Gaming consoles and their owners

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I just found a "fun" article on kotaku.com who linked back to MSN Dating & Personals. It basically takes the three of the latest generation consoles (PS3, Wii, Xbox360) and categorizes their owners' personalities. It's almost spot on too! The Wii description is funny but I decided just to clip the excerpt from the PS3 component:

Q: What does a PlayStation reveal about a dude?

Arinoldo: The PlayStation 3 may indicate that the user is any "early-adopter," someone who likes to be the first on the block to have things. Owning the PS3 may also send the message that the person may have deep pockets.

Owen: This is your 21st-century individual who enjoys gaming and demands the best out of his experience--and probably his women. The PS3 guy enjoys life to its fullest. He is sophisticated, intelligent, enjoys competition and is willing to wait for a good thing. He is loyal as well.

Satterfield: This guy is in the know. He knows the right people, goes to the best restaurants and doesn't wait in line to get into the club. This guy will be difficult to keep up with, as he is always working. When he's not, he uses videogames as a chance to unwind and relax.

I guess that I can say that I'm glad I got a PS3! There's also a new firmware [official press release] which was just launched today dubbed 2.00 (November 8, 2007) which isn't that *boom* It's really disappointing that the Personal Video Recording feature hasn't been included just yet. It seems like PS3 and their Blu-Ray has a lot of catching up to do especially with this past weekends Toshiba $100 HD-DVD player blowout by Best Buy and Wal-Mart putting out 90,000 more proud owners and supporters out there.

IT IS DONE!!!

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Sorry to change things up again, but "the battle" is going to be no longer. I'll be porting all my stuff to wordpress and leaving blogger.com for something that takes a little more effort on my part in terms of programming, so that I can actually be a lot more motivated. You can head over there now by clicking www.elijahnicolas.com or just going directly to www.elijahnicolas.com/wp

That's all for now!!! I'll be updating that website from now on. please leave some comments there

Just checked...

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I didn't notice that my other blog "the battle" was still online but now I have sent all redirects to here:  www.elijahnicolas.com/wp  I think that it might just stay this way for quite a while, maybe a dynamic picture uptop or something, but we'll see.  I remember doing that for my Luxembourg blog a while back so making this one will be a little of the same deal.  Maybe just random collages or something. Well, today was another day of nothing-ness.  Woke up early around 9:00AM and since then I've been catching up on my shows, playing a little more Call of Duty 4 and that's it!  Call of Duty has been a lot of fun but I still really wish that we could all play online together.  Oh well, hopefully in the next patch or something.

I ate a can of Soup, the one with the red label along with some popcorn for a lunch and for breakfast, I had the usual Eggo Waffles with topped with maple syrup and light butter spread.  I also had some blueberry oatmeal that my roommate left me and I was actually kind of impressed.  It was quite tastier than the usual brown sugar flavored oatmeal that I have.

I think that I'm going to try to expand a little bit today with the links to my schedule again and go from there.  I still don't know if I want all the sidebars and stuff because they really don't contain any useful information.

Hello world!

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As the title states..."Hello world!" I'm just starting to really get back into really making my digital life feel like its worth something. I really haven't been satisfied or impressed with anything that I've been doing in the virtual world and decided to take it to another level. I've decided to migrate from Google's Blogger (after 8 years) to Wordpress. I've always been hesitant because it seemed like it required a lot of programming and customization variables. So, because of all the down time I have in hotel rooms during my long 4 day trips, I might as well get on with this and make it something worth while. I'm still going to be keeping up my blogging as much as I can and the links to my schedules, but it'll be a while before 1.0 is out. I'll make this post the first of .01 alpha release. (yes I'm a geek)

I decided to not sleep after my continuous on-duty trip to Jacksonville, North Carolina. For those who don't know what a COD is, it means, that I end up getting usually less than adequate sleep / rest at the away station. For instance, last night, I got about 5 hours total sleep but this is the way the trip is setup. It makes it so that you are on the duty clock the entire time you are on the ground and this makes it legal. So, I left my crashpad at 1900 yesterday, arrived at the airport around 1955, got on my plane and took off around 2053 heading for Jacksonville, North Carolina. We landed at 2222, got to the hotel around 2250 (23 minutes shuttle ride), and I went right to sleep. I woke up at 0500, got dressed, left the hotel at 0600, made it to the airport at 0630, took off at 0658, landed back in Atlanta at 0834, went to ops to fill out some paperwork, got on the shuttle and went home back to the crashpad. I haven't slept since.

In case you are asking what I've been doing since I got home after having a reduced night's sleep, I've been playing Call of Duty4: Modern Warfare on PS3 and rethinking my website!!! I was able to pick it up yesterday and its just been non-stop action. It stinks that in comparison to Warhawk, we can't play multiplayer local online --> 4 of us at home on one PS3 with the rest of the world online. Hopefully there's a patch out soon to enable this because it kicks Halo 3's ass!!!

can't decide...

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Well, so far, I've been quite disappointed with my blog and its layout. I'm even really juts disappointed with my website overall!!! I think that I'm going to end up killing it all... Not just a template thing, but I mean, I'm really just going to start over the entire thing. Why you might ask? I'm just tired of repetition. In with the new for 2008 is what I'm going for! Maybe I'll make the switch to wordpress, but I really don't know how to that stuff anymore.

my one week off in ATL!

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Well, after much effort in trying to coax any of my friends to take a week off and join me for a vacation in Costa Rica or Rio, I decided to just relax a little bit with maybe a trip back home to San Diego. Of course with the onset of wildfires engulfing the San Diego County area, it became more of a fact that I wasn't going to get home. My family is fine and we did not have to evacuate. Our tenants did which definitely must have stunk, but like I've said, its all good now. It's quite ridiculous though how much has burned. My prayers definitely go out to everyone there.

Today is now Wednesday and my mini vacation is just about half way done. It's definitely sad but I did do quite a bit around the crash pad. In a short amount of time I was able to move out of the master bedroom and into the loft. I have a lot of stuff all over the floor but I've been able to sort through a lot of junk papers and mail. I've also been able to work on my car with my friend Kurt where we replaced one half of the fuel lines (I still might have a couple of more to change out but so far its doing a lot better in terms of smell), and the biggest thing was disassembling the instrument cluster to change out batteries on the SI board. It's all working now and I'm stoked. I was able to get a complete diagnostic on the E30 and was quoted about $4000 in repairs. So far, I was able to take off the fuel lines ~$400 and the instrument cluster exchange for about ~$600. I definitely wish that I could continue to work on my car but lacking an awesome garage kind of stinks. It makes things a little more difficult without having the chance to look underneath the car.

I'm really into fixing my own car and there are still quite a few parts that I'll be needing to buy and change out, but I'm contemplating how much time it'll take for the larger items. I might be needing some new brakes and rotors in about another 10,000 miles, the oil pan is leaking a bit, but nothing too big, but the biggest item is the head gasket thingy. It's still all good though really. I'm just really looking for about 5 more years and about 50,000 miles before any other big ticket items. I'm quite excited.

Now, off to sleep! cya! maybe I'll be taking a vacation sometime soon. anyone up for a buddy pass?