Archive for October, 2006

Misfits Bio

Posted in Music on October 29th, 2006 by hurt – 2 Comments

I was reading the Bio on the Misfits from Misfits.com and thought I would check out wikipedias entery for the misfits. It is actual way better than the offical one.

Misfits Promo Shot

One thing I did learn from the Bio on there site is that they plan to have the next album released on April 18th 2007 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the misfits.


PixelBoy

Posted in Video Games on October 28th, 2006 by hurt – Be the first to comment

PixelBoy is made by a company called dot-invasion and as they put it is a Virtual Console Playing Virtual Cartridges. As of this post there is only one game called Meteor Busters – Escape the Planet v2.0, but it managed to keep me entertained for a good 20 min this evening. :)

PixelBoy by dot-invasion

Fish Tank Image Updates

Posted in Aquarium on October 28th, 2006 by hurt – 4 Comments

Fishtank Oct 28th 2006 Image 001

Fishtank Oct 28th 2006 Image 002


Tank Changes

Posted in Aquarium on October 27th, 2006 by hurt – 2 Comments

I decided that most of the plants in my tank where not really getting the growth I wanted from them and that a change must be made. After looking into the options of lighting and other such things I decided to go for a new bulb and some fertilizer.

The fertilizer I have had before but don’t really know if it helped at all (Mind you I think I was getting better growth at the time). I just picked up a small bottle of Plant GRO Iron Enriched Aquatic Plant Fertilizer.

As for lights I was using a Hagen AquaGlo that was putting out a spectrum of the following.

Aqua Glo

I decided to switch it to a Hagen FloraGlo that will putting out the following.

Flora Glo

Now I don’t really understand this anymore than the Flora Glo seems to be much brighter and cover a higher range in the plant area and not so much in the color of fish. All the reviews and forum posts I have read say that people don’t like the washed out color the light puts off compared to the Aqua Glo, but none say if it actually works any better for plants.

I installed the light in the tank and it does seem brighter, but might just be my mind playing tricks on me. :) The fish don’t seem as vibrant as they where before, but hardly much loss since they are all black phantom tetras (not much color to them to begin with). I will have to wait a month or so and see how it works out. If it doesn’t seem to help I might look into getting a new hood that will take both tubes.

The Car To Evil To Be From Hell

Posted in Reviews on October 23rd, 2006 by hurt – 4 Comments

Today for work me and a co-worker had to take a rental car for a few service calls. Let me just start off by directing your attention to the title above. At work we have a few VW Golf that a few of the techs bitch about but I have never had any bad feelings about. The car today was by far the worse thing I have ever seen, it was a 2007 Accent from Hyundai. The car looked like any other crappy compact car of this day and age. Sitting down I suddenly relized that they had pretty much used a large flat piece of wood for the insperation on the seat back. Looking out the back window it was clear they where hoping for computer controlled drive to be available at the time of release cause they sure didn’t expect me to see out that little port hole (mind you it was only a few feet away from me). The interior was all made of plasic and not the kind you would expect, but more store bought food container like plastic. Even the top of the dash was made of this cheap stuff and not soft like most. I suddenly relized if we got in a crash the air bag would explode through this crap and rain cheap plastic shrapnel at me. Putting this horrible thought to the back of my mind (did i mention that was some where in the trunk) we set on our way. City driving was nothing major since it was pretty busy and mostly stop and go with more stop than go. Hitting the highway it became clear that getting up to the posted speed limit of 100Km might be a little trick. Finally with some roaring and some horrible noise we where on our way. Ah the radio will help to make the trip a little better I thought.. Why does it sound like they used tin cups for speakers… Turn that off. After driving for about 45 min we noticed we where VERY low on gas (we had half a tank when we started). After a few min of not knowing if we would see a gas station in time we found one and pulled in to fill up the tank.. 20 some dollors later at 90 cents a litres the car was full and we where off again. For the rest of the trip every now and then I would hear loud wind sounds coming from the drivers side of the car. After a few times I asked my co-worker what this sound was and he casual said “the window keeps slipping down” and he would tap the window lever up a notch to fix this as if it was expected.

Thankfully we made it to our sites and back in one piece with the car in the same shape as when we left (I leave that up to you to decide if that is a good thing of not). One last thing.. Do you think the team that designed this car actually brag about it? Like walking down the street with some friends and they see one roll by “I designed that car!”.

Hyundai Accent 2007 (car from hell)