| Little updates... |
[03 Jul 2009|04:10pm] |
* So my parents bought Wii Fit with a Wii Balance Board. They're loving it, so am I! I love the fact that exercising isn't so boring, and I'm also in love with the female trainer they've got in the game. :) It's just a sure sign that Nintendo has something with the Wii when video game-challenged people like my parents wanted to get Wii Fit on their own! Heck, my Mom was almost ready to buy a Wii for Wii Fit because she didn't realize I had a Wii of my own. :)
* With all this exercise commotion at the house, it prompted me to buy Personal Trainer: Walking for my DS. I originally was just gonna get a pedometer and download the game, but I realized that the physical game pack has an infrared receiver inside it in order to communicate with the pedometer; having the ROM would have prevented me from being able to have the game communicate with the pedometer. ... The upside in buying the game is that it came with two pedometers. One I have on my person while the other I gave to my dog just to see the kinds of waking he does. :D I'm now only on day three of my walking adventure, and I look forward to recording more statistics about my walking! (God I LOVE statistics and data acquisition! [^_^])
* I reedited my Photography License to show that it's instead issued from the fictional US Department of Photographic Integrity... this especially after reading more about how making a license that states it was issued from the Department of Homeland Security could net me into a assload of trouble. I will post the updated card and a blank for you guys to edit soon.
* So I got myself a huge paycheck and it's burning a hole in my pocket. I'm really probably gonna start saving my money a lot more now (especially since over the past two years I've been blowing it all on dru--.... stuff I shouldn't be spending it on). Still though, I do wanna spend it on SOMETHING, even if it's only just a little something. I'm thinking of...
----- Memory cards for my DS and DSi (namely larger memory cards for my R4DS)
----- Memory cards for my PSP (One or two extra 4GBs to 32GBs would be nice to have, as I want to be able to have a lot of PSP games at my fingertips versus merely two or three at a time without having to copy them)
----- A new blank GBA cart (since my XROM 512mb cart is pretty much shot)
----- Another R4DS-ish cart compatible with my DSi (I have such a nice DS but nothing to play on it)
----- A copy of Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars for the DS (if only to support both it and M-rating gaming for the DS!)
----- Some DSi/PSP accessories (particularly perhaps protection gear so it doesn't get all scuffed up)
----- A Blu-ray movie or three... (I'm thinking the Star Trek 1-6 Bluray collection!)
----- A 1TB-2TB (USB2-based) hard drive (since they're really fucking cheap now!)
---------- And with it, a UBS2 hub, since I keep having to unplug devices for other devices
----- Copies of Moose River to sell, since I'm kinda running down (well, maybe I can do this, I dunno)
----- Maybe some new clothes, like a vest or new jacket or something a bit more fashionable, or a new hat or two?
----- A new device, like an Holga Camera!
I wanna spend my money on something other than snacks and food and shit...
|
|
|
| Idiocracy |
[03 Jul 2009|03:35pm] |
Exactly. Society isn't getting worse. Society isn't getting better. Society is the same, always never gaining nor losing ground. How do I know this?
Here's a little something I wrote up in 2005.... it's a little outdated but the general premise is still valid. I mean, I didn't really bother to go through it and edit anything from when it was originally written four years ago.
( Static Theory of History )
With all this in mind, as entertaining of a movie as Idiocracy was, realistically it'll never happen. The movie assumes that the influence of one person is equal to the other, that one smart person is powerless against a million idiots. THAT is only true of that one smart person lets everyone get to them. But the reality is that one person can change the lives of millions of people, and history has proven that in spades. So even if the world is "stupid", all it takes is a small handful of people with power and influence (regardless of their intelligence) to change the world for better or for worse. The world of Idiocracy can never happen, and the only idiots out there are the ones who honestly believe that the Iciocracy would COULD happen.
Concerning the topic of breeding, as long as this grey world keeps breeding with grey people and producing grey babies, either "stupid" nor "hyper-intelligent" people will ever be born. And even if eugenics were to take place and "white event" people bred with only "white event" people and produced "white event" babies, there will still be a range between white to black within that society of "white event" (see the extremely light grey square above). There will always be enough "stupid" people (or a disease that all "white event" people have no immunity towards) to prevent a completely "white event" society from existing.... and conversely, there will always be enough "smart" people in a "black event" society (due to mutations in the gene pool) to prevent a completely "black event" society--like the world of Idiocracy-from ever existing. Simple enough, yes?
|
|
|
| Department of Homeland Security Photography License |
[01 Jul 2009|09:03am] |
After reading a Boing Boing article talking about a fake "DHS Photographers License", I was curious about making one of my own. After going to Best Buy and having some stupid cunt tell me I can't take pictures of the merchandise, I decided to finally get one together for myself... here's what I made:
(Click this image for a larger version of it.)
The one that was posted on Boing Boing looks really cool, and I was almost about to just get the blank from him and use it myself. But after looking at the US Visa Card, Social Security Card, Resident Alien Card, Money, and other US Federal Government-issued cards, it struck me that the other cad just didn't look "official" enough. Plus when you get down to it, you guys should know I'm not the kind of person to just use someone else's work--I must make it myself for myself! (That's why I made my own fake card blanks no matter how neat Zeo made theirs. :P)
My plan currently is to get these printed up at Longs on the photo paper we have there... I'm very curious as to the quality the photo machines print at. As for using it, it is illegal to use a Fake ID card, but there is no real ID card that my card is faking, so I don't think anyone can do anything about it. In fact, Federal Law does permit me to use their logos and such (as it's public domain) and Copyright Law permits me to create derivative works regardless of its copyright status, provided it meets the regulations of Fair Use Laws. Correction: turns out that faking association with a Government entity is illegal. So I'll probably edit this card, removing DHS references and replacing it with a fictional US Government entity... like "Department of Photographic Authenticity" or something of that nature. I can at least still the DHS logos, so long as I edit them; Copyright Law is still applicable here. :)
The tough part was trying to get the "official" wavy grids that you see on a lot of Federal documents and money. But that's my little Photoshop secret... unless enough of you guys wanna know how I did it. (^_^) If you guys also want the blank for your own nefarious purposes, I'll post it for you. :)
|
|
|
|
[27 Jun 2009|12:23pm] |
Now I enjoy Michael Jackson's music, and I recognize his popularity... but I must admit that Michael Jackson never was a chart topper for me. I owned Thriller just because, and I got a lot of plays out of Off The Wall, but to me--apart from the controversy--Jackson was just another music artist.
But now that Michael's dead... I gotta admit that I actually miss him. Maybe it's because it was like while he was alive I knew I had time "to get into him" but now that he's dead that chance has been robbed from me...
As much as people made fun of Jackson, it was because they loved him.... like how friends rib their friends...
The world just isn't gonna be the same without him.
|
|
|
|
[26 Jun 2009|10:11pm] |
I can't believe how cheap 4GB, 8GB and 16GB Memory Stick Duo are now! I'm aiming to get one or two soon to complement my PSP-1000... finally I have an excuse to download even more PSP ISOs!
I mean like... I have ONE 4GB Memory Stick Duo, which is enough for two ISOs or so. But I'm used to having a shitload of games on one storage medium... like my GBA Flash Cart had five GBA ROMs while my R4DS for my NDS has between 15-35 NDS ROMS at any given moment. Access to two PSP ISOs without having to copy new games just doesn't cut it. At first I thought maybe a hacked PSPgo would be the solution, but when someone pointed out that a PSP-3000 plus a 16GB Memory Stick Duo in it is still cheaper than a PSPgo (and it even has a UMD reader!), I thought maybe I'd just use my PSPgo funds on a ton of 16GB Memory Stick Duos!
|
|
|
| navigation |
| [ |
viewing |
| |
most recent entries |
] |
| [ |
go |
| |
earlier |
] |
|
|
|
|
