The Pope celebrated Christmas this year by dressing up as Santa Claus…
Then choking some kids by using the force.
Archive for December, 2006
31
Dec
Pope Palpatine
29
Dec
Broken Window
So the O’Briens Glass guy just left. Entire window needs to be replaced. I’m not just talking glass here, I mean the whole 2+ metres by 1.5 metres metal frame, take off the woodwork, the whole bit.
Should be able to be done by February.
Cool.
27
Dec
Xbox Goodness
OK, aside from the graphics, sound, games, etc, the best thing about the 360 is the Arcade.
Trail versions of all the games can be downloaded and played. I’m into Texas Hold ‘Em at the moment, UNO is fun. They have Streetfighter 2 as well. Imagine a 2 player streetfighter game with someone in another country.
Then there’s the marketplace. Downloads game trailers, game demos, “insider” type videos, music videos, movie trailers, soon TV shows and full-length movies.
Just getting back to the graphics, imagine cutscenes from games on the PS2 and original Xbox. Specifically the Rainbow Six games. Now, imagine if the whole game looked like that, all the time. That’s Rainbow Six: Vegas. The characters mouths move, realtime, forming words, when they speak. Not at scripted points, mind you, random. Gears of War is the same. It’s like playing a cutscene. Damn pretty.
But the arcade? Best idea they’ve come up with since DOS.
25
Dec
Merry Christmas
Hope y’all have a great day.
Here’s what my wife got me:
Here’s what my neighbours got me:
See how generous they were? The handed these out to the whole street.
I like my wife’s present bestest.
23
Dec
Why my wife rocks #623
We were going over Christmas preparations – ie Bills paid, check…Presents bought, check… Food shopping done, mostly check….
“Oh” she says, “There’s one thing to pick up.” and goes away, toddles back with an envelope.
I open it.
It’s a layby receipt.
For an XBox 360.
Squeeee!!!!!
16
Dec
Product Demonstrations
You know how they have product demonstrations in supermarkets?
We were just there, and the ubiquitous older lady was there behind a stand, wearing gloves. This is important. Remember gloves.
I saw the package from a distance, it looked like paper towel. Wrong.
Toilet paper. She was demonstrating toilet paper.
WEARING GLOVES.
I shit you not.
05
Dec
Exercise
Exercise is a word most people who know me wouldn’t associate with me. But most of the people I know didn’t know me when I was a full time student, and therefore had the time to go to the gym almost full time.
This morning, I pried myself out of bed at 6am to go for a run. The path I usually take is around 1.8km, and it takes me somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes to follow it, walking. I had tried to jog before, and all I got for my trouble was painful cramps in the muscle between my calf and my ankle.
Well, today I jogged. 500 all up. 200m…walk…300m. I was quite surprised. I recovered pretty quick, breathing easy within another 100m.
Back when I was a student, I would jog 45min – 1 hour as a warm up, after riding 20 minutes to the gym.
I figured out recently that my ideal weight is around 30kgs less than what I weigh now. That’s like an entire 4 year old.
*sigh*
It’s a long way to go, but this time I will get there.
