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20 July
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It's Konga Time |
Heh, I've been home for a week and a half already.
Time flies when you're having fun...or helping to remodel your house. My
family has been steadily working on our house for the last decade or so,
but my girlfriend's impending visit (she arrives next Monday) has served
to motivate my Dad into pushing through the completion of a couple of
rooms for her to stay in. The upstart of all of this is that I helped to
install a toliet today.
On a less bizarre note, my Dad and I got out to a
local theater to see "I, Robot" this afternoon. For those of you that
haven't seen it, the movie is a pretty decent sci-fi story. When you
get right down to it, "I, Robot" is a mix of a number of plot points
seen in other sci-fi movies, which means that nothing in the movie was
overly surprising. However, this particular permutation of theses
plot elements, along with some well done action sequences and effects,
kept the movie from being very boring. I wouldn't call it a must-see,
but it is sufficiently well crafted to warrant attention of sci-fi buffs
like myself.
I managed to get my hands on a FreeLoader disc
last Saturday, so I've been playing a good deal of Donkey Konga as of
late (when I'm not busy installing toilets, that is). Saturday, after
not getting the FreeLoader I ordered online, I decided to call up a
local Gamestop to ask if they had one. Lo and behold, they did indeed
have that particular item that has since been the key to unlocking the
wonders of Donky Konga. On Sunday, I even had the opportunity to run the
game by my friend and his brothers, who happen to be much bigger music
gamers than I. Available for your perusal below are some written
impressions on the game. And, since this is a game I got in Japan, the
article has been added to my
Japan
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Donky Konga
Impressions |
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14 July
04 |
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Dial-up Adventures |
Well, yesterday's update took an hour to write and
two hours to upload and de-bug over my home's rickety dial-up internet
access. There are a lot of great things about living in the country, but
one of the disadvantages is that access to broadband is either
impossible or very expensive to attain.
Have you ever waited impatiently for something to
arrive in the mail? I am in that situation right now, eagerly awaiting
the arrival of my FreeLoader disc. This disc will allow me to play the
copy of Donky Konga I imported on my American GameCube. From what I
understand, the disc is put into the GameCube first, before the
game. FreeLoader then convinces the GameCube to play games from whatever
region you choose. The best part is that by using this disc, I can avoid
the hassle of cracking open my GameCube's case and making a hardware
modification.
Today, my Japan coverage continues with a look at
the other model I brought back with me, this one of the refit
Constitution class USS Enterprise. |
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Bandai Refit
Enterprise Kit Review |
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13 July
04 |
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Guess Who? |
Hi, my name is Andy, and this is an Update!
Whew! How time flies. I can't believe it has been a
month and a half since I last updated. However, this time I have a good
excuse. Honest! I just got home Friday from my 6 week trip to Japan
where I had an absolutely fabulous time meeting all sorts of new friends
and seeing all sorts of strange and interesting things. And I'll be
darned, I think my Japanese language ability has improved slightly as
well. I will be posting a photo essay about what I did on the trip soon,
but for now here is a shot of a portion of the mountain of stuff I
brought home.

As one might suspect, my trip to Japan and the
things I brought back from it will be providing a large bounty of fodder
for future updates to the site. Besides the photo essay I mentioned
above, I also plan to make features in the Anime, Games, and Trek
sections. To make things a little easier, I've set up a page dedicated
to my trip which will collect the links to the articles I've made
relating to it. I've put a small link to it in the upper right of the
main page, and it will stay until I feel like taking it down ;). Kicking
of my Japan coverage is a review of Bandai's (relatively) new model of
the Enterprise-E. |
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Bandai
Enterprise-E Kit Review |
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