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2008 Jan 01 celes


Guy Blade Guy Blade---03:49:00


Parasol Stories
So, last night I beat Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. Since I purchased the game without reading any reviews or reading anything about it, I was a bit suprised when I found that the game was a rail shooter. I was even more suprised when I found out that the game consisted primarily of abridged remakes of Resident Evil 0, 1 and 3. I'm not sure why they chose those three games in particular to remake. It seems especially odd to remake 3 since it really wasn't part of the main plotline--it was mainly a sidestory to RE2 and reused many of the same areas.

Umbrella Chronicles does fill in many holes that had built up in the RE universe, especially those concerning Ada and Wesker. The game explains both how Ada escaped after her aparent death in RE2 and how Wesker survived being impaled in RE1. It does not, however, explain the how or why of Wesker being in Antarctica during the events of CODE: Veronica.

The game itself is relatively short. I beat the whole thing in under two days with a large portion of that time being spent on pause. If you're an RE fan, the game is probably worth picking up to fill in those msising details from previous games. If you like rail-shooters, it is a very decent little railshooter with respectable voice acting and a decent plot. If you're some loser who starting playing the RE games at RE4, you can pick this up to get a rather skewed idea of what you missed during the Playstation 1 era (and Gamecube era for Zero, I suppose) of RE.

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2007 Dec 25 rinoa


Guy Blade Guy Blade---11:47:00


Signing out
Earlier today, I closed my accounts at National City Bank. The two accounts that I had open their had been open since I was in middle school (for the savings account) and since I was a sophomore in high school (for the checking account). With those closings, I have severed all financial ties to Indiana that are not familial. I'll roll the funds from these two accounts into the appropriate two accounts at my CA based banks instead which will give me significantly enhanced access to them.

In other news, I bought an OLPC XO-1 the other night. I'm still off on my never ending search for a device that is closer to a laptop in functionality but with the accessibility of a PDA. The Nokia N800 wasn't quite the answer (though the N810 might be close), but the XO-1 will hopefully be closer to that goal or at the very least an interesting distraction.

There is an approximately 90% chance of Magi being retired and replaced in the next month. If you have an account on magi that suddenly stops working within the next month, you'll know why. Magi suffered a hardware failure after a recent power outage. It is currently functioning, but it needs a new video card. Rather than simply replacing the card, I've decided to go with a new 2 TiB system built from scratch (mostly) to replace it. This is mainly to reduce the current complexity of the two 1 TiB systems in place. Hopefully the transition will be straightforward.

I may also use this transition to check out disk destruction techniques. I've developed a curiosity recently for secure data destruction and, since I am lacking a blast furnance, I am thinking about testing the feasability of other options. One idea that has recently come to mind is grinding--simply taking a platter and griding it into powder using an appropriate tool. It seems like a sure-fire way of destroying a disk, but I am unsure as to the speed of such a system. Would it take hours or days to destroy a single 3-platter disk? This is why we have science!

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2007 Dec 22 aya


Guy Blade Guy Blade---10:49:00


Wagons East
Tomorrow at 6:45am, I'm heading back to Anderson for a few days with my family. I'm going to be there until Thursday. This will be my first time back in Anderson since I left in mid-June. We'll see how it goes.

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2007 Dec 21 garnet


Guy Blade Guy Blade---05:54:00


Searching for something else
I was going through my wallet and found the following:

1. Ticket stub to Pirates of the Carribean 3 (circa 5/2008)
2. Ticket stub to Serenity (circa 10/2005)
3. Ticket stub to Star Wars: Episode III (circa 5/2005)
4. Ticket stub to Matrix Revolutions (circa 11/2003)
5. Ticket stub to RENT (circa 12/2005)
6. A fortune cookie fortune which reads "Everybody feels lucky for having you as a friend."
7. My Anderson Public Library card.
8. My high school student ID.
9. My Rotary/Interact Club membership card.
10. A card reminding me to be a "Servant Leader" from the Anderson Area Youth Leadership Academy.
11. The kanji for "swordsman" as given by my highschool Japanese teacher (circa 2001).
12. Blockbuster membership card (issued 1/5/2002) for the Scatterfield Road Blockbuster.
13. My operation catapult RHIT ID card.
14. Two AAA cards.
15. Two SPS cards.
16. Pocket periodic table.

I believe the continued need for these items is limited.

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2007 Dec 20 rinoa


Guy Blade Guy Blade---09:23:00


Knowledge
Things that I didn't know until today:

1. The English voice actor for Spike from Cowboy Bebop is the same person who voiced Tom on Toonami.

2. Fighting the the frizzies, at 11.

3. A Razr will survive going through a washing machine without significant impact on functionality.

4. Watch out for Scott; He's a dick.

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2007 Dec 13 terra


Guy Blade Guy Blade---08:21:00


Halved
So, I'd been having some problems with the computer that I built earlier this summer--random crashes and the like. I did a ram test, and it turned out that one of the chips had developed a couple of unstuck bits. I pulled the chip and called Kingston. They were happy to RMA given just my word that it failed memtest86+, but since the module was purchased as a pair for dual channel, I had to send in both the bad chip and its corresponding twin.

Well, today I finally pulled the bad twin. I had been playing the PC version of Gears of War before I pulled the second chip. I have attempted to resume playing the game on only the two gibibytes of ram remaining. Unfortunately, this is completely impossible as Vista uses nearly a gig of ram and GoW wants more than a gig in order to do whatever it is that it does (presumably hold all those high quality textures and the AI for the various badnicks). The game runs, but not in a way worth trying to play it. I blame Vista. I shouldn't need 4 gigs of ram to play a game that runs with only 512 MiB on the Xbox 360. I guess that I'll go play some console until my ram gets back.

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2007 Dec 11 terra


Guy Blade Guy Blade---05:31:00


Spice
So, this weekend was the last week of CAS before the Xmas break. The last thing they showed was Paprika. Paprika is by the same director who did Perfect Blue and Paranoia Agent which can provide some reference points to those who are aware of such things. I personally found the movie to be one of the best anime features that I've seen. It is very surreal and lots of fun. I especially enjoyed the score--after all, it has vocoders. I intend to purchase both the movie and (when it becomes available) the soundtrack. You should too.

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