"MY SHINING STAR HAS BECOME A DISMAL LIGHT"

Yea, another re-installation of the Windows operating system for me.

I refuse to purchase Windows 8. 

Live Tiles? No thanks.

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A little over a month ago, Nintendo set up demos for games they showed off at E3 in Best Buys across the nation. Me and Maria just had to go for the free swag. We were four people behind the last person to receive the Luigi cap. Little upset by that. I'm not watching the kid try out the HD version of Windwaker, I am staring at his hat and plotting thievery. My pickpocking skill is now "legendary" in Skyrim, so watch out. We took our two minute turn after an hour and half wait to try Super Mario 3D World.
First impressions: Just like with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, playing with 3 other players is difficult. You find yourself accidentally picking up and carrying your comrades.

 Street Pass explosion!

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Manson has been out there touring like a mad man since Born Villain dropped early last year.

SANDSTONE

Sandstone is still hanging in there, by god.

They actually did the VIP's a solid at the show. When I made it in, there was this area cordon off with caution tape right in front of the barricade. I was confused as hell until I saw the VIP's file in after their meet and greet with Alice Cooper and Manson.

They had Lawrence's local HAMMERLORD open up the festivities.

Wow!

Yeah, that just happened.

SOKOL AUDITORIUM

 

 Haven't been in Omaha since 2007 and being there again brought back some glorious memories. I vividly remember being in the very back of the Sokol and watching Deftones perform Beware and feeling my whole body vibrate from the music. Goddamn, I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.

I was super exciting to hear Manson changed up his setlist that night when they played Four Rusted Horses. At the time, I felt pretty smug about myself. Then five shows later they played Disassociative for the first time in almost fucking FOURTEEN years! According to YouTube videos, Manson did a good job with the vocals.

Love that parting kiss.

We bought the VIP package for this show specifically to have Manson sign Maria's 3DS.

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Regrets 2013

Love the exposure he received playing at AX but where the hell were his dancers. It is not a Kaya show when there is no one gyrating next to him.

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Extra Credit

 

Maria can sure do a lot with old Pitch Weeklys.

I just don't understand kid's music today.
wup wup, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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Crystal Ball

Is St. Louis about to abrupt in flames?

Annual "Hey, are you busy this weekend?" punch card fulfilled.

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One question: What took you so long?

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Fuck an XBOX.

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Maria stumbled across my original copy of Link's Awakening. I about cried as nostalgia assaulted my senses.

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THRIFT SIGHTINGS

Renewed my driver's license then treated everyone to thrift store shopping. Exp. 2017; I expect flying cars by then.

If you squint your eyes, this older lady appears to be holding some liquor and grabbing at her crotch.

OH NOOOO!

SNL's Mr. Bill found another gig as a ball lovin' clown.

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CPU CRITICAL!!

After emergency surgery earlier this year, sad to say, my q6600 painfully succumbed to failure. 

Good night sweet prince.

NERD HQ to the rescue.

i7-2600k
ASUS P8Z68-V
Corsair Vengeance Series 8GB DDR3-1600
Corsair H60

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XXVIII

Open Heart(CPU) Surgery

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Last Sunday I had a GPU upgrade in preparations for all the new* COD FPS's clones coming out later this year. Everything went smooth like butta, got HOMEFRONT, bitchen....got back into MASS EFFECT....shit's amazing. Then outta the blue my comp shut the fuck down in the middle of an intense battle in Homefront. WTF?!?

Restart

While waiting for the boot-up I picked out some rad new tunes for Rock Band. It's amazing the amount of $$$ I've spent on songs. Man I hate DLC with a passion.

Really need to work on my keyboard chops.....

...anyways so I get it going, switch over to Mass Effect. Half hour into it, during an amazing cut scene with the Reaper Sovereign, the damn thing shuts off again. Ok, now I'm worried.

WHATS GOING ON!?!!?

After many moments "googling" all signs pointed to replacing the thermal paste on the CPU.

Took a reading of my CPU:

DATE TIME MHz C0 C1 C2 C3 LOAD%

03/19/11 20:47:30 2400.06 114 114 112 111 74.4

03/19/11 20:47:45 2400.06 115 114 112 111 72.6

03/19/11 20:48:00 2400.06 115 114 112 111 75.5

03/19/11 20:48:15 2400.06 115 114 112 112 72.7

03/19/11 20:48:30 2400.06 115 114 113 112 72.8

03/19/11 20:48:45 2400.06 115 114 113 112 72.6

03/19/11 20:49:00 2400.06 116 115 113 112 72.5

03/19/11 20:49:15 2400.06 116 115 113 112 75.2

HOLY SHIT!?!

and that's Celsius.

POWER DOWN! POWER DOWN!

Today I went to Radio Shack and picked up some Artic Silver 5.

Removed my heat-sink and to no ones surprise the old thermal compound had long dried out and was easy to scrape off.

After some man handling trying to get the heat-sink back on properly, I was ready to see some difference in temperatures.

DATE TIME MHz C0 C1 C2 C3 LOAD%

03/20/11 12:31:30 2000.05 61 61 54 52 8.2

03/20/11 14:01:15 2400.06 75 75 67 63 44.9

03/20/11 14:01:30 2400.06 77 77 68 65 60.3

03/20/11 14:01:45 2400.06 77 75 68 65 61.8

03/20/11 14:02:00 2400.06 77 77 69 65 67.9

03/20/11 14:02:15 2266.72 74 73 65 61 23.5

Ballin'!

Let's hope I haven't spoken too soon.....

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BONUS

Squirrel!

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BONUS+

Queen

04 20 2011

...I wait.

Boys and their toys!

I have submitted to "mini is in" revolution that's going on right now(in my head) and bought a mini netbook from HP. Just really wanted a device to watch anime and read manga in bed. Also I didn't feel comfortable traveling around if we had to with Maria's laptop. I'd rather risk bringing this with me. I've been using it for a week now and can't find anything to complain about, I absolutely love it.