I just read over at kotaku.com, ” @RubyMars: haha! Lose 10 pounds to unlock achievement!” and tell me, tell me if you don’t think that that would be brilliant! OMG, imagine it (also add anything else the xbox has different):

• achievement whores would first gain the weight so the would then be able to lose it
• show a time lapse photo capture animation of your different weigh ins
• people would be able to see you while you work out
• step aerobics instructors would probably teach through there
• The Gamerchics would {*encourage*} each other
• the board would have to incorporate a foot massager
• you’d exercise to music ripped into your hard drive
• feature the characters from fusion frenzy :-E
• or work along with the master chief and sell to every damn halo fanboi

Ideas?

PS i have some other uses for the Zune… later.

Purum

Every time I refer to a TV as an HD, i feel I may as well only shop at abercrombie or some kind of rich shop cliche. Or I feel that the branding has finally healed on the back of my neck and looks just like my masters over at some obscurely evil marketing department cubicle always envisioned.

DVD stood for something: Data… cause it contained some… Video… cause it was used for video… Disc… because it isn’t a platter, isn’t it? Blu-Ray… cause it uses a blu ray? lame… whats the acronym? BRD? BDR? BD? but people are rushing by now to acquire bluray players, and loving (maybe?!) the sound of saying, “i just got five Mhoovies on BluRay! what on eaaaarrrrth do people do without Bleueueueue R’A'y? Sony cries, Insert-Corny-exclamation-of-success here!

Above paragraph is not intended as a shot against Sony, who will receive my “monies” this Holiday season in exchange for a PS3.

So, ya, I got a new TV (i want to call it HDTV) but hopefully the trend will pass. “it’s wery nice” and it makes my wii games look like shit. Goddammit, I even bought cables and still, I don’t want to play wii games on it, unless it actually means to have blocky pixels… VC is not too bad. Super Mario Galaxy? worthless! XBOX looks amazing, hopefully it wont break.

Contract or no, I will not bow to any sponsor. – Wayne

Purum

I read a quote that goes to the tune of this:

“I don’t know exactly what weapons will be used in WW3… but I do know that WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein

It was on Chris Blanc’s shirt. There was a picture that had one of Einstein’s pictures wrapped around a mushroom cloud. I was at work… made me think…

I’ve always thought and said to myself (cause its important to speak to oneself to see how dumb what you’re saying might be) that “one should always want to be quoted”. “Free is a great condiment!”, when I find coins while I walk, “I’m getting paid to walk too”. “One should have an opinion about everything one should have an opinion about”… there are others, but I’m still banging them into shape… that last phrase is not intended to be one, and if used by someone, it should not be while answering the following question: “do you have a lover?”

So, I was jealous of Einstein’s great intellect and quotable legacy. Carrying the title of being a genious will make people search for evidence of that genius that may have been overlooked by others; somewhat like an archaeologist searches for “newer” clues about a site that has been studied over and over again. Without a doubt, Einstein had great thoughts, and great ability to prove these thoughts. Whether he simply theorized or thought, great thoughts. And I’ve always wanted to have something to contribute to humanity and the universe, thought I’m not so aware of how to achieve that quest; and moreover, I’m not sure they knew exactly how or even if they knew they did either.

I admire other sets of geniuses. Those from every sector of human endeavor… holly shit molly! It sort of makes you not even want to attempt anything. But the search, that’s mostly fun! I heard it once said that scientists must not fall in love with their ideas… Feynman (The Great Explainer) also mentions this everyonce in a while; and it may well be that the exchange with others is its own payoff.

For example, a long time ago, I wrote a lot of poetry… most of which is not releasable, though I call it practice. Today, I write songs, and I must admit that the reduction of words/emotions/feelings into verses is a great effort. As time has passed, Ive noticed that doing said effort becomes useful when talking to others. sometimes as conversation starters, or even during a conversation; to distill their message into its essence, or even to quote them further.

So, all this effort of trying to contribute to English (a language which will not last forever :-0 ) comes from trying to have what others have shown to have, genius! and maybe all if this effort, if I ever do something worth while, what ever it is, can ultimately be called “my envy given a voice”… you know, for the fun of it.

“Teach when they lose, win when you teach” – Keyvan “me”

Purum