Archive for July, 2007
I died a little bit on the inside today.
9 July 2007
If there is one group of people who drive me batty, it’s the health nuts. Sure, I’m not entirely fit and I know that’s my fault. I can live with this. But without the occasional indulgence, food becomes boring. And with something that I do three times a day, I want a little variety or spice. I want a monster to shove down my throat and later regret. But really, I just love to try new and crazy foods. I’d love to try almost everything once. In attempt to appease my appetite for the trying of new things, Wendy’s delivered me the Baconantor.
It’s indeed a daunting monster in Wendy’s ads, but the reality just isn’t the same.
It tastes like one would imagine. Beef, bacon, cheese, mayo. Extra ketchup for me because I deem it so. Outside of its seeming ridiculousness, the burger really doesn’t have anything going for it. No special tasty sauce, no outrageous spiciness. Just excessiveness. I’d like to say that’s a selling point, but it really isn’t. Sorry Wendy.
Final Verdict
Truthfully, I’d just take a Jr. Bacon or two instead. If there’s some sort of bacon threshold, this sandwich comes close. The Law of Diminishing Returns and bacon just unfortunately go together.
Surprisingly Supple
9 July 2007I picked up Resident Evil 4 Wii Version
Asides from pointing and shooting via Wiimote, the Shenmue-esque Quick Time Events are the biggest change. It may not be drastically different, but swinging the Wiimote back and forth to outrun a boulder is just more exciting than yamming on a button. Consider me hooked
Little seems to have changed outside of the controls, but that’s hardly a complaint. The game looks good, controls smoothly and is still fucking fun. Capcom, I salute thee.
Nothing quite like hearing Utada via Gameboy speakers
8 July 2007Simple and Clean sounds more like a commercial song for a sanitary napkin, but what do I know? Really now.
Starting up Kingdom Hearts 2 a while back gave the impression that Chain of Memories is vital to understanding what the shit is going on in the game. What I found in Chain of Memories was surprisingly a good time.
At completion, I have about forty hours nested into this little GBA game. Overall, quite the pleasing experience, even if I did have to study the battle system mechanics a bit to get a hang of how to play. I’ve long since lost the instruction manual (Damn you cardboard packaging!) so I’m not sure if it’s my fault or the games, but I don’t think you can just “dive into” Chain of Memories.
But since I’m one of the few nuts who actually enjoys card-based games I stuck with it. In the end, I’m glad that I did, because Chain of Memories offers a fairly unique experience in the Kingdom Hearts world.
Details, Details.
8 July 2007So, I’ve seen photos of my soon-to-be apartment. Out of courtesy to the current inhabitant, I won’t be sharing those photos here, but I’ll throw some up after I move in. Anyway, it’s damn nice looking.
Also in the recent details coming my way, it seems I will be teaching at elementary schools. Nine of them. I’m quite psyched about this, actually. Working with the little kids will surely cause me to be tired at the end of the day, but there is no way this can’t be extremely rewarding. I remember working with the first graders in my own grade school in the eight grade and that was great fun.
Sure, I think I’ve got a huge hurdle to cross in the coming months, but it’s actually quite thrilling. I just hope the kids are as excited as I am.
Yippie Kai Yay You Fine Outstanding Gentleman
3 July 2007Tonight I saw Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0/Die Hard 4/Die Hard 4: Die Hardest/Die Hard: Reset/Die Hard: Tears of the Sun/Get Hard and Die Happy or whatever its official title is in your neck of the world. I guess I can only say “Yay censorship!”
Well, it wasn’t really that bad. So no one said fuck. Big deal. They made up for it. In fact, I enjoyed it immensely. Here’s a list why:
The Top Ten Spoilerific Reasons I Enjoyed Die Hard 4
10. Maggie Q’s sexy, sexy voice.
Seriously, they now how to start of a movie. Mmm.
9. Mac Guy is not annoying.
Despite being a bonified Apple-whore myself, I find those commercials a little grating. He played the nerdy hacker role really well.
8. Just enough plot to get by.
Very few “What the hell were they thinking?”s glide us through this action-festival.
7. Over the top action that was fun, not funny.
No head shaking, just fist pumping.
6. Kevin Smith makes Star Wars references.
It’s never unnecessary.
5. Maggie Q kicking ass.
Okay, so she ended up losing. We all knew this would happen. It was still awesome.
4. Hopping-guy falling into blades.
Sometimes seeing it coming doesn’t make it any less great.
3. Maggie Q in a tight FBI suit.
Jesus christ.
2. Bruce Willis vs. Fighter Jet.
Seriously. I’m not sure how it happened, but it did. And it was awesome.
1. You guessed it, Maggie Q!
Seriously. Goddamn. I’d let her kick my ass any day.
Where Die Hard 4 Went Wrong
Why wasn’t the other hacker played by John Hodgman (best known as PC guy but a totally awesome author)? Biggest missed opportunity of awesome ever.
The Good Book - Rated M for Mature
2 July 2007Since Best Buy wants me to be a good little consumer whore, they fatten my inbox with coupons every so often. I decided to be a lovely little lad and pick up some things for friends and family utilizing these coupons. Not being entirely selfless, I snagged a nice little two gig memory stick for my camera. $25! Can’t believe how cheep that stuff has gotten.
So anyway, we are standing in line at Best Buy. We being myself along with Paul and Robert Smith of the Cure. Waiting for the register monkey to do her thang with the customers before us, my comrades begin delving into the “shit we want to get rid of” box in front of the register. It’s almost like candy, but instead games that everyone has given up on. The people in front of me finish buying their shit and I move forward, leaving my scavenging friends behind.
So I get my shit rung up, and of course in Best Buy’s glorious fashion, none of the coupons actually do what they’re supposed to. Waiting for the manager, I see my friends giggling behind the stack of shitty games. Finally when I’m done buying my shit, they come up and plop down another game for me to get.
The Bible Game
!“Now I can truly ascend to Heaven!” or so I thought. Giggling as she ran up my game, the cashier’s jubilation expanded ten-fold as the register asked for proof of my being older than 18.
That’s right folks. I got carded for the Bible Game.
Oh. The game sucks malted fuck balls, just in case you were wondering.