Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays! My gift to you this Holiday Season is a link to a humorous web site. http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com. Just for comparison reasons, I had 23. Sounds low to me. Leave your results in the comments.

Nightmare Before Xmas Impressions

I survived The Nightmare before Xmas. Just barely, it was kind of a nightmare. Parking at this venue is a joke. people were backed up onto the freeway for about a mile waiting to get in to the place. But, this was no surprise to me, I've been to concerts at the Great Saltair before. The place was packed. We're talking like 20,000 people, all of which is general admission. Although it was packed, we were able to find a pretty awesome spot on the balcony straight back from the stage.

At about 8:00 the first band that played was "I hate Kate." Their music was pretty good and they put on a great show. Their set lasted about 30 or 40 minutes.

Then the real problem of the show reared it's ugly head. A 45 minute wait for the next band to start playing? It was kind of a joke. It needed to be a bit more organized. By the time "DATAROCK" started playing we were pretty stoked. Too bad the show they put on sucked ass. A couple of the songs were ok, but the show pretty much consisted of four guys jumping up and down in red warm up suits. All the while one little guitar player kept pelvic thrusting his guitar. Sad.

Yet again another 45 minutes to wait. The "Shiny Toy Guns" kicked ass! They put on a good show and they sounded awesome. It was fun as hell. They played their big songs and a couple of new songs I haven't heard before. I do wish they had played a bit longer though.

Tree Dude

I've heard from some of you who are skeptical about this guy, as to whether this could be true. So I did a little digging and found this article from "Britain's No.1 quality newspaper website", Telegraph.co.uk. In the article it talks of a documentary about the man. The documentary appeared on Discovery Channel Britain. Here's a link to the shows description. If I can find the entire video link I'll post it.

I've also played some of the other youtube vids where they showed more detail of his feet, it really showed how these things were growing from him. Seems entirely real to me.

Nightmare Before X Mas with Shiny Toy Guns

If you're a frequent visitor to my myspace page, you may know that I'm a big Shiny Toy Guns fan. Tonight I will attend a concert with said band, and there will be much rejoicing. It will be at the historic Great Saltair, located on the southern tip of the Great Salt Lake. I wanna shout out to my wife for the tickets. It was an awesome surprise.

I'll post again with my impressions of the show.

Tree guy

Alright. This isn't a typical post that I'd put on the blog, but this is just amazing to me. This guy is a tree guy. No shit. Honest to god tree dude. I believe this to be real too.



If you want to see more vids just search for "Tree Man" on YouTube.

Red ROD

OK. Most of you know by now that I was the unfortunate recipient of a "Red Ring of Death" (Red ROD) on my Xbox 360. This is not to be confused with a "Red Eye." Both are bad, but not everybody has a Red ROD.

I first noticed a problem while owning newbs on GRAW 2. During 4 consecutive matches my box froze. After I powered down and restarted, it seemed to be fine. But, it froze each time shortly after the match was started. So, I threw in Gears of War and had the same results; this time during a cinematic. I then contacted Best Buy to inquire about my product replacement warranty. After I attained the shipping info I decided to start cataloging what I might need to save to a memory card, during this process it freezes. I powered it down thinking that it would restart like it had before when, viola. Red muthafuckin ROD!

I think that this clearly shows that my 360 suffered from an overheating issue, which brought it to a slow agonizing death. I admit, I'm no electronics engineer or anything, but there was clearly an issue with the freezing and the amount of time I was playing. The amount of time I was able to play a match decreased after each time it froze. 5 minutes of play, then 3, then 2, etc...

Nevertheless, I should be back and running by July 4th. Crosses fingers. Just in time for the Army Gaming Championships Tourney. Out team, ONES and ZEROS placed in the top eight of a recent tourney and we hope to improve dramatically over our last showing. This might be hampered by the lack of practice time though. So wish us luck.

Microsoft Surface

This is a video of a new technology that Microsoft is working on. They announced it earlier this morning.