After being such a huge CNC and RA fan, I didn’t expect RA3 to disappoint. It was so well done before, and now, it looks like it’s a mix between warcraft and a 12 year old’s laser light show fantasy. The graphics are terrible, not to mention the game is such a resource hog. Honestly, it just looks like one big cartoon drawn by a 12 box set of crayons. Seriously, Electronic Arts has ruined one of the best games franchises out there. Way to go guys.
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Definitely one of the best bands I’ve heard in a long time. If you haven’t heard them yet, get to it.
I realize this has been known for quite some time now, but by blogging about it, I want to show my appreciation to whoever came up with this neat trick to get around ISP blocks and Pandora’s own block to anyone outside of the US.
For those of you who don’t know, Pandora is a cool radio site where you control the music you want to hear. If you haven’t checked it out already, get over there now- you’ll be happy you did.
Anyway, Pandora doesn’t allow use of their service to anyone outside of the US. Fortunately, neat little programs like Hotspot shield allow you to connect to an American VPN that give you an American IP and also prevent your ISP from monitoring your browser traffic, for the most part. This is also a sweet program that gets around anything else your ISP might be blocking. If your ISP is pretty strict on keeping their blocks active, they’ll eventually block the IP of the VPN that you’re connecting to.
Never fear. The Global Internet Freedom Consortium provides four or five more programs which are basically identical to Hotspot shield (without the annoying banner ad) and allow you do the exact same thing.
Now all you non-US users, go out their and stick it to the man.
Today I had the steak tacos from Chipotle and to be frank, they were terrible. The steak was incredibly chewy and completely resistant to all 200lbs of brute force from my molars. Even after about 2 minutes, I had to swallow the steak “cubes” almost whole. Definitely not the way steak should be.
Then again it only cost five bucks- you get what you pay for.
I remain a die-hard fan of their barbacoa, chips/guac combo, and their hidden menu items.
It’s not everyday that I go run three miles, though if I had to, I know that I could. I used to do it regularly about one year back. Now that I’m back in Los Angeles for a few weeks for my summer internship (and away from all of my work out equipment in isb) I saw my old 3 mile route and thought about running it again- it just seemed too boring though. I knew that I’d be able to run it without any trouble at all, just like I had been when I left it last year.
Still, I wanted something physical to do. I hadn’t worked out in a couple of days and I was starting to get restless. That’s when it hit me. I needed to go EXTREEEME.
For those of you who don’t know (and if you’re in this group then you’re definitely NOT EXTREEME) being EXTREEME means doing something you would normally do, and then intensifying the hell out of it, be it through force, speed, or volume. For example, you like to go paintballing. That’s pretty fun, I GUESS. What would be more fun? EXTREEEME Paintballing! How do you do that? Well, you basically go skydiving… and then PAINTBALL on your way down. Yeah, that’s right. Continue reading ‘Being EXTREEEEME!’
I was at work one day when I got another annoying call from a telemarketer. As a business location, they seemed to target us even more than they did my house. Today’s telemarketer was no different than the rest so I waited patiently for him to finish his sales pitch so that I could tell him I wasn’t interested and say goodbye. It did occur to me that I should just hang up then and there like I normally do at home, but then I thought that might make the business look bad, and it wasn’t very polite either- so I thought better of it. After all, they know their job sucks. No one wants to be a freakin telemarketer of all things. They know they get hung up on all the time! Well, this bafoon finally came to a stop giving me a chance to use a gung-ho sales pitch voice of my very own to tell him, “Sorry, but we’re not interested.” Ah, the end.
Not quite. He was persistent. He changed the sales pitch and began from the very beginning. I cleared my throat and inhaled loudly, to try and speed him along, and when he finished this time, I tried it again. “Like I said, sorry, but we’re not interested.”
Commence round three. This time I wasn’t in the mood though. I cut him off and with a curt ‘look here buddy,’ and stressed how I was trying to be polite and how I honestly didn’t care about what he had to offer when all of a sudden I hear, CLICK.
WTH? He hung up on me. That rat bastard. I decided then and there, that was the last time I would try to talk it out with a telemarketer. Next time you get a call, hang up, for my sake.
NOT that interesting. That’s how far I got into the above sentence in my pathology book before counting all the other things I’d rather be doing. I know what you’re all thinking, “Hey wait a minute, don’t you nerds love to study?” Well, the answer is YES, of course we do, but, I like studying on my own time, without the pressure of a test overhead, and with much better sources than one big fat book. In actuality, the cardiac myocyte is probably WAY interesting, but I’m just not feeling it from ‘Robbins,’ right now. Instead, I suddenly felt compelled to come give an update on my chronically neglected blog. I had planned to keep updating regularly this time around, so without further adieu… Continue reading ‘The cardiac myocyte is generally…’
March and April always mark the onslaught of allergy season for me. Switching between one antihistamine and the next in the last three or four years, I have yet to find any medication that works better than good old endorphins. My advice to anyone suffering from this year’s allergy season is this: No medicine will clear your sinuses as fast as 30 pushups will. Skip rope for fifteen minutes and you’ll have at least an hour’s worth of decongested breathing. People suffering from the common cold can expect the same results. Now if only I could copyright that strategy and then market it for millions.
Either way, I’m looking forward to May.
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