Sun God Festival '09

Sun God Festival '09.  May 15th, 2009.

Saw various performances at the three different tent/stages that were set up.

Motion City Soundtrack was all right.  Stopped a few times to get the crowd to move back from the front which kinda killed it.

Didn't have much sleep from studying all night before.  Drank an energy drink Albert got. 

Feel the boost!

N.E.R.D. performed.  Pharrell is straight out pimp.  The bassist doing a slide up made such an awesome sound.  I need more!

Met up with many friends.  Helen was able to skillfully slip the wristband off my wrist without breaking it.  W00t.  It's been a while since I've seen Tiffany.  I've missed her.  She seems to be doing well.  I asked Albert to take a picture and he screwed it up by moving the camera before it was captured.  It's all right though.  I'll try and sharpen the image someday by deconvolving it.

Me and Tiffany.

Fun weekend :]

やってみよう！

カンバセーションパートナーをもったのはおもしろくて、楽しかったと思った。いいチャンスは日本語を話すのをれんしゅうした。クラスではじめましたので鎌田絵里奈をえばった。電子メールをするではフードコールトに会うをさんせいした。あの日の時はどきどきした。ぶんを作るのはとてもむずかしいだったよ。鎌田さんはがまんずよかった。鎌田さんに会ったはよかった。カンバセーションでいろいろことをなられた。英語だけ少し話したでもつぎの時にはもっと話そう。

ぼくとかまたえりな。

Mario Kart, IRL.

Fake Item Box = Luggage.

Kart = Car.

You know how it is:

Kart + Fake Item Box = Q.Q

Media Players

VideoLAN VLC media player

VLC media player 0.9.9.

decided to try it out.  looks to have a lot of potential, but still a little buggy for me use.  it has crashed multiple times while playing music from my connected ipod.  playing with the equalizer also crashes the program.  i also couldn't exit properly, without it just crashing.

the first thing that stuck out was "wow, i don't just go up to 100% for volume level?  it's 200%!  THAT'S TWICE AS LOUD!"

foobar2000

foobar2000 v0.9.6 4

Standard installation install foobar2000 for all users of this machine

OR

Portable installation

In portable mode all configuration data is stored in the application folder.  Nothing is written to the registry, no icons are created and no uninstaller is created.

No preset equalizer settings that come with the installation.  You'll need to find plug-ins.  The equalizer range goes from -20db to +20db, while winamp is -12db to +12db.

Still using winamp for now.

Best April Fool's Evar

Blizzard's April Fool's joke was awesome.  Terra-Tron.  Archivist.  Lots of luls :]

I've heard of the movie, The Room, but I don't remember from where.  I just remember it was suppose to be comical only because it was such a terrible movie.  Apparently, it was written and directed by Tommy Wiseau, who also self-cast himself the lead role.  

In any case, I caught the movie playing on Cartoon Network and found it rather strange, but intriguing.  It was during one of the cuts to commercial when it advertised to buy the movie on DVD from amazon.com that I realize what it was and started laughing.  My roommates wanted to turn it off, but I told them to give it a chance because of what I heard about the film.  It turned out to be awful as expected, but amazingly hilarious.  My stomach was aching by the end of the movie.  I really liked how Adult Swim censored the film because it made those soft-core porn scenes entertaining and amusing.

J!nx's EXXXXXTREME GAMING PRODUCTS.  Uber stuff.  Nuff said.

ThinkGeek's Tauntaun Sleeping Bag (only for children or small adults).  Wtf!  Friggin’ Luke Skywalker gets to fit inside the Tauntaun in Episode V and only children/small adults fit into the sleeping bag form of the Tauntaun?!

Weekend Quest 2 and Resident Evil 5

Early this morning intended for Yesterday.

I tried to take pictures with strangers over the course of the weekend, but I failed. . many times.  But I did manage to write www.mydamnchannel.com on my apartment's big calendar of activities, even though I just realized there aren't that many activities planned for the month.

I ran out of black ink... and purple was the next pen I grabbed out of my backpack.

I wrote that while standing on my skateboard with people walking by awkwardly looking at me with the "wtf is he doing?" face.  /whispers "for Grace ;)"

Yesterday. 

Beat Resident Evil 5 (RE5) on Normal mode.  Haven't beaten any Resident Evil games before, but have tried them out.  RE5 made me want to go play the previous titles.. or just read up on the series.  

It was mung's game.  Got him interested because I had told him I tried it out last week and it was pretty fun.  He contemplated between RE5 or Star Ocean: The Last Hope.

The game was entertaining.  There were many cut scenes, but I didn't mind too much because the cinematics were beautifully done.  I also enjoyed the in-game graphics and details as well; bloodstains, rusted metals, and all.  The music was decent.  The sound effects were superb.  

Gameplay was fun, although a little frustrating and annoying at times because I couldn't push the right buttons.  I haven't had much experience with X-box controllers and this was the first time I've beaten a game on an X-box.  B-button was X-button to me and X-button was B-button to me.  I grew up with Nintendo and the instinct of pressing the button to the left for the B-button and right for X-button kills us at times.  But even with me having to get use to the controller scheme and not being able to do things that I expect, like shoot while moving, the game wasn't too difficult.  The game was short, so we might replay on Veteran mode.  Let's see how crazy things can really get!

Aiwow

It's 7.41 in the morning right now.  My sleeping pattern is just ..well, I don't really have a sleeping pattern I guess.  It's a work in progress.

I'm still currently in the process of just exploring the SR80.  I've fallen even more in love with them.  As I was saying from the last post, I was wondering how an amplifier would aid to the listening pleasure.  Although I didn't ask to borrow mung's FiiO E5, I am drawing more power from another source-- my Aiwa CX-NA555.

Dusting off the old system from its years of neglection, plugging it in, and powering it on; it now serves once again.  I popped in some old cds that have also been gathering some dust as well, mainly the pillows / My Foot album.  Using the 1/4 in. adapter that was included with the purchase of the headphones, I connected the phones to the system.  Everything's ready.

I was sucked in from the very first track and am on my second round of listening again to the album.  The Super T-bass, cranked to the max, has made the bass ever so delicious that I can't get myself away from listening and go to sleep.  Damn endorphins.

Blogged 2 days straight.  Achievement unlocked.

Off I go then.