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Merry Christmas

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Just a quick post to let everyone reading know that the blog is officially on hiatus for the holidays. Regular posting will resume sometime after January 1st. Until then, there may be posts if I see something cool and have time to put it up. In all probability, I won’t have time to put it up. The family has declared that they are descending on me for Christmas, I haven’t finished my Christmas shopping, and the blasted Xbox has chosen NOW to start blinking the Red Ring of Death at me.

In short the next week and a half will be spent running around malls, wrapping, scrubbing the entire house and cooking. And doing all that while listening to the hold music from Microsoft Support, I figure.

But Christmas Day should be gorgeous. Straight out of Norman Rockwell. Well, if Norman Rockwell painted Christmas scenes that included ‘A Christmas Story’ playing on the TV in the background and came accompanied by the sound effects from various people electing to test out their new presents by holding an impromptu LAN party. Last year my brother and I managed to make everyone over the age of 30 in the room motion-sick by hooking his laptop up to my parents’ big-screen TV and taking turns playing Portal.

Anyway, Merry Christmas to all. If you’re all prepared, sit back and enjoy the holidays. If you’re not, I wish you the best of luck navigating the holiday parking lots.

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Artist Index Added

Monday, August 31st, 2009

I’ve added an index page that lists out all of the artists that have been mentioned on this blog, with links out to the list of all the posts that mentioned them. This should make it easier to browse by artist, since the tags in the sidebar only show the artists that get written about the most. This list will be maintained to include a listing for everyone.

Artist Index

Of course, I’ve probably missed at least one, so please leave a comment here if you catch a reference to an artist not listed.

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Brought a cold home from vacation

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I spent last week on vacation in New Jersey, and came home late Saturday night with a cold. My brother shared. Like I needed a reminder of why I don’t miss living with my family most of the time.

Interestingly enough, my old nemesis, Percussion Freaks, has been retired and replaced with a Guitar Hero machine.

  • I didn’t even know they made Guitar Hero arcade machines.
  • The machines are blasted expensive.
    ($1 for one song? You’ve got to be kidding.)
  • Average arcade-goers in New Jersey evidently are not very good at Guitar Hero.
    (Seriously. I can’t make it all the way through the Hard tour on GH3 and the one time I played, I left the second highest score on Cliffs of Dover. On Medium. And I’m out of practice because I’ve been playing Fable.)

Normal posting schedule will resume tomorrow.

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Defeated by Percussion Freaks

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

I’m back from my weekend at the shore in New Jersey. In classic New Jersey fashion, the weather was beautiful until I got on the Atlantic City Expressway, at which point it started raining, and it kept it up off and on all weekend. Yesterday was actually decent, for the most part, except for the wind, which tended to turn walking on the boardwalk into a rather cold business.

Due to the rain, I ended up taking refuge in one of the arcades near the motel. It had the Percussion Freaks 3rd Mix machine, which–wonder of wonders–has a Bon Jovi song other than Wanted, Prayer or Bad Name. It actually had Bad Medicine.

The problem?

One, I’m rhythmically challenged, and have problems handling the drums in Rock Band, which I can play for free (unlike arcade games). Two, Percussion Freaks looks like it’s based on Rock Revolution–and you don’t realize how much of an improvement the distance/perspective view of the track in Guitar Hero and Rock Band is until you play a game that doesn’t have it. Percussion Freaks, like Rock Revolution, just has a vertical scrolling track. It makes it much harder to anticipate upcoming notes.

The end result of all this was that I failed out, miserably and repeatedly. I ended up having to give up on Bad Medicine and I moved up the boardwalk to the next arcade and switched to pinball. I’m good at pinball, at least.

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Victory!

Monday, April 13th, 2009

So, Blueshadow’s Bon Jovi Blog is finally up and running. It’s only been a mildly painful process. Just a few wrong turns, if you’ve read XKCD, you know how it goes.

Just kidding.

We should be discussing all the Bon Jovi and other Hair Metal we can stand in relatively short order.

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