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  3. Swert
    He appeared in a Prius. It was a very tense moment as this man drove up to my house.
     
    Our eyes met. I knew this man was a force to be reckoned with. He motioned me to the car. I entered, cautious not to alert this man to any sudden weaknesses I may possess.
     
    We took a journey across my homeland. It was a fierce battle. We went to my workplace. He was impressed with my many talents there. I took on a wild Subway sub sandwich. It was a 6 inch. Italian Herb & Cheese. Roast Beef and Cheddar. It was vanquished.
     
    We then went to a holding cell for financial papers. They call it a bank. I left a piece of paper there. Written on it was my information and an undisclosed amount of money. I had earned my keep.
     
    Along our journey of mystery and wonder, we stumbled upon a shoppe. It appeared to be owned by a man named Meyers. We did not catch the first name. Inside held foods, clothing, gadgets of a foreign nature, and weapons crafted from plastics and foam. There were little totem men for sale, hidden from sight in small orange bags. I purchased three. They were, in order: a painter, a wolf-like man, and a young man who wore a strange hat and rode on a stranged wheeled board. I am unsure what this does.
     
    We pressed on to another shoppe, filled with many wonderous things. It was called Toys Are We, I think. It was rather strange. It would help if I could read. :| We did not buy much, if anything, but we did buy a red container, containing a great warrior, which comes with two tribal masks, one red and one gold. We are unsure what these mean, but they were pretty awesome.
     
    Once we left this shoppe, we stopped to replenish our strength with food from the local shoppes again, and departed. They forgot my straw.
     
    The stranger then informed me his time was drawing near. We stopped near a lake, and explored further before the hour ended. We both knew that it had to come to this. A tense moment was felt as we rushed back into his Prius, and left.
     
    He returned me to my home, and left with no struggle. Except there was one lady behind us who kept honking as we spoke our last words for this day. She was rather annoying.
     
    I do not know if I will meet this mysterious man again, but if we do, I would wish to say this to him...
     
    "Man, Master of the Rahkshi, we need to hang out more often XD"
     
    Fin.
  4. Swert

    L S W 3 And Stuff

    By Swert,

    So, 49.5% on progress for LEGO Star Wars III. I'm making good time on it.
     
    Got sort of lost in the space scenes, but finally found where I was supposed to go to progress the game. After that? Smooth sailings.
     
    Every planet is currently under Republic control. Come this time tomorrow, I hope to make it all Seperatist >: D
     
    Currently I have x2 Multiplier, Stud Magnet, Dark Side, Glow-in-the-dark (don't ask), Minikit Detector, and Red Brick Detector purchased. I have finished all story levels in regular mode, I intend to go back through them shortly (after I get the ground and space battles out of the way.)
     
    Long story short, best 54 bucks I ever spent all month. Also, I got talked into signing up for the GameStop PowerUp Rewards Pro program, so that's 550 points right there for this game, with another 1100 points coming thanks to Portal 2 and LEGO POTC. I'm a happy Swert.
  5. Swert
    Let's see...
     
    $110 phone with Sprint
    $39 MP3 player
    Left 4 Dead 2 for $30
     
    and my biggest scores?
     
    XBox 360 Jasper model with a 150 GB hard drive and new controller: $75
     
    Also, Batman Arkham Asylum for $20 (Brand new copy) and LEGO Batman and Pure (pre-owned twin pack) for $10.
     
    And maybe Halo 3 or ODST tomorrow, pre-owned. Still deciding which. Oh, and I pre-ordered CoD: Black Ops and Portal 2 for 5 bucks each.
     
    And that's just stuff for ME, wow.
  7. Swert

    I Built The Impossible

    By Swert,

    And I won.
     

     
    Though I am not photographed (for obvious reasons, I'm not the owner ) I did 90% of the work on this ferris wheel.
     
    And yes, it's fully motorized. It has 2 XL Motors on it. There is a video on my account on that one video site, just look under swertmastra. I might throw it up on Vimeo so I can embed it here later, haven't decided yet.
  8. Swert

    On The Turning Away

    By Swert,

    On the turning away
    From the pale and downtrodden
    And the words they say
    Which we won't understand
    "Don't accept that what's happening
    Is just a case of others' suffering
    Or you'll find that you're joining in
    The turning away"

    It's a sin that somehow
    Light is changing to shadow
    And casting it's shroud
    Over all we have known
    Unaware how the ranks have grown
    Driven on by a heart of stone
    We could find that we're all alone
    In the dream of the proud
    On the wings of the night
    As the daytime is stirring
    Where the speechless unite
    In a silent accord
    Using words you will find are strange
    And mesmerised as they light the flame
    Feel the new wind of change
    On the wings of the night

    No more turning away
    From the weak and the weary
    No more turning away
    From the coldness inside
    Just a world that we all must share
    It's not enough just to stand and stare
    Is it only a dream that there'll be
    No more turning away?
    On The Turning Away - Pink Floyd

    I listen to this song all the time. It was released in September of 1987. I'm always amazed at how relevant it still is to this day.

    I'm also playing with the idea of making this into a songfic, but I don't know if I could do justice to how awesome this song is.
  10. Swert

    Funny Stuff

    By Swert,

    So, I went to that new password form, figuring to fix my password. I go to fill it out.
     
    "Sorry, incorrect password."
     
    Huh, okay. Take two...
     
    "Sorry, incorrect password."
     
    Take three...
     
    "Sorry, incorrect password."
     
    Take Forty-Two...
     
    "Sorry, incorrect password."
     
    Take One hundred and nine...
     
    "Sorry, incorrect password."
     
    Finally, asked Black Six to help me out. He hooked me up with a password for temporary usage. By this point, I was convinced it was the new password unit anyway. Take nine thousand and one...
     
    "Welcome to BZP."
     
    Seriously. It was that easy. I wish to thank Six for hooking me up with a temp password, and for putting up with my foolish ways, and whatnot. But yeah, first hand experience folks, this system -WORKS.-
    -
  12. Swert

    My Rings Arrived!

    By Swert,

    I am now the proud member of the Blue Lantern Corps, White Lantern Corps, and Indigo Tribe.
     



     



     
    Which side should I join next? I've got 6 to go (Green will be rather tricky to track down, so avoid it for now.)
  14. Swert
    While this entry may be kept open, remember that if a staff member locks an entry, it stays that way unless an administrator opens it back up. You do not have the authority to just unlock an entry, especially when no blog staff member was given any notice or made aware of any exceptions. You also may not edit out a staff member's edit.
     
    Your blog will be available until sometime tonight, so when you are able to use it again next year, if premier perks are again a part of the celebration, do not forget that. -DV
    Obviously not a problem now
    So in continuation of this entry, I've begun stage two of the Grocer project.
     
    I had two choices for the floor. These are 15 studs from front to back, and 11 studs front to back. We chose the 15. After making a floor, I began making the actual design. This is the ending to the project, once I make a shop underneath it. It's being held up by nine 1x4 bricks right now.
     
    After the first was made, I began copy-building them. First, the second (third) floor. Then, the third (fourth) floor. Then the Attic. I forgot to take a photo of the roof, but it's gotta be worked on anyway.
     
    Tomorrow, I have to fix some minor details I missed (but my boss Dan saw them) and so forth. But beyond that? It's almost done.
     
    Now, it's up to YOU! I wish for ideas to build under this new tower. So far, I've decided on either a record store, or my boss has the idea to make a bookstore. So what do you guys think? Or maybe something else altogether? GIVE ME IDEAS D:
     
    Oh, and hooray blags.
  15. Swert
    So, this is more or less an open letter to my friends and people who I talk to all the time: I like Microsoft products.
     
    Don't leave the blog just yet. I'll explain myself.
     
    While growing up, I had many devices in my life. The company did not matter, because they had their plus and minuses across the board. I had VCRs I can't remember the company name of, I have had a few DVD players of similar status, TVs of non-namebrand companies, computers of only the Swert brand (I helped build the family computers, it's only until recent that I didn't; more on that in a moment) and plenty of media players ranging from MP3, CD and even cassette tape (I'm old school 8D).
     
    These days? You have a brand name product. You -have- to. I have chosen the one I prefer to buy from, as you may have done as well. It doesn't bother me you may have bought an Apple device (or been given one as a gift), do you know what really bothers me about them?
     
    You're bragging about it.
     
    Yes, I get my Zune HD doesn't have Angry Birds. This is because all the apps on the Zune are free. FREE. Yours cost $0.99, true, but I can get a similar game for free if someone develops one. And considering the device supports XNA, it's possible for someone to develop one. You don't need to rub it into my face I can't play this game, it doesn't bother me.
     
    And don't think you Google fans can escape this rant blog entry. I use Gmail, I also used to use Google itself. I chose to use Bing instead. I also don't buy into the whole Chromebook theory of cloud computing; I like local storage over cloud storage, especially given how often cloud has gone down for various companies, Microsoft included.
     
    And yes, I will also accept MS "fanboys" need to chill out as well. I'm not talking people worse than me, I will include myself in this. I have a passion for the company, because I felt it very easy to develop for the platforms they put out. On top of that, I love all of my devices from them so far: Xbox 360, Windows 7, Zune HD, Zune Pass, Hotmail, Windows Live, the list can go on. I do, however, accept that I need to be more subtle about my love for the products I buy and use. However, I feel I should mention this to people who know me:
     
    I don't use only Microsoft.
     
    I have a phone, it's from Samsung. Not even WP7. I have a laptop, made by HP. My desktop? Dell. I happily use all of these and many more without problems.
     
    So now I ask this: Why such hatred towards one specific company? I include myself in this rhetorical question. I admit it, I dislike Apple; I don't like their business practices, I think their products are overpriced, and I wouldn't be caught dead playing my music on iTunes, or browsing with Safari on my PCs. I have absolutely no problems with you guys using them, though.
     
    As for Google? Anti-trust lawsuit, anyone?
     
    So, in other words, I dislike the company itself. I never dislike the product they make. I'll admit it, the iPhone is a lovely piece of technology. The screen is sharp, it does its job, it won't lag up when it's in vanilla mode, and so forth. On the other spectrum, Android is a fine OS, so long as you don't modify it from here to the moon and back fifty million times, which incidentially is what the OEMs do. Where do the flaws lie in these two technologies? For one, the hardware on the iPhone is updated once a year, and you're "expected" to keep up or you're a nobody. The Android OS keeps fragmenting itself further with newer and newer user interface changes and updates, plus the hardware is not the same across the board, so stuff tends to break. By the time Android 5.0 comes out, I predict the only ones that will update with it are from this year alone. I'm predicting the 2009-2010 series of phones won't even be able to upgrade, if they can't already to 4.0. At least Apple solved that by keeping the hardware limited, but it's still a lot of hardware.
     
    Yes, I know nobody will even be down here to read this line, so I'll just wrap up with a tl;dr section:
     
    tl;dr: Let's all stop being biased towards one end of the spectrum, and accept each other for them, not their tech. I have a Zune, I want a WP7, friends have iTouches and iPhones, I want a W8 Tablet, they want iPads and maybe Android tablets, let's all just get along anyway.
     
    ... Though as soon as W8 comes out, HS01 Metro app. You know it's gonna happen 8D
  17. Swert

    Elimination Chamber

    By Swert,

    So, I doubt there's any WWE fans who regularly read my blag, but yeah, I wanna comment on the major matches. Spoiler tags for those who did not see it/can't see it.
     

    » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «First Elimination Chamber: That match paid off the $44.95 I paid for this PPV. I was happy. Also CHRISTIAN'S BACK! 
    Miz vs King: King shoulda won. Enough said.
     
    Second Elimination Chamber: John Morrison should have won, he put enough into that match to make me a believer, and Miz vs Morrison at WrestleMania is a much better headliner match than Miz vs Cena.
     
    I definately will be looking forward to WrestleMania 27, despite the main events being what they are.
  18. Swert
    This is my list of games I have dominated and/or completed as of today (March 22nd, 2011). Bold indicates I have 100% completed it. The list also includes PC games I own.
     
    LEGO Star Wars (PC)
    LEGO Star Wars II (PC)
    BIONICLE Heroes (360)
    LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (360)
    LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Saga (360)
    LEGO Batman (360)
    LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 (360) (Also 100% Achievements)
    LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (360) (~20% completed)
    LEGO Pirates of the Carribean (360, preordered) (Will pick up in May)
     
    So yeah, three games, with only one of them 100% achievements, and LSWII for PC doesn't count
     
    I've got a long road ahead of me.
  21. Swert
    Sorry for the delay winners, but I had good reason.
     
    Two weeks ago my boss looked at me and said "I'm sick of these business cards, make me a new one."
     
    So I did. We just got them last week. And I need to coordinate with him when to sign 6 brand new business cards so I can ship them with the winning prizes.
     
    Basically, it's a logistics problem. It may take me another week or two to get it all out the door. But I am doing the best I can.
     
    Thank you.
  22. Swert

    Wasting Light

    By Swert,

    Good album so far, sounds like it'll be an aquired taste going in to it. Couple of songs stand out as favorites already, like Rope and I Should Have Known.
  24. Swert

    Big Changes Coming To Bs01

    By Swert,

    So, I've decided that a redesign of the main page was in order, given we just lost our last one (forgot to back it up, oh well)
     
    I have a preview of the style the new Wiki Nav (not the Main Page Nav) up on the site here: http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/User:Swert/Zunebox
     
    I think I'll share the main page nav once the design is done, but for now I wanna know what everybody thinks.
     
    Other than I'm crazy, that much I knew :B
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