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Working from beyond (Office Space)

2008-05-11 00:16:57

I wonder if these are in the male bathrooms as well. Plus they got it wrong, It should be "If you sprinkle while you tinkle"

By Tami on Office Space

What did you do for mommy? (Questions)

2008-05-11 00:10:44

It's mother's day

By Tami on Questions

earth day 2008 (The random photo journal)

2008-05-09 12:33:11

bringing your own bag to the supermarket means you won't carry home plastic bags. Now what will I do for litter box cleanup?

By Gods Child on The random photo journal

Birthday girl (The random photo journal)

2008-05-07 13:01:18

kim

By owen on The random photo journal

Smiley Faces (Logbook)

2008-05-04 13:19:38

I am often asked how I find time to update this website, what stars direct my faith. Its not really hard. A focused mind can find anything. There is so much bueaty in the world. All that it requires is a little time to write it down, separate the clutter. At the base of it all, every song is a love song. Its all a matter of perspective, how you look at it or listen to it.

As I'm eating my calalloo rice out of a Styrofoam cup takes a very long time to decompose in the environment and has been documented to cause starvation in birds and other marine wildlife. If I had the time, a whole lot a money or if luck was a lady; I would rent a whole floor of the pan caribbean building - don't ask me why. When you live by the day, pay by the hour, and sleep on the weekends, you tend to lay in the bed that you made, die by what you live by. Passion is a curse.

I spent all of last week thinking up new application concepts and watching wild ants eat babies on Discovery - not really - they were eating chickens. Babies taste like chicken? I ask cause I'm not sure. I learn fast, so you don't really have to go into the details. Photographic memory tends to be a curse when you remember odd little details about everything and yet absolute nothing about others. It does wear me down at times, like a caged animal.

By owen on Logbook

The Nintendo Wii Review (Technology)

2008-05-04 13:17:50

Originally it was called the "Nintendo Revolution" then close to launch Nintendo renamed it to just "Wii". Now when this name was announced I was like "wtf! are they crazy?". Well apparently if you build it - they will come and almost 2 years later the Wii is still selling like hot cakes. The console is self is pretty simple it has the motion controls used for playing games and it lacks the ability to play DVD movies.

Hardware

Its white like a ipod. It seems that white is the new black. Technically the Wii is not a Playstation 3 or a Xbox 360. Nintendo went for the cheapest route possible which is probably why it costs $250 USD in and only has 512 mb of internal storage. Its very quiet and has a SD card slot on the front and 2 USB ports on the back - thats it. The controllers use bluetooth to communicate with the console and use AA batteries for power. Instead of building a whole new console from scratch Nintendo used an upgraded version of their previous console (the Gamecube) which makes it 100% compatible with the games and controllers released between the year 2000 and 2006 - which is always a good thing. The Wii also has built in Wifi which you can use to surf the internet on you television or download games from the Nintendo "Virtual Console" Service ( referred to as the VC).

Software

On the software side good games are few and far between. The Wii is a patient man's console. There are alot of games available but you will have to wait 3 or 4 months for the AAA titles to be release. AAA titles are usually well polished and include the usual Mario, Zelda, Metroid first party Nintendo titles and a select few good third party releases. On the other hand the Wii comes with Wii Sports which include 5 mini games. Most people will play these games forever. The VC is the third option for getting games - basically every monday morning Nintendo releases approximately 3 (Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, Graphix 16, etc) games. The games are priced between $5 and $10 USD. The games are downloaded the Wii's internal memory and can be played at anytime and are exact ports which does have a certain nostalgic factor to them - so if you had a NES back when you were young then you can get those same games again without the blowing. So far I've bought Sonic The Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros and Streets of Rage 2.

Overview

The Wii in essence is a bridge between a VCR and dvd player. Its cheap, unique and has enough "wow" factor for it to standout from the crowd on its own. Its an experience that cannot be found anywhere else, a big gamble which Nintendo surprisingly won. Right now the Wii is in the same position the Playstation 2 was 5 years ago - extremely popular with tons of lackluster/quick to the press video games. Not a bad position, eventually the games came but sometimes I wish it was just a little bit faster.

By owen on Technology

Japanese Pen Spinning Collaboration (Video Blog)

2008-05-04 11:09:37

Now for something to do in your off hours at work, lol

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now heres a quick tutorial;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMPPN1WSK0A

By owen on Video Blog

Another One (The random photo journal)

2008-05-01 12:06:37

So Ian has choosen to bless us with another dog pic - I really don't know where he got the idea from. Should we start a pets category?

By owen on The random photo journal

Soldiers of Jah Army (SOJA) - You Don't Know Me (Video Blog)

2008-04-28 16:24:19

Whats you say? modern reggae? are they up to scratch?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE5XuF_CB90

By owen on Video Blog

How much do you spend on a night out? (Questions)

2008-04-24 08:24:55

By owen on Questions

We and dem (Logbook)

2008-04-20 22:26:29

I've been watching african movies on dvd since my cable company's feed was hyjacked by the latest monopoly - cream and bastards. I'm hooked on them like a baby on a well endowed milk machine - a monkey on a swing. There is no hesitation in these films for men to head butt women, jealous sisters marrying there dead sister's husbands, women fighting over men in supermarkets - its not the typical regurgitant I am accustomed to seeing on american cable or on profile for the last twenty one years. Cinderella gets her fair share of bad treatment.

African films live on a whole different set of rules; women typically stay at home, have babies and then get murdered or betrayed in some unusually conniving way. Only to return as ghosts to set things right. There are also a lot less curse word and they place a lot of emphasis on morals and ethics. Cursing is replaced with long sensitions of crying, well bawling would be a better word to describe the river of H2O that percipitates when anyone dies or gets slapped - did I mention how they like to slap alot? One girl got headbutted once, shot, burned with acided, given a letal injection and slapped at least once by every character in the movie, all because she was in love with the dude that president's daughter wanted. It was very painful to watch - I loved it - pure drama.

The films I've been watching seem to be from Ghana. Which may explain why the director keeps using the same actors over and over again - not that I'm complaining cause there apparently is no shortage of leading ladies with healthy backend support, thickness, camera crews, etc. Hair extentions are abundant but not quite as annoying as the fact that EVERY MOVIE IS A TWO PART SERIES. It is as if they can never finish slapping anybody in a hour and a half. Nothing is worst than watching part 1 and having the possiblity of NEVER SEEING THE CONCLUSION! I am enjoying still, if not only to see who will get murdered or slapped next, how and when the father will catch the son sleeping with his mistress who happens to be his wife's sister. The plot is never the same, which is good.

By owen on Logbook

Daymoon (Into the Blue)

2008-04-17 19:38:39

Central Park in March. Love your sky pictures thought I'd share one of my own.

By FlyingV on Into the Blue

Downtown (Blog Jamaica)

2008-04-16 16:27:49

Its different thats all I'm going to say.

By owen on Blog Jamaica

Crabs (The random photo journal)

2008-04-16 16:25:42

I found it strange that this guy was selling cooked crabs near the portmore mall. It never seemed like a "pickup and eat" kinda thing. I suppose everybody has their flavor.

By owen on The random photo journal

So new its green (The random photo journal)

2008-04-16 16:21:44

I never fancied anything but blue tooth brushes. I'm giving this one a whirl because it comes highly recommended. But like fallen leaves in the night....

By owen on The random photo journal