This game, N : Puzzle-Platformer with Physics and Style, is very addictive. Think Shinobi meets lode runner and Xaio Xaio.
I think I'm addicted.
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Okay, I know I'm addicted. But at least I'm not plunking down $50 for Far Cry or Breed, right?
Shoot, now I've got to go play N!
I'd just like to say, "HAPPY Macintosh Developing TIME!" everyone!
Right, that's just hilarious. I suppose it's a development blog over in Japan. I found it looking at Shiira, which was mentioned by Drunken Batman who had responded to my comment about Firefox's aforementioned plugin set that I'm using to develop my site, all of which started with this article about BBEdit, which I found out about when looking for HTML/CSS editing tools.
I hope you followed all that.
Now for the meat: I have another preview site, but currently it's in Melon Soda mode, which will eventually become my personal site soon, hopefully. If you're intelligent enough to have Firefox or Mozilla, then you'll get rounded tabs for this one!
Whoa, I'm link happy today! Enough! Publish it!
It's all about Mozilla Firefox and extensions!
The Browser: Mozilla Firefox 0.8
The Editor: MozEdit 0.1.1
The Resource Finder: Web Developer 0.7
Now with all of that and the designs from:
CSS Zen Garden (It's a beautiful thing, really)
Max Design's Listamatic
And stock photos from Stock Xchng IV, I should be good for this website.
Plus, I've got tons of photos from the last two years of Japan. Now'd be a good time for me to brush up on my Photoshop and GIMP skills.
Tomorrow's a busy day. There's a garage sale in the morning. Dad and I are setting up then going to the men's prayer meeting. Then I might end up at the garage sale all day.
Oh and I need to decide: 400MB, 20GB/mo, $66/yr @ EHostPros or 600MB, 15GB/mo, $64/yr @ Low Budget Host.
Two months ago yesterday, I went through a rather traumatic experience.
I totaled my new car.
It was a 2003 Suzuki Aerio GS, new off the lot. My parents really liked the car and felt it was safe (5 star crash ratings all around) and said they'd help make payments until I got a steady job after college. We got a great deal on it too.
Thus, I had a car during my senior year of college.
Rachel and I would go to her parents house for dinner on weekends. My roommates and I would go to Little Tokyo in L.A. for lunch on Saturdays. I'd drive myself to Ultimate Frisbee. I'd help carpool to Sunday services and Friday night College group.
But, two months ago, Rachel's brother, Jacob, was out visiting the college and staying in my dorm room that weekend, so we decided to all go down to Little Tokyo for lunch. In preparation, I made a Japanese Pop CD for the drive, and off we went.
Around 11:30AM, we just passed the Burbank airport going south on Interstate 5. I glanced right and saw the car to my right appear to be moving into my lane... into me! I reacted by looking left and saw the fast lane was open and attempted to change lanes to avoid the car on my right.
Lo and behold, a white SUV was in my blindspot and struck my back left taillight and we started spinning to the left. I never really had control of the car and did nothing but cry out, "Oh Lord!" Rachel was in the passenger seat crying, "Andrew!" And Jacob just held on in the backseat.
I remember at one point facing traffic and traveling backwards, the right side of my car was scraping up against the center divide. Then it turned a bit more such that we were perpendicular to traffic and the front end of the car was blocking the fast lane.
I asked if everyone was alright, and they all said yes, so I put my hands on them and we prayed a prayer of thanksgiving. We were all injury-free.
I stepped out of the car and saw a car stopped up the road from me. They were directly behind me and saw it all happen. I didn't have a cell phone so they offered theirs and I called my roommate, Mike, to come pick us up. Unfortunately, I was stressed and didn't give detailed enough directions and he never found where we were.
A tow truck was also behind me and was kind enough to move my car off to the right side of the road so traffic could continue through. Soon a CHP officer arrived and stopped traffic so he could move the car across.
I never saw who hit me when I moved in front of them. Jacob said he saw a white SUV stop at a call box then leave, but I never saw the car. The CHP officer said that because it was a one-car no injury accident he didn't have to file a report at the scene, giving me a point on my license, so all I'd have to do is file at a CHP office.
After AAA towed my car to a local lot, I attempted to call my parents with my calling card, but it died before I could call the cell phone and all I could do was leave a message at home.
We got lunch at a local mall, and four hours later, Rachel's Dad picked us up. As soon as he found out at work, he left from Thousand Oaks to pick us up.
We never made it to Little Tokyo that day. God didn't want us to. Nor did He want me to have that car at this time. It's only by his sovereignty that we walked away form that accident.
Think about it: spinning out at 70 MPH in midday traffic on I-5. By all means, we should be dead. But nothing really happened. Glass didn't shatter. The trunk didn't collapse. Airbags didn't go off. I didn't hit anyone in front of me. Just two cars, and one left.
See for yourself:
Interior | Front Right | Rear Left | Rear Right | Front left
Now, it's all about trust. Thankfully, insurance covered everything and we were able to get a small amount back. That money provided for the car rentals we needed to do the trips up to home and San Francisco after Graduation. The Lord provided and He will continue to provide. I just need to continue to trust Him more. It's still hard, especially when you have to put everything that was once in your car into a bucket and carry it back home again. I just took out everything at put it away here at home. But I'll do my best to trust Him. I'm not in control; I never was. I'm glad it's that way, I won't have it any other way.
This article by Justin Blanton struck me today. I just noticed the blog, and low and behold, there was really something here.
Musicplasma is a really cool concept with an excellent interface. However, it really hasn't told me much other than what I already know about my musical taste.
I don't like Malmstein.
This one goes out to my old roommies, Mike and Nick.
How many times have I heard you guys say similar things about me and Rachel?
Of course, there was Brent, and he was whipped, just like Orange Bang. But, alas, he's married now and perma-whipped.
This whole concept is an amazing thing. You take their XHTML and write your own CSS for it. They have tons of different designs. The ones on the main page are probably the best.
I'm utterly amazed. I've got a long way to go if I want the Japan sites to look anything remotely like that. And I still need to look up some stock photos and think layout. I've barely got the content engine working. Oh, alright, so I probably won't be using Blosxom, but Blogger works quite fine. I still love the hierarchy in Blosxom. Rael's site really brings that out, but I don't understand all of the Perl/IIS stuff I've been doing.
Oh, and college group was great agian, but I really couldn't focus on the study. The end of Matthew 12, for those of you who are interested.
Okay, I really ought to stop reading these. But they're so addictive! Especially when they have puns for everything you know and love as a tech savvy, pseudo-Japanese, music-loving geek.
All we need now is a Laputa spoof and something about Outcast, which is one of my favorite games, along with Silver.
Man, PvP Online nails it again! Like this doesn't happen to me or something! I've really ought to look into getting the print versions of PvP, just like I did with Megatokyo.
Team Japan 2004 website concept.
I've been working on this all day, trying to get the right idea going. So far, I kind of like it, but I'd really have to break it down into a flavour for Blosxom. The rounded corners only work in Mozilla/Firefox, so it looks rather odd in Internet Explorer.
Camino, Safari, and Opera anyone?
Skull spends his money.
Right, you've just got to see this one if you're any sort of a RPGer. It's also a t-shirt in the PvP store. I've been reading through the whole series, and this is just awesome!
I'm just beat right now.
I'm in a bit of trouble since I didn't call Rachel today after we got back home from dropping her off at her parent's house in LA.
Things will be a bit quiter around here now. But I suppose I may play my music or video games whenever I want. However I do have a list of things to do, including, but not limited to:
Right, so last night we watched Big Fish. That is an amazing movie. I highly recommened it.
Today though, we went to church. Some of our military friends were visiting from Hawaii and they had their 13-month old daughter dedicated. It was great to see them all again. Unfortunately, Rachel and I had to say lots of goodbyes since we take her back home tomorrow. (On the funny side of things, we had my church's wedding planner offer to do our wedding. We didn't even know we were having one. All in good fun, I suppose.)
We started looking through all those volumes of classic works she got. It's amazing. The first two volumes contain a list of topics. Each topic has an introductory essay then is followed by pages of questions and references to other books in the set. This is just the thing for Rachel. Too bad it's a little late for her Christian Humanism and Milton classes.
Really, this may end up being a fairly personal blog, but I'm not sure where it's going yet. Expect a few personal details along with a plethora of links from things that I find on the web. I'm a techie, so expect that too. Other than that, you're on your own.
2004, Bachelors of Science, Computer Information Sciences, Cum Laude
