I've just started my uni holidays and thought I'd give an oldish game another spin. I put the disc in over an hour ago and it is still installing/patching. I guess when it final runs something else wont work, so I'll have to fix that too.
I am reminded why I bought an xbox.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
I invented something..
It’s a device for allowing me to sit around and watch cartoons all then time. Sometime there could be non cartoons, but not that often. It can also detect what kind of mood I am in so as to provide the exact thing I am after without me even thinking about it. Then I could just sit around and do nothing and that would be great.
I discovered this thing http://www.abc.net.au/iview/# the other day (click that it is a link). It has shows from the government or something and there is some good ones and lots of bad ones. My idea is basically they get rid of all the bad ones and replace them with good ones.
I’m so freaking smart.
Monday, June 8, 2009
The words ‘best biscuits ever’ are thrown around allot these days…
But I feel entirely justified in saying that I made the best biscuits ever. (I made six typos already, poor efort) I also feel entirely justified in saying it was me and me alone who made these biscuits possible. Two whole trays full.
As the pictures illustrate, they are the best biscuits ever.
They were easy to make too, ever for a regular person who isn’t as great as me. Just lollies, icing sugar, water and milk arrowroot biscuits. I know what a milk is but arrowroot? Some kind of a root I guess. One known for it’s arrow-like qualities. If I were to make a history of the arrowroot it would go something like this:
A long time ago, when the might tyrannosaurus rex stomped around smashing junk, a cave man named Thesel found some root in the ground and decided it would go well with the bow he had invented that morning. Thesel fired his bow and the arrowroot hit the trex. As roots are no good weapons, the blow only annoyed the trex who preceded to fire his laser beams at Thesel. The laserbeams cooked Thesel and also there was a cow there who made some milk and then a biscuit was made somehow. The trex, being not so creative in the naming department, called the new biscuit the ‘milk arrowroot’ biscuit due to is milk and arrowroot nature. And so the story of the arrowroot is told, and you know that it is true as it was written by me.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
It’s like midnight and I feel I should post something
Pretty self explanatory, if you read the heading anyway. I have a couple of ideas for post lined up but am not doing them now as I am lazy. One involves Star Wars toys I got a while ago and the other is about how all Australian politicians look like Romulans from Star Trek. Both involve pictures and junk that I can’t be bothered to do now. By junk I mean words, not anything to fancy. Both will be awesome, you can pretty much just imagine the most awesome thing you can, like a lion riding a.. hah! I saw the funniest thing on tv the other day. It was an olde timey bike for the ladies, in the penny farthing era but it had two little wheels on one side and a big one on the other.
Who comes up with this stuff? The olden times were pretty funny really. What kind of thought process goes through ones head when inventing weird sideways bikes? Why not make it symmetrical unless they were trying to amuse people 200 years into the future. I guess that is a possibility. Go and invent a time machine and find out for me.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Harry Potter?! Harry Potter??!
I was in a shop the other day, and by shop I mean Target or something and by other day I mean before Christmas, and I saw this Harry Potter figure for $3.00 and bought it in order to post about.
If you can read you can see it says it’s from the order of the phoenix movie and contains a wand and a base! If you can’t read then you can’t read this anyway, so learn to read then come back. Done that? Good. I can’t remember what number this one is in the series (of books not toys) probably in the middle somewhere. I think the books started off entertaining, just chillaxing at school casting magic at junk, then got progressively longer and more dull. The later books pretty much went “Oh no the bad guy is around, oh wait now he is defeated by Harry” but for some reason they took 6000 pages to do that, rather than 20 words.
I hate clamshell packaging, so hard to open!
Here he is, in his whatever school uniform (I don’t know). He can barely move at all, just to kind of lift his arms slightly and twist at the waist. I can move more than that and I don’t have a billion dollar franchise based around me. I’m pretty sure I should tho. Whoever made this (Neca is what it says on the packet) defiantly didn’t skimp on the extras. The base perfectly captures the part in the movie where Harry stood on the vortex of total blackness and it is not a piece of black plastic to compensate for the inability of the figure to stand. Actually that is a lie and now I feel bad, he can stand by himself. I don’t know if you can see in the pictures but it looks like he’s doing a pursed lips, Angelina Jolie impression.
Fun times.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Star Wars: Where Science meets Imagination Episode V: The Robots Strike Back
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away...
It is a dark time for the attendees of the “Where Science meets Imagination” exhibit. Although the first floor has been looked at, the thought of no more Star Wars junk will drive the attendees forces from the museum and negative thoughts will pursue them across the galaxy.
Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of people who set up the exhibits led by Luke Skywalker has established a whole floor of robot stuff with nothing from the remote ice world of Hoth, as the stuff from Hoth was on the first floor.
The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker,
has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of
space...
One of those probe droids apparently landed in Sydney.
The second floor was full of robots. It was better than the first because it was full of robots. I don’t seem to have as many pictures as the first floor but I think we were looking at robots for longer than not looking at robots. The floor started with some animatronics show about robots.
I always find animatronics amusing. I don’t really know why, but animatronics plus anything equals entertainment. Perhaps it’s all the out of synch, stilted movements Add in Star Wars as well and you have the foundations for a pretty good recipe.
The show was about some lady, who doesn’t get a picture cause she wasn’t even in any of the Star Wars movies (including the prequels), arguing with C3P0 that R2 was a great robot. C3P0 had a sassy comeback for everything about how R2 was always causing mischief and the like. I should have paid more attention to what he said, but it was all great, trust me. I looked on youtube to see if someone had put up a video of it, but apparently not. The lady was saying how much better than our robots R2 is, which is true. In the movies R2 serves drinks and shocks people. I have one that gives me pez and nothing else.
Here is some other stuff they had there:
Look out it’s Darth Vader! And he has bought along a Storm Trooper.
And the Storm Trooper has bought along a toy of a Clone Trooper. I think there should have been more scenes in the movie of characters playing with toys. Think about it, what’s more exciting? Laser shooty battles or carefully arranging things into little scenes and then slightly altering them. The second one for sure.
Leia, R2 and goldman.
Medical droid and robo-arm. This guy has other guys in just underpants hanging around in tanks, which is pretty good if you are into that kind of thing.
Destroyer droid or droideka. They call them both of those names in the movies. I think these are one of the best things in the new movies. Rolling about with force fields and lasers. The model or whatever was pretty big, it was taller than me so must have been like 2 meters tall, but you can’t really see that in the picture.
AT-ST and AT-AT, not to scale I assume.
Footprint on floor. Why is there a photo of this? It’s not very exciting. Why am I bothering to post it here?
I think that’s it from the Star Wars thing. There was a whole bunch of other junk on the robot floor as well, but I suspect it was trying to teach me stuff about the real world. To learn anything new I’d have to forget something I know now, unlucky new information, you are nothing to me.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Star Wars: Where Science meets Imagination Episode IV: The First Floor
About four days ago, in a museum that is like two and a half hours drive from my house...
A vast sea of stars serves as the backdrop for the main title. War drums echo through the heavens as a rollup slowly crawls into infinity.
It is a period of time during the school holidays, when the amount of kids visiting Stars Wars related exhibitions is at a minimum. A small car, striking from my house, have travelled to a museum to view, among other things, models of ships from an evil Galactic Empire.
It is freaking hard to alter the script of A New Hope to fit with my trip to a star wars exhibition so I am going to stop now.
Ha! A wookie. The first floor the exhibition had all sorts of costumes and models from the Star Wars movie series. It was mostly stuff from the first three movies (i.e. the good ones) as the later movies had all the cool junk done by computers. The exhibition generally presented something from the movies, then tried to teach or show related stuff from real life. For example, here are some real life space ships.
Because real life is boring, I won't show you anything else from it. Seriously, just look outside. Until real life has star ships and lightsabers it is going to be boring. Here is some of the models they had there.
Either you know what they are, or you don't care so I won't bother naming them. I quite like models in general, for some reason "things that are smaller than the thing they are meant to be" is something I find amusing. These were no exception. The models were all behind glass so I didn't get to run around with them making pew-pew noises, which was really a great disappointment. Chipping the paintwork wouldn't bother me, as they are not even mine.
Now this things was awesome, it's the landspeeder used in the first movie, that is number four. It was made from some three wheeled English car, probably the type that followed Mr Bean around in the TV show 'Mr Bean'. They should have let me drive it around, that would have great. I would have done some shopping then complained about the lack of boot space. Even X-wings had space for your R2 unit.
Well isn't that rude... Luke has no pants and Obi Wan and C3PO have no legs. This was used to take distance shots, were apparently everyone had decided to rid themselves of pants or legs. I don't remember that part.
Here are some costumes:
Han and Chewie
Sorry if I just spoilt the movie for you then...
I had a picture of Mace Windu, but when I clicked rotate the picture disappeared so you miss out. Actually, all the Star Wars-ness has put me in a good mood.
How cool are purple light sabers? They are like blue and red combined!
There was some other junk on the first floor, but it is not as good as the stuff above. We were pretty unimpressed at the conclusion of the first floor as we didn't realise that there was a whole other floor beneath our very feet.
I have no idea when I first watched Star Wars, I wasn't born when the originals came out at the movies (or maybe I was for the last one). I assume it was when they were on TV sometime in the early 90's. The first time I can remember was on a rainy day at primary school, but I had seen them sometime before that. My something-th birthday party (7th? 8th?) was Star Wars themed and I came as Boba Fett. My mum helped me make a helmet, but I probably complained that it wasn't authentic to the movie. The movie one wasn't made from a tube of cardboard and Papier-mâché. Yes I looked up the pretentious spelling.
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