Weekend Update

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 @ 4:04pm

I found out something this morning that was quite unusual. My allergies have been bothering me the past day or so with a lot of congestion giving me a sore throat. After a Google search for quick remedies, I found out that cayenne peppers are apparently good for sore throats, who would’ve guessed it? Needless to say, I tried adding some cayenne pepper along with honey in my tea, and sure enough 90% of the soreness went away. I would’ve had no idea that a hot pepper would have medical healing applications.

I also went out to buy Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for my DS since I need some entertainment during my short downtime in this coming week, and was surprised to see an old friend of mine working at GameStop back from my old church; so we were able to catch up for a few minutes.

But keep me in your thoughts this coming week. I’m finally having my hardware in my shoulder removed this week, and I hope I have a somewhat quick recovery. I wanted to go ahead and get it done before all of the summer activities kick in so I’ll have some recoup time.

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Mario Kart

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 @ 12:30am

I had not played Mario Kart in a while due to sparsely playing other games (Okami, TF2, Lunar 2 to mention a few)… And was reminded there’s a lot of crap that goes on in the latest iteration of the game. So I present to you, Jason’s Laws of Mario Kart!

1st place is only a punishment.

Players who are in 1st place really don’t belong there anyway. So to help prevent someone from hogging first place too long an army of blue shells will be sent to remove said player from position. A player in 1st place is really being anti-social, but a couple of blue shells will help to put them back in their place with the rest of the group. Remember, Mario Kart is really a party game, so we don’t want someone to be a loner!

Dodging a blue shells requires a doctorate’s degree in astrophysics.

Blue shell dynamics are a mystery to most, and is under intense study by top scholars. Unfortunately for the rest of us who can’t afford to attend MIT, the avoidance of an incoming blue shell remains elusive.

Chance for lightning strike when there is no ground below increases ten fold.

Yet another mystery of nature unsolved. You’re happily flying along over a ramp, and when you least expect it, a bolt comes out of the blue sending you off into the deep abyss below. Many scholars suggest that ramps increase your negative charge to attract the lightning, but many dispute this theory. For now, it remains a mystery why this phenomenon happens.

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The Brawl to End them All

Monday, March 10th, 2008 @ 11:43am

I picked up Smash Bros. Brawl this weekend, and am having a blast with it. But it’s not as much fun by myself, so I’m looking for other people to play Brawl with. If you’re interested, my code is 4897-5594-5432. Leave a comment with your code if you add me.

Additionally, I can add your Wii friend code as well, so let me know!

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Mario Galaxy on Piano

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 @ 5:58pm


Whoever the person is above is fairly talented and plays by ear fairly well. While (in my opinion) some of his arrangements are a little too “notey”, he still has some fantastic renditions of some of the main themes from Super Mario Galaxy. I would recommend checking out some of his other videos if you have played Mario Galaxy, and even if you haven’t, since the music is fantastic.

Seeing this REALLY makes me miss not having a piano. I really want one badly, but with the unfortunate accident has put me in not so great of a financial situation to be able to purchase one. I’m really afraid I will lose a lot of my muscle strength in my fingers from the lack of playing. Maybe after I get my rent settled for the next 6 months I can begin looking again…

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17 Sites for your Wii

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 @ 9:56am

http://mashable.com/2007/05/09/wii-web2/

Some pretty spiffy websites that were created specifically for browsing on your Wii!

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Nintendo is King Again

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 @ 9:38pm

Source. According to VGChartz, in a matter of only about 9 months Nintendo has passed the XBOX 360 as the best selling of this generation’s set of consoles. This goes to show that indeed fun may not involve the latest and most powerful graphics.

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Video Games Live

Thursday, December 14th, 2006 @ 6:27pm

I found another video of another game concert series touring called Video Games Live. I’m not as impressed by this tour, but they still seem to do a pretty good performance non-the-less. Some of this stuff sounds like it was pulled directly from the Orchestral Game Concert series (performed in Japan nearly over 10 years ago) so it’s not anything new.

London ’06:
Legend of Zelda
Super Mario Bros.
Sonic

There’s also a few other themes if you’re interested (and want to search on YouTube) such as Final Fantasy, Halo 3, and some other retro arcade themes.

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Play! A Video Game Symphony

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006 @ 5:57pm

If you know me well, you will know that I love almost anything orchestrated especially if it involves any kind of video game themes. I happened across a couple of videos of a touring concert called, “Play! – A Video Game Symphony” that I would like to share. Enjoy!

Performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra:
Mario Medley
Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross Medley
Legend of Zelda Medley
Final Fantasy

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To Far Away Times

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 @ 8:05pm

To Far Away Times… (The Place We Knew)

Yeah, I know it’s old but Chrono Trigger was a great game and has such an amazing soundtrack. Today I just happened to run across this absolutely amazing remix of one of the songs from the game. It has a mix of piano and an amazing vocalist. You can find a whole writeup of the song on OCRemix.org. And while you’re at it, you can also check out Chrono Symphonic a collection of more Chrono Trigger remixes.

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Movin’ On Up

Saturday, April 1st, 2006 @ 12:34am

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been a little busy with things. I’ve been trying to get things back in order since Spring Break and adjust being back in school. It’s amazing what one week away will do to you!

So balancing projects, school, and play. It’s a complicated process! We have basically two different types of projects due for Computer Science. In my database class, we got the awesome oppertunity to visit some schools in Perry County and in sync with the database class here at Samford we’re working on designing a database that will help suit their needs. It’s a little daunting right now to try to keep track of everything that they want to keep track of, and a little crazy. But I’m sure everything will work out fine once we go visit them again to present them a design. The other big project that is due at the end of the semester is creating a interpreter for Tiny Basic which is based off of the programming language BASIC. But we have to create an interpreter in Java that will take in a valid Tiny Basic program. It’s a little difficult at the moment, and I have a feeling our whole group (myself included) is going to probably put this off until close until the end of the semester.

Oh yeah, play. Almost forgot about that. I’ve been recently playing Genso Suikoden V. This roughly translates into English, something like “Water Margin”, but of course that doesn’t make any sense. The story is roughly based off of a Chinese Novel with the idea of 108 Stars of Destiny. Basicly 108 different people band together as heros to overcome some sort of evil. Anyway, I’ve been really enjoying it and the game has a feel much like the original 2 Suikodens which is a plus considering that IV had taken a little rabbit trail from the series. But there’s neat little mini-games within the game that are always entertaining. There’s even RTS (real time strategy) type battles that are very entertaining to play! If you have a PS2 and have played any of the previous Suikodens, I would recommend picking a copy up (this means you Jered! ;)

I also have some other exciting things going on right now, but I’m not really in the position to talk about them yet. Hopefully when things become a bit more clear I’ll be able to release more information. Until then, jya mata!

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