Posted by macbros | Under My Opinion | 24 views
Saturday Nov 21, 2009
LOL! I don’t mean that literally, but it’s just because I’m growing hair in places that I never had hair before.
Lately, well not lately, but for the past year or so I’ve been having to pluck hair out of my ears and trim the stuff from my nose. WTF? I thought this shit only happened to old people!!?? Heck, I’ve even been fighting the uni-brow!
Speaking of uni-brow, what the hell is happening with these hairs that seem to grow exponentially faster than the rest of the eyebrow hairs? I’ll look into the mirror and see one that’s standing out as if to say, “Hey look at me!” *snip* and gone till the next day.
Does hair grow faster as you get older or what?
What’s the point of eat hair anyway?
Well. I have t o get ready for work, so I better go pluck some hairs.
Posted by macbros | Under Announcement, Work | 24 views
Monday Nov 16, 2009
I haven t been posting a whole lot lately. Mostly for the fact that I feel so burnt out all the time lately again. I get home from that crappy job and just need to mentally unwind. Having people bitch and complain into your ear all day is just so mentally exhaustive.
So what I have been doing a lot of lately is just coming home and flopping down in front of the TV and that’s pretty much it. I don’t even get around to cooking anything for supper till really late in the evening now. Don’t even get me started on the pile of dishes I have piled up right now. I would have taken a picture but it would be too embarrassing.
When I do have a tiny bit of energy, it’s just to check e-mails, Facebook stuff like seeing what the world is doing and working on the Farmville game. Might catch up on a few Blog Feeds and check out the Yahoo News.
On my days off, I’m sleeping in late and playing the PS3 or watching a movie. Having a few wobbly pops to help unwind a little too. Pretty boring life huh?
Well that’s what’s up. That’s why I haven’t been posting. I could go on and on about the hell hole I work at but I’m tired of that too.
Maybe I’ll win the lottery some day and I’ll have a shitload of things to blog about!
Posted by macbros | Under Reviews | 8 views
Monday Nov 16, 2009
Living in a Bachelor apartment and having next to paper thin walls, owning a powerful sound system or home Stereo System would just end up being an expensive and complete waste of money. If you had something like that in a place like mine, you would have people beating down your doors telling you to turn it down all the time.
Lately, all I have been doing is using my computer to listen to tunes, but there are times I would like to have the music in the background, or my computer will be in use by my nephew of I’ll be rendering video or something that uses a lot of resources and running extra programs is not an option.
That’s when I play my iPod, and to be honest the speakers on these things suck. If you think so too, well check this out. The Yamaha PDX-60 is not only pretty awesome and perfect for a place like my Bachelors apartment, it’s very affordable also! It’s something I’ll eventually purchase when I get the chance to.
I think the best feature about the Yamaha PDX-60 is that it can be wireless using the coined phrase and technology called, “yAired” by Yamaha. Playing the iPod games and having the stereo audio over the speakers instead of that crappy speaker is a kewel idea!
If you have an iPhone, the Yamaha PDX-60 will also support it too. My next Mobile phone will be an iPhone so at least I have an accessory that will work with it later.
Of course this is just my opinion and you’re entitled to it.
Posted by macbros | Under Announcement | 7 views
Wednesday Nov 11, 2009
This post is dedicated to all those who fought or lost their lives just so we can have the freedom we have today. We thank those who made it all possible to be able to walk the streets, speak freely, and voice our opinions, all without fear.
Thanks to those who fought for us. Especially now, with all the terrible things going on in other parts of the world, the men and women that are making sure those terrible things stay out of our countries.
Lest We Forget.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
— John McCrae
I present to you a free download of the game World of Goo. (18)
For a limited time only, you can have a full version of the game. If you really like it, go and buy it at their web site.
The game quality of this fun puzzle/strategy type game is awesome. Even the music soundtrack is put together very well. I guarantee that you’ll be hooked on this one for a very long time. I finished the game and thought the ending was completely awesome! I will just say not to give up on the harder levels, because it will pay off in the end.
The game is built around the idea of creating large structures using balls of goo, divided into five chapters, each containing several levels. Each level has its own graphic and musical theme, giving it unique atmosphere, similar in style to Tim Burton’s film designs. There is also a bonus meta-game called World of Goo Corporation, where the objective is to build the highest tower using goo balls which the player collected through the course of the game. Players from all over the world can compete, as the height of the tower and number of goo balls used are being constantly uploaded to the 2D Boy server.
The main objective of the game is to get a requisite number of goo balls to a pipe representing the exit. In order to do so, the player must use the goo balls to construct bridges, towers, and other structures to overcome gravity and various terrain difficulties such as chasms, hills, spikes, or cliffs. There are several types of goo balls in the game, each of which has unique properties. The player must exploit combos of these goo balls in order to complete each level. Extra goo balls recovered in the pipe are pumped through to the World of Goo Corporation, a sandbox area where the objective is to compete with other players worldwide by building the tallest tower possible. Players can also try to achieve the “Obsessive Completion Distinction (OCD) Flag” for each level by completing the level under more stringent criteria, such as collecting a larger number of Goo balls, finishing under a set amount of time or using as few moves as possible.
Levels and chapters in the game are interspersed with cut scenes.
You just need to download World of Goo. (18). Just remember where you put it because then you’ll have to find that EXE file to install the game.
Enjoy the game and comment on how well you’re doing at it! Seriously! Comment please.
System Requirements: OS: Windows XP/Vista Memory: 512 MB RAM Processor: 1GHz or faster CPU DirectX: 9.0c Disk Space: 100MB graphics card: less than 5 years old
All files have been scanned and are free from viruses. You may scan for yourself if you feel you need to.
Posted by macbros | Under Internet, My Opinion | 27 views
Tuesday Nov 3, 2009
SPAM! I’m pretty sure it is safe to say that everybody HATES this tripe we see filling up our in-boxes all the time. I know I feel like the guy in the above animation a lot of the time.
It’s getting so bad to the point that it is drowning our real e-mail and burying it so much that we are missing them and deleting them by mistake while we select large blocks at a time and sending them off to oblivion.
It’s getting so bad that even the spam boxes are sometime catching legitimate e-mails because these assholes that spam us so much are using common wording or something that the filters have a hard time figuring out who’s real and who isn’t.
Even my main e-mail address, that I use for friends and family only, has started to get bombarded by spam. I can attribute that simply to the fact that not a lot of friends and family know how to send bulk e-mails without adding every single one of their contacts in the TO: Field, but instead use the BCC: to add all the recipients. I’ve mentioned THIS in the PAST before. Seems it went unheard though. Besides when you use the BCC, it appears more personal to the people you send it to because it just shows their e-mail address. But when you put all the contacts in the TO: Field, every – single – e-mail – address shows up in every single e-mail received by the contacts. All it takes is just ONE person to have a Trojan that sniffs out e-mail address when they receive them, resulting in all the e-mail address exposed and added to the SPAM-LIST-OF-DOOM!!! *I actually animated that in my mind. it sounded a lot better*
Anyway. I’ve been noticing a lot of very, VERY important e-mails in my spam folder. E-mails from Jobs that I’ve applied to, bank information pertaining to statements, PayPal payment notifications. Shit that I NEED to know about ASAP!
Lately I’ve been going into my SPAM folder and cutting through the fodder to see if I have any REAL E-mail in there. But even then it would be easy to miss something because there is just so much of it. Kinda defeats the whole purpose of having a spam folder when you have to sort through it all the time anyway.
There are so many companies and services offering their ultimate way to defeat spam for you, but there is so much of this shit that even the best spam filter is no match against it.
Wouldn’t is be nice to just be able to click on a Spam button that would send it to an official legal department that took all the information from the sent e-mail spam and tracked it down to the originating sender and then throw their annoying asses into prison for wasting thousands of hours of peoples lives. Our time is money is it not?
Living in a Bachelor apartment and having next to paper thin walls, owning a powerful sound system or home Stereo System would just end up being an expensive and complete waste of money. If you had something like that in a place like mine, you would have people beating down your doors telling you to turn it down all the time.
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