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» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «The return of Shadow Moses is awesome. Though navigating it threw me off course since it has been ages since playing MGS.
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So I got MGS4 today right after work. Didn't bother preordering this one since I got good hookups at Gamestop. While picking up the Limited Edition copy, I also bought the PS3, since I didn't have it yet. And so far in playing the game, I enjoy it. Music is great too.
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The national average price for gas is now 4 bucks for Regular. Hurray for raised prices in everything.
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Steven Moffat is a genius. For those who don’t know who he is, he’s the guy who wrote Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who. He also wrote The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace and Blink. Not only that, he’s taking over as Executive Director in 2010! Goodbye Russell T. Davies! I won’t miss you. If you haven’t seen Saturday’s episode, STOP READING NOW! SPOILERS! So many questions, so many mysteries. Unlike Blink, it isn’t the suspense that keeps me interested – it’s the feeling of “I have no idea what is going on here”. Let’s locate a few of these mysteries, shall we? The Doctor and Donna arrive in the biggest library in the universe. It’s deserted, but filled with carnivorous shadows. Why are the shadows there? The Doctor received a note on his psychic paper from River Song - someone he apparently met in his future – before that person arrives! How does that person know the Doctor’s help is needed? Also, who calls a person River Song? Strackman Lux – the man who’s family built or own the library. ‘Lux’ means ‘dark’. Coincidence? Everyone has been saved, but there are no survivors. How is this possible? The Data Ghosts and the Nodes seem inconspicuous and harmless, but I have my suspicions. Particularly about the Nodes. What is CAL? Who is the little girl? How can she see the library through security cameras, her TV, hear the phone ring from the library and fling books around with a remote from her own living room? Who is Doctor Moon? Notice his name is Moon, which appears at night. It’s dark at night, isn’t it? Coincidence? Her world is not real, apparently. Then, is she real? Is her dad or Doctor Moon real? All this in one episode! Staggering. Now, I believe I can answer a couple of the simpler ones. Saved. This doesn’t just mean rescued. Ever saved data on your computer? That’s what I believe it means – saved to the system. That’s how the Node could access Donna’s face, because her data is on the system. The little girl. Maybe she is CAL? The human brain is supposedly more powerful than the most powerful super computer. I have one or two theories that go further, but nothing I’m certain about. And that’s all I can answer. The rest is a mystery to me. Well done Steven Moffat! I honestly cannot wait for next week’s episode! Unfortunately that is followed by FOUR episodes written by Russell T. Davies. Ugh. After so many good episodes, I guess something has to drag the series down to its usual abysmal standard.
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Yes! This is the 42nd entry in my blog! As most people know, 42 is a very special number. It is the answer to life, the universe and everything! Admittedly both the question and answer have been placed in dispute, but that's hardly the point now is it? Nothing much more to say here.
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More to come if I can find more images.
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Life, Death And Small Bits Of Green Moondust
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Rejoice, for the title is roughly 1/3rd related to this blog entry! As to which third, I'll give you a clue: it's not the second or third parts. Yeah. Another entry about life. I was planning to post another semi-essay-type thing on Bionicle and which years I thought were good/bad and why etc. but I really can't be bothered. Sound lazy? Well, maybe it is. I've never claimed that I'm not lazy. But I'd argue that it has more to do with it being sweltetingly hot and me having a cold. Bad combination if ever there was one. Might skip Scouts tonight. The idea of charging round a field after people is not a pleasant thought right now. This period of time is my break between Coursework and exams. I should be revising - and I fully intend to - but then, I fully intend to every year. Really need to for some of my exams though. But what is happening? Yes, brain. Tell me! Well, yeste - no, not yesterday. A few days ago I ordered two books about vampires, Bionicle Legends 9 and a USB Stick from Amazon. It was shipped yesterday. That's why I thought of yesterday. I'm hoping that will arrive soon. After exams, which last exactly a month (start May 19th end June 19th) I have much to look forward to. June 27th they FINALLY release Brawl over here! Like I haven't waited long enough! So that will no doubt be the beginning of an addiction. Then, on July 5th, IRON MAIDEN! LIVE! I still can't believe I'm actually seeing them! It's gonna be so awesome!!! I'm also supposed to be going on two - no, three - holidays. One's a week-long camping trip at the end of July which has yet to be organised (grrr). The second is a Scout Camp from the 4th-8th August at a local Scout activity place-type thingy which is mostly fields but with cool stuff like an assault course as well, which should be fun. Then on the 24th-28th August I'm supposed to be going to London with some friends! Hooray! There's also a chance a friend of mine who lives near London will be coming to visit. I really hope so. Haven't seen her since last February. Now, that's the good stuff which I'm hoping will keep me sane during the exam period. The thought of Brawl or IRON MAIDEN on their own should be enough for that! Together with everything else...the exams would have to be REALLY bad. Now, back to being ill. Bye! -
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*ahem* Please forgive the overexcitedness of the title. It's just that I'M GOING TO SEE IRON MAIDEN!!! Tickets are BOOKED! Transport is BOOKED! And I'm £300 down! No, £220. One person has actually paid me. But...YAY!
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I have just had the most pointless day at college ever. First of all, second and third lessons were cancelled. This is great! I have first free anyway, so free morning! Just double computing in the afternoon. So I have a nice lie in, trundle into college about midday, hang around during lunch and then go to my lesson which I've come in specially for. So isn't it just typical that my teacher decides not to show up!? She is really starting to get on my nerves. Over the last year she's been - well, I say helping - us do our coursework. We had two pieces, each supposed to take an entire year. I think I've explained about them before. So, she gives us some guidance with the first. Or at least, shows us some stuff from the exam board. That really was the extent of her input. The rest of the time she spent asking whether we've done it and setting deadlines. Helpful. This is only for the first coursework. She barely gives us anything for the second, then expects us to get on with it. Having recieved nothing about it for months, we then come back after the Easter holidays and find she expects us to hand it in! What!? Eventually we manage to find some stuff and I have two days to get the piece done. It's about 100 pages, so you can see it won't take long... Now she decides she can't even be bothered to turn up to her own lessons, despite that being what she's paid to do. If WE don't turn up, teachers get in a big stress about it, but apparently it's perfectly fine for them not to do their job and skip lessons. In short: I am annoyed.
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Looking back at the calendar, I haven't been updating or writing much lately. Things have been a bit hectic at work, with a release going out to customers this past weekend. I'm well into my next set of projects, and am getting caught up a bit, so I'm mentally exhausted as well as physically these days when I get home (working out is tough...but it's gotten a bit easier thanks to having some music to listen to rather than nothing). Couple of updates though since I have a chance. One is that I'm in a volleyball league at a local establishment. Co-ed, every Tuesday evening. It's not too much physical activity, and will hopefully help me continue to adjust to being in social situations (getting out of the "gaming mindset" has been interesting, that's for sure). Hopefully I'll have good things to report from that as it goes on. In other news, picked up Mario Kart for the Wii. Initially plugged in the wheel just to try it out, fully intent on switching over to the Wavebird once the novelty wore off. Well it hasn't yet, and I've gotten pretty good at steering. It's more intuitive than I thought, and I've found myself enjoying actually being able to will the kart to turn my moving my body. It also helps you can unlock yourself as a racer. Though after four months of working out I'm a bit disappointed that my virtual self has been designated as a "heavyweight". He's surprisingly good though. Look for my MKWii code to be added in the "Vital Links" tab sometime in the next day or so. That's about it from me for now. Hopefully I'll have some good stories to tell once volleyball starts up.
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A buddy of mine invited me to go "Geocaching" with him this weekend. The idea is that you can go online and download coordinates of various caches to a GPS. Then you can drive to some place that's public property (such as a park) and start searching for it. It's government sponsored, and is incredibly popular apparently. Of the 8 he had loaded up for the day, we were able to find 5 (3 of which I spotted thank you very much!). When you find them, you open them up and look at the various trinkets people have put in them. Each one also has a log you can sign before putting it back for the next person. Looking at the logs, there were some caches that were as old as 3 years, which is amazing considering some of the places they've been hidden. I'm slowly trying to get back into shape, so for me the idea of a 4 hour, 7-mile hike was rather daunting. Though my feet were burned out and are STILL sore today, it was a lot of mine. The weather's been beautiful the past few days, which made the hike enjoyable. Saw a few swans hanging out in a lake...but the coolest part was the bald eagle we spotted perched on a log. We were able to get a good look, and I think my friend got a picture. But the coolest part was when it spread its wings and flew over us so we could get a good look at it. I dunno if it's something I could get into on my own, but as a way of just hanging out with people and checking out what nature has to offer...it's a great experience. And the coolest thing is, there are caches hidden all over. Over our 7-mile hike, we never got more than a few miles from a major road or house...yet were in the middle of the woods the hole time! If you ever get a chance, give it a shot. You'll be surprised how interesting it can be just spending some time out in nature.
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No, not really, but it's fun to think that. Some people may have noticed the complete lack of kit updates, blog entries and other such stuff-type stuffs. There are most certainly reasons. Those reasons are primarily coursework. For anyone who doesn't know what that is (anyone?), it's a very large and nasty piece of work that usually gets set near the beginning of the year and you have to go off and do it. Sure, you get lesson time for it, but a lot has to be done at home. Some subjects, like Philosophy, have extended essays that you must then reproduce under exam conditions with 1000 words of notes having painstakingly perfected and polished it to perfection. Others, like science, require you to do a practical investigation into something and do a write-up. Well, I think it does. I've stayed as far away from science as I can, so who knows? This year I have had philosophy, english and two pieces of computing to do. The Philosophy had the earliest deadline and, being an essay in exam conditions, wasn't really negotiable. That took a lot of my time up before the Easter Holidays. English was supposed to be in before the holidays, but I handed it in on Friday. Then there's Computing. Two projects because the exam board gave us all U grades last year for our coursework, so we're having to redo it. Two pieces which are meant to take a year each...in one year. FUN! Except it's even worse! Given as we have close to no guidence on the second one and very little on the first, it has proven...difficult. Final deadline is tommorow...no, wait, today. I started the first one ages ago, but didn't make a proper attempt, really, until Thursday. I think I'd made my database by then, but the write-up left much to be desired... I finished that on Friday. I didn't start the second piece until yesterday...I mean Saturday. Half a year to do a year's work in? Nope! How about two days? But guess what? I DID IT! Somehow I managed to complete all that in TWO DAYS! It's printing out right now and I'm feeling very pleased with myself. Inbetween feeling utterly exhausted because I've been working solidly for four days and it's four in the morning. A lot of fours, aren't there? Strange... So, yes. COURSEWORK IS COMPLETE AT LAST! Now I just have exams in May to worry about then Uni to... *sigh* It doesn't get any better, does it? *snore*
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...are always awkward.
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I've been thinking of getting an iPod or some MP3 player so I can have some music to listen to while working out. Any suggestions or tips I should keep in mind when looking for something?
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I was worried for a few days that all the Vice Katz had fled amidst the chaos of Maj. But thankfully they're all back now. And before Maj explodes again from the awesomeness of my new feline army, let me introduce them all.General: Harris & Duftmon (Leopard Mode)Gaming: Bertrum & BanchyoLeomonBionicle: Jonesy & AncientSphinxmonInuva: Trixie & BastemonApollomon's Blog: Wilson & BaihumonFiction: Bucky & SaberLeomonCreations: Mac & MihiramonThe new arrangement is great. I haven't seen a mouse in days, not to mention the slowly declining insect population. Now if only I could train them to stop using their newly aquired powers to harass the neighborhood dogs.
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Here it is, the 3rd day of April and majhost.com continues to suffer some sort of mysteriously non-foolish shutdown. How am I supposed to share pictures of my new cat army with the masses? I tells ya, there's nothing that ruins a good April Foolin' like your entire collection of images going down for the week. I oughta go over to Maj and give them a piece of my- Ooooh is that a ball of yarn! *runs off*
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I went to a Twins game, and on the way out they were handing out free cans of Full Throttle. It's an energy drink I guess. So tonight, having run short on pop I grabbed it out of the fridge. I'm drinking it right now, and I can tell from the taste that it's pure sugar plus some caffine. Mostly because I'm vibrating in my chair at the moment. Excuse me for a second, I'm about to phase through my keyboard... ... Okay, it was probably a bad idea to drink one of these at this hour. I have a feeling by midnight I'm going to be reduced to a heap on the couch. It's tasty, but I dunno if these things are for me.
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I don't know what VGM was so worried about. Yeah all my pals from college are mostly still an hour away on campus. But that doesn't mean I don't know how to have a good time. And yeah, I may have been eyeing the litterboxes...but what's wrong with having one or two cats? Or eight? And I haven't given them names, that'd just be crazy. I did however make sure to assign each of them a formal Digimon partner and functioning Digivice. After all, if you're going to have an army of cats you'd might as well do it right. Right? Sure, I'm going to have to adjust to the smell of litterboxes...and I never know when their pal Ceiling Cat may pop in to survey the surroundings, but otherwise I look forward to my new feline friends. But, of course, all these pets means I'll have less time for the Blue Vice. VGM will likely get his pink slip by the end of the day tomorrow. I'm expecting my new help to show up around the offices by then. It'd awkward to have the old hand still loafing around. Oops...I gotta go, Harris (the delightful siamese watching over the General section) just hocked a hairball. Hmm, and Trixie (that smiling cat guarding the Inuva section) has now gotten into the catnip. Okay, so the transition will make for a shaky April. But I'm no fool, in the long run I'll wonder what I ever saw in a bunch of humans.
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As you may have seen, I left. To those who thought I left for personal, emotional reasons, well, you are -dead- wrong. I was at AnimeBoston 2008. Silly members. Coverage will come later. -Omi
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I'm watching Fox Sports North, in hopes of catching a glimpse of some Wild hockey before I go to bed. The Wolves game hadn't finished yet, just unde a minute to go. That minute took four. I kid you not. Furthermore, there was 0.0 on the game clock and the ref called a timeout because nobody touched the ball to officially end the game. And they took a commerical break. They took a commercial break with 0.0 left on the clock! I just died a little inside, as I think I've discovered the 2nd sign of the apocalypse. The other having been spotted earlier this year. To make a long story short, I wouldn't worry to much about your New Years resolution.
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I'm leaving. Bye. -Omi
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! And on that mildly melodramatic note, may I take this opportunity to state how much I detest organising? Or maybe I'm just really bad at it, which makes me more prone to disliking it. Or maybe disliking it makes me worse at it. Or maybe I'm digging myself unnecessarily into two interconnecting infinite loops. Infact, who knows? Who even cares? Is it related to me typing every sentance on a new line? I sleep now. *snore*
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Had a dental appointment today. While I was sitting there, I had a few random thoughts. Most of the time I carry on a random conversation with the hygenist as they clean my teeth, floss, and other assorted things. But usually I just stare straight up at the ceiling. I've always wondered what would happen if instead of picking a spot up on top...I just stare straight back at them. You know, right in the eyes. The whole time. I wonder how long it would take before they snapped? While I was thinking this, I happened to also notice that it took maybe 20-30 minutes to do the cleaning, gum check, flossing, etc. The whole time they asked me about my job, vacations, school, the typical banter. Then the actual dentist arrived (the guy with the ph.D). He said hey, asked how things were, tapped my teeth and checked my bite. He didn't say a word to the hygenist. This went for about 5 minutes, at which point he left. And I was done. So of the two, who just did more work? Is there something else dentist's do I'm not aware of? Can they like fly? I just thought it was funny the big money maker in the place stopped by for five minutes and was gone while the assistant stuck around the whole time.Not much, but a few fun observations. It helps me keep my sanity.
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What is the Loli Rush No Densetsu? The Loli Rush No Densetsu! is a group of elite warriors dedicated to the protection and spread of Lolis everywhere! Alright, well what's a Loli? Loli is a shortened term for Lolita. A Lolita is generally a cute little girl between the ages of four to fourteen. They tend to look cute, act cute, and be cute all around. Ok, so why should I care? Beneath all of us is a small child. No matter how jaded, unhappy, moody, overworked, or grown-up, Loli Rush b rings out that little girl in a cute dress inside all of us, gazing with childlike wonder and happiness at the world, begging for lolipops and treats, curious and carefree. Alright, I'm interested in joining, who do I contact? You'll want to get ahead and get ahold of my good friend and co-founder of Loli Rush No Densetsu Wrack 'n' Ruin. After she clears you, she then gives me the call that puts you on the members list. Not that hard really. Not convinced that the Loli Rush No Densetsu is for you? Then maybe some pictures will change your mind. Moe Tan More Motan Moetan Figurine Moetan Avatar Yutaka Yutaka in a rain coat Animated Yutaka! -Gato- Wrack 'n' Ruin
