What a crap hole!?
Okay. I always knew Ogden wasn’t the classiest place. I mean my neighborhood is far from picturesque. But I was driving around the town today trying to find a car that Mom is interested in and WOW. There’s some places that are…uh…decayed. Yeah, we’ll use that word. It’s nicer.
Trailer parks with cars parked in the driveways that looked like they’d been lit on fire. Angry dogs running loose in the streets. Houses that looked like they hadn’t had a thing done to them since the day they were built. Just scary looking neighborhoods. Lots of “No Tresspassing” signs tied to the flimsy chain link fence in the front yards. Even one sign that said, “Forget the dog, BEWARE OF OWNER.” Ha ha.
I guess I never really drove around the town and paid attention. Suppose I just tried to tune it out. But MAN! I don’t have real high standards, but talk about some perspective. Glad I’m moving come the end of June.
New computer case!
Well my original computer case from the first computer I ever built was starting to get annoying. It’s loud on it’s best day. But lately it’s been prone to buzzing as joints have gotten loose over the years from moving around. But it was a cheap computer case and it served me well!
I decided to step up to something a little more solid. The NZXT Hush case. It’s advertised as a “silent” case. But I don’t expect utter silence. I just though it was a slick looking computer case mostly.
It has sound deadening foam on all sides too!
I haven’t gotten it hooked up yet (obviously) but I have a nice little project to work on after work today! Once I get power to it it should have a cool glow to it. Like so:
Oh no. Game competition e-mail updates!? I’m doomed.
I remember back when I was younger. Prolly junior high age. The N64 was hot on the scene and Mario Kart 64 was brand new. OH how I loved that game. And still do. My obsession came in the form of Time Trials. For one reason or another I got hooked on it. I used to get a gaming magazine called “Tips & Tricks”. Each month, at the time, they would publish a new fastest time for the Mario Raceway track. I’d spend a week or two trying to beat the time in the magazine, and eventually do so. The small little segment got so popular that evenutally they started including other tracks. I guess from there I was hooked. I laid down some blistering times on all the tracks I could, wait for the next issue, and repeat.
Cue the internet.
Once we got online, I was able to look up other people that played the game. Compare times and after a few days, somebody (who saw my time) worked on it, eventually beat it and posted it. Pictures for proof of course. Which was acceptable proof in a time before the rise of Photoshop. So back and forth we would go challenging, and besting, each other’s records.
Now, real time updates?
I just got a new game on my computer called Audiosurf. Where you take your music collection already on your computer, and you get to ride a course generated from the song, trying to score the most points. Hard to explain, so if you don’t know what it is, check a video HERE. One of the cool features is it automatically posts your scores and shows you how you compare to everyone else that played that same song. Nifty. As if that’s not enough. I’m at work today, and check my e-mail. And it’s a message notifying me that 10 MINUTES AGO Biebs beat my score for one of the songs I played.
Right now it’s just this game. But soon with any game I’ll be able to know when the bar has been raised, and I’ll be FORCED to sit and hone my skills until I’m once again atop the masses. Only to cause countless others to do the same, and thus the never ending cycle of striving for that extra 10 points, that extra .003 seconds. If they ever include this feature in Mario Kart, I am surely doomed.
I did it AGAIN!
Geeze, I’m terrible. You ever have one of those things you have to do, and for some reason or another you keep telling yourself, “I’ll do it tomorrow”? Well…I just realized TODAY that February is the month to renew my car tags. Which I HAVEN’T done yet! DOH! Too late now to do it today. I’ll have to head in tomorrow morning. But hey, I haven’t gotten pulled over the first 3 days of March. I think I can make it one more!
I hope.