Next Generation Video Game Systems Create Giant Server Farms

There is nothing like the release of a new video game system. It brings out the geeks, the moneymakers, the middle-aged boys, and even organized crime. All are queued for days in front of Best Buys and Walmarts across the this once great land. Some even wait in lines off property on public sidewalks. Like the credit less, homeless they are quickly associated with. This could be one of the saddest events of human history.

The young, fat, nerd and his friends get there a whole day early and wait all night in a blissful watch. They are first in line. The excitement builds after people realize what they are doing there. People line up as well after being informed that the line has to begin elsewhere until the final hours as to not affect regular business. The part that makes me cry, cry laughing is once that line is allowed to move towards the store. The magic is over and those fat kids in front of the line get blasted to last as the crowd leaves them in the dust. They cry foul, but still pick up there folding chairs and turn off their anime. What they thought was a guaranteed victory is soon a nightmare because no manager in a blue pollo shirt and khakis can demand the authority Gen. Patton could barely yield to control this mob. The nerds cry foul. The dorks who were behind them in the previous line express fake sympathies, yet secretly feel empowered to be ahead of the former smug kings of Geekdom.



The majority of these people will take their prizes home immediately and unwrap them with the fervor of Charlie Brown. They will spend the next thirty consecutive hours in a stoned, pizza and Mountain Dew crazed haze. Dissecting the center piece of their next three years. There are no girlfriends for these vidiots. They worship Ken Kutaragi. They date some avatar in Second Life. This is the market that Sony intended the PS3. The cheaper version retails for $500 and has a 20 GB hard drive. While the more expensive $600 package features a 60 GB and Wi-Fi. Both feature Sony proprietary Blu-Ray disc drives.

The XBOX 360 also features two versions. The first retails for $400 and has wireless controller and a 20 GB hard drive. Microsoft has plans to release an HD-DVD drive add-on by May 2007. The cheaper $300 system has no hard drive and wired controllers. With the adaptability of the XBOX 360 Microsoft plans to release larger hard drives especially since they just launched a movie and television download service via XBOX Live.

The Nintendo Wii has emerged has the cheaper alternative to both and seems to be settling in to second place as it races towards the 6 million 360 owners worldwide. Wii is the winner in Japan where the Nintendo DS-Lite was also just released and sold more units than the PS3 and Wii combined! The brand loyalty is strong because Nintendo is a huge part of their culture. Super Mario is their leader and since Wii's online support offers downloads of past Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and Nintendo 64 you can play all of your old favorites for less than 5 bucks each.



Most of these poor souls do not realize what they are becoming apart of. This new wave of next-gen systems has built one of the largest, storage intensive networks ever. Every new system is a server in the living room. Where voice, pictures,instant messages, and even High Definition emerge on our plasma screens and surround sound. If all the PS3's in America were combined like Voltron the resulting Mother Brain would be in the top 500 list of super computers for sure and the results would be like Trapper Keeper 3000 in South Park. Beware, this is only the beginning.

Malachi Ritscher's Self-Immolation R.I.P.

Malachi Ritscher's killed himself by setting himself on fire to protest the war in Iraq.

The following is his self written obituary:

At 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 - four days before an election caused a seismic shift in Washington politics - Ritscher, a frequent anti-war protester, stood by an off-ramp in downtown Chicago near a statue of a giant flame, set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire.

"Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country," he wrote in his suicide note. "... If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country."



A war protester whose message will not be forgotten.
Peace

Google Earth Tips

Google Earth is nice, but it's coolness wanes quickly. Luckily there are thousands of more dedicated people than you who have scoured the planet in search of its secrets and albeit, there are websites as well?!!

Google Earth Hacks is a great site with RSS Feeds which keep you up to date on the newest and coolest hacks. The hacks are user contributed files which extend Google Earth. Such as adding more detail to the Nazca Lines of Peru.

It has user feedback so you are not downloading complete crap.

Another cool site that I found while Digging featured the Top 10 Naked People on Google Earth, Google Sightseeing's motto is "Why Bother Seeing the World For Real?" Why bother, when this site features all that you could ever discover. In Google Earth that is.



While there is no substitute for uncovering things yourself, there is something to be said about these crib notes. They will save you time by highlighting interesting areas and also whet your appetite for future Where's Waldo-esque scouring of Google Earth.

Yo Joe!!! What do you have in common with Mario?

Growing up in the eighties two of my pop cultural seedlings were G.I. Joe and Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. The former being an indoctrination of Americanization. The latter a Japanese video game that revived a struggling market. What do these two giants of my youth have in common? And more importantly, what does this imply? G.I. Joe was in constant battle with COBRA Command while Mario was always trying to save the Princess from the clutches of King Koopa (aka Bowser). Both are reptilian. Hmmm? Is this a theme?
I had an army of G.I. Joes that would have whooped whatever pussy ass militia you could ever have amassed. I was lost for hours in my own land of make believe. Where, I would often set bad guys up strategically around my bedroom in increasing threat level along my path to saving something/one from the bad guys. This protocol of adventure had many permutations, yet none were ever the same. The ad machine of Hasbro Toys also included video games, a television show, comics, and a movie. I would wake up as early as possible on Saturdays to watch the newest episode. Of course, the old ones aired daily on WGN, The Super Station. Every episode ended with the same shtick of instilling values on the eager minds gobbling it up. "And knowing is half the Battle". The movie revealed many origins of which if you wikipedia COBRA ORGANIZATION it explains the bad guys genesis as:

The Sunbow produced animated series did not explore how Cobra began. It was only in G.I. Joe: The Movie that it is revealed that the organization was a frontrunner for a 40,000 year-old underground civilization called Cobra-La, whose snake-like inhabitants were driven underground by the advent of humankind. Cobra Commander was, in actuality, a member of this underground race. He was tasked with creating an organization that would overrun the world at large.

A hidden ancient race of reptiles who are trying to over take the world. Sounds like another Saturday morning cartoon of that time...

The The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
Mario is a mushroom eating plumber who does constant battle against the giant reptile Bowser (aka King Koopa) who flies around in a space craft. The wikipedia on The Super Mario Bros. explain Bowser's (aka King Koopa) origins as:

The movie begins by establishing that a meteor struck Earth 65 million years ago in what is now Brooklyn, splitting the world into two parallel dimensions. The first dimension is the human world, inhabited by humans who evolved from apes, who in turn evolved from small mammals. The other dimension is inhabited by humanoid creatures who evolved from dinosaurs.


Once again Hollywood changes the storyline of a successful comic/video game to portray some sick motifs. I feel that this is not a coincidence. There are no such things. The reptilian agenda is not a new idea, but to feature them in children's stories is F'ed up. They are hidden here to sub consciously affect the minds of the future. I would speculate that most of the parents still to this day have no idea what sort of stories were really ingrained into their loved ones. I guess that the battle against the such forces is best fought by those who are aware of it an early age? I guess the more we know the better we will be prepared because knowing is half the battle!!!

Prepare

Alzheimers Questions

What if everyone caught Alzheimer's ? What if the increase of incidents in recent years is indicative of an emerging epidemic? What if because of too much mercury in your diet or too large of sunspots during the last 50 years the populace of this planet is doomed to a life of Alzheimers? Not able to grasp reality as it is. As if we ever could? What would that mean for a soul? If faced with such a catastrophe. I feel that eventually as the number of afflicted individuals broke the critical mass their would emerge a movement to cure the disease. I do not think drugs alone can stop this thing and man would be one step closer to becoming The Borg.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!???

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Thanksgiving is a great time to gather with loved ones to share memories and festive foods. Let us not forgot the rest of people in the world that are not as privileged as us. Let us not forgot the truth about that first winter. Let us not continue this socially created Americanization by teaching it in our school rooms.



Peace

The Erosion of Time

The erosion of time upon my mind is not unlike the banks of a river.
The river runs down stream towards the nearest, largest center of gravity.
All local entities have a center. The balance of ones being. Yours lie somewhere behind your belly button. You can feel it with when in motion which is only experienced relative to another entity. Yoga is an ancient Hindu practice which develops a balance in all your life. Body, Mind, Breath, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit the holy trinity of life. The Sufis and Hindus both believed that when we transcend these earthly realms/frequency we return to the All encompassing Spirit, God source, Tao, Stream, the Mystery... Through ones belly button. Whatever the label they still are just synonyms. Nothing more. This return is most evident in the macro. All Solar systems are now believed to circle black holes which gives them the spiral, toilet bowl flushed look as the event horizon obliterates them. As above, so below. Ones life is a struggle against gravity while being hurdled towards our own annihilation. An absorption back into the Stream of Conscious Less. No longer is your energy personalized by your programmed mind into an ego. You are now home, the force that guides has eroded the karma, the ebb and the flow, the eddy which was once you. This allows it to move along its path inching closer to the culmination. Just as in yoga, whose practice kinks out all cul de sac'ed energy allowing your body to more freely exist. This smoothness is the river cutting straighter to point. Always striving towards the center. Constantly eroding any impediments. The end grows near. December 21, 2012 is the end of the Mayan calendar. This calendar was created over thousands of years by studying the stars and their cycles as they passed through time. This eschaton cometh to synchronize the one online, divine mind, meshed network of computers and their homeowners. Time grows faster as it and all else approaches the event horizon of existence. In the end, even matter no longer exists as everything is stretch towards infinity. Flattened into energy. Simple math. You can not divide by zero. Quantum Physics and Discrete Mathematics show us that when choices have to be made and energy must be divided among states. We all fall through the Blinko game of time. Until we settle into our respective stories. The Hindus also have endless deities as the mutual energy flowing and driving all apparitions is the same god head. We are all one individualized from the whole by our unique experiences which leave the river bed of our lives in its wake.