There isn't anything I want to buy and I don't know why

Weirdest thing happened to me today.

I was strolling around Frys with my tax refund freshly deposited in my checking account thinking to myself that I was going to splurge on something.  Should I get a couple new video games?  Something on Blu-Ray?  Shit, I could actually afford a brand new 27" iMac or even a 55" LED TV (just barely)...

I must have wandered around for a couple hours driving the loss control crew crazy, because if I wasn't buying anything, I must be stealing something.

There was nothing in that store that I just couldn't live without.  And I'm a little saddened by that.  Am I actually growing up?  We'll see.  I'm going to head back out there on Tuesday to pick up Final Fantasy 13 on the PS3.  Maybe.

Speaking of FFXIII, the good folks over at eurogamer did an awesome write up on the graphical differences between the xbox 360 version and the PS3 version.  In summary, if you have a PS3, get it on that platform.  If not, you can settle for the gimped 360 version.

Wow! Too bad I'll never get one of these.

I'm not a Canon guy, but this is quite possibly the coolest piece of swag EVER.

These Thermos mugs designed after the L series 70-200 were given away at the Winter Olympics by Canon to press photographers.

I want one bad.

I want to punch this head cold in the face

My joints ache.  My nose is running.  I stepped in dog shit this morning.  It wasn't even my dog's shit, just random dog shit on my lawn where Zombie isn't allowed to poop.

Scene in front of Clayton Valley High School this morning as the students walk out to protest budget cuts

It's my yard bitch, I'll smoke if I want to.

I'm a smoker and smoke half a pack a day.  A few months ago, my neighbor screamed from her backyard to mine "Stop smoking outside!" and slammed her windows shut.  I normally stand in one area of my backyard when I smoke, and it's 100 feet from the fence that separates our properties.  Her outburst shocked me and I had no rebuttal.  I've been in this house for almost 2 years and never heard from her before, but twice I did see her get on a stool to peek her head over my fence.

About 2PM yesterday I had my first smoke of the day.  The neighbor climbs up on something in her yard and yells at me to "lock myself in the bathroom" to smoke because I'm always outside smoking and she can't garden. 

I walked over to her house and asked her if we could come to some compromise.  If she was outside she could ask me civilly to go to the far end of my yard.  She said that it didn't matter where I was, she could smell the smoke and offered again that I lock myself in my bathroom.  I offered to make an effort to smoke on my front porch, to which she said that it still didn't matter and that my smoke swirls around the neighborhood.

I know that smoking is gross, and I hate the fact that I do it, but I don't think that 5 minutes I spend outside in my backyard should be dictated by anyone.  Since she wouldn't agree to notify me politely that she was outdoors in her garden, I don't think I need to accommodate her in any way.

Kirsten Dunst is turning Japanese

Directed by McG (Terminator Salvation) in collab with Takeahi Murikami

Tosh.0 vs Web Soup

Both shows play years old videos from You Tube.
Tosh.0 is hosted by Daniel Tosh.
Web Soup is hosted by Chris Hardwick. 

Web Soup wins.

Pedobear is an Olympic mascot!

You sir, are my fucking hero.

This guy photoshops pedobear into the lineup of the Vancouver Olympics and it gets published in Polish and Spanish news!

 

Link to the Spanish site

  

Original:

 

Crazy K-1 Submission Shinya Aoki breaks Mizuto Hirota's arm

12/31/09

Caught this on HD Fight Night the other day and all I can say is god damn.


Pretty poor sportsmanship on Aoki's part if you ask me. 

FFXIII International trailer shows Square Enix's lip syncing

Video Games | Final Fantasy XIII | International Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Looks awesome.  I wish they had kept the original music though.  This Leona Lewis track is god awful. 

Also, every time Sazh speaks a line, I get this image popping in my head:

Dunk SB Pro T19 by Iwasaki Shingo

Why isn't anyone talking about this?? Zune HD just got 10000x better!

Microsoft's Zune HD is getting XVID (specifically the MPEG-4 part 2 Advanced Simple Profile) support!  This is HUGE news!  I wonder why no one is talking about it...

I've got literally TERABYTES of videos that I was too lazy to re-encode to put on my Zune HD. 

Full story here.

Games I never completed: Gears of War ... Part 1

Gears of War came out in November 2006.  On launch day (Emergence Day) I waited for the local gamestop till almost midnight for them to get their shipment delivered from the distribution center.  I sped home, tore it open and played through a bit of the first chapter before jumping into the multiplayer.  I never really looked back at the campaign because while I did enjoy playing solo, playing the storyline with a bud was was much more fun.  Problem was, everyone's schedule was conflicting and I never finished chapter 2.  One by one, my friends and co-workers were finishing the campaign solo while I was begging to play some co-op.  A few of my buddies were still playing multiplayer so that's where I got my GOW fix.

Fast forward to 2010.

Gears of War is still sitting on my shelf, uncompleted.  My Gamerscore for this title is a measly 100 points.  Gears 2 GOTY edition just showed up from Amazon ($27.99, couldn't pass it up) so I decide I finally need to get off my ass and take care of business. 

Act 1 on Hardcore:  I don't remember the controls being so clunky.  I'm sliding and bouncing around all over the available cover.  I'm getting killed left and right I've barely made it through the first emergence hole in the church and it's been nearly an hour since I started playing.  I really suck at this game.  I make the executive decision to start over on casual.

2 hours later and I've finally finished Act 1 on Casual.  I remember liking this game a lot more 3 years ago.  I'm still not used to the controls as I'm bouncing in and out of cover inadvertently.  I keep forgetting to reload, and when I do, I totally botch it leaving myself weaponless for a couple of seconds.  I'm still dying a lot and my throat is sore from screaming at the TV.  I haven't gained any achievement points because I got this far years ago.  It feels like I've wasted 4 hours of my life.

To be continued...

Michael Desmond Laser Dunk Lows

Original Cortez Premium LC Laser engraved

Pikmin 2 Gamecube

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