Mar
22
2008
Wordpress = Reclaimed from Unhappiness
Posted by: andrew in Games, General, Life, The Great Identity Theft CrisisFinally, after a week, I decided to stop being lazy and actually downgrade back to V2.1 of Wordpress. You’ll notice that my categories are finally back. Amazing. I was starting to get discouraged, but thankfully, it’s now fixed.
Also, if you use Wordpress, I highly recommend the Tiger Administration tool. I gotta’ give it to this guy, he has done a fantastic job of making the wp-admin interface a much, much nicer thing to navigate through. It’s very clean and well designed. I’m impressed.
Let’s see…in other news:
- Finished up Condemned 2: Bloodshot. The game was awesome, although in retrospect, it was a little restrictive in the way you approach how you play. It’s a very linear game, and there are a lot of sequences where you just hit a button and your character does what he’s supposed to do in a sequence. For example, if you have to climb up something, you don’t actually have to figure out how to do it; rather, you just hit the spot where the sequence is triggered and hit ‘A’, and then he climbs. However, the experience overall was pretty amazing. It was a great story and is truly one of the creepiest games I think I’ve ever played.
- Picked up Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 and have played through the first mission and a half or so. As with the last one, it’s really great. Not much has changed in the overall mechanic…and really…why should it? The first one was awesome. So far, I’m having fun with it, though I admit that it’s not a shooter for everyone. It’s far more difficult in that you really have to think and use your parters else you get quickly wasted when you go busting through doors. Your character can’t take much damage before he goes down.
- Evil Andrew tried to open up a new credit card, but he was foiled by the fraud alert I put on my accounts. Stupid bastard. Some guy called me from Capital One and asked if I had tried to open up a credit card anytime recently. The only dissappointing thing is that when I called to update the Las Vegas PD, they didn’t seem to know what was going on (couldn’t find my case) and the guy who would have an idea was, of course, out for the day. That’s my luck though. Oh well; at least this idiot can’t open up any more cards under my name.
- The neighbors continue to get progressively worse…or it’s really just that since I decided to write about it, I’m now even more painfully aware of them. We’re thinking about purchasing scary masks, going down there in the middle of the night and banging on their windows…specifically the kids’ windows. Is that evil…?
- I am addicted to a place called ‘The Pita Pit”. Holy crapola, Batman…it’s so tasty. Its about 3 blocks up from my new office, and they have some of the most ridiculously good wrap-style food I’ve ever had. I seem to have found a superior combination of flavors in mixing a little bit of wing sauce with tzatziki sauce, the ensuing tastebud effect being a spicy sensation mixed with the mellower cool cucumber taste of the tzatziki. Mmmm…I think I just like using that word…tzatziki…
- I’m gonna’ go see ‘Horton Hears a Who’. It loos like it’s freakin’ awesome.
- Today I knew I was getting old when I was picking up coffee and the friendly counter girl asked me if I had any weekend plans. I thought for a moment, initially said no, thought more about it, and then decided to say that I had just gotten my “Planet Earth” HD-DVDs (for the bargain basement price of $25.00) and was really looking forward to watching that this weekend. She looked at me as if I had just sprouted a third eye and was getting ready to pour the hot coffee directly into it. I walked away…mildly ashamed…but still oddly excited about watching “Planet Earth”. Screw the Seattle’s Best counter girl. Hmph…
- In the house buying process…or rather…the loan acquiring process. Got a sweet huge packet of junk that we get to fill out so we can get a large sum of cash to fund aforementioned house purchcase. I’m excited about that.
- Deliberating whether or not it’s worth it to purchase an XM Radio subscription. It has been really nice having it since I got my new car, but I don’t know that it’s worth the $13.00 a month for it. There are quite a few awesome channels though…
That’s all I gots. I’m sooooo sweeeepy……..
Friday @ 11:55. Wow. I am pathetic…











March 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm - Edit
I can only really comment on the last point. I’ve had XM-radio since January of 2004 (just after its major launch). I’ve loved every second of it, and I’ve actually added 3 radios to my family plan for my parents and sister. I drive about 30,000 miles a year and love every second of XMUniversity, Ethel, Lucy, XM Comedy and all the baseball. People talk shit about XM because Sirius has football, but how often are you driving on Sunday during a football game? I’m usually traveling at 7pm on a weekday when a baseball game is on…
For what it’s worth, I’d say that $13 is well worth it.
Also, I’m going to go and pick up Smash Bros Brawl this week. I’ll let you know if it lives up to the hype.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:26 pm - Edit
i could give less of two horse turds on the availability of sports. that’s pretty lame.
holy christ…30K miles a year?!?! that’s insane. i drive about half of that. i can definitely see the advantage of having XM then. my commute, while it’s terrible right now, isn’t going to be that bad once we buy our house.
yeah, definitely let me know about smash bros. while i don’t have a wii anymore, i’ve read some pretty fantastic reviews about it.