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BlogAfter nobody bought
Brink, an awesome team game in my opinion (assuming you have a team to play with), I decided to go all in on
Dirt 3. While the game reeked of Dirt 2, they did add a Gymkhana mode and slicked up the menus significantly while also de-clowning the events. The most significant feature I've found so far is uploading replays to YouTube which was immediately used to capture my
luckiest save yet. Also of note: I suck at Gymkhana.
After finding
$200 Klipsch HD 300 speakers and a
$200 Yamaha RX-V467 receiver I received
Tigerbombs blessing and ordered both. While I didn't really need a new sound system, the $500 combined savings forced my hand. Of course Lisa was asleep/watching TV when they were delivered, and the UPS guy instead delivered them to Robbies house. That very instant I received an excited phone call demanding he perform the install and calibration, a request I dared not defy. Unbeknownst to me, my new receiver featured a
YPAO mic that automatically calibrates speaker size, distance and sound pressure level. Once we finished replacing my pitiful 23 gauge speaker wire with new 14 gauge the mic did it's magic and now I apparently possess a
pro audio system. Unfortunately for me I'm not an audiophile so I couldn't tell any difference other than it gets louder, a feature Lisa is particularly thrilled with.
Today being
rapture eve, we decided to celebrate with a
taco night at the Kelleys. It was an unusually beautiful day before the rapture, so we also decided to take one last walk around the block before retiring to Xbox and a movie. Steve also had the idea of selling his Trans Am since he wouldn't need it after being saved, jokes was on him though; the guy didn't bring any money and said he'd come back next week. Well played.
Now entering week 4, the Playtation Network outage warms the cockles of my heart more and more each day that it remains down. A particularly good cockle warmer is news of
PS3 trade in programs kicking in at major retailers. I'm sure the die hard fanboys have no intention of trading in for a working online network, but if we can get our claws deep into the doubters we can grow our army significantly. The dream of a Playstation free world is looking like more of a possibility, and the day the overlords of Xbox will finally reveal their true plan is coming closer. I can only hope my wasted life of achievements will finally come to mean something.
I'm officially official for
E3 this year. Having never attended before (and probably never again) I'm quite excited. I plan to get kicked out by the second day after harassing every major Xbox representative at which point I'll just loiter around the entrance screaming Xbox to everyone that walks by. I'm hoping for an announcement for the next Xbox (Nintendo already confirmed they are announcing) but I'm not holding my breath, they're making too much money on the current one. I'm pretty sure native 3D support will be announced, but that's not nearly as exciting. At least I'll be able to touch Major Nelson at some point, and that's worth a trip right there.
Lila was
baptized today by her grandfather, and for once I did not burst into flame upon entering the church. I can only assume Lisa made some deal for me before entering, or wearing a full suit successfully camoflauged me. Either way she is now saved, so she'll be with her mother after the rapture. That means I can dedicate 100% of my time to post-rapture Xbox until the end of days.
For the last month, backups from all computers except two have been extremely slow, taking multiple days to complete (over a gigabit network).
Netflix on my Media Center PC has also been exceptionally slow but the backup for that computer was normal speed. After reloading my home server and upgrading all NIC drivers I finally coorelated the fact that the two fast computers and the home server were on the same
Netgear GS608 Switch. The switch was able to talk to every computer connected to it at full speed, but my new Cisco router baffled it. A temporary change to the 16 port
LAN party switch fixed the problem, and a new
Cisco switch is already on order. Let this be a lesson: the GS608 is racist.
After being assigned babysitting duties by the woman today, Lila and I were on our own. She immediately demanded I play Xbox for several hours followed by a trip to Burger King. Being a good father, I obliged on both accounts but drew the line when she asked to drive. I assured her she would inherit the Cougar just as soon as her feet could reach the pedals. Not satisfied, she tried a series of pulleys to work the pedals but finally conceded it just wasn't time yet.
After bending to the will of Lisa and her daily chore of watching TV all day, I activated a Netflix subscription of my very own. I previously used my dads account for free streaming to my computer and Xbox, but now we get actual movies on demand instead of hoping the one we want becomes available for download. The first movie shipped out in less than 2 days, but the second movie I get
this notice which is baffling. While I'm sure Skyline will be a waste of 120 minutes, it's interesting it's so bad it shipped itself back. Serious baby
is serious.
With PSN being down for over a week now, some great material is surfacing, like
this comic and
this one. By far my favorite so far is the
Kevin Butler parody which warms the cockles of my heart. Also of note: I'm not crossing my fingers that a similar fate won't happen to Xbox LIVE. I'd have some serious comeuppance if that were to happen.
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