge offense to me. In all honesty I almost didnt want to see this movie because Tom Cruise was in it. However I have sat through worse movies, infinatly worse actually. Sadly when the previes for the movie started I was forced to sit through not one, not two, even three or four, but 6 commercials before the movie even began. The best of those was a commercial the Roy Rogers Happy Trails Childrens Foundation. This organization is supported by celebrities far and wide to get money to create better living conditions for babies with disfunctions that effect weither or not they will live. But, before I go off on Tom Cruise i'll reveiw the movie as well of my review of the Fantastic Four. Which will sadly have to be tommorow, well ok maybe later today depending on when your reading this, because my eyes are becoming very heavy. Later all.

What a Difference a Day Makes

2005-07-12T07:50:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, sorry about the incredibly long lack of updates. Since I last posted it seems that life decided it would be a good time to throw me a good curveballs. Not the least of which was the loss of one of the puppies my family adopted. Pippen, a 7 week old pup, was taken from this world into the great beyond by parvo, a devestating and dangerous disease for young dogs. For those of you who dont know what exactly parvo is it is a disease that focuses on destroying the immune system and all around general health of the puppy leaving it less active, with no appetite, and a shell of its former self. I was forced to watch this happen without knowing what was going on and it was quite possibly one of the saddest things I have ever had to do in my life. If you, your friends, your family, anyone you know is thinking about adopting a dog from an animal shelter be sure to have the vet check for parvo, you may save its life.

Sorry for that incredibly PSA sounding part but it had to be said. Thats actually been on my mind for a week or so now and its hard to imagine that we really lost Pippen. But I'll get over it it will just take time. Moving on though I have finally gotten a job interveiw, well actually 2. Late last week, I went for an interveiws at a department store chain, not gonna say who just in case I jinx it, and was submitted to a long and boring group interveiw that more or less ended up with me leaving with no idea where I stood. But today I have ANOHTER interview for a job, that I really hope I get. But I'll post later today about that. Thanks again to everyone who still checkes this site daily, yes i do check the site meter every so often. Thank you for your support and your dedication to the crap i put up here lol.

Going the Wrong Way on a One Way Street

2005-06-27T18:44:00.000-07:00

Well not really but its beggining to seem that way. Actually during my drives around town to move around from point A to B I've found that I have a suprising number of one way streets. I never really saw the point in that, its just a thin road that only heads in one direction. It seems like a waste of space to me. Actually for right now im gonna use one way streets as a metaphore for whats going on in my life right now.

My sister and mom both adoppted two puppies that are loving, gentle, and sadly sick as all hell. The poor things have been kept in sub-standard accomidations for their entire 6 weeks of exiestance and I'm sure have known nothing more than being imprisioned in a cage with their food given to them whenever the worker on shift remembered too. Not to mention the deafening houls, barks, whines, and wimpers of every other dog at that animal shelter. Honestly I find it detestable that animals thats only real flaw is that they are left for dead or given away should be made to suffer like that. Dogs, cats, birds, leopards, unicorns, i dont care what animal they are they should have a home because they deserve it.

In a more entertaining and upbeat note I've become part of the Dear Blog podcast. As it stands right now it seems that myself and Zack, a memeber of the Scopetech forums, will be the staple hosts with rotating guests/podcast listeners as the 3rd, or more, hosts. The format is very simple, we start off with some friendly banter then jump right into what we made the entire podcast for reading blogs. Much like our name sake skit from Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, we aim to poke fun at silly, ridiculous, or uncalled for posts on blogs across the interent. You might think that eventually the well would run dry for these sort of things but with 20,000 or more blogs going online each day its kind of obvious that someone somewhere is going to put up a stupid post each day, fortunatly I know get to find those and poke fun at them. Actually we got done with episode 1 about a week ago and posted it on our website. We just got through taping episode 2 which is lovingly entitled our "southern" episode. I actually have about 1000 other things I want to say in this weeks post but sadly time is restraining me beyond belief. But look forward to it all on the next entry.

-Jason

Two is so Much Harder than One

2005-06-22T10:57:00.000-07:00

Now that I've started writing for Undergroud Tech, trying to start up a podcast, and still trying to find a job its becoming a little harder to find time in the day to update. True they only require one article a week from me at Underground Tech but I feel compelled to write more than that merely because its so easy to find information to write about. Actually for this post im gonna post my latest artcle because its something rather cool, and every once in a while ill post my articles here instead of Underground Tech. You guys have been great to keep checking my blog day in and out and its time I give you guys something worth coming back for.

As another point of interest my friends have been telling me about this really cool air guitar girl that was on Conan O'Brian the other day. So they finally sent me a link of Miri "Sonic Rock" Park, the United States air guitar champion. Thats right there is an actual competition for playing air guitar and it is very cool. I would think playing an actual guitar would be harder because atleast then you have your instrument to look at to make sure you're doing it right. With air guitar you have to know your stuff and be able to hit the cords perfectly because apparently the judges know in these sort of competition. You even have to go as far as to know what type of guitar your playing, its color, and what kinds of petal your using and their color. Here is the link to watch Ms Sonic Rock rock out.

The final point of business for this post is to give you guys my article so here it is. Its about a new type of FPS engine called Cube.

Game Cube

Wait, its not that cube, its something more fun. Thats right Nintendos little slugger with the Mario having, Zelda slashing, Smash Bros button mashing system will not be mentioned beyond this sentenc, and that is a very important thing to remember. Cube is an open source program that is an open source FPS creator that functions on a new kind of engine. The engine in and of itself will allow you create a mock indoor enviroment to shot your friends to your hearts contents. The engine also has a editor for geometry that gives you a full 3D veiw of what your doing by allowing you to fly around the map as you create obstiscles, stairways, etc. The true cool factor of this featrue it can be done with others in multiplayer meaning your friends can actually have input on what your making while your making it meaning a much happier LAN frag fest.

Most would believe that a freeware, open source, engine would have horrible graphics and not be able to compare to the great engines that now flood the market you are wrong. Cube allows you to cast real time lighting effects. Lights and shadows can be cast in a variety of ways, even on an inclinded surface that you want to partialy be in light or shadow. A simplistic quad-tree wold structure that can allow slopes, which will allow for a very interesting layout of levels and of course unique fields.

The engine is also designed to develop featured richness, through simplicity of structure and brute force, rather than finely tuned complexity. The real question remains though how does it play. With the simplistic design of the Cube you can expect a fast pace, hardcore, frag fest very reminiscant of some Doom/Quake/Unreal style. The total of multiplayer games is still unclear. However in 2 player games there are only 2 games mode, compared to the 12 total game modes you can find in the mutiplayer. The only true downside I can find in this game is something that makes it seem so incredible, the grapical engine. Sadly with all the advances this engine seems to have it doesnt seem like it has advanced past Turok and Turok 2 graphics.

Later all

-Jason

How Are Things in Glocca Moria

2005-06-20T23:15:00.000-07:00

If you dont know the reference of the title, dont worry, its not a big deal. Well ok its a minor deal to me because I've found myself actually almost saying this entirly out of the way saying. You see in my time of not making money to support myself I've found myself watching more and more Tv and spending less and less time caring about my life or future until August comes around. So I watch my DVDs, as i still only have basic cable and HBO, which is dreadfully boring. You may be asking yourself, WTF am i sitll doing reading this, but it will all come in time young padawan. My DVD collection of choice is SportsNite. This show was a very underestimated series that aired on ABC from 1999-2001. Sadly it went off the air due to lackluster ratings but stelar reveiws of its work, isnt that always the way. But its short time on the air it managed to win 3 emmys. The series, created by Arron Sorkin, focused on the life, times, and numerous misadventures of the cast and crew of SportsNight, DUH, a third place sports show on a 3rd rate network that was the crown jewel in its network line up, thought you wouldnt know it from the way network execs treated the show.

During its run it dealth with growing pains trying to find an audience and seek acceptance from its own network, ABC. The show itself was brillantly written with jokes that made you feel smarter just by watching the show. The shows main characters were all the behind the scenes crew of SportsNight and its two hosts, Casey McCall and Dan Rydel. The backstory is simple. SportsNight is in its 3rd year on the air, is it just me or does Sorkin have an obssession with the number 3. The show is slowly slumping and hitting its high and lows. The crew inside the show is unaffected by these ratings problems but their parent network, CSC. CSC is sending in the hounds after SportNight, which is shown in a few episodes, and you can tell there is a deep underlying sense of self preservation by the folks on the show. However for the most part its a hilarious, well thought out, well written, and interesting show. Good luck finding it though, it seems that the DVD collection was out for a mere 50 dollars for 45 episodes, which includes the pilot episode. Meaning your getting about a dollar an episode, I DARE you to find a better price for a sereis. Thats right i DARE you. Its a total of 45 episdoes, about a $1.11 an episode, 2 seasons, one great show. You cant beat that with a fish while calculating the air speed of an unlaiden swallow.

Ohh, by the way I have recently become one of the few, the proud, the writers for Undergorund Tech. Its a site run by Cybergod of the Scopetech forums. The site is based around trying to inform the masses that know or trying to know about the latest and greatest in the tech world. Personally I have two articles posted and am probably going to post another some time tonight. Caleb also is a contributor and you should definatly go check out what he writes, hes very good at what he does. There is also a forum if you would like to check that out. Its quick, simple, and the boards have alot of variety of what you can post on, check it out if you have a moment.

My final point of notice I have noticed that my traffic is going up and down in the oddest ways. Somedays, even when I try to update regularly and find that im topping out somewhere around 60 to 70 visits a week. Truth is this warms my heart, I never figured I would be able to reach that many people with a blog about myself, my life, and the various other things in my life. Yet I still I feel I could do more to help reach other people. Sadly I think my interveiws is going the way of the DooDoo in the way of living. Right now its on life support and some evil person is standing over it about to pull the plug. Ill do what I promised and do my interveiw with Kaila Yu but other than that its over with folks. I cant reach some people and others and just shooting this idea in the foot. But even with this lack of content id like to try an experiment. Spread the word about this blog. Start rumors, say nice things, say anything just spread the word. If people come and talk I'll listen and ill try my best change accordingly to create a more veiwer friendly blog. I have a simple goal, 100 visits in a weeks time. Its nothing big, but its something. Thanks for any support you guys out there give me.

-Jason

Going Buc Wild

2005-06-16T13:34:00.000-07:00

I have to aplogize for my lack of updates over the past few days. The other night a loud boom came crashing over my neighborhood. It happened a few times, scared a few animals, and eventually it blew out the power. Thankfuly since I always use my laptop now the battery kicked in and no harm no foul. Sadly my sister didnt have the same fortune and her computer went off entirly and so did her modem and the hub, both reside her in her room. Meaning my night was over with because no interent and the movies on TV were horrible. Speaking of late nights my sleep scheudle has been going a bit insane as of late and I somehow find myself sleeping in LATE and staying up far later than I should, like last night i stayed up till 4 and had to wake up at 7. However hopefully after today I can rectify my mistakes and get everything back to normal. Right now im running on about 3 hours of sleep and i find myself mysteriously full of energy. Of course that might be in part due to the fact that I ate a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and a Smores Pop-Tart, ohh such tiny things for so much energy.

Today was also the day I had my orientation to ETSU, for those of you who dont know what that is it is East Tennesse State University. The morning started at the annoying time of 8:00 am, im not a morning person, with the gathering of the masses at the Culp Centere building. Incoming freshmen and transfer students were huddled into one of its several auditorum like rooms in the center as the usual speaches were spouted by any and everyone who was considered themself a speaker for the University. On the bright side the speakers were mostly short winded and didnt do much damage to the whole, I actually want to go to this school mentatlity that I had going into it.

Sadly this wasnt the case once our rather large group was sectioned off by majors courses. I went with those of the Arts and Science department and was left at the long winded rantings of the assistant to the department chair. Yeah the big guy was so busy that he didn't want to waste his time talking to little old us. Altough im almost wishing he had, his assistant has the the equivalnt lung space to that of a olympic swimmer and the memory capcity of a person with loss of memory. This man did not understand the words "quit while your ahead". Of course for that saying to really mean something there would have to be the understanding that he could do much of anything to get ahead in the first place. His speech was more or less the cliff notes of ANOTHER speech made by the former dean of Brown university. This man also didn't understnad that fact that he had a power point presentation running behind him that was summing up his words better than what he was saying. I could actually ramble on about this man for hours however I dobut anyone would like to hear it.

Once again our groups were split into our specific majors and headed off to be told how to sign up for classes. Actually we were taken out into the sun, a horrible thing for me folks. I personally hate being in an air conditioned building out into the unregulated atomosphere that had been semi burned by the sun. Our guide, who by the way is an incoming Sophmore which made me laugh consdering im only a few hours away from being a Senior. I actually am going back tommorow for a tour of the school and tell her that just to see the look on her face. It would probalby be a bit of a laugh combined with a undisgused grin in getting to know she is bossing around an upper classman. Actually I was suprised, usually most of the people who volunteer/get hired for these sort of jobs are usually very unattractive people who are just over eagar to try and and pad their resumes. A thing I have no intention of doing unless its in my major. Actually there are some cool things I might get to do but more on that later. We recessed for lunch, at which time i had to SKIP lunch in order to keep on schedule. I had went with the wrong group and had to catch up, thankfully lunch didnt look that apetizing.

When I caught up with the rest of the transfer students they were taking a good long look at being outgoing with campus activities. Listen if your a person who likes to go out and be with others, meet new people, and live life your own way I whole heartedly support you in any way can. However, I in no way shape or form want to brought forceibly into that and it just really makes me mad, not upset, not angry, just straight up MAD. I like to spend time with my friends, meet new people, and go out but in my own way and in my own time. Do NOT force me out and thankfully im not living on campus to make me want to stray into these sort of situations. I can pick and choose what I do and when I go.

I finally got applied for my classes and thankfully had some good advisors who were willing to work with me in order to help me figure out a schedule that worked well for me. It took a little while and we actually ended up talking about what goes on in the major and if it was right for me, something that I NEVER did at UVA Wise. I guess they just expect you to know at Wise...idiots. So I went off got enrolled on all the classes I wanted, well almost all of them. There is a class that I want into but I'm going to have to email the proffessor. However when I went back up to talk to my advisors they had both left, which was find they had been around most of the day. But guess who was around to help me....thats right Mr Long winded a-hole who cant even quote a speech without being to self rightous. That ruined the whole rest of my day. Oh well atleast im a Buc now and dont have to worry about to much else except doing well in school and stay away from that idiot. Later all.

Linus Torvalds is my homeboy.....sorta

2005-06-14T11:03:00.000-07:00

So I finally have finished some business that I had started with my sister. It was a trade, she recieved my guitar, which i never learned to play, in exchange for 2 of her old computers. Well as it seems I am getting the raw end of this deal. My sister got the guitar, which by the way she doesn't use, and I get 2 old laptops. My expectations of getting some minor use of these comps was promptly dashed when I saw the first of the 2. It was an old, delapidated, slow paperweight that used the outdated OS of Windows 98, not even second edition, the original 98. I felt really upset when I saw this thinking how screwed over I got in this deal. Then I recieved the second PC. Its a fairly valuable one considering it runs pretty well. True it has a few flaws that I cant really fix without opening this thing up, which i have no intention of doing for an old laptop. Thus i decided to rip apart the other laptop grap the RAM out of it and insert it into other laptop, that runs windows 2000. Thankfully it doesnt run the infamous Windows ME aka Windows Manically Evil. And thus Im turning the 2000 PC into my Linux Laptop.

In order to get myself more familiar with Linux, well anything and everything to do with Linux, I went searching on digg for articles to help me. Sadly all I could really come up with was articles about discusions, new software, and how Linux with realtion to the PS3. The first thing I found was an interveiw with Linus Torvalds, for those of you who dont know he created Linux....I think, about the comparisions between Linux, and BSDs. Now I havent exactly read the entire interview, actually thats a bold face lie I haven't read any of it. Still its something interesting to read. The next article I found was on a new video editing program for Linux, Cinelerra. However this program requires ALOT of disk space because obviously video editing takes up alot of room. They recomoned around a 200GB hardrive before you even start, that 4gigs of ram, dual 2.4Ghz Opteron, a song in your heart. The final article that I found dug up and digg is about the basics of Linux. The site, really Linux.com, gives people who are just getting into Linux a good foothold into the house that Torvalds built.

All this talk about comptuers got me to thinking. If I had all the money in the world, well not every last cent but you get the idea, I was wondering what my perfect PC would be. Its hard to think with all the new peices of tech specs coming out every so often. Personally I dont know what my ideal computer would be. The only specs I could even think of would 2 300GB hardrives, one for my windows OS and the other for Linux. True that is a bit vague on the rest of the PC but i pose this question to you. What would your Ideal PC be?

My Packbacks Gots Jetts. Im Boba the Fett.

2005-06-12T17:27:00.000-07:00

In case you havent ever seen this vidoe, or heard this song you should. Its a hilarious rap song about, obviously, the life and adventures of Boba Fett. You know should Boba decide to do semi-gangsta rap. This song was written and performed by MC Chris, whom alot of you might know from his voicework on Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Mc Pee Pants/Sir Loin/Little Brittle. Little did I know that he was actually a reording artitst and apparently well known. If you'd to visit MC Chris' website and download the song here is the link, the Video can be veiwed/downladed here.

In other news Im still jobless and hunting. Normally I would just drive myself crazy over this except but there have been several news stories that jobs this summer have been scarce and its been a little hard for anyone to find one, thus im not to worried. Well ok im worried because life is expensive but I'm not as worried that I will be unable to get a job. Im sort of lucky, when I need things bad enough if i just keep my eyes open what I need will show itself to me.

My last point of interest is an interesting rumors that has been runing rampent on the internet. Lovely lady Jessica Simpson and her sister Ashelee were out running around and hitting the parties after the MTV movie awards taping and were about to enter one that run by one Ms. Lindsey Lohan. Normally this would be no big deal in the world of those celebrities who we praise on high. However, little Ashlee is rumored to be dating Wilmer Valaderrama from That 70s show, Lohan's last boyfriend. So in the interest of revenge Lohan decided not to let the Simpson sisters in. This drove Jessica into an irate fit and she began to yell and scream. Now I told you that story so I could tell you this one. Jessica is rumored to be involved with MTV's Bam Margera. According to Bam's ex-fiance called a radio station and confessed that supposidly the Viva La Bam star has called her and proclaimed he had had sex with Ms Simpson. The link to the station can be found here. She went on to say that Newlyweds show was a bit of a fraud and they were more or less doing it for ratings. With no proof all this can remain is a rumor and speculation but with other rumors of Nick going astray you have to wonder if Jessica might also stray....but I mean comon she is Jessica Simpson she could do infantly better than Bam Margera. With the Dukes of Hazzards coming out everyone guy in the world is going to want to pay top dollar to get a glimpse of Ms. Simpson's booty in those Daisy Dukes shorts. Im just saying.

I Have 3 Subways and No Train Schedule

2005-06-08T20:20:00.000-07:00

So wondering around this vast new metropilis I find myself in made me realized that repitition is a necessary evil because of spacing issues. Walking around my neighborhood I found a nice little area where there is a Papa John's Pizza, a college based cafe, the College Store (a cheap place to pick up your books for the year) and a Subway. Now this threw me off because I already know of 2 other Subway locations in the city. One near the walmart and the other located in the mall's food court. So within a 15 minute drive of each other I can find myself at the front door of any of these Subways. This whole aspect is shocking because im so use to not being anywhere near 2 buildings of the same estalbishment in all my life. If I ever wanted to go to one place I would simply go to where it was and never have to worry about which location was closer, of course with gas prices showing no sign of going down I think worrying about destination and proximity to myself would be best.

Speaking of food I have run into an interesting problem, how to eat and not spend money. A tricky popisition ill grant you but its a problem im gonna have to start figuring out in the next little while. Tommorow will be my second shopping trip out to the local grocery store in so many weeks and its becoming an annoying treck thanks in part to no job and rising gas prices almost making me not want to leave my front door without a bike. Well actually considering I've wanted a skateboard since I was like 8, I think that is where my first paycheck is going to go to buy me some no fossil fuel transportation. Plus I totally want to mod one of thos things to look pimp as hell, but thats something for another time. Tonight I fell and faultered in my want to not spend money on food. I had stupidly let things get to far with my food and found I couldnt even make myself a sandwhich and none of my other alternatives didnt look very appitizing so I found my way down to McDonalds, mostly because I felt like McNuggest and my sister also watned a salad and we dont have the ingredients to make one. So off i went, passing by the Subway mind you, and off to McDonalds. Now I told you that story to tell you this one if you ever want to feel like a huge hypocrite go to the nearest fast food resturant and order the biggest order you can of meat and other animal products and then order a vegetarian salad, my sister is a vegitarian. Now its not that I dont respect that life choice. On the contrary I think its great that people can give up something to make themselves feel as though they've made a difference, and they have. Its sort of like one of those mini miracles of humanity. Giving up to save others, its admirable to say the least. But when i came home all i could think of was the loook the girl who took my order face when I ordered all I did and said "ohh yeah a vegetarian salad." Im serious try it youll be amazed the looks you get, especially if you look as alone as I always look when I out haha.

In other news a Chinesse gamer Qui Chengwei now faces a life changing problem, death. Thats right a gamer whos choice of posion is the popular Legend of Mir 3 has been sentenced to death after killing a fellow gamer for seeling his online weapon. First off I would like to point out I am also active in the online community and have no problem to stop playing a game at any time for any reason. Murder of another human being is a immoral and incredibly unjustified act unless someone has commited a crime against humanity, such as murdering another human. Life is sacred and important, never to be taken lightly and never to be overlooked in favor of something else. Ok that is enough ranting from me lets get back to the Mr Chengwei's predicament. Apparently this entire incident occured when Qui lent a sword to his friend in the game. The friend then sold the sword and not only did not tell the owner he was going to sell it but did not give him any of the profits. If your that hard up for in game booty just go on ebay folks they sell all this stuff, I even found all the weapons and upgrades im using in Guild Wars on Ebay for less than 10 bucks. Anyway Qui was so enraged he found his friend and stabbed him in the chest. However stories like this are far to common in online games. Everquest and its successor Everquest 2 have been the cause for in game addiction and the altrications that have taken away lives in more than one way. Its a sad state of affairs for the gaming world but one we must endure when people dont know how to find that line between fantasy and reality. The link to the full story is here.

My final note for the day. I LOVE my mid day veiwers, there are about 2 or 3 of you but man its a very uplifting thing to go to the site meter reader and see that someone has taken time from their day, everyday, to read what is it I write. I dont know if you like it or not but hey you alteast keep reading so I must be doing something right. So thank you guys very much, its very appreciated.

What to do at 100

2005-06-08T13:52:00.000-07:00

You would think that since my blog is has finally hit 100 hits I would be happy about it. One hundred people, well 100 visits from people im sure around half of these come from Caleb. Most people might celebrate, which is probably pretty easy for me to do considering I live near a strip club but I dont want to waste money I dont have on something I could care less about. Me I would rather not focus on the fact that I have gotten a 100 visits but more like why I only have 100 visits. Caleb has around 500 visits, which doesnt suprise me he is very good at his blog and is doing some significant changes to his website. If you have a moment go by and check his site. Really im serious go check it out, read up on what he thought of E3. He got alot of requests to cover it and he did it well.

This is probably going to end up being a boring and uninteresting post because A) I just cant find my depression medication and B) Im not really sure there should be a B.

Ohh on the interveiw front I extended out the idea to Stephanie Klien in a very well thought out and hopefully interesting way. What I didnt realize is stupid me forgot to say how I got her AIM name, which is on her blog, and I think she was mildly upset with me for messaging her. I dont want to impose that thought on her because she might be reading this right now and wanting to kick my ass. Forutnatly she is New York and im in BFE even though im sitting in a very populus area for where im at in the world. By the way if you dont know what BFE is here is the defenition curtiosy of urban dictionary.com. As for everything else well I cant really get ahold of half the people I want to interview. This is turning into a lot harder process than I orginally planned it to be. Well I didnt exactly plan this to be so easy I would have them coming to me but I did expect to get a yes or no in a certain amount of time and that hasnt come yet. So please be patient with me, I really want to get this started as soon as possible and am still trying to get it done.

In other news legenday B movie actor Bruce Campbell is coming out with a new book almost jokingly entitled Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way. Im still trying to figure out exactly what this book is. Its obviously not a book on relationships...I think, I've tried to tell the truth from Campbell's cool sense of humor. As far as I have figured it out it is about his preperation for a role in a movie coming out soon, seeing as he wrote all about his life in his last book "If Chins Could Kill, Confessions of a B Movie Actor", and according to his publisher hasnt done enough to warrent another memoior, I have NO idea if i spelled that word right. If you want to pre order it on Amazon here is the link and who doesnt. I mean its Bruce Campbell.

Since I did speak of my local strip club I thought it also intersting to mention the new .XXX controversy. Porn industries have always been under fire for one reason or another by the United Sates gov because of its aleged moral degeneration of our society. Prime examples that have been brought into the public eye several times have been Nasa.com and Whitehouse.com. Now if you know whats wrong with these addresses give yourself a gold star but since I doubt many people can blindly spot it I'll give you a hint. Because NASA and the White House are both parts of the federal government the are given a very unique url ending which is .gov. So the .com sites are in reality porn sites that have the right to have those URLs because they got them first. If you would like to read more about the politics of this story here it is, curtiousy of CNET News. Well its late, around 2 am and i need to get to bed. Later.

We All Need Celebrity Endorsement

2005-06-05T21:58:00.000-07:00

Wouldnt it be nice to be out, maybe at a club, and see some attractive memeber of the opposite sex, or same sex depending on your seuxal preferance, and want to talk to them. You start your approch and are trying to think of something smooth, smart, or intriguing to say when you just go blank. What do you do. Why you just whip out your cell phone call up your celebrity friend and put them on speaker phone to tell that person just how great you are and that you are more than deserving of a little of their time. This thought occured to me last night. I known alot of great people in my life. Those who have profoundly changed me in ways I cant even begin to explain but they have and im better for it. But then there is that social clique you want to be a part of, those out Cali-for-ni-a way who chill in cribs worth more than some people make in a life time whos sole purpose in life is to entertain us as we pay them obscene amounts of money.

Well ok my ideal social clique doesnt do all of that but some of them would. My ideal clique of people who could call to endorse me would be those of the Tech Tv group and several of the mods at scopetech and some random people thrown in from other areas of things i love. I realize maybe a 100th of these people actually may have an incling of who I am but isnt that why its called an ideal, enfisis on the first 4 letters there folks. It just an idea something that in a perfect world would totally work but as the way we are here and now would take some increidble person to make that all happen.

Some of you might think this post is random and stupid but it comes with a minor, though egotistical point. I was searching other blogspot sites that i have added to my bookmarks and found a few of them keep site meters much like I do. Now for those of you who havent clicked on my site meter to get an update on my traffic I'm averaging about 5 people a day. Which in truth is infantly more than I thought I would get, I honestly didnt think I would get more than 3 visits a week. My blog is close to hitting the 100 visit marker and the 200 page veiw mark. In comparison with other sites Im very far behind where everyone else is. I know having a website isnt a race or any thing and if i were to have something more interesting, like ohh say nude photos of Lindsay Lohan, my hits would reach near the millions in a single day.

Oh on an entirly different side note Ms. Lohan is recovering fine after having a car crash with the photographer out to grab a photo of the almost 19 year old actress before her new movie Herby Fully Loaded come out on June 22nd. No im not being paid by Disney or represenatives of Ms Lohan to talk about the film my agenda is entirly my own. When I was younger and I watched TV Herby the Love Bug movies were on ALL the time and I loved watching each and every one of them. It was just so amazing to me that such a small little car could so such incredible things, keep in mind i was like 5 at the time so anything amazed me but few things held my attention as long as Herby movies did. Actually Lindsay Lohan would make a great endorsement....excuse me folks im going to try and get a cell phone number....thank you internet.

Late night posts are a bad idea

2005-06-02T21:22:00.000-07:00

So last night I was excited and hopeful about the events of the coming day. Your always excited though when its your birthday. Its incredible how great you always feel when you wake up on that one specific day that is just for you. The day those who love you celebrate having you around, usually with good gifts and cakes. Its pretty much how I thought my day would go, however I was sadly mistaken. I awoke and got done most of the tasks I had set for the day including figuring out my schedule for the fall semester. Its looking good so far. Most of the courses I have to take overlap with other majors in my selected area of study. Actually if I had a few more years I could easily triple major and not even have to take many outside of the core courses. Unfortunatly I only have a little while here so I cant be overzealous in my choices, other wise I would walk out the door with enough stuff under my belt to be able to do any job anyone could possibly ask of me in the television industry.

When the day did unfold I found it wasnt exactly as wonderful as I had hoped it would be. It seemed liked no one really cared that it was my birthday or that I was even around. In total 7 people said happy birthday. Ok count out 3 of those people as they are my family so that is FOUR people. I know you shouldnt take things like that to seriously but its a bit disconcerning that only 4 people out of the multitude of people I know wished me well on my 21st. Alright im tired of whning about how crappy the day was all i know is that i have some true friends out there who are going to help me start off my 21st year on this planet right. And since I usually leave you guys with a link ill try to point some traffic in the way of a great person. Ms Laura Swisher. Laura is probably best known for her stand up comedy and co hosting position on the incredibly funny show Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, which was of course oddly cancelled during the mergers of G4 and Tech Tv. She also has a kick ass mom but that is another story entirly.

Later folks.

Lets get $h1tf4c3d

2005-05-31T21:31:00.000-07:00

Random late night post to proudly announce I am 21 which means I am legal enough to do anything this wonderful country of ours has to offer. Alright well its late and I need to head off to bed to enjoy my b-day. Well wishes to all and dont forget to get me a present, specifically money.

Bills Are A Most Bogus Adventure

2005-05-31T15:40:00.000-07:00

Today was the day, the first of many not to end any time in the foreseeable future. The first day for me to pay my bills for my apartment. Fortunatly I was pleasantly suprised to find out that I didnt need to pay one of my bills at all. It wasnt a big bill but it actually was the bill for my interent and television. Well actually I want to upgrade the package to where we could veiw many of the channels I miss that are at my house but not here at the apartment. G4 is the first that pops to mind because I miss watching Attack of the Show, true Kevin Rose isnt on it anymore but its still a very good show, and some of my other favorite shows on other networks. Though the fact that I went around and paid bills was rather half-interesting the true story was how unfamiliar I am with my surroundings. The entire process of finding the places and paying the bills should have taken me no more than an hour at most. However the entire process took just shy of 3 hours because I got lost so many times. Now keep in mind its not that I dont know my way around its just that this is a large city and if you make a wrong turn your somewhere else entirly without even realzing what went wrong. That is probably what I dont like about living in a large city.

This is actually what sucks about the plans I'm trying to with my life. Idealy I want to move out to Los Angeles, I probably mispelled that, with my degree in television production in hand and try to get a job working at G4. Specifically I would like to work for the shows X-play, G4tv.com, or Attack of the show. If that falls through, with with my luck it most undoubtly will, I dont really know what I want to do. Great plans huh folks, its things like this that land me in situations where I'm scraping to figure out whats going on. Speaking of plans since I started working on updates for my site I have been trying to figure out how to put an RSS feed on the site as well and thanks to Oubipaws from the Scopetech forums I was able to figure out how, and of course as a sign of curtosity I added him to my links. He is VERY tech oriented and a good guy. This is one of those people that I feel I should follow the lead of by plunging head long into whatever I love, like, enjoy slightly.

To that affect I went digging around digg and found a few articles that were fairly interesting. I wont try to link to the articles while I am going to try to talk about them. At the end of this post ill put the links up, as has become my habit it seems. First is an article about an exploit in the Window XP home CD that will make it into XP Professional with one directory change. Rather obvious now that I think about it. I mean Microsoft sent XP out at the same time with the minor differences it makes sense that something small that changes the entire outlook of the OS. Speaking of XP their partner in crime sometime Sony has been working on a type of anti-CD burning technology. Its of course in order to stop the piracy of music, um after you bought the CD. This does make some sense since it will be harder to make copies of the CD for your friends. Though im sure I-tunes will dish out the money neccesarry to get the rights to bypass this sort of thing in order for I-tunes to work. In other news podcasters have finally hit the copyright infringement wall. In truth its not all podcasters but some who send out radio broadcasts are getting into trouble, but youll find that out when/if you read the article. The final point of interest is 15 things you can do with your RSS feed. Now here are the links. Here is the XP hack, the Sony anti CD-Burning, Podcasting problems, and 15 things for your RSS.

Later folks

Could I Steal Your Girlfriend for a Relationship...I Mean Moment

2005-05-30T17:04:00.000-07:00

So this weekend was interesting. Saturday started off fairly usual, I saw my friend caleb. We discussed tech, life, and loss of cables television of one Mr. Kevin Rose. After he left, I sat around my usual weekend hangout, Elite, and chilled for most of the day. I spent most of it talking with people I hadn't seen in awhile. Once the day had ened, well ended for me, I started on my way home and recieved a very interesting call. It was from my friend Sarah. We hadnt spoken in a long time, actually since around a month before classes were winding down. She had graduated and is in the area till she starts off to graduate school at UT this fall, so is so smart its scary sometimes. Well she started to to explain how her boyfriend was busy, or more specifically on call, and was feeling rather lonley for the night. I started and doubled back to Elite to meet up with her for dinner and catching up. Our friend John saw us there and he joined us and we set off for dinner.

After that was over I was allowed to meet Sarah's new boyfriend. Him being "on call" allowed him the freedom to wait around and chat it up with Sarah. John, Sarah, her new bf, and I all sat around joked, talked, and more or less played catch up about our time apart at our schools. It was all going fine until one of the oddest statements I have ever heard. Sarah's bf looked at me and in what is possibly the most solemn voice said to me "Jason, if she ever leaves me for you. Im going to go ahead and hang myself." Now keep in mind that he stands around 6'8 to 6'10 depending on which convience store he is walking out of so hanging himself is going to be a tricky proposition no matter how you look at it.

His statement had got me to thinking though. In my life I have been rather privy to the most intimate details of several realtionships. All of which end in heartache or some mutial problem that left both parties free to explore other options. In knowing all of these relationships I was thinking how I never ended up with the girl after the fact. You would think eventually some girl would atleast use me as a rebound boyfriend, yet they dont. But wouldnt that just make me a theif. Usually I am put into a position to influence how the women in the realtionship think and feel about the things their boyfriends had done. However, I am most certianly a theif. Well not with women. I do steal a moment, or a glance but if that makes me a true theif then I guess we all are guilty. I am not theif though I guess I fall into the role of a relationship mercenary, being brought into the knowledge of the relationship with details as my employer aka the girl in the relationship. I make the choices that I see fit and engage in whatever actions are neccessary. So I work until the job ends in either a break-up or marriage, either way my job is done and I move on to the next job. Which is fine with me mercinaries make more money anyway. So I guess I need to find me a new job to work on, my skills are getting rusty.

Now that that is out of the way I would like to state how incredibly happy I am each day to keep checking in on my site traffic to realize how many hits I get each day. Thoug the lack of comments is getting a bit frustrating. I want to know if what im saying is reaching out to people or just something to read for a few seconds. If there is something you feel would improve the site please let me know. You can email, IM, or leave a comment any thoughts are welcome and everyone is welcome to leave a thought. Actually something that I am going to try and do is a series of interviews with people. Not exactly big name celebrities that in resident in Hollywild er um I mean Hollywood. Those I would like to try and reach out and interveiw are those that are interesting people. People with sites or shows or something that should be more noticed by the world rather than being a bit of a niche sort of thing.

Alright the final point of business for this entry is simple. Unemployment has left me with a large amount of free time. This has left me searching for something to do, something to fill my time so I am not becoming depressed with not brining in money when I need it. Now this has left me surfing the net for news, reveiws, and other fun things. To that end I encountered 2 well made flash series that have gotten me rather addicted to them. First on the list is Minushi. This is an interesting series that revolves around the adventure of Trixie and Kal. They are off trying to find Trixie's brother who was drafted by the army in order to fight what is the current threat of the "Giants". The Giants are large robots that fell to earth and were assumed hostile after the army decided they were here to conquer the earth. So the recruiting began of young men to help fight the Giants, leaving Trixie without her brother and without a clue as to why he had to fight. The series cronicles their journies so far and are still in the works. The other series is called Ninjai, the smallest ninja. This story follows the path of its namesake hero as he wonders in search of someone he knows, this person has been named in the series however I will not ruin plot points for you. As he travles Ninjai runs across those with evil in their hearts and minds and due to his age and senseablity of right and wrong they no longer fall into the realm of humans but they are demons becuase of their wicked hearts. Of course with any demon of evil it must be destoryed in order to preserve the peace. The backgrounds, specifically on Ninjai, are just astonishing for a flash series. If nothing else watch these 2 just to see what a talented hand can do. As I feel I have written to my fullest extent for this entry so I will leave you with the links to Minushi and Ninjai.

The waiting game

2005-05-27T14:20:00.000-07:00

Its time again to play America's fastest growing annoyance....The Waiting Game. For those of you new to the show let me explain the rules and the prizes. First off our contestants must be looking for a job in or around the area they live that they either want or need to have in order to survive. Second they need to be willing to submit themselves to several days of job hunting and filling out applications to where their personal references' phone numbers can be rattled off faster than they can remember their own phone number. The final stage of our game can be the most difficult for some. Its the waiting portion of our game. Thats right folks the entire final round consists of our contestants sitting around their apartments or homes waiting for their prospective employers to call them and ask for an interveiw.

Does this sound like a fun game to you. Yeah I didnt think so, but sadly its what alot of us have to go through in order to find a job. Now after I moved i figured id have a job rather quickly. Well its been about 3 weeks now and im no where close to a job. Actually the closest I am is I might or might not have an interveiw sometime early next week. Now here is what I dont understand. Places tell you their hiring. They tell you they are taking applications and that jobs are opening up in or around the department you want to work in/for. However in their search for a new person to help make their work force complete they make take a day, a week, hell even longer to figure out if they will call you for an interveiw. I personally cant stand this waiting game anymore.

Im sure plenty of you can relate to this but its really begining to get to after all this time. I have applications to around 20 places and have heard back from 1. Thats right folks 1 out of 20 those sound more like vegas odds than places I've applied for a job. Now you might ask what I've been doing in the mean time. I've been watching alot of TV. Actually as of this date I have seen Men In Black around 20 times. Thanks alot HBO for your wide and repetitive sereies of progamming that makes you no where near close to the 12 bucks a month my sister is paying for you. Though we do get Cinemax and they have alot better choices in the way of movies. Well I figure that you guys are tried of the reading game so thats all. Hope you all have a great weekend

He answers to

2005-05-26T17:45:00.000-07:00

Wow im just a posting machine today. I was sailing around the ol interweb and found some pretty decent star wars stuff. There is the always funny SITH happens at heavy.com. Its simpy a compilation of cool Star War stuff that has been internet published over the past few years....including The Star Wars Kid!!! If you want more Star Wars zaniness and you happen to like the apple switch parodies then you'll love it. True its old, its a bit worn, and fairly flashed animated half way to hell but hey its still funny, here is the link. I persoanlly like the guy at the end he reminds me alot of a guy who plays DDR to long and is taking to much pride in winning. I mean look at the other guy he looks like he is jumping or fallng down from exhaustion. Ok one final bit of Star Wars madness. Ebaum's World found this British prank call involving a very gullible lady at a customer assistance desk who needs to bone up on her Star Wars names. I mean comon Jabada Hut how stupid is she. Hans Olo, this couldnt be anymore obvious if he was there and was holding up a picture for her. Oh by the way I do have a site counter up now and im working on figuring out how to put an RSS feed up for my website. I checked the web and found i have abisimly low numbers for people who check this. Its a bit depressing but I swear if I do get enough readers to the site ill have a private and personal interveiw with Kaila Yu. So send me questions you want me to ask her.

Gundams, Sith, and other craziness

2005-05-26T09:14:00.000-07:00

Alright so im checking out some random websites and run across this story. It seems to me that if someone has created a weapon like then the a) someone has a little to much free time and yen on their hands, or b) someone bankrolled this giving the guy the illusion that this would not be used later for military purposes. Well atleast mr. Nagumo finally fulfilled the dreams of alot of people around the world who secretly wanted to take out their boss or beat rush hour traffic by hoping into their gundam. Actually after looking at this thing for awhile it doesnt even look much like a gundam. It reminds me of a attack suit from the Mech Assalut series of games. You know one of the more light weight but agile models that always use to run faster than anything.

As for some other weird news there is a double dose of craziness for Revenge of the Sith. Darth Vader even made a real world appearance to use a little unnecessary force. No he didnt force choke or use his light saber to take out some undeserving guy. Vader did something far worse....well ok maybe I better let you read about it before I try to lead you down the wrong road. Heres what happened. Speaking of real world problems involving Episode 3 characters someone whose blog i check rather often has posted her opinion of Natile Portman's performance in the film as well as how impossilbly stupid Lucas can be when he tries to assume he knows how women act. Anway I wont bore you with details but go read her blog its completly worth it. Its Stephanie Klein's blog aka Greek Tradgedy, and here is the Star Wars entry. Actually I hope she never reads this entry because she HATES when I just call it Greek Tradgedy, in truth I've only done it once but she did seem pretty persistant that i call it Stepanie Klein's Greek Tradgedy. Though considering she writes incredibly entertainign and educationl entries, keeps up a vastly fun life in New York, as well as being an all around good person.

Now what would be an entire link post without a flash movie in it. This is possibly one of the oddest movies I have ever seen. First and foremost its of Donkey Kong belting out on of the most well known 80s songs while random NES games do what the songs says. If you cant figure out WTF im talking about just watch the movie. Heres the link.

Systm

2005-05-24T19:53:00.000-07:00

At last the hightly anticipated show for those in the know, systm, was finally released. Kevin Rose and Dan Huard's second foray into the world of online TV shows was an incredible success. They started their own IRC chat to celebrate the event and wond up with around 500 chatters within 10 minutes of startign the chat. At one point it became so popular around 5000 chatters were trying to get in. Well actually im not sure of the exact number but I do believe that it was somewhere close to that number.

Their webiste systm.org was swamped with requests to try and download the episode. Even those who signed up for the newsletter, and were promised an hour earlier download were hard pressed to find a way to get the torrent for it. Actually it was revealed today that because of the massive turnout of people who singed up for the newsletter that the boys at systm just couldnt support the number of people who wanted to download early. It was alright because it seems that everyone got their copy today, and though it took me awhile i even got mine. The episode was spectactular. The graphics, though now not done by Robert Paudry, were very high quality and were awinspring considering they were doing it on a budget. Ohh what you can do with a copy of Mia. Well im just assuming its Mia.

The episode in and of itself was about the dangers of having an unencrypted wireless camera around. They created a portal video detector that would read any wireless signals that were in the area. To normally do this you needed 3 devices, all very not hard to get, but very important for what they do. The guys at systm well they just created an all in one device that aleviates all but one of the compants from being necessary. The one that is needed is a power source of course :-P. Anyway if you get a chance check it out. You wont be dissappointed.

Revenge of the Sith aka my reveiw

2005-05-24T15:12:00.000-07:00

Please forgive the lack of updates recently moving has been a much larger burden than I thought it would be. I thought I had just a few boxes to move in but it turned out to be around 5 with all my computer stuff and extras that I had forgoten all about. I finally got moved in on Wednesday and that just happened to be the night Revenge of the Sith was screening. So I patiently surfed the intra web to find a movie theatre that still had tickets and suprise suprise I found one with around 40 or so tickets left with around 2 hours till the premire. Needless to say I rushed over, stood in line, and waited until the lights dimmed for what was suppose to be the best in the prequel trilogy.

Ohh I do want to point out. It might not have been shown at the theatre your seeing Star Wars at but they are remaking the story of Herby the Love Bug. This is possibly one of the single greatest Disney movies i remember from my childhood, well that and The Amazing Mr Limpet staring Don Knots. The ample...er um I mean amazing Lindsey Lohan will be playing the driver of Herby as she drives it to save her racing family from brink of bankruptcy. Its a sort of obvious that this is a normal disney story but its totally worth it just because of Ms Lohan and childhood memories for me.

Now as for Revenge of the Sith. I wasn't as enamoured with it was I thought I would be. The movie starts off well enough. I wont ruin it for you but this is my honest reveiws of the events of the movie. It was sad to see Dark Tyranus die however, he was made out to be such a great villian in the last movie and he was a such a powerful sith character in the clone war series. To die like he did was an incredible diassapointment. However when he died i got a serious de ja vu with one of the scenes in Return of the Jedi. The movie carries in a more or less predictible way. The sith attack witht their droid army in random systems trying to drag out the war and slowly deminish the Jedi numbers and Jedi of course run off in every which direction trying to defeat the droids. One of the best parts of this movie, or should i say one of the more powerful parts of the movie is the true turn of Anikan Skywalker into Darth Vader. Now when i say that i dont mean when Anikan turns to the dark side, i mean the pure and straight up change of Anikan's attitude to becoming the person Darth Vader. Not to mention the sheer pure and unchaning feeling that you truly want Anikan to save himself and the Jedi Order. That this time the future can change and all can be right in the universe. No Empire, no emperor, no rebel alliance fighting for the rights of others, no Death Star (well ok the Death Star was cool). True some people might be overall dissapointed but you have to admit when it comes down to striaght up political and ethical storylines Lucas is one of the best. So ends another chapter of the Star Wars saga. Hopefully Lucas will grow a pair and put out the other 3 movies. We can only hope.

E3 so far

2005-05-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

Ok first and foremost I took a tech leap yesterday and am in the wonderful world of wireless. Right now im sitting comfortably behind an ohh so wonderful Linksys rotuer as it sends wave after wave of wiresless internet to my laptop. there is nothing quite like roaming around your apartment doing pretty much whatever you want while your laptop is downloading whatever it is you want from anwywhere :).

Anyway I was watching G4s and IGN's coverage of the 3 major companies that are trying to put their next gen consoles on the map. First up lets talk about the X-box. X-box 360, first off, is a horrible looking system. That white puckered looking peice of plastic needs to be entirly redesigned. True it is rumored to be skinable but still i dont think it will be worth it especially with the price tag that will go along with it. Now the presentation of the X-box looked rather odd. J. Ballard chatted up a very static audience about the gaming revolution that would be coming from Microsoft. Now this audience at some points looked liked very umm PLASTIC. I swear if a strong breeze would have come over them they would fall over. The only good news that was said is that X-box would be backwards compatable.....for only some titles though.

PS3 was an entirely different story. Not only did they blow away critics with their next gen grapics but the entire library of games that will be offered for the consumer will be over 1000 games!!!! That is insane for any gaming system. However the truth did come out when it was found that even though some of the incredible grapics were insane they were also prerendered CG as some of the developers had not yet recieved the specs and stuff neccessary to do the grapical design for it. However the designs they laid out are what they hope their grapics will look like. If you need a reason to buy a PS3 just one look at the Unreal 3 demo should turn you around.

Nintendo sat pretty quiet. Actually all they did was say 2 words that shook their entire image up, backwards compatable. Now I dont mean JUST gamecube i mean everything from NES on. That is an insane library. Imagine just feeling bored and testing your Super Mario Bros. 3. skills to see if you can throw off the 11 minute king. Not only that but Nintendo showed off some footage of Legend of Zelda the Shattered Princess (I think that is the title ive been working on this blog entry all day inbetween moving and arranging things for my apartment.) and as if that was not enough G4's own Tina Wood got a chance to show off her DS skills as she played Nintendogs, a cute little DS game where you play as the master of a digital dog, with none other than Shigiro Miamoto. The creature of such classics as Mario, Link, Donkey Kong and several others played along with his little capped dog Mario. Though Nintendo is trying hard to shake their "kiddy" image they really dont look like they are doing much of a good job. The entire conference should be focused on the games like the new Zelda, Geist, and many of the other more mature games of the industry. Now im a bit of a Nintendo loyalist however unless things change and soon, im jumping ship to Sony and the PS3 and using the Revolution as a tug boat pulling behind my new flagship system.

Alright I just got back from watching Revenge of the Sith, which by the way I won't spoil any plot points. However this movie was NOT what i expected, though it was fun to watch.

I'm not famous I'm infamous

2005-05-11T11:50:00.000-07:00

If you've ever visited my site before then you will notice ALOT of changes to the site. First up I updated the links by adding some more of the G4 folks, a few of my friends who have blogspot sites, and of course my cool sites link has been multiplied by 4. Among those new entries is one Mr Robert Padbury's. Most of you wont know who he is but he is an incredible grapic designer who does work for The Broken.org. He decided to create a links list to all his readers and I luckly made the cut. Its sorta of an honor to me to be on his site. Its sort of like living in infamouy....im so not sure i spelled that anywhere close to right.

Another of the new changes are the links to my gmail and aol accounts. You can pretty much spam me now but hey it will be something finally in my gmail box. The final addition to the site.....a google search engine. I cant take any credit for this, i found the source on Tina Wood's website and decided that it might be good to have on my site just in case so I sorta "borrowed" the idea with not intention of returning it lol. Now im not expecting anyone to really care that im actually trying to make the site better but hey im just trying to make this a worthwhile link. Up next in my reniviation of the site is a banner, which i still have yet to make, and photos of my new dogs. Until then ill keep updating with some good news hopefully. Keep checking back for more.

Links, G4, and more

2005-05-05T15:32:00.000-07:00

First up i would like to announce the addition of the newest memeber to my family. No my mother did not go out and get knocked up by my dad 9 months ago. I finally way able to go over to Avery North Carolina to pick up my Beagle/Cocker Spaniel mix dog, whose name is Leon. However that is not all while there we found that his sister, who actually had been adopted, was still there. We asked what was going on and found that the people who were going to adopt her had a change of heart and cancelled their reserve on her. Well my sister was there and instanly melted. So we ended up adopting them both and not spliting up the family, which is a good idea. They are so precious and cute. When i figure out how to post pictures on here ill be sure to post a few of them.

Anyway, i was in the chat for G4tv.com, a call in show on the G4 network (a network that is aimed at gamers) and the producer of the show had run into a brick wall. They needed someone to call in and ask some inane question about the new Star Wars game, Revenge of the Sith. Figuring that i owed the former producer for allowing me to call in as often as I did last year I decided to help out and ask about unlockable footage or footage fromt he movie used in the game. Apparetnly they didnt tell me that the segement directly before my question would be with the producer of the game. Imagine my delight as the very first question asked was the one I was going to ask on-air. The thoughts that immediatly ran through my head at that moment arent exactly fit for putting on a blog. Needless to say i was left scrambling in my head how to rephrase the question to act as a bit of a follow up on what the interveiwer Geoff Knightly, a very cool person by the way, had asked. I tried, succedded and then was inappropriatly cut off. Its not really new for the show and my experiences with it. Once my question is asked im usually immediatly cut of dont recieve a thank you for calling, well more like being called, and then left with a dial tone noise to talk to. However this time was differnt. I was thrown from the line into this incredibly werid sounding music, then the producer picked up the line, he literally said one word before i was switched back to the odd music and then back to the show. Where Laura Foy, also a cool person, was told that she had another, different, caller for the show. Sadly it was just little ol me again and i think it embarassed her a little. However she showed exactly how cool she was by giving me, well ok more like awarding me from the other coast line, a $300 collectable character model of Luke Skywalker, hopefully Jedi Luke, that they had been given. Thats right folks i got a $300 prize just for being nice, how awesome is that. Im gonna tune into the show tommmorow to see what it looks like cuz im totally gonna be disappointed if its Luke from the first movie. This also solves a problem i was having personaly having with trying to figure out something cool to put in my new apartment. Problem Solved

Ok now for all those links i promised you. First up is a link to a page known as modified living that use the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocalate factory as it compares to college life. I aslo found an obsessed fan of Sonic the Hedgehog and his increidlbe collection found in his room. And finally a professor from VT, who i am gonna hunt down now, doing an increidbly bad rap to Rappers Delight to try and win over some students at the last semester. Its almost sad how minorly cool this is.

Guild Wars and Other Thoughts

2005-05-02T11:51:00.000-07:00

Alright if you want the offical story on Guild Wars you can always check out the official story on Gamespy. However if you want the unofficial story you can check here. So it was a friday and i had nothing to do since i couldnt find any of my friends and what happens when you cant find your friends, you want to game the night away. So I went out to Wal-Mart and found one of the ohh so few selections of guild wars that were left. So I brought it back here to school and tried to load the game, which was sorta a task considiering the school's slow interent connection. And then when it all seemed like it was going well i screwed up my sign in and now have an extra keycode in case someone needs it lol.

So after waiting till around 3am in the morning and recieving a very odd phone call on my cell i decided to call it a night and made a plan for the next day. I wont go into what i did for reasons ill explain later but lets just say I uhhh found a way to get my game to work. When I entered the game I became an elementalist, there was just something so cool about controlling the elements. Now the only problem is chooisng my second profession in the game. Its alot harder then what you think it might be. With a total of 30 combination of character types its a very important decision to make.

You know while i was sitting here writing this I was watching TV. Full House was on and one of the girls commented on how much they wanted to skip a math test. Of coures the girl wasnt much further than maybe 7th grade and it made me think how much easier it was back then. The hardest math I had to remember was long division and multiples. Now with my final week of classes here at Wise its hard to think how much more advanced and incredibly tough everything has become. I have Calculus and 2 programing courses to take care of for my finals and then i have to move my lazy ass out of here and into my new apartment in Johnson City along with around 100 other things that are going to make my life insane come next week. I just keep wishing life would just slow down so I could enjoy what little time I have left with my friends. Oh well I'll just learn to deal with what I'm delt.

Geeks do it better

2005-04-25T13:46:00.000-07:00

This was an interesting post that my friend Caleb found on Craig's List. Its alot like that whole "Ode to nice guys" thing that was found on Collegehumor. This is an interesting list and im totally behind it 100%.....if it finds me a girl.

In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys.

1.) While geeks and nerds may be awkward, they’re well-meaning 9 out of 10 times. That smooth dude with the sly grin and the spider hands? Wonder what HIS intentions are... plus, I’ve never had a geek guy not call me when he said he would. Score major points THERE.

2.) They’re useful. In this tech-savvy world, it’s great to have a b/f who can make your laptop, desktop, and just about anything else that plugs into a wall behave itself.

3.) They’re more romantic than they’re given credit for. Ok true, their idea of romance might be to make up a spiffy web-page with all the reasons why they love you, with links to pics of you and sonnets and such... but hey. It lasts longer than flowers, plus you can show your friends.

4.) Due to their neglected status, there are plenty to choose from. You like ‘em tall and slender? There are plenty of geeks/nerds who are. You like ‘em smaller with more meat on their bones? Got that too.

5.) They’ve got brains. Come on now, how can intelligence be a bad thing?

6.) Most are quite good at remembering dates. Like birthdates and such, especially if they know it’ll make you happy. Due again to their neglected status, they’re more attentive than guys who “have more options”. Plus, with all that down time without a steady girlfriend, they’ll likely have mental lists of all the things they’d love to do once they GOT a girlfriend.

7.) Sex. Yep. Sex. I’m not really familiar with this myself, but I’ve friends who’ve been intimate with geek guys and it’s raves all around. They say a virgin wrote the Kama Sutra... all that time thinking about sex, imagining sex, dreaming about sex, (they are male after all) coupled with a desire to make you happy? Use your imagination.

8.) They’re relatively low-maintenance. Most can be fueled on pizza, Twinkies and Mt Dew. No complicated dinners needed here, so if you’re not the best cook, eh. Can you order a pizza?

9.) Most frequent bars as often as slugs frequent salt mines. You won’t have to worry much about your geek guy getting his “groove” on with club hotties because, frankly, he’ll be too busy rooting around under his computer wondering where that spare cable went. You won’t have to worry about him flirting with other women because, 9 out of 10 times, he’ll zip right by them in a perfect b-line towards the nearest electronics store. I’ve seen this happen.
Me: “Eww. Victoria Secret’s Models... They’re so skinny. How is that feminine? You can see her ribs!”
Geek Guy: “ooooooo...”
Me: “Hey!” *notices he is staring lustfully towards the computer store*
Geek Guy: “What?”
Me: “Never mind...”

10.) Although he may not want to go to every outing with you, you can arrange swaps, as in, you’ll go to his Gamer Con dressed as an elf princess if he’ll take you to the ballet. Plus, if he doesn’t want to go someplace with you, you won’t have to worry much about what he’s up to. You’ll probably come home to find him asleep on his keyboard in a sea of Mt. Dew cans with code blinking from the screen. It’s ok. He’s used to this. Just toss a blanket over him and turn out the light.

11.) His friends aren’t jerks. I can’t stress this enough. You’ll more likely get “Omg! A GIRL!! Can I see?!” than “Hey hot stuff back that ass up here and let me get some grub on...” They’re awkward geeks too and will, 9 times out of 10, treat you with the utmost respect and, more than likely, a note of awe. A cute girl picked one of their clan to date? It could happen to them! Hope! Drag some of your single girlfriends over, open up a pack of Mt. Dew, crack open the DnD set and get working. Nothing impresses geek guys more than a girl who can hack-n-slash (well ok maybe if she can code... a geek can dream).

12.) They’re rarely if ever possessive. They trust you, so you can be yourself around them. You like to walk around the house in a ratty t-shirt for comfort? He won’t care. He does too! They won’t get pissy if you don’t wear make-up or don’t want to bother primping your hair. If you gain a few pounds, they won’t try their best to make you feel like crap.

13.) They’re usually very well educated. Physics majors and the like. See #5. You won’t have to listen to him blathering on about his car (ok maybe a little), he’ll have loads of other interesting things to talk about. Politics, world events, how much the chicken burgers down at the local place rock, so long as you douse them in hot sauce...

14.) You’ll almost never have to hear, “Yaw dawg whazzap!!” plop out of their mouths. Unless it’s in jest. They spell properly, use correct punctuation, and are able to tell the difference between the toilet and the floor. They almost never get “wasted”, so you won’t have to worry about coming home to find him and his friends passed out on the floor amidst a pile of beer bottles. Mt. Dew cans, perhaps...

15.) And the final reason why geeks and nerds make great boyfriends: They actually give a damn about you. Not how you look (though that’s a plus), not how skinny you are, not how much make-up you primp yourself up with, but they like you for you. That kind of thing lasts longer than “DaMN baby you got a fine ass!!!” Believe me.

It was only a matter of time

2005-04-19T12:17:00.000-07:00

Some of you might remember when i brought up this. I knew it wasnt long before the memory sitck capablilties of the PSP were used for the forces of....umm...i think evil, not sure. While I was digging around digg.com and I decided to see if any of the new and more popular PSP hacks had come out. Well ok on Attack of the Show Kevin Periara mentioned of few of them so I wont talk about those. There are others, some even beyond what i thought were possible for the PSP. Im not going to go into what they all do as if your interested youll read them yourself but they are really intesting stuff. Icon hacking, X-box saving, and Hacker tips to your PSP are all avaialable. Enjoy the reads.

Do you ask stupid questions??

2005-04-19T11:36:00.000-07:00

There comes a time when you need to know something and you arent really quite sure how to get the info. Well first off you try asking a question but you ask it wrong about 1000 times and get odd looks and misinformation. How can you possibly get the information you want and ask the question well enough to make yourself look good. It simple thanks to this. This this is a question asker bible. From how to structure your questions to how interpret the answers this thing has it all. Its even got multiple languages for those of you who are ummm bi lingual....ok im not even sure why that is a feature on it. Its almost like an after thought to use for effeicency or something. They even offer ways to have to not have to ask other people entirely. All and all this sorta seems like the Hitchhikers guide to question asking....or questions for dummies. Im not sure which.

Woot Woot

2005-04-14T12:47:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of updates, and exterme changes in font. Im trying a few things and seeing what i like. Actually why i even bother to explain this it seems the only folks who actually check this are caleb and the occasional passerby. Anyway I was chilling with some friends when they came across woot.com, i know folks its an obvious name but its a good site. It offers a daily deal that is well worth its price but it only last for 24 hours then its on the next deal. John just bought a USB pen for around 8 bucks. I think he said it is a pen that will write down what you write and translate it into a word document text. Its sounds like a cool little tool i hope he gets it before the end of the year so I can screw around with it. Also im gonna be screwing around with the site, trying to add a banner and such, but hopefully it wont cause any major changes. Just a heads up.

Marvel vs EA

2005-04-10T11:38:00.000-07:00

So i was sitting arond and decided to check out the Spiderman Blog and decided to do a little web sliging of my own......around the internet. I stopped off at Game Spot.com to find a feature on a new game from EA called Marvel: Nemisis. The story, found here, said that the EA and Marvel universes are gonna clash hard and fast with some exciting ideas for a new fighting game. Personally I want to see this come out as soon as possible. Anyone who knows me knows that i am obsolutly obessed with the Spiderman universe and will be using nothing but him the entire time....maybe a little side time with a few of my favorite X-men or Avengers but i always say spidey is the man to use.

Who woudl you use though. Wolverine, Storm, Captin American, Iron Man....the choice as so vast. And the question still remains will some of the Marvel Villians be used. Throwing down with Doc Doom or Venom. Talk about a scary fight. They are pretty feirce in Marvel vs Capcom 2 i can only wonder how EA might up their skills.

A Line Has Been Crossed

2005-04-04T10:52:00.000-07:00

Alright since only around 2 people actually read this i still feel like posting this. I was searching around the Attack of the Show, the latest incarnation of tech show for the G4 network, and discovered a link to a bloggger's site. The title of the thread was "Kevin Pereira getting his teeth kicked in by ramdom blogger" at first this seems like an intersting thought. I thought a fight had occured and some cocky person who happened to have a blog actually took a swing at Kevin P. However, what i discovered was far from funny or at the very least entertaining. This blogger decided to use an incredibly public forum to throw off on the enitre G4 network with an extreme focus on Kevin Pereira.

First off I would like to make mention I in no way shape or from was 100% behind what happened to Tech Tv and the subsequent firing/resignation of some of the major on air talents of the network. However I am pleased with some of the shows that were brought into the mix. Like G4Tv.com, Arena, Judgement Day, Electric Playground, Icons, and Pulse. With those shows comibined with what should have been originaly planned to be brought over from Tech Tv the network would have been great. However we all know what happened and some of us are greatly saddened by it.

Now as for the blog entry that totally disgraces the idea of free speech. True he traced the course of Periera's carrer rather well, however in no way believe that Pereira's face spread across the network like a cancer. Perhaps what truly happened was that Pereira was such a popular personlity on the network that he was allowed to become a personality on them. There is also the entire stent he had as the co-host on the sereis Pulse. He was charismatic, entertaining, and gave the idea of a news show the shot of comedy it always so desperatly needed. Now as for his current job as co-host on Attach of the Show. True Pereira did have a hard time when he started out on The Screen Savers, but all host have been that way. However his antics on the show have made the mood a little lighter and brought the spotlight to actually having to undestanding what is going on on the show. True he is not the techiest person on show, nor will he probably ever be. He is however a good bridge between those who know tech and those who do not. True he still messed up on the air but so do Kevin and Sarah. Its an understandable side effect of doing a live show, you can only do it right so often before eventually making a mistake. Any on-air mistake by Pereira does not "leave Kevin and Sarah diving across the floor to mop up after the spill".

Pereira has a good future on the show. True he does need to tone down the funny sometimes but he is a good host overall. Also i think in regaurd to what was metioned in the last part of the bloggers entry "There are only two ways to get the good screensavers back: have Pereira realize that he actually has a job to do, and maybe teach him how to do it; or get rid of the fuck. So to that end, I recommend you write a letter to G4 executives stating your choice. Take a stand and try to save one of the best shows on television." I think it is a proven fact that people will dislike almost any host. People didnt like Leo, they didnt care for Kevin Rose when he began to host, Alex was brought under fire, Chi-Lan was undeservingly thrown off on, and now Pereira is the latest in the line of host being disliked. It just a burden for him to bear which is one i think he handles quite well.

The Real Legend of Zelda

2005-03-31T20:29:00.000-08:00

Just when you think Link has been through everything but a one night stand with Paris Hilton...the tape is being made as we speak by the way...out comes the "The Real Legend of Zelda" series at Newgrounds. A pair of well meaning flash animators try to show what the legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time would be like if link were a real person....well sorta real. Link, as it turns out, is a silent idiot who is just wandering through the series of adventures with his fairy guide Navi. By the way for all of you who hated that Navi only gave you crappy usless advice that she would repeat ad nausium then this is the series for you. She has a kick butt attitude and is more or less the only reason Link gets from point A to point B in on peice.

The Land of Hyrule is really well done and looks like it should, if the whole game had been done in flash mind you. The characters are true to form and the music is tight. It even pulls some influence from Cowboy Bebop and MCC Music Factory (dont ask). In truth the only real problem alot of people will have is with Link himself. Looking like a rejected character from Invader Zim totally doesnt help his situation but totally helps as Link is continously the butt of almost every joke, so his cartoony looks are for that reason only. The writing is cool and alot of the gags are funny. If your interest here are the links to Part 1 and Part 2

Social Bookmarking 101

2005-03-30T01:05:00.000-08:00

So im diving around in Slash Dot around while my usual insomniac self wanted to update this site with some tech news as i have invited the Scopetech crowd to come check out my blog. For those of you who dont know what Scopetech is its a tech site set up by the incredibly talented Dan Huard formerly of G4's The Screen Savers. Dan is a nice guy who does alot for the community without actually getting the credit he deserves. No he doesnt make great big things little small things. He does all the small things no one think of and makes a big splash with them. If you get the time and happen to interested in tech or almost anything i suggest stopping by and saying hello.

Now i have to say i was suprises to findd this in my slashdot searching. It sounds like an interesting little peice of script doesnt it folks. I mean there is nothing else like it that i can really remeber. It sounds to me like the cliff notes of websearching and then sharing those notes with the entire net. Now i have no problem sharing my bookmarks with the world but there might be those who will obviously find out about this and lend their bookmarks of porn and other lude links but oh well. If you cant stand the heat and all. Have fun figuring this out folks.

The End of Oddworld

2005-03-30T00:55:00.000-08:00

Wow i can believe this is true. After all this time, such great games, its the end of an era in gaming. Oddworld has been one of the most invative games in a long time. Not inovative in the sense everyone thinks mind you, not thats to obivoius, what Oddworld has done is simply create a great game series, memorable characters, and some of the most interesting and memorable graphical scenes of all time. I mean who can ever forget the moon of Oddworld. Parting is such sweet sorrow...except i dont think many people will miss Abe's flatuence.

PSP = Portable Stash of Porn???

2005-03-30T00:29:00.000-08:00

Yeah i know like 50 million of you have read this but i think this a prime example as to why the PSP will have some serious problems when its comes to be being hacked and used for sinister purposes. Now im not saying freeing up hard drive space by storing it on the UMDs is exacly a horrible idea, as a matter of fact i think it is sorta cool and incredibly orginal but if someone actually took the time to figure out how to encode files so they work on the PSP then i guess there is hope for the world cuz he is obviously trying to help out the masses. Its up to us how we use his work. You can't blaim Newton for a falling ton of bricks because he happened to figure out gravity or Alexander Grahm Bell for prank phone calls. Besides i dobut pron freak would dish out 250 for a PSP considering they could just get a bunch DVDs or VHS for that amount...i guess.

Im Lion-O

2005-03-30T00:21:00.000-08:00

Thundercats HO!!!!! ok this a random and short post of a great song a few friends told me about. Its from a Religious rock group named Relient K. They are pretty good and im not usually into that type of music, but then again any group that would do such a cool sounding throwback to one of the greatest Tv shows of my childhood is totally alright with me. Ohh yeah in case you cant figure it out the name of the song is I'm Lion-0. Its very fun and will make you feel like your reliving your childhood all over again. Check it out.

Veronica Mars

2005-03-29T23:37:00.000-08:00

Ok i know all your friend have, at one point or another, tried to you to get a to watch a tv show because they said it would be so awesome or there is this great looking girl/boy that you just have to see to believe. Well im not your friends so you dont have to listen to me.....you WILL listen to me. The show in question why its Veronica Mars of course, like the name of the entry didnt give it away.

Veronica Mars is a breakout hit that ranks up there with me as the cult classic shows like Family Guy and Sports Night. The writing is fast, smart, witty, and sometimes funny. Sadly the plotlines can get predictable but you have to be like a TV addict like me to figure out what would happen next. For those of you without a clue of the plot line here is quick break down. Long ago before the time of American Idol and the death of Tech Tv Veronica lived the good life. Her father, Keith Mars, was the sheriff which thrust Veronica into the most popular group of people at her high school. She spent her time with her mom. her best friend, Lilly Kane, and dating Lilly's brother, Duncan Kane. Thats right all is well in the town of Neptune, that is until the murder of Lilly Cane. The Canes are devistated and Veronica's father blaims Jake Kane, a millionare industrialist who singly handedly turned Neptune into thriving city. Due to his lack of proof and Neptunes horrible lack of fath in Keith he is then ran out of his job, Veronica's mom leaves the family behind and Veronica's personal life is thrown in shambles of its former self. Duncan dumps her, she is thrown head first from the social clique, and the murderer of Lilly Kane is supposidly been caught.

So now Veronica works with her father as part of a private detective agency that does random jobs for the famous and not so famous memeber of the community. Veronica herself uses her free time to try and solve the Lilly Kane murder from behind the scenes. She has made some huge breakthroughs, such as finding her mother, placing vital evidence to case in Lilly's bedroom instead of the in the evidence locker at the Neptune Sherrifs department, and even found out who placed the call to "catch" Lilly's murderer. I cant really go into to much detail but if your interested watch UPN tuesday nights at 9 pm. You probalby wont be dissapointed.