Hooray for Health!
Thats great to hear that you no longer reside on the heart-attack alert, it's also not so great you have been to told avoid beer and coffee BEFORE going on a camping trip with Matt... then again Jordan will be there too, so you guys can stick together, stay wonderfully sober, and be sticks in the desert mud while Matt has all the "cool" fun.
Also, today is the day that Moikal Andresson returns to our great, great country that is full of Democratically elected officials, which is WAYYYY better than some other countries and their stupid Monarchies... Hooray for our elected leader, Al Gore, err, I mean George Bush!
Saturday, December 14, 2002
(sound of wind howling)
Hello! Well, it's been a relatively eventful few days. I visited my doctor, peed in a cup, paid him to stick his finger up my arse... and then we went to his office. Ba-dump-chh! So, we cleared up the problem as not being a heart problem (have you had an ekg before? it's fun!), but it is not really acid reflux either. Instead it is a mysterious condition called "dyspepsia" which is indeed stomach-related but is not standard heartburn. It also seems to come and go on its own. Hooray for mystery pain! Anyway he told me pretty much to stay away from caffeine, spicy foods, and alcohol. These three things comprise perhaps 85% of my diet, so I'm not too sure how that will go.
Tomorrow I'm going camping in the Anzo-Borrego desert. Should be fun although it might be freakin' cold. If I turn out not to come back then it's likely that Jordan and Matt buried me in the desert somewhere and I'd thank you guys to kick their asses for me in case I can't do it from beyond the grave. I know Matt is tough but that's why you have to work your way up improving your skills by fighting the mini-bosses like Zangief and King Hippo. HINT: Punch the mailboxes to reveal delicious turkeys.
Hello! Well, it's been a relatively eventful few days. I visited my doctor, peed in a cup, paid him to stick his finger up my arse... and then we went to his office. Ba-dump-chh! So, we cleared up the problem as not being a heart problem (have you had an ekg before? it's fun!), but it is not really acid reflux either. Instead it is a mysterious condition called "dyspepsia" which is indeed stomach-related but is not standard heartburn. It also seems to come and go on its own. Hooray for mystery pain! Anyway he told me pretty much to stay away from caffeine, spicy foods, and alcohol. These three things comprise perhaps 85% of my diet, so I'm not too sure how that will go.
Tomorrow I'm going camping in the Anzo-Borrego desert. Should be fun although it might be freakin' cold. If I turn out not to come back then it's likely that Jordan and Matt buried me in the desert somewhere and I'd thank you guys to kick their asses for me in case I can't do it from beyond the grave. I know Matt is tough but that's why you have to work your way up improving your skills by fighting the mini-bosses like Zangief and King Hippo. HINT: Punch the mailboxes to reveal delicious turkeys.
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Battle Kry
In Gratis for the advanced loan on the purchase of acquires, Hoodle! I shall pay you back as if I do not, you can place me in indentured servitude.
Battle cry is a great game. There were a few sites making some scenario add-ons. I think you know most of them, unfortunately as time went by, the momentum died down and I think a lot of these "home grown" sites have since stopped making cool 3rd party stuff for the game.
I would buy another copy, but I already own one. Ah the memories at Gencon. Yah!
Jael
In Gratis for the advanced loan on the purchase of acquires, Hoodle! I shall pay you back as if I do not, you can place me in indentured servitude.
Battle cry is a great game. There were a few sites making some scenario add-ons. I think you know most of them, unfortunately as time went by, the momentum died down and I think a lot of these "home grown" sites have since stopped making cool 3rd party stuff for the game.
I would buy another copy, but I already own one. Ah the memories at Gencon. Yah!
Jael
Um... buy one
Hmmm... that's a great price. I checked AH's website and that is definitely not the standard pricing. Also Amazon.com is still showing as 39 bucks. If that's the price that's showing at gamekeeper then 1) must be a great promotion 2) not a AH promotion but maybe GK is trying to rid of inventory, 3) Eric please grab me 2 copies of aquire. I'll pay you back later. Thanks.
Jael
Hmmm... that's a great price. I checked AH's website and that is definitely not the standard pricing. Also Amazon.com is still showing as 39 bucks. If that's the price that's showing at gamekeeper then 1) must be a great promotion 2) not a AH promotion but maybe GK is trying to rid of inventory, 3) Eric please grab me 2 copies of aquire. I'll pay you back later. Thanks.
Jael
Cheap Games, not Cheapass
So I was shopping for X-Mas this past weekend and I noticed at The Game Keeper they have reduced the price of Battle Cry, Diplomacy, and Acquire to $19.99!!! What a deal, what a steal! So if anybody wants one, go get it! I asked the sketchy chick there about the price and she thinks that it is a permanent reduction. Huzzah! Battle Cry.. sheesh, is that just the best game ever, or what?
So I was shopping for X-Mas this past weekend and I noticed at The Game Keeper they have reduced the price of Battle Cry, Diplomacy, and Acquire to $19.99!!! What a deal, what a steal! So if anybody wants one, go get it! I asked the sketchy chick there about the price and she thinks that it is a permanent reduction. Huzzah! Battle Cry.. sheesh, is that just the best game ever, or what?
Monday, December 09, 2002
I'm With Eric
Rat Race? What the fuck.... I swear, Aaron, you need to move back in wih me. I would make sure that you don't ever have to see Rat Race.
Well, my "heartburn" (which has been jolly old fun for the last week and a half) sux0rs so much that I called up my doctor and nagged him again about it. The medication is doing fuck-all and I'm sitting around going "ohhhh" like some demented Denis clone. Anyway, he started making comments about EKGs and chest X-rays and drinking barium, so who knows what kind of medical excitement we could be in for tomorrow. I'll be sure to post every second of it for you, my loyal audience!
On the plus side my cholesterol is markedly improved from two years ago!
How was ye old work Eric? Working at a startup company I am sure you will be working many long hours in the days to come. Well, our days of surfing were fun. Well, we only did that once, but it was still fun.
Rat Race? What the fuck.... I swear, Aaron, you need to move back in wih me. I would make sure that you don't ever have to see Rat Race.
Well, my "heartburn" (which has been jolly old fun for the last week and a half) sux0rs so much that I called up my doctor and nagged him again about it. The medication is doing fuck-all and I'm sitting around going "ohhhh" like some demented Denis clone. Anyway, he started making comments about EKGs and chest X-rays and drinking barium, so who knows what kind of medical excitement we could be in for tomorrow. I'll be sure to post every second of it for you, my loyal audience!
On the plus side my cholesterol is markedly improved from two years ago!
How was ye old work Eric? Working at a startup company I am sure you will be working many long hours in the days to come. Well, our days of surfing were fun. Well, we only did that once, but it was still fun.
Wurk = Suck
Deez nuts. Welcome to the Working world Eric. You are now officially christened in the Rat Race. Just hope that any ambiguity of your job gets cleared up! Onward!
For the record, it was the evil enron that selected those grate movie titles. Smells fishy. Next time? I choose.
I really want to come back to this New Years. Any cool bean plans? Anyone?
Jael
Deez nuts. Welcome to the Working world Eric. You are now officially christened in the Rat Race. Just hope that any ambiguity of your job gets cleared up! Onward!
For the record, it was the evil enron that selected those grate movie titles. Smells fishy. Next time? I choose.
I really want to come back to this New Years. Any cool bean plans? Anyone?
Jael
Work
So here I am at work. I have my computer setup, a temporary place to sit, 4 hours of sleep and two Bonus Cups of coffee in my system. My boss is in a meeting, so I am just sitting here feeling like I am about to have a heart-attack... too much caffeine after being off the sauce for awhile. Yikes. Aaron, I need you to add me to the "Jon Heart-Attack Watch List".
As far as the White Trash, Two Asians, and a Bean movie nights you guys have been having: Who on God's Green Earth have been selecting these titles? Rat Race? Super Troopers? Come on, there is just no excuse for those. Ugh.
So here I am at work. I have my computer setup, a temporary place to sit, 4 hours of sleep and two Bonus Cups of coffee in my system. My boss is in a meeting, so I am just sitting here feeling like I am about to have a heart-attack... too much caffeine after being off the sauce for awhile. Yikes. Aaron, I need you to add me to the "Jon Heart-Attack Watch List".
As far as the White Trash, Two Asians, and a Bean movie nights you guys have been having: Who on God's Green Earth have been selecting these titles? Rat Race? Super Troopers? Come on, there is just no excuse for those. Ugh.
Sunday, December 08, 2002
CookIE ACTION
So Aaron and Amy came over bringing over 2 movies for a sleepover this weekend. We watched GOJOE, and RAT RACE. Having said that, I think the name really spells it out. Stare at it long enough and you might get something like, "lame" and "shit". If you haven't got the gist of the movie yet, i'll just give you a review of it.
Let's start with Rat Race:
You can name this movie Rat Turd, or Tar race and you'd still get the same old piece of shit. The cast is one of interesting mix filled with well known, hasbeen actors. You have Whoopi Goldberg who hasn't made a funny comedy or interesting movie since Sister Act and should stay on Tic Tac Squares. Then there is Cuba Gooding Jr. who usually signifies "this is going to be a lame movie". He has never been known as a funny actor which is surprising that he gets the role. Cuba was "perfect" as a supporting actor to Tom Cruise in Jerry Mcguire which required an overacting, loud, obnoxious idiot football player. You have John Cleese, as a supporting cast, who was silly in his British ways, but unfortunately had his name dragged through this mud-of-a-movie. Perhaps he should have left this movie to die another day (har har me funny). Then they have Mr. Bean, who was made out to be a faggish, narcoleptic guy who had a bad russian accent and worser lines. Then you have some mediocre no-namer actors, who had similar bad roles. So those were the list of bad actors. Onto the plot.
The rat race as the name denotes, is a contest devised by the Billionaire character played by John Cleese, to race seven contestants to silver city, new mexico. Whoever crosses the finish line first and gets to a gym locker wins 2 million dollars in cash. Sounds like a TV show? Well yes its very similar. But fitting a 6 week TV show in a cramped up 2 hour time frame while attempting to follow 7 different people, you get a great skipping effect. The movie kept skipping to different characters. Each scene would only be 2 to 5 minutes. So effectively you get this little 2-5 minute skit (about 40-50 total) attempting to make you laugh. I'd say 95% of the mini skits failed to produce a slight chuckle. Plot you ask? What plot? I want my 2 hours life back. Stay away from this movie. F------
GOJOE:
No, not GI Joe. This movie is a japanese film with english subtitles. It story was about a demon that supposedly had to claim 1000 souls by killing them. The japanese people are aware of this demon, and many heros samurais quest to go slay it. They get their heads chopped off and strung up in trees. This is kindof like predator.
After watching a lame movie like Rat Race, I was pretty tired. It was 11:30, so i fell asleep after watching about 10-15 minutes of this movie. It might have been good. but from what I was seeing, it was nothing to brag about. C
The rest of the weekend was cool. We played some fun Settlers of Cataan, a bit of boggle, and a game of FLUXX. Overall, not bad. No PBI.
jael
So Aaron and Amy came over bringing over 2 movies for a sleepover this weekend. We watched GOJOE, and RAT RACE. Having said that, I think the name really spells it out. Stare at it long enough and you might get something like, "lame" and "shit". If you haven't got the gist of the movie yet, i'll just give you a review of it.
Let's start with Rat Race:
You can name this movie Rat Turd, or Tar race and you'd still get the same old piece of shit. The cast is one of interesting mix filled with well known, hasbeen actors. You have Whoopi Goldberg who hasn't made a funny comedy or interesting movie since Sister Act and should stay on Tic Tac Squares. Then there is Cuba Gooding Jr. who usually signifies "this is going to be a lame movie". He has never been known as a funny actor which is surprising that he gets the role. Cuba was "perfect" as a supporting actor to Tom Cruise in Jerry Mcguire which required an overacting, loud, obnoxious idiot football player. You have John Cleese, as a supporting cast, who was silly in his British ways, but unfortunately had his name dragged through this mud-of-a-movie. Perhaps he should have left this movie to die another day (har har me funny). Then they have Mr. Bean, who was made out to be a faggish, narcoleptic guy who had a bad russian accent and worser lines. Then you have some mediocre no-namer actors, who had similar bad roles. So those were the list of bad actors. Onto the plot.
The rat race as the name denotes, is a contest devised by the Billionaire character played by John Cleese, to race seven contestants to silver city, new mexico. Whoever crosses the finish line first and gets to a gym locker wins 2 million dollars in cash. Sounds like a TV show? Well yes its very similar. But fitting a 6 week TV show in a cramped up 2 hour time frame while attempting to follow 7 different people, you get a great skipping effect. The movie kept skipping to different characters. Each scene would only be 2 to 5 minutes. So effectively you get this little 2-5 minute skit (about 40-50 total) attempting to make you laugh. I'd say 95% of the mini skits failed to produce a slight chuckle. Plot you ask? What plot? I want my 2 hours life back. Stay away from this movie. F------
GOJOE:
No, not GI Joe. This movie is a japanese film with english subtitles. It story was about a demon that supposedly had to claim 1000 souls by killing them. The japanese people are aware of this demon, and many heros samurais quest to go slay it. They get their heads chopped off and strung up in trees. This is kindof like predator.
After watching a lame movie like Rat Race, I was pretty tired. It was 11:30, so i fell asleep after watching about 10-15 minutes of this movie. It might have been good. but from what I was seeing, it was nothing to brag about. C
The rest of the weekend was cool. We played some fun Settlers of Cataan, a bit of boggle, and a game of FLUXX. Overall, not bad. No PBI.
jael
Saturday, December 07, 2002
Score one for Everyone, except Eric, and then Eric
So I played a rousing game of Blood Bowl with Denis last night. The Lothlorien Arsenal trounced the Appleby Mashers by a score of 4 -1, with one death on the pitch. This is the first game of BB I have played with another opponent, besides myself, that has actually finished using minatures in probably over 5 years. I had a blast!
Point:Eric
Hogshead Publishing, the fine folks who took over the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay license from Games Workshop, and the fine producers of Nobilis, are calling it quits. It is sad. The license reverts back to GW, and they will probably sit on it and let it die instead of sell it or use it themselves. Boo. Here is the sad quote from the Hogshead site on the matter:
"GAME OVER! As of 30th November 2002, Hogshead Publishing Ltd is leaving the adventure-gaming industry. Please note that the company is not going bankrupt. It is refreshingly solvent. However we are bored, creatively frustrated, and increasingly despondent about the future of the specialist games industry. After our successes in 2002, particularly the mould-breaking and critically acclaimed games Nobilis and De Profundis, we think we've gone as far as we can, and this seems a suitable high-point on which to call it a day."
The quote in an of itself makes me sad, seeing as Wizards has taken a large chunk out of the total creativity of the gaming community and destroyed much of the niche gaming market for smaller, upstart companies. Instead of making a whole new game for whatever cool idea someone may have, they just make a D20 sourcebook for it instead. Boo.
Point: Everyone, except Eric, for the demise of WFRP.
Point: WotC, for keeping their chunk of the market large and ever growing by elimi-date-ing the competition.
So I played a rousing game of Blood Bowl with Denis last night. The Lothlorien Arsenal trounced the Appleby Mashers by a score of 4 -1, with one death on the pitch. This is the first game of BB I have played with another opponent, besides myself, that has actually finished using minatures in probably over 5 years. I had a blast!
Point:Eric
Hogshead Publishing, the fine folks who took over the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay license from Games Workshop, and the fine producers of Nobilis, are calling it quits. It is sad. The license reverts back to GW, and they will probably sit on it and let it die instead of sell it or use it themselves. Boo. Here is the sad quote from the Hogshead site on the matter:
"GAME OVER! As of 30th November 2002, Hogshead Publishing Ltd is leaving the adventure-gaming industry. Please note that the company is not going bankrupt. It is refreshingly solvent. However we are bored, creatively frustrated, and increasingly despondent about the future of the specialist games industry. After our successes in 2002, particularly the mould-breaking and critically acclaimed games Nobilis and De Profundis, we think we've gone as far as we can, and this seems a suitable high-point on which to call it a day."
The quote in an of itself makes me sad, seeing as Wizards has taken a large chunk out of the total creativity of the gaming community and destroyed much of the niche gaming market for smaller, upstart companies. Instead of making a whole new game for whatever cool idea someone may have, they just make a D20 sourcebook for it instead. Boo.
Point: Everyone, except Eric, for the demise of WFRP.
Point: WotC, for keeping their chunk of the market large and ever growing by elimi-date-ing the competition.
San jose Sharkees
Oh, Enron, you suck ballz. One for nixing the basketball game, but second and more severe is sleeping before midnight, especially when I call you! That's a sine.
just kidding enron, your good in my books. Anyways tonight, my company had some free tickets to the San Jose Sharks game, so I went. 55 bucks a pop and 15 dollars to spend on food and beer and good stuff like that. We usually get the VIP box seats, but today I guess they were cutting cost. Anyways, the game was pretty exciting. The game was close all the way until the end, in fact OT, when the sharks who was trailing the entire game, made a comeback and scored the winning goal. So they WIN! Go sharks! While there, I met an interesting girl, she's thirty though, but very cute. Pretty high standards, into the leather pants and stuff. Not really my type. So anyways chatted up with her all game, and I think I'll email her. She's a pretty cool cat. Wish she was a few years younger.
I'm a little drunk. I had two beers, but that's enough to get me going. ok.. I'm going to bed, but maybe not before I get in a good game of warcraft III.
Night all.
Oh, Enron, you suck ballz. One for nixing the basketball game, but second and more severe is sleeping before midnight, especially when I call you! That's a sine.
just kidding enron, your good in my books. Anyways tonight, my company had some free tickets to the San Jose Sharks game, so I went. 55 bucks a pop and 15 dollars to spend on food and beer and good stuff like that. We usually get the VIP box seats, but today I guess they were cutting cost. Anyways, the game was pretty exciting. The game was close all the way until the end, in fact OT, when the sharks who was trailing the entire game, made a comeback and scored the winning goal. So they WIN! Go sharks! While there, I met an interesting girl, she's thirty though, but very cute. Pretty high standards, into the leather pants and stuff. Not really my type. So anyways chatted up with her all game, and I think I'll email her. She's a pretty cool cat. Wish she was a few years younger.
I'm a little drunk. I had two beers, but that's enough to get me going. ok.. I'm going to bed, but maybe not before I get in a good game of warcraft III.
Night all.
Friday, December 06, 2002
The Action Team: It's LEARN-tastic!
Nice work on the job Eric Hessington! Gainful employment at last. I suppose this means an end to our afternoon makeout sessions. Hopefully the market won't crash again in three days and take out your job. Then you'll have to go back to your usual entertainment.
ERIC: More tea and cookies, Mr. Kitty?
STAMPY: Meow!
Also nice work on the router/hub edutainment. I guess this blog is turning into "blow Eric" so I'll touch on some other points real quick.
1. I know none of you have a GameCube so this is totally fucking moot, but Metroid Prime is good. Real good. I've been spending my free time alternating between playing it and working on a story ("my story?"). Basically it's like any other fps except it's the best game ever. Plus did you know Samus is a chick? Wow!!
2. Number one was pretty much it. Gee, my life is sad.
Nice work on the job Eric Hessington! Gainful employment at last. I suppose this means an end to our afternoon makeout sessions. Hopefully the market won't crash again in three days and take out your job. Then you'll have to go back to your usual entertainment.
ERIC: More tea and cookies, Mr. Kitty?
STAMPY: Meow!
Also nice work on the router/hub edutainment. I guess this blog is turning into "blow Eric" so I'll touch on some other points real quick.
1. I know none of you have a GameCube so this is totally fucking moot, but Metroid Prime is good. Real good. I've been spending my free time alternating between playing it and working on a story ("my story?"). Basically it's like any other fps except it's the best game ever. Plus did you know Samus is a chick? Wow!!
2. Number one was pretty much it. Gee, my life is sad.
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