Tuesday, January 27, 2004
I am hungry, but my Mac and Chee is not heated yet.
Feel the sadness therein... I was originally going to do an ode to my macaroni, but that would be stupid. What is considerably cooler is the fact that I'm going to be taking SWORDFIGHTING!!! Yessir, I'm on the waiting list for a course at Algonquin College to learn broadsword handling (and I think they cover some samurai stuff too). This causes such glee in me that I may explode. To reiterate: SWORDFIGHTING!!!! I don't care what you say, it's just cool.
Also cool, but nowhere close to the same degree is the kung-fu I might start taking. It was a tough choice (not really) between jiu-jistu/kickboxing (they're always done by clubs together for some reason) and kung-fu, but Fang Shen Do (yes, that's the name of the place, almost as silly as Fin Fang Foom, isn't it?) is closer to my apartment, so that's where I'll try first. Hopefully I'll end up with some new tricks to take home with me, and maybe even a sword to boot! (The people who do the class also run an armory...)
More gaming stuff
I've always wondered why there is no remote power button for consoles. I mean, your TV, VCR, DVD, stereo, home theater and every other bloody electronic thingamajig have remotes, and they all can be turned on from the couch, why not game systems? You wouldn't even need batteries, because the controllers are on a bloody cord! I think that the next wave of consoles should have remotes, and if they don't, we go hunt down the executives of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Oh yes, open season should be declared. Any and all weaponry allowed. It'd be fun!
More on the topic of actual games, I tried the demo of Far Cry last night. I say tried, because I couldn't actually play the stupid thing. Either this game's system requirements are far too much for my system, or there's something wrong with either my computer or the game. I have had a game run that badly since I tried to play Quake 1 online with a 14.4kbps modem. I mean, we're talking slideshow here. I could barely get to the menu to fix stuff. I'll try it again tonight, but my hopes are not high. The one thing I did see in the game looked pretty good though.
Ha, ha, and ha again
I'd just like to take this moment and make fun of Edmonton for having such cold weather. We've been dealing with that for roughly the past two weeks (and by "that" I mean the -30C, -40 with wind chill stuff). Be glad you're only supposed to freeze until the end of the week.
Punk music was never so easy to make
You don't even need a guitar to do it now! Check out the Punk 'o' Matic. Also, you can listen to my fellow mod Harrm's track by using this little code:
Just get rid of the line breaks (it has to be all one word) and input it when you click "load".
Fee Fie Fo Fum! Some people's interests are just too weird for words.
I want one of these! Maybe it would heat my macaroni faster... (also, FYI, I'm talking about real cheese, oven-baked macaroni, not KD.) ¶ 4:07 p.m.
Feel the sadness therein... I was originally going to do an ode to my macaroni, but that would be stupid. What is considerably cooler is the fact that I'm going to be taking SWORDFIGHTING!!! Yessir, I'm on the waiting list for a course at Algonquin College to learn broadsword handling (and I think they cover some samurai stuff too). This causes such glee in me that I may explode. To reiterate: SWORDFIGHTING!!!! I don't care what you say, it's just cool.
Also cool, but nowhere close to the same degree is the kung-fu I might start taking. It was a tough choice (not really) between jiu-jistu/kickboxing (they're always done by clubs together for some reason) and kung-fu, but Fang Shen Do (yes, that's the name of the place, almost as silly as Fin Fang Foom, isn't it?) is closer to my apartment, so that's where I'll try first. Hopefully I'll end up with some new tricks to take home with me, and maybe even a sword to boot! (The people who do the class also run an armory...)
More gaming stuff
I've always wondered why there is no remote power button for consoles. I mean, your TV, VCR, DVD, stereo, home theater and every other bloody electronic thingamajig have remotes, and they all can be turned on from the couch, why not game systems? You wouldn't even need batteries, because the controllers are on a bloody cord! I think that the next wave of consoles should have remotes, and if they don't, we go hunt down the executives of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Oh yes, open season should be declared. Any and all weaponry allowed. It'd be fun!
More on the topic of actual games, I tried the demo of Far Cry last night. I say tried, because I couldn't actually play the stupid thing. Either this game's system requirements are far too much for my system, or there's something wrong with either my computer or the game. I have had a game run that badly since I tried to play Quake 1 online with a 14.4kbps modem. I mean, we're talking slideshow here. I could barely get to the menu to fix stuff. I'll try it again tonight, but my hopes are not high. The one thing I did see in the game looked pretty good though.
Ha, ha, and ha again
I'd just like to take this moment and make fun of Edmonton for having such cold weather. We've been dealing with that for roughly the past two weeks (and by "that" I mean the -30C, -40 with wind chill stuff). Be glad you're only supposed to freeze until the end of the week.
Punk music was never so easy to make
You don't even need a guitar to do it now! Check out the Punk 'o' Matic. Also, you can listen to my fellow mod Harrm's track by using this little code:
900-1-0-6-4-4-9-------9---9-9-88889---5-5-0---0---0---0-----0---0---0---0---77789----c---0---2
---6-4---5-5-8---8---8---4---3---0---0---1---2-----0---1---2---0---7-7-c----a---2-4-3-2-10-1---1--0-----
4-1---3-3-3-3-0---0---1---2-2-0-0---1---2-3-0---a---a----
Just get rid of the line breaks (it has to be all one word) and input it when you click "load".
Fee Fie Fo Fum! Some people's interests are just too weird for words.
I want one of these! Maybe it would heat my macaroni faster... (also, FYI, I'm talking about real cheese, oven-baked macaroni, not KD.) ¶ 4:07 p.m.
