Archive for June, 2006

Yakitate!!

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

I just want to say, now that it’s over.
Yakitate!! Japan, while it degraded to being extremely formulaic and pretty predictable (especially in the “Yakitate 9″ part of the show), it was still pretty dang good.
Sort of a shame that it’s over, but at the same time I think the formula was starting to get old.
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Guitar Status: mini-hero

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Whoo … Guitar Hero definitely has its hooks sunk deep into me…
So I keep doing these short sessions … maybe 5-10 songs, an hour or two, sometimes less than that.
As of the last one, I’m alternating between hard and expert mode. In hard mode, I’ve 5-starred all of the first tier, 4-starred all of [...]

A new toy (or, “trouble in cell-phone land”)

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

OK, so as anyone who has tried to talk to me on the phone in the last 6 months knows, my old cell phone has a serious problem: it randomly drops calls. Other cell phones in the apartment don’t exhibit this problem, and my phone does, even with line-of-sight to the tower (ie: in [...]