It will be an honour to purchase this graphical novella-type publication from my very own local vender of such oddities when it is indeed released for consumption! I say!
Cartoon Corner #1
The Bots Master - Original run in 1994, 40 episodes produced.
I watched this show occasionally when I was younger. It was one of those shows that was always on before or after what you really wanted to watch so you had to settle with it. Robots are robots though. It was pretty sick to little Peter in the early 90s.
cmeister2 has uploaded what appears to be most of the series to YouTube. Yay.
Pharmacist’s Corner
Darryl from San Diego, CA writes “I’m a Freshman at UCSD and I want to become a pharmacist. My parents are really trying to push me to become a pro-athlete or a rock star. How do I make them realize that I need to follow my heart and do what I love?”
Well Darryl, this may shock you but I’m going to agree with your parents on this one. “What?” you say? Believe it or not pharmacy isn’t always glamorous, sometimes it’s just you and your mortar and pestle pounding down vicodin on a lonely summer evening. This may also shock a lot of you long time readers, but if I could give up my decorated pharmacy career to become a professional baseball player, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Pharmacy related questions in the comments, please.
For all you Google Reader-ites
Use the new notes system. It’s awesome and a pretty good compliment to blogging and tweeting and digging and clogging and flogging.
When you get on Reader, just click the new notes button and then drag the little bookmarklet up to your tool bar and yeah… Beats bookmarking non-feed sites and it’s pretty good for taking notes too.
For the 99% of people who don’t use Reader… Ignore this post OR get Google Reader and be my friend more.
Can you tell that I haven’t slept that much?
(I have a surprise to show you, sonny. You shall see it soon enough.)
VOLCANO LIGHTNING = AWESOME IRL
Hiroshima, 1945 - The Atomic Tragedy
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Okay, GTAIV’s multiplayer… It’s good.
I think I may have to finish GTAIV’s single player a little slower…
Picked up GTAIV pretty casually on Tuesday when it came out. Went into one of those general electronics stores and picked it up for Xbox 360 (DLC + better controller). Upon entering the disc into my Xbox I was dumped straight into the world of Niko with a pretty awesome intro sequence (nice tunes too). The game is… Pretty polished. I haven’t had anything to complain about with this title. The controls are responsive and clever yet still feel like good old GTA controls. The physics engine, whatever it is, does the job nicely. Some of Niko’s falls look so realistic (and painful).
I’m about 20-30% through the game now (I haven’t checked my stats in a while) but I feel like I’ve played through a game’s worth already considering playing Saints Row this much got me to the last few missions. I must say this game is much better than Saints Row which I enjoyed quite a bit. Except for the awful humour. GTAIV, of course, has literally made my friends and I burst out laughing - I love the conservative radio show and Lazlow is always a worth a laugh. Niko’s cellphone and the way in which missions are executed makes for a very fluid feeling game experience. The friend system is actually pretty fun. I would never have thought I’d hear myself saying that doing silly mini games to increase relationships with NPCs could be made so well.
Combat is very “2007-2008-third-person-shootery” with cover being paramount in staying alive. The guns are awesome and actually have some realistic feeling power to them. This is the first game I’ve played in a while with a shotgun that I can use at long ranges. Even the smallest gun fight is pretty memorable as they are just so fun and pretty cinematic. The combat sure has evolved since GTA and even the GTAIII-era games.
The story is your run of the mill GTA rags to riches American Dream with Niko Bellic as the protagonist. Niko is likeable with a few more morals than Tommy Vercetti or GTAIII guy. Seems a little darker than CJ since, well, he was in slave trading and he doesn’t seem to have a problem with getting his hands really dirty. Niko’s friends and associates are all good in their own ways, which makes for a pretty funny yet awesome story.
I have yet to try out multiplayer as the single player has been more than enough (I had an American Studies test the day after it came out…) for the moment anyway. However, I have heard from people that it is really fun, especially with large groups of people. I really can’t wait to get into the multiplayer after I’ve finished single player.
I can’t really say much this far into the game but I can tell you that it is a great game. There’s no denying that this game will go down as one of the greatest social commentaries of America and popular culture. I can’t stress how much you should play this game. It’s just so good.
Albert Hofmann dies.
“Albert Hofmann, who died on Tuesday aged 102, synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938 and became the first person in the world to experience a full-blown acid trip. RIP Hofmann.”
Bicycle Day will carry on.
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I have not been here for very long although that is not to say that I have lived. I live in an English speaking country. I am a university level student. I am open to new ideas and experiences. I am, for the most part, anti-capitalist - this does not make me a communist. I am a survivor of mental illness. I am also a survivor of quasi-serious physical illness. I enjoy many entertainment mediums. I understand and hold a deep contempt for the undemocratic way in which the world is really controlled. I have never followed any particular religious sect but I am deeply spiritual at a rational level. I am, at times, filled with apathy. I feel that this makes up “who I am”.