Kirby: Canvas Curse

Kirby: Canvas Curse came out yesterday for Nintendo DS and I just picked it up @ Circuit City for $29.99. After playing it for only 20 minutes, I can say it's one of the best, if not the best, DS games currently available. The gameplay and control is fresh, and the graphics / art are everything you've come to expect from the Kirby series.

The gist of the game is this: Kirby is trapped in a world of paintings by an evil witch and only you can help him out, etc. The only control you use during the game is the touch screen -- touch! You touch Kirby to dash or use a special ability, tap blocks to break them or enemies to stun them, and paint rainbow lines for kirby to roll along on. Basically the goal is to get to the goal of each stage while collecting medals you can later use to unlock new modes and other extras. At the end of each stage (3 stages per level) is a mini-game, except on the final stage there is a boss-fight.

So what should you do? Pick this one up.

2 weeks from now? Meteos! Prepare!

While I do have a PSP, it sits in the corner and does what it does best...looks sexy. The thing just doesn't have any recent good games, or any good games coming out in the near future. My DS is the one getting the actual play time, and from the looks of the 2005 line-up, this trend will continue.

Nine Inch Nails Tour

Dates have been announced for the Fall 2005 tour for Nine Inch Nails.

Front row in Cleveland, OH please. If anyone works for a ticket place that'll be getting tix for this show, lemme know...I want to buy one.

Pink Floyd Reunion

It seems Pink Floyd will be getting on stage once again to perform at the Live 8 charity concert in London. Yes, everyone -- save Syd, of course. Crazy...hopefully this will spark some kind of reunion tour ala The Eagles. I'd kill to see the Floyd live.

News here.

Outage (update)

Seems my web-space is back...portal should be working for all again.

Fast Ending

...But it was anything *but* fast. I've been drinking only water for the last 3 days in order to get rid of toxins that build up in fat stores, etc. The experience was an interesting one. I never realized how much I liked food until now. Before I thought I saw eating as a pain and something I did to just kill time or keep myself from dying, etc. However, the last 3 days have been very long because your body doesn't want you to do much...I was very tired the whole time because I was low on energy.

I can't say I saw God or anything, but it was a fun experience that I think I'll do again soon to see how long I can go.

Outage

Looks like my college is having an outage on some of their web-servers. You'll get a blank page when trying to access the PSP portal until they fix it. Should be fixed shortly, I assume...out of my hands for the moment. Sorry.

Apple goes Intel

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20050606corp.htm

Two words:

Don't Panic!

Fast!

After being convinced by Swift, today begins my water fast. I believe he will also be joining me. For an undetermined amount of time, I will no longer be eating and only drinking water. Now, I'm not doing this in an attempt to reach a higher spiritual plane or anything...I just want to cleanse out some toxins I'm sure have built-up over the years of me eating everything from frozen pizzas to McDonald's.

There's a good article on it here.

Wish me luck. I'll let you know how things go.

Comcast Issues -- Resolved!

Ok, first I need to swallow my pride and apologize for the Comcast bitching yesterday. Turns out the issue was due to me being stupid.

When you connect to a network such as Comcast's, your modem has a unique IP address that is handed out based on the MAC address of the computer/router attached to the modem. In my case, when I moved I simply took my router and the modem and had service transfered to my new location.

In addition to this, the people who were moving into my old place needed a router, so I sold them my old one which I had replaced a few months earlier. I completely forgot about the whole MAC address thing. Both routers had the same MAC address (I used a feature where you could manually set the MAC address on the router).

This resulted in two identical hardware addresses on Comcast's network and, therefore, the network was handing the same IP to me as it was the person I sold my old router to. This resulted in chaos and, bottom-line, allowed only one of us to be online at a time.

Anyways, I changed the MAC address on their router and all is now good. Blah! :)

Comcast Sucks

Comcast is once again having random outages all over Pittsburgh..

God I wish Verizon would get here with FiOS. I'm so sick of my intermittent connection.