Monthly Archive for November, 2004
I’ve been told that I’ve played far too much GTA San Andreas this last week. Since I haven’t posted much real content lately, I thought I’d update you on our progress in the game. We are about halfway through the mission tree for San Fierro. Just after Scott left tonight, I found out how we are supposed to know to photograph something, and then I went searching for things to photograph.
I came across a camera in some sort of atrium area between two buildings on the west side of San Fierro, south of the Paradiso safe house. Curious, I set the camera as my current weapon and started peering around through the zoom lens. I just randomly started taking pictures of things while standing in the middle of the four columns in the atrium’s center. As I was taking shots from the center, all of a sudden the game told me that I had taken shot 1 of 50. Just before taking that shot, I thought I saw a little twinkle in the middle of the screen disappear.
Not having accomplished much since my last save, I reloaded that save and went back to the atrium area. As I looked around, I could not find that twinkling. Then I looked through the camera lens and all of a sudden, this little camera icon appeared in front of the building that I took a picture of when I was told it was one of the 50 special photos. Apparently these camera icons denote the 50 photographs you need to take. Some other photos I’ve taken include the clock tower in front of a building on the north or northeast part of San Fierro, a statue sitting on top of an obelisk, and a building with an oriental-style cascaded roof structure on top of it. I hesitate to search the internet for the location of the 43 remaining photos I need to take. I’d like to think that the 100% checklist from GTA-SanAndreas.com is all the help we need for this game. Only on missions so tough that we can’t beat them in fewer than a dozen attempts warrant us searching online for help. I’ve learned my lesson from GTA III: cheating doesn’t get you anywhere. And frankly, it felt damn good to have nearly achieved 100% on GTA Vice City without having needed to use any cheats (we did have an EGM guide to help us along a bit).
In my efforts to not become too involved in playing Karaoke Revolution 3, here are the results of my Personality Disorder Test:
Maybe I’ll take another one, maybe I won’t.
| Disorder | Rating |
|---|---|
| Paranoid: | High |
| Schizoid: | Moderate |
| Schizotypal: | Very High |
| Antisocial: | Moderate |
| Borderline: | Moderate |
| Histrionic: | High |
| Narcissistic: | High |
| Avoidant: | Very High |
| Dependent: | Moderate |
| Obsessive-Compulsive: | High |
– Personality Disorder Test - Take It! – | |
So here are the results of my Dante’s Inferno Test:
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge!Interpret these results as you wish. It’s only an online test. Thanks to Dee for pointing out the test.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level Score Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Very Low Level 2 (Lustful) Very High Level 3 (Gluttonous) Very High Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) High Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) Very High Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) Very High Level 7 (Violent) Very High Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) Extreme Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) Very High
Take the Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno Test
I haven’t posted in a serious post in a while, so here is a wrap up of things:
- Mel came home today
- The web server is still acting kind of screwy at work
- My coolant level is still "low"
- No matter how long people have lived in the Chicago area, they still act like dumbasses during the first snowfall of the winter
- I’m hungry and I can’t wait for the Take Out Taxi guy to get here with our food
After hearing/reading/being told some comments about my current lack of wedding pictures online, I feel I owe you some explaination. You see, before I was able to scan all of the pictures, I lost posession of the proof album to someone else. I did not finish scanning all of the pictures at that point. I have regained posession of the album, but have yet to finish scanning the pictures. The pictures that are scanned have not been cropped, resized, and organized just yet. I’m getting there. With my recent projects and personal issues, I have not had the time to work on the wedding photos. Also, to be honest, San Andreas has also prevented me from finishing the photos. I hope to have them up soon (by January 1st).
I haven’t posted in a while because the web server upgrade, GTA San Andreas, and making roast beef sandwiches has pretty much taken up my life this week. I thought I’d post something. I’ve been doing some web browsing, as usual, and I’ve also downloaded FireFox 1.0. Apparently everyone and their mother has downloaded it, too, with all of the annoying "Get FireFox" buttons I’ve seen. I’ve seen some pretty obnoxiously large ones that may very well exceed 640×480. A smaller button will appear in the buttons section in the menu one day.
I was looking at away messages when I should have been adding users access rights when I came upon Katie’s. In it she links to this column by Howard Troxler from the St. Petersburg Times. This pretty well sums up most of what I feel about the so-called right-wing conservative agenda.
The recent voting on banning of same-sex marriages is pretty outrageous to me. Some people would actually like to make a Constitutional amendment that forbids the marriage of two people of the same sex because it is a threat to the whole institution of marriage.
I see no reason why the two recent marriages of Britney Spears are any less of a threat to the institution of marriage, yet I hear very little about anyone wanting to make a Constitutional amendmendment preventing marriage without love, marriage without much thought put into it, or marriage due to unplanned pregnancies.
I know a few gays and lesbians, and I see no reason why they should be denied the same rights as me. Now that I am married, I can be present in the ER if my wife ever goes to the hospital. I can basically get everything my wife leaves me, including children, if she were to pass away. Whatever I tell Chris since we’ve been married cannot be used to incriminate me in a court of law. I can even divorce her and sue for a good portion of her assets, if it ever came down to it (not that I was planning on it). Yet gays and lesbians cannot equally partake in these freedoms or rights or whatever you want to call them simply because most states on the Union do no recognize same-sex marriage as a union protected under the Constitution, federal or state.
But back to the column by Troxler, he points out the following:
If we are going to start ranking the "sins," marriage between two gay people who love each other and seek a lifelong commitment doesn’t even make the Bible’s best-known top-10 list. … On the other hand, you know what IS right smack in the Ten Commandments? Adultery. Adultery! Now, that’s a threat to the institution of marriage. You bet. Half of heterosexual marriages in our society end in divorce. We heterosexuals are doing a lousy job of "defending" marriage. Adultery is a big part of the reason. So if we’re going to rewrite our Constitution to "protect" marriage from sin because it is the "God-ordained bedrock of society," then I would think that adultery would be a much better target.Pre-marital sex can also be a threat to the institution of marriage, but I don’t see a big movement preventing non-virgins from getting married (unless, of course, the non-virgins are gay). Why do people have to be so oppressive? And why in such a hypocritical way?
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