The Nameless Site

Tried LEGO Starwars this morning. Man, it was very cute, everything is done in LEGO, and you can destroy most things with your lightsaber / blaster.

Okay, overall it was kinda enjoyable once I got into it, but the default controls were atrocious at best, there were at least 4 main keys, one for firing/attacking, one for jumping, one for “special” and one for talking. And they aren’t the normal layout one expects for games, they are layed out so one player is on the keypad, one is on the keyboard. Which is really annoying when you are used to having it spread out.

Though I have to admit, it brings back a bit of memories from the old arcade style double dragon games, where you could grab a friend and play 2 players. It even has puzzles that you would need to cooperate on.

The first time through the game, I was really, unimpressed, but for some reason, I went back and tried it again, I think because at one point they suggest you go around collecting all these “extras” to gain some secret demo code or something. And I have to admit, trying it again, it was alot more interesting than I though.

The only truely downside was that they tried to be funny a few times, when something blew up and a person was in the object (such as a ship), they’d do the old looney toons cliff drop style .. thing. Where they suddenly realize there is nothing underneithe them, and suddenly fall down into peices of lego… I found that really didn’t belong in a starwars game.

Overall, I’d say it was a fun demo, but I wouldn’t buy the full game, its just not that interesting.

Macross Plus has to be one of the few animes that I like better dubbed than subbed. Sonic X would be another, but it was pretty crappy to start with.

Maybe its just because I used to watch Macross Plus back on teletoon so many years ago when it was dubbed only, but i find now listening to the japanese audio track very hard, the characters don’t seem to have the same emotion, and I always prefer watching things without subs.

The only real issue I have with the dub, is the songs, they really should have left them the originals, as really, the timing of the words do not match up at all. A song and its notes tend to end on the end of the line right? Well at least it sorta does. With this, the words might be the same, but they would end on weird points in the line, or rush to fit it in with the music.

Yes, and thats my awesome first post in a while, reviewing an anime and barely an review at all.

Man do I love Open Source Web Designs. If i didn’t use that site for at least the base, my sites would look as crappy as they did back in ’95 :)

Anyways new look, I’m quite happy with it, still needs some tweaking, but much better than the previous all white one.

Whoa, was watching Johnny Zero, which btw, is an awesome show.

Anyways, Johnny Zero this week, has the ever so cool nikita on it.
She’s such a cool typecasted actress, not sure she could do anything but the tough girl, but its cool to see her again.

Was watching that From Stargate To Atlantis: A Sci-Fi Lowdown special that was aired on the sci-fi channel way back when Atlantis was first aired.

They reminded us of the fact that in the first (or second) episode of Season 7, Daniel Jackson woke up naked in a field. Well the actor kindly pointed out, that this park was in surrey, and made some snide comment about the state of the park.

Walking to work this morning reminded me of just how close stargate is. Vancouver is so full of movie productions. Walking by 7-11 this morning to get some stuff for the office, the entire city block was lined with movie and power trucks. mmmm, those power boxes look so sexy.. er um, yea, So far working downtown, I have seen the filming of Tru Calling(tv), The Fantastastic Four(Movie), Smallville Season 4 Ep 1 (i managed to see that ep, not being a fan, that was suprising, but i reconignized the scenes from outside my office), And this week has been the Pink Panther which I missed most of, but did get a notice on the office door that there would be filming around.

After those named shows, I have also seen all kinds of misc movie crews around filming various items for various unnamed shows.

Anyways. back to stargate, I wish I had heard of this “Get in the gate” contest earlier, I would have entered. I would love to have some way of being involved in a project that everyone enjoys so much, that I can contribute to others enjoyments, and well, its stargate :).

On another note, benq e30 cameras suck, It really broke after the first week i had it.. I have to phone them soon, but they are only open during my office hours, and I never remember to bring the cell and call at lunch.

Have been finishing off watching my Stargate SG-1 Season 7 dvds. I can’t figure out why they replaced Dr Wei with a new actress. I actually think the first one was a better fit for the role. And according to Jessica Steen (first actress)’s website, she didn’t know why her character was re-casted.

How can you go wrong with the pilot from the captain power tv show?

I mean, I used to watch that show as a kid, before they were not allowed to have anything flashing on the tv, it rocked. I always wanted one of those toys.

I miss that show. I checked, amazon only has the vhs, no dvds.

Man, dovecot is more my favorite email imap server software.

I just installed squirrelmail from scratch, and man, its so fast. with my old server, i was using courier and squirrelmail, both debian packages, and man, it’d time out half the time, break others, etc etc etc.

The server isn’t any more powerful than the one i had at home, but man, its nice. Except it looks like squirrelmail caches sometimes so some emails don’t get moved right away.

Apparently during the move to ev1servers, alot of things broke.

I’ve fixed user registration, eventually i need to add trackback and anonymous commenting, but due to poor original design on my part (mostly I just wasn’t thinking i’d want them), its not going to happen any time soon.

I’ve also added google ads, yes they are tacky, although I don’t see them as that intrusive.

I’m actually working on a few projects, including my new comics system, which I would really like some feed back on by some people, I think i could setup a community building system that would work better than keenspace, and give something back cool to the community.

I also have a few ideas in the work for cool projects (mostly sadly, atm, ripoff as other sites). I like doing the work, but i’m not sure if anyone will ever use them.

Okay, my Last 2-3 posts here looked like they had something to do with work.

Well in just under 2.5 weeks now, I will be back to being unemployeed.

I’m just in the process of getting my resume cleaned up (again) before actually setting it up as a web page on the site. I doubt too many potential employers will see this, especially since its been so long since I last updated things.

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