Josh 的个人资料Don't Panic照片日志列表更多  |  工具 帮助 |
|
10月22日 I'm doing science and I'm still alive!October has been quite the busy month. Jam-packed with exciting fun and less exciting--yet still interesting--events. I was going to cram it all into one Voltron-like post, but I figured I'd take it one colored robot lion at a time. And I suppose I'll just keep going with this Voltron theme.
Video Games - Black Lion (Keith)
*If I'm losing you with these Voltron references, don't panic. I've included a guide entry about Voltron at the end of the post to bring everyone up to speed.*
Of course I'll mention Halo 3. It's great. Everybody knows it. I needn't go on about this one.
Legend of Zelda - The Phantom Hourglass. I love my DS (this device makes it even better). And I know I'm not alone, look at this picture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thekiko/1308719409/in/set-72157601827609412/). Everything about that game was done just right. Practically everything...there were a few annoying aspects of the game, but nothing worth noting. Easy to play and cleverly designed.
The Orange Box - 5 games in one. Half Life 2, HL2 Ep:1, HL2 Ep:2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal. I know about Half Life, and I've read about Team Fortress...but I hadn't seen too much about Portal, so I played that first. I'm glad I did. It's a relatively simple first-person puzzle game, but the concept is original. You are a test subject at some science facility, going from one room to the next, testing out this portal gun. The first shot you fire with the gun makes a hole in a surface (wall, floor, ceiling, etc), the second shot makes another hole like the first one. If you go into one hole, you come out the other, wherever it may be. You should play the game to see that concept implemented into the variety of things you can do with these portals. There are no other people in the game other than yourself. Your only company are the occasional egg-shaped gun turrets (who will shoot you on sight, yet are very passive when you tip them over) and GlaDOS, a condescending, sarcastic computer.
You know you've got a good game when even the credits go above and beyond the level of entertainment that is credited to credits. This particular one features a song written by Jonathan Coulton called "Still Alive", sung by GlaDOS. The lyrics fit perfectly and the song is pretty good. I say pretty good because those not predisposed to video games or at least this one in particular might not appreciate it as much, but I, for one, can't get it out of my head.
So I made a video. I scoured the internet for pictures and put together a slide show set to the song. I've embedded the video below. Also, I have a link to Digg.com...so if you are able to Digg it, I'd be ever so grateful.
Hitchhiker's Guide Entry> Voltron
200710.23 - Out of the many cartoons that aired during the 1980's, Voltron was one of them. On the surface, Voltron was another Asian import about a giant robot protecting the universe (or the general area of the universe that said robot occupied at the time) from typical villains (generally just 1 specific villain that was never really caught or killed, simply thwarted until a later time).
Beyond that, Voltron was an intricate weave of color coordination in that there was a total lack of effort in pairing like colors together. Voltron was a humanoid robot that was made up of 5 differently-colored smaller robots, which resembled, naturally, lions. Each lion made up a part of the body: The Black Lion was the head and torso, the Green and Red lions made up the arms, and the Blue and Yellow lions were the legs.
Each lion was piloted by a person dressed in a subtly futuristic space suit, which were also differently colored. Here's where things get tricky.
The Black Lion was controlled by Keith, who wore a red suit.
Meanwhile the Blue lion was piloted by Sven, who, fittingly, wore a black suit. In all the confusion, Sven somehow disappeared from the show altogether. While the audience of Norwegian viewers may have suffered greatly with his loss, Princess Allura made up for that. She took over the Blue Lion, even though it didn't match her pink outfit too well.
Inside the Red lion was Lance. He wore blue, which, in some robot operator circles, is the traditional color to wear for people who try to be funny all the time. Then there were Hunk and Pidge, the only two to actually match their color suit with the color of mechanical lion they rolled in. Unfortunately, this was all they really had going for them. Hunk was the fat guy in the Yellow lion, and Pidge was the little nerd who stood at about half the size of everyone else. Perhaps the Green lion he piloted had a few phone books on the driver's seat.
They had originally used their lions for entertainment in a stage performance of The Lion King at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, US. When the galaxy (and beyond) was threatened by evil villains, though, necessity forced them to abandon their job and defend the universe. While they were quite capable in their own individual lions, they seemed to work best when they merged together to form Voltron (incidentally, this also was convenient for getting at those higher, hard-to-reach places). While having lions for appendages seemed to be sufficient, it was never quite enough to get the job done against evil giant robots. So Voltron would materialize a giant sword and put the bad guys' plans on hiatus.
Tags: Voltron, lions, video games, Halo, Portal, Still Alive, video, Legend of Zelda, Phantom Hourglass, Orange Box
10月7日 I haven't done a trackback in a while...This is from another space I have in my favorites list...99% Pointless.
It's amazing to see how far we've come technologically. Years ago, 1 Gig of memory fell under the category of "Bigger than a bread box". Much bigger. Now 1 Gig (or 2, or 4, ...) can fit on a Micro SD card the size of my fingernail.
Quote 20 years on; the incredible shrinking Gigabyte! 10月2日 Pete doesn't like bad grammar......so I'll leave all that out, for Pete's sake; just imagine the speaking parts with a lot of "yanowitahmsayin"s and other uneducated colloquialisms.
Below is a person who calls himself Soulja Boy. You may have heard of him, unfortunately.
Check out this picture. I wonder how this photo shoot went...
AGENT: So, Soldier Boy, what did you have in mind for your single cover? A dead Grandmaster Flash from the future rolls in his futuristic grave.
Hitchhiker's Guide Entry> Big & Tall Clothing Stores 200710.02 - Originally designed to cater to customers whose height or width (or entire shape altogether) exceed the range found in normal retail clothing stores. These stores have since become a refuge for those who somehow choose to wear clothes that seem too large for them, allowing them to upgrade to clothes that are absurdly way too large for them.
Tags: Soulja Boy, glasses, clothing, big & tall, emo, Grandmaster Flash |
On the other end of the spectrum, those who require clothes that too small or tight for them do not seem to require any specialty store. For females, most don't seem to have a problem finding clothes too small for them in any store. Additionally, children's stores are also an option. For males, the female section of retail stores seems to suffice.
|
|
