Tuesday, April 27, 2010

I'm bored

I have been bored out of my mind today. I get like that sometimes, and this is one of those times. I reached my daily word quota, and I have played with my brother, and NOTHING feels exciting.

So here is my plan: I am going to redesign our back yard. with any luck I can implement my plan for roughly around $100. I am planning on getting info as to how to put a pool out there (above ground, we already own it, but we have an evil dog, and the ground is uneven)

I also plan to for the first time in my life: own a current gen console. whether that is the PS3 or the Wii I have not entirely decided, but I am leaning towards the PS3.

Furthermore I plan to get us a table and grill for outside. The grill may push me over the edge, but it would be well worth it.

Well I will probably keep planning this till I get distracted. ooh a duck.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Got the PS2

I got a PS2 last night, and we installed it in the living room. At first everything was going well, but then we started playing our classic PS1 titles, aaaaaaand it came up with disc read error after disk read error.

Flash was upset because his games are all PS1 titles and we were hoping this system would fix the problems he had been having. Me being a computer geek and proud of the fact that I fixed a PS2 around 2 years ago, I went to unscrewing the monstrosity, and breaking in to preform the fix that I had known so well.

However when I opened it up I was immediately lost. on the outside it looked the same as my original, but after opening it I saw that the power buttons were mounted inside the lower half, and not on the lid, and the disc tray cover was mounted differently as well.

It took me a grand total of 15min, but I finally got to the inner DVD tray, and yet again was lost. The white gear that adjusted the laser in my old PS2 was not there. I found two white gears in the back, but they did not control the laser. I was about to give up when i told Flash we might as well clean the laser while we were in, so we grabbed an alcohol dipped Q-tip and cleaned the lens.

15min later we were playing ALL of the PS1 titles. Turned out this was a dusty system and it needed cleaning. I am glad that was all it was, and flash is glad to have his games back.

This morning I ran into more troubles, the parental controls were in the way, but I entered a code, and turned it off.

The console works perfectly. It came with a Sony brand controller, and a wireless controller as well. we are loving it so far, and already have a plan on which games we are going to get.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

wierd characters

One thing I rarely talk about is how weird some of my character ideas are. Today i am going to do just that. Many of you might wonder how my character come to be, the only thing I can tell you is that they usually come from a random series of thoughts, and are formed into a more cohesive form afterward.
Here are three of my weirder ideas.


White Hand
White hand is freaky on so many levels, but we will start with his looks. He is somewhat faceless, he only has eyes, no nose, no mouth, no ears, and no hair. His skin is pure white, and he walks around in a brown trench coat, and wears a scarf even in the summer. to further his weird looks, he has no hair on his arms, or frankly any part of him, not even "peach fuzz".


If his looks were not freaky enough, the rest of him is even freakier. He has a desire to read books, but not let others read them. He is constantly gathering books for himself. through theft, sale, and many other means. His desires get more severe as the story progresses. He wants every last piece of text. He also has an ability to "blank" any book, electric text, or magazine, anything with text in a room. he does this by place his hand firmly down on a book. the result is his white hand-print is left on the book, and everything else blanks out.

The idea stemmed from my wondering what it would be like if someone started systematically wrecking today's literature, and erased all forms of text in favor of pictures and videos. This world comes to a reality in the book except for a small group known as the worms. The worms are smuggling away every last bit of literature so they may recover it after the white hand is gone.


Rang
Rang is the ruthless leader of the Predators. He is a superhuman, and one of the best at killing. His freakishness is much more subtle than White Hand. He is the master of weaponry. He however prefers oddball weapons, and sometimes even mythical weapons. He is the arch nemesis of Krazor, and is best known for his philosophy. He knows he is a murdering, pirating criminal, and doesn't care; instead he embraces it wholeheartedly.

His goal is to keep the heroes viewed as criminals, so that other super humans will be too busy hiding to fight him. He goes about this by staging battles that kill tons of innocents in the streets of major cities. He has been the number one source of crime amongst all of the super-humans.

I came up with him mostly by accident. He was formed out of several older characters. His philosophy was actually designed to make him seem like a twisted freak.


Rewerb Mada
Though her name is my pen name backward, she is my freakiest. She was merely a character in a world where there were nothing but war like elf people. they were immortal, and they always shown light through their skin.
She loses her family to an army of monsters. her village goes with them, and she soon learns that the entire elf race is gone but her. She finds a portal and gets locked into an ice world.

Aaanndd her story stops there. To clarify: she was locked in this ice world for 10 years with nothing but one meal a day showing up mysteriously on the footsteps of a pure gold palace. She falls into extreme depression, and has thoughts of revenge. this is where it all gets really weird. she escapes this world and finds herself in our world. more specificly in the apartment of her author who was away on vacation. she reads her incomplete book,a nd realizes that the author is to blame for her predicament.

Se learns about authors and how many books involve characters dying, worlds destroyed, people's lives ruined, and she grows angry at this entire world. She vows t destroy all authors starting with her own.

Her story has always stemmed from my thought of: What if the character we make were alive, and would they really be as obedient as we desire?


Hope you all enjoyed this list.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Hello Bordy!

Hello everyone, I have been busy with flash getting our entertainment center rearranged today. As some of you know i am buying a PS2 to get cheap games.

Unfortunatly we keep the bird on the entertainment center, and we had to put little houdini down on the coffee table.
Little Buddy has found him and is shouting things like:
"Hey bordy!"
"Come Here Bordy!"
"It za Bordy!"

Just to let you know we are moving the bird now. the poor thing is getting quite upset over all this fuss. But we have defanantly made Buddy's day with showing him this little bird.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Fresh new look, same nutty taste.

As you can see i have updated my blog significantly. this new theme is reflecting that it is spring, and I am now sorta (though not completely) tired of winter.

I have also put up a few new sidebar stuff, including a modified chatbox, a project list of finished, future, and books that i am currently working on. Along with that is a severely unfinished blogroll.

Webtastic Word Blast is getting an update as well. Not as big, but it will be one. If some of you enjoyed my big character week, then you will be pleased to learn that Howard has taken over Webtastic Word Blast. He will post story tidbits along with putting up his own blog posts.

That is about all I can think of right now. Enjoy the new blog, btw For those wondering about the twitter, use the chatbox to comment on twitter posts.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Lollipops are people too

Coming off his world famous world tour: Naked mole rats are people too. Hector Doofus has written a new bestseller titled Lollipops are People too. After his push in 36 different countries to get Naked Mole Rats access to government services and assistance, He is now pushing for the same in lollipops

Hector has been a long time senator for the Republic of CouchPotatoes, and is famous for his Naked Mole rat awareness day, and and his effort to support the motivationally impaired. He has raised billions of dollars for rock stars, and has helped tyrannic nations out of debt. He is considered by many to be the greatest man of our generation.

His newest book focuses on the horror he has seen around him. He has been undercover in grocery stores around the nation, learning from the children, and the mothers. His findings have been a shock around the globe.

Here is an excerpt from his latest novel telling us some of the horrors he learned.
Today our test equipment caught a child in the act of licking a lollipop. like in out past studies this one emitted a high pitch squeal. Jonas believed it to believed it to be the tongue scraping against it, but I feared much worse. 
Hector is releasing this book on Nevember 32 2010. He encourages us to read it, and learn what he has learned.




Thursday, April 15, 2010

Grrrrrrr

Well this is just great. I got the two games today, but only to find out my system is dieing Now I have this little problem of finding a suitable replacement for the system. The good thing is that the gamecube was the least popular sysem when it was released so i may be able to get one under $20

not too bad, but not what i wanted either.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

thinking about the wrong things

today is a big day for me. My dad is likely leaving town for his job, it will most likely be an overnight trip. I am getting two gamecube games in the mail today, at least i hope i am, and our leader, Jack, over at inklings is returning after what is by my guess around a year long disappearance.

I should be think about those things today, right?
bad news, I am not.

Here is a list of things I AM thinking about:
1. Jellyfish sound kinda cute, but in reality they are quite menacing. they need a better name.
2. groundhog's day has to be the stupidest holiday in history.
3. The conspiracy around area 51 is stupid, but not as stupid as the aurora bomber myth. a plane could not go Mach 12 and the pilot survive.
4. why are there so many conspiracies anyway?
5. My comics seem to be late again; I feel like griping.
6.strawberries taste good in milk.
7. why do I, of all people, wake up with porcupine hair every morning?

Clearly I am thinking about the wrong things today. Does this ever happen to the rest of you?

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Morning cluelessness

I woke up this morning at 7:00am stretched, got out of bed, had some cereal and orange juice, and read the newspaper. the birds were singing outside, and the air was coll and clear.

turns out I am a chronic liar too.

I did wake up at 7:00am, but only to flip the switch and turn off the buzzer. my momma got me up at ten asking this: Have you taken out the trash yet?

Now see we have an evil trash crew. we can not have the cans down at the curb except on trash day. the rest of the time we are obligated to sticking it against the garage. this causes a few troubles obviously.

Every Wednesday we sprint out to the curb and hope the trash men forgive us for being a smidgen late. the penalty of doing it late is no trash pick up for a week, (duh) and leaving them out their for a few extra days may result in angry lawyers, and big penalties.
Well I sorta wobbled out there without any direction and bumped into same walls, and I pushed the cans down to the curb. I hoped i was early enough.

looking at the calender I should be fine. It is Tuesday. They don't come till tomorrow. I may be on the lookout for Lawyers in the bushes waiting to strike, but I will not have to worry tomorrow morning.

after this bit of cluelessness i had another round. This time I was sprinting around trying to get stuff ready to make soup. I opened the fridge, and saw we had enough leftover pizza to feed everyone.
Exactly how I planned it last night.
I feel like a moron.

We are still making soup, but it will probably be a peace offering to the Lawyers

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010

James

Ok Howard talked me into this. *looks a the keyboard* Ok I don't know what this box does but I do know that someone did not know the alphabet. This keyboard is horrible. Ok now that we have established that, umm I guess I must say I am a good friend of king Jacob. I don't know if you have heard of him.

I guess I must tell something about myself. I grew up with a man in a small headquarters after my family died, He was in love with a former witch. He taught me how to be a warrior, and now i ride the plains hunting Sulfirian.

I really hate this keyboard so i guess I will go now.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Rewerb Mada

Rewerb here I am a misunderstood character really wishes to help the characters in this world by killing off all the authors. Most authors call me evil. I am trying to save characters fromt he cruel torture that their authors put them through.

I come form an ice world where I was abandoned for 10 years after everyone in my home world was killed. I am seeking revenge against that monster. When i find him i will abandon him on the ice world where he will freeze and wish he had treted me better till he finally dies.

Now if you are an author, I will let you live as long as you renounce you writing. And I also need help rewriting stories to be happy and kind to their characters and so that there are no more villains. I hope one day mine can be restored, but for now i will do what i can.

Now I must go, but keep in mind what i said.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

(glitch in take over code, adam regains control for one post this week

How does one determine if your keyboard is a good or bad keyboard? well I ask my mom to try this one that I hated, and this is what she wrote.

Bananas in pajamas
This is really a stupid way to find out if you like or hate a keyboard.
Compared to an Apple keyboard, this keyboard is evil. It has gremlins. Really! They are just waiting for you to stop looking long enough so that they can bite your fingertips.

You can tell where my humor came from at least.

///Takeover code complete.... /characters online

Hi Howard here, wow I have never done a blog post before! um well I guess I need to tell you about myself, well my name is Howard, and I am a car. Krazor made me, Krazor is like the best dad ever, ummmm. Well lets see I love NASCAR, and um oh I like the Indy 500, and I have a grumpy Gothic sister who reads magazines. So as you can imagine we don't always get along.

Well I guess I need a point to this post, as it is like my only shot at a post, so... chocolate! Krazor never lets me have chocolate, he says that cars don't eat it, but it looks so good! I wish he would let me have some. I like music, I listen to music all the time...... hold on the chicken got loose.

Back. the robo-chicken stole Krazor's bolts. Sometimes I hate that chicken, well anyway ummmmmm..... I like to fly kites. Krazor doesn't let me do it often, but I enjoy it nonetheless. Motherbrain is my grandmother I suposse as she tries to mother Krazor a lot. She sometimes turns on the virtual room for me, that's nice.

OH Krazor's body guard got married to Grey, Grey is nice she says nice things to me. Krazor doesn't like her though.

I think this is it, maybe sometime my sis will get on.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Psychopath, or genius?

The line can be thin for those in literature. One thing that we authors don't tell, especially those in Horror, Sci-fi, and fantasy, we spend a lot of time thinking up horrible things to do to our characters.

I have literally spent years working on villains, and to this day I am still not satisfied with their levels of evil. Unlike Sympathetic villains, evil villains are much more sinister and creepy. They do horrible things such as send their victims through industrial paper shredders.

See? I JUST came up with that one, and now I am wondering where I could put it in a novel. My point though with the villains is that they still need to be understood. Not sympathetic, but understood. Merely wanting to take over the world is not enough anymore, nooooooo, now we need a reason. A control freak? that'll do, as long as you show that he is bothered by things even being slightly different from how he planned.
Nut case? eh, not gonna work much anymore. Mad scientists are not as popular as they once were.

But now I often have to go deeper. Some sick philosophy that drives them. I have a character named Morgan that believe we should kill all of humanity to bring them back to life as "Vampires" these "vampires" would feed on any living thing, and supposedly be invincible.
Another is a less ambitious character, Rang. Rang is a superhuman who steals and assassinates for a living. the problem is that Superhumans are good guys too, and they often beat him up after a strike. He set out to make it illegal to be superhuman so all of the heroes are hunted too.

My point? these are not typical healthy thoughts, and would more likely come out of a psychopath, than an average teen. The difference is that I put it down on paper, and also have heroes. It just often seems rather sick when you really think about it.

Another element that we don't talk about is that we come up with horrible things to do to our heroes. Kill their family, their family IS their enemy. They are genetic freaks hunted by humanity, or they are hunting genetic freaks to save humanity. We go at this from every angle, and we can come up with some pretty sick plot lines for characters.

Unlike I sometimes portray, i am not tame with my stories. My characters, even heroes, do some pretty horrible things sometimes. Krazor, one of my favorites, was a master assassin, and another, Mad Jack, is a former military operative that see's no problem with killing the villains. He see's this enemy who continues to be a threat, and eliminates him so the rest of them don't fall victim. Another, Fedora, Has been known to torture those who do not give him info. (Ok Fedora is a bad example as he is a bit of an antagonist, even though he is not a villain.)

So, now that I told you this little secret... still want to write a best selling fantasy novel?

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Um wow...

sorry about all the delays in posting, there is mega spring cleaning going on, and not much time to do anything. I will try to get something good up this weekend though, so do not consider this blog dead!

(like you did anyway)