*Has a heart attack*

Why? Cause the Seahawks pulled a win out of their ass today! Holy Crap!! The Giants could have won three times but their field goal kicker missed each time! Holy freaking crap!!! Seattle finally managed to get enough offense to get within Josh Brown's range and with about 5 mins left in overtime, Seattle won by a field goal. Holy freaking macha macha hi crap!!!

*cries*

Fake crying, I can assure you. Anyway, some of you might have played Dugeon Siege. Some of you might remember that I went to visit Gas Powered Games a few years back. I liked Gas Powered Games. Lots of intelligent people there headed by a guy that knows what he wants. However, I think he's off his rocker. If you travel over to here, you'll find the trailer for the movie they are making based on it. And now, let me bring up Dungeon & Dragons. Why do I bring it up? Because, looking at the trailer, the Dungeon Siege movie will be worse than that D&D crap. Watch the trailer and you'll see what I mean.

First up, Burt Reynolds is in it. WTF?! Burt Reynolds in a fantasy movie? As the King character?! Next up, that Jason Statham guy who's been in such flops as The Transporter and The Transporter 2. He was mildly interesting in Snatch. He's as B-action star as they come. No offense to Bruce Cambell though. And then there's poor John Rhys-Davies who is now forever typecast into fantasy movies. You might remember him from Lord of the Rings movies.

So, I really don't know. I really can't judge the movie by the trailer, ala Star Wars prequal trailers, but it's sooooo terrible!!!

Penn & Teller: Bullshit

I love Penn & Teller. Penn is soo loud. I can't believe how loud he is. Anyway, though a new site I found,Digg.com, I found one of their episodes of Bullshit on Showtime. I'm really really happy. It's the show where they call Bullshit on the Bible. Since it is Penn & Teller, the language is mature, but the subject matter is what is important. It's just about 30 minutes long and funny as all hell. Please give it a watch. Please...for the children.

Ajax - What is it really?

So, when people first hear about AJAX, what do they really think it is? Well, currently it's the latest buzzword in the tech world. It's stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML2. But what if you didn't know that? What would you think about?

Here are a few things that might have come up:

• Ajax was a Greek hero from the Trojan War stories -


• AJAX is a vehicle type from Robotech -


• The Nike Ajax surface-to-air missile -


• Ajax, the cleaner -


• Ajax, the video game from Konami -

Wow, I hope you get down here. =) The Ajax I'm interested in is the one I first mentioned above. This a relatively new technology that have spawn quite a few of cool web applications. Do you use Gmail? Perhaps you've seen Google Maps. I've also heard of companies developing simple MSOffice-like web applications. It looks like this is taking off. While it's not the best because of it's dependences on JavaScript which is a security problem and not all browsers support it, it is still getting the job done.

A while back, I mentioned that I would start looking at making a MUD. I think the second part of that is to create a client application using Ajax. Now that would be cool. That would be cool. :) All I need now is a swift kick in the ass to put me down this path.

Working hard for my money

I'm working this weekend to make sure I don't get underpaid for having no holiday pay. It's a drag but I'll actually get stuff done.

Well, that's all I got. Tootles.

Crack and a pipe

Two totally unrelated items in my life...or are they?

I just posted up another link to some music I like to listen to. Japan-A-Radio features the latest Norwegian Viking music. Umm...no, more like J-pop and anime. For those of you who like streaming music, both di.fm and Japan-a-Radio use a newer technology called aacPlus. This streams out awesome quality sounding music at a bit-rate that people still on Dial-up *cough*AOL*cough* can enjoy. I like it because in theory it will have less drop outs and it's less bandwidth the hosts needs to pay out for.

So, it's all good. Oh yeah, you'll need to download Winamp 5.1 in order for you to use the aacPlus technology. I think it's worth it. In fact I'll probably download it at work tomorrow. Of course they may block the port after they discover a competing product is being used on their network. *smile*

And other topic, Seahawks are playing Sunday at one vs their division rival Rams, probalby their only compeition in the division this year. It should be a good time. Be sure to watch. And be happy I'm hundreds of miles away.

A long time

So a few things. The Seahawks won again last week. Barely in the last 40 seconds of the game, but it was a win all the same. Bye this week and they're off to Arizona for probably another whipping session next week. It shall be fun.

Second, I finally found a game type that I should have started to make a long time ago. The world of MUDs. I played a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) or two back in the day when BBSes were all the rage. However, that thing called the Web killed off the BBS and I didn't really play them any more. One could say that Everquest and World of Warcraft could be considered a MUD. I'm thinking more along the lines of the pure text version. This recently came back to me as I had thought of an idea that could lead to a more pleasurable MMO experience. Of course building your own MMO from scratch is ludicrous. I was discussing the idea with a co-worker and he mentioned that MUDs would be a good area to test the idea out. That was quite the idea.

So, now I'm on a quest to see about building my own MUD. Giving there's probably won't be any graphics involved or physics, I can be confident that I could do a large majority of building said software by myself. There's a lot of good things that can come about this and I'm thinking it's quite workable. So, wish me luck and pray to His Noodly Appendage.

Seahawks Won! <eom>

*sigh*

I'm bored. I'm seriously considering getting me some Code Red and doing some coding. I can't believe how bored I am. I haven't been this bored in ages.

Bored, bored, bored. On a scale of 1 to 10, i'm a 10 bored. Bored.

Ok, enough being bored. I'll just be boring now.

It's no use

Seattle lost today. It's seemed like they would after on their first play ended with a fumble. Opening kickoff and they screw up right from the beginning. I wonder if it's worth watching any more.

It's certainly beginning to look like watching sports is something I should grow out of. Sure, not everybody in the NFL sucks, but when your home team continues to drain whatever hope of sports happiness, it's not cool anymore. I can now feel what the fans of the Boston Red Sox have felt for decades before their team finally won last year.

I have to say that I enjoy watching tennis still and the occasional golf match.

I dunno...I gots other things on my mind right now. Being 30 and barely in a better spot than I was last year. Yeah, "boo-hoo" you say. *sigh*...more later...maybe

YESS!!!

One of my friends that I have known the longest on the Internet is ok!! She had lived in New Orleans. It would appear that her and her family got out on Sunday and managed to get to Little Rock, AK. I always thought of Arkansas indifferently, but they go up a notch today. =D

Konban wa

That's 'Good Evening' in Japanese.

I'm finally feeling like I'm progressing with my Japanese skills. I'm finally seeing some silent vowels which I was trying to pronounce but yet the speaker on the CD was skipping. I didn't understand for a long time and it was frustrating. Tonight I sat down for I think over two hours(!) and read through the first seven lessons. Several lessons I would repeat certain clips over and over till I could understand what was going on. By the way, I'm using the Living Language: Japanese Complete Course. The link goes to a newer version, but I'm sure it's about the same as the one that I have which I got very late 90's or very early 2000's.

I'm far from being able to watch anime without subtitles, but I think I'm on my way. Now the trick is to stick to studying a few times a week otherwise I'll stay in this deep, deep, deep rut that I've been in since...I dunno...forever? I think after I learn some more, I'll need to search out a native speaker to help me out. I had attended a Japanese group once in the Bellevue area which was pretty cool. They only meet once a month but I work a shift where I leave work around 3pm. They meet at 7pm. It's pretty inconvenient to go home then come back then go home again. That's at least an hour of additional travel. On good days. I guess I'll figure something out.

Well, that's enough for right now. Talk at y'all later.

A Quicky

Over here is an article about them crazy bible people thinking that dinosaurs walked with man. haha You need to register for that article by the way. But here's the little quote that I must show:

"Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden, and Noah's Ark? Give me a break," said Kevin Padian, curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley and president of National Center for Science Education, an Oakland group that supports teaching evolution. "For them, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary."

hahhahahahhahahhahhaahahaha The Flintstones....a documentary!!! That's great!

So you just turned 30. What are you going to do now?

Not go to Disneyland, that's for sure. :P

Yeah, so today is my 30th birthday. I have finally transcended into my 30somethings. I can finally relate to the show of the same name from the 90s or whenever it was. I can't say that I actually watched that show so I'm not sure how I could relate, but I'll try my best. Maybe it's on DVD now.

So last night to celebrate, we all went bowling for what else? Bowling!! and beer!! heh Amy went with us to be sure I drank enough. I think I did. I was pleasantly liquored up. The bowling was fun. It was the first time that Dave has been too. He did pretty good on the first game. Got frustrated on the second game. I ended up doing most of his frames much to the sadness of my thumb. Though we were using the bumpers so it wasn't as bad. I managed to get two strikes that would have been gutter balls had the bumpers been down. I thought that was fairly comical. We ended up at the small arcade they had where I played some DDR with Dawn. I beat her but I think it's because the pad I was using was better. I played again on the one she used and I was sucking. What was cool about it though was that it was a Japanese machine. And it was actually loud!

Today I mainly just relaxed. Watched some TV, read the Sunday paper, did some laundry, and cooked myself some pancakes. So it was an ok day. We'll see how the rest of my 30s will turn out. =D

Ack, it's a blackout!

Damn it to all hell. Blackout for Seattle's game tonight. If you live within 75 miles of the game, you're screwed. Though I understand that the Seahawks lost. Probably not an interesting game. heh It's only preseason. But I continue to get blackout games for the regular season, I'm gonna be pissed! I can't live without my Seahawks! I'm much to cheap to actually go to the games. *sigh* Oh well. We shall see.

One of a kind

Yeah, my first attempt at a color manga-like thing. Certainly lots of room for improvement, but I'm happy with it. I actually found that to be fun. I hope I didn't miss my calling. :/

Goodbye 20's....It's was real

*sigh* So, as some of you know, my birthday is here in 12 days. So 12 days left of my 20's. I'm not sure what to say about it. Yay, another birthday down. Hopefully lots to come.

Thought I still feel like I haven't gone anywhere. Sure, I moved away from the Tri-Cities. Yay, I guess. But I still have four things laying around my desk that I've been wanting to do for ages. So yeah, I feel like that I been no where.

Eh, I'll come back later.

A change of heart

So a good chunk of people who read my site regularly know my plight versus religion. It makes no sense to me. The whole creation thing is just some kind of mythology, as mythological as the Greek and Roman kind. However, I may have to do an about-face on Intelligent Design. The answers were always there, right in front of me. In my cupboard to be exact. It took this site to bring it all in focus. From now on, every Sunday, I will worship my creator. Maybe with some garlic bread, too.

What if..

Ghenghis Khan formed his own disco band....this is what. Catchy, no? Thanks to Blue's News for the link.

'nother small update

Just changed up the links on the side. That's it. Nothing more. Now go outside...enjoy the sun.