For a plainer, brighter you

Check it out! Not bad for a first try. I've been meaning to redesign the place. Feel free to email me for any opines and suggestions.

Anyway, for those Mr/Mrs Anonymouses who want that link... I won't tell you up front, just use the links on the right hand part of the blog. I don't want the IDSA crawling up my porthole for posting a technically illegal form of obtaining youth.

VERBOTEN! Own the game to download or at least frikken share what you have. Not everything in the web is free you know.

To the meat of the post, I just celebrated my 21'st birthday, and I'm let down by one thing. Usually it's the persnickety overbearing and self important that throw their own birthday parties. I, apparently became one of those people. The sad thing is, my birthday came smack in the middle of Good Friday. I'm not that comfortable with celebrating my birth with Jesus getting impaled.

So like any good christian, I abstain meat. WHAT! I Love Meat! What's a birthday without steaming piles of char-grilled choice cuts and ample bowls of boiled ham?

So it came to a compromise... I had hotdogs. Nobody really knows what hotdogs are made of, so it's still good. So is spam. (What is spam... really...)

Childhood Recall

I may not be that old yet, but I have memories of great PC classics that me and my mates used to play in the computer laboratory to kill time. My old, old computer at home used to have classics of it's own... Wolfenstein 3D, Test Drive, Lotus Racing Evolution, Commander Keen... We even had Chip's Challenge and Doom one and two then. Prince of Persia, Overkill...

These classic games gave my prepubescent fingers a joyride through outstanding gameplay and monitor burning 8-bit graphics. My ears are now thankfully partially deaf due to the tinny bleep-pings of games of yore.

I think that's why I keep away from the very latest games... (that, and I can't run them on my now ancient P3).

So I scoured the Internet and the old BBS for shareware games that I played long ago. Then a particular site-type caught my eye. They were sharing free games of pre-DirectX/Direct3D fame. Not only free but complete(sort of).

So comes my recent activity. I'm collecting these "abandoned" games and playing them to my heart's content. Blood, Postal, Carmageddon, Zork, Leisure Suit Larry (oh yeah!), Halloween Harry, Ultima...

I remember Ultima. Especially Ultima Pagan. That was some amazing game. I guess the split virtues of my being sprouted out from that game. It was a screenshot of morality packaged into a 3dimensional Demon-hacking-festival.

And Carmageddon. After playing Ultima, play Carmageddon and watch as all the moral lessons you accumulated start flowing out of your body as fast as the gibs that flow out of your new human hood-ornaments.

The gratuitous violence and copious amounts of the red-stuff has become my personal stress reliever. Watch as the pitiful road waffles pray for you to spare their pixellated lives.

Now, I can indulge my inner child with these timeless classics. I'm kind of ashamed though, that I have to leech them from the school's Internet connection.

The other thing is, none of my classmates seem to like the simple pleasures of killing a generic 2D sprite using the front of your blocky fender. Or the joys of playing text-only adventures. They'd rather play Counterstrike or Ragnarok, or some other MMORPG/MMOG. Waste of money, I say. Play Zork, and see how much fun it is to put your brain to work.

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ARVIN
A is for Adaptable
R is for Refreshing
V is for Visionary
I is for Innocent
N is for Neglected


What Does Your Name Mean?

Yet another facet of life I'm willing to accept.
I have one.

Arvin,
Raucous
Volatile
Insecure
Nerd..ish

Then there's the problem of infinite looping... STACK OVERFLOW

Same site: I'm in the 1959 for some reason... I always thought I'm stuck in 1984...
I mean, I like Knight Rider, Alf, Go-Bots... the Carebears (Countdown 4, 3, 2, 1!!!), MacGyver...
Yeah, I'm definitely 1982...or 84, whatever.

Same Site: I'm a half woman brain. I figured as much. Although I can't cry during Terms of Endearment.

1984: Richard Stallman starts developing GNU. The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to use a computer mouse and GUI interface, is introduced by Apple

That's something to live by. Go to Blogthings.net, It's Dot com!

To all the people I've stepped on

Thank you for being a stepping stone for our groups' sort-of success in our thesis presentation. Why without your help... we could have done it ourselves of course, but for formalities sake, we are thanking you anyway.

Do come for the class barbecue, and enjoy the food while we roast those who opposed us during the best MP contest.

Don't be sad just because you have not finished your project, or your project did not work, be sad that you did not come to us for help in the first place.

I am just joking of course. If I was serious, this post would have found itself lodged in your inbox with flashing, bliking text with a huge Viagra ad pasted on the middle.

New Outlook

Amazing how a shave can make a man feel better. Makes a new man out of anyone (with a full beard, at least.) I just took a blade to my particularly hairy chin, and cut it down to a stubble, along with most of my self deprecation and loathing. That and I got a couple of nicks to remember the day. I felt great!

Then I used industrial strength alcohol to aftershave... Never use wood alcohol to clean yourself after a shave. Stings like, well wood alcohol.

You can probably tell it's a boring day, when a rudimentary shaving becomes a big hoopla in a blog. To tell you the truth, nothing out of the ordinary happened to me for the past week. I even walked around the city at night to find any eventful happenings, but to no avail. All I found of interest is a growing corn on my foot and a throbbing groin from all the walking.

Tomorrow will probably eventful, seeing it's a Friday.

Inda the Pan Flasher

That went by so fast, the Energizer bunny would have a heart attack chasing it.
In reference to Panagbenga. That was the most uneventful week I've ever fathomed.

Props to the organizers for taking the cheesy entertainment and ugly shopping stalls, but I think they took the fun away too. It's almost embarrasing to tour the virtually empty Session road. It makes me want to remember "the good old days" but that phrase seems to make me feel 50 years older.

At least I didn't participate in the parade... I saw my "almost" costume to be, and I imagine being topless in a sheer form fitting orange (erm... tangerine) top is granted very awful to the eyes.

On a lighter note, due to my minimal participation in this year's flower festival, I can focus on my first love, programming. In the small timeframe of one week, I managed to design and implement a working site, and a small 20 second video clip of bob-ombs crashing into each other.

Check out the site here http://www.upb.edu.ph/~cs190/epalito . Comment me out 'kay? I'd like to improve on it until it's unveiling.

The movie takes a while to render and upload. The last time I checked, the 20 second file was 7-0 megs big... Hmmm, how did that happen?

Cameria of the Red Eye

I wish I had a digital camera. I'd probably have a more interesting way of delivering the mundane aspects of my average life in the sort-of-city-more-like-suburb-Baguio-City.

But then I'll probably just post pictures of me and my friends in front of a computer terminal. Or myself infront of my terminal at home. Unless you like seeing a normal guy doing increasingly boring stuff in glorious choppy 320*400 video, I could rewrite the previous statement and say "I wish I had a Web cam..."

On to the meat of the matter. Is it just me, or is the Baguio Flower Festival a little too "rococo" for tourists? Yup, it is prettier than the previous year's attempt to turning Baguio into a monstrous tiangge. Methinks it is an attempt of Baguio to stop Jadewell from charging parking for at least one week.

I wish I had a camera, then I'll show you. Although I might say, the fluffy-puffy coffee huts are amazing.