On a related note
… and yet totally unrelated but not entirely.
… and yet totally unrelated but not entirely.
Work is so so, but that is to be expected when you start pretty much from scratch. I’ll get somewhere, soon. I hope. Still waiting for a date to prepare for my thesis defense.
I have been neglecting a lot of my friends lately, not that I have so many in the first place. Note to self: Call friends.
Been satisfying my materialistic desires:
- Apple Keyboard (the one with anodized aluminum, cabled)
- Fallout 3 (yes, it is awesome)
- new monitor (full HD with component and HDMI, sweet!!)
Windows 7 (though beta) is awesome (so far).
The new Seagate 7200.12 hard drives are THIN (even the sales dude was awesomized).
Mother’s day this week. Got gift last week. Well prepared.
Valentine’s day next week. Need gift. May prove too difficult to handle.
First work day at Atea (formerly Ementor). Got wicked awesome laptop and new phone.
Acquired new games over axe-mas:
- Left 4 Dead
- The Witcher Enhanced Version
Both are awesome games.
Got engaged.
Went to London and Barcelona for a week.
Came back.
Got awesome hat.
Saw the following movies:
- Max Payne (sucks)
- James Bond: Quantum of Solace (ok)
- Just Like Heaven (apart from Jon Heder, painful)
- Låt den rätte komma in (ok)
New games:
- Fallout 3 (very good)
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (awesome)
- Red Alert 3 (this url: David Hasselhoff)
New Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is pretty good so far.
The LG Viewty sucks because it can’t handle the interactive answering machine everybody seem to love installing nowadays. Or maybe it can, but it still sucks because it’s not intuitive enough for me to find out. Needs new phone.
Current state of affairs: Not awesome.
Mega Man 9 is simple AWESOME. I’ve never played a Mega Man game for longer than five minutes before and, as such, cannot say that I’ve ever been a fan of the series. I bought this game a week or two back due to a recommendation from a friend of mine and I’ve been playing it for hours ever since. Retro awesomeness!
Also been playing:
A Super Famicom controller arrived the other day; ordered it for the authentic retro feeling when playing SNES games. Still waiting for the classic controller.
As you might’ve guessed, not much work has been done the last days. -_-;;
A few weeks back, I both received and played Mass Effect to my heart’s content. The story and gameplay was awesome. So awesome, in fact, that I decided to upgrade my graphics card to a GeForce 9600GT in order to bask in the glory that is its awesomeness. Besides, it gave my better framerate in TF2. The card was so big, I had to rearrange the internals of my computer.
While Mass Effect was a great game, I couldn’t help but get annoyed at the amount of time spent trying to get the game running. For some reason, the game plainly refused to run, kept throwing me back to the desktop. Even after scouring through the official forum for solutions, an official patch, and an official expansion pack that refused to install, it was still denying me the entertainment that I had bought with my own money. Then it dawned on me, I downloaded a crack for the game and voilà: The game ran. SecuROM bullshit!
Over the past few weeks, not much outside of school (and gaming of course, finally finished F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and Super Mario Galaxy!) happened. Still writing my master’s thesis, and things are going slowly.
No fun clips this time around.
PS. Damn host keeps disconnecting me all the time. Where’s my maintenance report?! *grumbles*
So yeah, the trip to Budapest last week was pretty cool. It was kind of like Prague, only … cozier, and a lot warmer. We arrived at the airport to 32 degrees Celsius! Getting back to Norway, and Trondheim, was pretty nice as well. The last few weeks has been hectic and it’s nice to finally being back in the tranquility of my dorm room.
I’ve finally decided to order Mass Effect. I might need to upgrade my graphics card as well but decided against it because of upcoming graphics chips. Hopefully, the older models will get cheaper (or maybe the new models are cheap enough for me to grab one).
Finally found this clip after seeing it on a Japanese TV show two years ago:
I couldn’t get the second song (at 2:14) out of my head for quite some time. Browsing the related clips, I eventually arrived at this clip:
In other news, I’ve just received a job offer from Ementor. The contract is on its way, but the offer seems promising enough.