taking a break from work to say WATCH STAR TREK!

Some more are up for pre-order from buy.com.  If you are still looking.  I managed to get one from them a few weeks ago.

http://beastdaigo.jp/movie_sf4.shtml 

Wow this guy is a beast. He mainly plays Ryu.  After watching his videos today I feel the urge to start playing with him too. Like 90 percent of the other people on xbox live. lol.

Oh found another video of Justin Wong using Chun Li in the SF 4 Finals here in the US.  Another top player.

Here is a funny one.

Oh man I am bored.

Since my XBOX is shipped away to Texas getting repaired for it’s infamous red ring of death I am constantly thinking about playing video games.  With the GF out of town for 2 weeks I’m lacking things to do.  As big of an anime fan I am, I can’t keep watching hours and hours every day.  I started reading a novel A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin and that has broken up the day a bit.  I would detail my car, but it’s still pretty shiny still from the last detail 2 months ago.  I can’t  really get into any PC games right now.  Tried playing Warhammer but stopped after like 5 minutes.  Also WOW has no appeal to me since all my friends are not playing it either.   So yeah, I am going nuts.  What’s funny is if I had the Xbox here I probably wouldn’t even play it that much.  Just longing for something you don’t have I guess is normal for people.  

I’ve been tempted to just buy a xbox and return it after I get my fixed one back.  Do you guys think that is unethical?  I mean Microsoft should give out loaners since this is their mess.  2-3 weeks without an xbox is pretty ridiculous.  I think by returning the xbox Microsoft takes the loss not the actual store.  Then again I am pretty lazy. I don’t know if I want to have to go back to the store and come up with some BS excuse on why I don’t want the xbox anymore.  Also I should be reimbursed for my XBOX Live time. 

Er nope doesn’t work.  Think I have to tweak it.  But you can just add the tags “[youtube]youtube link here. [/youtube]”  directly in the live writer editor and it will work.  As shown above.

Overall I really like live writer.  You can get more info about it here.  And some tutorial videos found here.

Melissa and Bingying you guys should use this.  It’s free too!

Just downloaded the free Microsoft Windows Live Writer software for easier blog writing.  Seems pretty nice.

Here is my modified Hori EX Pro for my Street Fighter 4 addiction.  To test out the image editing abilities of this application.

I added Sanwa buttons and a new sanwa balltop.  My GF thinks I should have picked nicer colors, but I suck at picking colors.  Eventually I want to add a custom image over the stick like the people at http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=115479&page=151

Here are some examples.

I should find a friend that’s good with photoshop to make me a cool one.

I also just received the Madcatz Street Fighter 4 Tournament Edition stick in the mail today from buy.com  I preordered it a while ago and forgot to cancel it.  Now that I have it I’m tempted to keep it too.  I can sell it for over 200 dollars though.  Seems like a waste since I have the Hori EX Pro my GF gave me for my birthday.  Both sticks have all the same parts.  Though the tournament stick is really nice though.  Should I just keep both? haha.

Just finished watching the first season of Skip Beat.  It is pretty much a shoujo series.   I loved it, and the ending left me wanting more.  Hopefully there will be a 2nd season.  Brief run down girl loves guy that becomes famous.  Guy dumps girl.  Girl wants revenge and aims to become more famous.  The series is about her growth in show biz.  Of course there is a growing romance thrown in.  I enjoyed it.  So check it out.

Shoujo manga/anime the demographic is usually towards women.  I will admit there have been many Shoujo type anime/manga I have enjoyed.  If it is a dry humorless love story then that typically doesn’t entertain me, but if there is comedy and a great love story then I’m all for it.   So yeah I admit it, I love a lot of shoujo anime.   Although Bingying already knows that.    Off to find some more to download.

One word: Terrible.

I purchased street fighter iv recently and boy is it a blast.  I feel like a kid again spending hours and hours playing Street fighter II.  Recently most games i’m pretty bleh about.  I don’t have the patience to play them usually unless my GF is watching me play and it makes it more interesting.  A sign of old age I guess?  Maybe having too much disposable income being able to buy whatever game I please makes me value each game less.  I used to have to beg my parents to buy me the new game as a 8 year old and I definitely played each precious game I received every few months to death.

Anyways Street Fighter II definitely has rekindled my passion.  I played my cousin the other night and it definitely brought back my memories of sitting in the arcade with him wondering how to counter his damn cheap gulie flash kick move.  MY gf ordered me a fight stick for my early birthday and boy will I be spending time hadouking away for a long time.  A fight stick will definitely give you an advantage.  SNES there were no fight stick options so everyone was on a equal playing field (and it was all played against each other locally anyways.) So if you want to compete online either you pray the other person doesn’t have a fight stick or you’ll just be at a natural disadvantage every time. The game is way more complicated than it was with all these new fancy combat mechanisms, but hopefully I can learn them and keep up with the young kids that naturally learn faster than me in video games. haha.  Anyways if you like fighters at all I recommend Street Fighter IV.

So I have been pretty terrible at writing anything.  I’m taking advantage of today’s half day to write.

So this year’s SharePoint conference was not as good as 2007, I did not really hear any good speakers this year.  All the best ones from the previous year were absent this year.  I wonder why, but whatever I learned a few tidbits and I got to enjoy the week with my GF who was able to tag along.  Being in Las Vegas alone is not very fun, so it was nice to have her there.

One other note the layout this year was terrible.  It was spread out between 3 floors because there was another big conference in the same location so it made it really difficult for me to attend the ASP sessions if I wanted to.

I think for my conference choice for 2009 I’ll pick TechNet which is in Los Angeles in the spring and try that.  Hopefully I’ll learn more from it.