Sort of!

It's snowing in Ottawa. Again. Forever.

So I managed to drop a bottle of this on my big toe today. It shattered into a million pieces, and made a hell of a mess of my kitchen, and my toe. I'm fairly certain I don't need stitches (a Band-Aid seems to be enough), but there was a great deal of glass, blood, and barbeque sauce all over. Fun stuff!

Also, Habanero and Tequila + Lilac scented Mr. Clean....not so good!

Jason, THE JASON, Fonceca.


This is a test blog.

Perhaps I'll give you more later.






Perhaps.

It is cold here in Ottawa today, despite what the weather monkeys have to say about it.

My webhost is having problems with email. Which means anything sent to anyone@mend0za.com isn't making it through properly. Awesome.

So I've updated the game for the first time in awhile. I've hit a big milestone, namely that you can play an entire round of it, without having to use the controls that aren't supposed to be there. Most of the instructions the game provides at this point are wrong, but I'll just have to revise them later on.

Also, I'm uploading the latest version using a new tool, so if it's refusing to update/complaining of missing files, give it a little time.

So the following conversation repeated itself approximately 4 times today:

Me: I kind of want to find a good headset. Maybe one that supports 7.1 surround, with a removable mic, would ideally be wireless, and needs to be PC and 'other' compatible (ie, that I can use with my pc and/or XBox/whatever other consoles come down the line in the future).
Postumus: DURRRRRRRRRRRRRH. HERE'S A SOUNDCARD THAT WILL SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS.

And if that wasn't annoying enough, the following conversation repeated itself at least 8 times:

Me: Hello?
Old Woman: This is ____. You pick up wrong pants?
Me: No. We have the correct pants. We dropped off 2 pairs, and got those same 2 pairs back.
Old Woman: Oh? Okay. You have the wrong pants?

So I beat The Simpsons and although it got Average reviews (71 on Metacritic), I really have to say it was terrible. I rather enjoyed the 2 Marge levels (aka Overlord) but the camera is quite possibly the worst I've ever dealt with in a 3^rd person shooter. Kingdom Hearts was bad, but The Simpsons manages to almost never give you a decent angle, and just randomly jumps 90 degrees for no readily obvious reason. On the up side, I only paid $10 for it.

And then I downloaded and played in it's entirety Dash of Destruction, a cheesy advergame from Doritos. It also sucked, but at least its camera was consistent.

So Amazon regularly sends me emails recommending various movies, books, etc., based on past purchases I've made, which is fine, but recently their system lost its mind. Based on my past purchase of Discworld: Wyrd Sisters - DVD, I should like other movies in the L > Christopher Lee category. So far, so good. But it's also suggested I might like Maid in Sweden and Cashback, which I can only assume are softcore pornography. And seem to lack Christopher Lee. Recommendations via the website, you can look up the thought process behind Amazon suggesting them, but that's not available in the emailed recommendations.

So, obviously, I've revamped my website. Patricia complained about the white on black, and I wanted a change of pace anyways. In addition, the archives, which I hadn't realized weren't keeping up to date, and weren't formatted correctly, and a dozen other problems, have been fixed.

I also replaced everything on the right hand side of the page with links to Amazon.ca, because it's vastly easier/faster to maintain, and hey...maybe it'll make me an eighth of a cent one day.

That I can't take a hint. Eventually.