First off, I'd like to wish my blog a happy belated birthday. Because of my best attempts (or maybe despite them), I've been able to somehow keep a year long journal/diary/blog of my life, something I've never done before (the longest before this was a journal I kept for a month). It's been a year full of poor grammar, spelling errors, and crazy talk, but it's been a year.
A friend of mine had me watch her copy of Rent, and I have to say, it's a pretty good musical. From the first song to the last, it's deffinatly worth watching, at least, if you're into musical kind of things (like the Phantom of the Opera or Les Misera). It has a decent story, but the music is fantastic.
Speaking of music, there's a band I recently found, called Apocolyptica. They're known for doing things like playing metalica songs with cellos. I some how got my hands on their newest albumn, and the string insturment stuff in it is to die for. Well, maybe not to die for, but... ya. It's good. The first song is a remake of Enter Sandman, and I swear it's better than the orginal. They do some other songs, (err 23 in this albumn), and another good one is Hall of the Mountain King.Video of hall of the mountain king and a video of their song Path. Please ignore the head banging parts.
The local game store got a new employee. No, it's not me. But he does share similar intrestes as myself. Diabolical schemes are hatching in my mind as I type this... >)
That's about it right now. So ~Night.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Late Again
Well, I know it's been a while since my last post, and I kind of ment to post sooner, but...
I've finished Dune, and the book was excellent. Then I went to see the movie and... well... my eyes still hurt. I didn't like the movie. It lacked the parts from the book I enjoyed (like character development), and replaced them with bad acting. I did pick up the next book in the series, Dune Messiah, and I'll begin reading that when I finish reading Ring World.
Yay!!!!! Just got my flash software last night. My artistic abilites are... well... lacking at best, but I can draw a stick figure and a few boxes. I've started a yahoo group (for the free storage and band width) to post the stuff I make. You can find it here. I'm warning you now, though, that the two files I have right now (a stick figure jumping and two rectangles colliding), aren't too impressive. Hopefully I'll get better when I learn the software better. Still, I'm open to any comments, hints, and critisms.
The first storm of the season hit the area last weekend. Tropical Storm Alberto. Didn't do a lot of damage, but a storm this early in the season isn't a good thing. I'm hoping beyound hope that this season we won't get into the greek alphabet (Hurricane Zeta was the final one last year), but I doubt it. We might even find out what they do after they finish with the greek alphabet this year.
I've been listening to a combination of Evanescence, Nightwish, and Goo Goo Dolls lately. Not the best music combination for me, all things considered.
That's about it for tonight. I'll hopefully post again soon, hopefully when I'm more awake. ~Night
I've finished Dune, and the book was excellent. Then I went to see the movie and... well... my eyes still hurt. I didn't like the movie. It lacked the parts from the book I enjoyed (like character development), and replaced them with bad acting. I did pick up the next book in the series, Dune Messiah, and I'll begin reading that when I finish reading Ring World.
Yay!!!!! Just got my flash software last night. My artistic abilites are... well... lacking at best, but I can draw a stick figure and a few boxes. I've started a yahoo group (for the free storage and band width) to post the stuff I make. You can find it here. I'm warning you now, though, that the two files I have right now (a stick figure jumping and two rectangles colliding), aren't too impressive. Hopefully I'll get better when I learn the software better. Still, I'm open to any comments, hints, and critisms.
The first storm of the season hit the area last weekend. Tropical Storm Alberto. Didn't do a lot of damage, but a storm this early in the season isn't a good thing. I'm hoping beyound hope that this season we won't get into the greek alphabet (Hurricane Zeta was the final one last year), but I doubt it. We might even find out what they do after they finish with the greek alphabet this year.
I've been listening to a combination of Evanescence, Nightwish, and Goo Goo Dolls lately. Not the best music combination for me, all things considered.
That's about it for tonight. I'll hopefully post again soon, hopefully when I'm more awake. ~Night
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Video Game Legislation
I try to keep my own personal views about politics out of this blog, at least, I think I do, but now, well... I am sick and tired of politicians trying to tell me that video game violence is harmfull. I have played video games for the bulk of my life. including numerous violent ones. I know numerous people who have also played violent games for the bulk of their lives, yet not one of them is a maniac. Not one of them is a psychopathic killer out to rape and plunder the world. Almost all of them are mild mannered... at least, while not plaing the drug of choice. Yet legislators, people who have no history with video games, people who have fealonies against their names, try to tell me that that their five minute study means something more than twenty years of observation? And that, these ethical people with such fealonies, try to tell me what is good and righteous? My response is to hell with them. The only negative impact interactive entertainment has on normal people is the area of social well being, and that impact is the same for people who read too much, or people who watch too many movies. Nay, the movies are worse because at least the books and the games inspire the mind to action. To the politicians, I say keep your noses out of my hobbies and get back to figuring out new ways to rob the people blind. Or better yet, just leave office. We, the people, like having pay checks. At least, most of us do.
Ya... that was a long rant.
Anyway, I wrote up my schedule for my classes in the fall semester. I'll be taking largely morning classes, with the exception of my World Lit class, which will be a night class. I'll be taking World Lit, Calc 3, Intercultural Humanaties, and Europian History 1. My work schedule will become hectic because of that schedule, but since my father will have the station opened by then, maybe I'll be able to pick up some night hours there. Or maybe some weekend hours. Otherwise, I'll be looking at about 15 hours a week for work.
Speaking of work, I had my performance review. It was pretty good review, at least, I think it was. The only place I could use improvement was Job Knowledage, and considering the ever changing field of computers, the fact I'm an intern, and the fact that my manager got the same place marked off on his review, I'm not going to worry about it. Ok, I will, but not too much. I would have gotten the Exceeds Expectations mark for interpersonal skills (something the HR manager said she gives only to about 3 or 4 % of people) if I knocked more often on my manager's door before entering his office. I tend to enter his office a lot, and sometimes while he's on the phone. 99% of the time it's ok, but there is always that one percent. Still, I usually knock on his door when he closes it.
.Been taking care of the mail and scanning for the mail girl. She's on some sort of summer vacation/retreat thing for the week. I don't really enjoy her job, probably due to the fact it's more of a clerical/orginizational routine. I am not an orginized person. I enjoy recieving numerous different challanges. I enjoy doing different things all the time. I enjoy creating. I enjoy those type of things. I find a steady job with no unknowns monotonus. Of course, I would despise a job that had all unknowns, where the field was completely reinventing itself, where the standards changed on a daily basis. The two things I like about my jon is that I rarely do the same job twice in one week, and that since it's largely tech help, I deal with people. Both of those things do have their respective downsides, but they're much better than other options.
That's waaaay too much talk about my job...
Last Saturday, my sisters left for their three week stay in Germany. It's part of a forien exchange program thing. If one were to recall, I believe I mentioned having the exchange students at our house back in October. Now, it's my sisters' turn to be over there. With out them here, the house has become unnaturally quiet. It now feels desloate, devoid of life. Kind of lonely with out them here. Still, I'm going to need to get use to it.
Since I've been reading Sci-fi a lot, its kind of reminded me of one of my favorite games. It's the only shareware software that I felt storngly enough to purchase. I like it for two reasons. The first is the openess of the game. You can do almost anything in the game, including conquoring star sytems. The second is that there is 6 different story lines in the game. Six. And each time through you can only do one. Replayability is the best thing this game offers. The game is Escape Velocity: Nova. You can find it here. And before you tell me it's like Freelancer, well, this game (and its predecessors) came out waaay before that crappy knock off did, they have a better story line, and it doesn't have some obtrusive "level requirment" thing about it. If it wasn't for the fact that I switched computers three years ago, I'd still have the orginal, paid version (they won't send me another code for the game because I switched emails... stupid Austrialian company). Still, it's agood game to look into. I'd recommend giving it a try. All things considered, I'm still half tempted to purchase it again...
Anyway, I think I've wasted enough of your time tonight. ~Night.
Ya... that was a long rant.
Anyway, I wrote up my schedule for my classes in the fall semester. I'll be taking largely morning classes, with the exception of my World Lit class, which will be a night class. I'll be taking World Lit, Calc 3, Intercultural Humanaties, and Europian History 1. My work schedule will become hectic because of that schedule, but since my father will have the station opened by then, maybe I'll be able to pick up some night hours there. Or maybe some weekend hours. Otherwise, I'll be looking at about 15 hours a week for work.
Speaking of work, I had my performance review. It was pretty good review, at least, I think it was. The only place I could use improvement was Job Knowledage, and considering the ever changing field of computers, the fact I'm an intern, and the fact that my manager got the same place marked off on his review, I'm not going to worry about it. Ok, I will, but not too much. I would have gotten the Exceeds Expectations mark for interpersonal skills (something the HR manager said she gives only to about 3 or 4 % of people) if I knocked more often on my manager's door before entering his office. I tend to enter his office a lot, and sometimes while he's on the phone. 99% of the time it's ok, but there is always that one percent. Still, I usually knock on his door when he closes it.
.Been taking care of the mail and scanning for the mail girl. She's on some sort of summer vacation/retreat thing for the week. I don't really enjoy her job, probably due to the fact it's more of a clerical/orginizational routine. I am not an orginized person. I enjoy recieving numerous different challanges. I enjoy doing different things all the time. I enjoy creating. I enjoy those type of things. I find a steady job with no unknowns monotonus. Of course, I would despise a job that had all unknowns, where the field was completely reinventing itself, where the standards changed on a daily basis. The two things I like about my jon is that I rarely do the same job twice in one week, and that since it's largely tech help, I deal with people. Both of those things do have their respective downsides, but they're much better than other options.
That's waaaay too much talk about my job...
Last Saturday, my sisters left for their three week stay in Germany. It's part of a forien exchange program thing. If one were to recall, I believe I mentioned having the exchange students at our house back in October. Now, it's my sisters' turn to be over there. With out them here, the house has become unnaturally quiet. It now feels desloate, devoid of life. Kind of lonely with out them here. Still, I'm going to need to get use to it.
Since I've been reading Sci-fi a lot, its kind of reminded me of one of my favorite games. It's the only shareware software that I felt storngly enough to purchase. I like it for two reasons. The first is the openess of the game. You can do almost anything in the game, including conquoring star sytems. The second is that there is 6 different story lines in the game. Six. And each time through you can only do one. Replayability is the best thing this game offers. The game is Escape Velocity: Nova. You can find it here. And before you tell me it's like Freelancer, well, this game (and its predecessors) came out waaay before that crappy knock off did, they have a better story line, and it doesn't have some obtrusive "level requirment" thing about it. If it wasn't for the fact that I switched computers three years ago, I'd still have the orginal, paid version (they won't send me another code for the game because I switched emails... stupid Austrialian company). Still, it's agood game to look into. I'd recommend giving it a try. All things considered, I'm still half tempted to purchase it again...
Anyway, I think I've wasted enough of your time tonight. ~Night.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Lunar Sanctum
White font tonight. Haven't done that in a while...
No flash software for me, at least, not on this pay check. Apparntly a 30% increase in hours work doesn't translate into a 30% increase of pay. Instead, it translates into an 8% increase. Stupid non-linear income tax. Of course, if we had a linear tax rate, it'd be unfair to the people who work the minimal... stupid tax people who make me angry.
Been reading a lot. I love reading. Too bad I don't get enough time to do it while school is in session. But back when I was in middle school and high school, I read volumes. Where most people have storage bins for tubs or nick nacks, I have them filled with books I've read. And I'm not willing to part with any. One day I'd like to have a library filled with the books I've read, so that if I ever have a family (I'd rather use the word when, but I don't get out much), they can read what I enjoyed reading. They can enjoy the works of Poe, Lovecraft, Stoker, Wells, Bradbury, Orwell, Tolkein, and countless other authors whose names escape me. I don't know if they'd like the fact that the bulk of it is Sci-Fi and Fantasy, with some other stuff thrown in, but that's what I read.
Currently, I'm reading Sarah Ash's Lord of Snow and Shadow. It's a pretty good fantasy book. I'm only half way through it, though. Still have another 250 pages to go. After I finish, it'll be on to Dune. Then I might try Ringworld. Or maybe that new Shadowrunner novel that came out.
The first horror game for the Wii has been announced. It goes by the name Saddness (yes, I know they announced it back durring E3, but I didn't hear about it until today). The developing company is stationed in east Europe, so it'll be intresting. The game takes place during the pre-WWI era, but after the creation of the Cinema. They're doing the entire thing in black and white to capture the feel of Cinema. I'm hoping they decide to do the conversations in all text, too, since I really dislike voice overs in my games (at least, in most of my games, or at least, the japanesse to english one). As far as I know, no footage of the game has been released. When it does, I'll post a linky. It'll probably be an OK game, but a horror using the Wii's controller... =)
Through out the time inbetween posts on this blog, I think of a thousand tings to say, to write, to type. Yet when I sit down in my chair, and go over to write it all out, to free the thoughts from my head, they escape me. Instead of going into my computer, instead of making the keys clank and the screen come alive with text, they flee like beasts to the back of mind, entering solitude and lurking until after I post, after I've seattled down for the night. Then, while I lay staring at the cieling, they over take me, pounce upon me, and leave me brooding on what I wanted to say. And when I sit back to my desk, and illuminate my world with the monitor, they flee from the light, fearfull of what it could do, and thus repeating the whole process again.
To summerize the last paragraph of text, I don't sleep well because I'm too busy thinking.
As to the crack in my windshield, you know, the one that started at the same time the alternator went bye bye, it's gotten bigger. And guess which state in the union has a law against driving with a cracked windshield? Ya. So I know where my next paycheck is going. And it's not to software.
I guess the reason why I write about my car so often is that I'm in it... a lot. I mean, I probably spend about two or three hours in it every day. Which comes to about 21 hours a week. Which means I have a part time job of just commuting. And yet, I kind of enjoy driving. Not really the driving itself, but the whole being able to think, listen to music, and have something to provide enough of a distraction to not make me antsy, while not enough of a distraction to stop me from thinking, kind of thing. That's what I like about driving. It gives me an area to let my thoughts wander. Of course, since there's a giant crack in my windshield, my thought wander to how I'm going to pay for it. But otherwise, I think about life. And when I get very down, I tend to drive until in a direction until I can brood my self to a better mood. I've once driven 60 miles, one way, to clear my mind. To get out of my house. To get away from everything. I also once spent the night in my truck, but that was because my parents threatend to Baker Act me. But that was waaay back in high school.
I really don't want to leave off on that note, because now I look like one of those crazy people. And, I might be kind of crazy, but I'm not crazy crazy. I'm not a threat to anyone, including myself. And yes, I know what you're thinking, who am I trying to convince, you or me? And I'm not going to answer that thought.
On a happier note, this blog is almost one year old. One year of my ramblings,one year of the stuff that's happened in my life. One year of everything. And one year of people reading about my life, giving it some sort of meaning. When the 29th comes, I'll write up some sort of one year spiel. Anyway, I do need to go to work tomorrow morning, so ~night!
No flash software for me, at least, not on this pay check. Apparntly a 30% increase in hours work doesn't translate into a 30% increase of pay. Instead, it translates into an 8% increase. Stupid non-linear income tax. Of course, if we had a linear tax rate, it'd be unfair to the people who work the minimal... stupid tax people who make me angry.
Been reading a lot. I love reading. Too bad I don't get enough time to do it while school is in session. But back when I was in middle school and high school, I read volumes. Where most people have storage bins for tubs or nick nacks, I have them filled with books I've read. And I'm not willing to part with any. One day I'd like to have a library filled with the books I've read, so that if I ever have a family (I'd rather use the word when, but I don't get out much), they can read what I enjoyed reading. They can enjoy the works of Poe, Lovecraft, Stoker, Wells, Bradbury, Orwell, Tolkein, and countless other authors whose names escape me. I don't know if they'd like the fact that the bulk of it is Sci-Fi and Fantasy, with some other stuff thrown in, but that's what I read.
Currently, I'm reading Sarah Ash's Lord of Snow and Shadow. It's a pretty good fantasy book. I'm only half way through it, though. Still have another 250 pages to go. After I finish, it'll be on to Dune. Then I might try Ringworld. Or maybe that new Shadowrunner novel that came out.
The first horror game for the Wii has been announced. It goes by the name Saddness (yes, I know they announced it back durring E3, but I didn't hear about it until today). The developing company is stationed in east Europe, so it'll be intresting. The game takes place during the pre-WWI era, but after the creation of the Cinema. They're doing the entire thing in black and white to capture the feel of Cinema. I'm hoping they decide to do the conversations in all text, too, since I really dislike voice overs in my games (at least, in most of my games, or at least, the japanesse to english one). As far as I know, no footage of the game has been released. When it does, I'll post a linky. It'll probably be an OK game, but a horror using the Wii's controller... =)
Through out the time inbetween posts on this blog, I think of a thousand tings to say, to write, to type. Yet when I sit down in my chair, and go over to write it all out, to free the thoughts from my head, they escape me. Instead of going into my computer, instead of making the keys clank and the screen come alive with text, they flee like beasts to the back of mind, entering solitude and lurking until after I post, after I've seattled down for the night. Then, while I lay staring at the cieling, they over take me, pounce upon me, and leave me brooding on what I wanted to say. And when I sit back to my desk, and illuminate my world with the monitor, they flee from the light, fearfull of what it could do, and thus repeating the whole process again.
To summerize the last paragraph of text, I don't sleep well because I'm too busy thinking.
As to the crack in my windshield, you know, the one that started at the same time the alternator went bye bye, it's gotten bigger. And guess which state in the union has a law against driving with a cracked windshield? Ya. So I know where my next paycheck is going. And it's not to software.
I guess the reason why I write about my car so often is that I'm in it... a lot. I mean, I probably spend about two or three hours in it every day. Which comes to about 21 hours a week. Which means I have a part time job of just commuting. And yet, I kind of enjoy driving. Not really the driving itself, but the whole being able to think, listen to music, and have something to provide enough of a distraction to not make me antsy, while not enough of a distraction to stop me from thinking, kind of thing. That's what I like about driving. It gives me an area to let my thoughts wander. Of course, since there's a giant crack in my windshield, my thought wander to how I'm going to pay for it. But otherwise, I think about life. And when I get very down, I tend to drive until in a direction until I can brood my self to a better mood. I've once driven 60 miles, one way, to clear my mind. To get out of my house. To get away from everything. I also once spent the night in my truck, but that was because my parents threatend to Baker Act me. But that was waaay back in high school.
I really don't want to leave off on that note, because now I look like one of those crazy people. And, I might be kind of crazy, but I'm not crazy crazy. I'm not a threat to anyone, including myself. And yes, I know what you're thinking, who am I trying to convince, you or me? And I'm not going to answer that thought.
On a happier note, this blog is almost one year old. One year of my ramblings,one year of the stuff that's happened in my life. One year of everything. And one year of people reading about my life, giving it some sort of meaning. When the 29th comes, I'll write up some sort of one year spiel. Anyway, I do need to go to work tomorrow morning, so ~night!
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