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Angry Art, Random, Sketchup
Tudious
10.19.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I was in a bad mood this morning, so instead of working I did some fun drawings of an angry robot. I think I’ll name him Tudious. He can represent my angry side, and Bongbot, my fun side.

I think I have a reason for another new category.
Fuck Sony, Gaming, Sketchup
R.I.P. PS3 U P.O.S.
10.18.09 | Permalink | Comment?

In the middle of some amazing Nazi Zombie matches with Jeff the other day, my PS3 disc drive decided to stop working. Of course this happens just after I find a cheap headset and can finally play online without the use of speaker phone (thankfully we live in a time of digital phone). I called Sony today, hoping to find out they had service like Xbox. They don’t. They want me to pay $200 to have anything fixed. Disc drive, L.E.D. light, scratched case, all are $200. A new system is $299. Sony can go fuck themselves, and have just forced me to create a new category for the chronicles.

My brother brought me his Xbox today (his doesn’t play discs, and I have no Internet, so there is no point in me having mine), figuring I could at least hook it up and play my arcade games (I got TMNT Turtles in Time a few months ago, and I’m dying to beat it), but without an Internet connection, I have no way of recovering my gamer profile which is linked to all the games. So I have a PS3 that doesn’t play shit that isn’t on the hard drive, and a 360 that won’t play anything but trials of games I already own.

I have terrible luck these days.
Food, Life, Movies, Random
DIY pub food
10.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last night Holly and I decided to make our own bar food, instead of going out for bar food. We got a recipe for deep fried dill pickles off the Internet, and made them with a jar of my homemade pickles (the only jar I had).

They were homemade²!! Not only did I grow the cucumbers, I also grew the dill and garlic I used to pickle them. Then I made the batter, and breading.

Holly made us a huge tray of nachos to go with our pickles, and both were incredible.

The only thing our bar dinner was missing was beer. We neglected to stock up on that while gathering our groceries earlier in the day. Even still, it was better than any bar I’ve ever been to. We got to watch Deadwood while we ate, and then crawl into bed right after.

After what seemed like 10 episodes of Deadwood, we decided to check out Zombieland. My brother gave me a rip of it earlier in the day, which I’d forgotten all about. It was actually a decent movie. Although lame at times, the zombie killing was really graphic, and I give bonus points to the fact that they never tried to find a solution to the zombies. Instead, they just had a good time slaying them by the dozens. I’d like to think if zombies attacked, I’d handle it in much the same way.
Life, Love, Random
Hollydays
10.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Thursday morning Holly started a week of holidays. She began the day with a fashion show, and catwalk down to the curb in her fall collection. Then treated me to breakfast and milkshakes at the Falls Manor.

When we finished eating we stepped outside and noticed a cop and a security guard laying on top of someone, on the opposite side of the street. We stuck around for a second to be nosy, and we saw what appeared to be a kid around 15 or so getting cuffed and tossed in the back of the cruiser. Then backup arrived, and the security guard left. We took of at that point, but noticed the cops looking over the bridge where we figured they had chased the kid across. Holly’s guess was that the kid stole something, got chased by the security guard, then tossed whatever it was as he crossed the bridge. Either way, it was an entertaining morning.
Life, Love, Random
Great Cobra Lodge (coming soon…)
10.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last week Holly took me and the boys to the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls for two days and one night. She won a package at a stag and doe recently, and after several hassles managed to get a room booked for the ideal date. The room was pretty sweet. It had a separate room for the boys, which was made to look like a log tree house. Everything in the building was plastic molds with foam cores. All the logs were wrapped in quarter inch thick vinyl, leading me to wonder whether there were even logs anywhere in the enormous “log” building. Most of the stones were plastic too.

The building also had a bunch of animatronic creatures (talking trees, bears, moose, etc.), an indoor water park, and some interactive projections of fish that were impossible to step on.

The water park had some good slides, but they used a stupid conveyor belt to bring rafts for the slides to the top. It took so long for rafts to come up it caused a constant lineup for every slide. The ones I did go on were fun, but the best time I had was relaxing in the outdoor hot tub with Holly. The bed in our room was terrible, and everyone had a shit night of sleep. Breakfast was decent, but incredibly pricey.

Our room also had a nice balcony I could smoke on, and where Holly and I had Gage take our picture up top.

Another good thing about the lodge, was the gigantic strawberry daiquiris Holly frequently enjoyed.
Gaming, Life, Random, Sketchup
Murder Machine!
10.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I’ve got Jon’s old machine setup at Holly’s now. It’s running Windows Server 2003, and it’s smooth and stable. Now I need a better desk, another keyboard and mouse, and some sort of display for my video games. As soon as I make it rich, I’ll be fine.

For now I’d be happy with a new blue tooth headset. I can’t find the cheap one I bought from TigerDirect, and I have been playing a lot of Zombies online with Jeff and Ryan. It’s fucking impossible without a way to communicate. I was certain it was in one of my boxes, but I’ve checked them all multiple times with no luck at all.

I did some work on the tank with Roan this past weekend. He decided to name it the Murder Machine. It’s pretty badass.

Jon and I were talking about me possibly using some of my models in games for the iphone. He said he can use .svg files in stuff he’s developing. I just need to figure out how to export my models as .svg. I looked online and found a plugin that allows faces of models to be exported as .svg, but I’m not certain that’s going to give us something we can use in games.

Tonight I’m hoping to get some work done on a drawing I thought was going to be a huge pain, but now I’m not so sure – it might be fairly easy in fact. Then I’d like to kill some zombies with someone, then chill with Holly and maybe watch Deadwood. First we have to clean and eat, then possibly hide some bodies.