The past few years, I’ve been watching three shows: Heroes, House and Smallville.
Heroes and House are great, but Smallville has rapidly become a shitfest in recent years. I keep telling myself that I’ll quit watching, but I think this will be the year. Lana is gone, Lex is gone (or will be after a few initial episodes), Clark and Lois (who is awful, btw) are supposed to start having romantic interests in each other.
So a month or so ago, my dad got remarried. As a gift for my duties as best man, I received a digital picture frame. In the past I’d seen them, but they never really held my interest. After receiving one, my opinion on these has changed.
I received a Sony S-Frame. The best part about this is that it works with very little set up. Really, you can work this without any setup. Plug it in, turn it on, connect it to your computer with a USB cable, and it’ll pop up on your computer like any other USB device. Drag your photos over, disconnect the cable and you’re set. Of course, you can then choose to customize whether it should show a clock, calendar, neither, what type of transitions to do between photos, etc.
The quality is high, with a crisp displace and a good contrast ratio.
Of course, you don’t have to use it for photos.
So after a year of being offline, I think due to issues with our host and deprecated versions of PHP and MySQL, the gallery is back. Click that little tab at the top of the page and you can once again view the images.
A little known fact: Most of the traffic to RMo, up until the gallery went offline, was from users in Japan linking to images of Koda Kumi, a Japanese pop star, that I took and posted up in the gallery.
In the 8 months or so since my last post I’ve quit my game reviews, have focused more on my Japanese language classes, and been playing games for enjoyment, not just for work. I’ve been in two weddings, have booked a trip to Japan the first week of December 2008, and that’s about it.
I remember back in 2000 or 2001, some friends and I were heading down to South Padre Island here in Texas. We stopped at a gas station to fill up and buy some snacks; I went to use the restroom.
So, I go into the bathroom, take a leak, then I wash my hands. Next to the sink, mounted about eye level is some weird thing I’d never seen before. I lean closer to it and look at the hole, only to be blasted with air freshener in my eye. Sonuvabitch, that hurt.
After more than a month of internal turmoil, I decided to quit my videogame review stint. More than 50 reviews and a year later, I’ve decided that I no longer enjoy coming home from the day job that pays the bills and realize I must keep working/playing a game.
And there are many games I’d love to go back and revisit and play more of. Now I have the chance.
I may continue to write the occasional review, but I no longer have the weight upon to me perform, even when I want to do anything else but play a game.
With most of the season’s games now on shelves, gamers shouldn’t be in any position to complain about a lack of games to play. Of course, when spring rolls around that could be a valid complaint, as publishers love to leave that time of the year high and dry.
I’ve recently received Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Wii) and Draglade (DS). TC:SO has been great fun and expands a little on the gameplay of the original and provides a great challenge. Draglade I haven’t really touched. I also received Mass Effect (X360), however, my Xbox 360 died and I haven’t even opened the game. =(