300

forget about the time lag if you’re reading this and you’re in singapore.

i must say 300 was a pretty cool movie. very little boring parts and lots of action. then again, it’s kind of over dramatic, exaggerated and sensationalized. dude, i doubt persians are silly enough to send untamed giants/rhinos/elephants (the size of some jurassic dinosaur) into the battlefield only to cause some rather unnecessary friendly fire before doing nothing to harm the spartans. the part where the big fat blob executes generals with a blade built into his arm was just uncalled for. other than the historical inaccuracies, it’s bloody and visually satisfying.

oh, we noticed that the blood streaming out of wounds were so obviously superimposed. the blood is like huge pixels of 2-D vermillion circles which spew out from wherever a spear gets inserted. the best part is, the blood never reaches the ground. notice how clean the sand always is? it’s works just like headshots in counterstrike.

later,

jeff

battlefield trivia

battlefield 2142 is amazingly fun. not because of the fancy vehicles (which are not very user friendy) or the kickass support gunner role. it’s because i’ve discovered a cooler way of playing, though it often leaves you with no frags and several deaths by the end of each round.

1. get into a type 4 doragon (PAC) or a ud-6 talon (EU)

2. fly around, shoot down all enemy aircraft as quickly as possible.

3. fly upwards. make sure your table has enough room for the mouse to move over because it gets rather turbulent when you exceed the altitude of 3500.

4. jump out of the aircraft. yes, get out.

5. as you and the aircraft free fall back to earth, orientate yourself to the aircraft.

6. when you’ve ’skydived’ close enough to the aircraft, get back in it midair.

7. jump out again.

8. repeat until you’ve set a new record for exiting and entering the aircraft in the air.

9. if you’ve had enough, get back down to earth (literally) and kill some folks.

10. in order to sneak into enemy territory, fly up again to about 2000ft.

11. jump out again.

12. skydive towards the intended destination.

13. when you’re between 5-10cm above the ground, open the parachute.

hah. this allows you to capture flags by getting onto roofs/weird places which you have no access to otherwise. however, things don’t always go as planned. worth a try anyway. once is enough to get you so addicted that you won’t want to play it properly again.

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argh, i can’t find a new theme for the blog. i’m a little sick of it. wordpress should let you modify the C++ source.

later,

jeff

down with the pickups

out with the old and in with the new! my agonizing long wait has finally been ended with the arrival of the pickups!

these are gonna replace these…

at last it is possible for me to have 3 single coil sized humbuckers in my strat. the old fender/dimarzio pickups have been quite a pain. they produce lots of fuzz and they don’t sound as good on me simply because i can’t play the guitar as fast as yngwie malmsteen. for a moment when i first got the guitar i thought it could somehow boost any player’s shredding to the speed of light.

anyway, now my guitar can unleash a whopping 1800mV of output with the seymour duncans versus the 580mV with the original pickups! that’s enough power to send a shuttle to the moon and back. nah, just kidding.

can’t wait to get them on.

later,

jeff

potassium?

i watched half of my pirated borat dvd recently. while his jokes on juice – oops, jews i mean – are quite hilarious, i felt inclined to investigate the truth behind the kazakh anthem which, according to borat, mentioned that kazakhs produced the best potassium. turns out that it’s just another piece of junk info. i was actually hoping that borat said something factual for once.

“Kazakhstan has an abundant supply of accessible mineral and fossil fuel resources. Development of petroleum, natural gas, and mineral extraction has attracted most of the over $40 billion in foreign investment in Kazakhstan since 1993 and accounts for some 57% of the nation’s industrial output. According to some estimates, Kazakhstan has the second largest uranium, chromium, lead, and zinc reserves, the third largest manganese reserves, the fifth largest copper reserves, and ranks in the top ten for coal, iron, and gold. It is also an exporter of diamonds.”

ugh. no mention of potassium. i was hoping i could get several bricks of “number one” kazakh potassium to heat up the swimming pools a little. darn.

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hmm. CNY in hong kong isn’t as fun as i had expected it to be. people actually wear black! i thought that’s something only ignorant decadent youths of singapore would do.

no shopping, no eating, no fun. gosh, we ended up having KFC. how dull.

later,

jeff