The Land of Concentration day 2

Well its day 2 and i havent even started yet.

Operation: Get Shit Done; is still not underway as i originally planned.
The other day (Wednesday) was the actual premiere of Tropic Thunder, a movie i was killing myself waiting to see. When i was informed it was the 13th instead of the 15th (like the posters said) i jumped at the immediate chance to see the earliest showing i could.
After watchign that rediculously awesome movie, i came back to see Cole Doner drive into the driveway, and opted to make me watch Full Metal Jacket, because i had to see it.
By the time that movie was finished, it was 12:30 and i needed to get to sleep.

Enter the next day, Day 2 of when i planned on doing this 'cleansing of distractions', i was talking to my brother online about Tropic Thunder, and got really pissed at me. Apparently i had told him i promised to see it with him on opening day.
Well its a good thing for him i really wanted to watch it again, so after work i hopped in my car, drove 35 minutes to his town, picked him up, drive for 45 minutes back to Kelowna, and set up a time to watch it with roommate Cody and his girlfriend.
Once that was finished me and Stephen chilled instead of worked, i turned on Beetlejuice/geuse and he chatted online on my computer.
He jammed on his guitar, i practiced some drumming on the Rock Band drum pads, despite they werent hooked up i just tried to imagine the sound each one made. It was easy because i couldn't exactly hear where i was fucking up, rather it sounded good in my head XD
Then we turne don I AM Legend and fell asleap. Well i did anyways.

This is now Day 3, i started downloading trial software of some music cretion software but couldn't install them beofre having to head out to work. So Stephens in charge of monitoring the progress with that.
The day is young, and while Stephen is here i dont actually beleive ill get much done in the way of Animation stuff, but we can certainly figure out stuff musically.


anyways whatever, the moral of the story is: Movie Posters a dirty filthy liars, and should never be trusted with information, or candy.
mmm candy..



With that done, i present to you, the daily YouTube: today is a double feature of Americas Got Talent Ozzy Impersonators.
Watch the first one, then watch the second one, then repeat int hat order one more time.
Or do whatever you want, i dont really care :)

Now Begins a Journey, to the Land of Concentration and Loudness

So ive been going on for years now on a personal mission to own every console and have a healthy selection of games for each system i own.
I have accomplished this lifelong goal of mine.
To any standard nerd this is a dream come true. To msot normal people this is a bit excessive. To a person like me: Why the hell did i do it?

First let me bring you back a small ways: I never grew up with money. With me i owned 1 console per generation (try as i might), so i had to make the right decisions, and i only had a paltry selection of my own games to choose from. Otherwise i was renting.
Some nights while others would dream about naked women riding around on scooters while doing gymnasi- sorry those were still mine, but meanwhile i dreamt one day i would choose a generation to own every system within. Then id go back to dreaming about naked women on scooters.

Back to the point, i do now own everything. Xbox360 Premium w/ Gold Live account, Playstation 3 80GB, Wii, PSP Slim, and DS Fatty. All 5 current generation mainstream systems sit atop and below my TV on a daily basis. Begging for me to use them to help justify the thousands of dollars i saw beside me. And thus i would.

So here i am now, an aspiring animator who needs practice, a game designer who needs time, and in about 2 weeks time ill be the proud owner of a new drum kit.
Where does gaming fit in? Here the thing: I wont let it.

Ive decided for the greater good of myself, to lock away about 98% of my games, all my previous-gen systems, and leave only the Wii and PS3 out, with 1 game per system.
On the PS3 ill leave GTA4 out, and with the Wii im leaving Okami out.
the 360, its games, and everytghing below gets put away for an unspecified amount of time.

Whats the point of all this? Concentration. I cant guarantee myself itll be liek the old days, where becaus ei didn't have much in the way of gaming, id say to myself "K im gonna open flash and continue to work on Transparent, i only got 1 more week for that deadline" but any facet of that back is more welcome than anything ive been trying so far.

So the deal is this: cutting back about 80% of my gaming habbit, putting fourth effort on doing animations, learning the Drums, and continuing to do the best job i can with the Silver Creek team.


I hope this works >_> otherwise im hopeless, ill be documenting my experience in this blog, making it yet another "Adventure" in something.

on a lighter note, heres the drum kit i puchased, jsut gotta wait 2 weeks for its arrival :D




if i had a tail, itd be wagigng so hard itd knock people out >_>im SUPER stoked for this.



Im going to rip off my little brother's idea for his blog and do a "Song of the Day" thing, not-sponsored in part by YouTube, Vimeo, etc. But itll be a ":Video of the Day" thing

Adventure: Install Other OS

March 3rd 4:04 PM:
Ok so its been a full day. I had to work on Sunday and i requested to use the leverage for today as a day off.

I finally got Linux installed on the PS3. Had some interestingly confusing moments but its finally successful.

And i hate it.


Ok hate is a strong strong word. Linux is pretty awesome but i definitly should have heeded the warning. Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.1 on a 480i television set = Bleck. Its like running Vista in 640x480 with a flickering screen, and the inability to change it.

So heres the outcome:

Adventure: "Install Other OS" an adventure in installing Yellow Dog Linux on the Playstation 3
Status: OK, Completed
Report: Huge success
First Impression: FUCK Finally! Looks pretty neat
Lasting Impression: it hurts my eyes, i need an HDTV before i do this again
Notes: if only PS3 allowed me to partiton more than jsut 10GB to Linux without partitioning 70 to it, itd be alot better. PS3 runs Linux surprisingly slow and even the installer says the PS3 has very little memory and must write to disk as it goes, lol. But yeah, do this at LEAST on a 720p television or monitor.

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March 2nd 8:04 AM:
oooooh yeah who saw this coming? lol. The moment the cap came off the first beer, i was immediately drawn away from Linux Installations lol.
However while i may not have updated i did in fact give it a try while i was slightly inebriated. Seems even with that full reformat, Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.1 Installation refuses to find the designated partition as anything usable.
I wish there were more than 3 options:

"Format Utility:

Format ALL Spae to PS3
Partition 10GB to Other OS
Designate 10GB to PS3"

why cant i enter in how much i want to partition on an 80GB drive? i ask for 20GB for Linux, just that. COME ON.

Anyways regardless its not allowing me to install the bastard, oh but ill find a way. Im not about to give up and bring all my save files back just because this wont work., for, whatever reason im unaware of.


I will make it work.


but for now, i have to go to work, so dont expect any updates for the next 8 hours :(


-k

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March 1st 6:37 PM:
only 2 hours and 57 minutes to go. I think the reason it takes so long is its completely erasing the HDD and reinstalling its OS at the same time. Which as we all know, probably takes a minute or two.

In the meantime, I've been getting ready for the party that'll be happening that OFFICIALLY starts in 20 minutes but people have already started showing up. Expect subsequence updates to contain a little bit of alcohol abuse.

I also decided to keep the new machine SerialATA with the harddrives, than another mix of IDEE/SATA. So im bringing all the crap i want moved over to the new system on the 300GB SATA drive and bringing that one over. Its taking a bit longer than expected. But i got time lol.

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March 1st 4:30 PM:
HOLY BALLS?! A full format and partitioning 10GB to Other OS is going to take FIVE WHOLE HOURS!!! DAMN.

ugh.. well i guess now is as good a time as any to get freshend up for this party thats about to happen in 3 hours.

As per this new "Adventure" label, ill continue to periodically update this entry with progressive information :) Dont expect much for the next 5 hours though haha.

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March 1st 4:18 PM:
Because my PSU is going to take till monday i thought id endulge in another obligation whilst i have some time left over for it. Im going to install Yellow Dog 5.0.1 Linux on my PS3. ive downloaded the ISO, i have the PS3 Wiki instructions open, and right now im just formatting the PS3 HDD, whcih was a severe kick in the balls for me. I lost ALL my data. Well, sorta. Thankfully i had a 2GB MP3 player to store my save games and some vids on. Not much else besides demos and install data from other games. Oh well.