Showing posts with label awesome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awesome. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Conundrum
In case you missed it a couple of posts down, I've come to the realization that I enjoy building Lego sets.
Now, I've only done two so far and while I'd like a Lord of the Rings: Mines of Moria set and The Avengers Quinjet set, there's one set out there on the horizon that makes me forget my wish for a Cave Troll or my desire to destroy a Lego Black Widow.
I present to you, the Lego Monster Fighters Haunted Mansion set:
As if it was not cool enough, it actually opens up like a play house with various rooms in your typical haunted mansion - a torture/potion/kitchen type room, a creepy basement, and a piano room. I may be stretching it wtih a 'torture' room but I'm using my imagination as Lego would like me to and thinking up things my Haunted Mansion will have, okay? Okay.
Even cooler!!! (because why stop there), the set comes with a a zombie chef. A zombie freaking chef. And! ghosts...ghost that glow. In. the. dark.
In discussing this with Bughie J. (Confidant for all my musings of ridiculous schemes involving Lego, toys and video games (while kindly reminding me I have a Hot Toys Loki to pay for at the end of the year)), we decided that all manners of things can live in this Haunted Mansion.
Some where along the way, the conversation on the Haunted Mansion went a little like this:
Me: ...people could live in there. Like Loki.
Bughie J.: and command his zombie chef to make him fish n chips! and Dalek cakes for you.
Me: He and I still trying to sort out the alleged chortling. Let's not talk about it. There was no chortling! pfppbbttfftt. Hm? What? You heard nothing.
Bughie J.: Nothing? Or Something.
Me: Uhh...pancakes? No, nothing. Really though, do we want to eat fish n' chips from a Zombie Chef?
Bughie J.: Depends how good!
Me: It's probably Gollum's fish, all rotten and stuff.
Bughie J.: Might be worth the risk. Fish n' Chips and all.
Me: True. True.
Bughie J.: Plus i'm sure the alcohol will protect me
Me: Who's brewing alcohol in the basement? The ghosts? Well, who else to brew some alcohol than some spirits, I guess.
I can see great things for this house and great frustration in my trying to build it. 14+ difficulty at 2,064 pieces, huh? Should make for hilarious times.
Now, I've only done two so far and while I'd like a Lord of the Rings: Mines of Moria set and The Avengers Quinjet set, there's one set out there on the horizon that makes me forget my wish for a Cave Troll or my desire to destroy a Lego Black Widow.
I present to you, the Lego Monster Fighters Haunted Mansion set:
Even cooler!!! (because why stop there), the set comes with a a zombie chef. A zombie freaking chef. And! ghosts...ghost that glow. In. the. dark.
In discussing this with Bughie J. (Confidant for all my musings of ridiculous schemes involving Lego, toys and video games (while kindly reminding me I have a Hot Toys Loki to pay for at the end of the year)), we decided that all manners of things can live in this Haunted Mansion.
Some where along the way, the conversation on the Haunted Mansion went a little like this:
Me: ...people could live in there. Like Loki.
Bughie J.: and command his zombie chef to make him fish n chips! and Dalek cakes for you.
Me: He and I still trying to sort out the alleged chortling. Let's not talk about it. There was no chortling! pfppbbttfftt. Hm? What? You heard nothing.
Bughie J.: Nothing? Or Something.
Me: Uhh...pancakes? No, nothing. Really though, do we want to eat fish n' chips from a Zombie Chef?
Bughie J.: Depends how good!
Me: It's probably Gollum's fish, all rotten and stuff.
Bughie J.: Might be worth the risk. Fish n' Chips and all.
Me: True. True.
Bughie J.: Plus i'm sure the alcohol will protect me
Me: Who's brewing alcohol in the basement? The ghosts? Well, who else to brew some alcohol than some spirits, I guess.
I can see great things for this house and great frustration in my trying to build it. 14+ difficulty at 2,064 pieces, huh? Should make for hilarious times.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Yeaauuhhhhh!!!!
Congratulations to Beetchie on passing her boards!
Woo!
We're very excited for you because we knew you could do it and you put in so many years of hard work!
It's super awesome.
We're also very excited for ourselves because guess who's one step closer to becoming a Suga' Momma?
Beetchie, that's who.
Woo!
We're very excited for you because we knew you could do it and you put in so many years of hard work!
It's super awesome.
We're also very excited for ourselves because guess who's one step closer to becoming a Suga' Momma?
Beetchie, that's who.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
I Forgot
I forgot how hot Don Music was. Check out the colour combination with the shirt, tie, pants and belt. I also would not call him a hipster but rather a "tortured artist".
MC, this one is not for you because I don't understand why you would reject my Chiquita bananas that I hand-picked with love for you.
You are so ungrateful!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
No Words
There are no words to describe the season finale of Dexter. I was fully expecting what happened but it does not make it any less horrible.
And her face was so pretty while lying in the pool of blood.
That is what gets me most ... because it was the beauty and fascination of Trinity's sister that led to the entire cycle of serial murders.
I'm not sure how next season is going to be handled.
Why aren't the rest of you watching this damned show?!
And her face was so pretty while lying in the pool of blood.
That is what gets me most ... because it was the beauty and fascination of Trinity's sister that led to the entire cycle of serial murders.
I'm not sure how next season is going to be handled.
Why aren't the rest of you watching this damned show?!
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The Beginning of the End
It was hot.
We were all ready to pass out, truly.
It was sweaty.
We were all sweaty but Trent was the sweatiest of us all.
It was plagued by a more than a few completely aggressive, idiotic sorry excuses for humans.
But we all had to be a little bit on the side of aggressive last night to combat what we were thrown into.
Despite the dehydration, disgust, and detestable behaviour on behalf of some, I made it finally...
And saw one of the best shows, from one of my favourite bands on one of their final tour dates in their 20 year long career.
The Nine Inch Nails "Wave Goodbye" Tour 8/25/2009 @ Terminal 5, NYC Set List:
We were all ready to pass out, truly.
It was sweaty.
We were all sweaty but Trent was the sweatiest of us all.
It was plagued by a more than a few completely aggressive, idiotic sorry excuses for humans.
But we all had to be a little bit on the side of aggressive last night to combat what we were thrown into.
Despite the dehydration, disgust, and detestable behaviour on behalf of some, I made it finally...
And saw one of the best shows, from one of my favourite bands on one of their final tour dates in their 20 year long career.
The Nine Inch Nails "Wave Goodbye" Tour 8/25/2009 @ Terminal 5, NYC Set List:
Monday, May 25, 2009
Who Loves Me?
Who wants to buy me the Ultimate Sephiroth pyo?
Or at least put in half, making my total $75 and you, whoever you may be, your total $75?
Or something? (Making my total $0 and you, whoever you may be, your total $150?)
If I get this, I will never buy/coerce or consider getting another Sephiroth figure again!
Really though, you guys should pity me... I never had a good one but I will never knock my very first FF toy which was my Sephy keychain which I'm still very much proud of and love most of all my figures.
But let us take a moment to gaze upon this new one and his beauty, together...
::tear::
Or at least put in half, making my total $75 and you, whoever you may be, your total $75?
Or something? (Making my total $0 and you, whoever you may be, your total $150?)
If I get this, I will never buy/coerce or consider getting another Sephiroth figure again!
Really though, you guys should pity me... I never had a good one but I will never knock my very first FF toy which was my Sephy keychain which I'm still very much proud of and love most of all my figures.
But let us take a moment to gaze upon this new one and his beauty, together...
::tear::
Friday, May 22, 2009
Wow.
How cool would this be...
A Frickin' Nerv cell phone!!!!!!!
Stop hating on us, you Japanese bastards with your Japanese Only Limited Edition Bullshart!
H1, I maintain that I am not an Otaku but who would deny the awesomeness of this?!
A Frickin' Nerv cell phone!!!!!!!
Stop hating on us, you Japanese bastards with your Japanese Only Limited Edition Bullshart!
H1, I maintain that I am not an Otaku but who would deny the awesomeness of this?!
Friday, May 01, 2009
Support Your People
Beetchie and CLee, do your people a kindness and support them.
From a New York Times article:
By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: April 27, 2009
SHENZHEN, China — The phone’s sleek lines and touch-screen keyboard are unmistakably familiar. So is the logo on the back. But a sales clerk at a sprawling electronic goods market in this Chinese coastal city admits what is clear upon closer inspection: this is not the Apple iPhone; this is the Hi-Phone.
“But it’s just as good,” the clerk says.
Nearby, dozens of other vendors are selling counterfeit Nokia, Motorola and Samsung phones — as well as cheap look-alikes that make no bones about being knockoffs.
“Five years ago, there were no counterfeit phones,” says Xiong Ting, a sales manager at Triquint Semiconductor, a maker of mobile phone parts, while visiting Shenzhen. “You needed a design house. You needed software guys. You needed hardware design. But now, a company with five guys can do it. Within 100 miles of here, you can find all your suppliers.”
Technological advances have allowed hundreds of small Chinese companies, some with as few as 10 employees, to churn out what are known here as shanzhai, or black market, cellphones, often for as little as $20 apiece...
...Nokia, the world’s biggest cellphone maker, says it is working with Beijing to fight counterfeiting. Motorola says much the same. Apple Inc. declined to comment...
...“I saw iPhone pictures on the Web; it’s so cool. But it costs over $500 — too expensive,” says Yang Guibin, 30, an office worker from Chongqing. “So I decided to buy a shanzhai iPhone. I bought it in a digital market here; it looked exactly like the iPhone.”
Some experts say they believe the shanzhai phenomena is about being creative, Chinese style.
“Chinese grass-roots companies are actually very innovative,” says Yu Zhou, a professor at Vassar College. “It’s not so much technology as how they form supply chains and how rapidly they react to new trends.”
While the phones may look like famous brands, companies actually add special features like bigger screens, dual-mode SIM cards (which allow two phone numbers) and even a telescopic lens attachment for the phone’s camera.
Since it is the SIM card that makes a phone run in China, as in most places other than the United States, all you have to do is insert a valid SIM card into a shanzhai phone and it works.
All this innovation comes from an industry that only took off in 2005, after Mediatek, a semiconductor design company from Taiwan, helped significantly reduce the cost and complexity of producing a mobile phone.
Using what experts call a turnkey solution, Mediatek developed a circuit board that could inexpensively integrate the functions of multiple chips, offering start-ups a platform to produce a low-cost mobile phone.
The industry got another boost in 2007, when regulators said companies no longer needed a license to manufacture a cellphone.
That set off a scramble by entrepreneurs in this electronics manufacturing center. Counterfeiting and off-brand knockoffs flourished. Tiny companies would buy a Mediatek chip loaded with software, source other components and ask a factory to assemble them.
Marketing strategies were simple: steal. Designs and brand names were copied identically or simply mimicked. (Sumsung for Samsung or Nckia for Nokia.)
Tapping into the supply chains of big brands is easy, producers say. “It’s really common for factories to do a night shift for other companies,” says Zhang Haizhen, who recently ran a shanzhai company here. “No one will refuse an order if it is over 5,000 mobile phones.”
The people who make fake iPhones admit it’s a shady business.
“We are a kind of illegal producer,” says Zhang Feiyang, whose company, Yuanyang, makes an iPhone clone. “In Shenzhen there are many small mills, hidden. Basically, we can make any type of cellphone.”
The competition is already forcing global brands to lower prices, analysts say. And new Chinese brands are emerging, like Meizu, a would-be Apple that has opened stylish stores here.
“Our phone is even better than the iPhone,” says Liu Zeyu, a Meizu salesman in Shenzhen. “Our goal is to create a phone that makes Chinese proud.”
Chen Yang contributed research.
Buy a Hiphone.
They need the money more.
From a New York Times article:
By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: April 27, 2009
SHENZHEN, China — The phone’s sleek lines and touch-screen keyboard are unmistakably familiar. So is the logo on the back. But a sales clerk at a sprawling electronic goods market in this Chinese coastal city admits what is clear upon closer inspection: this is not the Apple iPhone; this is the Hi-Phone.
“But it’s just as good,” the clerk says.
Nearby, dozens of other vendors are selling counterfeit Nokia, Motorola and Samsung phones — as well as cheap look-alikes that make no bones about being knockoffs.
“Five years ago, there were no counterfeit phones,” says Xiong Ting, a sales manager at Triquint Semiconductor, a maker of mobile phone parts, while visiting Shenzhen. “You needed a design house. You needed software guys. You needed hardware design. But now, a company with five guys can do it. Within 100 miles of here, you can find all your suppliers.”
Technological advances have allowed hundreds of small Chinese companies, some with as few as 10 employees, to churn out what are known here as shanzhai, or black market, cellphones, often for as little as $20 apiece...
...Nokia, the world’s biggest cellphone maker, says it is working with Beijing to fight counterfeiting. Motorola says much the same. Apple Inc. declined to comment...
...“I saw iPhone pictures on the Web; it’s so cool. But it costs over $500 — too expensive,” says Yang Guibin, 30, an office worker from Chongqing. “So I decided to buy a shanzhai iPhone. I bought it in a digital market here; it looked exactly like the iPhone.”
Some experts say they believe the shanzhai phenomena is about being creative, Chinese style.
“Chinese grass-roots companies are actually very innovative,” says Yu Zhou, a professor at Vassar College. “It’s not so much technology as how they form supply chains and how rapidly they react to new trends.”
While the phones may look like famous brands, companies actually add special features like bigger screens, dual-mode SIM cards (which allow two phone numbers) and even a telescopic lens attachment for the phone’s camera.
Since it is the SIM card that makes a phone run in China, as in most places other than the United States, all you have to do is insert a valid SIM card into a shanzhai phone and it works.
All this innovation comes from an industry that only took off in 2005, after Mediatek, a semiconductor design company from Taiwan, helped significantly reduce the cost and complexity of producing a mobile phone.
Using what experts call a turnkey solution, Mediatek developed a circuit board that could inexpensively integrate the functions of multiple chips, offering start-ups a platform to produce a low-cost mobile phone.
The industry got another boost in 2007, when regulators said companies no longer needed a license to manufacture a cellphone.
That set off a scramble by entrepreneurs in this electronics manufacturing center. Counterfeiting and off-brand knockoffs flourished. Tiny companies would buy a Mediatek chip loaded with software, source other components and ask a factory to assemble them.
Marketing strategies were simple: steal. Designs and brand names were copied identically or simply mimicked. (Sumsung for Samsung or Nckia for Nokia.)
Tapping into the supply chains of big brands is easy, producers say. “It’s really common for factories to do a night shift for other companies,” says Zhang Haizhen, who recently ran a shanzhai company here. “No one will refuse an order if it is over 5,000 mobile phones.”
The people who make fake iPhones admit it’s a shady business.
“We are a kind of illegal producer,” says Zhang Feiyang, whose company, Yuanyang, makes an iPhone clone. “In Shenzhen there are many small mills, hidden. Basically, we can make any type of cellphone.”
The competition is already forcing global brands to lower prices, analysts say. And new Chinese brands are emerging, like Meizu, a would-be Apple that has opened stylish stores here.
“Our phone is even better than the iPhone,” says Liu Zeyu, a Meizu salesman in Shenzhen. “Our goal is to create a phone that makes Chinese proud.”
Chen Yang contributed research.
Buy a Hiphone.
They need the money more.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Square Butts
I'm just like the rest of you lot. I too have nightmares by watching the Burger King King.
This evening though, when I heard a familiar tune start up, I had to watch the TV.
Before I continue with this story and I may have mentioned it before, H1 often tries to blackmail with embarrassing stories by telling people that my first CD was Sir Mix-A-Lot's album.
That's right, the one with "Baby Got Back".
I was headed in a direction of Frass many years ago but then Stone Temple Pilots converted me, and for that I am thankful.
Even so, I am not ashamed by my ownage of that CD.
That was some goo'd times in my fuzzy memories and let us leave it at that.
Getting back to the story at hand, I heard a familiar sound and that was "Baby Got Back".
Wondering if I had returned to the early months of 1992 (man was I impressionable! Only 3 months later and I was converted to STP and alternative rock! Nice!), I turned to the TV and was greeted by this hot damned mess of a commercial (be warned, this is the extended version and I've not listened yet because I can't find the volume control on Papa HOchie's computer):
I laughed but knew that this was way wrong.
They showed this mess after 9 PM and that was smart on their part because having Spongebob defiled like this makes me a bit ill. A sadistic laughing kind of ill but ill all the same.
It's been 10 years since that sponge has been on and I would like to keep the memories of his antics as yellow clean as he continues to be even after 10 years of use.
One can only imagine what children might think if they saw this.
It's awesomely wrong.
When are we going to Burger King, H1?
[Update @ 10:53 PM]: The Burger King King scares the square crap out of X.
This evening though, when I heard a familiar tune start up, I had to watch the TV.
Before I continue with this story and I may have mentioned it before, H1 often tries to blackmail with embarrassing stories by telling people that my first CD was Sir Mix-A-Lot's album.
That's right, the one with "Baby Got Back".
I was headed in a direction of Frass many years ago but then Stone Temple Pilots converted me, and for that I am thankful.
Even so, I am not ashamed by my ownage of that CD.
That was some goo'd times in my fuzzy memories and let us leave it at that.
Getting back to the story at hand, I heard a familiar sound and that was "Baby Got Back".
Wondering if I had returned to the early months of 1992 (man was I impressionable! Only 3 months later and I was converted to STP and alternative rock! Nice!), I turned to the TV and was greeted by this hot damned mess of a commercial (be warned, this is the extended version and I've not listened yet because I can't find the volume control on Papa HOchie's computer):
I laughed but knew that this was way wrong.
They showed this mess after 9 PM and that was smart on their part because having Spongebob defiled like this makes me a bit ill. A sadistic laughing kind of ill but ill all the same.
It's been 10 years since that sponge has been on and I would like to keep the memories of his antics as yellow clean as he continues to be even after 10 years of use.
One can only imagine what children might think if they saw this.
It's awesomely wrong.
When are we going to Burger King, H1?
[Update @ 10:53 PM]: The Burger King King scares the square crap out of X.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Crippling Lucca's Mother...Again.
Replaying Chrono Trigger, makes me realise (and Bughie J., I'm sure) that I don't remember much about one of the greatest games I have ever played.
I know it's great because everyone says so, and I did play it almost ten years ago and enjoyed...so why did I just not remember anything about the story?
I guess I was just not paying that close attention and was probably too wrapped up in acquiring that asshole that I adore Magus and being depressed when Bughie J. led me to kill him. On purpose, I might add.
Whatever the reason, I'm once again (of that I'm sure) thoroughly enjoying my replay of this fabulous game on the DS.
I set it to classic mode because DS mode just became way too confusing for my little brain, but the point is - what an incredible, complex story!
The characters are loveable but the story line and attention to details is just absolutely amazing.
It's got everything a person could want! It's got heart, an awesomely timeless soundtrack, time travel, gurus, a festival, comedy, Taban (everything's your fault, ass!), Tata, a nerd, a princess no one could possibly want other than to hate, a pre-historic bad-assed cave woman, a gorf, an asshole prophet, Ozzie, Flea, Slash, a robo, a crono...and a mop!
A mop that I stole!
Make that, a mop that I charmed off the back of some Nu. I was told that this Nu needs it to sweep his flat, so I'll give it back but I keep getting headbutt.
I suppose Nu don't forgive that easily when they've been wronged...uh, charmed.
It also has lots of something a person does not need, and that's heartache.
I'm sorry Lucca's Mom.
Luckily for you, I didn't save and will try again tomorrow.
I know it's great because everyone says so, and I did play it almost ten years ago and enjoyed...so why did I just not remember anything about the story?
I guess I was just not paying that close attention and was probably too wrapped up in acquiring that asshole that I adore Magus and being depressed when Bughie J. led me to kill him. On purpose, I might add.
Whatever the reason, I'm once again (of that I'm sure) thoroughly enjoying my replay of this fabulous game on the DS.
I set it to classic mode because DS mode just became way too confusing for my little brain, but the point is - what an incredible, complex story!
The characters are loveable but the story line and attention to details is just absolutely amazing.
It's got everything a person could want! It's got heart, an awesomely timeless soundtrack, time travel, gurus, a festival, comedy, Taban (everything's your fault, ass!), Tata, a nerd, a princess no one could possibly want other than to hate, a pre-historic bad-assed cave woman, a gorf, an asshole prophet, Ozzie, Flea, Slash, a robo, a crono...and a mop!
A mop that I stole!
Make that, a mop that I charmed off the back of some Nu. I was told that this Nu needs it to sweep his flat, so I'll give it back but I keep getting headbutt.
I suppose Nu don't forgive that easily when they've been wronged...uh, charmed.
It also has lots of something a person does not need, and that's heartache.
I'm sorry Lucca's Mom.
Luckily for you, I didn't save and will try again tomorrow.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
CNN: Bringing You The News and... T-Shirts?
T-shirts!
I noticed this months ago but sometimes when CNN has a fun or ridiculous story, there's an icon or two next to it. If it's a video clip, there's a little video camera icon. If there's a headline worthy of being on a t-shirt, there's a t-shirt icon.
That's right! You can have T-shirts made! It's strange and brilliant all at once!
Everyday I check to see what sort of t-shirt I could buy. I will buy one one day but today's choice almost went into a shopping cart. There was something about Mud Fearing Piggy Wears Wee Boots.
Man, I really should buy that shirt. I wonder if it's too late?
Currently listening to/watching: Burn Notice. I enjoy this stupid show.
I noticed this months ago but sometimes when CNN has a fun or ridiculous story, there's an icon or two next to it. If it's a video clip, there's a little video camera icon. If there's a headline worthy of being on a t-shirt, there's a t-shirt icon.
That's right! You can have T-shirts made! It's strange and brilliant all at once!
Everyday I check to see what sort of t-shirt I could buy. I will buy one one day but today's choice almost went into a shopping cart. There was something about Mud Fearing Piggy Wears Wee Boots.
Man, I really should buy that shirt. I wonder if it's too late?
Currently listening to/watching: Burn Notice. I enjoy this stupid show.
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