Did you really believe you could be rid of me that easily? My boy, you are far too predictable.

On Friday afternoon, I went to Delaware to visit my cousins who were helping my grandmother pack to leave to the Philippines, possibly for the last time. The next morning we went to Philadelphia International Airport to see her off. The rest of that day was spent sightseeing in Philadelphia, running no less than a dozen red lights navigating the labyrinthine roads of Philadelphia and missing several turns but still ending up where we needed to be at the end. It was an exceptional excursion and I hope to have another next year, hopefully with the entire family in tow. Pictures and elaborations forthcoming because I lost my card reader while there.

Back on Sunday.

I apologize that the site has been down for the last three or four days. Now go back to not reading it.

If You Love It, Change It: Gradius

I wrote this article for about a month for an essay contest and it doesn’t look like it will be featured this month.  Whatever.

I was walking to Best Buy the other day when I was suddenly reminded of how great Cave Story is.  I thought of its retro appeal and decided to compliment it with another script.

I hope whoever thought it was a good idea to give Derek Stephen Prince a starring role in Mahoromatic dies of a colon infection.

I’m not a fan of Nine Inch Nails but I love Trent Reznor. He openly admits to having used BitTorrent to download music as a means of protest against iTunes and similar programs he doesn’t like having to use to purchase digital music. Recently he also put his band’s latest album, The Slip, on his site free of charge and all restrictions. You will need a valid email address as a download link will be sent to it. The album is available in FLAC, M4A, MP3 and WAV in exceedingly high quality and also includes album artwork in PDF format.  I post this link not because I’m necessarily a fan of his music, but because it is infinitely refreshing to see high-profile artists like him put faith in the Creative Commons.

The Slip is scheduled for CD and vinyl release this July.

I did it again.

Download Chou Ren Sha 68K for Windows and X68000 at http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~yosshin/my_works/index.html

Nothing is better on a cold day than mozying in on a local GameStop, trying to purchase one of those exceedingly rare Perfect Shot shells and becoming distraught because someone forgot to pay you back last Saturday after they told you they would take all of your money from your account for whatever reason and has yet to actually use it despite having taken it two freaking weeks ago and having to find a way to scam them out of an additional $20 to cover the overdraft fee just to get your account out of the red because of it all.

I wrote another GlovePIE script because I didn’t like the mouse scripts currently available.