Great racing reference to an utterly shitty end to a weekend. I bought Gran Turismo 4 yesterday. I loaded it in my PS2 and wouldn't you know it, the PS2 is suffering from the irreparable Disc Read Error. I can't play my new game and its KILLING ME. I've waited some 4 years for the latest installment of the Gran Turismo franchise, and now, thanks to the piece-of-shit Sony calls a Playstation videogame console, I am denied my moment basking in the ultra-realism that is the Ultimate Driving Simulator.
Sony, you can kiss the hairiest part of my white ass for building the shittiest gaming console I have ever purchased. If planned obsolescence was part of your repitoire when designing the successor to the original Playstation, you did a bang-up job. May the PSP be as large of an abomination as the PS2's Disc Read Error.
PS, I plan on getting another PS2...
Monday, February 28, 2005
Friday, February 25, 2005
I KNOW WHAT I WANT FOR MY BIRTHDAY...
...and so help me Jesus/ Allah/ Buddha I will get it.
Gran Turismo 4 - The Ultimate Driving Simulator.
Gran Turismo 4 - The Ultimate Driving Simulator.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
STRANGE FINDINGS FROM THE INTERNET LX
Oh the carnage...
Everyone knows I love to cook. I saw this cutlery set and thought that would look nice in my kitchen. Anyone wanna get me these for my birthday?
What about other sorts of cutlery? Click here, just watch for the flies.
I want to do this. I want to gather all of my friends, and all of my friends friends to do this. It's so simple, yet so satisfying!
Finally, I feel for this guy, I really do. I've done this on one of my return trips from Corpus Christi. I broke the chain maybe after 30 minutes, but he withstood over 4 hours. IM wondering how he came to the choice of music, anyways. I mean, its ABBA for Christ's sake!
Everyone knows I love to cook. I saw this cutlery set and thought that would look nice in my kitchen. Anyone wanna get me these for my birthday?
What about other sorts of cutlery? Click here, just watch for the flies.
I want to do this. I want to gather all of my friends, and all of my friends friends to do this. It's so simple, yet so satisfying!
Finally, I feel for this guy, I really do. I've done this on one of my return trips from Corpus Christi. I broke the chain maybe after 30 minutes, but he withstood over 4 hours. IM wondering how he came to the choice of music, anyways. I mean, its ABBA for Christ's sake!
Dreams
Ok, for the past few days I have been having the same, strange dream over and over again. This time, the latest variation of the dream involved of all people Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson. The dream revolves around me being in New Orleans in the not-so-distant future, where the entire coastline in New Orleans is flanked by restaurants and nightclubs. I am chasing someone for some unknown reason, and I am chasing them thru the piers waterline and leaping between docks trying to catch this person I am chasing.
The location seemed pretty real. It looked just like the Riverwalk in San Antonio, mixed with some of the action scenes of Venice in the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Maybe it was because I watched that movie late one night on satellite. Anyways, after chasing this person thru the docks, I chased this person to a sheer rock face. After climbing it, there seemed to be a visitors center at the top of the cliff face, and wouldn't you know it, it was a museum dedicated to the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
The museum was showcasing the entire Tonight Show run, and had audio playing of their many jokes. I remember I was laughing in my sleep, I was told that by my mom. In my dream, both Carson, and Ed McMahon were both dead, but still, people were gravitating towards Carson's area of the museum. After going thru the entire museum, I found the guy I was chasing was outside of the building, at the edge of the cliff and was about to jump. I ran towards him right as he leapt. I found a parachute by the cliffs edge and put it on. With a leap, I followed him but had second thoughts and grabbed some vines hanging off the cliffs edge. In one of the holes in the rock face a small rodent-like creature jumped at me, causing me to fall. The rodent jumped back at the vines and scurried back up to its hole.
Of course the parachute didn't work and I landed in the water below. I wake up each time as I am getting out of the water at the pier.
Weird, I know.
The location seemed pretty real. It looked just like the Riverwalk in San Antonio, mixed with some of the action scenes of Venice in the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Maybe it was because I watched that movie late one night on satellite. Anyways, after chasing this person thru the docks, I chased this person to a sheer rock face. After climbing it, there seemed to be a visitors center at the top of the cliff face, and wouldn't you know it, it was a museum dedicated to the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
The museum was showcasing the entire Tonight Show run, and had audio playing of their many jokes. I remember I was laughing in my sleep, I was told that by my mom. In my dream, both Carson, and Ed McMahon were both dead, but still, people were gravitating towards Carson's area of the museum. After going thru the entire museum, I found the guy I was chasing was outside of the building, at the edge of the cliff and was about to jump. I ran towards him right as he leapt. I found a parachute by the cliffs edge and put it on. With a leap, I followed him but had second thoughts and grabbed some vines hanging off the cliffs edge. In one of the holes in the rock face a small rodent-like creature jumped at me, causing me to fall. The rodent jumped back at the vines and scurried back up to its hole.
Of course the parachute didn't work and I landed in the water below. I wake up each time as I am getting out of the water at the pier.
Weird, I know.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
-No Title Given-
I couldn't think of one. I tried. I sat here at the computer for about a good half hour trying to just think of a title for this entry. I know, IM usually full of wit and biting sarcasm, but not in this entry. You see, ever since my vacation to Corpus Christi and San Antonio, I have seen certain areas of human life in a different light. Peoples mortality and their strong wills put to the ultimate tests, and the frailty of the lives taking care of them.
I know I don't have expressed authorization to tell who said it, and its safe to say that I know at least 5 people in the medical field, so whomever it was who told it to me won't matter. I had always heard the stories about patients who were in the hospital, fighting against all odds, with no hope left in the world to them, and all they have going for them is their universal fear of death that keeps them alive. I was told that many nurses are often times the only contact to another human being that patient has in the world, and at deaths door, that's one lonely place to be.
I was told, that in many cases, the patients only hold onto life because they are afraid to die. I was also told by this person that the nurses set in charge often times walk into the patients room, and whether they are asleep and don't know it, or so deep in a coma that they can't respond, and tell them its ok to let go of their fears and just let them expire in peace. Often times, hours upon the words being spoken to the terminal patient, they pass on. Their fears alleviated by a soft, yet comforting voice reassuring them what possibly lies beyond will only be better.
I was told that this person had been that soft spoken and comforting voice a number of times and I was just utterly speechless. Even writing this I am just so emotional thinking about the ways we as people comfort, and give care and guidance right to the end.
It's just been eating me up inside, I've been wanting to tell this story for a few weeks now. I just wanted to share.
I know I don't have expressed authorization to tell who said it, and its safe to say that I know at least 5 people in the medical field, so whomever it was who told it to me won't matter. I had always heard the stories about patients who were in the hospital, fighting against all odds, with no hope left in the world to them, and all they have going for them is their universal fear of death that keeps them alive. I was told that many nurses are often times the only contact to another human being that patient has in the world, and at deaths door, that's one lonely place to be.
I was told, that in many cases, the patients only hold onto life because they are afraid to die. I was also told by this person that the nurses set in charge often times walk into the patients room, and whether they are asleep and don't know it, or so deep in a coma that they can't respond, and tell them its ok to let go of their fears and just let them expire in peace. Often times, hours upon the words being spoken to the terminal patient, they pass on. Their fears alleviated by a soft, yet comforting voice reassuring them what possibly lies beyond will only be better.
I was told that this person had been that soft spoken and comforting voice a number of times and I was just utterly speechless. Even writing this I am just so emotional thinking about the ways we as people comfort, and give care and guidance right to the end.
It's just been eating me up inside, I've been wanting to tell this story for a few weeks now. I just wanted to share.
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