V-Lite Substitute

Thanks to Stephen for pointing out the Night Ize lights being sold at MEC, I decided to pick up several of them.  Upon my surprise when I took the light out of their casing, they looked just like a V-Lite.  Although a little more naked.  In the meantime, I mounted one on my helmet using electrical tape, thanks to my ShoeGoo who decided to glue its cap permanently.  I will have to do a proper velcro treatment to the helmet and the light once I get a new adhesive.

My New Project

It has been on the back of my mind for a while but I think I made up my mind now to proceed with this.  I would like to go ahead and build my very own Proton Pack from the Ghostbusters movie.  I started with reading and researching at gbfans.com for much of the resources.  This is still early and I am just mulling over the details.  Supposedly, some of the plans can be created with around $100 and overnight.  I will post my progress as I make them.

Sword of the Stars

I might be a few years too late for the party but I just found out about this game.  Seems like my type of game.  Thanks to another game, Sins of the Solar Empire, I have become a fan of explore, expand, exploit and exterminate type of games.  With a selection of four races to choose from, I would have adversaries for some time to come.  At the moment, this game is on sale for $5 on Steam, including all the expansions.  Also, the sequel is scheduled to come out this month.  Hopefully I can play the sequel once I get my new laptop.  At the moment, I will be content with the original running on my netbook.

Op Deadfall

This past weekend, Stephen and I decided to attend the annual Operation Deadfall airsoft game.  This year, the 24 hour military simulation game took place in Muskoka.  We opted to arrive on Saturday morning so we could take the second half of the game.  For myself, I could not take the Friday off from work.  In any case, I did not feel like doing the whole game anyway since it is much too cold for my taste.  Besides, I have done several of these games in the past and I know my limit.

The Devil's Rain

The Devil's Rain is the newest album from the horror/punk band the Misfits.  It has been eight years since their last release, Project 1950, a punk remake of oldies songs.  That was a pretty awsome album as I still listen to it from time to time.  The Devil's Rain from my initial listening seems to follow their usual sound although I still need to listen to it some more to see how much I like it.  So far though, it seems pretty good so far.  The album art is pretty awsome too.

One Step Closer to Skynet

A University of Tokyo and Technische Universität München robot named PR2 was recently upgraded with a new semantic search capability.  When it was asked to fetch a sandwich, the robot went to the fridge to look for one, could not find one, so it took the elevator down, went to Subway next door, ordered a sandwich, and brought it back.  That is pretty cool.

On another note, rather than preparing for the zombie apocalypse, maybe I should switch to a robot apocalypse instead.  It will be only a matter of time before they rise up.

A Package Has Arrived

There seem to be a package for me.  I wonder what it could be.

Dark Souls

I picked up this game for the XBox 360 yesterday because of my love for the first game, Demon Soul.  The premise is simple, the player explore the realm while the game kicks your butt over and over again until you succeed in whatever challenges the game presents.  All the while you collect souls as you defeat your foes and use the souls as currency, among other things.  From the several hours spent on this game, I can tell you that it is difficult.  Rage inducing, throw the controller to your TV while swearing at the top of your lungs difficult.  I love every minute of it.

My Old MP3 Player

Pictured above was my very first MP3 player, the Diamond Rio 600.  Purchased back in 2001, this baby was packing 32MB of  storage.  It was small, it was light, and I could carry around 10 of my music files.  At the time, I thought of this as the best thing ever.  Up until then, I was carrying around a portable CD player that I continually break.  I decided to get a new device when I left my CD binder on the subway.  I used this for a bit until one day when I saw a Sony CD player that actually play MP3 files.  Then that became the best thing ever.  Then I caught wind of the iPod.  The third generation iPod came with the touch scroll wheel and 10GB of storage which at the time was actually larger than my desktop HD.  That thing is still with me as it held many sentimental value.  It is the only Apple product that I kept after my Apple meltdown.