Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Postage
Recently acquired a few new songs that were so good that they made me want to buy a set of drums and an electric guitar and start learning them...
DRUMS AND ELECTRIC GUITAR TOOOO GOOOD
Yeah the beats/riffs were really that cool. Unfortunately as a kid I studied the requisite instruments of the typical Asian - piano and violin. Then again the school didn't have a program for "rock band" either.
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Job is going okay, no huge complaints. Today I had to do a ton of Brocade zoning, something I never did in lab because my partner LOVED to zone :) So I had the two seconds of panic where I considering running out of the data center, tripping all the alarms, and screaming "I no know zone!" After that momentary brain-freeze, I figured it out in five seconds. Tons of stuff screwed up towards the end however, and we'll have to fix it tomorrow.
Today Navisphere was acting so slow we joked that it was running bubble sort to order the damn WWNs. -_-
I still get calls about jobs from my old resume postings on monster and hotjobs, but nothing looks better than what I'm doing so far.
Oh yeah, here's the perfunctory hot girl-sighting-that-threatened-to-change-my-life report. Driving into the Pleasanton office I see some asian girl driving out in a black Mercedes, hot beyond belief. The girl not the car. We gave each other a couple glances. That pretty much made my day... oooh the power that they possess.
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Game Reviews:
Tekken 5 is the shit, I've been playing it a bunch. The graphics are the best on the ps2 by far, the music is much improved, and better yet it's a ton of fun to play. I have a Kaz character at Deity rank and working on Nina/Asuka/Feng right now. My execution has gotten a ton better over the years as I can now do wavedash/bdc consistently as well as dash electric. It's not like I practice a whole lot, something just clicked in my brain. I wish they brought back Tekken Ball tho, instead of the stupid mini-game that they spend way too much on and still sucks. The CG in the game is of a ridiculously high level. They use hollywood style camera framing and effects. Unfortunately no arcade emulated TTT in Arcade History which would have made the game perfect.
NBA Street V3 is pretty sweet with the trick stick and all but it's essentially the same game it was two iterations ago.
Burnout 3 is immensely fun to play! Too many games to play, so little time.
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Quick Movie Reviews!
Aviator- I liked this one, but its not one of Scorsese's best. Follows the Goodfellas arc, shows the good times first, then the bad. DiCaprio gives a good performance, Cate Blanchett is VERY GOOD as well (the accent is dead-on). Visual Effects are handled nicely by Rob Legato and crew.
At least now I understand the Howard Hughes references in that one simpsons episode ($pringfield where Mr. Burns builds a casino).
Million Dollar Baby - probably deserving of its Oscar win. It's very good throughout but the third act is a knockout (pun intended). It's not a boxing movie, just a movie with boxing in it.
Closer- oooh man this one has been hit or miss with the critics. I really liked Clive Owen and Natalie Portman in this one. Jude and Julia's roles aren't as juicy so they can't do as much. Good dialog. The movie depicts a more realistic protrayal of love perhaps.
Of course I can't leave out the recent episodes of Arrested Development, which have been utterly zany beyond comprehension and a blast to watch. Ben Stiller, Buster's hook, Mrs. Featherbottom, Franklin the puppet, and an endless array of jokes. It helps that some of these characters are reaching "Simpsons-esque stupidity" i.e. Tobias not knowing how to play a MiniDV tape and sticking it in the much larger cassette slot of a VCR. Please please please don't let this show be canceled!!! ¶ 11:44 PM
DRUMS AND ELECTRIC GUITAR TOOOO GOOOD
Yeah the beats/riffs were really that cool. Unfortunately as a kid I studied the requisite instruments of the typical Asian - piano and violin. Then again the school didn't have a program for "rock band" either.
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Job is going okay, no huge complaints. Today I had to do a ton of Brocade zoning, something I never did in lab because my partner LOVED to zone :) So I had the two seconds of panic where I considering running out of the data center, tripping all the alarms, and screaming "I no know zone!" After that momentary brain-freeze, I figured it out in five seconds. Tons of stuff screwed up towards the end however, and we'll have to fix it tomorrow.
Today Navisphere was acting so slow we joked that it was running bubble sort to order the damn WWNs. -_-
I still get calls about jobs from my old resume postings on monster and hotjobs, but nothing looks better than what I'm doing so far.
Oh yeah, here's the perfunctory hot girl-sighting-that-threatened-to-change-my-life report. Driving into the Pleasanton office I see some asian girl driving out in a black Mercedes, hot beyond belief. The girl not the car. We gave each other a couple glances. That pretty much made my day... oooh the power that they possess.
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Game Reviews:
Tekken 5 is the shit, I've been playing it a bunch. The graphics are the best on the ps2 by far, the music is much improved, and better yet it's a ton of fun to play. I have a Kaz character at Deity rank and working on Nina/Asuka/Feng right now. My execution has gotten a ton better over the years as I can now do wavedash/bdc consistently as well as dash electric. It's not like I practice a whole lot, something just clicked in my brain. I wish they brought back Tekken Ball tho, instead of the stupid mini-game that they spend way too much on and still sucks. The CG in the game is of a ridiculously high level. They use hollywood style camera framing and effects. Unfortunately no arcade emulated TTT in Arcade History which would have made the game perfect.
NBA Street V3 is pretty sweet with the trick stick and all but it's essentially the same game it was two iterations ago.
Burnout 3 is immensely fun to play! Too many games to play, so little time.
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Quick Movie Reviews!
Aviator- I liked this one, but its not one of Scorsese's best. Follows the Goodfellas arc, shows the good times first, then the bad. DiCaprio gives a good performance, Cate Blanchett is VERY GOOD as well (the accent is dead-on). Visual Effects are handled nicely by Rob Legato and crew.
At least now I understand the Howard Hughes references in that one simpsons episode ($pringfield where Mr. Burns builds a casino).
Million Dollar Baby - probably deserving of its Oscar win. It's very good throughout but the third act is a knockout (pun intended). It's not a boxing movie, just a movie with boxing in it.
Closer- oooh man this one has been hit or miss with the critics. I really liked Clive Owen and Natalie Portman in this one. Jude and Julia's roles aren't as juicy so they can't do as much. Good dialog. The movie depicts a more realistic protrayal of love perhaps.
Of course I can't leave out the recent episodes of Arrested Development, which have been utterly zany beyond comprehension and a blast to watch. Ben Stiller, Buster's hook, Mrs. Featherbottom, Franklin the puppet, and an endless array of jokes. It helps that some of these characters are reaching "Simpsons-esque stupidity" i.e. Tobias not knowing how to play a MiniDV tape and sticking it in the much larger cassette slot of a VCR. Please please please don't let this show be canceled!!! ¶ 11:44 PM
