OMFG The Gamers Prayer

You can get the shirt at Jinx.com Moving on.

I recieved my RAM from FedEx about an hour ago.... And all i have to say it is schweet. Super schweet. Thats pretty much all i can report on. Ram ussually doesnt make a difference, but i can now run at higher resolutions. I just have to say, this amount of RAM is just mind boggling. Its super. BattleField 2 runs super right out of the gate. Source runs super. It all runs super. It could run better if i had a better Gfx card but come on. Its super. I pretty maxed out my love for RAM heh. So out of the 3 main things that give the gamer better gameplay, CPU, RAM, and Gfx car, i have 2 out of 3 Its pretty good. Sooner or later ill upgrade from my 9600xt 256mb, but i will survive for a little long with it. Okay im off to play some more. Very Very addicting.

The Geek Within

Okay with that title, my update will be quite geeky. Even by my standards... well actually its just on my level of Geekness.

Okay with recent television stations being taken over by Comcast... TechTv that is. The tech/geek currently has no outlet on the tv. Well then, I Consider myself to be a gamer/geek, history/geek, but from both of those sprouts a die-heard tech/geek. So what do i suggest you all do too keep your tech/geek on? Well i would say get into the world of PodCasts. PodCasts are bassically, small radio programs that are made by everyone. But of course the ones i listen to are people who used to be on TechTv. I suggest everyone goes out right now, and subscribe to the TWIT broadcast. TWIT which is an Acronymn for This Week In Tech, bassically takes the week in review and they talk about all things tech and what not. I consider it to be really fun heh. The geek within. On top of that, one i find really nice is one called DiggNation. Digg Nation is a sprout off of Digg.com. To understand DiggNation, one must understand Digg.com. It bascially is a online open post board. Members post things that they have "dug" up on the web those that get the most "digs" get filtered out to the top page. So if you check it out. Theres a whole bunch of sections for all types of geeks. Currently it is down for an upgrade so i cant list everything for you. Anywho bassically for the Gamer, Movie, Music, Tech, ect. Geeks in all of us can now find the things that intrest you as you descend upon the InterWeb every day. So what DiggNation does, bassically two guys, drink beers, and discuss the most "dug" headlines of stuff that filters up to the top. So yeah its nice. They talked about the Zombie Dogs, which are real. There are Zombie dogs in the world. There are also flying squirl men. Anywho, those who have heard their broadcasts, would be laughing there asses off now, if your not laughing i suggest you head over to Diggnation.typepad.com and subscribe. For the TWIT lovers, ThisWeekInTech.com is for you. Both are really good. So with this, ive really gotten into the whole pod-cast events. Im thinking for next year, we could seriously do, during regionals/nationals, do our own pod-casts after the events, if were not dead tired heh. We could also do it during our build season. Would be a nice thing to do, could upload it to our website. It would be nice. Anywho, with that i digress. I suggest all Geeks out there to check this out.

Currently, there is a court case of AMD sueing Intel for being in violation of many federal acts including the Anti-Sherman act. What this really means is that AMD is accusing Intel for giving the top tier computer produceres like Compaq and Dell saying that they will not sell to them at the current low sale if they make Amd lines of computers that are for the main desktop user crowd. Ussually Microsoft is hit up on these type of suits, no one has yet to do it against Intel. I suppose AMD is doing it for self-notority. Since they could try to sell at a lower price on these bulk sales, however i guess they found it to be more beneficial and cost effective to do it this way. On top of this, all computer geeks/programers/builders know that AMD is better then Intel. For a builder, AMD is the way to go, their faster, better, and cheaper then Intel.

Some gaming info. With the recent Counter-Strike Source updates, some news on the Day of Defeat Source front has emerged. Apparently, in the coming weeks there is gonna be some tastey screenies for us, aswell they are apparently shooting for a late Augest to early September for a release. Do i think they will do it? Doubtfull... Serious doubts. When they launched Source last year, they promised a Day of Defeat source installment for March. I had my huge doubts... Obviously, it was moved up to spring release, they just decided to re-do the whole thing and have more of a "re-invention" then a port. I guess i can coupe with that. Yesteday marked the One Year start of Forsaken. Click the little action Forsaken guys for the link. Anywho, they have released some really shibby in-game screen shots. Ive been following this Mod for a long long long time and im very glad that they havent given up, and have completed so much. Apparently the "when its done" mark of finish could be sooner then expected.

Ill start a new paragraph even though its a related topic. With the recent releases of San Andreas on the PC and XBox, people are upset. Apparently with the PC version, if you download a 3rd party mod for the game, one can unlock elicit XXX scenes. So now the ESRB is looking into the game to give it a AO rating from an M. This is of course obsurd. Many people in this country think its okay to give up constitional rights because it gives them safety. People are willing to give away their freedoms for the illusion of safety. Back in the early 90's with Mortal Kombat, Democratic Senator Lieberman tried to have a federal rating system. Of course the idea of anything like that is complete non-sense in view of a capitalist society. Yet however, people beleive that is a good idea. Controlling of the people, Communisim is on the way. Last year, i spoke to a girl from Poland who was working at an amusemnt park as she went to college. I conversed to her of how she has viewed the Capitalist change in her life. She said, from the Government before the berlin wall fell, capitalists were bad however all non-officals said how free this country is. Then when she comes here, she relaizes that there are many restrictions to American life. Currently, the former soviet block countries have more freedoms and are more democratic then the United States of America. Soon the Communist states.

Auctioner: Our first item is a pair of panties confiscated from a prostitute.
Quagmire: Fifty bucks.
Auctioner: She had nine STDs.
Quagmire: Forty-five bucks.
Auctioner: And when we caught her she wet herself.
Quagmire: Fifty bucks.

Keith

No Catchy Title... Too Angry/Frustrated.

Okay now this is some heads up bull shit.


Community Update - 7/8/05

HOTFIX for Battlefield 2 v1.01 Coming Soon
First off, a HUGE thanks to all of you who emailed me in regards to the memory leak found in the update we released earlier this week (v1.01). Your emails found their way to our production team and they’re in the process of evaluating what needs to be done in order to get this fixed. In the meantime, and since the 1.01 update is causing memory leakage on some systems, we recommend that you reinstall the game and NOT the v1.01 update we released earlier this week.

Reinstalling Battlefield 2 will not affect your in-game medals or ranked server statistics. EA and DICE are committed to getting a fix for v1.01 as soon as we possibly can and will continue to keep you informed through this web space in the coming days.

NOTE: If you installed and are running the newer server files (Win and Linux versions) we made available earlier this week, please revert those as well. We found that those files had the same issues with memory leaks as did the v1.01 update. You can download the older versions here.

[EA]Mike


I swear to god. Ill let you just think that over and hopefully you guys will come to a conclusion of "Why didnt they just have an unistall with the patch...?" My answer would be... jesus hell in christ!!!

Voodoo Acid

Well heres an update heh.

Okay, i said i would post when things intresting happen. Suprisingly enough, alot happened yesterday. I really dont much wanna go into the events that happend in London. Its a tragedy thats for sure. NewYork, D.C., Madrid, London. Some age we live in eh?

Well yesterday, we had a guy come over to fix the satelite dish. Seeing where it was on our roof... He pretty much said. "Who in their right mind would put a dish up there... im not going up there. Hell no!" Thats what he said verbatum. Of course with these things, problems like this are always simple. Little back story on the problems weve had with our Dish Programming. Now this isnt a rant against Dish network, its a rant against the people who installed our dish heh. When they put installed it. The joint that takes the cable from outside into the inside, was installed upside down. Bassically, it allowed water to run down the wire, and leak straight into it, thus rusting it and giving us shitty quality and so forth. Course we didnt know this was happening... cause were stupid. Anywho, from that, weve had one of our recievers completly broken. So for about 2 years we have been running on only one reciever. In this family we wont fix it unless we completly loose it heh. So when we lost it we got it fixed. So i kinda now have my own programming to myself, reason is, since of the two recievers, and my brother going to college. Heh.

Now what do i do with my newly found dish powers? I watch the worst thing on the planet to watch. I wanted to see it cause i wanted to see her act like the slut she is. Anywho that Britney reality TV show she has were she took a camera around. Oh my god... shes just so.... god. Shes not aging well either. Without make-up she looks teeeeeeeeeerible. Plus many times when they have video tape of her dancing on stage... It was extremly obvious that she wasnt singing. Of course its obvious just from the audio, theres not grunting when she does all the twisty moves, nor do we hear her hair brush across the microphone. All i have to say, is god damn. Shes a dumb broad who deserves to be shot in the head, over and over and over and over. Then beat with a shovel over and over and over and over.

About mid-day i was faced with a decision. Well i kinda just did it with out deciding, either way im happy happy joy joy. Ive always been plagued with low amount of ram. Even though 512 is the standard, and its ussually enough, its just not enough anymore. So i went and did it. Next week i will have 2gb in my computer. All PC3200, all Kingston, with a Cas Latency of 3. It should be beautifull. Also i hear this from alot of people. "Once you go to 2gb, you never ever go back." I look foward to testing wether this is true or not... I think it is...

While cooking up some steaks on the grill yetsterday i burnt the topside of my hand. It really hurt heh. Could hear my skin sear as it touched the top of the grill. Was a cool sound. I currently have this long blister mark across the top of my hand. Still hurts if i rub against it. So thats a no-no. While sitting in bed with a bag of ice on it, i watched the intro to the movie troy. My god... its almost insulting how bad that movie is. Too redeem myself from the series of bad televsion i was watching, i turned on Saving Private Ryan off of TNT. Luckily they didnt cut anything out, and no bleepibleep. It should be on again some time tonight and tommorow. I have to say its a good good movie. But of course it doesnt have the depth that Band of Brothers had, but come on, Saving Private Ryan is not 10+ hours long. Anywho, taking from what Steven Spielberg about writing, i have devised my own little thing. Ive always written alot of stuff. I consider myself to be a pretty acomplished writer in the fiction that i have written. However each time i do write, i feel like im copying someone else. I suppose i am even now with my new idea, but hey, thats how the business works. Anywho what Mr. Speilberg says about writing is that all Writing of action or some such starts out with visual images. For him with George Lucas and Indiana Jones trilogy, they saw indiana on a horse, jumps off a horse onto a truck, which is controlled by nazis and he must get controll of it. Now of course, its pretty obsurd, but when you look at the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, the sequence is good. He also said that you get good action sequences by what makes them/writers like them. Such as dont try to write for the audience, write sequences that would make you jump in your seat. Movies like XXX and Riddik (both Vince Deisel movies because no one else would touch them with 10 foot poles) anywho, had the writers writing for the audience, not for themselves. So it felt dull. Anywho, i currently have my own little image of scenery, action, in my head. Lets just say it involves the future. Wether or not it will be the immediate future or far into im not quite sure. On top of that, i have a deillima. My characters, i dont want them to be Ninja Like I.E. Equilibrium, yet i also dont want them to be super soldier gun toteing killers of the future I.E. Aliens/Starship Troopers. Anywho i can allready tell ive given you enough to get some sort of idea im going for. However ive allready concieved the entire plot and alot of the sequences that lead up to the ending. Actually i guess i havent, while writing this ive thought of other ideas. Ya see this is a problem when writing and being a perfectionist. Take the series Stargate SG1. Currently SG1 is being commanded by a woman, a guald, and a dead guy.... can you say plot holes?

"Oh you wanna talk about class, how bout these pictures. This is you and Julio in the kitchen, you and Julio in the rumpus room, and this one, oh i just cant figure this one out. Heres you, heres Julio, whats with the midget?"

Keith

Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness

Yay a real Update.

Well a yes and no on that heh. I really havent much to report for the midweek marker. Guess a couple of things could be mentioned.

DEAR GOD HEAVEN IN CHRIST TURN THE TELEVISION BACK ON!11!!!!1!!1
Yeah, okay for about a week the television has been acting screwy. I get Dish Network at my house and since about last week, the Switch box decided to up and die. Why? I do not know. I was only able to get stuff on the Odd satelites, which forced me to only get like Comedy Central, HBO west, and the Cinemax channels. So i was able to watch the Resident Evil and Troy, but at like 12 at night heh. Anywho moving on, sundy, the whole thing just goes. Ive been stuck with regular tv. I know i may sound like a spoiled brat to some people, but jeez, i can see why people dont watch this crap. Its just... crap, pure crap. The only thing i can tolerate is That 70's Show and Malcom in the Middle that they show at like 10-12. At least it puts me to sleep. And i was looking foward to watching Stacked today but they decided to have 2 hours non-stop of this The Inside crap. I saw a episode of Stacked for the first time last week, i liked it too. Even though it has Pam Anderson who i deem as not a real actor, she did pretty good in it. Plus it has Chirstopher Loyd in it with his one liners in it such as "Oh yes i heard about him, he was in the paper." "oh really i bet for winning another nobel prize" "Oh no, it seems they found his wifes head in his refridgerator!" Ah it was just nice to watch. A change of pace i suppose against this onslaught of "Reality" tv. Oh and i also watched/listened to my first episode of ze Dr. Phil. It was... weird to say the least. The one thing i just dont get about these kind of shows, is how come the person on the show is soo dim witted that they cant retort with anything intelligent let alone coherent. Guess those type of people are just filtered out when they choose who goes on the show. They had a dude who was 20 and addicted to Care Bears, freaking had 50 of em, roleplayed with em, and dressed up in them... The image of him in a care bear suit has been scared into my visual cortext... i feel like throwing up.

Looks like NY aint getting the 2012 summer olympics.. Boo hoo. Personally i dont know if i would want them here that bad. I mean i would go, but its eh. Now i know how it feels for people who live in Key West, outerbanks, jersey shore, ect. When your surrounding areas are in danger of people who are completely incompetent. Now i try when i visit places, to be suave to be cool because im a geek here, but in any event, i do see people who are just clueless when i visit places like this. Its almost insulting, yet of course i guess im one of those people asking "Where can i get crabs at dirty dicks?" Guess im not as suave as i thought i was.

Wish i could think of more to say. And i wish i had some sort of quote i could end this with... Give me a second and ill think about it..... Nope guess i cant. Ah well, catch ya later when something intresting happens.

Keith

ZOMG!

ZOMG!, TAG BOARD IS MISSING, ZOMG ZOMG, IVE BEEEN HAXED! SOMEONE PUT SOMETHING CALLED MESSAGEBOARD IN.... ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG HAXORZ!

Freak Show Excess Updated!

Courtesy to VGcats.Com for the little picture... aint it cute?

Okay lets have an update, ill edit it later afer i get some fireworks in me. Yep yep.

Now i know all houses are messes. No house is clean if there are humans living in it. My house is no different, and in fact could be called the holy grail of messy houses. And to this point this is because both my parents are as they say "keepers" nothing ever gets thrown out, but on rare occasions do we clean. Today since its the 4th of july, do we sit out back and relax? Hells no we clean... Why? Well because this is like a tradition, its just... because heh, if we dont do it now, we will kill ourselves by either A) Starting a Fire, B)Starting a fire, C) electricution, and D) Starting a fire. Thats how messy our house is. Though we never have fires because of days like the 4th of july, we clean... and we only clean the Kitchen, cant be bothered to clean the rest of the house... Fuck that noise.

Before our little escapade of cleanage, my father and i took the '65 stingray vette for a spin and to get some gas. Man that thing really does pull you when you lay on the gass. Love that car. Beautifull Laser Red with black leather interrior. All of it is also to model year, its a beautifull car. Power Steering, power breaks, power windows, the works, quite loaded for a 65 car. Anywho, we get gas, and only the super gas. Beyond premium. For 7 gallons of super, it is 18 dollars... Way expensive. But the Piece de resistance is when driving home in my little neighborhood developement, we pass a group of 3 sophmores soon to be juniors, all of whom i know, all female, and all are big bitches. Ze Biatchs! Anywho, im grinning my ass off cause ya know, im sitting in ze fancy schmancy car, the middle one, leader of ze pack gives me one of the best looks i could recieve. Hint of confusion, with some really head on of "really?" seductive look. Something about cars is that its like bird plumage. A female bird will go after the male bird with best plumage, its all about a bait game and a old school vette is like great bait. I off course start to laugh my ass off and my dad inquires about why i am laughing, tell them that i know those girls, that they are bitches, and that the head of the pack gave me the "really?" seductive look. All in all, quite a good feeling if i do say so myself. Course even i have higher standards then too attract myself to a female that has less brain power then that of a video game. Of course that brings up a good quote from the Vice president of Sony.

"The Sony Playstation 3 will have 1% the brain power of a human" (inteviewer) "Does that mean that its retar.... nevermind moving on"

Okay with that out of the way and another 8 hours of stuff happening lets see what i can recap. After i wrote the post, freind of the family came over, we cooked up some sausages, hamburgers, stakes, quite tastey, all with fire-cracker goodness inbetween bites of food. Actually did that till about 7:30. Anywho, just got back from ze Somerset county fireworks show out at MillTown Rd. Beleive it or not, the title i gave this post actually has some barring on what im writing about (oddly enough) Anywho, for a change, we sat our fat asses down by the band. The band was a 12 man cover band from a whole slew of different genres and songs. They werer good enough. Course by the end, i asked myself "Would i pay to see them? Wait too late i allready have, i pay taxes." I was also pointed out to something while on the way their sitting in trafic, watching the people stoll on by. I gave a open comment of "wow, some of these females are really underdressed." at the same time, my mother gave this response "oh so your enjoying yourself" To which i reply "oh yes imensely but im just saying" My brother then points this out which i think i love the sound of. "Jeez man you sound like your on safari, their not women, their not girls, they are females." To which i give a load roar followed by "SAFARI! SAFAAAAAAAAAAAAARI MOTHER FUCKER!" I guess i do have that out look, because while watching all the fine looking ladies go by, i realize im looking them like a piece of meat... or ass... what ever you want heh. Also while wacthing the fireworks, the whole morality and the patriotic feelings do come over however the thing is this. We really have lost alot of freedoms in this country, mostly cause i live in New Jersey i feel the effects of this. At one point in this country i could litterly do and say "I have the right to bear arms, i have the right to arm bears, what ever the hell i wanna do!" But now with recent legistlation, like the real estate land use supreme court decision that was over that a Health spa offered a community of homes money to buy the property. In the constitution, the government can force you to sell your house if its for government purposes, not private enteprises. A health spa is clearly a private enteprise. It was ruled by the supreme cout that the homes their will be forced to take rock bottom for their homes and move so as to sell it to the private entetprise Health Spa, deeming that the health spa would be good for the community. This judgement was given by people who dont even live there let alone ever visted.

On the way home alot of jokes were thrown around, but the best one is one i made as a comment/joke situation that i made on the spot about my brother and him not keeping his eyes on the road.

"Keep your eyes one the road!" "and what if i dont" "dude you would make the worst drunk driver" "Sir, you were in a 45, you were going 2." To which i eleborate. "Sir you were in a 45, you were going 2.... IM DRUNK! I DIDNT WANT TO DRIVE... yet i DIDNT WANT TO WALK.... SO I DECIEDED TO DRIVE BUT AT WALKING SPEEDS, I THINK THATS A FAIR DEAL DONT YOU THINK OFFICER?!?!?!?!"

Keith

Oh Where To Begin?

As from the little Tag Board message center, i have some things to write about on what happend yesterday, Saterday July 2nd, 2005.

Okay heres where i say i called it an everyone now owes me money off the bets i made. Since about 2nd marking period of this year, i havent received a damn thing from the Bridgewater Regional School District. This includes Progress Report Cards. Now with this logic, it would stand to reason that they would not send my my 4th marking period report card... well Logic has always proven to me at least to have some real good fact behind it.... Best when that fact becomes true. How do i know they missed me and i have fallen off the face of the earth? Well my brother recieved his yesterday... along with a little notice of if he didnt pick up his Diploma, go down to the guidance center between some such time like 12-3 during Mon-Fri. This is my only option, i now have to drag my ass out to school, during summer, on a tuesday. For christs sake, just save me the trouble and say like i died and we didnt know.

I have come to a cross road in my life of what i would like to do in the future. Hell, i will no longer be the Sophmoric (look it up its a word) Sophmore and i will be upper classmen Junior. Where one really has to stop messing around and think about the future. Is life to short, your young only once able enough to let me sit out another year? I spend my years skimming along the surface, enjoying alot of the things that pass me by. Im not in all adavanced or honors courses because i just dont put the effort to it... that and i like playing HL2, BF2, and all some other games when they come out... cause ya know... i have to. bleh if you disagree with me! Okay with that you might ask well Keith, if your gonna be pissy about it, ill throw you a bone and ask, well what would you like to do when you become the full fledged adult who plays video games and spends every year a week away at E3? Yes i would like to become a lawyer. I have the ablities behind it to do it, History? Got that in the bag, Research? Got that in the Bag. Being able to Remember George Carlin lines like i was reading them from an invisible paper? Oh damn with those skills i could be grand oh grand. However with this i come to another deilmma of my life. Do i become a trial lawyer or a business lawyer? Do i have what it takes to be in the ring every other week? Ah well we shall see when i go out to Pre-Law at Rutgers. From there if i get a nice GPA rollin and do pretty well on my LSAT's i think ill do quite well off. On top of that, if eveything in the world falls into place for me, i could go to Duke. Besides that being prestegious, its clsoe enough to have freinds drive down to the weekend... and its located right by the Outer-Banks. So rock on for that.

Last night was lets say Movie Night. On all the preimium movie channels, HBO, Cinemax, Starz, and so forth, they show new movies that are network exclusive. Last Night, HBO was showing... Troy. Dear god christ in heaven ill get into that later heh. On Cinemax, we had, dear god chirst in hell, Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Oh jeez where do i start first... Ill take Resident Evil because hey, its a movie based off of a game right? Should be Banging Right? Right guys? Hey RIGHT!?!?!?! Well crap no it wasnt. It was, how i say, boring... The only good part is when short asian reporter lady gets eaten alive by zombie chirldren in a school... Ill just let you think of why shes in their, and not to ruin the plot... well what ever plot there is, its the worst, bad, idea ever made by a screenwriter/director/write/co-write and so forth... Everyone involved in the freaking movie. Oh and of course, Mila Jovovich dies at the end of the movie... but of course being hit in the face from a piece of 3 foot shrapnel still leaves her alive... cause ya know... shit man you cant kill off the girl that made the guys go see the movie, thats just bad marketing... like bad marketing is, they found that glitch in the system, yet they still wanted to release the movie... Bad marketing all around, shame shame shame.
With that i wont put in a page break cause i shall go into my Troy rant. OH dear god, when did all greek spartans become Viking/Irish. Lets just say this, Menelaus, the spartan king, for those of you who dont know, is a irish viking. Anywho lets go into the plot of one of the best myths anywhere and lets see how movie makers of today see how they can ravage it. Menelaus is king of Sparta, the warrieist of warriest city-states in all of greece. (note map on bottom) Helen is wife of Menelaus, and said to be the most beautifull woman in all of Greece. Paris is the prince of Troy. Hes a bitch whiney ass pussy played quite well (one word comes to mind type-casting) by Orlando Bloom. Anywho with that, Paris steals away Helen and brings her to Troy. Menelaus, being the angry viking/irish drunk he is, gets all of the city states of Greece together, all the big time players show up, Odyssyus, Achielles, big time players, and all attack Troy.



Skip foward ahead a little bit Achilles fights Hector, the hero/prince of Troy in one on one battle. In mythology, Achilles looses this battle, i mean he gets killed, the boy who was dipped into the imortal waters, held by his ankle because if dropped in he would be lost forever. Of course in myth he gets a nice arrow shot from a Hector who was on a chariot, this was actually arranged by Achilles, according to myth/Illiad, and Achilles die. Somehow, because Brad Pitt gets paid more then Eric Bana... i mean the hulk, Brad Pitt must live, and then die at the end of the movie after saving a whore... and gets shot by paris about 6 times from arrows, first one landed in his heel. Now come on... this is just lame. Now ill get into who ever the the hell desinged the crappiest sets in the world. The CGI guys knew what they were doing, all the up close shots of extras were just plain stupid. One, they gave everyone certain sheilds, and of course they were compeltly off. Trojan Sheilds were not Square... they were half-crescent, they are a people from Ionia(ill get to that) they are from Turkey for all intentional Purposes. Now what type of shields would the give the greeks? The correct round bronze sheilds? Oh of course not, but how about lets say the... Half Crescent Shield? Wow this just is insulting only to me heh. I think they did this because they know the American public is stupid and since we subconciously will see everything from that area as bad then we see them as bad... Yep thats right, in this story, The Greeks are the Badies. I can coupe with that. I mean hell gotta tell it from the Trojan view. But they made Paris to be the pussy boy he is that its just no sympathy to the trojans, they deserve what they have coming to them. Now in the big CGI swooping shots, all the greeks sunddenly have bronze circle shields. I mean its really bad, even my brother noticed. We see close of up greek soldiers... they have half crescent, we go to swooping, not a single one... yet however the Trojans have them now... its just weird. And i could tell whos who by the big freaking wall the Trojans were standing in front of. Oh and of course, the greeks didnt use the Phalanx, the most prized possesion in the Greek arsenal, so much so that all hoplites and so forth that was their only formation. NO in this one, they just march/run straight onto a force... with swords... I swear to god, the trojans use swords and spears. There is bassically no spear combat. I think this all happend because they paid too much for Brad Pitt there was no more money to teach extras to be in phalanx formation. Here is somethign that just pisses me off. Art History majors should know the difference between Doric, Ionic and Cornithian columns. Im not a art history major but i know it cause well come on im me. Every person who is in orchestra should know the Doric and Ionian scales. Because thats where all western culture comes from, the godlen age of Greek Civilaization. Now then, very few people, even Art History majors, know what Minoan columns are. See Image for refrence.



Most will notice how the columns are upside down. Small base on the bottom, large at the top. Its from the Greek island of Crete, from the city of Minos, and King Minos, the one with the Labryinth and the story of Thesesus and the Minotaur. Now then, These columns are exclusive to that area. Now let me just give you a picture of a column what is spose to be ionian, since that is where Troy is located, in Ionia, the columns should look like scrolls.



Now that is a Ionic column. It comes from ionia, where present day turkey is, where olden day Troy was. The columns in the movie Troy were sooo overly exagerated Minoan, i mean they wouldnt even be able to keep the freaking roof up, There was a 2:1 ratio of width from the top to bottom. IT just woulnd WORK! Okay and from that my final rant, the Temple of Apollo, lets just say this, Greeks didnt have EGYPTIAN TEMPLES!

Keith

Icarus Dream Fanfare

Most will never ever get my titles.

Okay so yeah, expect me to be around on this blog thing more and more often over the course of the summer. There are times i wish i had a small digital camera that could fit into my pocket that i could bring around and take photos.

With that here we have the 4th of July Weekend... Yeah like this should be intresting... LIKE TOTALLY. If you can detect the slight sarcasm then your only human, if you cant, then you clearly should be put to death, its a black and white situation, no gray areas for you! My family has nothing planned for the weekend. We will most likely will be out at MillTown rd. for the county fireworks. It hasnt snowed that much this year which means there should be some left over budget money for some outstanding fireworks.

I put up the Special Features page and those of you who visit there will only find links that will course you throughout the web to places that I visit often. And some musical notes as it were.

Musical Notes. Lets see here, i dont know why but i have the most pickiest tastes about music. I did the whole Punk Rock thing when i was in the 7TH GRADE! A little ahead of my time? Yes i would say so compared to the people who listen to that crap around me. Ive now moved on, i have more refined tastes in music. You couldnt really say i listen to Indie music, cause the people i listen too have enough technical prowess behind their own playing besides their sound boards and what not. One would assume that me, a drummer, would only find solice in places where drums are renowend, as in lets say Punk Rock. I have to say some of the best drummers are there because they can throw down at 180 bpm in a heartbeat. But thats beside the point, i listen to music that has its own being behind it, as if every song has its own mystical force driving it. I also listen to the classics because, the music i love to listen to is far and few inbetween and the artists arent producing records every month just for little old me. So i go to the classics where everything starts. All the oldies are goldies in my oppionion.

Well ill try to find something else thats more reasonalbe and perhaps more entertaining after Monday. Untill then ill leave you with one of my most favored movie quotes, why? Because i can!

"Voila: the ZF-1. It's light. Handle's adjustable for easy carrying; good for righties and lefties. Breaks down into 4 parts, undetectable by x-ray; ideal for quick, discreet interventions. A word on firepower. Three thousand round clip with bursts of 3 to 300. With the Replay button (another Zorg invention) it's even easier. One shot, and Replay sends every following shot to the same location. And to finish the job, all the Zorg oldies but goldies. Rocket launcher. Arrow launcher, with explodin' and poisonous gas heads. Very practical. Our famous net launcher. The ALWAYS efficient flame-thrower. My favorite. And for the Grand Finale, the all new Ice Cube System!"




Keith