Well, I got all the pictures I took yesterday up on Tabblo, so here they are:
Yes, I know. There isn’t much of the installation, or any of the actual Vista, because I had to leave before it was finished. Oh well. I went back today and it really is as amazing as they say it is.
Today Microsoft released the new version of their Windows Operating System, Windows Vista. I went with my friend Matt to pick up Ultimate Edition (he bought it, I don’t have that kind of money). I’m documenting it, and let’s just say it’s been an hour or so since we came back, and we haven’t gotten the installer started yet. Hmm. I wonder what that says about Vista? Just kidding. I’ll post the pictures when it’s fully installed.
Update: Almost 2.5 hours now, still no luck. We’re on the phone with the support person from Microsoft now…
Update 2: She sounds impressed that he built his own computer
Update 3: “You have to run the upgrade version by booting from the disc.” “I did.” *really long silence*
Update 4: Woot, It’s all installed now 🙂 He was running XP 32bit on a 64bit processor, and thus he was trying to upgrade to vista 64bit. Turns out that if you’re running XP 32, you have to upgrade to Vista 32, Vista 64 won’t work. Strange, but hey-it’s installed now.
So, there’s this little game out there called Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which in reality is actually not very little at all. It’s actually gigantic, and very popular. It might have something to do with the weeks of gameplay content, the good storyline, and amazing graphics. But anyway, I haven’t gotten that interested in it since 1. it’s not really my kind of game (medieval fantasy hack&slash RPG), and 2. my computer can’t handle the über graphics.
Well, the second one can’t be changed, since my computer is a laptop, and a mac one at that, but the first one? Well, there’s an expansion pack that’s been recently announced, called The Shivering Isles, and I have to say, it looks like my kind of game. The world is supposed to be the creation of an insane god, hence the outlandish appearance. I think I’d really like this game, and its release might convince me to buy Oblivion.
I hate bloody noses. They are a very large inconvenience. I just had one, and I had to lie on the couch for like 15 minutes until it stopped. And my hand of course, got covered in blood:
Eew.
While surfing the net tubes, I came across a very interesting page. I found it on cabel.name, a pretty cool blog in itself, but Cabel’s Buggy Saints Row is probably the coolest thing there.
What the guy did is he bought the game Saint’s Row, hoping for a good game. He got basically a Grand Theft Auto ripoff, filled to the brim with bugs. Really funny bugs. So Cabel got out his video camera and filmed said bugs, then added some extremely well-made music to the collected footage, to make a musical. It features 3 songs: “Where’s my f*cking car?!”, The car door song, and “What is this place?”.
I have to agree with a commenter on there, Cabel does win at the internet.
Well, here’s the scoop on the mysterious Package #2. It’s a Dell 228WPF LCD, or a 22″ widescreen computer monitor.
Now, I knew a 22″ monitor would be big. But I really wasn’t expecting this. This thing is a BEAST. It dominates my desk, blocking out my view of half the things near the back (Including my ’84 Macintosh 🙁 ). Not that this is a bad thing, as the 1680×1050 resolution gives me a ton of screen space to utilize, and is just mouthwatering to look at.
I took a bunch of pix of the unboxing process and put ’em all on tabblo, check ’em out:
The even awesome-er package that I discussed in my previous post just came, and it is indeed even awesome-er. More information to come in a bit, but for now here’s a teaser:
Package #1 of 2 arrived today (Package #2 should be here within an hour), containing a 1-up Beanie and a Ninja Universal Remote. The hat is awesome, I love it very much. I intend to wear it to school tomorrow and forever and ever.
The remote is awesome too, but it can take a while to register with a TV the first time. After the first registration, it works almost as fast as a normal remote, up to about 10 feet away, from my testing. I can foresee it coming in handy during future visits to UNO’s or Chili’s…
I’ll post about package 2, which is even awesome-er, when it gets here.
(Yes, that is a chalkboard wall behind me. I’ve had mine for 7 years now, HA!)
Well, my friend Cutter just (as in, yesterday) got a Wii, so I got to play it for real. For real meaning no pressure from surrounding con crowd, and correctly set-up sensor bar. The experience was much better.
It could be that I was playing a different game each time, Wii Sports at the con and Warioware at Cutter’s house, but I had way more fun with Warioware. For those of you who haven’t experienced the…(how shall I put this)…unique experience that is Warioware, the game consists of extremely quick minigames (really quick, you have 5-10 seconds to finish each one). The games are very strange, everything from using the wiimote as a fly swatter to squish flies on the screen to a pump handle you have to move up and down to pop a balloon, to a finger you have to use to pick a virtual nose. It’s a very odd-sounding game, but trust me, you have to play it to understand.
There are different “forms” you are taught throughout the game, starting with the remote control form (which is just like holding a TV remote), then gaining umbrella form (holding the wiimote vertically, like an umbrella handle), to many more, such as handlebars, janitor (a broomstick), and the most outlandish being mohawk (where you hold it flat on your head, like a mohawk hairdo). As you learn these forms, more and more minigames involving these forms are unlocked, such as the hula hoop game (where you hold the wiimote at your side in ‘big cheese’ form, and pretend to hula hoop. This cannot be done correctly with any other form, or the guy on-screen doesn’t move. You have to be willing to embarrass yourself to play) or the balloon pumping game (which only works in ‘handlebar’ form, where you hold it like bike handlebars).
All in all, the game is extremely fun, whether you’re playing it yourself or watching others play (since you can laugh at them, despite the fact that you’ll be doing the exact same thing in a few minutes). The wiimote can be a bit unresponsive at times, but its usually just because we don’t have it pointing enough at the sensor bar. Cutter said he’ll figure out the best positioning for the bar, but I think some of it is just an inherent weakness in the Wii, since you’ll always be compelled to point it directly at the TV, or swing it away from the TV all together.
I can easily see the Wii becoming the king of the current generation of consoles.
I assisted in painting a wall with chalkboard paint yesterday, and I had the idea to film it and speed it up afterwards. You can check out the fruits of my efforts here:
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