E3

Another quick post, but this trailer for the new smash brothers blew me away :)

Smash Bros

Thanks for everyone who came out to my playoff games, I appreciate it and I hope you'll be able to come watch me in my next season (starts next week). If any of you have any sort of feedback on my play, I would love to hear it. I strive to get better week to week, so any comments would be awesome.

Funny thing I saw yesterday on a license plate:
License Plate Holder - "Yes Thank You, I am a Model"
License Plate -"RUADIVA"

Why is this funny? There was a big skater looking dude, gotee, backwards hat driving a VW with this on there. Must be a cool gf that he has haha, might be worse if it's his car.

Giants vs Dodgers tonight, I'm very excited, hopefully Bonds will knock 714....woo hoo!

Kevin, glad to hear you got your dog back. That would have sucked major donkey asses if you had lost him. Next time, give the dog some special brownies before you go. That way the dog will be too lazy to leave even if he could.

I'm already itching to go back to vegas. Nuts huh? There's just so much more to do, and those poker games were so damn soft, holy crap.

I think i'm gonna pass on the ps 2 and just wait for the nintendo WHEEEEEEEEE. I heard a rumor that it's gonna sell for 249, which beats the PS3's price tag of 600 mother fucking dollars. Plus, with the Wii's controller, I figure I'll get some exercise since i'll be waving that weird ass controller around like a fucking idiot while i'm playing.

My parents are finally getting a new TV (I think we've had the same TV for I dunno how many years now...basically my parents have purchased one TV in my life time). I asked my parents when they were gonna buy one, and they said "we dont know anything about this stuff. We're waiting for you to tell us which one to get". wtf. "okay, get the 72 inch plasma" "oh is that good?" "oh you better believe". sick. lets just hope they dont ask how much it is until it's already packed up in the car. lolz. nah probably gonna get a 42 inch LCD. or something.

Steve: PS2

Sorry for the double post, but ToysRUs/Amazon has a PS2 with 2 games (Stupid games... Jak II and Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando) for 99 + 4.49 shipping. You can even get a free toy with the code: TYRTUFREETOY at check out.

Oblivion

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Brethesda actually created the textures for the topless women, but locked it out. Then some random person said, "hey, if I just change a few lines of code and make it point to the topless textures, I get boobies!"

Of course I haven't been following it too closely as I can't play the stupid game without updating my computer. (Same goes for F.E.A.R. and Civ IV of all things...) *runs back to Rohnert Park*

I can't remember the last time that wrote a sincere blog in this thing. And since i'm taking another break (finally finished calculating the mean and standard deviation across the individual groups in my study...aka nyerd shit), i figured i would.

The thesis is being written. But I've been so goddamn nervous writting a report before. I feel like every fucking sentence needs to be golden cuz I mean, this is IT. If this shit sucks, then i go back to the computer and start writing again. And it has to be solid by May 15, cuz that's when the 20 grill session is. They call it a thesis defense. Fifteen minutes of presentation, and then five minutes of questions by the advisors. The hard thing about that is I dont think 15 minutes is enough time for me to explain everything. UGH.

Nikkei Matsuri is coming up. I'm looking forward very much to the food. oh, the food.

I've put back on the weight i lost over the past three weeks since i've been at the computer nonstop with this thesis. I'm back to my fatter mode. yay. Once this thesis is done, i think i am gonna get a personal trainer. If that doesn't work, then i'm going to go to jenny craig, and then hopefully i can appear in one of their commercials with the used to be fat, but are now thin older ladies dancing around.

Maybe this not a good time for nikkei matsuri to come around.

On the other hand, Tony will be back just in time to chill and eat with us. That's definitely something to celebrate.

Other news..

Some people need to learn patience and calm down with their "next day shipping". You can wait a few more days for a jacket cuz it ain't getting cold anytime soon. lolz. But then again, it IS a NIPPON jacket, and anything that has the Japanese flag on it needs to be shipped as soon as possible. you should have done next day shipping for those damn chips. hahaha. okay okay you ordered them, i'll stop giving you shit.

Lindz was hit on by the most relentless guy i've ever seen hit on a girl. See my blog for details.

I'm tired of geometry wars. However, PS2 is not being sold for 130!!! That's quite a big drop in price. I may have to buy one. However, gamecube is still 100. Oh the dilemma. Or maybe I could exercise instead. yeah that's probably better.

Since I realize that I won't have my pictures up on my website until the main page is done...although I do plan to get my photography section up first so that is some good news...I thought I would post up some of my favorite Disneyland photos. Thanks for your patience...trust me...it was well worth it.

*EDITED BECAUSE THAT ANIMATION WAS GETTING ME DIZZY. THE LINK IS STILL BELOW.

MAN...I AM ON A ROLL TONIGHT GETTING STUFF DONE. THE DISNEYLAND PICTURES ARE ALL FUCKING FINISHED. ALL 290 OF THEM. I thought I would finish up this animation because my porn subscription ran out...

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Okay real quick...I've been trying to catch up on some photos...and here is the group picture we had at Disneyland. Man..this could be a framed photo...in Jonathan and Bryant's living room...haha.

Okay here are some updates on the pokerchips. If you see anything wrong with the graphics let me know ASAP. I have until Monday to give her the final go-ahead.



And finally...what will Bryant bug me about now? Besides making something of my life?

Holy shit. Today was the absolute worst day in my life.

I think that Andy and I perfected the brownie recipe. All it takes is just some downtime from when you bake it and eat it.

Holy fuck.

I spent my entire shift in the office. With my boss laughing at me. Over the trash can. Dry heaving. I ate 3 1/2 at around 8ish last night. It is now 9:00 pm the next day and I am still FUCKED UP.

Moderation is the key. And for all that want to try these in the future...2 is probably max for myself. If you want to fly for the next 24 hours...eat 4.

STOP SPINNING.

Ok so I got this email from a woman from work who forwarded an email she got from her husband. I was laughing my ass off (maybe because I know her).

"I just cut the s%$# out of my hand on a glass in the kitchen - right to
the bone, gnarly - called the doctor's office, no doctor today, told the
nurse what happened, she says I'll have to go to urgent care on the other
side of town, that's a guaranteed 4 hour stop, f$%# that. So, I found the
tackle box and got out the lightest line in there (8 lb, 4 would have been
nicer) and Rambo'ed it myself. Kept bending needles, they must have
pointy ones at the e.r.!! After I got'r done, I loosened up the stitches
and walk outside and dumped a s%$#load of denatured alcohol on it,
screamed, and tightened 'em up. Mint, huh?

P.S. - That'll teach me to do the dishes, f%$#in dangerous job...... "

Interesting that my boss sent me this:
http://directory.help.com/classes/providers/cnet/homeentertainment/

May be interesting for those caring about their Home Theatre System. I haven't looked into it in too much detail, but could be interesting.

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Responding to the comments:

Tony: First of all...they aren't OUR pictures. They are MY pictures. Maybe you should have brought your own camera sucka. Hardy har har har.

Kevin: Wait? Were you in any of the Xmas pictures? Perhaps if you didn't bring your stupid dog in my house I would want to work on these pictures...instead I have to delete the little runt out of my folders. That's what is taking so long. So there!

Bryant: Weren't those pictures supposed to be done 5 months ago? YOu mean you never got the email? Haha. But have no fear...I'm gonna work on some of them tonight. No seriously, I am.

Haha! Since Myspace decides to only let small as pictures on each profile because Myspace sucks I'm going to share the photos here in real quality. Also for the record I didn't do these solely for Myspace. Since I have no fucking photos of myself with this camera...I thought I might as well break out the lights, cardboard reflector and have at it.

Good Night and Good Luck definetely had an impact on these shots. So did The Ring obviously. Since I don't have my own site up just yet...I thought I'd share the HQ ones here. Hope the last one gives you nightmares. Who am I kidding. That picture sucks.

A scam or is this worth 20 bucks?

http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=802205

Holy jesus shit. Okay the chips are a little bit more than originally planned and I was just going to give away an extra 100 chips (10 sets of all 10 chips) but to make things interesting I'm thinking that instead...if you win a tournament you get a set of 5 chips. That way you need to win 2 to get the whole collection. I dunno. I still would like to give a set to each person who plays in our games regularly, but why not make them earn it a little bit?

Haha and Boaz and Rich and anyone other random fucker you bring into the game will never win so I don't have to worry about giving them chips. But if they do win...they get nothing of course. Haha.

Okay some tweaks and updates. First lemme address some of the comments for all.

Eecs - That fucking devil has made me the evil person I am today. I joke about killing babies with nothing but forks and toothpicks, but the rage is there all because of this devil. If you played the game you know that he dances and prances around your ass with no known pattern known to man. This made him impossible to kill every single time, you just had to hope you weren't in your boxers by the time you got to him or else you died. Then you had to hear that stupid map theme song. I can't think of another enemy besides the whole game of spelunker that pissed me off more. Therefore he gets in out of a weird sense of respect I have for this fucker. You were right about the colors. Check out the new proof sheet to see if they are more vibrant. I printed this out to make sure that the words were still visible which is why the outer ring might be a little dull...needed to be for readability.

Bryant - Wishes the triforce could be on a different chip. Wait till he sees the chocolates in person. He'll wish he could eat em up!

Steve - Hopefully I can get these ordered in the next couple of days unless someone sees something terribly wrong with the design or layout.

So here it is. The colors of the backs are redone. Kirby and Bomberman no longer sandbagging. (Haha...I was laughing when I read that comment by Jonathan). Take a look.

Sweet. Those look about ready for print, besides perhaps...

I really like how you added different colors to the backs. I would try to equalize the saturation of color in the circle portion with the words, because some seem much more subtle than others, making them look dull/grey.

I assume you really like all those characters. I was never into Ghosts'n'Goblins, so I would ax the devil guy. To me, that image is of too minor an aspect of the game, and lacks the charm that the others exude without effort or winged backs.

Is that really an 8-bit rendition of Kirby? The shading and pixel size look suspiciously fine compared to the rest. I get the feeling that puffy pink punk is sandbagging. With that infuriating smile and disturbing lone ear.

Tony makes a good point. I suggest you buy an extra 10,000 chips and sell many small "exclusive collector's edition" sets on eBay for profits that boggle the brain. Who takes copyright law seriously these days? Prudes, and people who are afraid of prison, that's who. Chickens. Yes.