Seriously.
June 12th, 2010
Rock Out
Using the microphone stand while singing in Rock Band makes me feel like a big rock star. I don’t know what I was waiting for this whole time! It works especially well when there’s a scarf tied around it a la Steven Tyler.
Songs that especially make me feel cool and glamorous are: Linger by the Cranberries, Feed The Tree by Belly, and Mr. Brightside by The Killers.
Ah. Good Times.
June 11th, 2010
Weekend Gaming
Sometimes, when people at work ask me what plans I have for the weekend, I never know how much to share. I can’t tell if they’d really care to hear every little detail. And let’s face it, some things just aren’t that interesting to everyone else but me.
A lot of the time it’s stupid things like: Lyndon and I are going to play Rock Band so I can sing and try to get one of the cats to meow into the microphone OR Lyndon and I are going to play Gears of War 2 and see if we can perfectly lay out our remote mines to detonate and kill the Locusts in one shot – no guns necessary OR Lyndon and I playing Left 4 Dead 2 and seeing if we could successfully keep one of the cpu survivors alive and let the zombies kill off the other cpu survivor.
Hmmm. There seems to be a common theme here.
But again. Not interesting to anyone but me. And Lyndon.
April 13th, 2010
Ashes To Ashes
I am freaking excited for this game. I didn’t realize how much until I saw this trailer. And there’s 4 player online co-op campaigns! Who wants to play?? ^___^
January 31st, 2010
Let’s get physical.
My poor neglected Nintendo Wii. How could I have forgotten you? Well, those days are over. I’m dusting off the Wii fit and getting back in business. While at Target the other night, contemplating buying a nice scale – a real scale, not some janky cheap excuse for a scale – we realized that we could use our Wii fit for a scale. I’ve had this thing for many months and the factory tape has yet to be broken. I hate weighing myself but I realize I have to face the music and do it in order to progress down my road to fitness. Today begins my relationship with my old forgotten friend, Wii. I know we’ll have good times together.
January 23rd, 2010
Think Geek
Today, I realized how big of a geek I’ve become while visiting my local Best Buy and recognizing the guy walking out as I was walking in as Major Nelson (wiki). And then getting sort of excited about it. This got me a proud smile from Lyndon.
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November 19th, 2009
Reloading!
Lyndon and I played Left 4 Dead 2 last night. And because we were afraid – we set the difficulty to Easy. I’m glad we did because this game sequal is much more difficult than the first one! Maybe it’s because we don’t know our way around and maybe the weapons and the options are not familiar yet. But WOW. There are so many options! Laser sights, frag rounds – I still don’t know how the hee-haw that works, various melee – what the what?! I got the katana last night the thing is so badass, and guns guns guns! After a long, stressful day at work it’s so much fun to come home and shoot zombies.
I was worried that I wouldn’t like the characters as much as the characters in the first game. But they’re growing on me. I have a soft spot for Ellis the hillbilly – I use him when we play. And Coach makes me feel secure and safe like how Bill was in part 1.
The game feels bigger and scarier even though the campaigns are shorter. And the guns feel good – like you’re doing a whole lot of damage. The new special zombies are scary. Especially the Spitter. I still can’t figure out where she is when I hear her. The sound of the Jockey makes me nervous. It gives me anxiety and I can’t get him when he comes popping out of nowhere. But the Witch scares me the most. I get clumsy and frozen when I see or hear her around. I panic and stand far away in the corner and hope that one of the CPU startles her so she doesn’t come and get me.
I’m still figuring things out so I’m still a bit useless. I can’t help but stand behind Lyndon and stare as he clears out the crowd of zombies for me. I’ll get better someday…
October 21st, 2009
Goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.
I’m exhausted. I stayed home from work today. I feel like I’ve been put through the ringer. My entire body is achy and tired. My head has finally stopped hurting. I rarely get headaches but boy, when I do I feel like an alien baby is going to pop out of my head.
All sickness aside, I can’t get enough of Beatles Rock Band. Especially since I can play still with low energy. The singing part at least. I’m terrible at it but the machine seems to think I’m very very good. Rock Band has opened up a whole new game playing experience for me. I was once afraid of singing, drumming and advancing to Hard on guitars. But I’m slowly able to go to to there. I still drum on Easy and I still get below 75% most of the time guitaring on Hard but I the feeling of accomplishment is as great as any.
We downloaded the Abby Road songs – recently available. We played the medley which is made up of the last 9 songs on the album and is about 10 minutes long.
My favorite song to play right now: I Am The Walrus – on drums. I love the Beatles.
September 7th, 2009
Ticket To Ride
August 14th, 2009
red ring red rum
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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June 1st, 2009
Onigiri Robot
Lyndon and I started a sketchblog. Click on the Onigiri to get to the website.
oni-bot = Onigiri Robot
Updating: Weekly (Sundays)
Onigiri, also known as omusubi or rice ball, is a food made from white rice formed into triangular or oval shape and often wrapped in nori (edible “seaweed”).
April 18th, 2009
chank!
Friday Studio Meeting guest speaker: Chank Diesel – http://www.chank.com/
I remember finding chank back in the early web days and it was like wonderland! Installing all these different and free fonts. They were free and they were fantastic. Favorite font available free at the website: OH LA LA by Martin Fredrikson Core
Cat asked me what he looked like so I snapped a photo. He is not how I pictured at all. I learned a lot of very interesting things. I am now inspired to create more fonts. Especially collaborative fonts with my fellow designer coworkers and friends.
On a different subject. I get very annoyed when I tell someone something I’ve done that I’m proud of and they question me in disbelief. I realize that sounds self centered and arrogant. I don’t mean it to be. But whatever. The conversation would go something like this:
Me: Hey, I built a monster truck yesterday.
Annoying Person: You did?
Me: yes.
AP: YOU did?
Me: yes. yesterday.
AP: YOU built a MONSTER TRUCK?
Me: Uh-huh. Sure did.
And then, they don’t say anything. Like how cool/weird/stupid they think it is. They just say ‘Huh….’ like they’re still thinking about it and how could I possibly do something so cool/weird/stupid. That annoys me. It annoys me as much as when I tell someone something I’ve accomplished that I’m proud of and they immediately point out they’ve done something equally (if not more) awesome. I don’t mind hearing about awesome things people have done but what makes me mad is the lack of response to something I brought up in the first place. I should get used to it though. I am forgotten girl, after all.
UPDATE: Holy crap. So I saved this post to post later and realized that I sound like such a whiney bitch! Disregard and move along. Nothing to see here, folks but a weeping, sorry mass of self -depreciating poo.
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