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[Sep. 28th, 2006|01:19 pm] |
- Mercedes ML55 amg (i didn't even know they made such a thing)
- Mercedes SL55 amg
- Aston martin vantage convertible
and some stuff that doesn't follow my own rules but worth mentioning.
(i had to visit sega building on business yesterday, and i guess they share the building with some startup.)
- Ferrari F355
- Ferrari F430
- some porsche i didn't identify.
all parked next to each other on the 2nd floor of the garage. crap. |
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[Sep. 27th, 2006|09:42 am] |
today on the way to work
- another mercedes cls 55 AMG.
- just for frame of reference, and never will be mentioned again. 4 BMW M3's (3) 01+, (1) 99 or so in the span of 5 minutes, over 1/2 a mile.
I'm actually starting to like the m3 again... |
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[Sep. 25th, 2006|06:17 pm] |
- black new Mercedes CLS 55
Why do people own CLS's i don't understand. they're sooo ugly.
and this one is the faster v12 version. silly. |
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| a new thing. |
[Sep. 20th, 2006|04:21 pm] |
So, this is now going to be used to track how much i'm being tortured on a day to day basis working in SF. There are SO many crazy expensive and interesting cars i see every day walking through financial district. it hurts me.
For the purposes of this experiment, anything I list in this here list must qualify under the following criterias:
1. It must be more interesting in some way than a regular Porsche 911. (mostly because if i listed average porsches, there would be about 15 entries a day all saying "prosche carrera 911 of [pick any] color"
2. It must have been noticed on the way too or from the bart or bus transit station to my office on montgomery and jackson
3. I must have seen it and muttered to myself some form of "omfg. god damn rich people!"
Today we'll start the show with this item:
- black BMW 760il v12.
V12?! jezuz... but then i guess you need a v12 when your car weighs *4905 lbs* !!
oh and the "l" in 760il means "long". this 7 series bmw was LONG.
http://www.bmwusa.com/vehicles/7/760liSedan/techdata.htm |
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| A major landmark |
[Aug. 15th, 2006|05:21 pm] |
Oh yes. This week I have experienced a major lifetime event. The ramifications of this event... what it all means... is unknown. It could be great.. the unlocking of an all new era of my life... or it could spell my imminent doom. But whatever it is, it is exciting.
That's right.
For the first time ever.
I won something playing the California Lottery.
Well, actually, to be pedantic, i didn't ACTUALLY win anything... I won $2. But then, i spent $2 on the ticket in the first place, but that's besides the point. The IMPORTANT part of the story is that I turned in a lottery ticket, and got cash money in return.
For those of you not keeping score, this is a major event for 2 reasons.
1. I've been playing the lottery pretty often since the day I turned 18 (11 years ago) and never won a dime
2. Statement is only half true, but the last time i "won" anything was $1, and I was mugged and robbed of my lottery ticket (and actually my entire wallet, cell phone, and keys) before i was ever able to cash IN said $1 ticket.
So, you can see that the groundbreaking part of this is that I've just broken a 11 year streak of never winning even the smallest thing playing the lottery. Which, frankly, I think in itself is some sort of amazingly retarded accomplishment deserving of an entry in the guinness book of world records...
hm. now that I think about it, i really ought to have saved those $2 for posterity... but i think i might've already eaten it. damn! |
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[Aug. 1st, 2006|11:51 am] |
Hey everybody!
I'm trying to hire a few good game programmers out there to work with me on a game project, here at Planet Moon Studios. We're a game company on the up and up, and everybody here is pretty awesome. If you or anybody you know is interested, please email me, i'd love to hear from you.
I'm looking for somebody with previous game programming experience, preferably on console. C++ coding abilities, and understanding of games and game systems is a must.
NOTE: If you refer somebody to me, and they get hired, that means YOU will get paid $2000 as a finder's fee! So get your feelers out there, people!
Thanks! |
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| People suck |
[Jul. 30th, 2006|11:44 am] |
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I cannot believe how lame people are.
This happened late friday night while i wasn't home. Note that that big red rock used to be in my backyard, and was dragged out onto the sidewalk by whatever moron ran his car into my fence and drove away. It's like a 300 lb rock i couldn't pick it up, me and my neighbor had to roll it back.
i hate people. |
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| Hm.. why am i here |
[Jul. 19th, 2006|05:03 pm] |
and not the deep question.. the simple one.
why do i find myself on LJ today. i'm not even big on blogging anymore.
Compiling. Thinking. Worrying. Needing to take a dump.
None of those are the reason, tho all of those are traits of mine at this moment. |
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| INFECTED for PSP - a modern social experiment |
[Nov. 28th, 2005|02:39 pm] |
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INFECTED for PSP.
This is the latest game that I've worked on. Now aside from just being a fun game, there's an aspect of this game that I was the head person in implementing that is basically a giant social experiment. Seeing as how LiveJournal itself is pretty much a giant social experiment, I'd like to poke at this online community to see if I can use it to help perpetuate this little experiment of ours. (particularly because it was a pretty original idea, and original ideas are financially risky propositions, and the mere fact that we have an original idea that WORKS is worth looking at)
In a sentence, the social experiment is...
INFECT THE WORLD WITH YOUR PSP
More specifically, here's how it works. You start by creating an avatar with a particular look, a name, and a location of origin. If you play multiplayer with somebody, and you beat, them, you INFECT them. Meaning, when they play against people they look like YOU now, and pass on YOUR virus.
At this point, the have 2 options.
1. Go back and re-play the last 3 single player missions they've played and win them to clear out the virus. in these missions, the zombies actually look like YOU.
2. Play and win 3 more multiplayer games and infect them with YOUR virus.
After that, they can go on their merry way and try to spread their own virus once again.
This is all tracked online and you can SEE how many people your virus has infected across the world, and see a cool map that shows where they all are.
Since we gave people a choice, it's very interesting to see how many people pass on infections vs cleaning them off locally etc. and let me tell you it's quite addicting to keep looking back at the stats and see how your virus is doing.
But it would be SO much more interesting if more people played it.
So here's my request to you, people of LiveJournal. Go out, buy the game, and play it online or with friends locally! Tell your friends about it! hijack my LJ post and post it on your own so that others hear about this game!
See if YOU can INFECT THE WORLD!
Now a quick side note, This is not a complicated game. it's simple and it's fun. You shoot things. they pop in a bloody mess. you squeal in joy. it's all good! Most people we've showed the game to are able to pick up the basic skills of play quickly. So don't be intimidated by the gameplay! give it a try!
woohoo!
Besides, how can you not play a game where you can become a Mad Cow while killing zombies and other players in multiplayer games?! |
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| what?! |
[Nov. 28th, 2005|02:34 pm] |
What's this? a blog entry? from SCRiTCH? nooo. don't get too excited yet though. i'm mostly here to peddle some product...
Yes, as some of you know, I finished another game... and this time, i really really like it, and it's fun enough that I actually am PLAYING it now that it has come out. this is vastly unlike any other game i've ever worked on.
anyways... on to what i'm really here about... |
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| travesty. |
[Mar. 4th, 2004|11:21 am] |
this week, they cancelled the project i'm on.
despite being the most on track, efficient title we've ever tried to make here, executive decision was to cancel it because they didn't think it would sell. That's all I'll say here, because i'm still a member of the company, and won't say more than what we've said officially as a company. you can find the official press release at our website for more direct information, if you like.
however, i urge you all to, if you agree with the purposes of these websites, to go to the following links and make yourself heard:
a petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?LACOSAM
gamespot survey:
http://www.gamespot.com (look at the bottom left column, there's a survey there)
needless to say *I* personally am very sad about this. |
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| that's just annoying. |
[Feb. 24th, 2004|11:09 am] |
i went out to my wrx today, i put some junk in the trunk, and closed the lid.
normally i'm used to the slightly metallic but solid sounding "kathud" of the lid.
this morning it was more of a "kaThwangwangwang"
wtf?!
closer inspection revealed that my spoiler is coming loose from my trunklid. and that it isn't that the bolt is coming loose, it's that some part of it BROKE. wth?! i've never heard of spoilers breaking like that before! not without some sort of impact anyways. there has been no impact. i don't even like to lift the trunklid with the spoiler. go figure.
just another case of the scritchies i guess.
hopefully it's covered under warrantee. i'll find out like tomorrow or something. |
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[Feb. 14th, 2004|03:23 am] |
as time goes on, it seems like i have less and less intelligent and inspired thing to say, whether be observations or just some sort of miscellaneous revellation or creative spasm on any given moment.
I thought i was supposed to get wiser as i get older, and more observant. Instead, I've become more dull, less energetic, and generally less thoughtful.
The upswing to this is, of course, that being less thoughtful has generally led me to be less pissed off on a regular basis. Since thinking is generally what pisses me off in the first place, as my unguided mind automatically seems to gravitate toward noticing the millions of everythihng from miniscule tragedies to outride travesties in life, and how utterly futile it is for one person to attempt blanket remedy any of them outside the immediacy of the one or two people next to them (if even that).
the downside is that, in general, i feel like i've lost some of my edge. The flamign intensity that drives me to excel. That might not be a problem, if only my aching need for self improvement and for elevation above mediocrity and "averageness" weren't exactly as it was before.
sigh.
or perhaps i've just become so subconsciously involved in noticing irritating things that it's become a metacircular problem.
*infinite loop* somebody throw me an exception.
and then somebody kill me for saying something so ridiculously nerdy.
maybe i just need a break from work.
*happy valentine's day* everybody. whether you think it's lame or not, you shuold have a good day irregardless |
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| Traffic. |
[Jan. 18th, 2004|03:38 pm] |
I should not watch movies like traffic. I understand the message and the purpose for a such a movie, but somebody like me should not watch a movie like this.
It brings me down. It makes me hate people. It makes it hard for me to have faith in humanity. It makes me want to hate and makes me feel guilty about not being perpetualy angry and vindictive for others who fall victim to worse things than i've ever experienced personlly. It makes me want to hurt people back who have hurt others injudiciously for their own benefit. In it's extremest, it makes me want to be a vigilante, freely dispensing my own neurotic and arrogantly self justified sense of "justice", protecting unknown victims of the future by dispensing the agents of said victimizing before they have a chance to perpetuate their hate. In a word, it makes me crazy.
sometimes i've been accused of not appreciating all that i have. i beg to differ. and here's your proof. if i wasn't thankful for the things i do have, i might actually BE out there being some crazed vigilante with nothing else to lose but my sanity.
Although it does make me appreciate and be impressed by the sacrifice and love many must suffer and give to overcome the evil that others purvey, it simply makes me so blindingly angry that such terrible things and people exist in the first place.
The power of greed, corruption, and power in the world of men (and equally, women) sickens me so much it sometimes makes me want to scream and wish for my own freedom from this world, whether it is to wake from a bad dream into a better place, or just to pass from this plane of being completely so that my consciousness can be free from suffering the aggravation of watching others treat each other with such indecency.
other things i shouldn't watch:
- schindler's list
- cruel intentions
- the news |
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| little kid kart racing... |
[Jan. 16th, 2004|11:30 pm] |
i just saw a part of this feature on the discover channel about "professional" kid kart racing. it's really really real really cool. these little kids (maybe about 10 yrs old?) go out and go race tracks with gas powered go karts. it's not just "fun"... there is race strategy, driving technique, everything required to really compete in a real car race. watching it was just like watching nascar, except with little itty bitty cars and little kids. the way that the parents(coaches) talked ot the kids.. the looks of intensity in the kids' eyes... the crashes... quite something. they even have those racecar trailers for the karts that double as a mobile garage.
that can't be in california, but boy i wish it was. |
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| who f***king dented my motherf***king car?! |
[Jan. 14th, 2004|10:26 pm] |
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whichever one of you worthless pieces of sh*T out roaming this piece of garbage planet we're on dented my car tonight in the ranch99 parking lot outside of daimo, i hope that when you die, you suffer alone in an agonizing hell where something dear to your heart gets needlessly damaged over and over again for all eternity, you CARELESS PIECE OF SHIT. |
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| cell 911 kinda sucks. |
[Jan. 12th, 2004|03:24 pm] |
so today i am sick sick sick. i coudln't go to work. but i ventured out to go buy some groceries n medicine. on the way back, right in front of where i was stopped at a light, a big rig and it's trailer took a turn onto richmond pkwy from the highway offramp too fast, the trailer started to tilt, and the weight knocked the entire thing over onto it's side. the whole time, as i watched the event unfold, the only thoughts echoing through my head were "oh damn. that guy is F**KED. man i feel like crap". it was kinda weird, seeing the wheels lift and eventually knock the whole thing over making a huge booming noise... kind of like it was falling over in slow motion.
i've never actually seen any thing like that happen before in real life... but sure enough, here was this big rig lying on it's side, squirting oil and whatnot from it's underbelly.
My light turns green, and i don't go for a few seconds... should i stop to help? probably not, i'm sick as a dog so dizzy i'm not even sure i shoudl be driving, and stopping would really probably just cause mroe traffic problems. so i drive past slowly, and pick up my phone to dial 911.
I had to dial 911 *6 times* before i got anything other than "we're sorry, all circuits are currently busy"... wtf is up with that? then when i finally get through, i have to be on hold for like 5-10 minutes. alltogether the entire attempt to call 911 probably took 15 or so min. now what if i was like bleeding to death? i coudl have DIED already.
anyways. hope the driver is ok. |
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| terror alert vs paranoia |
[Jan. 9th, 2004|11:25 am] |
paranoia kicks in.
Does it ever occur to you that the government might be raising/lowering terror alerts purely to limit public opposition to our ongoing pursuits in the middle east? continued public feeling of insecurity is the only thing allowing our government to continue keeping soldiers over there. my general sense is that nobody really WANTS us to be over there, but some feel it NECESSARY to continue to ensure our safety.
and without a regular reminder that are safety is being threatened, i doubt there would be any support at all.
i mean, just look at the terminology used in general: "Terror ALert Level lowered to Yellow"... terror alert?! i mean, come on, that term in itself is frightening. They could equally have called it something a little more innocuous, like, "National Citizen Safety Level" or some such thing, but terror alert... i don't thin kthey could have called it anything more disconcerting.
anyhoo. maybe i'm just being paranoid. |
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