iZune

You better believe it!
Made it last tonite using Photoshop CS3, Picasa 2, and Adobe Lightroom 1.3

Got my box

Yup. I just got the box today. I'll be sending my Xbox out for repair in a few days...considering when the warranty sticker will be here.

Fun Stuff.

I just got Need For Speed Pro Street overnite. It's pretty sick, running it at max resolution and max everything else and it's getting some great FPS.

I also just got Call of Duty 4 and got the no-dvd crack so I can use it without the disk, which semi-pisses me off because I bought Dual layer DVD's just so I could burn images of the games, but apparently, I won't need them. Just for back ups because the game disc gets scratched easily.

COD4 is one of the sickest games around, which is why I now have it for PC as well as 360. It looks amazing in HD. (1680 X 1050) And it plays awesomely with all effects and everything at maximum. (4x Anti-Aliasing) Very sweet indeed.

Also finished obtaining the Spongebob collection. woot woot

"New Beginnings"

Update on the funstuff goin on around here:

-Adobe Lightroom, which is pretty sweet.

-Spongebob Season 2 and the Karate Island Movie

-The Fifth Element...big mistake.

-Aeon Flux.....big hoorah!

-WAR in 720p HD format...woohoo! my first HD movie on this comp.

-On the 29th, I went to sleep at 6:20am on the 30th because I had just finished Pirates 3, then I felt compelled (at 5:30am) to get in the shower....woke up at 10am. sucky.

-Waiting for my box to come so I can send my 'Box out for repair.

-Still have that "Walking Pneumonia" cough.

-Already broke my New Year's resolution.

FDS on the way!

I bought 3 things off eBay around Nov. 17th and 2/3 have arrived. It is Jan 2nd....where's my 3rd package??!
Annnnd, I ordered some Dual Layer DVD's + The Bourne Ultimatum Special Ed. :P from BestBuy like 4 days ago....where's my package??!

oh, and 2008 symbolizes new beginnings to me. that's all.

Happy N3w Y3ar!

Cheers to a new year of viruses, spyware, malware, and risque downloads! I just had some spyware like an hour ago, but I found it and scraped it out myself, with the help of a sweeper program. Then I just obtained the mother of all security programs, MacAfee Total Protection. It has everything in it. I am set, and content with my virtual bouncer.

To all of the hackers that want in on my shindig but weren't invited: "This is MY party, go home!"

End of the Year Update

2007 - The Year of Change

Well, I hope everyone (as if anyone reads this) had a great Christmas, and hello New Year! [personally, I don't think anyone reads my blog, and frankly, I don't give a crap because I'm just getting my thoughts out without talking to myself...which seems to be a bad habit]

Anyway, I was at work tonite (meat department) and I leaned over to pick up a tray of raw boneless center cut pork chops when my Zune fell out and pasted itself to them. Nasty. Then, for some reason, I decided it was a good idea to pull it up by the headphones cord and therefore it dropped on the concrete floor...dang. But, it still works like a champ (or as good as every flawed Microsoft product would) Oh, and my paycheck sucked.

By the way, I went to sleep with my Puka shell necklace on, and woke up with it off. No trace of it anywhere. (Me looking around from the comfort of my computer desk) I checked everywhere.

I had a few gift cards...one to Circuit City and 2 to Best Buy. Ugh, two competing companies of which only Best Buy is worth entering. So, I used BB online to buy The Bourne Ultimatum Special Ed. and 5 Dual-Layer DVD+R's. The other, I bought my love somethings that she'll definitely appreciate. :)

On another note...I was very active on Yahoo Answers last nite....asking and answering stupid questions. Seems like whenever I open my mouth over there, either I get best answer and people want to be my buddy or they shove my opion back down my throat and tell me to lay off the alcohol or whatever makes me that way. I don't drink, or smoke/drugs...just want to get that outta the way.

I called 1-800-4MY-XBOX and held on for about 10 minutes, then this dude took my info, registered my 'Box and is sending a box for me to put my 'Box in to return it. R.R.O.D. infected my 360 a month ago, and now I'm finally going to get it fixed. (but first, I have to buy that warranty sticker off ebay...cuz I severed mine. oops)

Finally, some quotes:

"I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong." - my co-worker who is entitled to his wrong opinion.

"Don't worry, it's only a cough." - My famous last words as I die from walking pneumonia this week.

Breaching 1 Million

FlashGet, this tiny downloading manager has breached one million kb (1gig) and is counting. It just won't stop rising. But, it's downloading so fast, yet the RAM keeps rising continuously. Not really sure what happens when you run out of RAM, but I have 4gigs and I don't wanna find out.

Infection.

Last month, my Xbox 360 was showing the symptoms of the irreversible infection infamously known as the Red Ring of Death. It has been dead for quite some time now.

As if the red lights weren't enough, Microsoft's developers had the balls to make the disease more appropriately named, "The Red 3/4 Ring of Death". Microsoft, that's another story. These guys....audacious jerks.

Essential Tools

Excellent Microphone

My Makeshift WiFi Satellite

Geiger Counter
(for the end of the world, when nuclear fallout is common and Leukemia runs rampant, I'll be prepared)

Old Machines

Logitech Old School vs. Razer Death Adder
When using the middle button, it's like flipping off the computer.
Mine was worn-out.

Atari 2600 Games
That 007 is worth 20 bucks.

..And the 'ol Cybiko Inter-tainment System
I used this like a portable chat system with other Cybiko users in 7th grade during lunch time. It was also my first MP3 player, back when Napster was sweet and MP3 was new tech. Grits - We All Fall Down, that was the first song I listened to. It was totally sweet back then, now it's in the trash.

Crysis Ending...YGBKM

When I was playing this level in Crysis yesterday...it seemed really hard and made me think,"This level is so hard, you'd think the game was about to end." And then it did.

But here's the deal, you're character gets in the VTOL (harrier) and evacs but, then says something like going back to the island to "finish the fight".

Hello??!! The aliens were still swarming around! We didn't beat 'em yet!!!

And then it ends. I couldn't accept that.

You Gotta Be Kiddin' Me.

My rumor is that it didn't end, and there will be a sequel.

Stability?

If having a different problem everytime I start it up is considered stable, then yes.

Ye Eldest Skoole

Grandma ran over it.

Ye Olde Skoole

"Throw the switch, Igor!"

Yes, Turbo. Like, you have no idea just how fast this friggin thing is when you push the Turbo button. 2 Digits baby!
Turbo on this comp added 10MHz of raw unorthodox word processing power!...(which gave it a top speed of like 20Mhz!!)

ps. what reason would you have to turn off the turbo feature? did it use like 1mWh more?

Possessed.

I went and put it to sleep last nite...around 1:30am. Half and hour later, I'm layin in bed, the only light blinking is the one on the screen button...close my eyes, just about to fall asleep....

Then, I hear this loud beep and the lights all come on and nearly scared the crap outta me.

Ugh.

Quad-Core.

Is it really all that great? 4 graphs up there....one for each processor. wooptie-friggin-doo.
Btw, my video card has been tweakin and occasionally crashing my system giving me the blue screen. GRAW 2 was workin' great last nite. Until this morning when I updated the video drivers and now it gets jumpy...and eventually crashes. I think this comp was cursed from "birth". The company still hasn't replied to my hatemail. hmm...another day, another problem.

Internal Combustion.

SATURDAY

My laptop is still freakin' tweakin'. I'm scanning the monkey poo out of it. Doubt I'll find anything though. Not really sure how to get to System Restore without Explorer...dang.

I'm like my gaming computer. I got a Quad-Core processor (in the way that i can do a lot of things at once). I have ann X-Fi card installed (i love surround sound, and won't go w/o it!). But, I'm obviously running Windows because of all of the friggin mistakes I make.

I just bought GRAW 2 from my trusty GameStop, thanks Josh. It's probably the first game that works at high-res with max everything perfectly right outta the box. I am really surprised with this game. High FPS with these specs.

But, one question....Where in the world are the health pickups?! Why does this have to be such a "2 shots-and-you're-dead" Tom Clancy game?! Dang.

Running it at:
VIDEO
-1680 x 1050
-anti-aliasing
-16x Anisotropic filtering
-High texture quality
-high post effects
-high dynamic shadows
-high effects quality

AUDIO
-Extreme Quality
-SB X-Fi
-EAX 5.1 Surround

Tweakin'

My laptop just got sick. Windows Explorer won't run for more than about 5 seconds, something is shutting it down.

OhNoYouDon't

Each day has its own problems with this thing. Now, it just won't stop rebooting. It's obvious that iBuyPower did not do it's job. I guess this is the kind of quality to expect when rushing the order. sucks.

Success.

Finally, after much time working with this comp, I have finally resolved the following issues:

• USB Hub failure
• Crysis SLI incapable
• Sound card crackling/jittering
• HL2 installation failure
• COD2 installation failure

And have not resolved the long beep at power-on....which I now believe to be a test that it has failed in hardware. But, recently I have experienced a spontaneous dimming of my screen at certain moments when I bring up IE7.

But, I can now come to the conclusion that SLI technology is great when the programs are optimized for it. booyah.