New year, New Friends, New Blog!
All that’s left is to get the gallery back up and functioning and this thing will be ready to go. I was thinking of moving the site to a better URL, Hopefully that just means linking the other wordpress installation to the same database. But I really just want to get back to writing, I feel better when I write down the things I think of. But it’s late now and I have to make up sleep that I missed last night.
See you around, Internet!
So I’m moving the blog. For technical reasons this website has much better hosting and WordPress has much more to offer than Blosxom. It’s not like Bloxsom is a bad program, I just think that it’s development has stalled and It’s too hard to configure. This one should be easier to work with and it’s database driven so searching is much easier. I’m still trying to get all the plugins to work and I don’t feel like messing with perl scripts anymore so I’m copying the old entries one by one and changing the dates, which should take a while. But I think it’s worth it.
*UPDATE*
I finally finished!
Just in case you wondered. I don’t like eating things that I wouldn’t touch when they were alive. Maybe that’s the reason that I don’t really like seafood. I mean come on people, lobsters are just big bugs. And we all know how I feel about bugs.
Later!
specifically, kint THIS! But any knitting will do. I think it shows that they’re crafty and cool in a different way. In fact I wish I could knit, but I know that my attention span wouldn’t get through one entire piece, I can barely read! Anyway, that’s about it for now. Still waiting on the Halloween pictures.
Later!
So even though Greg had an Xbox 360 in the house for probably 6 months now I was never really excited about it. It’s not that I didn’t think the games looked great. It’s just that graphics aren’t the biggest selling feature for me. I needed a great game to make me want to spend the money on it. When Brian brought over Gears of War I thought it was the game I needed. (and really it was, because Jesse and I went halvsies on one)
I think that Microsoft has been coasting this whole year on brand name and mediocre games. Which is kind of amazing because they’ve sold a lot of consoles. With Sony and Nintendo coming out I think they’re really bringing out the big guns. G.O.W. is the first game that I really think looks next-gen, and plays like it too. My pick Xbox ftw over PS3.
But what really gets me excited is Tony Hawk’s project 8. This probably won’t figure into the console wars because it’s coming out on both consoles. But DAMN SON, this game is amazing. There hasn’t been an innovation like this in THPS since they learned how to manual in THPS2. It’s called NAIL THE TRICK, it’s like a skateboarding simulator. You click both thumbsticks and it goes into this slow motion mode where all you see is your feet. The thumbsticks then control each foot independently. YOU HAVE TO FLICK THE TRICKS YOURSELF! I can’t emphasize this enough, this is so awesome. This impression is from 30 minutes in the demo, instant classic.
I for one welcome our Next Gen overlords.
So Steckle has been all excited about this new game for the 360, Gears of War. I knew it was going to be a good game but I really wasn’t that excited about it. So he brings it up to the house last night with the 360 and the high def cables to debut it on the money TV in the basement. We jacked up the surround sound to 11 and let it rip.
Let me tell you, This was probably the coolest game I’ve played in a Loooooong time. We played 2 player co-op on the first couple levels. First of all these levels are the levels that should have been in Halo 2, burnt out city levels, Really cool lighting. The guns are balanced, shotguns blow the crap out of anything, machine guns are effective, sniper rifles pop alien heads from 100 yards. And seriously it’s the scariest game I’ve played since Doom 2 all by myself in the dark. But not in a cheap way, like oooh look at this scary monster eating someone, like a really exiting movie. You just get sucked into the action.
I think the best part was the cover system. This game does not play exactly like Halo, if you don’t find cover you will die. It takes a few minutes to get used to but when you do, you’ll wonder how you ever played any other way. you’ll be ducking behind cars shooting your gun over the edge, bouncing grenades around corners, and doing crazy backwards dives for cover. It’s exactly how you really would fight in a warzone.
It is soooooooo MONEY
Jesse and I had a blast running from some giant smelly monster trying to get her to blast through doors for us. It was amazing. It is the first game that really makes me want to get a 360. Until Halo 3, this is it, and maybe after!
Later!