Sadly, Life Got In The Way......

With the invention of portable laptop PC's, tablets, high-powered internet-enabled cell phones, Twitter and Facebook, not to mention Google and the Blogger format on which I type, you would think that I would be more connected to the internet.

Sadly, this is where you're wrong.

It's Friday, So I Like To Fuck Off

With it being Friday and all, I like to fuck off in various ways throughout my day.  Not only at work, but with everything I do.  Seriously though people, we should band together, rise up and make Friday a real "fuck off" day in the work world.  Screw all that bullshit Occupy San Diego and Occupy Oakland (which I didn't even think WAS occupied because of the Raiders) people just go through the motions on Friday, show up for 8 hours and then go home.  Why go through the trouble of wasting money, gas, and time as you sit in traffic to come to the office and go home at the end of the day.  I say have everyone work from home on Friday.  Yeah that's right.  Everyone.  Respond to e-mails, set things up and prepare for the coming week, and be done for the day.  That's all you need to do on Friday.  I don't care if you're a CPA that still deals with paperwork or a guy out in the heat digging ditches.  There is something you can do on Friday to prepare for the next week.  And if you don't?  You need to quit your job because you and your job are worthless.

This Dude Loves His Time Crisis

Listen, I love games.  I do.  There are certain gaming franchises out there that I will kill a newborn baby in order to get it months before everyone else does.  But somehow, watching this dude get into this arcade version of Time Crisis makes me want to laugh at him.  I guess it's because he's doing it in public, with his camouflage pants, tactical gloves, and sees fit to give out hand signals and reload his fake plastic gun.  I sure as shit don't dress up in my N7 armor to play Mass Effect 3.  Now where is that baby I just had......

Review: Pearl Jam Twenty

In the wake of such a whirlwind of emotions - with me getting married and having a guys weekend right after - I figured now would be a good as time as any to write a review for the Cameron Crowe documentary PJ20.

Here in Dallas where I live, we occasionally get the opportunity to see cult indie films that aren't shown across the U.S.  We have our own little Dallas Art and Film Festival once a year, with a few B and C actors showing up in Big D to mark the occasion.  I won't go as far to say that Dallas is above the Austin, Texas area as far as "cult" status, but I'd say we're a close second.

ROMs Are An Eye Opening Experience

For the better part of my long fascination with video games and entertainment, very few monumental changes have occurred in that time-frame.

The first time I booted up Super Mario Bros. (actually, I wanted to shoot ducks first with my plastic light-gun) and the first time I saw the shitty Super Mario Bros. movie with John Leguizamo (sp?), all of these instances changed my gaming lifestyle forever.

Each gamer has had his or her own set path of these game-changing events.  For me, it was the first time I was engrossed in a game of Left 4 Dead that I started to fear and care for my buddies playing the survivor characters, it was the first frantic chainsaw duel in the Gears series, and it was my first paradigm shift in Final Fantasy XIII (also the first time I played a Final Fantasy game).  You could also throw in the purchase of my brand new, bigger, 1080p high definition TV (after living with a 32 inch TV from 9 years ago), but that only really counts as seeing the games in a new and better way.

After all of these great moments in my gaming life, and I think I'm on the verge of another one of those game changing events.