Saturday, January 11, 2003

Some Crazy Shit

http://www.1xrayvision.com/media/xraycam_nbc737.pdf

I just got some pictures too... I'll send them over via e-mail since I can't upload them here.

Jael

Thursday, January 09, 2003

I Have The Herpes On My Head

Hey Ryan! Great to hear from ya! Happy New Year and Merry X-MAS to you too!

I agree with you Jael on the video game shit- well, there's nothing wrong with them in little doses, but too much of ANYTHING can fuck you up- I'm uninstalling a game as we speak- time to take a little breaky! :) Chicken though- neva give it up! Babys: The other Other white meat!

Gravy for the Brain...

The article was from this months Consumer Digest. They were doing a edition on Hospital Ratings, and happened to also discuss about health, food related issues. I dunno, they could very well have be persuaded by certain wealthy business lobbyists. Good to hear from you Ryan! Happy New Years to you too.

Good job on the contract, Jon! On the side note, I support your Digital Game Abstinence. I have been sober for about 2 weeks now... and counting, and have yet to relapse. I have sold all my computer games to the local used book store for a whopping 19 dollars, 12 of which was from WarCIII. Some kid will enjoy those games more than I. I finally realized that I'm an addict, and once I started playing a game, I MUST continue to play. I become unmotivated and complacent. It becomes a chore instead of being entertaining and fun. I wish I had realized this when I was in High School, maybe I wouldn't have played Civ so much and attained 160% approval rating (100% is supposedly the game max) Go figure. A lot of parents don't realize that their kids are becomming game zombies. It starts out playing computer games as an outlet, as the years go by, unnoticed, it can really become an addictive process. Anyhow, peac all,

Jael

Wednesday, January 08, 2003

Hey everyone...

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while but I felt that I HAD to comment on Jael's last couple of entries. I have been eating chicken for about 27 years now, and I can safely say that I have NEVER had a bacterial reaction or salmanela from eating it. I propose that the article that you read was propaganda. If you haven't seen Bowling For Columbine, you should. It makes you skeptical of things like that.

Anyway... congrats on getting published, Jon. That is huge.

Happy New Year to you guys. I hope everyone is doing well.
Cool Music Shit: Pro-Tools M-Box

There's this kick-ass piece of gear called the M-Box (INFO). Anyways, its like $450 at a Guitar Center- I can get it from the manufacturer (cuz I work for a studio) for only $250. Anyways, my buddy has one and he lent it to me tonight to see if it'd run on my PC, and it does! Its pretty sweet. Jael- I know you're using PT Free which is cool- its only 8 tracks though. This is 32 tracks- the little box has 2 inputs, digital inputs, built-in mic pres, - its pretty killer! I'm running WinXP on my shitty 566 P3 with 192megs of ram (thats the minimum to run PT.) I'm totally stoked on it. The biggest bummer about it is that you only have 2 inputs- kinda hard to close-mic a drum kit- I guess you could do a stereo-pair or something, but eh- BUT, for overdubs and editing and even mixing, pretty sweet! Its USB so it does have a limit as far as your plug-in usage, but there are work around etc... I ain't no salesman for them- I'm just so stoked that it actually ran on this POS computer! I'm SO gonna get it! :)

Eat More Fleshington

Super Congrats to you Jon! So awesome man! You've got stuff I've read thats leaps and bounds better than the Zombie one (which is really good too!), so I know this is only the start. Good job pal! :)


Such a cute li'l device

That clamshell gameboy evokes fond memories of my old "Lifeboat" game & watch game (which I still have, and which still works). Aww, so cute. Rude, if you want a gba just buy the clamshell w/ the light. Price'll probably drop twenty bucks or so in a few months anyway, and honestly, the gba is one of the best systems out there. It's worth $100. Sucker has everything in spades including THREE Zelda games, two EXCELLENT wargames (Advance Wars, and Tactics Ogre), and countless RPGs. I love mein GBA. Although in an effort to get my other life shit together I have taken an (unsanctified) Vow of Video Game Chastity. By the terms of this vow I can't play video games except in a social context, such as Halo or Aaron lying on the couch watching me play Tony Hawk. We'll see how this vow works out when the Zelda GC game comes out, but for now it's going swimmingly.

Got my signed copy of the short story contract back! I suppose this makes the publication official. Yay! Now to actually sell more than one.
.... the brittle bones in the years to come, vitaminal deficiencies that cause teeth to fall out, spotty baldness (in lieu to diseases), scurvy... yet a clean concience. Nah, not for me. Cook the chickens mboy' but cook it well.



Hence My Vegetarian Lifestyle Again

So there you go. Thats all I gots to say. No bacteria, and no guilt for killing and eating sweet, delicious, animals. Pay no mind to my leather interior or leather shoes I'm wearing right now, or my ivory walking sticks, or my tiger-skin rug....
Cook (choke) your chickens well

Just read an article on chickens having seminola and other crazy bacteria that could kill you or at least give you the bad case of permanent diarhea and bad intestines. To avoid it? cook your chickens very well done and don't eat raw chickens. BTW Tysons chicken have the highest bacteria ranking, but I don't know how true THAT is. Those magazine rankings always have some hidden agendas.

Jael

$35.00 from TritonLabs

...or $160.00 for an installers 5 pack. Either way, yeah, its making the $59 GBA around $100... but at least you are helping the little guy out, rather than throwing more and more cash at those Mario-Lovin', Mushroom-Eatin', Nanking Rapin', Japanese Business Hoodlums. Check out TritonLabs.
Time keeps on slippin slippin...

Yeah- they're bastards alright. Wired had a cool interview with the main Nintendo creator dude (the guy who made MArio, Zelda, etc) and he was kinda cool. I think its all the business types that run the company that are more crooked. BAH. Hey, how much is the backlight kit to modify? Is it gonna make the GBA costing 100 bucks anyways?
Affordability my Friend Affordability

True True.

But who could afford backlit lights back then? The technology was just too advanced for it's time, unfortunately for the consumers. If I remember correctly Mike De Lasota had the Lynx matrix console and it was about 200 bucks. The technology is now so affordable that the stupid shrewd businessmen at gameboy can price the units within 60-80 dollars, a successful price strategy gameboy has always enjoyed. Blame it on Ford!

Jael



Nintendo Peeves Me

Those Son's of Bitches should have put the backlight in the GBA in the first place. I mean come on now, Sega had the GameGear backlit in 1992, and Atari had the Lynx backlit around the same time, Nintendo couldn't figure it out 10 years later. Damn business milking the market for all its worth... stupid smart businessmen making money...The new piece of crap looks a lot like the old school "Game and Time" LCD things Nintendo was putting out for years. I'm stickin with my modified GBA, and if anyone wants me to mod theirs, just hollar (and give me the money to buy the light-kit).
New Gameboy

I was just reading up on the new Gameboy Advanced SP, and it sounds kinda cool! It'll cost $100 dollars (not so cool) but at least its back-lit and kinda has a cooler design. Here's a picture of it:Click

Tuesday, January 07, 2003

Microserfs is the Best

It is one of my most re-read books in my vast collection of crap. Its just a great read. There is an okay story, amusing characters, familiar locations, common interests and events, and some unique writing thrown in there for dessert. I like it.

Blood Bowl is the Best

Mike and Denis played TWO games of BB BACK TO BACK this past weekend while I sat and painted another BB team (Dwarfs) to add to the masses of painted teams I have been hoarding over the years. And to boot, I have discovered a terrific BB Applet that allows online and email play, using your own teams, and images if you wish, that does all the dice and crap for you. Amazamazing. I shall post the link at a later date, as well as burn all necessary files on a disk to distribute to start our own league! Right guys! Yeah, Blood Bowl!

Kublaicon is the Best

I am in. I just need to sit down and seriously think about things first: time, money, etc. And since there will be no GenCon this year for me, it will be my once a year travelling con!

Football is the Best

See you next year Mike! Not enough hangin' out, but then again, there never is. Find the Skaven, and we shall keep in touch better this year, eh?
Remember MicroSerfs?

Happy New Years all, once again. I'm in the process of re-reading Snow Crash, and just out of boredom I started searching for reviews of it and someone mentioned MicroSerfs. I remember REALLY liking that book. Who had it? Did other people dig it? I don't feel like doing a websearch on it, but I'm interested in hearing youz guys views on it.

Trader Joes: That place is kinda wierd. I mean, they're definately a better grocery store when compared to Ralphs, but sometimes that place kinda weirds me out (I've got this weird problem with spelling the word "WEIRD" right: I always automatically type it "wierd" . Hmm.) One of the good things about TJ's (as I like to call it) is a 4 pack of Extra-LEAN Boi-Gah Paddies. Good stuff. Super low-fat and all that shit. Also, I like they're "cheese crunchies" - heh.

Yup.

I'm going up to Oregon this weekend to visit my sister and her family. Should be cool. Haven't seen a movie in AGES but my rentals wishlist is: xXx, Signs, and maybe Barbershop. The xXx dvd is like 6 discs! Yar!

Monday, January 06, 2003

I like sore throats.

Little too much of the tube steak in the old oral plumbing shute. Yeah what ever. Okay I swear I will get internet soon. Yeah right. Place is still a mess but a lot better. Just a few boxes left right now. Anyway I just thought I would tell you I was still alive. Oh and about my return trip to SF. I like Greyhound. It is my friend. We left LA 40 minutes late (About 11:40PM sunday). No problem that still gives me some flexibility. Our bus is scheduled for a 6:40AM arrival and I need to be at work at 7:45AM. So then about 30 minutes north of Coalinga Junction, I hear the tell tale signs of our vehicle riding on the shoulder of the highway. The bus slows to a stop at which point the driver says,"Everyone get up, I need everyone out of the bus, this is an emergency." D'oh. So we all get out, it is cold as a well digger's ass, and our bus is billowing smoke from the rear wheel wells. Bus didnt cacth on fire, but an hour and a half later of freezing our butts off at 4:00AM we are allowed to get on the bus to wait for the next one to pick us up. Suck an hour and a half later our bus comes. All said and done... Hours late for work: 3.5; Sleep had on the bus: Next to none; Desire to ride Grey Hund again: 0. Gotta run, will blog in a bit.

Ja-el we have to get together soon. Sorry I have been absent of late.

Elric, Boooooourns. I slept on New Years Eve. Sleepy Enron. But I did discover a cool show. Monster Garage. A more professional Junk Yard War type show.

K BUB I
Turning Over the New Leaf!

Ok, so MY New Year's resolution is to blog more, and thereby waste more time and do less work, and in general goof off more from the important work of my dissertation. As a result, I will not be able to finish in a year and a half's time, will incur the wrath of both my supervisor and my advisor (Lord Colin Renfrew himself!, second only to Lord Vader in the use of the dark side of the force) and will succeed in flunking out of Cambridge -- yay blogger! I will thereafter live a life consumed with self-pity, and remose, booze and drugs. Sounds great, eh?

But, never mind, I won't forget to eat my fillet of fish!

Mykal

Sunday, January 05, 2003

Inaction Team

Hey Ja-el, still want to move to Minnesota (a.k.a. Boston, Massachussets) with me? I'm planning on moving in the fine month of Febru-ary, aka next month. LET'S ROCK! However, I have a hunch that you were just feeling temporary bitterness from your living situation and your desire to move to the frozen East is not really genuine. Alas.

I'm trying to move as soon as possible. I haven't had any luck finding a, you know, job-type job yet, but hopefully I can dig up at least something temporary and then actually find something real once I'm in the place itself. Living at home is starting to drive me insane. Everybody else too. My sister has been home for three weeks too, everybody basically avoids each other. I'm thinking of taking up smoking just as a reason to go outside.

I'm reading a book of short stories by a guy named Raymond Carver. HE ROCKS! No, unfortunately his stories are not about large-breasted space robots or anything like that. They are about soul-defeating relationships and alcoholism. But he is one of my new favorite authors. His stories just stick in your head.

Secret note to Rudy Mannings: I looked at the excerpt of Quicksilver in the new version of Cryptonomicon and dude, it sucked! I only glanced at it in the bookstore, but I don't know, it looked boring. Maybe if I actually read it it'd be better.