I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago, but I have some pictures posted over at flickr.com. It's free ,of course, and I've already got the link over on the right hand portion of this page. Check it out when you have the time but remember, it's a work in progress so there aren't that many picutres yet...
Until next time, thanks for checking out my blog.
I spent a little bit of time with this part of the game yesterday and I found out that it is very addictive. Sure you can do flames, or some generic skull head but, with a little imagination, you can create virtually anything! Not me of course. I spent a long time yesterday just designing the Christmas tree, snowman, and snowy scene on my Subaru Impreza. And, quite obviously, it's very amateur. Worst of all, my wife thinks I'm a total dork. I half-jokingly said I would take it online and race against other people ("Fear my Christmas Tree Subaru, superior drivers!") and she looked at me like I was crazy. Of course, I am crazy so that didn't bother me at all. Anyway, I don't plan on designing any masterpiece, but it is a lot of fun. If I happen to create anything else that looks remotely cool or funny, I'll post it here. In the meantime, I'm going to bed.
I've been following E3 over the internet and through shows that I've Tivoed. E3 is the Electronic Entertainment Expo that is held every May in California. The main reason I like to watch it, aside from being a nerd, is the previews of all the games that will be coming out over the next year. Even though I'll end up playing less than 1% of the games, I still find it entertaining. And this year, the next generation of consoles is being touted. First and foremost is the new Xbox 360 which actually debuted last week on a horrendous MTV special. The only thing good that came out of that show is that it renewed my disdain for MTV and the MTV mentality.
Anyway, Nintendo are talking about their new consoles as well. If you listen to Sony all you hear is that the PS3 will be the most powerful supercomputer/console ever divinely inspired by super-geniuses here on earth. All will be crushed under the foot of the Playstation. Nintendo always takes the moral high ground: "We're not trying to make the most powerful machine. We don't have to. We're Nintendo and our games are simply better than anyone else's. Period." Microsoft is still trying to be cool even though everyone thinks they're some evil corporation.
Despite all this, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go for the Xbox 360. Mainly due to Xbox Live and XMG (which I've written about before). In other words, I'd better start saving or do the pre-purchase thing. I can just hear my sister now, "Dork! Let me go check my gigabytes."
It's so cute to see him trotting around in one of those silly dog diapers while he learns. Well, they're not so much "dog" diapers as they are "human baby" diapers. Some may say this is cruel, but look at him. He seems to love it, at least in one of those pictures.
Anyway, it's late and I'm not feeling very creative or talkative. I'm mainly posting this to make sure it will publish properly since I was messing around with some of the settings on blogspot. Have a great night.
I just finished listing the first of what will be three Star Wars items on eBay (see the link to the right). My daughter, who is currently addicted to Star Wars, happened across these when she was at a local thrift store with my wife. When my wife called me and told me about them and then told me they were old and still in the original package, my jaw hit the floor. I said, "Those are probably worth a lot more than five bucks. Whatever you do, PLEASE do not open them." Naturally, we had to offer my to get my little girl a newer (less valuable) Star Wars toy as a replacement.
As you can see from the picture above, this first item that I'm listing over at eBay is R2-D2. There is one more identical R2-D2 and the third one is Luke Skywalker.
Seeing these old toys make me wish I had kept my old Star Wars toys. They'd probably be worth a mint right now! I still can't get over how good the condition is on these items. I just know there's a guy somewhere coming home and screaming at the top of his lungs to his mom or wife: "You did WHAT with my old Star Wars toys?!!" When the auction ends in about seven days, I'll post the final price of this "toy".
I may be exaggerating a bit, but here's the part I hate the most: I find the spinning rims hypnotic. When I'm sitting at a stop light and see a set of those, I just stare. I keep staring. Then I start to wonder as they very slowly wind down, will they stop spinning completely before the light turns green? It becomes a contest of wills between two lifeless objects: a spinning alloy rim attachment and a stop light. And I want the rims to win. I start to think, "Come on... They're getting slower. Okay, the other side is still going - Gasp! The light's turning yellow! Come on, come on! Stop already! Noooo!" Stop light: One. Spinning rims: Zero. Sad isn't it?
It gets even more frightening when I'm driving down the interstate and I see a car doing 70mph and I simply can't get over the fact that the rims are spinning so slow. I mean, it looks like the car is gliding! It's majestic.
I've changed my mind. I now know that spinning rims are the epitome of beauty. Thanks hip-hop gangster wanna-be's! I've seen the light!
P.S. My apologies for overuse of exclamation points in this post. I found it necessary but, in retrospect, I find it annoying.
Anyway, about the photo: I've always loved close ups of odd subject matter. I don't know if that makes me a minimalist or just dumb. I'll leave that up to you.
