Daily Archives: December 20, 2003

Kael's Adventures

First Night of Chanukah

Friday night was the first night of Chanukah. Which of course, means that it was Kael’s first Chanukah.

We went over to my Mom’s house. Had dinner (Potato Latkes, of course) and then proceeded to open gifts.

Kael’s big interest for the night, turned out to be the wrapping paper. He loves the sound it makes (and apparently, the taste of it too, as he kept trying to eat it). He opened his gifts, with a little help from Janice. He got the full set of Baby Einstein videos, some cloths, and a Leap Frog Learning drum. Look for pictures of him playing with his presents, and possibly the video of him opening them in the next day or so on the “normal” part of the site (http://homepage.mac.com/jackofspades)

Janice, Kael, and I are exchanging our gifts to each other tonight, so I’ll update the photos, etc.. after we get done (or tomorrow.. one of the two)

Just Stuff

Halo!

Finally got a chance to play Halo

Granted, its’ only been out for like a week. But Its one of the most delayed games ever for any PC. It was originally supposed to be a simultaneous release for Mac and Windoze, but after M$ purchased the developer, they killed everything except X-Box development. So its finally released!

Loads of fun.. only had a chance to play through the first level (just got off the ship, and landed on the big ring), but its a good FPS. I’m going to remap some of the keys, so I can use my Nostromo gamepad, which should make it a bit easier. Haven’t had a chance to play Multi-player yet…but based on past FPS games, the multi-player should be fun too. If you don’t have it.. go buy it! its a good shoot-em up!

EDIT: One big complaint… The game doesn’t take advantage of my widescreen monitor, which supports up to 1440*900 resolution. It looks like the highest resolution supported is 1024*768, I don’t know if thats a game limitation or a limitation of my video card.

Tech

UnGoogled?

Seems this site no longer shows up on Google.

Its really weird to. Yesterday, Janice and I were able to google for “Kael Tepper” and my Blog was the first result. She called her mom, and her mom tried to google from a Google bar for her version of IE for Windoze (5 or 6 I think). And she got no results. We stopped by there, and I tried the same search from Comcast.net’s home page.. and my Blog was the first result, but going to Google.com resulted in this site not coming up. We tried it later from my Mom’s house, and couldn’t find the Blog on Google anymore. So apparently, my Google listing was only good for a few days =)

Just Stuff

LOTR: Return of The King

Got a chance to go see the last movie in the trilogy on Friday.

We considered trying to go Weds. night, or even to the midnight showing on Tuesday night.. but Kael was not cooperative.

So we went to a matinee on Friday… and all I can say is DAMN! it was an awesome movie. Good Special Effects, good acting, good script. Hopefully this one will get Peter Jackson a Oscar for Directing… but.. probably not, since we all know that the MPAA doesn’t like giving Oscars to Sci-Fi or Fantasy movies (the ‘technical’ Oscars don’t count).

Back to the movie:

Even with the differences between the books and the movies (all 3 of them) Overall, the trilogy did a very good job bringing the story to the screen. The battle scenes in “Return of the king” were amazingly well done. Even the “cheesy” special effects looked good.

Definitely a must see.