Thursday, August 30, 2007

American Autumn

So the autumn TV schedules are up for the 5 US TV stations. Any americans reading this will find their heads may have exploded from my refusal to say 'fall' or 'network'. Here's what I think are the highlights.

ABC
Carpoolers (Tuesday 8:30pm)
Supposedly a single camera comedy that's funny according to the AV Club. I had something in my eye just then so I typed that with my eyes shut, go me. BBC3's Rush Hour showed that cars don't have to be funny, so I'm hopeful that this will work.

Errr...that's it for ABC. Unless you're one of the people who think Ugly Betty is funny.

CBS
How I Met Your Mother (Monday 8pm)
I watch this for Alyson Hannigan.

Two and a Half Men (Monday 9pm)
I watch this for Charlie Sheen.

Rules of Engagement (Monday 9:30pm)
I watch this for David Spade.

FOX
Kitchen Nightmares (Wednesday 8pm)
This show is brilliant in the UK, I don't see why it won't work there.

NBC
Too much stuff so I'll just list what I like on here.
1 vs 100
Deal or No Deal
Scrubs
My Name Is Earl

Yes, I know Heroes is on NBC. However after about 5 episodes I realised what I found out about Lost. Its boring.

Some stuff on the cable channels, The Sarah Silverman Program returns to Comedy Central as does South Park. However the big ratings banker there will be the return of Futurama. FX has a new series of Morgan Spurlock's brilliant series 30 Days too.

In the midseason I highly look forward to the US version of The IT Crowd on NBC, I heard that it has the same writers as our series so high hopes for that working. No news on The Amazing Race though.

Oh, and everyone with Bittorrent access should be hitting up Fox Reality's superb series Solitary. Version 2.0 is going up on trackers everywhere now.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

The Great Shaving Experiment (Again)

You didn't think I was done did you?

Here's how this new phase will go down. I have treated my 2 upper legs in 2 different ways. On the left side is the standard Veet cream (the one with the spatula, not the rasera). On the right is a ladies' shaving gel combined with my extremely aged and beaten Mach 3 razor. Same rules as before apply.

Simply put, there are some new conditions for this phase. They're not too relevant right now, so I won't mention them. It'll be interesting to see if they have an effect though.

I'm not expecting them to work though, so probably another few weeks of spotty legs ahead. The things I do in the name of science eh?

Wireless Part 2

I did write up a post on my PSP but the browser typing on there is shit so I essentially wasted 30 minutes typing what I could've written on here in 30 seconds.

So my wireless is working, no thanks to the 'Quick Installation' CD that came with it. Here's how the afternoon went as I was trying to set it up.

1) Connected everything up
2) Installation walkthrough refused to recognise the ethernet cable connecting PC to router
3) Much fiddling with settings later, the CD is still the only thing that doesn't recognise the ethernet connection
4) I give up on the walkthrough and delve into the depths of my brain to find my A+ knowledge
5) Drivers for the access point are installed
6) Try accessing the router control panel
7) Access the router control panel, proceed to change pretty much all the default settings
8) Disconnect normal modem and find to my shock that the internet is actually working
9) Try accessing the router control panel again and fail repeatedly until I notice that I've typed www.192.168.1.1
10) Feel like an idiot for the previous mistake
11) Set a WEP key, quite frankly if anyone guesses this they deserve my internet
12) Change settings on the Wii, DS and finally set up a network connection on my PSP
13) Get frustrated that the only online games I can play are Mario Strikers and Tetris DS
14) Realise that I can now play Mario Strikers online whenever I want, regardless of whether the computer is on or not



15) Watch the frankly brilliant new Maroon 5 video and contemplate buying a laptop

Monday, August 27, 2007

Wireless

Getting a wireless router and adaptor tomorrow. So I'll be able to connect my Wii and DS to it instead of the Wi-Fi adaptor and also run my PSP on it. Hopefully I can get into some online play on all my main machines now. Might also get Metroid Prime tomorrow, I want to play through 1+2 before Prime 3 is out.

Also, check out Hot Hot Heat's new single Let Me In. As if you needed proof that Canadian bands always come up with the goods.

You Don't Know Jack Episode 26
Score: $-4,499

Errr...I apologise if that score offends anyone.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

YDKJ! Catch Up

Episodes 17 - 21 need doing, so here's 2.

You Don't Know Jack Episode 17
Score: $6,880

You Don't Know Jack Episode 18
Score: $4,751


The London Expo is nearly upon us once again and I've already taken the option of clearing my savings out when I bought the Wii. So I've needed a bit of ingenuity to do it this year. I'm putting a little extra in teh savings for the next 4 paydays (2 months) so that when the day arrives, I'll be able to clean that little bit out. £30 a time would give me (based on my current average pay) about £200 to spend in the Excel Center come October. The most I've had for one expo, though I'll need a bigger bag. And I'll need to book the train in advance of course, and the entry ticket as I do not want to risk how big that line is gonna be this time.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Wii Release Schedule

This just got leaked onto GoNintendo. Start saving, it looks expensive. These are the major things I found.

Bully (Canis Canem Edit) - October
Crash of the Titans - November
Ghost Squad - November
Guitar Hero 3 - 8th November
Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 - 8th November
Endless Ocean - 9th November
Harvest Moon - 19th October
Mario and Sonic Olympics - 30th November
Metroid Prime 3 - 26th October
MySims - 20th September
NiGHTS - 23rd November
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles - 30th November
Super Mario Galaxy - 16th November
Rockstar Table Tennis - October
Tomb Raider Aniversary - 7th December
Zack and Wiki - 7th December

DS
Boktai - December
Heroes of Mana - 14th September
Mario Party DS - 23rd November
Naruto Ninja Council - 5th October
Sonic Rush 2 - 14th September
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 19th October

So...

September - 3
October - 6
November - 10
December - 2

Total
21 games I want to play before the end of the year. Suddenly not releasing Smash Bros this year makes sense, Nintendo are taking pity on us.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Silver

Its Jack's silver anniversary!

You Don't Know Jack Episode 25
Score: $7,938

I'll try catching up on games I missed while I was away later.

Maddie Mashing

The Daily Express wins the redundancy award today, the new butt of everyone's newspaper jokes has had Little Miss McCann on the front page for the last 13 straight days. Can they make it a full 2 weeks?!

I hear that Guardian reporter Nick Angel is going on a diet for the ever brilliant Current TV. He's going on a diet of nothing but the Daily Mail for a month. I dread to think what his mental state will be after 2 weeks, let alone 4. I think 4 doses of Richard Littlejohn in a year is against the Geneva Convention.

The Leipzig Games Conference starts tomorrow, look to Kotaku and Gamespot for all the fun stuff coming from there.

Speaking of Gamespot, there's a new Button Mashing episode tonight at midnight. Wonder who's replacing Rich Gallup?

YDKJ will be up later.

Sorry I was gone for a while, blame the Wii and the 40 hour mark I'm about to pass on Zelda.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Wii Update

If you have an online-enabled Wii with WiiConnect24 active you'll be waking up to that glorious blue glow this morning as Nintendo have just shipped out a small firmware update. The update's pretty small and fixes the issue of the console crashing in the Internet Channel and also the connection issues I've been having lately using my USB Wi-Fi Adaptor.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Downward Spiral

I can feel the onset of some rather crippling depression. I have no idea why but its setting in heavily.

You Don't Know Jack Episode 24
Score: $3,161
Rank: 106th

That didn't help. Now I can either listen to Weezer to simulate an outpouring of feelings to a sympathetic friend (who is probably getting about as much sex as I am) or listen to The Horrors to simulate smashing myself over the head with several blunt objects.

Wow, that Horrors joke actually made me feel better. Probably because its been a while since I made one.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

New Link

Links > Aetheism
The OUT Campaign
http://outcampaign.org

Make yourself heard, aetheists are not a minority.

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Hairnets

We haven't got any of them at work right now, which is interesting as it means all the guys with long hair (myself included, as I have the longest) currently have their hair up. I am the only one out of the 3 guys who need to do it who can put his hair up myself, everyone else needs female help. I've quite taken to the ponytail now, I've never actively used it before but now I'm finding it quite useful. Useful enough to use outside work anyway, or at least walking to work. Not walking back, though it gives me a chance to wear my Naruto cap which I haven't worn for ages.

Friday, August 10, 2007

To Mr And Mrs McCann

Dear Gerry and whatever-her-name-is McCann
Shut the fuck up. Its now been over 3 months and your girl has been killed, you can tell this because they found her blood in your apartment. For crying out loud shut up and admit that even if you didn't do it, her death was your fault.

Dear Whoever Set Up The Maddie Channel on Youtube
How dare you invade my fun-time area (well, one of them) with this pointless piece of fundraising. I hope you get a Wii and ache forever (because I am).

Dear Lawyer Who Said The McCann's are Giving Spain A Bad Name
Ignore the redtops, you're a genius.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Wii Issue

I'll tell you what's annoying me about teh Wii. The speaker. That little speaker in the controller which cannot be turned down or off. At least I think not, anyone has any ideas then please let me know as I really want to play Zelda right now as I've been thrashing through the Lakebed Temple at last and want to get on with it. I have no idea how much time I've put into the game yet but it has to be approaching 15 hours.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

My New Room

Right, haven't shown this off yet dispite having the photos on my hard-drive for ages. Mind you, it has taken a while to get things the way I want them.

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Just starting with a photo of me looking cool. You can see the Angelic Layer poster on my cosplay wardrobe door.

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This is the wall where my precious flag hangs, as well as my bookcase which has my normal books, DS games, Dreamcast games and DVDs.

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My main wardrobe and the various images that surround it. My Inuyasha wall scroll, the Halloween Sora print I got from Canal, the picture of me and Sakura that I got off Canal and have recently framed properly and a small print I got off MincedNiku a long time ago. I think the box my Sakura statue came in is just visible on top of the wardrobe.

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BED! My lovely bed which has a top bunk covered in plushies, my PSP box also on there.

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The chair by the window, within easy reach of my CD player, CD collection and other stuff. My Sakura and one Ikki Tousen statue there as well, the other one is behind the curtain. I also finally found a use for that cushion.

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The boysex wall, much making out in these images. The Naruto baseball cap on top of the CD tower and my computer also in shot. Bad shot, but still in shot.

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The TV with the hallowed Wii next to it. The hallowed DS next to that.

Monday, August 06, 2007

NJ's Canadian Adventure - The People

Photo special! At last.

This is 11 photos to explain the people I met on the Canadian Adventure back in May.

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Name: Francis (NJ)
Nothing to explain, this is basically an excuse to upload a photo of me looking quite good in the scorching heat of Downtown Toronto.

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Name: Nelly (Gnome)
In September 2006 I mentioned a desire to go to Canada someday to this person. 8 months later I was there. Nelly is the ringleader and cause of the Canadian Adventure. A big feat for a short person.

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Name: Sarah (on the left)
Sarah was one of my caretakers when we got back to the island. Before that she was one of the few who could deal with Jess in a bad mood.

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Name: Jess
Jess with a bottle of something alcoholic. Don't know what night this was but I think I was elsewhere.

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Name: Jennifer
Jen owns 5 horses, I also fell asleep on her bed.

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Name: Audrey
Supposedly the quiet one, yet constantly seen with either the orange Kyo hat seen here or a Momiji hat with massive bunny ears. Already on my shopping list for next year (the ears, not Audrey).

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Name: Liz
The cutest boy I've ever seen is a description that has kinda become my slogan for Liz. Cosplayed Ritsuka, Bakura and someone from Ouran. Made me cry at one point.

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Name: Mark
I shot his guns, it was a lot of fun.

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Name: James
Someone I hadn't much about beforehand, I really had no idea what to expect from him when we were waiting for him at the airport. Fortunately I was treated to this fine specimen of a human being.

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Name: Allan
And then there was this one. Allan was the other half of James and Allan, and the perverted one. I had him on top of me quite a few times.

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Name: Joseph (Ouiji)
Met on one of the last days, got a lot of fun out of him in that short space of time though.

There was also George and Cripple, but I have no decent photos of either.

Poor

Can't play poker at work tonight and GayGamer got knocked out by a DOS attack. Its a fairly poor day, but at least I got tomorrow off.

You Don't Know Jack Episode 23
Score: $11,010
Rank: 93rd

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Goodbye Fingers



Guitar Hero 3
Dragonforce - Through The Fire And Flames

Somewhere in the world, someone's head just exploded watching this.

Updates

So I haven't posted a lot this week, the main reason being that I've found myself a little tied up with Wii and Facebook. So here's what's been going on.

1) I've been playing Zelda: Twilight Princess
2) I've been playing Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
3) I haven't been playing Final Fantasy 3.
4) I remembered why Polysics are my favourite band.
5) I've been working a lot.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Aches

Wii Sports has knackered every joint in my upper body. I can't wait for Wii Fit so I can destroy the lower joints as well. I honestly swear my pained arms are not a result of porn surfing on the Internet Channel. Or the Forecast Channel. Or the photo channel for that matter.

If you want to get in touch and you have your Wii online-enabled then you can send me a message by wanging off a virtual envelope addressed to the following code.

6669 1948 9764 5341

Picked up Paper Mario and Zelda 2 off the VC earlier.

Wii

Well I couldn't have a Playstation as my new toy for long could I?

Being of a future looking-to type person I decided to go to Play and see what tempts me in the Wii's release schedule. Here's what I found (the big ones in bold)

Mario Party 8
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008
Madden NFL 2008
Red Steel 2
Super Paper Mario
My Sims
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles 2: The Crystal Bearers
Batallion Wars
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Geometry Wars Galaxies
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Super Mario Galaxy
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Pokemon Battle Revolution
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Guitar Hero 3
Crash of the Titans
Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
Animal Crossing
Pilotwings
Harvest Moon
Ghost Squad (yes arcade junkies, THAT Ghost Squad)

So that's 23 games. Who said the Wii had no games? It'll be a good christmas for remote wavers.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

The Mercury Prize 2007

So you probably know them by now but these are the twelve albums up for the big trophy, £20,000 and title of best album at the Mercury Prize later this year.

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (PAST WINNERS)
Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford
Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English (PAST WINNER)
Fionn Regan - The End of History
Jamie T - Panic Prevention
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
Maps - We Can Create
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
The View - Hats Off To The Buskers
The Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men

Somehow the token obscure albums seem a lot more out of place. My advice if you're betting is to either take the safe option of Arctics or Winehouse but put a little insurance on New Young Pony Club, I think they could cause an upset.