A Geekish View of Life

I am an unasshamed Apple fan, eventhough I am typing this on a Dell. And being so I have found small pleasure in some of the finer things in life. Things like Mac centric humor, and comic strips dedicated to good art, laughs, and Mac humor. So far the current pinnicle is AppleGeeks. The comic that is on today, the 29 of December. Is quite noteable. It should also be read with the past … er well you might want to start here for the full impact of this punchline. I nearly laughed myself silly at the latest one.

I’m sorry I haven’t been updating recently. The holidays kinda got in the way … that and my Prince of Persia addiction. But lets start with the holidays.

Christmas Eve: I put this on the list because that’s when my girlfriend came down to do the presents exchange and hang out stuff. It was really fun. I’ve been sitting on some of these presents for sometime now so it was actually quite a relief to give them to her. I was especially pleased that she liked the necklace and earring I gave her. I am not much of a jewelry expert but I remembered a piece she had worn before and used it as the template for the purchase. She really liked it! I also got really nice things from her too. I got Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Metroid: Zero Mission, oh and a wicked cool record of Invader Zim songs. But the best part of the LP is that it is decorated with images from IZ! Sweet deal! After that we hung out for a while, before Christmas Eve service, and I played a little of PoP:Warrior Within. I didn’t play much since I had not yet defeated PoP:Sands of Time. I have been stuck in this one battle in PoP:SoT for more than a month, it was really demoralizing. But this is when I learned that my beautiful lady has another excellent attribute. She can affect probability! Well … sorta. She seems to improve my luck. Because when she was over I was playing PoP:SoT and with considerably less effort I defeated that battle that had held up my progress. I then continued to play after she had left and … not to boast but I was burning through the levels! Till I met up with another nasty puzzle … then, for entirely separate reasons, I called my lady and after talking with her for a little while, I easily moved through the puzzle and on with the game. She helps me even when she’s not here! Sw33t! Then today at around 7:30 I beat Pop:SoT. It was worth every hour I put into it. And it made the intro movie make so much more sense. For some reason I was thinking the boss battle would be more difficult but … it was easier than I thought. Though that is probably due to my enhanced skill in fighting defensively, which is vital, and even more so in PoP:WW.

Yes I have now begun the adventure that is Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. OMG it is nuts! Graphically it has not changed too much. Which is a good thing. There is a difference in the tone though. This new one is much … much darker than the first. In many ways it is the Batman game we all wish someone would make. The hero is agile, kick ass, and has lots of cool moves and smooth animation. Did I happen to mention that the game is dark? Yeah when the Prince cuts open and off the heads of the enemies there is a nice little spray of blood. It’s kinda satisfying but does really push the game in a new direction.

There is some nice graphical tweaks that make this a more lush visual experience. I’m guessing this has more to do with their growing familiarity with the system. The controls are a little different. Not so much that you’ll have to relearn, but they added a new feature or two that requires the use of buttons that had been used for other things in the last game. They have also re done the camera, I’m not sure I like it as much … but I can see how it is better that the other one. I am still getting used to it so the jury is still out on how much I like it. One of the new features that is pretty cool is the addition of changeable weapons. Yep, the second weapon will change over a lot! Apperently there is also some change over in the main weapon too but that has yet to be seen. But so far I like what I have played. The battles are friggin insane! These enemies just don’t take the hint and stay down! You have to hit Hit HIT and hit again! These are some tough buggers. That and now they have added enemies that are more of a pain in the butt to hit in the first place. Yeesh. But it is still good times, although the music is kinda intrusive … but hopefully I’ll either get used to it or I’ll learn to ignore it. In short PoP:SoT = awesome! PoP:WW = freaking awesome!

Christmas day: Well this was less eventful … well a little bit less to talk about at least. We had home made cinnamon rolls in the morning then a pot luck supper (aka lunch) with a bunch of other families from church. My cousin brought his GameCube, which was really cool. We played a little of Call of Duty: Finest Hour. Hard, but fun and rewarding. Although I’m inclined to prefer the Metroid way of doing FPS on console, the dual stick thing although not bad … can get confusing some times. Still Call of Duty lives up to it’s standing as the standard by with the other WWII FPS games are measured. We also got some four player Mario Kart Double Dash action too! That was fun! Oh! and when a lot of the other families had left we hooked up the GC to the projector in the room we were in so we had huge Mario Kart! Boy was that fun. It was almost like everyone had their own TV.

Well it’s late and I’m tired. Take care all.

Hm… is it a ‘bad’ sign when you curl up with the pillow that she used the night she stayed over, to sleep? Or better yet sleep in the bed she used? Or that when you find that she left one of her hairs on the counter of the bathroom you put it back after cleaning it, to help support the illusion that she’s just stepped out for a gallon of milk and will be back momentarily? Well if that’s a ‘bad’ sign then I gladly accept it as a good thing. Because I would not want to remove these feelings for anything. I would not wish to go back to the way things were. I find it hard to imagine my life without her. ::sigh::

On the plus side, I get to see her tomorrow. She’s coming over for presents! Hurray! I can’t wait. I’ve been butsting at the seems trying not to keep one buying things for her. Also trying to contain my excitement of giving them too her. Yeeee! Can’t wait! Just a few short hours more.

Hey all. I have an alternate place for those of you following my comic ideas. If you’re interested head on over to http://www.livejournal.com/users/geekosupremo/. That is where I will keep things upto date on that front only. This will continue to be my personal blog, but when you want comic info start there first. Okay. It’s late … and that makes me a sleeeeeeepy panda.

Okay folks, change of plan. I was going to have you my ‘devoted public’ vote, but then I decided, I’m just going to go with my current idea. The others may be good but they’ll need more polish before they can leave the shop. Now it would be easy to pick one of those, then if I didn’t put anything up it would be easy, since everything would be in the ‘planning’ stage. This idea is riskier … if for no other reason than it forces me to do work now. Wish me luck everyone. I hope to have a basic page ready by next week.

Thank you soo much to my girlfriend for being patient and kind and so much more. But most of all thank you for being you.

Today marks the offical beginning of my winter break! w00t! Hot Damn and all those good experssions! Yep. Today was the last day I had to show up at school, it was “Art Productions Clean up Day” aka. “We’re too cheap to hire real janitors so we’ll get students to do it day”. Although some how I expect that the Art Productions class, once a long time ago, the class was more like how the TA is now, but that is just speculation. Either way I’m done. 17 units are in the clear … granting that I pass my segment 3 classes. ::looks to heaven:: Please? All I ask for is a ‘C’. Sure it drags on the GPA but your GPA doesn’t get you a job … your portfolio does. Well if you’re an artist at least.

Speaking of art. This is the beginning of winter break. That means that I have from now until Jan. 25 to hav something done on my comic. Although now I’m kinda torn. I have 3 good, well I think they’re good, ideas. Hm….. My oldest idea? My Sci-Fi idea? My newest idea? or my other vampire story? Okay so I have 4 ideas. Hm… well maybe tomorrow I’ll post a link to some descrtiptions of the ideas and all of you who actually read this… thing can vote via comment. Should work. Okay that’s my other goal for tomorrow. Write quick descriptons of the stories and put them somewhere you can read them. I also need to design the page and start drawing. Hm… I may be doing the Newest idea first, since it is currently closest to being ready for production. But I may take a break from it now and then to do little stories from the others. ^_^ Anyway I’ll work that out later. Till then take care all.

Why BitTorrent scares the MPAA.

It is also this from of logic that should have protected Napster and other file share programs. Although the real clincher for BT is that BT has absolutely no centralization. There is not ‘one’ BT server, all BT users are servers. Such an elegant and powerful idea. I love it! Plus it makes getting fan subs a joy! Hurray! But support your anime! Buy DVDs they aren’t thatexpensive.

Hurray! Stress is dead! D - E - A - D, Dead! w00000000000t! All I have now is an in class essay tomorrow and a whole cart load of drawings due Wednesday. so why no stress? Because the classes that were freaking me out are over! Done! Fin! Hurray! I feel better already! ::sigh:: Boy. I miss this.

I was talking with one of my friends today. She was asking how I was doing, since she’s one of the few people who read this. I am doing alright. I’ve been better, but I’m alright. Then I said something about not wanting any pity. She said that I was practially begging for it in some of these posts, I’m guessing more so in the current period. If I have come across this way I’m sorry. I have a bad habit of ’saying’ what I feel. I guess that could lead to some misunderstandings. So I’ll try to keep the angst quotent to a minimum. I may even cut it out all together. Hm. That might force me to stop being such a whiney bitch. Well it’s worth a shot. Sorry for the misunderstandings. I’ll hopefully post something interesting later.

Yep. It’s finals time. And this year is the a~ end of a semester. I had two, count’em two!, emotional break downs today. Plus I got all angsty at my girlfiend (I really do not like it when I do that). And yesterday I found out there may be a chance that I won’t be graduating next semester. So … yeah … fun … happy … times … Holy Fadkandlkfjapvwlkn;bopiupoenas;dljpsdiu! ::head bangs against desk:: When does the hurting stop.

I am rather wallowing in my self pitty but … blah. I am almost beyond caring. Not quite but almost. I will never be quite so happy to get the hell out of a semester as I am about this one. UGH! Now I need to go write some crap-tastic essays.