Mid-April Update: 2008 Edition

I just figured that it has been quite some time since I updated ma’ blog (9 days to be exact) so I decided I’d do so. I don’t really have a formula when it comes to posting on ze blog, but when I have nothing to write about, I find that if I have an intro that just sort of… rambles on, people don’t get their hopes up for an awesome life-changing post.

Let’s get started then, shall we?

eBay sucks.

I was bidding on a faceplate for my 360 on eBay, but it wasn’t just any faceplate, it was the one I’ve wanted since I first saw the 360 (and said faceplate) on Kotaku, during their live-blogging of E305 (everyone was doing it.. I’m not sure if Kotaku’s was live-blogging, or what, but it was E305 coverage.) and while I didn’t so much care about the ’360 back then, I was obsessed with that faceplate. I knew if I ever got a 360, I would want that faceplate.

Well I got a 360 (as most people who read this blog should know) in 2006 (really late 2006, just ‘fore 2007) and love(d) it. I even tried to buy the faceplate on eBay a few times, but was never successful. I got bored of the 360 (as I’m currently bored of the PSP and Wii) for a while, and just ended up not using it much ’til I got other games, etc.

I then got the Halo 3 Legendary Edition on Launch Day, and was happy as hell. I kept playing it and playing it, etc, and I still play it once and a while. (Frequently right now, but that could change in a week.) Shortly after that, I had no cash, but was just browsing eBay anyway, and I saw the faceplate again. I cried, knowing I couldn’t afford it, and went back to Halo 3′s awesome campaign.

I stopped using the 360 for QUITE some time after that, several months even, because I was stuck playing World of Warcraft for a while. (I really wanted to hit 70.) But after I stopped playing WoW, I went onto Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on the PC, and other games just kept coming up, ’til I finally got back into Halo 3 and my 360 again.

Well, three or four days ago, I was just browsin’ eBay as usual, and BAM! I saw the faceplate. The E305 Limited Edition “Ring of Light” (green concentric circles) faceplate, and I bid like hell, since I actually had cash.

Sadly, within the last 11 seconds (for some reason my ISP decided to just screw me bandwidth-wise as the auction ended, since it was taking like 8 seconds to reload the page) someone out-bid me by one dollar. And I’ll never have that recipe again.–er, I didn’t win. Anyway, the auctioneer (seller) told me that he had another one, and that he’d be listing it again soon if I didn’t win, but I’ve been checking his for sale items every day, and he hasn’t sent me a message through eBay or anything, so I dunno. There’s a change he e-mailed my mom’s e-mail address (it’s her eBay account) but I asked her to keep a look out, and she hasn’t forwarded me any messages, so… who knows.

Anyway, I’m sure it’ll come up again some time.

Proving there is no such thing as society.

I pre-ordered Grand Theft Auto IV for the 360 (special edition, w00t) at the local … place. I don’t really know what to call it, as they rent movies and games as a main thing, but also seem to sell video games, and accessories. I’ll just call it a movie rental place. Anyway, I was put on the list of people who want ze game (not really a pre-order, no cash is exchanged, but they call you as soon as they have it… it’s almost SEARSesque.) and as far as I know, I’m the first on the list (unlike Super Smash Bros. Brawl, where I was 30th on the list) which probably doesn’t matter, as the lady there told me that she was ordering in 25 different copies from 3 different warehouses, etc, just to ensure that she had some on the 29th.

I’ve been considering taking the 29th off from school, but then again, I didn’t for Brawl, and GTA IV is not more on the same level with Halo 3 than Brawl. (Was that even a sentence? — To clear things up, I took a day off from school to buy/play Halo 3, but didn’t for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, for which I was also quite excited. I’m not all that excited about GTA IV. I mean, I want it, but I’m not going to die if I don’t get it or anything.)

Anyway, when it gets here, I’ll be like $100 – $110 poorer, so I can’t afford Mario Kart Wii this month. (Not that I’m really interested in Mario Kart Wii anyway.)

Twitter

I signed up for Twitter after watching Diggnation the other day, (One of the hosts wanted people to follow him on Twitter so he could win a contest with a friend, so I figured: “Why not?”) and have thus far enjoyed the hell out of it. It’s pretty cool having li’l micro-updates on the side of my blog, as well as being able to post updates from my phone (I’ve sent two SMSes in the last two days. My new personal best, as before that I had sent a total of three separated by several months in total. — I never use SMS or “txting.”) and I’m looking forward to using it more after I get a new phone in May. (zomg segue)

Research in Motion

I plan on getting myself a Blackberry of some sort when I get ma’ new phone in May. Either a Pearl, a Curve, or one of the bigger and more unseemly smartphones they offer. I’m currently leaning towards a pink Pearl, as TELUS has a special deal on them, and they donate $ to breast cancer research with each purchase, which is pretty cool, but I’m still not entirely sure which phone I’ll go with.

Outtro

For now, I’m going to keep using these li’l mini-headings when I post an update post like this, as it really makes it easier to tell what the hell I’m talking about. I’ll try and remember to actually make full posts that aren’t a mish-mash of everything I’ve done over the last couple of weeks in the future, but I can’t make any promises. I tend to put things off. Procrastination for the win.

April 13, 2008 · Filed Under Uncatagorized

Comments

4 Responses to “Mid-April Update: 2008 Edition”

  1. Ronald McDonald on April 13th, 2008 3:21 pm

    I gave in and bought Guitar Hero III. I like how the game assures me that I ROCK, even though I’m only playing on Easy. :P

  2. The Lazy Canadian on April 13th, 2008 7:55 pm

    You’re making me want to play GH3 again, which would mean I’d have to hook up Mjolnir. (The keyboard is moved, the Ethernet and speakers are unplugged… Ive been using Nasir and Ullr lately.

  3. melic on April 20th, 2008 5:46 am

    I found this post of yours through Google:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/125506

    I want to remove my footer too and I have the same encoding you had and I dont find how to remove it, could you please give some indicator as to how do this?

    Thank you

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  4. melic on April 20th, 2008 6:05 am

    Sorry about the bother, feel free to delete my irrelevant comments, I have now managed to remove that ::)))

    I just needed a base64 decoder
    http://mtin.nl/tools/base64/decode

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