Hans blog of fun talkery

blog update

I added a little flash based media player to the bottom of the page, ill update it every now and then and puts some tracks that I have really been diggin' on it. DONT WORRY it doesnt auto play, I hate it when peopel auto play media when i enter a webpage, I know most of you probably don't want to listen to my music that's why it's optional.

Temporary Changes

I reset to a default template because I accidentally replaced some code that prevented my blog form updating properly, so it will be this default tempalte for a few days (maybe a week)

UPDATE the template is almost fiexed just a few more tweaks and it'll beback to how it was before.

UPDATE 2 everything is back on track as far as the tempalte goes, now ill just tweak it little by little over time just to keep it looking and working as best as I can get it to.

Jay Jay and The Funky Schoolbus: 2 Cool 4 School

Jay Jay and The Funky Schoolbus: 2 Cool 4 School

Yes, I am Wheelz, Aaron is the tall guy with glasses.

Finished

Well this should look noticibly different than it did a few hours ago i complete revamped the template with the limited CSS skills I have, fortunantly I know HTML pretty well so I can manage. Besides a few more littel tweaks to the format it's done for now. I did all the grpahics on the side bar and the stuff in the center i got from WSGdesigns.com My guild in Eq2's Website uses the same Eq2 template and I wanted to see how it would look if I tried to apply it. You can see it professionally done at Storms of Vengeance.

Music and such

Well, right now this blog looks like shit but im working on it (one of the reasons i made it was to improve my skills with CSS)
Anyway...
I am almost always listening to music and so I figure i'll talk about some of the albums that I have really been diggin' lately

First off is dub housing by Pere Ubu, this is the third album I torrented (what do you think I have money) by them, it is also their thrid ever release. Pere Ubu spawned off of Rocket from the Tombs and shows many proto punk influences. Most of their stuff is extremely experimental and Dub Housing is even more (imho) than The Modern Dance and New Picnic Time (the other albums I own).

Tales form Topographic Oceans by Yes is absolutly insane, it is mostly instrumental and all of the songs are just shy of or more than 20 minutes long. There are 4 songs and every single one of them is amazing. This is an album you can put on and let the whole thing jsut play through, you could easily let it play through a second time too. All the tracks seem to blend into eachother and take your mind somewhere else.

Well im pretty much done for this one thanks for reading

8 years and I still enjoyed it.

I have been unable to play Everquest 2 of late which is how I spend about 50% of all my time on the computer (so on a school day i usually play at least an hour or more each day)
but anyway, I was digging through my old PSone games and I came across Final Fantasy VII which is one of my favorite games of all time. unfortunantly disc 1 was missing. I looked through

more of my games and pulled out Metal Gear: Solid. I hadn't played this for over 3 years i would think and i dont belive i ever even finished it. I put it in and started playing, it was alittle hard to get used to (especially since i kept comparing it to the Splinter Cell series and it was made in 1998) but i got hooked. Still to this day i rarely see games with such a rich plot. The game almost plays like a movie at times. It also used some very innovative techniques with interacting with the player and using the Dual Shock controller.

I finished the game in two days with a total playtime of 13:13:31 (hours:minutes:seconds) on easy mode.
I had 42 saves, 46 continues, found 47 times by the enemy, killed 162 enemies, and consumed 90 rations.
I got the codename "Comodo Dragon"
and the special items "Stealth"

I'm thinking about buying one of the earier games or more recent games in the series. I have finally opened my eyes to the genius of this series.