The Boys Are Back In Town

Went up to Toledo tonight. Apparently Uncle Chris was in town whom I haven't seen for 12 years probably. His hair is noticeably grayer since that time and his beard noticeably bushier. On some vacation trip to a Greek Monastery in Arizona of all places. Told me to make sure to filter my water, too much garbage in the water. As I filter all my water I tend to agree.

Cache Cache Baby

We went geocaching around 4 today and hit a few Caches. First one was over in Rock Creek Park. It was a pretty easy find. We left a Wii Rock sticker and took a red car. Next one we hit was under a bridge. I saw the cache under the bridge but I didn't think that was it because it was way up under there, well come to find out it was actually the cache. We'll have to go back this week and hit it up. The last one we hit tonight was over at Arbor Lake. This one took us a while. It turns out that the cache is about 80-90 feet North West of the stated coordinates. Normally you'll find the cache within 20 feet of stated coordinates based on GPS sensitivity and where someone was holding the unit when they took down the numblers. Took us a half hour to find this one after the half mile trek up the trail to find it. It was pretty muggly back in the swampy woods with this one. Overall a good caching day hopefully we'll get going again sometime soon. It's been like a year since we last went, you'll see our cache count on the badge to the right isn't very high. I'm hoping we can hit 20 before the summer is over.

Free Trades At Goozex

Goozex is running free trades til the end of the month in honor of their 1 year anniversary. If you've been looking into getting into this hot trading site nows your chance. Click here to get 5 free trades and 100 points on your signup. In the 9 months Goozex has probably saved me 5-700 dollars in gaming goodness. That's not pocket change. Reports are that over 5 million points have traded hands which means if users had bought all those games they traded it would have cost them collectively $230,000. Gamestop better start trembling in it's shoes, the new way to get games is here.

PS3

The Xbox 360 premium and elite provide a superior package of online and gaming and HD in the box that you buy. The PS3 costs 100-200 dollars more with a far shittier online experience and no HD in box. Thats right composite cables in box. Microsoft gives you component in the prem and HDMI and component in the elite box. I say while HD is nice, it's not the superior defining factor of the PS3 vs. 360 fight, and that the superior global online experience offered by MS is the defining factor in this generation.

So slightly handicapped friend thus states that Sony has no reason to include HD compatible cables with the PS3 because I say it's not the defining factor of this generation. Well but Sony is charging 100-200 more than MS with a shoddy online system and no HD. SO you get both for less with MS. How is that a deal for the PS3. Friend can only state circular logic that because I say HD is not the defining factor of the xBox 360s superiority that thus the PS3 shouldn't have HD cables in the box. Again I would state that that would be fine if it offered something else better. Hmm shoddy online, no HD. Microsoft superior online+HD. Seems like an easy answer to me. Unfortunately individual doesn't understand simple logic. *sigh*

Sidebars

Looks like I hobbled my sidebar to not slide over my main blog. I may do some more tweeking but this is the final look for now.

Nintendo announce Wii Fit, that looks fun, lot of different activities for the whole family.

The Wii zapper adapter looks real fun too.

uTorrent

While I'm not a big torrenter I know some who are and I think the protocol is fantastic. I've used it myself to quickly and easily send large files to friends and colleagues. Mac users have had realtivly few choices in a torrent client, though we've always had access to the arguably best one Azureus. It's packed with features and based in Java so it runs on just about anything. It's also a little bloated and packed with features many don't need. Rumors are that uTorrent is making its way Macside and the net is abuzz. Many Windows users swear by this client for being fast and lightweight. I may test it out at some point after its release next time I need a linux image or something.

Finally

Finally the frackin heat broke. That was real nice. I updated some of the sidebar, there might be some formatting for me to do but overall thats that. I added widget things for my librarything and bookmooch. Both really nice websites for readers. I need to add links to my flickr page but for now you can find it over at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaltsasa/. Cats are lazy, I'm tired. I'm going to add a couple more things and get my blog roll up but overall this is what it's going to look like. I'm going to go read a page or two of The Dresden Files and hit the sack.