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Hey! First off, I'd like to thank you for your greetings and well wishes. Yes, apparently today is my 25th birthday, the day where people go "Quarter of a century, you see?" and I reply "Yes, I am amazed by your mathematical prowess". I guess I'm just at the stage where its only just another birthday and pressies and parties just aren't really necessary, however dont let that discourage you from giving me cool stuff.
Also, yesterday happened to be the one year anniversary for Gracie and my good self. To celebrate this momentous occasion I splashed out and got an executive suite at Crown Towers in Melbourne for the night. Our suite was on the 24th floor, so the view was pretty great. We dined at their many restaurants, watched Harry Potter at one of their many cinemas and laughed at their many gambling losers. We also spent some time at the Melbourne Aquarium and did a lap of the Chadstone Shopping Centre, both places I'd been meaning to visit for a while now. Generally a great weekend. |
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| Posted by a very festive MadDog
on Monday December 2, 2002 at 5:14 PM - 0 comments |
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I had most of this news post typed up but then Holly Valance went and crashed my computer. *shakes fist at Holly Valance* I think its God's way of punishing me for listning to Holly Valance, so I hereby repent and endevour to belt it all out again.
Now that I've got a little bit of spare time to myself to chill out in front of the tube and get my game on, I've been confronted with deciding between a plethora of great games in muy position lately. Normally I like to focus on one game at a time, but lately I've found myself happily interchanging between three great games.
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Super Mario Sunshine (Gamecube)
I only bought this one two days ago, but already it has a very familiar comfort to it; the same comfort you get when you're just lazing about at home and you pull on your favorite jumper. It doesn't have the best graphics I've seen but it certainly has some very nice effects, especially the wicked water effects. Wicked in the way that I'm actually looking at the mug of coffee in my hand and thinking "Nice water effect, but its no Mario Sunshine". But technical wizardry isn't the reason I got this game. I was actually tossing up between this Star Fox Adventure, also on the GameCube, and although Star Fox is way better in terms of graphical beauty but I know that when it comes down to it, Mario's got the fun-per-dollar value just right.
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Kingdom Hearts (PS2)
Square and Disney, together at last. This is one great game, mixing the characters from Final Fantasy and Disney into not an RPG but an action/adventure game with RPG element. Think Zelda64 with a level up/attributes system. It sounds odd, but it works well. Another thing that works well is the mix of Disney and Square. It freaks you out, but in a good way. For example, you start off in Wonderland, trying to save Alice, then you move on and meet Hades from Hercules, played excellently by James Woods, play with Pooh and Tigger, before going off to help Aladdin do battle against Jafar. It's quite a buzz. And they've spared little expense to get all (or most) of the orginal actors to do the voices (theyre all official in some way or another), and even getting some celebrities to voice the rest of the Squaresoft characters, including Haley Joel Osment, Billy Zane, David Boreanaz, Mandy Moore, and Lance Bass from *NSync to name but a few. The 3D camera has pissed me off a couple of times, but to be honest, most of the time, I'm having too much fun to notice.
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Time Splitters 2 (Xbox)
Now I'll be the first person to say that I really don't like first person shooters on game consoles. The controllers can never live up to playing them with a mouse and keyboard. In fact the only FPS I enjoyed on a console was Goldeneye on the N64. That is, until now, and I think it may have something to do with the fact that Time Splitters 2 was created by ex-Rare employees that worked on both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. The controls are pretty familiar, the missions aren't too long (so I can just have a quick game in between the top two games), there isn't much of a plot to speak of (its good not to have to try and remember what I was up to in the storyline), and the graphics and animation are pretty good too. A great little package to fill in the gaps. |
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| Posted by a very frustrated MadDog
on Friday November 22, 2002 at 3:05 PM - 0 comments |
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I believe the original lyrics to the song were:
Dream weaver... I believe you're a flexible tool for creating dynamic HTML documents for the web.
But the record company made him change it. Man that Gary Wright was way before his time. |
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| Posted by a very jolly MadDog
on Monday November 18, 2002 at 10:57 AM - 0 comments |
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Whats going on, I hear you ask? Four updates in one week? Has he gone out of his tiny human mind?
No, not yet. I just forgot to mention that I'm doing the Friday Five thing. I've been doing it for about 3 weeks now actually. I'm not putting them in the front weblog thing, but they're accessable at the bottom of the About MadDog page for now, which is probably the best place to put them.
UPDATE: Well isn't that just bloody typical. As soon as I jump on a bandwagon, they go and close down the site. I don't know what happened to the Friday Five site, but it's not there now. If it comes back then I'll continue to update them, but for now I won't. |
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| Posted by a very motivated MadDog
on Wednesday November 6, 2002 at 3:45 PM - 0 comments |
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Well folks, that butterfly you may have seen yesterday when trying to access the site, was Genis-X, Planet MadDog's most gracious host. I had to be moved across to another server for some reason, so until I got the DNS stuff all sorted out at this end, that was the result. So for those who need their daily Planet MadDog fix (you sick SICK people) here you are. |
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| Posted by a very zonked MadDog
on Wednesday November 6, 2002 at 9:41 AM - 0 comments |
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I just found myself watching an episode of Ally McBeal tonight. Yes, dear friends, as strange as this concept sounds, what happened next is even stranger. I found myself enjoying it. I enjoyed the wacky daydreaming. I enjoyed the touching messages. I enjoyed the awkward situations. Jon Bon Jovi as token love interest? Not so enjoyable, but still adequate.
At the end of the episode, right after I checked that I actually still had testicles (yep, everything's still there, ladies), I felt myself looking forward to the next one. Is this normal? Are there other guys that enjoy this estrogen-soaked show? I mean apart from Braden, because hey, he watches the Gilmour Girls. |
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Here's what's been hippity-hop-happening with me lately, just in case you were interested.
After having my MP3 player stolen from my car, and collecting the resulting insurance cheque, I've splurged out a bit of extra dough and treated myself to one of these little beauties. The IRiver IMP-250 is about 20 times better than the turdpile that came before it. It plays WMA and ASF as well as MP3, it runs over 15 hours on one pair of AA nickel metal hydride rechargable batteries (included), its got a kick-ass little backlit EL screen on the unit as well as a smaller versio on the remote control so you can see and choose the songs easily, which is also helpe by the simple song navigation system. I know that there are higher models, like the SlimX, but I really wanted the LCD display goodness that this offered. Highly recommended.
Sphagnum rocked Euroa Wool Week on Sunday. It may have been just a small pro-bono gig with only one set, but the sound was set up nicely, the drums and vocals were crisp and we played well, getting some good feedback.
Music that's rocking my internals at the moment: Our Lady Peace - Gravity, Avril Lavigne - Let Go, The cast of Buffy - Once More With Feeling, John Mayer - Room for Squares, Bodyjar - Plastic Skies.
Umm... I think that's about it. |
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| Posted by a very sleepy MadDog
on Monday November 4, 2002 at 10:31 PM - 0 comments |
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 Many Sheppartonians have recently commented on the new addition to the Victoria Park Lake here in Shepparton, a $130,000 sculpture erected to celebrate the contribution business and industry have made to the region.
Some people think that it's strong and dynamic. Some have said it's great to see our local council supporting the arts. Most people, however, say its a tacky eye-sore plaguing our fine lake.
I say we could have done much better...
TOP 10 THINGS BETTER THAN OUR NEW SCULPTURE
- A 50 foot lavendar statue of Richard Simmons.
- A Mount Rushmore inspired monument featuring the faces of Killing Heidi, except made entirely of meat.
- A musical tribute to beards, blaring tunes from the Bee Gees, ZZ Top and Pavarotti.
- An animatronic statue of Jackie Chan, complete with kung-fu grip.
- One of those "big" things, like The Big Pineapple or The Big Banana. I suggest The Big Paperclip.
- A large mural depicting the rise and fall of Vanilla Ice.
- An interactive museum where kids can discover the wonderful properties of napalm.
- The worlds biggest jelly pit.
- A giant monkey in a clear plastic ball that can be rolled down the street on special occasions.
- Two words: Giant boobs.
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When I was a kid I was often told to make the most of my childhood because once I'm out in the real world, it's all downhill... I wonder if this is what they meant. Recently I've actually been affected by a gut-twisting event that has made me feel sick to the stomach, and whilst I wont go into it here, I'm almost at the point where going to live in a remote cave somewhere doesnt seem like such a bad idea (as long as the cave had electricity). I don't feel safe anymore, and I fear for the safety of the people I care about, and I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. Oh, and sorry for the bummed out attitude lately. This was more of a therapeutic release than an amusing annecdote. I belive its not good for the soul to stay in this sort of mood for too long so I'll pick up the mood a bit next time... I promise. |
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Just a quick update to let you know that the lack of updates lately is due mainly to my being sick most of the last week. I've been pretty zonked for the last 6 days or so with a fever running hot and cold simultaneously. Unfortunately, as well as affecting Planet MadDog updates, it's also adversly affected my already busy timeline of other work going on, including v1.0 release of MadSite, OzChat_Remix, Aeli.net, and other paying jobs with tight schedules and deadlines, so I've got my work cut out for me in the coming weeks. |
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| Posted by a very feverish MadDog
on Monday October 21, 2002 at 11:10 AM - 0 comments |
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