PC GAMES

Games to be on the Lookout for:-

Crysis
Guitar hero III
Gears Of War
HellGate London

Recommended but not tested Games:-

Oblivion

Games you should already have:-

BIOSHOCK
Company of Heros

PAX 2007 ROCKS!!!!

Hey guy's I'm at PAX 2007.  I've been having fun checking out all the latest games and stuff, but I rather happened to stumble upon this thing by accident. Actually initially I was looking for World of Warcraft video's when I stumbled upon Jonathan Coulton's song code monkey. You can see the video below on youtube :).







I liked it so much that I stumbled across his website . Some of his other songs were also cool like Re Your Brians. You can listen to them on the site and stuff. But what happened ultimately was that I ended up looking for concerts which linked me to PAX2007. I was like hey, I like gaming and I've not been around much so I set off for PAX. It was quite entertaining, the company stalls were great, Jonathan Coultons performance rocked I even got him to sign my zombies shirt and my cast. If you're my parents please ignore the last three words of the previous line :).

I liked the video showcases about the future of gaming, designing video games, 8 bit audio[Which really is a neat thing]. People are using Gameboys to compose 8 bit audio and its actually an art form. Kohina is a great site where you get a lot of old 8 bit game music. Although its not technically the same as people are doing nowadays with their gameboy's its nevertheless equally fun in my opionion.

The atmosphere reminded me about college and stuff, the event team running around with their enforcers T shirts, chicks in dressed up  like NPC's from some MMORPG and others carrying AK-47's. Apart from the chicks, we had stuff like this at my university  back in pakistan at a much smaller scale and it was called the UGX.

All in all it was a great day and a great experience. The part when I actually got to play games was at the end where they had a demo section. They had free playable demo's of old nintendo games from ages long forgotten as well as the latest titles like Bioshock and GuitarHero. It was while playing guitar hero that I made some new friends.

In fact I liked guitar hero so much that I want to have it, but because I spent my annual gaming budget on my laptop, it didnt look like I'd be able to play it until I came across Frets On Fire, the open source version of guitar hero available on Windows, Linux and Mac. You guys can get it here. It hooks up to the actual guitar from guitar hero. And if you dont have one, you can play it via keyboard. The video below shows the code monkey demo of frets on fire:-









Although it does not have characters with guitars and stuff, it has all the basic functionality and I guess it'll work as a substitute for some. I wont think twice about buying the actual guitar hero if it comes out on the PC though.

Anyways have fun and game on.

Face Recognition in Live Search

Check this article out. It is about Face recognition in Live Search:-

http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/07/27/three-new-features-in-live-search-images.aspx

New York!!!

 

Start spreading the news
I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York

These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I wanna wake up in a city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

These little town blues
Are melting a way
I'll make a brand-new start of it
In old New York

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

New York, New York
I want to wake up
In a city that never sleeps
And find I'm a number one, top of the list
King of the hill, a number one

These little town blues
Are melting a way
I'm gonna make a brand-new start of it
In old New York

And... if I can make it there
I'm gonna make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

-- Frank Sinatra, New York

Hello viewers from across the globe. I've finally gone all the way from Seattle to New Ark[NY's 2nd largest airport] via Portland, Oregon [The place we all know and love because of no sales tax].

 

Anyways, I got the the airport at 6:00 am and I took the taxi to some street intersection tiffy told me about on the phone. At first the taxi driver didnt understand, i had to take the map out on my cell and show it to the taxi cab driver and he finally figured out where we had to go.

 

We'll when I got to Tiffy's place in 15 minutes, tiffy was nowhere to be seen. he wasnt even picking up his cell phone. :/ Turns out he was sleeping and he'd been up watching transformers till 4:00 am. I had to wait A LOT!!!. I will seek vengeance.

 

I'll let you know what became of Tiffy later, or you may find a post written by some bashed up Tiffy on his own blog.

 

I just had breakfast at Tiffany's [oh sorry Tiffy's]. I'm waiting for Prince Tiffy to take a shower. Will catch you guys later.

 

ciao!!!

My Life Nowadays

And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, Ill say it clear,
Ill state my case, of which Im certain.

Ive lived a life thats full.
Ive traveled each and evry highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

This song was dedicated to me by a close friend recently. And I listen to it at the end of every day. I dont know why, I just do.

Quite on the contrary my life has just begun. I've gained a lot in the last couple of months, experience, tolerance, weight, you name it and I would've gained it. However my life's just begun. It might be changing its direction along some other lines but still theres some momentum in there.

I've been having a lot of fun recently. I've been hiking, kyaking, whale watching, watching movies and all kind of stuff and that was because I had a car. Not just any car, the car but its gone now and I'm wondering what I'll do without it. I bought a bike though, however its useless without a helmet. Gotta buy meself one of those.

Oh by the way, I got some cool whale pics like this one here.

Now I just need to take a picture of bigfoot. He's also roaming around the pacific north west.

Oh yeah and Tiffy also came and visited us during his tour of the area. You'll find more at his blog. I could just find one pic and that is here . Are you thinking what I'm thinking, maybe we can cancel the previous paragraph out. Man I'm dumber than Johnny Bravo.

Anyways people see you around and have a blast.