Friday, May 12, 2006

Wow, is Sony in a bad place.

Sorny's president Ken Kutaragi defended the PlayStation 3's high price tag once again, declaring that not only will consumers be prepared to pay the cost but that the console is 'probably too cheap.'

This man is a genius! I've got to get me a piece of this...

I hereby announce that: not only are the rest of you Actionteam members fully prepared to Paypal me ten bucks every time you get to read one of my fabulous posts, but I'm letting you all off easy by not demanding twenty.

Fav quote: "On Slashdot, digg, and other gaming sites I've been looking at, the Sony fanboy has overnight become an endangered species. That is what is really telling me Sony has a problem. If even the Retardusfuckwitis Internetus, a species Sony nearly owned last week, is defecting, you're gonna die."

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Java...

Yeah the bane of my existence, no thanks to Elzar who takes endless pleasure in reminding me at every opportunity. Fugger.

jr0n: I do like the Tikal and so does my gf, but we have no one to play against and two player games of Tikal are teh burntzor. Myke may still like Tikal. Mostly because he can pretend he is at the dig hookin’ up with the ladies as the suave PROFESSOR Motobyke whilst shoving ancient Mayan treasure in his trousers. Glorious indeed!

Didn't like the L4yer Cake huh? Bummer, I liked it. Boo-urns me.

I love that quote: "That music is like beer to me. It’s all pretty much the same." Sounds awfully like, "This music is great, play that rift again"

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Thursday, May 11, 2006

I was just thinking how cool world of warcraft would be with the same party playing, like real D&D. Everyone doing the same quests, going on the same adventures, the party would consist of 1 of each class. You don't have to worry about getting gang-banged, or 1v1 pvp, or any of the hassles of questing alone. It was really fun when rudy jon and I went on that one quest run that one night. Getting 6 people together at the same time though would be Hell or near impossible. Plus you always have quest differences. Blizzard designed this game for 14 year olds who have nothing else to do... noobs!
Mistake

Sorry Jr0n, I believe you are mistaken. True, Mike loves Tikal more than life itself, I will give you that, but Enron loves Java. Enron love Java. From the bean to the game, there is nothing that he likes more than Java.

Hmmm, let's see here, what's new:

- Denis came by saturday night and played WoW and I watched. It was the greatest thing since sliced bread, I kid you not. Rather than watch occursed TV all night as I watched Wylie, I got to watch and talk to Denis! Then we watched Headbangers Ball, and when I said I liked a certain song, he said, "that music is like beer to me. It's all pretty much the same." It's cool though, he was opening some packs of Magic at the same time, so he didn't really care.

- I feel normal again. I am using my brain to its (previous) full capacity, I can think coherently, and I used some $5 words just yesterday!

- Wylie is 11.5 pounds, 22 inches, and grunty as all get out.

- L4yer Cake sucked.

- A History of Violence was poop.

- The Squid and the Whale was not too bad, which is sying alot against the other two becuase I actually WATCHED the other two, and mostly listened to The Squid from afar.

That is all I can think of right now.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

My dad dug up the receipt from our first computer, the old Apple //c back in 1984. I was in 3rd grade at the time. Pretty cool to hold the receipt for that sucker in my hand! Total price for a 2C and some Blank Diskettes: $1203.44. Wow, I guess computers have never been a cheap hobby.

I went to the regular board game group tonight and played Tikal. I have to say I really reversed my opinion on it. I think when I played before I got my ass kicked so bad it wasn't even funny. But tonight it seemed to really make sense and I actually won (well, shared a victory anyway). Aren't Myke and Enron really into that one? I'm definitely into playing that one again.
new wow alliance race is : mindflayer-face it looks like. Mindflayer-Face-N-Tail I mean. Rad! Ok, last video, sorry if these are annoying. It doesnt auto-play tho right? That's not too bad then?
edited out cuz its now all official and u aint gotta watch some janky bootleg no more.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

That's pretty surprising about the PS3 controller. Although, I don't think the "Wii" has anything to fear. First of all, you're still holding a dual-shock controller. The strength of the Nintendo thingie is that it's basically a straight object that you can hold in all kinds of configurations. Also, it looks pretty tacked-on on the PS3 whereas it's the Nintendo thing's whole point of existence. And the PS3 controller has no rumble feature. Whatup with that.

Plus you know whenever they offer two packages, what they really mean is "buy the expensive one if you're smart and the cheaper one if you're stupid." The Xbox 360 "tard pack" is proof of that. Six hundred is a lotta bones for a console.

No doubt it'll have some awesome games on it though. A couple people from work are taking a road trip down to LA to go to E3... for some reason it sounds much more fun than it ever did when it was just a matter of driving 15 miles to downtown to go.
Fedex flights coming in to Memphis avoiding T-storms.

Linkasaurus, no embedasaur, por favorasaurus

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Warhammer MMO commercial - obviously has NO gameplay in it, but pretty neat anyways.

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Monday, May 08, 2006

Jael, sorry your maid sounds to be a bitch-whore. There's only one solution and that is to make her wear a French maid costume and then give her a spanking. Enron has a used one that he tried giving to some lady at work if you want to buy one cheap.
wow- low blow from sony on their new PS3! theyre controller which ships with the ps3 looks JUST like the ps2 controller, BUT it also has 6 degrees of free movement, IE you move it around in the air and shit happens on the screen. think this was basically nintendo's whole selling point with the Wii. Doh! Also, awesome price for the PS3: $499 for a 20gb HD or $599 for the 60gb HD version. Niiice. Here's hopin the Nintendo Wii is cooler (and cheaper, which im sure it'll be.)
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I like being able to go back and review things from the past. It can often be quite funny and informative. Nostalgic even.

Ja-El: That’s a bummer about the Maid. I hate when that type of situation comes about and you know that you are going to get stung unless you sit and take-it take-it take-it. My first year in San Diego was similar in that it was so lonely. I just didn’t connect with anyone. I only had acquaintances. It can be really tough in a situation where there is no socially encouraging environment to get a foot hold. I can only imagine how bummed I would be in a foreign language speaking country. I have a hard time with other languages.

Well I spent an interesting weekend with Mikhail Gorbachev looking at a fine collection of apartments. I donno about some of those places. Some of them seem criminal to ask for the rents on some of the places. I mean shit holes that are as expensive as a nice place with better amenities. A grip of walking was had. Yesterday had to have been the nicest day we have had up here in a long time. Beautiful. I even got to wear a short sleeve shirt only outdoors for once in probably 9 months. YeeHaa for nice weather.

Rude: My special lady friend has been watching the new Dr Who the past few months. Pretty awesome. I never watched the original so I do not have a bench to compare it to. Speaking of watching SciFi. I finally started into BSG. Wow that is some good action. I donno that one episode that had bugged me so much must have just been a really bad example of the camera work that had bugged me so much. I have only made it thought the Mini-series and first three episodes. It is pretty damn intense. The min-series is straight up grim and dark. The only thing that seems to bother me a little bit about the series so far is the somewhat gratuitous thrown together B-movie stylie love/romance/intimacy bits.

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What were you doing then?

I was staring at the blog blankly, began typing something and decided it was trash and deleted it. Started asking what's the point of blogging meaningless thoughts and mundane things I did today and then for some reason, I clicked on the archives. And the meaning hit me like a bus. Even though it was meaningless chatter at the time, being able to read exactly what I was thinking 3 years ago and what I was doing then and being able to reflect it was really cool. I have always wanted to keep a diary of some sort which was always a spotty on-off effort, and it dawned that unknowst to me that I DO have a diary... (duh, no shit?)

I was reading the time when Eric got his first jobby job and Aaron was over my house watching burned DVD's freshly pirated from Netflix. Has it been that long?

So onto my mundane thoughts:

It's really lonely out here. I never imagined it could get much more secluded than my first few years in Fremont. Of course after a few years, I had met some more aquaintances, although in the end there were some really bad relationships and some that were permanently damaged. But it's different here. I can't speak the local Tag- a - log, and it's definitely hard to make friends outside of work either.

The Case of the Maid's Vandetta
Who said low paid indentured servants aren't evil and conniving? So two days ago my malaysian friend and the big boss went back to india and malaysia for reasons. The maid that normally cleans up the place decides that since both her direct bosses are gone that she'd stop cleaning the place and take some liberties. Although I'm sure she's quite aware that she SHOULD still clean the place since i'm still living there. Well I tell the operations manager to have her still come in and sarcastically remarked that she should be there less the dog starve as well. The Op manager sounded really pissed at the maid and told me that she'll write up the maid DESPITE my strong objections. I wanted the maid to just come in, not get her in trouble. Well this morning, I knowingly left my glasses on the front porch of the house thinking I can pick them up in the afternoon. When I return from work later that night, I find them shattered.

First, there's very limited number of people entering the house, limited to me, my 2 malasian friends and the maid. Second, the motive is surely there, and Third, I doubt it was an accident, although chances are, she could have sat on the porch because she was tired, but then you wonder why she wanted to sit on the porch. Maybe she was tired... but normally people don't sit on porches unless they are guests of the house?

Anyways, I'm surprised I wrote this big story. It bothers me in a way I guess of how little these people are, from my experience with that manager, and now this maid. But that could be an overgeneralization as well. I guess most people are conniving and retributional in some way. I could make her life really miserable if I wanted to, even recommend that she gets fired, but I think I'll let the cycle end.

Sorry for the long post! I swear I'll post some stuff more exciting later.

Johnny

P.S Art, wharton? Nice..