So gas is finally going down! The local Hess station had $2.99 gas last night and by the time I went to get some around 8pm they were sold out. That's never happened to me before lol but at least the next cheapest was $3.05. I can deal with that.

So today at the Tokyo Game Show conference the Nintendo Revolution controller details were released! Fanboys rejoice! There had been a lot of speculation...(Build Your Own!)

And definitely some *over-speculation*


Here's the keynote speech minute by minute.

And IGN's hands-on with the controller.

"For months, years even, we've been hearing Nintendo reiterate that it does not want to be part of the same battle that Sony and Microsoft are deeply entrenched in. This was an important message from Nintendo in our meeting. It wants to explore uncharted waters, be a blue ocean company, and not find itself sailing the bloody waters where the competition resides."

Main controller features:

* 3D Pointing. Sensors understand up, down, left, right, forward and backward.
* Tilt Sensitive. Controller can be rotated or rolled from side-to-side.
* Buttons Included. Has a trigger on its backside, face buttons, and a D-Pad.
* Multifunctional. Has an expansion port which can be used with different types of controller peripherals. Analog stick with two trigger buttons planned for left hand.
* Wireless. Totally wire-free. Currently there are no details on the max distance, source or power, or otherwise.
* Rumble Built-in. Included as a standard in all the controllers.

Here are some more "fake controllers" designed by Nintendo fanboys. A few had me really cracking up.

Nintendo For Women
Nintendo For Men
Atari Oldskool
Actually a good design
Lol
Overdoing it...

So I'm planning a new blog design, but it's going to take awhile. It's so much easier when you can grab graphics from somewhere but I've got to actually design this site the way I want it or it will look like middle school crap.

FFO fun continues at work, and the traffic morning and nightly makes me want to scream. It's not that there *is* traffic but it's like "phantom traffic." Anyone else from NJ will know exactly what I mean about 18, 287, 80 and 380. You'll be driving along driving along driving along, BAM....dead stop. You don't see any flashing lights, dead deer, crazy nuns on acid blocking the road. You crawl forward playing the stop-and-go game. Suddenly the cars in front of you JET FORWARD in a Red-Bull Taurine induced rush! And you continue on as normal with still no cause for the backup. Frustrating...to the max.

Thank God I've got an iPod.

So everyone here at Pfizer's been super nice so far. Ed and I switched offices about a week after Dendrite found out Pfizer would not be renewing their service contract post 2005. Dendrite didn't want us there anymore, (raising questions of if they ever did), and my 10 minute commute became the former grueling hour. It's literally down the road a few minutes from where I used to work at AIG. A couple former co-workers and I may meet up for lunch sometime. It would be good to see Regina and Trish again. They were cool my 3 1/2 years at AIG. Time to order updated business cards though...kinda pisses me off that the 200 I've got left are kind of useless now :L

Back to the grind!

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New - How do you get a guy to like you?

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Tired of talking to a machine? Find-A-Human!

"I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry," Farrakhan said.

Ok now we're getting ridiculous. I actually heard people say that Bush caused the hurricane now. This is ignorance at its greatest form. Can we get rid of Farrakhan...and please someone take the shotgun away from Sean Penn. He doesn't need to be in New Orleans.

I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell.................... 205,742,000 barrels

Chevron/Texaco........... 144,332,000 barrels

Exxon /Mobil............. 130,082,000 barrels

Marathon/Speedway........ 117,740,000 barrels

Amoco..................... 62,231,000 barrels

If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $55-$60 a barrel)

Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

Citgo..................... 0 barrels

Sunoco.................... 0 barrels

Conoco.................... 0 barrels

Sinclair.................. 0 barrels

BP/Phillips............... 0 barrels

Hess...................... 0 barrels

ARC0...................... 0 barrels

All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing. Choose carefully where you fill up.

This is absolutely horrible...what's worse is that it makes you laugh your ass off.

Mexican Immigrant Prank

One Season More, a pretty fantastic CGI animated film for the wistful song from Star Wars: The Musical , in which Luke has to fix one moisture evaporator too many.

Genius.

Ok remember when Cybersex was just in a chatroom? Looks like some weirdos have started to do this via World of Warcraft, the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) Read this...cracked me up.

Best line: "Speaking of indecency...I wasn't aware that cyber-@(#*@ing in the Tram was considered "roleplaying. Perhaps it's just me."

LOL

** Update **

The Retropolitan rbought it to my attention that the link didn't go through for this initial post. For your viewing pleasure...here's the link.

Hooray! Video games are not only healthy, but also make you a better doctor. Studies carried out at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York show that surgeons that gamed were better than doctors that didn’t.

“Then when we looked at whether you were a current video gamer, we found that if you played video games currently, you were over 30 percent better, faster, and created fewer errors than someone who did not play video games at all.”

Video Games Make Great Surgeons

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I promise I'll never do this again. Lol.

I have seen the face of evil brought on by Hurricane Katrina...and this is it:



Stare into those souless eyes of fury.

I've just witnessed the destruction of the DataSync application CCP. It is no more. It has ceased to be. It is a former CCP! WOOOO!

Live rollout began yesterday morning and withstanding the one huge problem we had today, everything is running smoothly. You sense your life has become easier somehow :P

FFO is just about done. Thank God. The past 4 weeks have been so trying. I'm so ready for the week to be over. It seems like in 5 half a year the commute has gotten even worse on 287. Such are the trials of a corporate job...

Finished Six Feet Under Season 5 last night. Amazing ending. The whole ending sequence clocked in at like 8 minutes I think. I'll have to double check. I want to extract that portion of the 90 min finale.

"There was a lot of resistance in the (writers') room to Nate dying," he recalls. "Everybody was like, 'It just feels so sad.' I said, 'Great, give me something else, pitch something else and if we find something that works better, I'll do it.' But the show is about death and its place in our lives and Nate especially is a character whose overall arc has been inching toward full acceptance of his own mortality and what is the final step of one's mortality? It's death. Nothing else clicked the way that did."

Sia - Breathe Me

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
I've lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Regular, unleaded and supreme, I can't afford my gasoline.

So not even 24 hours after they announced their "Try Before You Buy" deal, Apple has pulled said deal for the Mac Mini. Wow way to go Apple...you HAD a good idea, too bad you half-assed implemented it.

So I saw Hall and Oates on Tuesday night with Matt and Jess. Awesomeness. They give an awesome concert...too bad they didn't play my favorite song (which happens to be their biggest hit ever), Out Of Touch. Oh well...I still love you Darryl and John.


John is no longer sporting the mustache, and he looks all the better for it :D

Chris Farley gets Star on Walk Of Fame...


About damn time.

Princteon Review details of SU:

Undergraduates have many different opinions about what the typical student at Syracuse is like. Many students say that the most visible group "comes from a lot of money and enjoys partying." Others note a seemingly disproportionate number of Long Islanders and "Soprano country" kids. But the numbers don't lie; Syracuse has strong diversity numbers, both ethnic and geographic. Although inherent diversity exists, students note that, "no one communicates outside their own group." The university tries to facilitate interaction, however, with "good programs for sexual orientation, gender, and racial equality." A senior comments, "There seems to be a high level of openness and no real pressure to conform to any popular standard." One student says, "I lived on a floor with hippies, frat guys, and architecture students, and it was still calm." Another student adds, "We're a melting pot of aspiring youth stuck in winter. We're like, 'Why not just all accept each other?'"

LOL I remember living on a floor with hippies, "Stumpies," Architecture, Comm, Artists, Drama students, rich bitches, Preppy guys, and everything else. SU sure was pretty damn diverse.

XBox 3-Shitty LOL