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This was worth the four hour trip and freezing in the tent. Corrugation corner is a legend. Extra exposed, vertical and sometimes even overhanging plus and extra chimney make this route one of the best in California.
These will look good on your ass.
Finnish Muropaketti.com boys managed to take their graphic chip to the limits. Good work guys =]
Noted Finnish over-clockers Sampsa Kurri and Ville Suvanto achieved graphics engine clocks of 1.003 GHz
I used to have watercooling in my home computer. Liquid nitrogen tank... mmmm.. Gotta have very cold computer. No really. I am happy to play the new Civ when it arrives next week with my lap top.
Yesterday I went to a preview of Jarhead movie (opens in US 4th of November)Link: WELCOME TO THE SUCK.
The movie remided me of the Full metal Jacket. The main character Swofford played by Jake Gyllenhaal "lost his way to college" and joined the US marines. The first part of the movie is describing the training at boot camp and at sniper school. Seems that nothing has changed since Vietnam and Kubric's FMJ. This is where the mind washing of the young men start. They are turned to mindless killers who follow orders. The sniper training was pretty accurately pictured.
Soon the platoon is sent to Iraq to operation desert shield. Desert shield was the build up phase to the desert storm the first gulf war. Waiting and mindles training in the desert lead up to the start of the action as both sides get ready for the mother of all wars.
Getting psyched for the action can frustrate a man if nothing happens. The war ended and not all troops saw the enemy or any action. Swofford never fires a shot in the war. Just like the Full metal Jacket was not a war movie, this is not a movie about the war. The Jarhead is a movie about the soldiers and their training. It is showing how a single grunt in a sleeping hole sees the war.
The movie is not about the current conflict where the US death toll just reached 2000. I guess some things have changed. Today soldiers have blogs and they can communicate with their loved ones online. This doesn't mean that they are nessecary aware what is going around them. No CNN for enlisted... The last part offers some great images of the soldiers in the middle of burning oil wells in a scenery that resembel Hell and platoon walking through the unlucky convoy of bomb-toasted cars stolen from Kuwait.
With a text. "The bag must have costed at least 400 euros."
Christmas is coming early this year. Next week the mother of all strategy
games Civilization 4 is set to be published. Yesterday I placed an
advance order on Amazon. Looks like the work/sleep will be on hold for
the next couple of weeks.
Good games are immersive They are especially good if you have to fool your body to get over jet lag.
I am sure I could play 24 hours straight with out eating or sleeping.
No wonder interactive media is taking its place as number one entertainment . Nobody could watch TV with out eating or falling a sleep. Some games should be categorized as drugs. I have to confess
that sometimes my wife or people who I care for (not that I don't care
for my wife:)don't get the attention they deserves when I am playing.
The good thing about the new Civilization... Its multiplayer. We can play against each another.