Saturday, September 25, 2010

Eclipse Howl... Day 1

Today's the first day I try the Gotu Kola pills and I'm looking forward to it. I'm not sure if I'll update this daily or not. Health benefits are here:
http://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-gotu-kola.html

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Mantle Bazooka

I just love using attack names from the Pokemon TCG for random stuff.

Anywho looks like I have a pattern of one blog entry a month. A lot of them seems to be lists. Since I'm too lazy to come up with paragraphs for my blog entries, I seem to just create lists.

Speaking of lists, here's a list of stuff I've been eating/drinking over the summer, question the nutritional value at your own peril.
High Protein Organic Berry Bread
Calcium Bread
Eggs(Scrambled)
French fries
Flax seed toast
7 grains toast
brocoli
avocados
apples
milk
orange juice
capri sun
apple juice
brown rice
white rice
mashed potatoes
hash browns
chicken
turkey
pancakes
yogurt
bananas
brownies
cupcakes
strawberries
protein shake
and possibly more

Monday, August 30, 2010

God Is In The Details: The Ex-Files

Well the summer is slowly coming to a close and I've barely prepared myself for school. I'm hoping the five books I've read will prepare me for my english classes this coming quarter.

In other news, tv shows have been great this summer. I've been watching Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Psych, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Leverage, White Collar, and the newcomer Covert Affairs. While I would have wished Christopher Gorham's character, Auggie, was the main character, Piper Perabo is growing on me. I'd like to think Covert Affairs as Jake 2.0 2 and as a spiritual successor to my former show. I'm truly grateful that Covert Affairs is at least finishing off its season, something Jake 2.0 was denied in its original run. Best of luck to Covert Affairs in getting a season 2 and possibly joining the ranks of Burn Notice, Psych, Royal Pains, and NCIS. I'd love to see Covert Affairs go all the way to 8 seasons like Monk did.

As for songs I've aquired from shows this summer, the list would be troublesome to compile so here's one of them I've been listing to lately:

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

You Fail Grand Scale Plans Forever, John Brightling

Alright I have finished Rainbow 6 and I got to say... one of the best books I've ever read. From the specific details to environment and... the shiny guns hehe, to completely awesome plot, Rainbow 6 delivers greatly. Clancy does a great job at the characterization of rainbow 6 and the detailing of a persons "limits" in terms of moral lines. While it was unfortunate to not be able to truly understand all of Rainbow 6's members, the ones that were shown were entertaining to read about. I'm not sure who my favorite Rainbow 6 man was, probably a tie between Vega(sounded like Heavy from Team Fortress 2) and Tim Nooman(badass nerd with the tech to save his men and took down 3 terrorists armed with machine guns with his pistol). I didn't really like Ding, he got on my nerves.

I'd say there was several themes in Rainbow 6. One was unity of family among both groups of Rainbow 6. Us men... we can't really show affection or caring these days, right? Neither can Rainbow 6 and yet one can clearly see the bond between men who have no blood relation to each other. Fighting together, training together, coming back "home together" is how the badasses of Rainbow 6 roll. One thing that was shown repeatedly was the guys going out to drink in the local pub after a successful mission. It's funny, a few weeks ago on One Piece, Ace said, ""When men share cups of alcohol, they become brothers!" and I'd say Rainbow 6 makes that quote awesome. At one point, Clark's wife/daughter were in danger and were saved. Despite owing the Rainbow man who saved both of them much more than a free beer, that's all he could do for the guy and one can just feel the warmth from that.

Another theme was intelligence is power for the greater good. Rainbow 6 always did what it could to figure out what was going on before sending its men to "take down the bad guys". In a way, you could say they "played unfair" such as cell phone jamming and using radar to detect enemy heartbeats. Life's unfair but in combat, you have to "cheat" inorder to keep people alive. Ideally you make the enemy feel so scaried that they just give up by denying themselves information and getting all the information you need. The very last battle of the book shows how much technology and intelligence can really make a difference vs people who know the surroundings. This time around laser beats rock. Sometimes giving a chance of mercy makes all the difference in who deserves to "win" a battle.

The last theme I want to mention is... having faith. For both the good guys and bad guys. Even if it's illogical, faith compels people to do things with a less than a 0% chance of working. In terms of Rainbow 6, the danger was always there in their missions with all of the safeguards put in place. Despite that, it didn't boil down to having faith in circumstances... it boiled down to having faith in their "brothers" and dad(John Clark). They trusted Nooman to keep them all safe with his tech and for the most part it worked. Nooman even risked his life in the WorldPark fiasco to "spike" the place the bad guys were in, putting down the risks to a minimum. For the bad guys, John Brightline and his merry band of idiots revolved around gambits that would ultimately "succeed" regardless of the outcomes but they failed to realize the man they hired wasn't like them at all. Dmitry, their "terrorist" man, dealt in absolutes that were logical. Sending in terrorists to fail for a goal that was insane troll logic was of course going to tick off a man like Dmitry. The final nail in the coffin was the proclamation of... vegens for the "survivors". Dmitry may not be a hunter but godamnit a "man needs meat". Sometimes faith is just misplaced and other times, it's just used in completely wrong ways. No offense to all of the vegetarians or animals out there reading this.

Another great aspect of Rainbow 6 was utilising something known as Chekhov's Gun. If the reader pays attention, things or people mentioned in early chapters are seen again later on. For instance, that one guy with a goldmine comes back 15 chapters later on, is killed, and his goldmine is used by Dmitry. Nooman's cellphone jammer and heartbeat radar are used in the hospital mission and brazil takedown, respectively. Yes it's cliche but nonetheless effective. In fact we may not notice it but a large amont of our lives have chekhov's guns. Anything and anyone that is important in our lives comes back regardless if we like it or not.

The "villainy" displayed in this book was spot on. Obviously the bad guys would make mistakes but they were human mistakes and not so much plot induced stupidity. Brightline knew about business but he didn't know proper planning procedures. He was completely out of his element which made Rainbow 6's eventually victory over him that much believeable. I personally enjoyed the ending of "taking a third option" by John Clark. "We humans learned how to do that about half a million years ago. You want to be in harmony with nature. Go harmonize." indeed. I'm not sure if a black ops team could do this in real life but hell, it's a break from reality I'll accept!

I'd like to say more about Rainbow 6 but it seems I have other things to do. Truly a great book to read, I'd give it a 4.9/5. It had it's boring moments but nonetheless the book was great. Reap the whirlwind!

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Depth Deception

Felt like adding another blog post. Can you guess where these Crowning Moments of Heartwarming quotes are from?


"That kid's done a lot for this city. It's time for this city to do something for him."


"Terry, I've been thinking about something you once told me. And you were wrong. It's not Batman that makes you worthwhile; it's the other way around. Never tell yourself anything different."


"NAMI! WE ARE NAKAMA!"


"Marco... I won't forgive ya if you let that boy die!"


"The wind.... is blowing..."


"We were all wrong about the professor. After the way we all treated him, he saved us all in the end."


"Remember, Gonzales, No matter how hard life rocks you, rawk back!"


"This belongs to you, sir."


"I missed you buddy"


"Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up."


"What were you trying to prove? That deep down everyone is as ugly as you? You are alone."


"There's no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid."


"Solomon Grundy's grave is empty" "Tell me where to find those responsible — then dig more graves."


"My friends...you bow to no one"


"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."


"No, Simon. You take care of me. You've always taken care of me. My turn."


"I told you I would"


"Seen much have we, Artoo. Been part of much. Your part will continue. His part is just beginning. But my part, soon, will come to an end."


"You know me. When I make a promise..." "...you... keep it."


"There are certain things I can do that you can't. Just like there are certain things YOU can do that I can't!"


"Old man ... All you guys ... Luffy ... Even though I've been good for nothing my whole life ... even though I carry the blood of a demon within me ... You guys still loved me. Thank you so much."


"King killed my wife, and on top of that, he left me alone and unable to see my kids. For ten years I hated him for it. I wanted nothing more than to kill him with my own two hands...but you know...you may not believe this...but I still think of him as my best friend. It's not how much time you spend together, laughing, enjoying life that matters. Once you're best friends, no matter how much you grow to hate each other, detest each other...deep down inside, you'll always be best friends. I just can't bring myself to kill him. If doing this makes him happy...I'll let him do it as long as he feels like it, this one last time."


"I don't want to survive! I want to LIVE!"




"We are all family. We will try to understand one another. Even when we disagree."


“I don't care what anyone says, Zuko. You're pretty smart.”


“You can do it. I know you can. You're a talented kid.”



Monday, March 8, 2010

One Piece... is out there

Before I start off this blog, let's have a moment of silence for the death of Edward Newgate, aka Whitebeard. First Ace and now you, Pops? Say it ain't so ;-;. Your death is the equivalent of Jiraiya's death... which most of us are still in denial about. At least you went down fighting like a badass. We're all glad your last words were an awesome middle finger to the world government. Your sons cried as you died standing on your two feet and you know what? It wasn't weird at all... it was quite touching. Looks like you finally got your wish... it wasn't treasure but having a large, loving family. I don't know when the anime will get to it but I'll look forward to watching it.

Well today is apparently National Woman's Day. Did anyone forget about it? I certainly did x.x. All the flowers... made sense. What did you do today to celebrate it?

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Ancient Egyptian Laser Beams

Yes they do exist.



So it has been confirmed the 5th generation of pokemon will be coming out. The next movie will show one of the next pokemon. Here are some thoughts on what I hope the next generation will have...



More fire type pokemon, as other have complained about, the amount of new fire types was... disappointing. We're going to need more fire types besides just the starter evolutionary line. I find a lot of good pokemon to train are weak to ice types and I need a reliable counter to them.



Less nonconpetitive pokemon. Imo they're just a waste of space and data in the games. Even though I'm a casual player, it's disheartening to see a new pokemon added when I can't really use it. Idc how cute pachirisu, waste of time to train that thing. I don't mind several basic pokemon because we can't get the strong ones right off the bat but single stage pokemon are just a waste of time. Maybe throw in one random thing(I'm looking at you Spinda...) but please don't overload it.



More access to tms! I've always stored them in my pack, never to be used. With emerald I've been duplicating them but I'm restricted to the first 50 tms and even then I don't have all of them. HeartGold/SoulSilver apparently has some lottery thing for the exotic tms. Hopefully this is continued. I'm doubting more tms will be added but make it easier with the ones we have.



Need a new physical ground attack. Don't get me wrong, earthquake is... awesome but I like double battles and earthquake is just like shooting myself in the foot. Maybe an additional effect would be nice. Possibly something like 95 basepower, 95 acc, 10% chance of flinch, and
15 pp. Also no physical contact, it's troublesome. I suppose I'd be willing to drop the pp by 5 if giving it flinch is too much though I'd like to have all of these traits. Of course it won't be able to hit underground pokemon. Maybe we could call it Dust Rend.



I'd like another physical water attack. So far we pretty much have Aqua Tail, Waterfall, and Aqua Jet for physical attackers like Gyarados. I was thinking a variant of slash, same base power, accuracy, and pp. That way we have to choose from flinch, higher base power, higher crit rate, or priority attacking.



More hold items for battle. We commonly see the same choice items used over and over again. It makes mixed attackers like nidoking not viable. Some thoughts:
*Something that raises the base power of attacks that don't get STAB bonus by 10-20 with a base power of less than 100. That way pokemon can use other attacks without much penalty to them.
*Something that increase the chance of additional effects by 50%. That way a 20% flinch becomes a 30% flinch. Won't stack with serene grace. I'd believe that would diversify movesets.
*Something that raises the priority of support/defensive attacks by 1. That way some pokemon gets a chance to save itself before getting cut down.
*another leftovers item to give healing per turn without violating the item clause. Maybe silver shovel that gives hp to steel type pokemon everyturn but causes damage if the holder is not steel type.
*Another item to boost the attack power of moves. Since we have 20/30/50% boosters, maybe a 40% booster that only works on moves with a base power of 100 or higher. That way you can only use strong attacks with low pp for the power boost but does not cripple the pokemon to only do one more.

Type combinations I'd like to see put into the game and/or more single typed pokemon
steel/ghost
bug/fire
dark/water
ground/ice
electric/flying
steel/electric
steel
psychic/poison
Fire

Monocolor teams have become popular and I'd like more diversity in the green color pokemon. Perhaps make one of the new fire pokemon in the green section? It technically doesn't not have to be green just be considered green in the pokedex. That would be awesome.

That's pretty much it for my requests. I may come up with more stuff later. There was no point to this blog other than me just raising my blog count.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Samehada Shōtei

鮫肌・掌底 translates to Sharkskin Palm Block



Sorry but I just love the attack names of One Piece :p.



Here's a list of interesting pages on tvtropes.com.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGuild
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome?from=Main.CrowningMomentOfAwesome
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Badass/VideoGames
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerLevels?from=Main.OverNineThousand
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadNewsInAGoodWay
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlashStep
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrgasmicCombat
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DisneyDeath
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RomanticTwoGirlFriendship
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SummonBiggerFish
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OfCorsetsSexy
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LamarckWasRight
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InTheBlood
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElegantGothicLolita
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RaisedByOrcs
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DrinkingGame
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyGuy
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrickJoke
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BiTheWay
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/House
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidNotDoTheResearch
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroicSociopath
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AtopAMountainOfCorpses
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Firefly
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalAimingSkills
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolCar

Sunday, January 10, 2010

"Shigan "Madara"


(指銃 『斑), translates to "Finger Gun: Spots"


So I'm just doing another blog for the hell of it. Here's a list of music I've been listening to lately:


Pushed Again by Die Toten Hosen. When I can, I like to work out to listening to this.

Fake Empire by The National

Brand New World by D-51

Private Eyes by Daryl Hall and John Oates

Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver: Wild Pokemon Battle(Kanto). Fighting pidgeys will be epic.

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: Final Boss Battle Malladus Beast

Black Suits Comin'(Nod Ya Head)

Eureka Theme(wish they made it longer)

Rewind by Goldspot

Paralyzer by Finger Eleven

When I'm Gone by Randy Newman

The Touch by Stan Bush

Happiness by Goldfrapp

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Dog Tags

What dog breed are you? I'm a German Shepherd! Find out at Dogster.com

So I'm a german shepherd... and not a small dog thank god ^.^. I'm falling asleep so I'll come up with more stuff to say later on.