A Magic Update

Whoa! The Magic won game 2 of the Playoffs. I'm not going to lie to you... I'm shocked.

I'm just too damn tired...

As I drove home today from yet another extended and excruciatingly long day at work and the added hour at the gym it dawned on me that I had not been home for the better part of thirteen hours. Maybe it is just me complaining but I'm just wondering if everyone else feels a little bit hollow from their daily life's routine. Perhaps I'm not complaining about the routine but more the fact that by the time I get home I'm ready to just collapse on the couch leaving me with very little drive to do much else. In this economy one does not always have the luxury to choose their schedule and their job. I think it is just a good thing to have money flowing in. So I'm not complaining about the work hours, I think. The drive makes me crazy two hours everyday in heavy Florida traffic... this is definitely something that needs to change in my life. Don't even let me go off on my workout regimen. Just so many factors that make me so tired everyday.

I guess in short what I'm truly tired of is putting up with those damned Five Dollar Foot Long commercials. How desperate have those people become? As Quiznos continues to encroach on Subway's territory they have no clue how to combat it and are swatting back like Microsoft vs. Apple just not as interesting. I mean software competition benefits me by reducing computer prices. Sub competition means I get a slightly cheaper crappy sandwich and more elaborately annoying commercials about things that do not effect life in any way shape or form. It is true that the bread, not the meat, makes the sandwich but neither commercial really focuses on the importance of bread... if it's subway, watch out for the falling Broadway musical about the five dollar twenty-four inch foot long that will pound you mercilessly with it's blunt cry for help. So stop it now guys... I hate you for what you're doing and what I know you will do.

Here is a typical Quiznos Commercial.

And here is a Subway Commercial combating the above commercial.

Makes you think don't it?

One final thing folks: Watch Chuck Mondays at 8p or on Hulu.com. This is my show and it's currently on the chopping block for a new season in replacement for more crap programming that is similar to all the other shows on TV. Chuck deserves a Season 3. So go out there and watch it if you haven't already seen it. You won't regret it.

Are you the Ram?!

Just a small piece of the devil to get you through your day!

Magical Disappointment

After passing up the Orlando Magic for the better part of 12 years I decided to take a chance on them today. Hey, what can I say they are in the play offs and I've heard some encouraging things. The first three quarters were proving all those stories of the bigger, badder, Magic. They were up 18 points at the end of the third quarter.

So, what happened. They lost by two points. My goodness I am at a loss for words. My disappointment at their performance in the last quarter just astonished me. It was a fun game don't get me wrong, but the Magic demonstrated great suck here. If the game was close them loosing would not have been that bad for me, yet it was not close. They could not maintain a lead that large, they choked. And for this I am disappointed.

I am not saying I won't be watching the rest of the play off games that the Magic play in, because for as much as I was let down it was fun to watch. That is all that really matters in the long run. So even if they do not make it past the first round I can at least say I watched it and my interest has been piqued by this Magic team. Even though they did not win by a landslide they do represent the old Magic team that I once loved to watch, because that old team choked in the end as well, but I supported them to the last. So I will support this team to the end as well.

I will say one thing that did not disappoint me are the Cheerleaders. They are much better then I remember them. So keep tapping that sexy talent pool Orlando.

Please to meet Bottle Monster

At work sometimes it's hard to make friends. In times like these I make my own friends the good old fashion way: with sticky notes and a bottle of water. Introducing Water Bottle Monster!








He also acts as the Tech Pubs receptionist... he's so helpful

Welcome us again and Spock lives!

It’s been a while yet here I am blogging again. I know you don’t care but still I bust out with new words like a wordsmith. Some things have changed while I’ve been away. Firstly, the website has changed names. No longer is this my personal blog… I’m hoping that changing this factor will actually cause some people to follow this blog. From this point forward I will be blogging under my new found company name: Low Standards Productions. With the help of my buddy Alex, who I hope will be contributing to this blog eventually; we’ve decided to develop this company to entertain us. This is our mantra: Us first you last. At this moment in time we’re working on several forms of entertainment which includes anything from horror comedy movies to simple flash games. Within the year we hope to have a full blown website that you can visit. For the moment you’ve got this… oh and you’ll like this. For your immediate gratification I’m working on getting a podcast up and running of Alex and I talking about nothing important… which is basically what we’re always going to do. Stay tuned for that.

Changing topics on you abruptly: I met Spock and Commander Riker yesterday! Two very nice people, my god I’m still excited about the whole thing. True I paid money to talk to them for thirty seconds up close but it was worth it. Both of them were very personable and a bit quieter then I was expecting. That convention was packed, toys and girls everywhere. Yet when the stars came out to play I lost control of myself and just said “fuck the toys” I want an autograph. So after only 3 hours at FX show convention we left… truly that’s all the excitement we needed. If I stayed any longer I would have spent even more money. Besides I couldn’t top my day any better… besides having people coming up to me and commenting on my Achmed the Dead Terrorist shirt.

Good times. I can’t wait for the next excuse to nerd out in public.

Thanks Tomb Raider…

I just got done with Tomb Raider: Legend this very moment. When I say “done” I don’t necessarily mean “finished.” You see it’s not that this game is bad it just falls in the same category so many other games fall into from the past: Fun for three hours followed by the feeling of doing this before three hours ago and then the game decides it wants to ramp up the frustration level because maybe that would be fun. Sure this kind of masochistic game play might be fun for some but for most it’s an excuse to stop playing and all too often reminds the player that they’re playing a game. Mechanics start to rear their ugly heads, pretty soon you see how the game limits you and you stop enjoying the game and just want to move on to the next level to get the game over with. Unfortunately in a game such as this the difficulty will often make you want to execute bloody murder on your controller and live out your youth as you scream at it “Can’t we just move on?” Today I reached this level on Tomb Raider. The story is pretty good for this series but man after the same fight with a hydra of some sort the game became a chore I no longer had any want to continue. All the fun I had days before turned into loathing. Bugs made the hydra even harder to fight and it wasn’t a factor of good Artificial Intelligence just poor programming. I felt as if I had wasted 5 hours of my life and 2 weeks of my gamefly subscription that I could have been enjoying with a different game. What is it about game designers that make them feel as if insanely unfair challenges are what gamers above the age of 10 want? With all the fun this game could have been and the story I now feel as if I’m missing out on I just wish someone would have taken another pass at levels like these and realized that the days of an unfair game are no longer accepted as fun. So thank you Tomb Raider: Legend for reminding me what a good game is and that I shouldn’t have to put up with the abuse of my gaming happiness due to bad game design. Thank you and I hope you get it right eventually….