Success!

I beat Mass Effect 2 tonight! Now, onward to create a character from the original, beat it, and import into Mass Effect 2. Life without a car or a temporary job can be so rough, let me tell you all what! ;-)

Societal Recluse and Two of Life's Little Ironies

For the past week, that is from last Tuesday till Today, I have been a societal recluse. Last Tuesday, Mass Effect 2 was released in America. Now, for those of you that have not played the original Mass Effect, released in 2007, fear not. Mass Effect 2 can be played without having played the original, as you are updated on everything that happened in the original. If, like me, you have played the original, you will be simply blown away by how Bioware has outdone themselves, yet again! Mass Effect 2 is truly stunning, a marvel of technological innovation on the XBox 360. I seriously can not recommend it enough. It is a fantastic sci-fi/action RPG!

Seriously, I have done nothing for the past week besides wake up, eat, work out, and play that game. I would like to point out that being temporarily unemployed helps in cases such as this. Now for some irony. I always joke that the quarian character, Tali, sounds like she's Iranian, that she talks with an Iranian accent. Well, Liz Sroka who does her voice from what I know is not Iranian. However, look at second 20 of that video. The quarian asking if Commander has any new evidence for the hearing Shephard was born in Iran. Irony...

Here's some serious irony for you all. I was up at Purdue a few weeks back, visiting a friend from Spain who has come over to the US to do her graduate studies at Purdue. I didn't realize her apartment parking lot towed. I woke up the next morning to find my car towed. It was in an accident, too. A drunk driver in a blue Honda Civic smashed into my car as it was being towed. My car is now in the shop being repaired. The rental car they gave me? A blue Honda Civic...

Now for some music! Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" is a good song, although I do not care for the video nor do I care for the lyrics, particularly. The song's beat reminds me a lot of house music, a genre of electronic or as you ill-informed n00bs call it, techno.

Scanners, in the Real World!

Tonight,
I have been trying to fix a machine I disassembled. Following the reassembly instructions in the manual was not helping. The machine kept snagging when I tried to use it. I wanted to scream. Finally, I started getting a serious headache, almost akin to the one the guy in the 1981 movie Scanners gets in the clip below. Warning, that clip is not for the faint of heart.



Well, thankfully my head is ok as I finally got the machine working. Also, that was quite a great end result from the clip, huh? To think, they did something that realistic in 1981!!!

The Original "Avatar" Script

As I said in my review, I did enjoy "Avatar". 20th Century Fox has put up the "original" script up on a site (I won't link to it) to show how the idea evolved since the '90s.
I found out, much to my dismay after reading part of that script, it was not the original. It was closer to the final product in theaters, albeit with some small differences. If you want to see what could have been, look here.

I am about halfway through it right now and can tell you all it would put the finished product to shame.

"I Like Guns"

Special Election in Massachusetts

9:22 P.M. January 19th, 2010 Coakley just conceded to Brown via telephone!!!! WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, tomorrow is the special election in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It should be no secret or surprise to you all that I support Scott Brown. I personally think this is more than just a referendum (to use the media's words) on Barry's policies. This is a show of force against all incumbents and a warning to both parties that we will not automatically vote for one party, just because of tradition or because we feel we must out of necessity so that the other may not gain power.

Yes, it's true that Brown is running as a Republican. However, as Michelle Malkin points out, he is able to bring a strong coalition together of the right and center. I can not remember a single time of this happening in my life when a candidate of either party pulled this off based on merit.

Now, given the typical propaganda and elitism of the MSM, as well as many Members of Congress and the DC establishment, it's not hard to see why Scott is so vehemently demonized by many in the media. He represents what our Founding Fathers always wanted: citizens that will step up to the plate and do what is necessary, while being mindful of why they're there. Now, provided Scott wins he may, at some point, become a career politician. However, for the moment I do not think there is even a remote possibility of that happening.

A person that makes the following remark, in my book, gets it!



So, in closing, Massachusetts we'll all be keeping our eyes on you tomorrow. Go Brown and I hope you win!!!

On an unrelated note about my family crest: I did find an image but I can't get it to upload though.

The Benefits of Staying Up Late

I may have just found my family's crest which I have been looking for a looooong time. If it does indeed turn out to be the crest, I'll post a picture up!