I once walked through these dusty halls quite frequently, but now after nearly a month of school trying to make my head go "big boom," I find it necessary to remind my single digit viewer count that I am still alive, and though I would kick, I don't feel like it right now.
Last Thursday marked the last day of my third semester at College, so now I have three weeks with which to bother everyone with my ramblings, doesn't that sound like fun?
Yup.
So! AVATAR! How about those Avatars, eh? Those guys are pretty cool, what with their blue skin and their Dragons... yeah. I saw the movie on opening night last Friday, thankfully not in a certain theatre I spoke of before. Personally, I think that this movie is on par with the likes of the original Star Wars Trilogy. It was awesome.
Moving on, we here at BN are from the Great Nation of Canuckistan, which means lots of snow yeah? WRONG! There is almost no snow on the ground. This combined with the fact that I just started my Christmas break last Thursday, I find it very hard to get into the Holiday Spirit which makes James a sad Panda...
The saddest of Pandas
But that's ok! You go ahead and enjoy your holiday. I'll be here, all alone, by myself.
Sad Panda.
Well, I can't really think of anything else to write about, play me out, Flight of the Conchords!
This smell... it smells familiar. It smells like Internet! Come to me, friend, we shall party 'til we're purple!
Some of you may know that I recently had hardware problems involving my Laptop's AC adapter, 'twas a cold Thursday evening in my Oracle SQL class and my vulcanized adapter was loosing it's vulcanny grip upon the cable that connected to my laptop allowing it to charge. Eventually through the class I realized I was running off of battery power and the cable had shorted out.
So by this time, I was all like...
I was rocked to my very core. It was like I tripped on the sidewalk, and then a Hobo came up and took my pants, and then another Hobo came up and kicked my in my bathing suit area, and then I got a ticket from the Police for indecent exposure, and then my Mom had to bring me a fresh pair of pants but she yelled out "I love you, my little Bubala" in the middle of the jail. My prisoner buddies laughed at me... especially the Jewish ones.
So I have gone for around a week without Lil' Jim to comfort me from the cold harsh unfeeling World around me, but I still had hope! I had... Lil' lil' Jim. My iPod. He had access to the internet for a short while, until he eventually ran out of battery to the point where he couldn't even play music.
I had only one connection to the internet left, and luckily for me it was entirely self sufficient, it had it's own charging cable and everything, it didn't require my laptop for power. I am talking about my trusty Nintendo DS. Unfortunately for me, the DS browser is like the Eragon movie. It's not very good. At all.
So! Eventually my new Adapter came in the mail since Staples doesn't sell it anymore, I plug it in and it works! So now I'm all like...
I was fortunate enough to get an invite from one of my old high school friends to join Google Wave about a week ago, if any of you have read my first post you'll know that I've been waiting to try it out for a long time. After having tried it for one week I feel I can sum it up in one sentence, perhaps even one word:
Meh.
Meh, indeed.
It gets a meh for now, but eventually it could become something far more interesting and useful. If anyone of you has watched the unnaturally long demonstration video that they have going you'd know what Google Wave is about, I'm not going to try to explain it, just go ahead and watch the hour long demo video:
You watch it all yet? OK then, let's move along.
One thing that I noticed when I first got Google Wave is that when I tweeted about it I got a mountain of PMs from Twitter users begging and in rare cases demanding my handing over of one of the precious invites that my account came with. Here's the thing, I have no invites, I wasn't given any. I did some Googling and apparently I might end up getting some invites to pass around, but I don't know how likely that is.
Another interesting thing about those PMs I got was that a large number of them were from people who started Twitter accounts solely for begging for Wave invites. I kind of hope that those people get their invites so that they can have their dreams crushed when they realize that they can't do anything with it. Well, that's not entirely true.
With Google Wave there is a command that allows you to view public Waves made for discussion with everyone and anyone, to summarize, public Waves are Message Boards.
Along with Wave comes some interesting features, along with having actual human contacts in your contact list, you have the ability to add special contacts to your list, in my case, I have added Tweety and Bloggy to my contact list. Tweety is a Twitter app that allows you to update your Twitter feed from Google Wave, Bloggy allows you to update your Blogspot blog from it's own Wave. Unfortunately, I can't get Bloggy to work for the life of me, and Tweety doesn't seem to update it's Tweets beyond the first time I opened it, that's why it's invitation only, folks, lots of bugs.
So, in the end, it's pretty snazzy, but I'd recommend that you wait until the Public release to Wave for yourself, but even then, you'll have to have a Gmail account.
Friends, today is a good day in at least one respect.
TONY HAS SWINE FLU! YAAAAY!
Wait...
OK, well that's one of the current events, but that's not the one I'm referring to. What I meant to say is that the official Blurgh Nation Firefox theme has arrived!
Well to be truthful it arrived a few weeks ago but it looked awful so I didn't tell anybody. This theme makes use of Mozilla's Persona add-on to make for lovely themes with minimal work because I'm lazy like that. Here, have a screenshot:
Isn't it lovely? I believe so.
Perhaps someday I'll make a big boy theme where I actually have to put some effort into it, but until that time, this looks pretty good!
In order to use the theme you'll have to install the Personas add-on which is a quick and painless affair.
Tony and I will be back in a few days with a quick (lazy) review of Windows 7!
I am like.... soooooo sick right now. I will probably regret writing a post while sick considering that I have no idea what I'm writing and I'm pretty sure there's a Yak behind me. Yak. That's a funny word. Yak. Yak. Yak..... Yaaaaaaaaaaak. HA! It's like I'm talking a lot but it's also a fuzzy animal. Perhaps the two are related!
This is my Yak. His name is Donny. He talks a lot.
NEWS! I have that! Would you like to hear about some news perchance? Ok, I'll share with you my many secret newses.
First off, Apple is releasing a new mouse to release their old Mighty Mouse that nobody seemed to like all that much. The main thing about this one is that it is the first mouse in the world to support Multi-touch. It seems really interesting, then again I was hallucinating during the video, so unless the new Magic Mouse is actually edible, then I'm not impressed anymore. Watch the demo video here.
Speaking of Multi-touch, Windows 7 will be landing tomorrow and I am the most excited person. Mostly because Vista is giving me BSOD's whenever I breathe improperly, but also because the Gnome sitting on my shoulder won't shut up about how much better it is than Vista. Apparently he Dual boots 7 and Vista so it's easier to compare.
Travelocity Spokesman, Tech Geek, Friend.
ALSO! I have gotten a package in the mail! I shall upload a video of my opening it as soon as I get it. I warn you all, it is rad.
UPDATE: I have recorded the video and I am now posting it for your viewing pleasure!
I promised to post more, sorry, I was sick then some personal issues came up, but HAPPY OKTOBERFEST, K/W (Kitchener/Waterloo) has the biggest Oktoberfest celebration outside of Germany, so heres to you Germans, you were once our foes, then our friends, then Nazis, then half our friends and half commies, but now your our friends agian, yay, Cheers!
Yes indeed it is that time of the year (for Canadians) where we sit at the table with our relatives and eat until we are in physical pain, and we are thankful for that pain, that tasty, self inflicted pain.
What am I thankful for at this point in time you might ask? Well I'll tell you.
Krazy Glue.
A while back I got a new pair of shoes that were so stiff at the heel that they rubbed my heels raw and the blood went right through my socks onto my new shoes. I didn't even know until the day was done and I sat down and decided to investigate the searing pain in my heels. So, I Krazy Glued my old shoes which soles had begun to separate from the shoe. I am still wearing them, and I am still walking in comfort.
To celebrate this Canadian Thanksgiving, here is a present from me to you. BLURGH NATION WALLPAPERS!
Made 'em myself, I hope you enjoy them! Happy Thanksgiving!
So what have I done since I posted last? Well, for one I saw Zombieland with Stevey C twice! It was a great movie, I won't be reviewing it, just take a look down at Steve's oh so comprehensive and satisfying post on it below this one.
Even more exciting than that though is the fact that I went to see the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Royal Ontario Museum! Here is my quick summary of my trip to see them.
First off, my Father and I were loaded onto a bus that consisted of 98 percent old people, so there were a lot of bathroom breaks. We had to divert off course a number of times to find service stations so that these... weathered folk could relieve themselves. Seriously though, they should have brought some gallon jugs with them or something, or at least rented a bus with a hole in it, I'd be OK with that.
The bus we were on was a shuttle bus, not exactly meant for long trips, these are the seats that my father and I sat in.
Slightly cramped. Yeah, that's the way to describe it.
Here's a picture of my Dad and myself on the bus, having the time of our lives!
Nice hangin' with you, Dad.
Altogether, this trip was great, and I enjoyed myself, even though the swag was insanely overpriced.
Ok. So my buddy James and I (along with another friend of ours, Darryl) went to see ZombieLand today. I'm not gunna lie, I thought it was epic on a colossal scale. I mean... There were Zombies, there was a cute love interest, there were twinkies, and fracken Bill Murray! On a scale of 1 to 5 stars I give this movie a flesh-eating 6! I know, it rocked that much! Of course... This is coming from a zombie finatic... but still. :D The rules of survival used in the movie are simple and effective, and should be used in our own undead crisis... Should one ever arise anyways. But yes. ZombieLand = epic. Go see it = true.
I felt compelled to write today because I was presented with this awesome application on Netflix. Basically, it allows you to superimpose your face onto the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz singing "If I only had a Brain."
For the following video, I used this photo which totally isn't fake by the way...:
Also! In other news, I will be going to Toronto this Wednesday to see the Dead Sea Scrolls on display at the Royal Ontario Museum. I'm very excited, not only because I get to see the Dead Sea Scrolls, but also because on Wednesdays I have class from Six until Ten at night.
Ah Hoy all ye land lubbers! Before I start on my first blurgh, I just want everyone to know that September 19th was most deffinately Talk-Like-A-Pirate day. And I would encourage everyone to take part next year 'round. And believe me... It's a blast! ^_^
But on a different note. Howdy! The name's Steve Carpenter. I'm a bud of James' just so the connection's made. We attend the same college and are in the same course. (woot, go CBRO!!...or Computer Programming to everyone out there. ^_~) But yes. As I'm now a member of the Blurgh-Nation and have my loverly picature on the banner, I can now write on this lovely space of blurghs. So I'm just tossing this in there to say hi, and let everyone know I'm alive and well. ^_^
Anywhos... If you're wondering why it says Dream Reaper instead of Steve Carpenter.. it's cuz Reaper is my handle on any and all games I play. As well as the story I'm writting. Go ahead. give my name in the right hand side bar a click and read away. So don't be confused. There's no fourth member to wonder about (yet... mwahaha!) and you haven't confused me with someone else.
But I digress... I've said hi, I've said Yar! And I am disinclined to acquihest to your requests for writting a large post at the moment. I'll bid you adieux and goodbye and I shall see you all on the flip flop. Laterz!
It is indeed a joyous occasion as I introduce the third contributor to this blog. He's a rough and tough character, you don't want to mess with this guy. He has a bandanna.
Hailing from Bright's Grove, he has led a tough and unforgiving life on the streets. There, he developed a passion for children's playing cards and Techno music. One time, I bought him an eyepatch I found in the pharmacy section of Walmart and when he wore it he looked like a pirate, a Scurvy Pirate.
Did I mention it's talk like a Pirate Day?
Anyways, Stevey C everybody. Keep your wallets in your front pockets.
Ladies, Gentlemen, Alaskans, I have momentous news to report to all of you. So momentous in fact, that I must convey the entire story to you in the only way I know how, with words. Lots of 'em.
Yesterday around two o'clock in the afternoon, I had been charged with reading chapter two in my textbook for my ASP.NET class which just so happened to be nearly seventy pages long. I had been reading all day, since I had completely forgotten about it until the day I had that class. Eventually, though my manliness had kept me going for a very long time, I grew hungry. I went to the lobby to the vending machine to purchase a bar of Candy, perhaps one made of chocolate in a bar shape.
You seem to meet the requirements.
This is where the magic happens.
Perhaps the planets aligned, or I simply garnered favor with Talnuhk'thal, King of the Vending Machines and caused this event to take place. Yes friends, the stuff of legend, confirmed! In one clean swoop, two bar shaped chocolate candy thingies fell from that row of bar shaped chocolate candy thingies! I am surely blessed to have experienced such an event, let alone to be the recipient.
It is an honor.
So because all this took place, I was able to finish reading my chapter and get to class worry free. I feel like a superhero!
Proposed costume
Aaaand now I have to read two chapters for my class at 5:30 today. I best get started.
Today is a time for remembrance for more than one reason. One, for the tragic events that happened in 2001, but this blog is for lighthearted humor so we'll be focusing on the second reason that this day is a day for remembrance.
Nineteen years ago this day, Lil' Tony Doom was born into this world inside the cockpit of an F-16 fighter jet during a routine Training exercise. His mother was practicing evasive maneuvers when all of a sudden, the G-force created such pressure that it caused her water to break and Tony just kind of fell out of there.
Since that day, Tony has achieved many things in his short time so far on this earth, including but not limited to acquiring Super Powers and then proceeding to give them up to save a truck full of babies, purchasing a Fedora, wearing said Fedora, and joining this super awesome blog.
Tony, you are the awesomest dude in the history of awesome. You should be a Super Smash Bros. character, your final smash would be to just look at them and they'd leap off the platform.
Well friends, I am now back in my humble abode inside the deep cavernous walls of my College Dormitory. After hours of hard labor, back-breaking last minute pants shopping, and and one pizza later, I am now settled down and ready for my final year here at Lambton College.
I know what you're thinking, you want to see some pictures, right? Well don't go anywhere! Strap in because this parties gonna get started right now! Here is a small gallery showing the entirety of my Dorm Room.
Here is a picture of my bed:
Here's a picture of my new Roommate Sean! He's a pretty cool guy:
This is a picture of my closet, notice how clean and organized it is:
This is our hand-washing station, some would call it a sink, but we here at Lambton college are intellectuals, we only drink carbonated beverages, and only water comes out of it:
This one is a picture of our kitchen area, consisting of our Microwave and mini fridge, you can kind of see it over my shoulder:
Finally, here's a picture of my bathroom, it's quite nice, I was thinking about doing a mirror shot, but that's far too Myspace for me:
Well, that's all for now, I imagine now that I'm back at school, I might have either more or less to write about, we'll see how it goes.
Last Thursday, if you were paying attention to my Twits, you'd know that I went to the Hospital to have my wrist looked at, I thought I might have had Carpal tunnel, but I have since learned that that is not the case, I'm just a whiny little baby. ANYHOO...
Before I went to the Hospital, my doctor had told me that the Xrays on my wrist came back saying there was no danger of Carpal Tunnel, instead there was a slight deformity in the part where a fracture healed up, here's a diagram:
Normal wrist
My wrist
There's nothing wrong with my wrist, but an appointment was already previously made to go to the Hospital for a Nerve Conduction Test on September 3rd.
So I went there, got to the waiting room, and not soon after I was called. The nice lady had me take my watch off and she measure and marked all over my hands with a black pen, I felt like I was being vandalized. This is where it gets interesting.
She then dabbed gel on two points on my wrist and pulled out a machine that resembled the thing the guy zapped the tiny dinosaur with in the second Jurassic Park movie before the tiny dinosaur's buddies ate him. I couldn't find a picture of it, but here's something that came up when I googled “Jurrasic Park Taser”
She placed it on my nerve and fired it up, it felt like when a doctor would hit your knee with that little hammer to make it kick, except that it was electric, and I'm a whiny little baby.
Nerve Conduction Test in action
She did that a few more times in a number of places all to find out that my nerves are perfect. Awesome.
So that was my Thursday. Let's end this on a lighter and more interesting note. I found this site while perusing one my my favorite sites Lifehacker. Fontcapture allows you to create a custom font using a sample of your handwriting. I did it, and my coolness dictates that you must now do it too in order to stay cool or become cool.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -Nelson Mandela
At long last I have returned to claim my rightful place as the second contributer to this blog, with new ambition, new prowess, new words and most of all a new Internet connection. Yes, I have a new connection to the information Super Highway or the Net, World Wide Web, or as some like to call it, The Series of Tubes, this can only mean one thing, I have moved into my new place. With this new place comes roommates, finally reunited with my friends Mike and Davidde, with their friend Kody joining us and newcomer Tom, my crippling loneliness will come to an end! Also with this new place comes free Internet and satellite tv, which I have missed in my year since moving away from home, in residence I had only cable and for the last 4 months I have had only rabbit ears for my television viewing pleasure (if you could call it that). But now I'm back and better then ever. Oh did I mention that I was starting World of Warcraft again? Yes, I was a habitual user before and a social user in the past month when I returned home for a funeral, but now I have decided to come back to the game after a small fling with City of Heroes and with my very on and off agian relationship with Eve Online, I return to my one true love.
I have much to write about and I'm going to start forcing James to write more so this might actually be worth the bandwidth again, but probably not.
Oh and I am going to start including songs from Canadian artists at the ends of my posts. Enjoy!
If you haven't already noticed, I took a little bit of time out of my incredibly full (read empty) schedule to fiddle with the look of the site a little bit, if you went to the site yesterday you might have noticed that it looked really weird, but that is solely because I am an idiot, m'kay?
On another note, a very Happy Birthday to our silent partner Dream Reaper, his name sounds kind of foreboding but once you get to know him he's a Blueberry Muffin of creamy fun. He is now twenty and old, just like me! It's time to hang up your Bandana and invest in some Sweater vests and slacks good sir, join the young seniors movement like myself. We have Werthers!
It's a good day to be tech savvy and still be relatively stylish, folks. Why? My favorite website Lifehacker is reporting that the latest build of Snow Leopard has been seeded to Developers and they have in turn leaked the Wallpapers to us! They got some nice ones, like this Leopard with snow on it (A snowy Leopard?), some lovely Pointillism depicting a Sunday Afternoon, and some Graffiti! You can catch the rest of them over at Uneasy Silence.
I came across this website a few days ago and I feel that I must share it with you so that I can say that I updated.
This site is called Yearbookyourself and it is cool, all you have to do is upload a picture of yourself and follow the instructions in order to create mildly entertaining abominations like the following. I started out with this photo of myself:
And with a little fenagling, you get something like this:
Hey you guys, remember when I used to post here? That was great, I should start doing that again.
All kidding aside, I do have a lot to post about, but not enough material to make full posts about them. First off I was planning on writing about the Apple Tablet, but I feel that I should stretch myself to my utmost journalistic abilities in order to convey the sheer… tabletiness of this new tablet.
Also! I been and gone and went to the Hospickle (read Hospital) yesterday for a few X-rays on muh wrist, there’s a chance that I might have Carpal Tunnel in the left one which, by coincidence, is connected to my good hand, my other one isn’t as good. I hate you right hand, go fall in a well.
As some of you may know if you bothered to scroll down the tiniest bit on the page, you’d know that it was my birthday on the fifth. Using a gift card I received, I purchased Wii Sports Resort and have proceeded to sacrifice hours of otherwise posting-time for “Hey look, my sword movements are exact!” time.
Time for a link! This link guarantees that all your jokes will be funnier and more appropriate for all occasions! Use it wisely, for with great power, comes great responsibility.
Finally, I have converted a former Windows XP desktop to Ubuntu Linux. It was a dinosaur, and this helped to speed it up a bit, except now my Mom is wondering where Outlook Express is.
Yup, today was my birthday, I am now twenty years old and officially decrepit.
Yup, I have a doctors appointment for my wrist tomorrow, it’s been acting up, and it seems that my Ubuntu PC has actually given up the ghost now, it turns on but doesn’t respond.
Yes, now that I have reached this pinnacle in my life, I feel that it is necessary to impart upon my readers a few pearls of wisdom that I have acquired in my many years on this earth. Actually, I can’t really think of anything to say that’s safe for work. So instead, have some wallpapers.
I really enjoy going to these two sites for my wallpapers, they have a lot of good stuff on both.
"I don't wanna hang around in someone elses scene Fashionable people doing questionable things" -Fashionable People, Joel Plaskett
Okay let me preface this, I know I was suppose to review the Zune and Windows 7 from a gamers point-of-view on Friday but my roommate came by and we hung out Friday and Saturday and James posted on Sunday and well, Sunday I saw Funny People and I needed to talk about it somewhere and my friends do not like this kind movie.
Sunday I buckled down and walked to the mall and headed to the Galaxy Cinema in Waterloo and saw the newest Judd Apatow, distributed by Universal Pictures, running length: 2 hours and 26 minutes, Staring Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and a multitude of other Apatow comedians, as well as internet sensation, Bo Burnham.
Let me speak to the people who only like Adam Sandler type comedies. First this is not like them, you will probaly hate it. Second, this is NOT a comedy, its a drama about a man who is a jerk (jerk is way too light of a term) who needs to connect with someone but does not really have the means to do so in a meaningful way. At one point, his only friend (who is someone he hired) tries to do the right thing but it happens to be against Simmons' goals and pretty much gets told off and pushed back to the distance that he normally keeps people at. The only comedic elements in this film come from the fact that all the main characters are in fact, Comedians. There is alot of penis jokes in this movie, it's like each actor put their personality and comedy sets into each character, this movie could have actually happend if Adam Sandler was a jerk, not married and was dying. I personally loved the film, everything was really great. In my opinion it's the second best Apatow film after Forgetting Sarah Marshal, and the best Sandler film, its dirty, but real, smart but low-brow, funny yet sad, and if I was Sandler I would end my carrer on this. That's pretty much everything to say about the movie, its not like any of the movies any of the main people in it have done and it's great if you were not the biggest fans of either of their earlier works.
Following up on a previous post, my Uncle has received and assembled the apparently super-special-awesome Wheelbarrow that he won from the fine folks at CommandN.
Near the end of the following video, you can see the fully constructed beast, according to my Uncle, it has shocks. Crazy.
Leave it to my Uncle to show off both a Wheelbarrow and a Mac book in one photo.
A new update on the Dev Channel for Mac and Windows versions of Google Chrome now allows themes to be implemented in the browser.
So that’s cool, I’m sporting this saucy number, kind of a squary camo.
Makes sense, since this theme is called Camo (download).
The second theme available for download is called Snowflake (download). This theme is for the less hardcore Chrome users who can't take the squary manliness of the Camo theme.
If you try these themes and neither strike your fancy, you can still go into the options menu and reset Chrome to the default theme.
I must reiterate that this is a feature that is currently exclusive to the Developer version of Google Chrome, this is an incomplete but fairly stable version of Chrome. If you're using the Beta or Final releases of Chrome, you won't have this option. If you are a Chrome user and wish to switch to the Dev Channel simply click on this link, there are links to all three flavors of Chrome (Windows, Mac and Linux).
On a different, yet still Chrome related note, I just learned that the Mac version of Chrome has yet to have plugins implemented. I still encourage all Mac users to try it and then subsequently be converted to using it.
Well, one fine morning about twenty days back I wrote an article about my favorite things, in the Television section I forgot one show, which in reality is probably my favorite show out of them all, Supernatural. This show airs Thursdays at 9pm on the CW (well not right now, but it will soon). If you do not know what this show is, well, I honestly do feel bad for you.
Right, the show is about two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester (yes, their last name is taken from the fire-arm), who in the shortest description possible take on the evils of the supernatural world. They take on Ghosts, Vampires, Demons, Tricksters, Wendigos and anything else that goes bump in the night. There is one thing that needs to be said about this show, the writers take from a lot of myths and religions, for instance, the Demons do work for Lucifer but at the same time they fight the Wedingos from Native American myths, and also they portray Angels as not the nicest of the things they meet, so if you find the kind of thing offensive then this is not the show for you.
By now you must be wondering why I chose that quote as my title, well first of all I set up my desktop 2 weeks ago (and installed Windows 7 from a gamers stand point later maybe Friday along with my new Zune) and I started playing Civilization 4 again (along with Galactic Civilizations 2, Battlefront 2, Age of Mythology and Age of Empires 3) and well, I realized its one of my favorite quotes from the game (although pretty much everything is said by Spock so its all pretty rad). Second, it sums up the show nicely (so does Carry on, my Wayward Son) as these kids were raised by their father to take down the Supernatural, and their father listened to what is considered today as classic rock (who's parents didn't?) and it carries on to the shows, so in away whenever they save someones life, rock and roll saved their life.
Now, one of the big points of the show is it's like a forty minute Horror movie every week, not only in the fact that they have to fight all the stuff Horror movies are made of, but the way it is shot is like a movie, with wide shots, angles, the licensed music, music cues, really its not like most other TV shows, which are shot as TV shows, this show is shot as a movie and the acting is not that bad from the main cast, but sometimes the guests can be a little wooden (but what horror movie would be complete without bad acting?). One final point about the show is the humor, all I am going to say about the humor is this, in one episode a man shoots a sheriff when he is possessed, when he gets an exorcism performed on him and returns to normal he says remorsefully: "I shot the Sheriff," in which Dean replies after trying to hold it in "But you did not shoot the deputy."
Well I really can't believe that I missed this show on my favorite TV show list as it really is my favorite. Well I hoped you like my review and please check this show out. Season five starts on the tenth of September, a day before my birthday. As I said, watch from my review of the Windows 7 Release Candidate, the Zune and the Zune player.
My Ubuntu PC is back up and running. Pretty crazy.
All I had to do was switch the plugs and all of a sudden, it turns on. It's like a Zombie or something. So, with this startling revelation, a question arises: Should I kill it?
Sure it's fully functioning, just like it was before the lightning storm except now it goes by the name Ubuntu PC McZombieface, or some variation of that. I've read the Zombie Survival Guide, as well as World War Z and the Ninja Handbook for good measure, so I think that whether I decide to keep using it, or destroy it, I'll be prepared to go either way, so... yeah.
Now I'm kind of upset, I can't replace it anymore.
Friends, a lightning storm just claimed the artificial life of my Ubuntu PC. It just sits there now, like a paperweight. The post below this contains a screenshot taken around an hour before the incident.
Being an eMachine, it becomes obvious that this computer came from humble roots. Most likely, it’s origin was somehow related to Wal-Mart, and it is uglier than sin, but inside was a proverbial heart of gold (read: Silicon).
Lil’ Jim II (as we shall call it), came into my household with the attitude that it wasn’t gonna let those other computers push it around just because it’s system specifications weren’t exactly up to date. At all. It was from around, oh say, 2003 probably.
Barely being able to run Windows XP, new life was breathed into it with the installation of Ubuntu 8.04, which ran without a hitch (until today). Sure, it was noisy, made click sounds that I only heard from my old Windows 3.1 desktop, but hey, it worked.
While it may have been old and crippled from the beginning, not a singlething could ever replace it. So rest in peace, Lil’ Jim II.
I was going to post a couple days ago, but I'm lazy and that's part of my manly charm, so I have to keep that up from time to time.
ANYHOO...
A couple days ago, and update for the unstable release of Google Chrome I'm running on my Ubuntu PC was released and I grabbed that right up, this update was special for one specific reason, with this latest update, plugins are now implemented.
Needless to say, awesome. Not only because I no longer need to rely on two browsers to surf, but also because I can tell people this: it's still fast. I haven't noticed a single ounce of slowdown with the implementation of plugins.
My desktop looks considerably different from last time, but that's just a small testament to the versatility of the Linux Platform.
I am not the Green Lantern of space sector 2814 (I heard Ryan Reynolds is).
That would be sweet though...
I saw Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.
This is my review.
It will have spoilers.
I believe that when you create a piece of art based on another piece of art you are allowed to change things to allow a proper conversion, maybe a different take on a situation, unless the original piece of art gave you something that would have been one of the best things this summer. I am of course referring to the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I'm getting this out of the way, this part is not really a review but rant. O.K. the ending of the book before Dumbledore is killed, a call to arms is issued by Hermione to D.A. (Dumbledore's Army) to fight against the Death Eaters, but in the movie, the Death Eaters just walked to the astronomy tower unopposed. So instead of a battle between a bunch of wizards we get nothing, just Dumbldore's death. So instead of a battle of epic proportions we get... nothing. Well, we get a two part movie next year.
O.K., time to put of my film student hat on (a little loose, must have lost weight, and yes, it is a fedora, and if it wasn't summer I would be wearing my film student blazer as i write this, but I'm getting off topic). This film was shot wonderfully, the first battle between Harry and Ginny with Beatrix is shot wonderfully. Nice jump cuts and fast panning creates a fast and intense battle, almost feeling like you're there. This film runs for two hours and forty min but it does not feel that long, I know some of the movies feel like you spend a year watching it, but not this one, it seemed to go by fast, maybe a little too fast. One thing the books did right was the fact that with each one it is darker than the one that came before it, keeping with the age of the reader as they were released, and the films seem to be doing the same and with a different director, it can be hard to do sometimes but this series seem to have stayed the course and is doing just fine by it. The film uses light well, but I miss the music cues from the first three, but good ol' John Williams will be back in seven and eight. Did I forget to mention that John Williams also did the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and the Superman series as well? So ya, the man is a movie music legend (Oh, and he is doing the Green Lantern film as well as The Adventures of Tin Tin film which will feature Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thomson and Thomson, so ya). I really enjoyed this film minus the hate from not including the big wizard battle, and that is a big achievement considering that I wanted to see (500) Days of Summer but alas, the movie theater did not have it there because half the screens were Harry Potter and it does not normally have smaller films anyway (i really wish they had Moon but nooooo that would be to sweet.)
Did I mention that there will be a Green Lantern film, yes staring Ryan Reynolds, I don't know about him for Hal Jordon but I will role with it. Oh and people complaining about it not beening John Stewart (The African American one) as the main character, its not because he is African American its because he is a bad character, yes if you read the comics you would see that he is the 2nd worst of the human Green Lanterns it goes like this Hal Jordon, Kyle Rayner, Alan Scott, John Stewart, then Guy Gardener. you only like him because either he is African American or you watched Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, in which his personality is more like Hal Jordon, so take that!!!!!!!!
Turns out that my internal wireless card is not fried. That dude at the Service place just wanted to give up, and it’s always funny to notice that they sound like a broken record when they can’t fix something, it’s always fried, or the motherboard has to be replaced, when it’s something completely different.
The diagnosis for my laptop was that the WLAN was not working simply because the laptop got so hot that it fried my internal wireless card. That made no sense, since it stopped working after a software update.
Anyways, I’ve got my laptop back, and I’ve got a lovely 802.11 N Wi-Fi USB Adapter to plug into my laptop so it can live on with the interwebs a-flowin’ through it.
Here’s where the weird part comes in.
Much like a Ninja, or more so a wild Stallion, my internal wireless card occasionally shows up and functions. The Stallion analogy works better in my opinion. You can’t tame it, if you shut the gate it’ll just jump the fence and you’ll never see it again. If you leave the gate open, it’ll come in for a little fellowship from time to time with it’s fellow internal components. It seems to show up more often now, maybe it’s because it feels a sense of rivalry between the Wi-Fi adapter and itself… I am a little crazy, yes.
As some of you may know, James stated in a previous post that he would be going to Camp until Sunday and returning today. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
James has been reported missing by the authorities not thirty minutes ago, and the only clue they have as to his whereabouts is this small transcript from a Journal he kept while he ventured into the unknown. This is his story:
9:00 AM, July 9th: We have now arrived at this Camp ground, and I seem to be the only one to notice that it is in utter ruin. The roads are not paved, these structures I see do not have satellites on top of them, some of them don't seem to even have electricity. I pray for the souls trapped inside these shells of torture, which others would dare to call “Cabins.”
10:45 AM, July 9th: My sister is trying to make my brother and I play this strange card game “Racko,” It is completely tactless. I feared that we were slowly turning into animals until my brother agreed that this game was, like, totally stupid, bro. We played Uno, that's better.
9:09 PM, July 9th: I can't believe this, the high-def tv my brother purchased for the half-week at camp doesn't pick up the Air waves without rabbit ears, this sucks. Truly this is a wasteland of nega-technology, where technology is frowned upon. Terrible.
11:30 AM, July 10th: I went searching for intelligent life, someone else sitting in their cabin like a sane person, not like these folk hanging around outside enjoying “Nature.” Nature, bah! If I want nature, I'll pop in a disc of Planet Earth, why go outside when David Attenborough is doing it for me?
Absolute Wasteland...
1:35 PM, July 10th: What is this thing!?
These folk seem to have lost their foothold in reality and created strange variations upon modern architecture. I pray that these people will realize their wrong-doings and come back to the sane world of Reality shows and emotional indifference. They're too... happy, it kind of makes me feel strange to see so many happy people. NO, don't give in James, you're a sensible, intelligent and independent couch potato, you don't need to mess up such a good thing.
7:00 PM, July 10th: I have been subject to torture, friends. I have eaten their food, and I am now digesting it.
Look at this cacophony of dark and evil materials, not a bit of which needed to be put in the microwave mind you, so you know there's something wrong already, crudely laid upon a plate of paper. A warning to you all now, friends, if you hear mention of a substance known as “Macaroni Salad,” run fast, run far, for it is a substance these creatures consume, even though it was pretty good... WHAT AM I SAYING!?
12:30 PM, July 11th: My mother may soon be lost to this settlement of nature loving... folk. She just let in two young children of another tribe to tend to wounds that developed on one of their knees. Apparently, the female child in question was injured when operating a machine known as, and I'm not sure if I'm saying this right, a “Bicycle.” My worst fears may soon be realized, I fear that this Faith Community hidden in the trees may indeed be a front for a child labour organization! Their minds were warped and twisted in a terribly perverse way, they were happy, with smiles on their faces, almost as if they were glad that they were being worked to the bone operating these Bicycles...
4:45 PM, July 11th: My mother has been gone for perhaps half an hour. She has supposedly gone to appeal to the leaders of this settlement to remove perhaps five or six wasp's nests hanging off of the outside of the cabin we are in, I personally believe that they may be weapons strategically placed there to emanate gaseous... gases into our cabin to manipulate our brains. My brother went out to find her after fifteen minutes had passed, and much to his misfortune, he found her fraternizing with the folk. Not just attempting to study them, she was interacting, laughing, conversing, she was one of them. They have infiltrated my family group, I can't even trust my own mother anymore, I may have to kill her.
Her expression. So empty.
3:01 PM, July 12th: I just returned from a most disturbing event. I travelled with my sister to some kind of pool full of water. Children were being dunked into it by their parents, most likely being taught diving for militant purposes. For the sake of the investigation, I went in this poorly disguised pool to study further. I wore my shirt in the pool, but it was only because I burn easily. Stop laughing. It... it wasn't fun at... at all. I... I... ok it was pretty snazzy, I could get used to these militant diving techniques, even if it looked a lot like swimming.
(Right here, there seems to be a large gap between entries, I think that this may have been when they pounced on him.)
8:00 PM, July 12th: I am now a man. I have created fire with my bare hands (also with wood, paper towels and matches). We made S'Mores! Did you know about these things? They're, like, Marshmallow, ok? Yeah, and then you light the Marshmallow on fire and wrap it in Graham Cracker and Chocolate (the Marshmallow shouldn't be on fire at that point). Boy, I sure was wrong about these kind folk. Just becauses they converse, laugh and don't need TV doesn't make them weird, it just makes them special. We also cooked assorted meats on the fire, Hot dogs and stuff. I wonder where a honky can get hisself a fire for inside the house...
Well this is overdue, I'm Anthony Doom. I was going to write something for two Fridays ago, then last Friday, and well, finally this is it, my introduction to this blog and hopefully one of the many future contributors. First, let me say I'm a student a Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Computer Science Major (with a film studies minor). Most importantly right now, I have no Internet, that is right, a computer science major with no Internet at his house. Until September I have to come to the school to use the Internet so I might not be able to post as often as I would like, but I will try as hard as I can to update every Friday, with a multitude of videos and humor, mostly tech related but also Pop-culture related as well. So to introduce my self I have decided to do 5 top five lists so you can judge my opinions compared to yours so you can decide how much salt to add to my views. Well, lets get started and in no particular order (the number 5 slot for each will be reserved for my favorite current item on the list I am watching/listening to/surfing, not all time favorite, I guess that would be a particular).
Doom's top 5 favorite Television shows
1. House M.D. -Fox Well here it is, my first favorite TV show, House. If you do not know what House is, well, where have you been (have you been in a Coma?) House is about Doctor Gregory House, he is a drug addict, cocky, an atheist and based on the fictional Sherlock Holmes, who always figures out the current episodes illness in a manor that is best described as a brain wave, but the real meat of the show is the humor which is mainly about House's overblown ego, which is done by the great Hugh Laurie, and the drama created by House's drug addiction and love for a certain person who I will not mention.
Here is a trailer for season 3 there are some spoilers but still shows some of the basic humor of the show.
2. Stargate (Well, both of them I guess)-Showtime and Sci-fi Some people do not like science fiction show or movies. They will not like my list of shows or movies then, if you are one such person its probably best to skip ahead (or hey, try watching anyone of these shows, you might like them). This is a great science fiction show, it has an episodic format of endless possibilities but also with the ability to have long season stretching arcs, this is done by having the Stargate. The Stargate is a device that allows one to travel to another Stargate by creating a wormhole that connects them. There are two shows, both finished in their runs but a third is in development. The first of the two shows was the original, Stargate SG-1, this show followed Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), a tough as nails soldier that has a sense of humor, the everyman that leads a team into the world of science fiction stories (this is where much of his humor comes from). Second (and my favorite character in the original), is Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) the resident archeology nerd, I almost became an archaeologist because of this character, he grows from a weakling nerd who could hardly hold his own in a fire-fight to becoming one of the strongest characters. Oh and he died, a lot. Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping), a scientist who isn't very funny in the beginning, just their to break down gender roles like one episode where the inhabitants of a planet kid-nap her so they can sell her to another clan to make peace, which leads to a new leader being chosen and the gender roles are equalized. The last character I will go through for this show is Teal'c(Christopher Judge), he is the resident alien (oh, I forgot to mention that the "aliens" are in fact humans taken from Earth that other aliens placed throughout the galaxy, and there are snake-like aliens, that take people over and masquerade as Gods), a super solider that realizes his Gods are fake and wants to help his people by jumping sides. These people go from planet to planet fighting the Goa'uld, an evil race of snake-like aliens that burrow into the skulls of people and take them over and using their advanced technology and pretending to be the Egyptian, Asian, and other Gods to make the people worship them.
Here is a small selection of the many funny moment in SG-1
I will review Atlantis at another date.
3. Umm just give me a second..... right, Top Gear-BBC
Top Gear is a car review program from England, it stars Jeremy Clarkson, Richard "Hamster" Hammond and James "Captain Slow" May. It's unconventional, rude, crude, politically incorrect and well, I will let video speak for me (These guys work blue folks, don't watch if that offends).
4. Firefly-Fox (ONE MORE TIME!) This is the little show that could...not. This was created by Josh Whedon (Buffy, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog) about a ragtag group of space cowboy smugglers that go from one dangerous situation to another, with nothing ever working out for them but they still go on, they still have hope. I cannot find an appropriate video that represents the show.
5. Kings- NBC
This is the story of King David's rise to power set in the modern day about a fictional country called Gilboa and their tensions with the country and their rivals Gath, but the weak acting of David and some of the other members of the court is all washed away with the acting of King Silas (Ian McShane, of Deadwood fame) that is why it is my favorite current show.
Recap of episode one
Doom's top 5 favorite Podcasts
1. iFanboy Pick of the Week Podcast
What happens three liberal New Yorkers get together and talk about Comics? Hilarity ensues. These three podcasters Josh Flanagan,Conor Kilpatrick , andRon Richards (Richards!) talk about what they love and hate about Comic Books. Make sure you listen to the end where they talk about G.I. Joe its the greatest part of this episode. 07.05.2009 - Episode #191- Batman and Robin #2
2. This Week in Tech
Leo Laport gets together with other tech personalities and talk about... you guessed it, cakes. No, wait! Tech, I meant tech. this WEEK in TECH
3. Diggnation
Two guys getting drunk on a couch and talk about news, they are quite witty. Hosted by Revision3
Ok, yeah... The last two are just Revision 3 Revision3
Doom's top 5 favorite Songs
For this I'm just going to place a video for each song so please listen to them
Doom's top 5 favorite Movies
1. Elizabethtown
This is a weird choice for me, I don't generally like these kind of movies, but it has a nice selection of music, a nice story about a man coming to terms with the death of his father, falling in love with a women and about killing himself. It's a pretty story and soulful as some people would describe.
It stars Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst
2. Blade Runner Riddly Scott's classic Neo-noir masterpiece staring Harrison Ford as Rick Deccard a "Blade Runner" a man who hunts down Replicants, humanoid robots that are illegal on earth.
3. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
My favorite of all the Trek movies, an analogy for the tearing down of the Berlin wall and the old men who have had the disdain for the enemy that they had for their hole life, so in this film, Kirk and the Klingons try for peace.
4. Hot Fuzz Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are cops in a small town and uncover a plot so secret that I would be killed if I revealed it here. Hilarity Ensues.
www.digg.com is a social news website where you get to vote on your favorite stories.
2. ifanboy
www.ifanboy.com is a site where you can make your pull list of comics, read articles and listen to a podcast by the podcasters mentioned above.
3. Cracked.com
www.cracked.com Yes the website with the lists, the main attraction to the site (for me, at least) is SWAIM's videos.
4. Io9 www.io9.com A social blog about science fiction, television shows movies, what not.
5. Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org, yes, I know this is a cop-out about my current favorite sites but it is.
Well thats it. Sorry about any spelling and grammar mistakes, I am looking forward to writing more articles so watch out for them and if you think that there is any thing I should check out that you think I would like and should check out you can email me at punisher1135@gmail.com. Thanks.
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