Nerf, Myspace, Halo, and Flamingos

A'ight, time to get down to business. From here on out, it's coming hot and heavy. Serious, real, true-to-life, aweinspiring, wonderful, surprisingly humurous, occassionally distrubing, moronically opptimistic, non-belligerent, bloggy, blog blog blogness.

I mean it, enough of the formalities, I'm going to start voicing my opinions on things, and I'm going to type as I voice them, and see how close I get to typing what I'm saying, and then alter it to fit my needs, and then post it on here, and then edit it to fit my needs again, and then smile, and the reread it, and then edit it for typos, and finally serve it to the intenet community on a burnished titanium platter.

I have introduced myself, I have written down my thoughts on what life means, I have told you what I think is good, what I think is wrong, and what I think needs to be changed. I'm just getting started but now you know where I stand, and I'm basking in the fiar amount of confidence I have in the fact that I have narrowed my reader base to people who can truly relate to the things I'm talking about. From here on out, it's going to be controversial, not so controversial, opinionated, not so opinionated, trying hard to be anti-conformist without it being too obvious while retaining what little sense of humanity I have left. Get ready for the big times, the small times, the medium times, and the XXXL times. The bright lights, me and what I have to say. It might not be pretty a times, but to me, thats perfectly fine.

Okay, down to business. The first thing I gotta do today is give you a little rundown on my summary of todays events.

I woke up.

I woke up late.

I woke up a little too late.

I ate an omellete.

I went to church.

I came back.

I called my friend.

I logged onto the computer.

I worked on Rhino, a 3D program creating a space ship.

My friend called back.

I went outside and mowed the lawn.

My friend came over.

We used Rhino.

We watched some Red vs. Blue.

We played some Halo.

We watched Star Trek I.

We laughed.

We watched the last half of Kung Pow.

We chuckled nervously.

We played with some Nerf Guns.

Friend went home.

I went back no the computer and worked on some school work.

I logged onto the Blogger Beta Dashboard.

I mentally discussed with myself the benefits and disadvantages of writing a new post for my blog.

I decided to go with it.


That pretty much surmises my activites for today.

Now onto the topics up for discussion (And by discussion, I mean me ranting about them).

Nerf. I like some aspects of Nerf. first of all, it is extremely fun. Everyone likes Nerf. If someone gives you a Nerf gun and tells you to fire it at a glass window, and you do, and you dislike the feeling, then something is extremely wrong with you. I'm talking about on a physical, mental, and spiritual level. If you think Nerf is too much work, and doesn't give enough reward for the time invested in it, you've got yourself a trifecta of problems. I sympathize with you, however there is really nothing that can be done for you, outside of mandatory drafting into the armed forces.

However, Nerf is not all fun and games. It has it's "dark" side, and this is mostly finanically related. First of all, Nerf is expensive. I'm talking about name brande, goodnees-to god, official Hasbro, made in China Nerf with a registered trademark after it brand guns. There are many cheaper alternatives to Nerf, my current favorite being the "Air Blasters" series from Buzz Bee toys. They may not be the most reliableor long lasting, but by god, you can get the same results for the first ten times you use it as you could with a name brand Nerf gun for at most, I kid you not, half the price. Please. Restrain yourselves from throwing aside your computer desk (or laptop) and rushing to the nearest toy store to buy yourself an Air Blasters Tek 10.

Nerfing is fun and well, and can provide something you can do inside, in the winter, with your friends without worrying about breaking something breakable. Given, it's usually hard to break something unbreakable, but given the alternatives of airsoft and paintball, I'd say Nerf is a fun cheap, and relatively simple option.

Of course, Nerf can be enjoyed on countless levels, from a collector's point of view, from an enthusiast's point of view, and from the point of view of someone who wants to create a super powerful homemade Nerf gun, which is fun in its own right.

The next subject: Myspace. Uh-oh, this is a pretty touchy topic and I don't want to cross the line here. To put it as diplomatically as I can, people who log on to their Myspace more than twice a day should be sent to prison. Whew. Feels good to get that off my chest!

Halo. Halo 3 is due out sometime next year, and rumors are flyin' about who's doing what when and how with Halo: The Movie, due out sometime 2008. This is great, in my opinion, because you can never have enough Halo. Ever.

Oh yes, if anyone has any sort of hints or tips on how to get past the second Arbiter level in Halo 2 one Legendary, let me know. I flew through the other levels on Legendary with my brother on co-op, but that dang Heretic leader is tough to kill.

Finally, Flamingos. No I am not referring to the pink, lawn grazing, often ceramic birds which always stand on one leg (are they extinct now?). No, I'm talking about the Flamingo render plug-in for Rhino. I was playing with it the other day with a good friend of mine, and I was a bit suprised at its capabilities. More folling around is neccessary, me thinks.

More to come.