My new girlfriend

She's sooo cute :) isn't she?

Underbed Video

For all the lazy people out there... Underbed Video. It's a TV that comes from right under the bed and it can be rotated as you wish.

For the record

The funniest things I've ever seen.

How much reality can you bare?

How much "reality" can a computer bring on your screen before you feel compunction for doing something really wrong and bad? For some of us maybe the answer is simple but for me and other people the answer will come only after the games will resemble reality in such a good way that we'll not be sure which is the game and which is the reality. I had the chance to download Test Drive Unlimited, the beta version, and to be among the first people experiencing this new "reality". I'm not gonna get to much into detail but I think it's a really good game but there will be more games in the future which will redefine high-end graphics every time taking us closer and closer to photorealism.

Computers and school

How could a normal person consider that I shouldn't receive credit on an assignment just because on the teacher's computer the website doesn't work like on the computer I created it? I mean... it's retarded. I told her to come and see that on the computer (at school) I made the website, it works but she said it doesn't matter, and that she believes me but she wouldn't give me the damn credit! I don't care why it doesn't work on her computer but I used the manage website option in Dreamweaver as she told us!!! If she does that one more time I'm gonna go talk to the counselor. Grrr... I hate school so much...

prizee.com

I finally received my joypads from prizee.com It took exactly 1 month from the day I ordered until I got them. I spent like 10 minutes a day for a few months until I earned enough points and I'm not sure it's worthy but, anyways, I'm glad they made it and I can enjoy games like Flatout 2 and I'm pretty sure now I can play racing games better than using the keyboard.

This is a picture I took some days ago, now the snow it's completely gone and everything is green.

Battlefield 2142

Can someone make this clear for me? Am I dead or I'm just wounded? Or maybe we all live in the matrix...

Battlefield 2142 it's a good game though. There 2 things that in my opinion make it suck a little. The first is that it doesn't have a single player campaign and the second is that it takes such a long time to reload weapons, if you're surrounded by enemies and you need to reload there are big chances you die.

No time for blogging :(

!@#$%^&*())_+ school!!

The video card story (part 2)

I now have the ATI Radeon X1900XT and everything works just fine. I also replaced the power supply with a Master Power, 500 watt. Here are some photos:

before:

power supply replaced:

the dirty one

ready to go, new video card and new power supply + cleaned

close-up

the old stuff: geforce 6200 and the old power supply

The video card story

So I bought this video card, GeForce 7900GS after a long time of brainstorming and problems didn't delay to occur. The system freezes sometimes after 5 minutes and sometimes after an half an hour. I returned the video card for refund and I ordered an Radeon X1900XT from newegg.com but there couldn't be a worse time to order it because they ship only during business days and I ordered it Friday afternoon. That wouldn't be a problem if, as I found lately, the system would provide enough power. So I need to buy a new power supplier for my PC. I found some yesterday on CompUSA at a good price + rebate. Now the $40 one + $40 rebate is $160 and it doesn't have any rebate. I'm not sure what I'm going to do but I think I'll try if it works with the one I have now and at least nothing bad will happen, hopefully.

Developing story. Stay tunned.

Just three Romanians arrive in UK after EU accession

HAHA! Just three romanians! Bhuu! Be scared! Romanians are eating your money!! :))

They were expected to arrive in hordes, eager to reach Britain's borders on the promise of prosperity.

But when the floodgates opened as Europe embraced its poorer neighbours, Romania and Bulgaria, just three immigrants showed up.

These are the first Romanian migrants to arrive in Britain just hours after becoming full EU members.

thisislondon.co.uk

Cosmin is one of the thousands of workers expected to pour into Britain over the next few weeks after one of the poorest corners of Europe, Romania and Bulgaria became the 27th members of the European Union.

thisislondon.co.uk

Don't worry losers, now that Romania is part of EU things will get better in Romania.

Romanian poetry

Romanian poetry in English
I think it sounds better in Romanian though.

Happy 2007

For me it was a good and a bad year at the same time. I accomplished most of my goals but I'm not very happy about the near future. That is mostly because the school is starting, tomorrow I have school and only thinking about school gives me a headache. What am I going to do this year? I don't know, probably, and hopefully it will be a better year.

Right now I'm pretty pissed off because I can't figure out a way to call a phone through Yahoo Messenger. It just doesn't work, and it's supposed to be free. It says right here.

Happy new year!

Prey

I just finished this first person shooter game, Prey. It was pretty long but the puzzles and variety compensate. First it's kinda disgusting with all those living things: living walls, living weapons, living grenades and so on but you get used. The graphics are good, too good for my geforce 6200, (I'm getting a 7900 GT next week by the way :P ) but I played the game with most of the video options on the lowest settings for a decent frame rate. The game has some innovative things and it's more than just a Doom 3 clone. It has the wall walks, portals, gravity change (which is pretty much the same thing with wall walks but not exactly), spirit walk and last but not least the atmosphere. The wall walks are some paths and if activated you can walk on them even if they're going on the celling you can't fall. The portals are holes which teleport you to certain places and this is where many enemies come from. The spirit walk is kind of a dumb because being a spirit you should be able to go anywhere and you could not possibly DIE. Yes, that's right, in this game your spirit dies and goes to a place where some deviltry things fly to you and then you're back to life and continue to shoot the aliens from where you died. At least I'm glad you can't die again at that spirit land (stupid face).

Gaining the spirit walk power has one other benefit: When you die, you'll be sent directly to the spirit realm instead of to a game-over screen. This is essentially a basic minigame where you must fire the spirit bow at red and blue wraiths to recharge your health and spirit energy, respectively. After doing that for 15 to 20 seconds, you're sent back into the world of the living, right where you left off. This makes death trivial and removes any remaining difficulty you might encounter. In some ways, this method seems designed to remove the desire to constantly use quick saves and quick loads to inch through the game's 8- to 12-hour single-player campaign.

from gamespot.com

As I said, the spirit can't go anywhere, it can go only on special transparent white things or through transparent walls, it can't go through walls which I think is stupid. The atmosphere is given by the details in the bar before the alien abduction (you can even play some games, it's like a game inside a game, and watch TV) and by all the details and the radio news on the alien planet or whatever is that about many people being abducted from Earth . Trying to save Jen, Tommy's girlfriend, you have to fight against the aliens which captured humans from Earth for experiments, or as they say at the end of the game their 'harvest'. You play as Tommy and on the way saving Jen you'll find some insane and almost naked people, abducted from Earth, to which you can't talk and I think through all the game only one person talked to me. Maybe they were terrorized by aliens for too long.

There are many things to say about Prey but I think I talked about the most important things and I add the story of the game from the review on gamespot because mine is messed up.

Prey opens with the main character yelling at himself in a bathroom mirror. Tommy, a Cherokee Indian, doesn't really care about his heritage and wants to take his girlfriend, Jen, and leave the reservation. But before he can muster up the courage to convince her to leave (and just after he bashes in the skulls of a couple of morons causing trouble in her bar), an alien invasion sucks Tommy, his grandfather, and Jen up into some sort of spacecraft. With the help of some unknown benefactors, Tommy manages to get free and you set out on your quest to rescue your girlfriend and, of course, save Earth in the process. There are a few plot twists here and there, but some of those twists feel like they've been lifted directly from other games.

from gamespot.com

Overall it's a good game with moderate difficulty and if you've never played a fps before or you don't usually play fps games, Prey it's a good starting point because it has it all. Below are some screen shots but I'm not spoiling the end. (which is pretty sad btw)

something I forgot to post

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