I installed all of the gear I picked up yesterday this morning. The gear is as follows: DVD Burner, 128MB Video card, Video Capture/Tuner Card and a 512MB USB flash drive. Fun fun fun.

After that I played with it all until I Pings friends and their kids came over. We went to a Thai place for dinner, came back and played games. At one point I had one kid playing GTA: SA on the TV and the other playing Ninja Gaiden on the PC monitor. Very nice.

It’s late and I don’t feel like taking too much time blogging (should have blogged earlier), so I only have one pic today. Ah! I also played a bunch of MGS3 today. What a lovely game. I’ll need to get the video game review section of my site up one day.

Also, last I checked I made 3 cents with that google ad thing (Woohoo!).

Computer Guts (ewwwww!)

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Tomorrow I’m going to the Forumosa Happy Hour thing at The Tavern. Sounds like it should be a nice event. Magicians and everything. I’ll be packing the digi cam and should come back with some photos.

Till then.

Milly T

What a wonderful day today was. Today’s blog will be short and sweet. First off it was Thursday and, as you may already know, Thursdays = laid back work days. It starts with a morning meeting, then music class (for 45 minutes), playtime and finally I get to work for about 40 minutes (or so).

I-Ping took the day off, so we headed off to Warner Village to catch a movie. We saw Howl’s Moving Castle. It was very nice. That one will be getting added to the DVD collection. I know rcebrnr’s going to want to get his hands on that one.

After relaxing at home for a while I broke into the TV I lugged home yesterday. After I set everything up I decided I should “test” it for a while. What was going to be a 15 minute “test” instantly extended to a one hour game of MGS3 (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater). I must say. The game is excellent and the TV complimented the excellence exquisitely.

Now I have the heavenly setup if my video games and movies on the left, and my PC on the right. I can’t think of a better way to explain it. It’s like heaven for me. Really.

Robonutz just Skyped me, so I’m going to get on to the pictures.

[I'm on Skype, playing MGS3 and posting a blog right now. HOTNESS! ]

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Peep the instruction book for the TV

Click the image for a bigger picture.

I like the picture of the kids playing on the TV and the guy watering the TV.

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Heaven.

Notice Solid Snake holding it down on the TV.

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I think I need to read that Sony manual some more

This looks like that picture in the upper right hand corner of the instruction book. Should I be worried?

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I’m gonna enjoy my convo with Robonutz and go to sleep. Till next time.

Man, I feel like there’s going to be too much in this post, but I have no idea. Too much for who? My “readers”. I doubt it. Anyhoo, yesterday I took the pictures of a usual morning in Yonghe (Taipei County) and I think you’ll be pleased with the comparison to the pictures from over the new year.

I don’t think I mentioned it, but we ended up buying a small TV to put next to my computer so I can surf and save the world from total destruction (aka play video games) at the same time. I just got back from lugging the thing from the store. They offered to give me a cart, but I decided to be “manly” about it and carry it myself. My hands are still a little shaky from that. I think it feels good doing some thing the hard way.

Today was pretty cool. After work me and adoa took a trip to a Golf Club in/near Xindian (more Taipei countiness). This was a driving range on the fifth floor of a shopping center (I know we don’t have anything like that in the Miltown). I’ll get the business card of the place next time I go.

[Note: This driving range had an automatic ball dispenser and the balls came up from under ground. It had a digital counter/timer on it. It was definitely hotness. I realized this info would make the rest of this make a little more sense.]

We must have spent about 2 hours there. They had 2 options for paying. Buying 100 balls for 200NT or hit as many as you can in a hour for 300NT. We decided to each get 100 balls to see how that went first. Adoa must have ripped through his 100 balls in about 15 minutes (well, maybe 20 or so) and started the 1 hour deal before I got through 50 balls. He started getting tired so we switched and let me on the timed one and he started using up my balls at a slower pace. His slower pace still ended up using my balls up real quick (I thought any way) so we shared the time on the hour one.

Well, to shorten things up we ended up creaming 330 balls in an hour (I think, it was definitely over 300). So next time we go we’ll just share the 1 hour package.

After I got home I just messed around with the PC doing some work on the miltownkids.com site, looking at mail, you know, the usual. Then I picked up the TV. I’ll probably get a picture of my new setup when I hook it up (I haven’t even opened the box yet).

I almost forgot about the 1337 h4Kc3r part! Yesterday I caught Hackers on TV. Man was that nice! I mean, the movie sucked, but it sucked so good. It was fun watching a movie that depicted a rather large piece of my life, not that I’m a leet hacker (1337 = leet = elite) or anything. I never knew the life of a 1337 hacker was so action packed (friends getting busted by the secret service every other day, crazy parties, nipple rubbing, etc.), but I should have guessed judging from the superstar life I lead. I also didn’t know Eminem was a hacker before he started rapping.

Enough reading/talking/typing. On to the Pictures.

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Here’s the streets on a usual day.

See the previous pictures here. (Click Here!)

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Black Man Toothpaste

Taiwan has some cool items. Black Man Toothpaste be having my teeth on BLING BLING! mode all day.

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3Mi3N3m

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Shots of the Course

These two pictures are courtesy of adoa.

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Tomorrow The Pingster and I will celebrate the day of Valentines. It’ll be dinner and a movie. Doesn’t get much more romantic than that does it?

And one more thing. Added that Google ad thing just to flex my hacker muscles. I like seeing the different ads that pop up. Hope it doesn’t piss anyone off.

OK, it’s been a long one. Peace.

I got some pictures and stuff coming tomorrow. Took the pictures of how the street normally looks in the morning, shots of the movie I saw today and a Black Man toothpaste commercial (that’s right, Black Man toothpaste).

Paul and I played some Halo 2 after work and I chilled after that till I had my second job (that one hour a week gig). I’ll finish things off early tomorrow.

I’m going to get to bed now.

Just got done skyping (using Skype to talk PC to PC) an old homey from the Miltown. He is the one some of you (like 2 people) may know of as “The Genius Dude” (anyone that can rock Ninja Gaiden the way he can is a genius in my book). It was excellent to finally get a hold of him and I look forward to future correspondence.

Talking with him has taken away typing time (maybe that’s a good thing). Today was just work, followed by more work. When I was done with my usual 3 hour gig in the morning I had to jump on a train to Shulin (樹林) to substitute for a friend. I got home, ate food and rocked the net (aka surfed the net). I think I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

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Here’s my morning class.

That reminds me. I have two new students for the new semester. One of them was really quiet at first, but then he started getting into things. The other one is big and likes to talk a lot. For instance, I was going through everyone’s name and I said one girls name “Vivian” and he goes “hahahahaha ha!” Bian bian (便便) aka Dookie or Doo Doo. Ha ha, real funny.

The two kids are Oscar and Teddy.

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These are two kids from the substitute job.

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Here’s a picture of me that Jeffery took. Rates about a 3 on the sexiness scale.

Here’s a movie of me taking a movie of Jeffrey after he took a picture of me. Watch as he knocks his head against the table. HA!

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More Students Posing

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Paper Rock Scissors… Taiwan Style!

This didn’t come out so good, but it’s one of the many variations of paper rock scissors you’ll see from time to time.

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Looks like my kind of bike

I saw this on my way into the train station and thought I’d snap a pic. Looks like something I’d want to have if I drove a scooter in Taiwan. I bet it has a Batman style jet engine and everything.

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Ah yes. Happy Valentines day to all!
Here’s a little something for any gals (or guys, why the heck not ) that may stumble across my blog today. A Valentines Day card from me to you.

Asta Man(<- little squiggly thing)ana.