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Saturday, November 6, 2010
A taste of my portfolio
Friday, November 5, 2010
A game craze
The movie and television industries grovel at the feet of the gaming industry, no other media can compare to the combined powers of Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox. These three consoles have changed the way we entertain our selves and how we go about our day. In a world where not only children play video games, but also teens and adults, the gaming industry has struck gold by being able to release more violent, more complex and more expensive games. I remember my very first game console, the Nintendo with those stick your toung out to clean games, that would only work after licking the nodes in the bottom of the cartridge. The nintendo had allot of different games, and only a very few very good ones like Mario. Later I got the Sega Saturn, it worked with Cd's and being the 8 year old destructive kid I was, those Cd's didn't last verylong.
Today I have and Xbox 360, and it owns all the older consoles, I love playing my free time away, late nights, and long hours of continuous game play. With a collection of games I've built up over the last 4 years, there is always something to play, first person shooters, third person shooters, role playing games, strategy games, racing games, fighting, racing and shooting, and the list goes on and on. Favorites like, HALO, Need For Speed, Burn out, Assasin's creed, Tekken, Soul Calibur, and sooo many more games that just captivate you when you get them right through to playing it through the 10th time around. And every time you start it over you learn more and get better and find new achievements, and then you go online, and get your ass kicked, so you stay online till you kick some noobs ass and feel the POWER INSIDE YOU GROOOOW!!! Sorry got a little carried away there...
But playing online has made games become more than just games, they are more like social networks, talking trash, kicking ass, sharing maps, videos and pics, co-op missions and so many more possibilities, your life can fall into darkness, literally, if you don't decide to step out the door every once in a while.
Today, I still have to wait 2 weeks for the next great game I need to have and play, Assassin's creed: Brotherhood. The third game of the expanding series, focusing on Rome during the Renaissance, in the story of an assassin working to destroy the Templar's in Rome. I've played and re-played both the previous games, actually busy with my 3rd run around of the 2nd instalment, and still loving it. I'm kind of trying to time this one so that I can jump into the next game just as I finish this one.
As games get better, graphics get more detailed, TVs get bigger, and player get older, and more and younger players join the ranks, our old consoles still hold a dear place in our heart, as we we're there as it all grew from pong into what we see today. The new generation doesn't know, or care for older consoles as they were spoiled by starting with the brand new consoles, and one day when I have kids old enough to play games at my level, and I pull out an old xbox game like HALO REACH, and I kick their asses, I'll look at the new consoles and think; "That thing is going to give me a heart attack by making me move so much"
I'll stick to my "old" Xbox, with a hand held controller, no jumping around for me.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Car? what car?
Storms are big problems for most countries, powerful winds, pouring water, streets flooding, and after the storm has passed, figuring out how to get from point A to point B, without having to stop for several hours waiting in the middle of a pond while still in your car.
And there is a simple solution to this, a car that can go anywhere, one that can move through the highest waters, can speed over pot holes, and even go right over other cars with out so much of a second thought. What I mean is, a TRUCK.
Like most people who already own a truck, I have a normal stock truck, a Mitsubishi L200. It's strong, slow, slightly raised and angled, diesel turbo, and has gotten me through some very high water. I LOVE MY TRUCK :)
A small step up from the L-200, you get the Toyota Hilux, faster, bolder, and just a bit bigger. This one was featured in Top Gear and was the first truck to ever reach the north pole! Of coarse this one was fitted with several extras to get there, my favorite addition, the side mounted rifle.
The Americans also think they can make a stock standard truck, well they can but they always seem to be a bit overweight? very wide, and very long, the Ford F150 is a bit of a fatty, and isn't set that high either, it can come with a big engine, but does that help you traverse a river?
Here is another Ford, American, fatty, and I don't know if the woman next to the truck is really short, or the truck is really big. Yes this is the Ford F-650, a six door, bus length, monster height, V8, throw your mini van in the trunk kind of monster. This can get your whole family over that shoulder high puddle of raging water.
The Ford not doing it for you? just a little too big, to drive? Well here is your answer, a dodge. This Dodge Ram BFT, think that stands for Big Fucking Truck, six-wheeled V8, power house can get you anywhere you want, nothing can stop you from reaching your destination, more traction than you know what to do with and as big as a house!
All those super trucks are fun and nice, but if you don't feel like spending 80,000 dollars for a new truck, just get that old guy, and raise it!!!! This F150 seems to have gone through a growth spurt and gotten its self some bigger shoes. You'll need a stair case to get into it though.
Deserts are a fun place to go, but you can't be to careful about what you go in, just like these guys. A Pro truck is made for the impossible, gets over anything, never stops, sees all, and fast to. Not for the faint of heart, these things can cross the Sahara, and have fun doing so.
4 wheels? 6 wheels? No, 10 wheels, and a whole lot of steel. don't just transport you family, but you entire neighborhood! Miners got the best trucks, monsters that can flatten a monster truck, and have a house sitting in its trunk, NO JOKE! If ever the world is going to end, wrap your self up in this puppy!
And while your at it, moving your house round, why not throw on some 1000 inch rims, they'll go perfectly with that 5 foot air intake and that 7 foot turbo. No pimp or rapper will mess with you when they see this ride! This truck comes standard with a staircase.
So what ever you drive, unless its a car, your truck can be helpful at the worst of times and can save you family from disaster. So do the right thing, and buy a truck. A BIG ONE!
And there is a simple solution to this, a car that can go anywhere, one that can move through the highest waters, can speed over pot holes, and even go right over other cars with out so much of a second thought. What I mean is, a TRUCK.
So what ever you drive, unless its a car, your truck can be helpful at the worst of times and can save you family from disaster. So do the right thing, and buy a truck. A BIG ONE!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Tomas came by last night
What ever people think when they decide to leave the house, as a tropical storm is passing overhead, baffles me. I mean I do leave the house because I know my truck can handle it, and I won't get stuck in an over sized puddle, waiting for the water to subside. Yet other people driving cars that cant get through 10 inches of water still think they can make it to where ever they want/ need to go, and subsequently get stuck waiting in cars and walking back home. If you won a normal car, don't think you can drive, float , swim your way to anywhere!
The problem we have here is not that the rain is too much, but that the water drainage system is clogged with so much shit that it just fills up right away. And still we stubborn people think we can get home from work.
Your choices are:
1. Stay up all night and wait till morning to go home.
2. Take the risk and most likely get stuck in the rain.
3. Buy a bigger car; a raised truck.
If you can't find a truck to buy that night, refer to option 1 and 2, if you are crazy and don't mind the rain all that much, take #2, and if you are sane and want to spare your car from drowning, your money from being wasted, and your good health from turning into a cold, and keep your self from having to swim home through the streets, take option #1 and sleep on your desk, bar, table, any where the water cant sneak up on you.
I took options 3 and then 2 and got a first hand view of other peoples misery.
Monday, November 1, 2010
The complexity of a guy
I have this "thing" that when I get home I want to open the electric gate from afar so I can drive in without having to stop and wait for the damn thing to open, to do this I put the remote to my head and click. My dear girlfriend always looks at me and wonders why she is with me, as I am weird, even when I try to explain how the human head is a giant amplifier and by putting the remote to the head and using it makes the signal stronger and helps it travel and longer distance. Something I have demonstrated on many occasions to her, once even from a great distance where she said, "what are you doing? the gate is not going to open!". Well, as we got to the 'un-opened gate' SURPRISE!!!!! It was open, and I could drive in with no wait at all. Dumbfounded by what happened I was asked for another explanation... "You know when you put a piece of tin foil around a radio antenna so you can get a better signal? Well, think of the remote as a radio, and my head as the tin foil, but instead of receiving waves, its sending them."
Still thinking I'm strange, crazy, and polluting my head with radio waves, she simply shrugged her shoulders and declared me for insane. Frustrated I just had to show her the I'm not the only person on earth who does this. So I grabbed the PC, went to the video clip showing this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jACSPipPSE and made it clear that I and not crazy!
Being as stubborn as she is, she still does not believe me, and declares the whole thing as stupid... Well now, are we men so technical and so complex that we can understand the working of the remote, as we do the internal working s of an engine, and are women so simple that they do not? No. We men and simply technical in our ways as the internal combustion engine is actually very simple. And women are super complex to the degree that they simply can understand the inner workings of each other and don't bother trying to understand such manly things, even though they make use of it every day.
So guy, don't worry if your significant other thinks your are crazy, strange, weird, odd, stupid, of are giving yourself a brain tumor, just remember; you know how an engine works!
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