My first 08 set. And he's the second remake of my third Bionicle set I ever bought. How does he compare?
Well, Pohatu olda just rocks all Toa of Stone, and that's final. Hewkii looks good without the brown, but Pohatu Phantoka cannot replace good old upside-down Pohatu. (Pohatu Nuva, yeah, he can replace him in a jiffy).
First, a quick note on the packaging. We're getting back to canisters again, baby! Woo Hoo! Sure, it's not a traditional canister, especially with the useless a
"Those men are trying to kill us!"
"I know, Dad!"
"Well, this is a new experience for me."
"Happens to me all the time."
Downside of the start of 08: I'm still sick, and I've had a pretty bad sore throat for about a week. I went to the doc. to get it checked out, and it's not strep. So it should run it's course in about a week... you know, right when school starts back up. Ah well, better to be sick on vacation than at school with assignments due.
Upside of 08: I convinced my mom to
The hours are ticking away for me, so I suppose I should post a last blog entry for 07.
I would write a review of the year via BZP and Bionicle and real life... but at this point, I have an entirely pessimistic view of everything, so that wouldn't turn out nice. Main problem is I've had this horrible cold for the last few days that hit me out of nowhere... and all I have to look forward to after I get over it is going back to school.
I didn't do much writing this year as I have done, bu
My big plan for blogging still hasn't come around... maybe I'll start it for the new year. Maybe.
I got a few things for x-mas after all. Ipod and charger, and a shaver, all to replace stolen merchandise. I also got some candy... sure to rot my teeth out by the end of the break, although I have received more candy in previous years. I did receive two Lego/Bionicle related items... Bionicle Legends 7 and WoS... aka, the latest book and last movie. The book... well, it was stolen with my b
Whew, finished with Christmas shopping... for now, at least. It wasn't that bad, but I've been shopping with every family member in the last four days, and I finally got the chance to go today and get some presents I didn't want anybody to know about... and they're not for me.
I have snuck into the toy section of a few stores, but all that's left are Mahri and Baraki. Strangely enough, the big hero of the year, Matoro, is the set that's left on most shelves. Is it because the store over
Read the Story Here!
Already, here's my new epic project with reviewer participation. I'm going to test it out for a couple of chapters, to see if it lasts. If it totally flops, I'll just give it up. My plans are to incorporate characters from all my previous epics into this new, multi-adventure. You'll never know where you'll end up next! So, for anybody who could do with a short read and interested in pushing forward an epic without actually writing it themselves... well, here's your c
As I have a new laptop, I have been trying to recreate everything on it that I lost on my old one. I've put music back on it (and some other songs I didn't realize we owned at first). I got some pictures... although between my lost laptop and my family's computer crash a month back, pretty much everything from 07 is gone in the picture department. Ah well... I really miss this one sunrise picture I used as my desktop, but I'll just have to take another one soon. I've also favorited most of m
It pains me to admit that, after having a laptop for nearly four months, I had to go out and get another one. Worst... durring Christmas shopping season. So I suffered through an electronics store and got some replacements... the buying stuff went quick enough, but when we tried to get some of the free offers for purchasing laptops this week... that got drawn out. Anyway, I have a new laptop. It's a little slower than my old one, apparently, but it was also $150 cheaper. Oh well, maybe it j
Here's an idea for an epic...
Okay, so I no longer have my own computer. I lost all my stories, although I have some of my Bionicle stories still saved on my home computer... (SoMN) I probably won't get another computer until after x-mas... you know, when they go on sale and such (if there's anything left) Despite my being irresponsible towards the safety of my electronics, I'll probably get lots of it replaced because we are getting insurance money from it.
Anyway, when I feel that I n
Today I finally got out of school and went home for winter break. I have a couple of weeks off from classes.
That's the good news first. This is a predominantly bad-news entry.
On the way home, we stopped in a city for some food. I had my backpack in the car with my laptop, camera, iPod, and other various electronic gismos that I have used in college and could find use of at home.
Somebody broke the window of the car and took it all.
So I lost my laptop. With my laptop, my hard d
I was struck by random inspiration in the S&T forum to write a comedy taking a completely random and ironic look at an unknown side story in a way that would explain it all. I had a really funny idea, and I even wrote it out, with a few side jokes and rule of three gag going along the the overall ironic circumstance. Then I realized the humor I was using was inappropriate. (My humor has gotten more inappropriate since I began hanging out with certain people at the university). So I bagge
Emoticons, Emotions. These:
Emoticons? Ee- moh- tih- cons? Not ee- mote- shawns? Oticons-eemay? Wha?
I have always referred to this little graphic thingies, , , , , , as emotions. Like the things we feel... happiness, sadness, angerness... uh, anger. I just overlooked the fact that whenever I see a word typed to describe them, I always just assume it's emotions. And whenever I describe them, I always say emotions, and I've never been corrected before. Now, I've been on BZP
I'm an uncool dude. I'm such an uncool dude that I'm tempted to bypass the word filter and just right it out just for emphasis. I am an ih... ah, whatever, I'm just plain stupid.
Alright, here's the story. I'm a starving college student, but my parents were kind enough to provide me a debit card to buy extra supplies. Not enough to buy a ton of LEGO Bricks (if I could even find them. I'm in the middle of a city, but the closest retail store is an hour's bus ride away, I swear). But it's
It's 4:41 in the morning... and I've been awake since 4 in the afternoon (I took an afternoon nap. Sue me)
I'm nearly halfway done with my essay. I initially thought it was due today at 3.
It's due Friday.
I'm still working on it, but work is slow and I inevitably find myself on BZP and other unmentionable social site. I'm going to work on it for a few more hours and then go to class. If I try to sleep now, I know I'll miss my class. I know this because my roommate does it every ot
You know you want to read it right away.
My Short Story #4 Contest Entry: Strength and Spirit.
Yeah, yeah, it uses Takua, and he's down in the Le-Koro jungle, and he even plays in an Amaja circle. But I tried to write this as one of my action stories, with a couple of short battles where the Matoran use more than just muscle and elemental energy. I also experimented with a few new weapons in this batch, namely Jaller's sword from the MOL movie, and Kongu's new slingshot. (I like giving
I'm am entering dead weak here at the University of my state, which is a really cool and I really like living in it at times... except for when the one short day of snow turns into a downpour of rain. URG... uh, where was I? Oh yeah, dead week before finals. I'm entering that. Sounds like fun, although I never really got much done in the so called dead weeks of high school, so we'll see about it this year.
It's not so much that nothings happening this week... we don't have to take any mid
Yay, we just got the first snowfall of the season. Mind you, it's a Saturday, so no classes were canceled. Unfortunately, I bet classes wouldn't be cancelled anyways, so I'd have to walk to them in the cold if it were a weekday... hmm. I tried to take some good pictures, but my camera's battery was dead. So I had to go buy some more AAs to charge it up. We got some pretty big flakes coming down at one point, and for a while we had a nice layer on the sidewalks and everything. I walked down
This was prompted by CF in my last entry, so as I promised I'm going to go off the deep end on this one.
(Considering I wasn't in the deep end already... but I'm diving down some more)
Okay, I like bicycling as much as the next person. It's a great way to get from point A to point B very quickly... especially if its a long distance. It gives you a workout... especially going uphill.
The initial reason I didn't bring my bike with me is because... well, my bike has some defects. Shocks
For this one class of mine, I have to come up with this portfolio thingy that describes me, my first quarter at college, and stuff I've done. I could try to write seriously about it, or I can throw it all in the air and give them my hard to earth opinion. So I'll include a few excerpts here... and best of all, some of them are even recognizable fro this blog.
It's funnier if you actually know my last name... but I'm not revealing that here.
It's true for this blog too!
Billy Joel concert. Tonight. Yes.
Will he be better than Tom Petty? I dunno. He's a different style, really. He'll probably have more stuff that old people like.
Not to say I don't like his work... I just don't like all of it. I'll bet he'll play a few old favorites... but also alot of new stuff (I think he came up with new stuff). Anyway, here's a list of music of his that I have listened to.
Probably Will Play
Piano Man (If he doesn't play this, he's crazy)
Scenes from an It
Short Story Contest #4 has begun!
I am soooo physced!
First off, one thing I just noticed. The Takua in TOM's drawing isn't accurate to the set... he had blue feet, remember? Oh well, I like this version better.
I already have a great idea cooking up. It's looking to be a great action story with some character developement. I'm thinking it'll include a group of about six Matoran... including Takua, of course. I'll probably pull some of my favorite Matoran characters from my other e
Last night turned out to be a wild night, both in my dorm and on BZP (mostly on BZP...)
Anyway, I'll cover a few points about it all.
Point 1) Nighttime Stroll
I had Chem homework to do last night that's due today. So I went on a midnight stroll down around the nature park at around midnight. I did it once before, and had a great talk with Orion, but it was cloudy last night so I couldn't see him. I'm sure he was having a nice conversation with the clouds about the predicament on ear
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «RIP Kongu.
You now have to look like that forever.
You can bury yourself in the mud now.
Why, what did you think this entry would be about?
You may have noticed I have been quiet on the boards lately. There's a logical reason for that, but it requires some back story.
You know all those topics where you have to say what your post goal is. Most people say something like "I want 1 bazillion posts, LOL, ROTC FTW!" or something along those lines. But I remember once Makaru had a goal that intrigued me... he wanted to get enough posts to match his member number. Anyway, this last month, I've been nearing that goal. So I thought I
Of note... this is 3:30 AM for me, and I've been up since 8:00 AM yesterday (with a few nice naps). Yes, I'm not as bad as Smeag was in his latest entry, but I have been up for a while and my writing's gonna be erratic, so yeah...
Anyway, today's special for a few reasons. #1- at 6:00 AM, straight away, is registration for my next quarter of college courses. Very competitive... especially since most of the classes I've had my eye on have already been filled by people with earlier registrat
