Geek vs Life

The Big Cheese, reminiscent of the look you give when you proudly stand at the top of your empire built on the backs of the exploited working class. The Remote Control, the gesture that brings forth memories of the greatest of all modern sports, channel surfing. The Mohawk, the hairstyle that, no matter how cool it is (I had one too, and no, you can’t see pictures), always has a twinge if silliness about it. What do these things have in common? A fat Italian man with indigestion. It’s a Wii, Wario!

When you play a lot of Wii, you get used to performing really stupid acts. When you have a social life, your friends will also get used to performing really stupid acts. It’s what makes the Wii fun. Many a board games have made fortunes off of making people look ridiculous. WarioWare: Smooth Moves simply takes it a step further.

I opened the door to my office, Max trailing behind me. I looked off to my side, noticing that the coat rack was amazingly empty today. “What happened to the noose collection?” I asked as I straightened my hat walking out the door. “It’s a surprise!” my little friend informed me. A strange feeling of dread and familiarity washed over me. I looked back at him, his shark-like grin threatening to gnaw the face from anything that stood in our way. My friend, he’s a rabbit. Me, I’m a dog. Sam. But, don’t worry. We’re freelance police.

Congressmen and women, led by representative McCarthy of New York, are trying to institute another ‘assault weapons ban’. For those of you around when the first one went into effect in 1994, you know how useless it was in preventing/stopping crimes from occuring or continuing, even escalating.

Please, support the online petition to send a message to congress, declaring that we will NOT allow the government to circumvent our Human Right, under the Constitution of the United States, to protect ourself, our families and our friends, even innocent strangers, from those that would wish them undue harm.

The petition which I signed this morning as #1779 (at the time of posting, the number of petition signers was 5589): http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/409898348

The following link is the full text of the bill they want to pass: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-1022

Here are two things of interest

1)The fonts on the signage has been around since your Grandpa was your age. Here’s a link to a guy’s page that has them all. Make your own signs! (Do yourself a favor and DO NOT use the “Clearview” imitation versions. That’s a clear copyright and intellectual property violation. The older ones are public specification.)

2)Here’s a map of the entire system constructed during the Eisenhower administration. Click on the map to see the full size.

Chris over at Wired put up a list of Nintendo’s lineup. I’m having major issues attempting to format it, but oh well.

On the DS…Huh…well, that’s interesting. Still no date on Zelda. ‘Cause, you know, we didn’t just get one. We just want one we can stick in our pockets. And, after looking at some of the handwriting on local college papers, Handwriting Training should come standard. And I’ve already made my call for DS game of the year.

And for the Wii. Metroid Prime 3, at least it’s still this year! Same with Brawl! Woot! No pushbacks so far! Wii Music? Is that what Miyamoto-san was doing when he first came on stage with the Wiimote and was conducting the orchestra? Insane, but really cool. And what’s with Kirby being blacked out?

Part of me wanted to put this in a different order, so it wasn’t quite this heavy, but as it means a lot to me, and this is so important, well, here it is.

A couple of days ago (again, sorry for the delays on this stuff), some kids did something absolutely horrible. They killed a homeless man, after having beaten him ruthlessly. Rocks, bricks, and even the man’s own BBQ grill were thrown at him. They then took a pipe and a baseball bat (that was there for his protection) and beat him to death. Afterwards, one of the boys smeared his own feces on the body, and cut the man’s face to make sure he was dead.

The story was covered by CNN, and I saw it on Penny Arcade. Well, today the…umm..step mother of the boy wrote Gabe about her experience with him.

I don’t know why I find this so entertaining. It’s just a bunch of math done with your IP address. Take a look!

Xbox 360:
- Crackdown
- NBA Street Homecourt

Nintendo Wii:
- Sonic and the Secret Rings

PlayStation 3:
- Virtua Fighter 5

PlayStation 2:
- Arena Football: Road to Glory
- Lumines Plus

Nintendo DS:
- F-24 Stealth Fighter
- Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
- Meteos: Disney Magic
- Micro Machines V4
- Trioncube

PlayStation Portable:
- M.A.C.H.
- Metal Slug Anthology
- Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner

PC:
- Alien Shooter: Vengeance
- Backyard Basketball 2007
- Knights of the Temple II
- Left Behind: Eternal Forces Expansion Pack
- Maelstrom
- PureSim Baseball 2006
- Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game
- Supreme Commander
- UFO: Extraterrestrials
- War Front: Turning Point

Maybe Sonic won’t suck this time around?

My Japanese is too rusty to recall what that means, specifically at the moment. And I’ve got absolutely no clue what this says…

But do you know what it means to me? It means that another Ouendan is coming out! The first was an import hit, big enought be localized with all sorts of spiffy new music for those that are less inclined to J-pop and want to make a better attempt at understanding the storyline.

Be excited! Go on, start jumping for joy, I’ll wait over here.

Oh, yeah. The subtitle means: Burn! Hot-Blooded Rhythm Soul! I’m filled with hot bloody rhythm in my soul, what about you?

Years back I moded my old PSX after buying my PS2. I didn’t want to take the chance of killig my favourite system and being left with nothing to play with but my girlfriend. I shudder to think about the awkward social interections that would have arisen.

-”How was your day?”
-”Fine yours?”
-”Fine.”
-”… …”
-”What’s for dinner?”
-”Hot dogs.”
-”Oh, ok.”
-”What? What’s wrong with hot dogs?”
-”Nothing, it’s just… I don’t know. It seems we always eat that.”
-”Fine then what do you want to eat?”
“Dead babies in apricot sauce with a nice chilled merlot?”
“You sick fuck, get out of my house!”

Then you end up homeless. See? Beware of mod-chipping! But if you want to brave the risk of not only sabotaging your relationship but your new next-gen console new minted processors and inner doodads, help is on the way to help you out. Check out this video found on youtube.com: Rise of the Wiinja.

My dad, your dad and your cousin’s dad listened to KISS. Now you too can cash in on his marketing genius!

http://www.greatertalent.com/speakers/speakers.php?speakerid=452

As children, when we start dreaming up possible
futures for ourselves, no kid says, “I want to be a
mortician when I grow up.” Except me, and my parents
were very worried.

I was thrilled when Embalmer by Mitsukazu Mihara, my
favorite manga-ka (manga creator), came out. Mihara is
best known for her Doll series which tells touching
and sometimes heart breaking stories about life, love,
and the struggles of being human.

The Embalmer manga deals with death and how the people
left behind deal with it. Sometimes seeing the ones
you love one last time as you want to remember them
can mean all the difference in the world.

The stories aren’t for everyone, if you’re looking for
action or comedy pass this up. If you’ve wanted manga
with depth and emotions look no further.
This beautifully drawn manga is truly a feast for the
eyes. Her drawings look more true to life than other
Manga. As you look through her books, you can see at
times the clothes seem to be the focal point and the
characters are drawn for the outfits.

Ascender, the company that distributes Microsoft’s core fonts such as Georgia, Verdana and Tahoma, has a great offer available right now.

The Creativity Font Pack has a nice selection of OpenType fonts available for $20. You’d think that the selection would be a bunch of cheap shareware fonts, but no. They actually licensed a few typefaces that are really nice. There are a few stupid display faces that are throwaways, but the remaining selection is nice. Take my word for it, this package is an amazing steal.

Just look up the names to see the value. The Font Bureau typefaces are usually over $40 a piece. Today Sans is $35 a piece. Coquette? $29.

These are a few of my favorites, in no particular order: