Driver Stuck In Traffic

I have been playing Driver: Parallel Lines .

The game is good but not great. The story is about a man who works as a Driver in New York City during the 1978 then is imprisoned until 2006.

There is a large quantity of cars to play with.

The city (New York City) is large and has plenty to do and see. One of the high points is the music. It is music you would have actually heard during those time periods.

The graphics are a slight upgrade from the last game, however the removal of the Make A Movie feature kills what separated Driver from all the other Grand Theft Auto rip offs.

Digging For Da Vinci

This week on "Digging for the Truth" Josh delved into the whole The Di Vinci Code book story. Was Mary Magdalene the wife of Jesus and was she the Holy Grail. He basically blows Dan Brown's interesting book out of the water by discovering the material Brown based his book on was in fact a fabrication.

Josh has in fact looked into the Holly Grail itself and came to the conclusion that the quest itself was more important that the item.

Another well done show for Josh and The History Channel.

Protopage

I have been playing with Protopage .
Protopage is a web page you can set up to your liking. You can post sticky notes like grocery lists, upcoming birthdays, reminders to set up doctor appointments, and other note you use to gain some control over your life.
You can also set up shortcut to your assorted email boxes, weather, news, and sports feeds.
It is free, kind of fun, and useful.

Chiefs and Myths

Well the comedy Chanel has killed chief of south park, kind of. Last we see of chief his body which has been impaled in a shrub and torn apart by a wolf and a bear. His friends of the Great Adventure Club witch is a cross between NAMBLA and The Church of Scientology are taking his corpse and turning him into some Darth Vader variant.

The Discovery Chanel has shown how dependent they have become on the Mythbuster series by having a all day Mythbuster marathon. Maybe if they tried to make more new show than milking the last ounce of life out of the reruns they be doing better.

The Mythbuster may fall into the same trap as Hercules and Zena Warrior Princess. They over sold the show to so many different channels that the charm wore off quickly. They should learn from Star Trek Next Generation and sell there reruns to one large network seen in several million households.

Blood No Sweat and Shivers.

I had my blood drawn yesterday. Having the blood work done was faster than the paper work.

It is 46 degrees outside. My kind of weather.
IF the forecast holds the next week will be nice and in the 70's.

Reruns and Reboots

Tonight (Wednesday) will be a repeat of the Mythbusters. They will deal with the Jawbreaker myth.
I have also been playing The Sims 2. A fun game in which you micro manage a little person whose life you have charge over. You tell them when to eat, sleep, play, and who to make friends with.
My sole complaint is who fats it gets frustrating when you have to keep so many friendships afloat, keep your job, and keep fed.
The relationships is the controlling factor of the game.

I have blood work to do Thursday morning.

It's a nice 58 degrees outside and other than the occasional cat fight it has been very quite.

They say the high tomorrow will be in the high sixties. Anything is better than the usual nighties and hundreds.

Doctors and Lab Mice

I saw my heart doctor today. He said I was doing so well he see me in four months. I have some blood work next week but other than that I free for a while.
The Sci Fi network is running Doctor Who. It's fun but it's not the say without my favorite Doctor Tom Baker.

Speaking of classic TV check out AOL / Television In2TV.

It is free for now. You can watch free TV shows including Alice, Babylon 5, Chico and the Man, Freakaziod, Wonder Woman, Kung Fu, and my favorite classic show... Pinky and the Brain.

Fill It And It Won't Fly

On the new Mythbusters episode they tackled the myths that a raft full of helium will fly. They also dealt with the myth that cell phone will interferer with an air planes electronics systems.

They ended up building a raft made up of fifty tubes of twenty five hundred feet clean plastic full of helium arranged in two layers of fifty tubes each.

It was an episode without Buster.

Purim

Today is Purim
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the time when the Jewish people in Persia where saved from extermination.


For more info try this link.

THE War Is Coming

Jeff Wayne's is working on a CGI film based on his 1978 musical retailing of H. G. Wells "War Of The Worlds"
The 48 million dollar budgeted film will recreate the original book as written by Wells. You will see the Martin flying machine as mentioned early in the original writing and the dreaded Martian tripods ( not the "flying" tripods of George Pal's 1953 classic movie.)

For more info try this LINK

No release date has been set.

NEW Mythbusters

Tonight The Discover Channel ran a new episode of the Mythbuster.
They attacked the myths of Benjiman Franklin's kite flying for a lighting strike.
They also took on the major myths around flatus, or gas, you know butt burps, OK, farts, there are you happy?
Adam built a gadget to catch his own gas. They studied the components of the flatus and tied to discover if a man could produce enough gas to kill himself. Of course Buster was dragged into the whole mess.

Driver

I have been playing the X-Box demo for "Driver Parallel Lines" .

Driver PL is the las test installment of the Driver series. However this time the game is also available on the X-Box.

You play a man in two decades. You start out in the seventies and then serve a twenty year jail sentence to be released in the nighties.

From what I have seen of the demo my favorite component of the game may have been removed. It was the movie making feature. You could record part of a stunt or car chase then change to position of the cameras, and slow time.

I'm looking forward to playing the full game. It should be released sometime in the middle of the month.

Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006

Ron Wyden or Organ has proposed a bill that will stop ISPs from billing internet sites such as Google for unfettered access to the internet.
Here is an article posted by the International Herald Tribune.
Good for him, ISP such as Time Warner are making enough money by overcharging you and me for high speed internet access. They do not need to be black mailing services like Google to make more.

Yippee.

I just got back from the dentist and other than the shoots and the chair I did not hurt. The chair was dreadful. The lumbar support just hit the curve of my spine exactly to make it very uncomfortable.

Tonight is The Mythbusters. It is two reruns. I thought they where running a new season. They did run four new shows and thats been it as far as I can remember.

I love my Gameboy Advance. I played Texas Hold em' in the dentists waiting room.

The Warlord Returns

DC Comics has brought back Mike Grell's classic comic book The Warlord.
However Grell is not involved, Bruce Jones and Bart Sears are writing this version of a modern day pilot stranded in a land governed by barbarians and dinosaurs.
It will be interesting to see what they do with this comic.

A Busy Day In The Neighborhood

Last Thursday was my birthday. I turned forty something.
I got some cupcakes, peanut butter cookies, and the dinosaur Stikfas I pre ordered months ago showed up.
I also got to talk to my best friend Kim.
My dad has been on a redecoration being. The is a new ramp for the scooter I do not have yet and a freshly painted wall in one room. Best of all the drain in my bathroom was cleaned out.
I have reshedualed all my doctors appointments.
I see my dentist Wens day and my heart doctor in a few weeks.

Feeling Better Baby

I fell better than I have in some time. I bought some of those anti bacterial wipes and attacked my bathroom with them. It's amazing how dirty things get when you aren't constantly cleaning after yourself.
I am not a germ a phobia on the scale of Howie Mandel who wears rubber gloves to play poker but I have become aware how important it is to keep things clean.
The handles on you bathtub, showers and sinks are a great place to hang out if your a germ. So are doorknobs and remote controls. So I'm wiping them all down and letting them dry. It will be well worth the effort if I don't get as sick as I have been the last two weeks.
Tonight is Mythbusters but it is a pair of repeat programs.
I am also looking forward to watching last nights episode of DLTV with Patric Norton.
I miss Tech TV.

So it continuous.

Well the scooter drama rolls on, still.
I had a meeting with a new guy from a new store and after answering a bunch of questions and having everything but my inseam measured he says he will have the paper work completed so I can take it with me Monday when I see my heart doctor.
I can only guess at what his reaction will be.
I am half dreading my dental appointment Tuesday but I want the filling done and over with.
My dad has been feeling bad as of today. I think he picked up something at the VA Hospital in San Antonio. Ever time he goes up there he seems to come back with some kind of bug.

V P Bang Bang

Well the up roar over Vice Presidents Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of friend and fund raiser Harry Whitenton goes on.
By my understanding both parties are to blame. Both Cheney and Whitenton was not following standard safety procedures while hunting.
What gets me was the fact that Cheney was using an expired permit. He the Vice President of the United States, you think at least he would take his duties as a hunter seriously or that someone in his office staff would have looked into his permits and made sure they where up to date.
The media is shrieking over the fact they had to learn of this from a one lung newspaper based in a city that is a hemorrhoid on the ass of the nation. Frankly I have no love for the major media and so called news services.
Well at at least it will give the late night guys something to joke about for a while. I think David Letterman came up with the beast line in "Ladies and gentlemen we have found weapons of mass destruction and it's Dick Cheney."

Stuffed.

I see my dentist next Tuesday.
I'm a little concerned that he will be too gun ho and want to do everything at once. I know what my body can take and having several holes drilled in my head at once is not one of them. Hopefully I can get him to take things one step at a time.
I also have an appointment with my cardiologist Monday morning. I hope I will get a good report. I know next time I see him which will be mid summer heat wave I will feel drained and exhausted.
If I read the schedule right there will be no Mythbusters tomorrow night. BOO!
Come on Discovery channel you are really letting me down.