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Static electricity and other fun topics
11/05/2006
So I finally decide to post something and Blogger is down for maintenance, what's up with that. So I'm writing this post in CoffeeCup HTML Editor, which is pretty handy by the way, although I mostly use it for syntax highlighting.
Every time I get out of my car I get shocked as soon as I go to touch the door. Sometimes, I'll avoid touching the door when I get out to open my garage at the apartment and then when I go to put the key in the garage it gets me there. I can't avoid it! I don't know if it's my car that does it or something that I wear. Either way it's been doing it for a long time. One of my jackets does it too when I take it off or put it on, but that's to be expected for a jacket. At work when I take it off I cautiously put my hand near my metal drawers and wait to see the huge spark it causes. It's actually kind of fun except for the fact it stings.
Windows Media Player 11 was just released recently and I am very impressed with it. I've never been a fan of Windows Media Player but this latest version is pretty nice. It now has this pretty slick black look to it and everything in your "library" is represented by its album art. So when you search through your music you see all of the album art. It's very cool. There is also a feature which allows you to stream music, photos, and video to your XBox 360. This existed before but you couldn't stream video unless you had Windows Media Center Edition. Well now it looks like you can stream videos without having it, but from what I've experienced so far it only work on very select codecs. So no DivX, AVI, and I tried MPEG-2 which doesn't even work. XBox is supposed to support MPEG-2 so I bet it's WMP11 that is blocking it.
I bought F.E.A.R. for the XBox 360 last week, I believe I mentioned it in a previous post probably a month or so ago. It's a first person shooter like Halo but there is also a paranormal twist to the game. There are people who just appear out of nowhere who will disappear into thin air after staring at you or they will tell you some part of the cryptic story and then leave you. The main person seems to be this little girl in a red dress. She's very creepy, see for yourself:
Um.. yeah, creepy. The game is meant to be scary and it's pretty good at doing it. Occasionally you'll just be walking down a path and you'll hear a sudden creepy sound and see something disgusting on the screen. It catches you off guard, it's fun.
Gears of War comes out next week which is supposed to be XBox's killer holiday game. It looks pretty sweet so hopefully it is. I played the Rainbow Six: Vegas demo too and that game is looking awesome as well. There are too many good games coming out.
Speaking of good games, Burger King is releasing three of their own XBox/XBox 360 games this November. Pretty crazy huh? They are $3.99 with a value meal purchase I believe. I'm sure they are pretty horrible games but they will be worth $4 a piece just to laugh at them. The XBox 360 has these "achievement" points you can earn by doing certain things in games and then people can view them online. Well these Burger King games will have them too, so it will be hilarious to lookup your friend online and see he got 20 points for doing something in "Sneak King". Check out a screen shot of the game, it's so funny!
In one of the games, Sneak King, you have to sneak up on hungry citizens who are starving for Burger King and surprise them with a sandwich. You are judged on your technique and surprise factor I believe. How ridiculously funny does that sound?
Every time I get out of my car I get shocked as soon as I go to touch the door. Sometimes, I'll avoid touching the door when I get out to open my garage at the apartment and then when I go to put the key in the garage it gets me there. I can't avoid it! I don't know if it's my car that does it or something that I wear. Either way it's been doing it for a long time. One of my jackets does it too when I take it off or put it on, but that's to be expected for a jacket. At work when I take it off I cautiously put my hand near my metal drawers and wait to see the huge spark it causes. It's actually kind of fun except for the fact it stings.
Windows Media Player 11 was just released recently and I am very impressed with it. I've never been a fan of Windows Media Player but this latest version is pretty nice. It now has this pretty slick black look to it and everything in your "library" is represented by its album art. So when you search through your music you see all of the album art. It's very cool. There is also a feature which allows you to stream music, photos, and video to your XBox 360. This existed before but you couldn't stream video unless you had Windows Media Center Edition. Well now it looks like you can stream videos without having it, but from what I've experienced so far it only work on very select codecs. So no DivX, AVI, and I tried MPEG-2 which doesn't even work. XBox is supposed to support MPEG-2 so I bet it's WMP11 that is blocking it.
I bought F.E.A.R. for the XBox 360 last week, I believe I mentioned it in a previous post probably a month or so ago. It's a first person shooter like Halo but there is also a paranormal twist to the game. There are people who just appear out of nowhere who will disappear into thin air after staring at you or they will tell you some part of the cryptic story and then leave you. The main person seems to be this little girl in a red dress. She's very creepy, see for yourself:
Um.. yeah, creepy. The game is meant to be scary and it's pretty good at doing it. Occasionally you'll just be walking down a path and you'll hear a sudden creepy sound and see something disgusting on the screen. It catches you off guard, it's fun.
Gears of War comes out next week which is supposed to be XBox's killer holiday game. It looks pretty sweet so hopefully it is. I played the Rainbow Six: Vegas demo too and that game is looking awesome as well. There are too many good games coming out.
Speaking of good games, Burger King is releasing three of their own XBox/XBox 360 games this November. Pretty crazy huh? They are $3.99 with a value meal purchase I believe. I'm sure they are pretty horrible games but they will be worth $4 a piece just to laugh at them. The XBox 360 has these "achievement" points you can earn by doing certain things in games and then people can view them online. Well these Burger King games will have them too, so it will be hilarious to lookup your friend online and see he got 20 points for doing something in "Sneak King". Check out a screen shot of the game, it's so funny!
In one of the games, Sneak King, you have to sneak up on hungry citizens who are starving for Burger King and surprise them with a sandwich. You are judged on your technique and surprise factor I believe. How ridiculously funny does that sound?
Labels: gears of war, music, xbox 360
1 Comments:
I was finally able to pick up two of those Burger King games. I got Sneak King and Pocketbike Racer. I played both, very briefly, to see how they were, but right now I'm only playing them on the original Xbox. It'll be nice if we can race online, with you on your 360.
