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  2. Posted

    You guys need to learn how to fucking rant >:o

    This weekend was a huge fucking bust. I had a trip planed to go skiing in upper michigan, a trip that has taken a ton of effort to plan and had to be canceled once before due to warm weather. So we replanned it for about 2 months later. So the week before our trip, what happens? Warm ass weather melts a ton of the snow. I called them and asked them if it would still be worth coming up and they assured me that it would be fine, so we decided to make the trip none-the-less. After diving for about 4 hours and getting stuck in a massive traffic jam, one of my buddies decided to check mount bohemia's website for a weather update. "Due to high winds Mount Bohemia will be closed Friday, February 18th. We will reopen on Saturday." We were already halfway there so we continued out trek with dampened spirits, knowing that we wouldn't be able to ski tomorrow.

    We finally arrived at our destination at about 1:00 in the morning, after about 9 hours or so of driving. Unfortunately where our GPS told us the cabin we were staying at was, there was nothing. After driving about hopelessly for about 30 minutes we finally found a bar that we stopped and asked for directions. Turns out that our gps was 7 miles off. We finally got to our cabin and it turned out to be this dingy little fucking thing that looked like it was built in the 40's or 50's. We said fuck it and just unpacked and crashed.

    We wake up in the morning and try to figure out what to do that day. All I know is that they weren't kidding about the high winds, they were easily some of the strongest gusts I have ever experienced, reportedly upwards of 70mph at the top of the ski hill. We drove to the hill to check it out anyways...it didn't look promising, their were visible bare spots on the hill without snow. We wrote it off and drove to Copper Bay to check out this walkable terrain park. The driving was atrocious. The wind was so bad when we were driving by the lake, it was blowing snow everywhere and making it whiteout conditions, we had to drive at about 5mph. We had lunch at an Inn there which was filled with people who were snowmobiling and stopping of lunch. We then checkout out the terrain park. It was pretty cool, but the features they had were very advanced, I was surprised. The snow was as hard as concrete and the wind was as strong as ever so we just drove back to our cabin. We chilled there for a bit then decided to hike around the woods a bit. I didn't have boots (I ski and my friends board) and my friends used their snowboard boots, so I was stuck using my shoes. I ended up with my feet wet and freezing. I left my shoes on top of the grating for the heater once we got back. We then decided to go find a random hill and attempt to ski it since the wind had died down so we drive a was out and picked what seemed to look like a decent hill. Unfortunately the snow was crusty as hell and make the skiing terrible, but it was worth a try and killed some time. When we got back we found the cabin filled with smoke. The rubber on the bottom of my shoes had started to melt. I removed them immediately and we aired out the cabin. We then went to the local bar, at least the drinks were cheap, only $2.50 for captain and coke. We were playing pool while having our drinks and low-and-behold the pool table manages to break by failing to dispensing the balls after putting in our quarters. We said fuck it, finished out drinks and went back to our cabin. The TV in our cabin wasn't working so we spent the rest of the night playing cards, eating a frozen pizza (out cabin had a shitty oven), and talking.

    The next morning we woke up early and got ready to go skiing. Everything was going swell and we got to Mount Bohemia just fine. We got our lift ticket and got out on the hill...The snow was easily some of the worst snow I have ever skied on, I might have been better off using ice skates. The snow was crusty, hard, and icy. It was hard as heck to do a decent turn. Mix that with difficult terrain and exposed obstacles everywhere, it made for some of the worst skiing ever. You were too worried about getting down and not destroying your skis to even start to enjoy the trip down. After skiing 5 runs we decided to eat lunch. We went to our cars and made and ate our sandwiches and decided that it wasn't worth going back up for another run. We begrudging left the hill early without even a full day of skiing. With only an inch on snow foretasted for Saturday night (which they didn't end up getting) we decided to just turn around and head home. We did take a detour on the way home and hit another ski hill, Granite Peak, which turned out to be much better...we would have been better of had we just gone there. We skied there for 2.5 hours and hit up their terrain park which was a lot of fun, and was really the only highlight of the trip. After another 3 hours of driving we made it home.

    Seriously, fuck that trip...That was such a downer. Oh well, I would say I hope that we have better hope next year, but I really don't know if it is even worth risking next year unless their skiing conditions are awesome.

  3. Posted

    I got back in to playing it about 2 years ago with some friends as a joke...it's actually a really fun game. Faku and I have been talking about playing it again too. We just need to get off of our lazy asses and actually take out our cards. XD

  4. Posted

    Having songs that "pump me the fuck up" in a necessity.

    When I am skiing or rollerblading and I am getting ready to try something new/ballsy I always put on one of these songs, I'll thrown down some of my favs:

    Dir en Grey - Hydra

    D'espairsRay - In Vain

    B'z - Kobushi Wo Nigire

    Fact - A Fact of Life

    These songs have gotten me to do shit that I normally wouldn't have...I have a play list of songs for this specific purpose, I will update here more later XD

  6. Posted

    I personally thought FFXIII sucked, so I am loving the fact that it is looking nothing like it. In fact, it doesn't even look much like an FF, looks like it could almost be taking place only slightly in a future tokyo/new york/other big city, say 20-30 years. I really really do have high hopes for this game.

  8. Posted

    I don't procrastinate so much as I have so much shit that I need to work on that if I didn't procrastinate I wouldn't have any free time...

    For the most part though, I am not to bad, and if I am procrastinating really badly on something, it is because I am working on something else.

    But back to studying for an exam :D

  13. Posted

    Lol, my last roommates have been skinny as fuck... Faku is like 110, my other roommate is like 130, and the previous one was 115. What drives me nuts is they all can eat what ever the fuck they want and will never notice any of it. The one that is 130 eats so much fast food...

    FYI, a guy in college should probably weight at least 130-140, under that is just boarding on unhealthy :o

  15. Posted

    I just back everything up on a 1tb network drive that we have shared for the entire house. The likelihood of my external drive (where I keep my important stuff) AND the network drive both dying is really slim.

    Dying isn't the problem here, you want an off site back up. Your place gets broken in to, your place burns down...highly unlikely, but still very possible, and guess what, your data is gone.

  18. Posted

    I personally hate working out, but I still do it several times a week. More so for me I am working on my flexibility, mine is piss poor. However, try to do a bit of core and arms as well. I would put myself in the larger guys category, I weigh about between 185 and 190. For the most part my extra weight is in my stomach. My arms aren't exactly toned, but they don't really have any flab either. My legs, which still mystify me when I look at my dad's legs, are large and all muscle.

    My biggest problem with working out is that I don't enjoy it, so most of my exercise is limited to the sports I do: Skiing, Biking, Rollerblading, and Aikido. Right now biking is out of the question because it is currently winter and my bike got stolen in fall >.

    Over the course of this year I am going to try and get myself down to 175 at least. I am not trying for a 6 pack, just enough to get the stomach more solid...hopefully I keep up with my schedule, but work and school are going to make that difficult.

  19. Posted

    Bose TriPort In-Ear Headphones

    Actually, Bose never disappointed me with their headphones, and it also didn't. At first sight, it seemed a bit funny and I couldn't imagine, that it can be comfortable - but it turned out that it's okay, I can wear it for long periods without getting the feeling, that it's uncomfortable. The noise cancellation isn't the best, but since I'm wearing it when I go running, to school, etc., so it's not a problem if I hear a speeding car, or if someone shouts at me, I don't mind it - and in addiction to this, it cancels most of the quiterer noises. Also, it doesn't fall out of my ears, which is a great thing. So if you are wearing headphones when you are sporting, I can only advise you to buy it, it sits in my ears very stably. I'm listening to many kinds of music, but I didn't have problems with any style - maybe the basses could be a bit better compared to mids, lows and others, but they are still better than what most of the other headphones can produce. Everything is well balanced, so there isn't a problem that mids or highs are weaker - so as I've said, it goes well with every style (if you are very much into bass music, maybe you can find a better headphone than this). To sum up things, I really love this headphone, altough I have to admit, that it is maybe a bit pricy if you just want a simple headphone. :two cents:

    Bah, your credibility is out the window when it come to headphones now. Bose SUCK. No two ways about that. They are very comfortable, I will give them that, but when it comes down to sound quality you can do WAY better for the price. Bose strives off of one thing, marketing. They tell everyone that their stuff is the best and spend millions of dollars every year telling people how awesome they are, so much so that the consumer starts to beleive this. There is no biases for their high quality standing, they use low quality material, they don't publish the stats of their devices, and they generally don't sound that great. It is one of the greatest fallacies that they are an amazing sound company and that hate that people don't know any better drives me nuts. Consider this a PSA from me:

    DON'T BUY BOSE, MONSTER CABLE, OR BEATS!

    There are plenty of way more reputable brands out there that you should spend your hard earned money on like Sennheiser, AKG, Behringer, Ultrasone, Audio Technica, Grado, Pioneer, Klipsch, Technics... Do your research, go to audio websites and read comments and reviews...cause if you are dishing out a lot of cash on a pair of headphones, know what you are getting in to and know all the other options and realize you are buying them for sound quality! I can almost guarantee you that you won't see any recommendations for Bose or Monster (and probably only a handful for Sony, their bass is so bloated, though they do a good job at really cheap 'phones (sub $20)).

  22. Posted

    I Liked Music. I thought Now was good. But this, no, this album was just crap. I am sorry, I didn't even like a single song. Their song writing has become extremely predictable, boring, and annoyingly poppy. I am not the kind of person to normally complain about bands changing, but this is just awful, they have gone from one of my favorite bands to one I can hardly stand anymore.

  23. Posted

    lol

    But right now I have to say I don't get Tumbr (not that there is much more to get over at 4chan). But like, it's blogging if blogging was trying to be facebook. There is almost no meat to anything there, just a bunch of reposted images and links. Not to mention it has an ass ugly UI (navigating that site is horrific).

  25. Posted

    I am really surprised with the reviews...I am actually agreeing with most of them!

    Lotus was boring, plain and simple. It wasn't bad, but the chorus come way too soon and the triple vocal effect thing kyo has going here is kind of grating on the ears. This song really could use some added length, it felt very short. Over all 5/10

    Obscure really wasn't as bad as I was expecting, and I think it may be because I am able to separate it from the original song. The original Obscure is a great song, but not one that I listen to often and I find myself skipping most of the time is come on random. I feel like this version, while inferior, is more listenable. 7/10

    Reiketsu Nariseba... I never much cared for this song. The live performance of it here, though, really was great, Kyo does a great job of vocal delivery and everyone else is spot on, but so much of the magic is lost when putting live songs on CD. One, I have only heard one Live CD that has ever impressed me, and that is Epica's because of it's amazing production value. And while this song's quality isn't bad, it isn't good either, and since I am a stickler for quality, I will take the studio one any day. 4/10

    All and all a meh release, and truthfully, that is about what I was expecting. I kind of feel like I download dir en grey stuff out of obligation now, havn't spun Hageshisa to... in over 4 months (8 for Zan). I just hope that next time around I will actually spin the songs more than a handful of times.

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