Firehed’s Blog

Wow.

All I can really think of to say at the moment.

Well, I dunno where I got the 22nd from, must have misread the site.  It’s defiantely out on the 25th though - I’ve seen a copy.  Taking it home tomorrow, as someone beat me to it tonight (damn you Kevin!).  It sure took long enough, but after waiting this long, one more night won’t kill me.  If I decide to crank the speakers to 11 when watching, that might, but I’ll go out content.

“So, we want to get that wall built to keep the Mexicans out, right?  Let’s hire all of the Mexicans that come over to build the wall.  They get a job and we get our wall.  Everyone wins!”

Awesomely ingenious solution there… if my dad runs for president, I suggest not throwing votes in his general direction.

Well, I’ve gotta check once in a while for update news on this one… I’m desperately hoping that the release date that Best Buy has up (and finally for a DVD version, none of this PSP crap) is final.  My respect for the FF series is so high that I still haven’t watched my *cough* downloaded version *cough*.  That and I don’t like reading subs, and supposedly they redubbed it and re-CGI’d the faces to sync up with English (dunno, but I can sure hope).  It’ll be the first movie since Serenity that I’ve bought, and I can’t think how long before that was my last purchase.  Prior to that, it was the Superbit version of Resident Evil, so unfortunately it doesn’t give much timeframe but I’m pretty sure it was sometime last summer.  For the record, both are great if you’re looking for one of those sci-fi/action types.

Sounds like FFXII might be out soon.  I haven’t followed it like I should, just given my stance on Sony (yes, I know they produced FFVII:AC, but unfortunately my obsessive love for Square overpowers my passionate hatred of the big S) and console gaming in general so I’ll probably wait to hear something about it before I get it, but apparently it got a perfect ten from some Japanese gaming mag that’s only ever given out five of them prior to this.

Hmm… I really should finish up that FFVII skin for my iPod.  Shooting around materia in Brick and having a Chocobo solitaire deck is cool and all, and of course the requisite spinning Buster Sword for the ‘working’ indicator in the corner, but some things are pretty wierd and it’s definately incomplete. Ah well, I can only work with 15×15px images for so long before starting to lose my sanity.

It’s a really bad sign when you recieve a reply-all email asking everyone that was in both the original and the mass-reply how you’re going to notify everyone of the upcoming event.  Consider: when the original mass-mail went out, everyone was informed… when someone then does a reply-all to that original, it’s just a waste of bandwidth.

For Christ’s sake, what do you think REPLY-ALL means?!  Everyone is going to see it!  There’s something at school where 1400 people are all part of a one-way conversation intended between only the original sender and the replier.  G’damn would common sense fix about every single problem in this country.

In better news, I might be getting a Macbook Pro soon, and I just bought myself a new bike.  I figure a few miles a day should help my previous six years of being a chair potato.  Now they just need to make the handlebar-mounted iPod holder and I’ll be all set.

Oh, anyone else think that this is a bad sign?  And most certainly, blocking Photobucket access under guise of the CIPA isn’t quite right, if even legal.

It sucks. Shame on you - you know who you are.

About time. That original eight-page paper turned into a fifteen-page monster with twice as many sources as I needed. And it exceeded the standard at the readings the last couple of days. Yay, I get to graduate! Well, if I do the presentation in mid-May. I’m thinking gradiation will help, as I’d rather not have Babson pull their acceptance, even if it would save me $180,000.

Somehow no Oblivion today, though. Full school day + work + homework = meh. And tomorrow it’s taxes. I’d have done some of the HW at work like I usually do, but my boss decided that it’s time to finally change over 3000+ case inserts from the old design to the new one, just for consistency’s sake. 85 down, way too many to go. After, of course, moving the entire game section up a shelf, so now I get to grab the stepstool every time someone rents a ps2 game. Just another reason I hate Sony. ALL THEIR FAULT!

Oh, anyone looking for an Ubuntu CD, let me know. I just got twenty-five more in the mail today. Maybe I’ll give them out at work, because of course everyone looking to rent a movie loves to pick up a free operating system that they can run as a live cd that won’t touch the hard drive or go and fully install the thing. Note to self: set up fileserver to run linux.

If you want to have a life again, don’t buy Oblivion.  Or money, for that matter, as it’ll bring the best systems to their knees.  I managed to tweak it to run at 1680×1050 on my 6800GT, which is a big sacrifice in eye candy.  Nuking grass didn’t bother me, but losing HDR was painful.  Screenie below originally at 1152×864 with HDR on and all sorts of fun stuff.  It takes some more file tweaking to get really good, what with the menus being made for low-res TVs so the font is insanely large, but it’s managable.

Incredibly fun, always something to do.  It figures that I pick up my copy just before a week-long trip.  I’m just praying that if I get a MacBook Pro, it’s x1600 card can handle it at the native 1440×900 with moderate settings.  BootCamp should make for some fun times with mobile gaming, and actually some real exposure to OS X for me.  But seriously, though, if you want to have a life, don’t buy it.