6.26.2012

New Bike pt. 3


There's this dog named Mickey.  This dog is in love with Megan.  In some cases she has been known to stare at Megan without flinching or moving for hours on end.  She's an adorable little beagle.

A while back, a game called Mass Effect 3 came out and this made many gamers very angry.  Bioware made promises they couldn't keep and consumers tried to hold them to said promises.  Unfortunately, said gamers had already purchased the game and were screwed.  Oh wait, they took to the internet in hordes.  This made many journos very angry.

I didn't buy Mass Effect 3 day one for a few reasons.  1) It's only on origin and I'm exclusively a PC gamer;  2) Dragon Age 2 sucked;  3) Mass Effect: Deception sucked;  4) the announcement of a limited-edition only Prothean character also sucked. I've sunk well over 100 hours of time into the series and have literally dreamed about it, but 80 buckeroos was a bit much to ask on top of these other missteps.

So now there's the extended ending of the game that has been released to quell the collective anger of fans.  From what I hear, it's 2 gigs of videos that will unlock based on the decisions of the players to give them more insight into how their decisions change the world.  I'll continue to abstain from giving EA any more of my money unless somehow an amazing Mirror's Edge 2 game gets announced.

6.19.2012

New Bike pt. 2

Megan's new bike pump works great with her awesome new bike.                      

I am what you may call a computer nerd and I like tablets. Microsoft announced their surface. It's got cool candy-flavor-colored smart cover keyboard things and a kickstand. Computex happened earlier this month and a zillion crazy and wacky laptops, tablet laptops and laptop all-in-ones were shown off. It's exciting. It's a rat race. I have an iPad 2 and am mostly happy with it. However, it is not a tool competitive with a pc and does not have much potential to become so. Android has a little more potential as it is growing in obtuse and generally more open ways. Windows 8 is the funny ball, then. It's like a complete tool OS since it is the tool OS and it is also a tablet OS because it has been reinvented to be so.  How well they mingle is still a bit of a toss up. But it should be the productive nerd's tablet dream! I, for one, will be getting one of those 7" Android Nexus Tablets.

-Gideon

6.12.2012

New Bike







I was feeling the pangs of jealousy for Megan's new bike when I was informed that there lay a bike beast ready in the garage, waiting to be tamed.  The hope arose suddenly that we would trek like some sort of Riders of Rohan through the sunny mountains of Chino Hills.  Unfortunately, the ancient beast isn't like some long lost dragon waiting to roar from its cave, but more of some kinda ball of rust that decided to rust over itself and then die.  So instead it will be more like the Rider of Rohan and their trusty inline-skates jester.

I have been reading through The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov after finishing his Foundation series.  Within this wonderful robot compendium of stories, I came across one by the name of Bicentennial Man.  I remembered a movie by this name thinking it was something like robo Patch Adams-inator at the time, and had lost interest in seeing it.  But now with my renewed interest in Asimovian robots, not even the fear of a clown doctor-bot could deter me.

The movie was a nice change of pace from other Robot movies that usually involved a main character that wanted, if nothing else, to cause fireworks made up of robot parts.  Fun, but not quite the same product I had come to expect from Asimov's robot series.  The film is a pinocchio story that lasts through generations of a human family about a robot that wants to become human, not only in looks, but to experience feelings, life, love and finally death.  Suffice to say, I enjoyed the movie and felt it was a nice addition to my complete Isaac Asimov experience.

- Gideon


6.05.2012

LEATHER CAR

My entire family has a thing where every chair, piece of furniture and car must be made of dead Cowhide.  Here is my opinion of Leather.

cons: sticky
         slippery
         hot
         expensive
         sticky
         smelly
         stupid

                                         pros: easy to vacuum

-Gideon