The glories of technology

So, I picked an S-video cable to connect my lappy to the tv so I can watch movies and whatnot up there. BUT then I figured out that I don't have to just choose which screen I'm watching on, I can use both! There's a little check box in the display properties asking if I want to use the second monitor as an extension of my desktop. So of course I said yes and now, if I drag the mouse off the left edge of the Lappy screen, it shows up on the tv! I know this old hat to some people out there but it is pure magic to me. So I can watch downloaded anime and blog at the same time! It's no flying car, but the future is still pretty cool

People sell the craziest things

So, check this out. VOLTRON SHOES! and not like some crappy tennis shoe with a sticker on it, these are some fancy Reeboks. I would totally wear the yellow and blue set.
Also, check out wearefishermen.com. I think this has to be a parody site right? Like no real Christian is going to have a begging jesus statue, even though I think it kicks ass.

For every delicious buritto there's a horrible crap

So, the inevitable happened. Fox canceled Drive. I should be more upset and surprised, but this is FOX we're talking about. They've canceled so many awesome shows, heck they canceled Family Guy twice already, but I thought it'd get more than 3 episodes. After all, they must have had car companies throwing money at them for product placement, so they could have given it a bit more time, then do a big marathon some day like what was done with LOST to let people who heard about through word of mouth to catch up. Stupid Fox...

But yay Astronomers! Now we've got a place to go! It's got a 13 day year, it's a little bigger than earth and it's only 20 light years away. I'm gonna start packing my bags right now

There's life in Seki

So, as many of you know I am intrigued by boobies the game of Go. And since I live in North America I figured I'd go ahead and learn the AGA rule set, but it took me a while to figure out if a passing stone is considered a prisoner (it is) and then a little longer to realize that this doesn't matter at all since they score using area counting and prisoners don't count.

But, all of that is really just to say where I was going when I stumbled onto some ancient Go lore, specifically, the 4 day long game where ghosts told one player 3 moves that led him to victory, and right after the game, the other other player vomited blood on the board and died two months later. 3000 year old games have some cool history

Eleven!

Today, right now, it is 11 degrees out! Glee!!!

Gander

Did I not make a post about Gander? Me and Danielle went there for Easter cause her parents live there and man oh man, let me tell you Newfies know how to make chowder! I could probably eat it 'til I died from too much awesomeness.
And Gander is just like Ormoncto which makes me think that military bases all have that same town springing up next to them

Been a while...

So, Kurt Vonnegut passed away... It shook me up a bit cause he's someone that I always wanted to meet. Like, of his generation, the people who went through the War and were alive before TV, he was probably the only person I'd be able to relate to and to be able to just hang out and talk with. But he won't really be gone to me until I read all his books, so I'll keep working at that.
My birthday is coming up and i just sent a massive list of wants to my mom. This way I really have no idea what I'm gonna get, but I know that what I do get will rock. Also, it turns out that I want a lot of stuff. Who knew?

Oh and I got a plant from the Dominion, which is the super store for newfies. His name is Jim and while not a kitten, he'll do for the short term

A fateless destiny

So tonight while talking with Danielle something got said (I can't remember what, and it's not that pertinent to the narrative) and Daneille said something like, "Don't say that, cause then it's out in the universe and it'll happen now", and I laughed at her for being silly. Then that sort of turned into a talk about superstition and fate and how we disagree on these things, she believes in them but I don't. Anyway, this isn't really a post on my distaste of religion or similar things, but more that I couldn't quite get across how being an atheist makes the world more beautiful for understanding how it was shaped, or how knowing that my sense of right and wrong come from ancient ancestors huddling together for security don't make them more important to me, or (more on topic to what we were discussing) not thinking that things happen for a reason makes every choice more fulfilling. I've tried to force some Richard Dawkins on her, cause he's better at explaining these things but it hasn't happened yet.

And yes I know that Danielle is gonna read this, but it's on my mind so I'm writing it anyway.

Better than Mama!!!

So, Sunday while me and Danielle were out and about looking for an elliptical trainer (which is it's own story in a frustrating Walmart employee tracking down kinda way) and when we didn't pick one up we headed over to the electronics department to browse. There I found Batman Beyond season 3 and Justice League Unlimited season 2 both for $25. Now I don't have BB season 2 or JLU season 1 cause I could ever find them for less than 50 each. So I was all iffy about which one to get. Then I was really pondering both.
But if I was gonna spend $50 than I might as well just buy cooking mama for the wii

Seriously, the first thing you'll notice is just how bad Mama's accent is. Kim Jong Il's puppet has nothing on Mama. Then you'll notice that it's a pretty fun game. Some parts are easy, some parts need a lot of practice to get right. I'm talking about hte frying pan part. It doesn't tell you what will cook fastest so you need to keep trial and erring til you figure it out.

But it has a 2 player cook off, so I can beat Danielle at making cream puffs and perogies! Which is the best part really

It's really happening

At first I thought it was an early April Fool's joke, but I guess this is really getting made.

Games

So, I was watching Spike the other day when the very first Star Trek DS9 came on. And it made me realize that I hadnt really seen many of those, but I liked the ones I saw, so I went looking for some torrents and now I'm watching some of the first season stuff. It benefits from being a spin off of TNG cause it's like it didn't need that start up period to get it's feet. Also, Heroes is amazing, but it takes forever to come out! I'm gonna blame Jeff Loeb cause he was always late when he was writing Superman / Batman... Sure he doesn't actually write any episodes but I think it works to blame him. So there are a few Wii games on the horrizon that I am looking forward too. Well, there's two out right now that look fun, Godfather and Cooking Mama, and then Super Paper Mario is coming out! That looks quite grand, but it might be a little simple in the long run.

But somehow I have to get a copy of Puzzle Quest for Danielle's DS... Cause damn! I played the demo (and so should you all) And it only let me play for a little while but it was SO GROOD! Good and great. great and good. I mean, it's a bejewelled RPG! It kicks so much ass! Go play it!

Crazy picture

Yeah it looks nice, but does it get you drunk?

For a good night's sleep

Stay away from Eclipso

So, it turns out that Marble Mountain is like, a 10 minute drive away. Me and Danielle went skiing today. It was so pretty out! For one thing, it didn't snow at all, and it was only -3 and super sunny out. The ski hill is insanely huge! It's got all these crazy runs and jumps and stuff that we didn't go near, but we could see from the comfort of the lodge. The lifts seemed to go forever, and the runs just kept going too. The first two runs we did the bunny hill cause it was a while since either of us skied, but the first real run we did I trying to pick out easy or medium hills. Then Danielle went by me and it turns out that she doesn't read. So she went down a black diamond hill and it was rough going. I was okay for about half of it, then I missed an edge and ended up heading straight down the hill with no chance of stopping and once it flattened out I wiped out really good. I even dropped the camera, but found it cause it was next to my hat. But after that we kept to easier hills and had a grand time.

Pictures!







Then there's us tuckered and eating poutine

R.I.P. Steve Rogers

Captain America 1941 - 2007

Warning!! Warning!!

Hey, anyone remember a few years ago when I got hooked on a free computer game called Warning Forever? Well I remember it now and I'm hooked all over again!



That giant thing in the center is Tetra Force Striker Hell, and that little thing over on the right side getting shot at with lazers is me. Awesome

Oh YES!!!!

Damn, why wasn't I in Taipei to see this?


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It's tricky

So, it's still snowing here. I don't know how it keeps it up, it must get tired eventually. But if I get out of th car and enter a building for any length of time (like returning movies) I have to clean it off when I get back to it. My car brush is getting more use since I've been here then it got the whole rest of the winter in Freddy. It's a little insane. I'm starting to learn the main roads here, but there are no lane markers here (I guess they get scraped off by the plows) and they haven't figured out that they could put up signs over head showing which lane is for turning, or if there even are two lanes at any given time.
I bought the new SSX game for the Wii with a christmas gift card from Liz. It's quite difficult but also quite awesome. tipping the nunchuck to carve and grab, flicking the remote to do backflips and draw ubertricks... I'm gonna end up putting a lot of time into that game. I wish the gameplay wasn't as open. You have to snowboard down to the start of the races and stuff and search the mountain for new ubertricks, but it's fairly fun, and will probably get better the more I play

Who Watches The Movies?

So, everybody should go and see 300. On the one hand, it just looks like it's gonna be all over the top and flashy battles and all that Frank Miller stuff you saw in Sin City. BUT the real reason to go see 300 is that the same director is making WATCHMEN!!! So if 300 does well, that gives Watchmen a bigger budget. And really who doesn't want to see how they pull off Dr Manhattan or Rorschach?

Urge Splurge

Hey kids.
I finally got Danielle's wireless up and running today which frees up a lot of room, since her compy can go back into the second room. Also, I bought a tv, cause I'm just like that.



It's an LCD so it can handle a bunch of different resolutions and whatnot. Dan's DVD player only outputs 480i like normal tv :( but the tv can handle 720p or 1080i for high stuff, and 480p for the Wii