Left 4 Dead is crazy havoc fun!

Wow, the demo of this PC game was recently released, and it’s quite a ride. Hordes of zombies run and attack you, while 4 players try to kill them off. The co-op feels right, and there’s a sense of team during gameplay. Love it, although the controls don’t seem to be as responsive as Half-Life 2. Still, if your system can handle it, download the demo from Steam and shoot away.

Comedians might have something on Obama

His style! Look at Obama riding a bike one day. Tacky helmet, washed-out high-rise jeans, and multi-colored running shoes, and a pair of non-aerodynamic shades. There’s really nothing else for comedians to go on. The man’s perfect.

Palin is the scapegoat!

Well now that McCain has lost, the GOP is needs a scapegoat for their failures, and Palin is the perfect target! This is just what I figured the GOP would do. Pick a “clean slate” from the Republican pool and mold a woman that would appeal to America’s dumbest, most ignorant crowd. And when it didn’t work out for them, they throw this woman under the bus and bury her. It’s the GOP’s fault for picking her, and her fault for accepting knowing full well on the inside that she isn’t qualified for the role of VP. Not knowing that Africa is a continent? Not knowing the three main countries that make up North America? Not knowing what NAFTA is? Sure, there’s plenty of dumbasses in America, but at least they’re not trying to run for national office. I hope this woman never returns back to the lower 48. And I hope that her image is smeared beyond repair that she never tries to run in 2012 or 2016. “Country First” my ass McCain. If this country means so much to you, you would’ve never picked someone as ignorant as this bitch. Obama, YES WE DID!

Finding a business partner like finding love.

I’ve been working on a project for several months now, and I’m up to the point where I need to find a business partner to help me complete the project because I don’t have the particular skills to carry it any further, nor would it be worth my time to learn those skills. The trouble is, finding a great business partner is very, very difficult. I mean that person needs to believe in my idea just as much as I do, needs to have the complementary skills that I’m looking for, and have the ambition and commitment to venture into something that might ultimately fail. But large investments (whether it’s time or money) without any gain is the risk that I, like many entrepreneurs, are willing to risk. It’s just hard to find someone else that shares the same sentiment and believes in the idea.

HOOOOOOOO Train!

Whoa whoa we waah!! The sex market is apparently filled with attractive hookers that don’t really look all that different from the set of women that you would find on a college campus. I think when Ashley Dupre was debuted to everyone, people figured that she was really attractive. I heard she’s even getting a book deal or something worth over 1 million. Unbelievable! Well now I just heard on the news that there’s this other scandal involving a US Senator’s husband, who solicited prostitution with the girl on the right. Hey, isn’t she MORE attractive than Ashley? I mean wow, she’s like your girl next door. And the best part is that she charged only $150 for the sex, which is pretty much the deal of the century considering what Ashley charged. There’s no point to this post. I just always thought hookers were in general more “beat-up” looking and totally obvious. Not the girl sitting next to you in class.

11 more days until election

Finally, it here! It’s been 18 months of me following at first, the Democratic race between Obama and Clinton, and now the hatefest between Obama and McCain. In my 23 years of life, I’ve never followed any political activity as much as this one. Voter numbers are expected to be at an all-time high (as a percentage of the people eligible to vote). I already turned my absentee ballot in so I don’t have to deal with the long lines I experienced in 2004. Obama looks like he’s going to win by a significant margin, but you never know. But whoever wins, there’s going to be TONS of backlash from the other side, and I hope the Secret Service (especially in Obama’s case) is on full alert in the coming weeks. There’s a bunch of crazies out there.

World of Goo = crack addiction

Wow, what a great little indie game. To sum up, in each level you have to connect Goo dots together in order to reach a pipe, where all the Goos will be collected. It’s a puzzle and physics game, and it’s really well executed and tons of fun. And there’s also no commitment either since the game is broken into individual levels, so you can just play one round for 5 minutes and then go about the rest of your day. So far the game has received high marks by the critics and fans alike, and there’s also a demo to try out. Shit, it can be addicting!

Consumer ignorance almost cost me $60.

I’m one to usually do my research when buying electronics, but I figured a simple router would only warrant five or so minutes. And so that’s what I did. Five minutes of research, and then I went out to RadioShack to buy one. I told the employee what the router had to do wirelessly, and he recommended the Linksys Wireless-N router ($100). It barely had the range to reach my laptop. Then I tried the $40 router that Netgear made. It also reached my laptop just barely, and had the same speed as the Linksys. They both performed exactly the same.

Oh, how true Common.

I was listening to his track, “Be.” There’s a line in that song that goes, “Bush pushin’ lies, killers immortalized.” And thinking back to the Virginia Tech shooting (as well as other significant mass-murder crimes), the killers are forever infamous and are permanently written in the history books. Isn’t that (in part), what they set out to achieve? To let it be known to others that they did something? Look at Seung-Hui Cho’s wikipedia profile. It’s more detailed and extensive than the majority of other famous figures. Remember the Cho’s package sent to NBC with videos, photos, writings, etc.? Well now they are all over the Internet. I’d say he got exactly what he wanted out of this. Immortalized for sure.

LOLWTF, Pirates go drinking in a bar.

I live in Seattle, and this is what I saw outside my window one afternoon. It’s basically a pirate-themed truck carrying posers dressed like pirates, and having a drink at the Back Door Pub. I actually had a strange urge to take out my BB-gun and pretend it’s a naval battle! The only part I hate is that they sound this really loud and annoying horn when they arrive and leave. It’s like when a car’s alarm goes off for minutes and the owner isn’t there to turn it off.

There is YELLOW watermelon?!

WTF? I was at an Asian grocery store buying some food and I came across a sign labeled “yellow watermelon.” So I said, well shit it’s damn hot in my apartment so I might as well try it. And low and behold, it was yellow, and seedless! Is this some genetically engineered shit? It tastes virtually the same. I don’t know why, but this is somehow strangely cool. And coincidentally it’s a little cliche, cuz I’m Asian and the watermelon is yellow. Get it? Har har…STFU.

Laptop TV tuner: Nifty little product

I live in a small apartment and having a TV could mean taking up precious space. A good alternative is to buy one of these Pinnacle HD Pro Stick adapters, where you can hook up a cable jack into the adapter, and channel it through USB. What’s also great is that it has Tivo capabilities as well, utilizing your hard drive as storage space. If you don’t have cable, it also includes an antenna where you can receive digital over-the-air channels. Great product.

Society loves to focus on the bad.

It’s unbelievable how sensitive people are. A person can spend years and years building up a good reputation in the work that he does, but it takes only a single unfortunate incident to cancer all of that out. It’s like all the great things a person does in his life has only a 5% total weight compared to all the bad things (95% weight). So many people have a tendency to “average out” a person, and reason in their heads that some of the good will make up for the bad, or that some of the bad will make up for the good, and then try to draw an all-conclusive statement about a person. Here’s the only fucking solution: Take the good and bad separately for what they are and realize the absurdity of the 5%-95% way of thinking.

I hate the view in my apartment.

First off, excuse my photography skills. I have a Canon SD600 and have no clue how to properly take a night picture. But anyways, below my window is basically this back door pub with drunken bastards yelling and shit every once in a while. It’s fucking ridiculous. I feel like taking a sniper rifle and shooting them. And then sometimes there’s a guy on a Harley bike and he thinks he’s badass revving his bike around at 2:00 in the morning. What the fuck! But I still like my little apartment. I own it and it’s completely paid off.

In other news, I’m watching late night NBC, and Selma Blair (on Leno) and Emily Mortimer (on Conan) are pretty fucking hot. Hellboy II has gotten great early reviews so far, and Emily was great in Chaos Theory.

Kayaking is FUN

So during my internship at Discovery Bay Games, I had a chance to go kayaking for the first time. It was pretty damn cool. Good exercise, and beautiful scenery. There were also these birds that would hover over the water and then dive-bomb into the water to catch a fish. Now I want to go to the Grand Canyon and try this shit out for real, and get completely blasted by water. I’m originally from Phoenix (lived there until the end of my high school years), so it’d be a return to the old days.