2008

As some of you noticed in the St Patrick’s Day video and an image in my photo gallery, I dyed my hair blond. Today I tried to put blue dye in it to turn it green for St. Patrick’s Day. That didn’t go off according to plan. Only some of my hair actually turned green. Basically half of my head is green and the other half is blond. I don’t really know how I did it, but it looks kind of odd. I am not going to try and get it green again tonight, I think I’ve put too much stuff in my hair in the last week. It needs a few days without dying.

I rented Burnout Paradise from Blockbuster yesterday and I have been playing it a bit. It is a good game, I was familiar with the older ones so I knew what to expect.There were some key surprises in there that I wasn’t aware of, like the crash anytime model. There’s been a lot of controversy amongst fans regarding the new open city, but I think that adds more of a realistic standpoint to the game. I mean driving on preset courses gets annoying, driving on wide open road where you choose how to get somewhere is a lot better to me. My biggest gripe about the game is that there is no driver. You are driving a car, but there’s no driver in the car. There are no people anywhere in the city. That has been my gripe with the Burnout Series in general, so I can’t say that I was surprised.

The Sniperpoint toolbar does a lot of handy things. With it you can block popup ads, fill out web forms with one click, and have instant suggestions when you are searching. My favorite feature of the toolbar is that you can bookmark pages and access them from anywhere. I know a lot of websites do that, but having a built in function in the toolbar makes it worth having.

Rockstar let slip some details regarding the GTA 4 online multiplayer experience. In the multiplayer game you can play with up to 16 players each having fully customizable characters of their own. You can change the race, sex, hair, clothing, and more of each character.

They also let slip the game types. They are:

1. Hangman’s NOOSE
2. Car Jack City
3. Bomb da Base
4. Bomb da Base II
5. Mafia Work
6. Team Mafia Work
7. Deathmatch
8. Team Deathmatch
9. Turf War
10. Cops N Crooks
11. Race
12. GTA Race
13. Deal Breaker
14. Free Mode

In Race and GTA Race, the host gets to decide which vehicles are involved, and the number of laps to be played. You can shoot and throw molotovs from the window, and even steal your rivals’ car. In Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, the host gets to decide the number of pedestrians, the amount of traffic, the intervention of police (or not), and the type of weapons. In Cops N Crooks, one team plays as cops and the other plays as criminals. The cops must stop the criminals from escaping. They can monitor the locations of the criminals on their GPS systems, while the criminals don’t know where the cops are. In Mafia Work and Team Mafia Work, you play as one of Kenny Petrovic’s mafia henchmen. You must complete hits ordered by the boss (via the cellphone) before your rivals are able to do so. The map used in multiplayer is the same map that is used for single player. A single-player mission called “Hangman’s NOOSE” features co-op. You and your friends will be able to escort a mobster, while being pursused by a SWAT team.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I am extremely excited about this game now. I knew there would be a multiplayer aspect, but I wasn’t expecting anything like this. I can’t wait for this game.

Oysters can be dangerous to eat. Gulf oysters can spread diseases to humans if they aren’t processed correctly. It is getting safer to eat oysters though, particularly due to the post-harvest process. The post-harvest process is one of three choices. It can be where the oysters are frozen, the oysters are cooked in high pressure, or the oysters are done in a heat-cool pasteurization. No matter which way they are cooked, it means that the risk is greatly reduced. Personally I don’t like seafood, but I know a lot of people who do. I also know someone who got sick from eating it and let me tell you that it isn’t a pretty site when someone gets sick from seafood.

I have been adding some features to the gallery script, but they are mainly on the backend and won’t show up until I choose to have them appear. I have gotten an email regarding if I will ever release the script to the public, the answer is that I am writing it in conjunction with other scripts. If I ever did release it then there would be different aspects, one for a login, one for the gallery, etc. I have about three other things that I would like to add to the script before I add something like comments, but I will be adding some today. After this process is completed I will get started on it.

My family is a bit stranger than most. We all like to believe that our families are the strangest on the planet, but my family goes into the science fiction type strangeness at times. I will watch Charmed and it will literally be like looking into a cousin’s life sometimes.

Now I realize there are nonbelievers of the supernatural out there, and that is fine. I am not here to preach to you, but I am going to inform you about something that is on the less supernatural side and more along the “I think therefore I am” state of mind. It is called The Sedona Method.

What The Sedona method tells us is that no matter what kind of luck you have, or how you live your life, if you believe something it can be true. What that means is that if you believe you have bad luck, then you most likely will have bad luck. If you believe something to be true than it will be. If you can think it, you can do it. This kind of thinking is called presence awareness, if you are more aware and more hopeful with your ooutlook and what you want, then you will be more likely to get it.

I have been trying to take extra care of my skin lately. I have managed to shave down the caluses on my feet and I am also moisturizing the dry skin on my ankles and elbows. I used to make fun of guys who used to do all this stuff, but now that I am getting older I find myself actually wanting to get rid of my dry skin. I don’t think I would ever get a professional manicure or pedicure though, I think that would just be weird honestly.

I have been looking up BORBA skin care products lately. Apparently everything they sell is dermatologist recommended, so that it won’t do more harm to your skin than is already done. They have a special promotion going on right now, buy $100 or more on skin care and you can get a free 16 ounce bottle of Skin Balance Water to enjoy with your order.

If you said three years ago that I would actually care about my ashey elbows or that your feet aren’t supposed to be completely covered in caluses, I would have looked at you and said you were nuts. I was ill-informed back then, but I am glad that I finally got informed and am doing everything I can to rejuvenate my skin

As I write this I am compiling the first ever video blog post for Lep’s Lair. I know that I have said there would be one for a few months now, but I finally got around to having something important to say. You will have to stay tuned later to find out what it is all about though.

I have always liked the idea of fantasy baseball leagues and stuff like that. My problem with doing this is I don’t really follow sports much, I don’t know the All Stars from the Benchwarmers, so trying to play in a league would be disastrous. Needless to say being in a league, I would welcome and use all the help I could get.

I know from my friends who actually do these fantasy leagues win with the help of a program. The program they use is actually pretty impressive, it runs the stats based on modeling from PHD Statisticians, it gives full reports on injured players, when they will be back, when they got injured, how it will affect the rest of your team, the whole nine yards. Some of my friends have bets going and are winning upwards of a thousand dollars a week based on what this program says.

The people making a lot of money off this don’t need any breaks on the software, but getting started with it can put a hole in your pocket if you loose your first few bets, that is why you can get the software for $10 off just by using the promo code BMC200.

If you look on your left under the menu, you will notice a Photo Gallery option. There aren’t many pictures in there as of yet, actually at the time of writing this there is one category and one subcategory with two images in it. I just wanted to get it up and running. I will add pictures in it periodically, I hope to get most of mine in there soon, within the next few days. I know that it is lacking features like commenting and rankings, but I just wanted something simple to start with. I don’t have the whole backend features worked in yet, so after that is done I will create the comment system and maybe a ranking system. It is a work in progress, but I wanted to get a photo gallery up as soon as I could, plus it is 100% designed and programmed by me. I am hoping to have more programs I make on this site now. It will be easier afterall, I have a backend just for my programs.

Identity theft is a big problem nowadays. Luckily for us, we have options to sign up for serivces that can help us protect our identity and our credit. There is a service called lifelock that charges a relatively small fee, but whenever a line of credit is issued in your name they will notify you. They also give you free credit reports even if you aren’t eligible for one by law. It sounds great right? Well one of those credit agencies doesn’t think this company should exist. They think that they are bending laws in order to protect the people. Why would they think that? Obviously they want people to mess up their credit and are getting something out of it.