> I was so excited for the advent of the Mazdaspeed 6. It promised so much — a lot of horsepower to a bigger car, bigger engine, redesigned and better… instead they put a really good engine in a cheap shell and they’re charging a lot for it. I was very disappointed with the car. I had such high hopes and it never met them. I got 0-6 in about 4.2 secconds with my Mazdaspeed Protege (03), the 6 pulls about 6.4 — just not right. It grips, but it grips after calculating, you can almost feel the computer decide…

> Codes – enter at the first menu screeniammostwanted Unlock cars burgerking Unlocks Burger King Challenge castrol Unlocks Castrol Ford GTI I got to play NFS Most Wanted, the full game for PC last night. I’m able to make better comparison’s with XBOX 360 now. The video on XBOX was much better, it was running actual DVD instead of streaming off the HD. They should have done the same with the PC version, the video can get choppy, and I’m running a very fast SATA 3G/sec HD. The gameplay is the same, controls are tight, and the movies are all…

>I am installing NFS Most Wanted Black Edition. It comes with a free DVD, because you need something to watch while you’re installing the 4 CDs worth of data! 3 Gigs via CD… why not a DVD? It’s 2005, they’ve been around since… like 1998 or something. Only poor people don’t have DVD drives at this point, and poor people don’t buy games! Nicole got me an early XMas present. It was kinda my doing, but I knew she’d want what I got her (Settelers of Catan), so it all worked out.

>I went snowboarding today! It was fairly icy by the time I got there, but my brother hit the slopes this morning and was done about 12 so he gave me his lift sticker. We found if you have another sticker underneath it will peel right off. I had no problems, it stayed stuck, and got today’s snowboarding for free. Also — since my Mom got me a Bash badge for Xmas, it’ll only cost me $20 tomorrow. I was able to get down the slope, and shoosh well enough. I was still sore from Wednesday (I worked out at…

>I just got back from Jay’s house. He got an XBox 360. He waited in line at Walmart near Worcester (Leicester?) for midnight, I think he said 6 hours? He was 1 away from the Platinum system, and thus in order to get all the pieces he wants, he’s got to hunt all over, and pay a lot more then getting the entire package ready to go. He has a 42″ Hitachi HDTV, maybe 2 years old or so… and he had just gotten the HD cable when I got there. It really did look amazing, and the gameplay was…

>I also updated the links page, click the yellow “link” up at the top here -^I’ll set it so it can be resized, but not now, now is time for beer! Beer and games! Atually not quite yet… still waiting for it to download, about half done and hate to get into another game in the meanwhile. I’m stuck in NFS Underground 2. I’ve gotten really far, I’m about to go to the next “level” of courses and races, but have to beat 1 of 2 races… and I can’t beat either. I can’t upgrade my car any more until…

>Wow. Not bad for DSL. Verizon recently upgraded me to 3mb for no charge. I was supposed to get it from the beginning, but started out with 1.5mb, usually got about 150k with that, now I’m getting upwards of 300k… and this is from a public “fileshack” sort of site. Getting the new Need For Speed – Most Wanted demo. We’ll see how it is… in about 20 minutes.

> George Michael – Father Figure This song takes on a bit of an odd meaning now that we’re aware of his sexuality: I will be your father figureI will be your preacher…I am sick of crimesI will love you, till the end of time.Put your little hand in mine.…(and later in the final bars of the song)I WILL BE YOUR DADDY! …hmmm, I detect some homosexual undertones, insinuations towards the clergy, and that Mr Michael is longing to be the “father figure” for some lucky young gentleman. …but that’s just me.

>wow. Check out this screenshot from the next 3DMark [tech preview] I got some overclocking pointers today from Overclocker.com Check out the forums, they’ve got the most info. I switched RAM between the two computers, put the 466mhz Dual Channel DDR in the AMD64, then put the 400mhz Dual Channel DDR in the P4. I’m currently attempting to get 3DMark working so that I can see if the addition of faster RAM and my tweaking have given any results. I also figured out why Battlefield 2 is slow. I’m running in in WinXP64! I’m doing it just cause I can,…

>I had just signed out of updating my blog and saw this:http://hymen-defloration.blogspot.com/ OMG – I’m not even going to link to this, but Jesus… I saw it scroll by on blogger and I must say it caught my eye. Not everyone names their blog Hymen yadda yadda.I can’t believe this… well, I can… but damn if it ain’t surprising.It’s got links for porn, and a very descriptive “entry” so please use your discression in going there and following anywhere it may want to lead you… Aside from that… I just saw an ad on HBO for an upcoming series:I have…

>I just saw Meet the Fockers. I give it a solid 4 out of 5.No one is more surprised then I about this.I expected a really tough movie to watch. Similar to the first one, Along Came Polly, and the other painful to watch Ben Stiller movies. It was a little of the sort, but damn it was good.An incredible performance by Barbara Streisand, it was a heart warming story of two families coming together with a marriage. It was actually encouraging, though a fictional tale, to see two completely different families coming together with the union of two people.…

>Naysayers said nay, the government said “oh, don’t worry about it”Now we see what they did with the Patriot Act. I’m all for privacy, I’m all for the government knowing as little about any one citizen as possible. Why do they need to investigate who’s used the libraries? Maybe they can see who looked up bombs? or who may be fascinated by Al Queda? Just because someone wants to know more about something doesn’t give you any reason to put them under surveillance. Once you’re watching them, who knows what else you may “bag” them for? I downloaded the Anarchist’s…

> So I’m trying out Sirius online again. Another 3 day trial.If you have any technical prowess — and an interest in getting free radio… let me know.Even if it’s just online I’d still like to figure out what makes them tick.The quality is 34khz, but the programming content is what I want. I’ll subscribe, eventually, but need to make sure I get the car all hooked up wtih it first.Here’s the deal: Sign up with Sirius Online (www.sirius.com) and search the programming. You can listen to all the channels right from the web page.It will ask you to sign…