I won a contest for selling the most PS3 consoles in my district as opposed to last year. I won a copy of Killzone 2, MLB: The Show 09, and a dual shock 3 controller. I already had Killzone 2, which I love, so I gave that away to my third key. Going to play The Show shortly, and plan to put it up on the cast. Kind of excited here. The Show looks amazing in my interactive at work.
Actually, while bulky, CRT monitors are pretty nice, in terms of image quality, that is . . .
I agree. I use a CRT now, actually, and while it is huge, it gets me 1920x1200 resolution and fast refresh without any ghosting. The only thing I'd replace it with would be something equivalent at least 24" big.
I won a contest for selling the most PS3 consoles in my district as opposed to last year. I won a copy of Killzone 2, MLB: The Show 09, and a dual shock 3 controller. I already had Killzone 2, which I love, so I gave that away to my third key. Going to play The Show shortly, and plan to put it up on the cast. Kind of excited here. The Show looks amazing in my interactive at work.
Nice. The Show is pretty much the only reason why I want a PS3 since it's a Sony exclusive. Like the commercials say, it's the most realistic baseball game out there. And I'd say it's the only decent baseball game out there. 2K sports games are ****.
I am at my aunt's house in Minnesota, which compared to Arizona, is ungodly humid. On the bright side, I got a s**tload of music, including:
The Cars: 25th Anniversary Edition by the Cars
Good ol' classic rock
Crossroads
From The Cradle
Unplugged
Cream Of Clapton
All by Eric Clapton. Unlugged is excellent
Warrior's Code by Dropkick Murphys
Excellent Boston bar rock
Collideoscope by Living Colour
Pretty good rock-funk-metal-whatever-the-hell-it-is.
Gods Of The Earth by the Sword
Excellent heavy metal/doom metal, whatever.
Time 3 by Journey
Heapin' helpin' of power ballads
Black Clouds and Silver Linings by Dream Theater
Excellent prog-speed-metal, but not quite as good as Images And Words or Awake, but damn close.
Operation Mindcrime II by Queensrÿche (had to refer to wikipedia to spell the damn name right.)
More good heavy metal
Last but not least,
Chickenfoot, by Chickenfoot
*inhale*
The best album I have bought in the last 5 years. This even supasses my previous favorite albums of all time, Blessed Hellride, by Black Label Society, and Surfing with The Alien, by Satch. These guys have really outdone thierselves this time. If you can say with a staight face that you are a fan of Van Halen, Joe Satriani, (pre-Black Album) Metallica, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Jethro Tull, or rock in general that wasn't not crapped out by Disney, AFI, or the Killers in the last 10 - 15 years, you owe it to yourself to buy this album immediately. As in right the f**k now.
Thank you for reading my massive wall of text. Now onto our regularly scheduled program.
Had the "old people vrs. video games" collision today.
Subject of computers came up between my bro and I with our grandparents. They said along the lines of, "oh, computers when I was a teen were things the size of school lockers and only scientists could use." So I but out my PSP and play a little Me and My Katamari for them. Spend a few minutes explaining what a PSP is and all that jazz.
Then the awesome old person view point of games: "The only games I know are Solitare on the computer and the bad ones where you shoot cops and stuff (GTA:IV)". I agree, there are some bad games, bad in violent and offensive, and bad as just plain bad. They ask the prices of games "$50/60 for a new game, under $20 games are pretty popular, too".
My grandma thought it was the coolest **** ever, grandpa on the other hand thought it was sorta meh.
Amazing graphics, amazing setting, whimsical creatures, touching story elements. I like to think I was able to change their opinions on games today. They're big FOX News watchers, so I'm guessing all they know are either Cop killing simulators and Debbie Does Dallas + Star Wars games.
Kindle Reading List (163,457 Locations Completed) Finished: Aquariums of Pyongyang (2535), Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader (24,074), The Lone Samurai (4753), Nothing to Envy (5349), Shogun (26,263), Eating with the Enemy (9170), Fight Club (3218), River Town (7524), Don Quixote (21,430), The Party(6492), Bravo Two Zero (7340), Rogue Warrior (7602), Mao's Great Famine (11,059), His Dark Materials Omnibus (20,766), Moon Lander (5882)
In addition to massive text wall, I went to Guitar world today, and bought a nice Dunlop Crybaby Wah-Wah pedal, with extension cable and power supply.
Total cost: $70 and change
For those of you that aren't total guitar dweebs like I am, good wah-wah pedals like the one I got go for $70 - $125 brand new without the power supply and whatnot.
Preordered this a longggg time ago, got it last Tuesday
Instant erection
Last.FM - Ow, give up the funk Let the truth of love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the heart and mind united
In a single perfect sphere
After constant searching, I finally found a .flac rip of Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - A Call To Arms EP. All I was previously able to find was a 128kb mp3 rip, maybe even less than that. It was tinny, and rattled, but it was all I could find, and thus I grit my teeth and went with it.
However, after I pressed play on the .flac rip, I needed to change my pants.
Preordered this a longggg time ago, got it last Tuesday
Damn good album. I got it a couple days ago. I personally like Awake better, but it is hard to top awesomeness like that. Did you get the Special Edition?
Damn good album. I got it a couple days ago. I personally like Awake better, but it is hard to top awesomeness like that. Did you get the Special Edition?
Yup, I got the 3CD set and the vinyl record too. I don't like the packaging on the 3CD set though... the CD slips are always falling out of the box.
Overall I'm really impressed with the album. Its a HUGE improvement over Systematic Chaos. The album is brilliant, the only two things that bug me are the growling vocals on A Nightmare to Remember and the lyrics to The Count of Tuscany (GET INTO MY CAR LETS GO FOR A DRIVE!). But some of the band's greatest moments are on here, including that guitar solo in The Best of Times, and the "Peaceful Sedation" section of ANTR.
As for overall ranking of their albums... I put it fifth, in this order (from favorite to least):
Scenes from a Memory
Images and Words
Awake
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Train of Thought
Octavarium
Falling Into Infinity
Systematic Chaos
When Dream and Day Unite
In conclusion, I'm going to marry it one day.
Last.FM - Ow, give up the funk Let the truth of love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the heart and mind united
In a single perfect sphere
Niiiiiiice. My favorite track off of there has to be Stargazer, even if it is a cover. The guitar part is awesome. However, Nightmare to remember is epic and awesome
When I was a Best Buy picking up BCaSL and Chickenfoot, they had a whole rack of Vinyls. And it was stuff like Chinese Democracy and Master Of Puppets on vinyl, not the classic stuff like Rush and Eric Clapton, like i was expecting. Guess it's just one of those retro things.
And i just looked at the calendar, and just realized I bought the album 2 days after it came out.
Head Like A Hole
Things Falling Apart
Pretty Hate Machine
And All That Could Have Been
A book, Slayer Slang. It's funny how much watching that show has influenced my speech patterns; I only recently noticed that I was adding "-y" to a lot of words that I shouldn't.
Last.FM - Ow, give up the funk Let the truth of love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the heart and mind united
In a single perfect sphere
Finished up my "summer job" last Friday. First had to do the necessary bodywork(mainly sanding the old paintjob off), and removed any stickers on the bike. Then followed with a fresh black paintjob, taped up the flames and painted those with a small airbrush for a nice finish. Corrected any mishaps on the paintjob, laquered and assembled. The owner took it off my hands last Friday and gave me a wad of well-needed cash. Pictures below:
Support your local Pirates - So the feds won't go Orwellian on your ass.
"Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way. My choice is clear." - Rickard Falkvinge
Forgot to post this over here, I grabbed this 32" HDTV off of Craigslist for a song. It wasn't working right but a reflow of the joints on the power regulation board and it's been going strong ever since.
Also, I got another 360 Pro with 2 games off of craigslist for 120 and also one missing the dvd drive for 40.
Very good thing: I finally, somehow, someway, beat Jordan on Expert on GHII on the 360. This was the only song in any Guitar Hero game that I hadn't been able to beat. F***. Yes.
Very good thing: I finally, somehow, someway, beat Jordan on Expert on GHII on the 360. This was the only song in any Guitar Hero game that I hadn't been able to beat. F***. Yes.
I pulled that one too...on my buddy's XBox and not mine.
Also picked up the headphones with mic and remote on them.
If anyone is in the market for an iPod Touch (1st gen) shoot me a message, this one is replacing my old one so I want to unload that. It still works perfectly, I just needed more storage and wanted to be able to make skype calls.
Actually, while bulky, CRT monitors are pretty nice, in terms of image quality, that is . . .
Or when they break beyond repair, their components are actually pretty sweet--'cept for the broken stuff of course. I found a power transistor that normally costs $20 that way.
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I won't be able to use it for a few months, as it's my first part bought and I'm buying slowly as things go on sale, but.... at least I picked it up for $199.99 - a savings of $70 if I would have bought it from Newegg.
Kindle Reading List (163,457 Locations Completed) Finished: Aquariums of Pyongyang (2535), Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader (24,074), The Lone Samurai (4753), Nothing to Envy (5349), Shogun (26,263), Eating with the Enemy (9170), Fight Club (3218), River Town (7524), Don Quixote (21,430), The Party(6492), Bravo Two Zero (7340), Rogue Warrior (7602), Mao's Great Famine (11,059), His Dark Materials Omnibus (20,766), Moon Lander (5882)
You'd better be starting an illegal gambling den with that.
Well, with the way it's now sitting in my garage now it's almost in a gambling den already.
Also, writing a summary of a book as your reading it makes for a lot of typing...
171 pages into a 970 page book = 15 pages / 9000+ words of summary
I'm writing it as an annotation really.
Kindle Reading List (163,457 Locations Completed) Finished: Aquariums of Pyongyang (2535), Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader (24,074), The Lone Samurai (4753), Nothing to Envy (5349), Shogun (26,263), Eating with the Enemy (9170), Fight Club (3218), River Town (7524), Don Quixote (21,430), The Party(6492), Bravo Two Zero (7340), Rogue Warrior (7602), Mao's Great Famine (11,059), His Dark Materials Omnibus (20,766), Moon Lander (5882)
I won't be able to use it for a few months, as it's my first part bought and I'm buying slowly as things go on sale, but.... at least I picked it up for $199.99 - a savings of $70 if I would have bought it from Newegg
But in a month or two it could drop $70 couldn't it? rendering your saving useless. I never buy PC parts until I need them, even if they are on sale.
Well, with the way it's now sitting in my garage now it's almost in a gambling den already.
Also, writing a summary of a book as your reading it makes for a lot of typing...
171 pages into a 970 page book = 15 pages / 9000+ words of summary
I'm writing it as an annotation really.
I feel as if I'm in a similar boat as you.
I have to read and journal "The Fountainhead" for my English Class. I'm on the third chapter of part 1, and I have two entire pieces of paper filled with notes... after about 15 pages... ~headsmack~
"A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds, the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I've lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be."
I have to read and journal "The Fountainhead" for my English Class. I'm on the third chapter of part 1, and I have two entire pieces of paper filled with notes... after about 15 pages... ~headsmack~
Ouch, that's some heavy writing there.
Heh... but this isn't for a class... I'm just doing it for ****s and giggles. But then again, the Wikipedia page for the book has no summary at all, so I may put a shortened version on there and link to the full annotation separately. I'm basically creating a "I don't wanna read all 970 pages, how about 60 pages instead?" version of the book.
Why am I doing this?...
Kindle Reading List (163,457 Locations Completed) Finished: Aquariums of Pyongyang (2535), Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader (24,074), The Lone Samurai (4753), Nothing to Envy (5349), Shogun (26,263), Eating with the Enemy (9170), Fight Club (3218), River Town (7524), Don Quixote (21,430), The Party(6492), Bravo Two Zero (7340), Rogue Warrior (7602), Mao's Great Famine (11,059), His Dark Materials Omnibus (20,766), Moon Lander (5882)
Like the commercials say, it's the most realistic baseball game out there. And I'd say it's the only decent baseball game out there. 2K sports games are ****.
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