This Month's Picks
Blog Links
- My Profile
- The World of Jedicraft (proper homepage version)
- Wisdom of the Day
- Keith's Tuscany Tour
- Watashi To Tokyo - Mari's Blog
- Carlnonymous
- Yuko's Travel Journal
- r ams hack le 75
- Line of Site
- Ty-Eclectic
- blandplanet.com
- Shi-chan's Australia Blog
- SEX, FOOTBALL, ROCK N ROCK...
- JB in Japan
- Random Beatings
- Bay Ridge Blog
- NYC Bloggers
- No More Pizza
- Oh Canada!!! - Phil's Blog
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Monday, May 15, 2006
If Eyebrows Could Speak
For those of you who have never lived in
I've never seen this man before in any capacity except for recently on NY1's movie reviews and entertainment segments. As for his biography and background, I'll leave it up to Google. The most important topic here are those masses of fur and hair attached directly below his forehead: eyebrows, if they can be called that. They are absolutely huge. Much larger than either Unibrau or the Unibrowed security guard at one of my client's businesses. Bigger than Lou Albano's mustache on the Super Mario Bros. Super Show. Bigger than even all the hair on Robin William's body. These eyebrows could cook you dinner and hold the fork for you while you eat and play games. The Google image search I did was far too hideous to show here. Let’s just say that those have never, ever been trimmed.
Don't believe me? Watch for yourself and see. At least you might be lucky enough to spot the lovely Sandra Endo.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Show's Over Folks
What impressed me? Not the Xbox360. The PS3 makes it look like a Dreamcast (love that little guy) with no good games. The Halo 3 trailer looked great, but it was more of a cinematic than a game. I doubt we'll see any gameplay for a year or so. Additionally, Sony is out of their minds to sell a brand new system for $599 starting. Yes, I'll buy one for Metal Gear Solid 4 (sequel heaven these days). Yet, most people agree that it was Nintendo that stole the show.
To start, the originally underpowered DS (against a portable PS2??!!!!??) is paying off. The software out now and in the pipeline looks amazing. I may never play my PSP again. New Super Mario Bros, Starfox, Castlevania: Gothic Adjective of Creepy Intanigible Thing (the names are getting ridiculous), and Zelda look great. I'm dying to play Mario Kart and Metroid Prime Hunters. But the true light was revealed after. The Nintendo Wii. Okay the name kinda sucks. But the games, the controller, the style. I can't describe it, you just have to watch it. Nintendo will spark a true Revolution. Nintendo is doing what everyone else don’t, trying something new, pushing the enevolope, going further than the competition. The DS has two screen and a touch pad, the PSP is just a really powerful Game Gear. The Wii controller has more technology packed inside it than 12 Dual Shock controllers put together, the PS3 is using a slight variation of the same controller! Nintendo is redesigning it’s francises for the future, the Xbox360 is simply adding better graphics. And finally Nintendo is reducing costs. Where Sony and Microsoft are starting to get out of control, pricewise, Nintendo intends to sell the Wii at a price under $250, and in addition is going out of its way to reduce development costs for designers who just want to make great games.
Still, if I had to talk about numbers, I’d be worried that the PS3 will win because too many idiots who started playing games late (late = middle of PSX lifestyle) want HD graphics and more Grand Theft Auto... Sorry guys, Nintendo is back. It may be for kids, but its fun as hell. They are going to change the face of gameplay as we know it, and once it’s done, there is no going back.
Friday, May 12, 2006
Welcome Back, Again
That's all I can say. Yes I know it’s been about three weeks since my last update, and I apologize. Moving and setting up the new place took a lot more energy and effort and time and money then I thought, but in the end, it was worth it.
The new place came out great and while I still have a very strong connection to my old place in the gaijin ghetto (a.k.a. Benteniary or the olde ben-ten), I do have to say the new place is superior in many ways. First, the paint job is great! (thanks Uncle Jimmy, Jay, Keith, Chie and Andrew) and the furniture also came out really good (thanks Jay, Keith, Ed, Hank and Chie). And finally with a new home theater system (thanks Samsung, sorry neighbors) the place is becoming very comfortable. The theater system is quite possibly the best speaker system I've ever had, the bed is definitely the biggest, the TV I want will be the nicest, this place is definitely getting cool.
Still, there are a few differences to note: a) 50 parties, while possible, are a no/no; b) romantic balcony is no longer an option; c) kitchen based flame thrower, that I used to call a stove, has been replaced with an electric version - I like fire!; d) new place has windows-a-plenty, old place had 1; e) old building and neighboring buildings had a few cute girls inside, Bay Ridge has tons.
So, when are you coming over?
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
My aching cell phone
Last Tuesday, my cell phone had a lovely short visit with his not so close aquitence, the ground. While all the major features are still intact, it no longer likes Memory sticks and refuses to read them. Therefore, it now cannot transfer pictures to my computer and I am without a way to get pictures to this blog, as I destroyed my sister's digital camera during the last snow storm and am not using her new one.
I'll be in the Cingular shop soon to use that insurance I pay for every month.