The release date for ‘Super Smash Bros Brawl’ for the Nintendo Wii has been pushed back yet again. Originally set for late 2007, then pushed to Feb 2008, now pushed again to March 2008 you have to wonder what is taking them so long.
(more…)
The Michigan primary is today, but I just can’t seem to get excited about it.
(more…)
Migraine.
Thinking hurts, moving my head hurts.
Nothing else to say today.
Since when was January ‘tornado season’? The weather keeps seeming to get weirder and weirder. While all the big news was about the series of ones back out towards the midwest, there was one up here in the Pacific Northwest too. Apparently not far from my grandmother’s house actually.
I swear… The weather gets weirder and weirder every year…
I have always like the Soulcalibur franchise, a series of fighting games where instead of the characters engaging in a complicated bout of fisticuffs they pulled out swords and went at it with clashing steel instead.
(more…)
My sister, a while back, got a Sleep Number bed. For those who don’t know, they are basically a giant twin cell air mattress with a pump with a fancy controller that lets you set how fully inflated you want the thing to be.
Anyways, the sound of the pump is really loud and right after she got it, when I heard her first inflating it after helping her get the thing assembled, I commented on how the sound made me think of it being a giant inflatable vibrator (because of where the pump was, the bed did shake a little while inflating).
Personally, I can’t be sure if the thought popping into my head is best blamed on an old ‘Add N to X’ video I saw ages back that involved industrial tools used as sex toys or those awful ‘magic fingers’ vibrating beds you always see getting used as gags on television or in movies when people go to hotels.
Anyways, now she is rather grumpy with me because every time she goes to inflate her bed (what is apparently a nearly daily ritual as she keeps the thing on I think the lowest possible setting and it seems to leaks air when set that low) she thinks of my comment.
Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Early election politics always amuses me. This year is not the exception as I am looking at news articles talking about todays primary in New Hampshire.
(more…)
So fiddling around with the site a little tonight. I finally got around to getting some more of the old content up.
To start with I slurped off all the contents of the old temporary A Home Away from Hythia site that I was using while I was rebuilding this site. That covers September 2005 through May 2007 (really through June of 2006 since a large bit of time passed where I didn’t update). It’ll still need me to go through an add categories and tags to the old posts, but that isn’t a high priority yet.
I still have the content from my site before I went there to move up. It’ll be a pain though, I was dating everything by how many days into the year it was and all my time stamps are on the Swatch internet time system. But that’ll add May of 2001 through June of 2005 to the site when I get to it.
Still have my old City of Heroes guide to move back up, as well as a few assorted bits of old coding and gaming references. Though, honestly, the CoH guide is just about two years out of date now so I am not sure if it is worth the time bringing that back online. Will have to take a look at it and decide how much effort I want to put into it. The game was fun, but I don’t play it anymore and I don’t anticipate starting to again anytime soon.
For those who are interested, the current look of the site isn’t the same as the one I was working on back in June of 2007. The design I was working on then proved to be unworkable within the framework of WordPress, ultimately a failed experiment in seeing how far I could push the boundaries of what the software could do. Though to be honest, it actually may work better with some of the changes in the 2.3 version of WordPress so I’ll have to take it back out and look at it again someday.
So, for those of you following politics yesterday was a big day, the day of the Iowa caucuses. For those of you who don’t follow politics, ignore the rest of this post as it won’t matter to you at all.
(more…)
As I write this my house smells of bathroom cleaner, cheap vodka, and I hear my sister downstairs singing to 80s pop tracks. Yes, a party is in the planning for tomorrow night and I have no idea if my place will survive it.
My sister just shouted, “Oh my god! I didn’t know the words and they are dirty!” She was playing ‘SingStar 80s’ on my PS2 and singing ‘Come on Eileen’. Little did she know, the 80s were a very naughty place. I forget at times that she is enough younger then me to not really have paid that much attention to the song lyrics back then…
Anyways, my sister is throwing a party tomorrow night. It is a birthday party for one of her co-workers and I guess about dozen of their friends. They spent tonight making jello shots for the party and re-arranging furniture so their’d be more space in front of the TV to setup for ‘Rock Band’ on the 360 and dragging my PS2 downstairs to try out ‘SingStar’ as well.
Most of the jello shots were made with Everclear, and the recipe they used only had instructions up to 100 proof alcohol. Everclear being 195 proof. Lets just say they have a bit of kick to them, it is the only time I can think of jello actually burning as it went down my throat.
It is going to be an interesting party, to say the least. A dozen plus drunken people, whom I know very few of, pretending to be rock stars and trying to sing in tune or play a plastic replica of a guitar. Even if their liver’s survive the alchohol, will the self-respects survive the memories of the party…