30 December, 2011

Defeating a Sandwich Only Makes It Tastier

Here's a funny thing I found on youtube. The kazoos, alone, are pretty awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYa5aQb3YGE

24 December, 2011

'Tis The Something

Well, 'tis indeed the season. Christmas is thoroughly upon us like a pack of hungry wolves on a boy made primarily out of meat, and I figured I'd take time out to actually write something worthwhile. No reason really, since the need for thinking up an excuse to write something is one of several things that keeps me from expressing my self, artistically or otherwise. So with no real point...

It's a time for gift getting, stressful organisation, and decorations coming out of left-field, right-field, centre-field, and a bunch of other fields, some of which noone has ever heard of. It's also a time when some of us reflect upon the meaning of the season. Whether it be a celebration of the birth of a certain saviour, the annual tradition of exchanging gifts perpetuated by big business eager to make a profit, or the not so tangible spirit of love and friendship; the holidays mean a lot of things to a lot of people.

This article discusses one way of looking at the true meaning of Christmas. It's no Charlie Brown Christmas Special, but it's still quite interesting.

Anyway, with nothing better to write, I would just like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Channukah, Good Kwanza, and whatever other celabratory season there is out there. I would also like to wish a happy and prosporous New Year, 2012. Will it be the last? Who knows? My gut says no.

...it also says it's empty...but that's another story...

18 December, 2011

Time to Deck The Halls With Your Incompetence

Buckle up, Cupcake, I got some math for ya.

Charlie Brown Christmas + Scrubs cast = awesome.

Don't believe me?

See for yourself.

19 March, 2011

Socialising - The Gap Filler

Well, tonight (or rather, last night, as midnight has rolled around since), I spent some time at the local inn with a friend of mine, drinking some ale and conversing tales of this and that. We chatted about geeky stuff, like how repetitive Pokemon has gotten (I mean, Team Rocket no longer serves a decent purpose, does it?), and it occurs to me why such a thing is important to a human being. I found the experience enjoyable, and I came out of it somewhat...happy.

I'm beginning to understand why regular joes go to the pub on Fridays. It's the social interaction that separates humankind from the rest of the animal kingdom...as far as I know, anyway... Everybody needs to have a friendly talk session, every once in a while. Personally, it's difficult for me to communicate with others, and sometimes I need to get together with a good friend or two and discuss random crap over a pint.

It's human nature to want to share one's experience with another.

11 March, 2011

So Shall It Be Written...

Ok, I know I haven't written that much in this thing, but I have my reasons. Most of which stem from an inability to come up with anything to write, and worse, an inability to motivate myself to write it. The only reason I could come up with something, now, is this:

Upon opening up my twitter viewing ...thing... I noticed that my good friend had posted quite a few blog entries of his own. He had obviously been trying to write more, and it got me thinking that, maybe, I should write more, myself. It seems like a good enough way to get the creative juices going, and I always liked being a creator, rather than just a consumer.

The problem is, while this friend is already a fairly good creative writer, I am not so adept at writing things. Structure is fine - I know how to set things out. The main difficulty I have is in what to write.

Now, you're probably thinking that I'm doing a terrific job of it right now, but really that can be credited to a lot of luck on my part. Not to mention the fact that this writing is quite casual, and I'm just writing whatever comes to mind. I could not, in my wildest dreams, ever do any sort of writing for any REAL purpose - an essay, a report, etc - at least without a lot of help. Even now, I'm not entirely sure where I'm going with this...

Then again, maybe I'm just setting my expectations too high. Maybe this is what people do when they write reports, and then they just clean it up for the final draft. Still, they usually write thousands of words. Even when all of this, I'm struggling with three hundred.

Pie.

(That was the three-hundredth)

I look back over that which I've written so far, this post, I see problems with things that don't make sense, and in some parts, I'm not sure I'm saying. I guess overall, I'm worrying too much. The point is to say what I feel, or whatnot, and I'm constantly worried that noone will notice. I should probably just do it. Heck, no maybes about it - I SHOULD just do it, just like I'm just doing it, now.

Perhaps one day, I can learn to get myself over this hurdle that I STILL have yet to overcome. Perhaps then, I'll have more to put in this dusty, old thing. Perhaps someone will notice, perhaps not.

Perhaps I'll learn not to care so much...

05 March, 2011

What quality do you value most in your friends?

Loyalty. I like my friends to refrain from stabbing me in the back.

Ask me anything

09 February, 2011

24 January, 2011

Awesome Az

Well, since this is for all things awesome...here's something awesome.

Awesome Az!

04 March, 2010

Sign of the ApocolyPS3

What would you do if you owned a PS3, and all of a sudden, one day, it didn't want to let you play certain games, or sign in to the PSN? Well, recently, there has been an incident where, well, this has occurred.

Only affecting the older "fat" PS3s (as opposed to the Slim ones), a bug has been found that prevented PS3 users from not only going online, but playing some games offline, as well.

It took them some time, but Sony discovered the true source of the dreaded error (code 8001050F). Apparently, there was a problem with the internal clock functionality, concerning leap years. Sony have released a fix for the problem and, 24 hours after the problem was first reported, people's PlayStation 3 consoles finally returned to normal.

Source: Kotaku (via Ctrl-Alt-Delete)

15 January, 2010

The Not-So-Great Depression

CNN Presents - We Got Dem Avatar Blues

Well, this isn't so much awesome, as it is interesting...and sad...

People watch a movie and get all emo. Are we, as a society, really that susceptible?

30 December, 2009

An End to a Lopsided Year

Ok, well, it's me, again, bringing you (along with too many commas) the latest in awesome news.

...or I would if I had any...

Nothing's happening, and it looks like it's going to stay that way, for a while. Unless New Year somehow brings tidings of motivation, it looks like there will be sporadic updates, at best, and not many, if at all.

I'd like to thank anyone out there that has come to visit, and hope you've enjoyed what little I've given you. Hopefully, next year, I can bring out some new stuff (and use twitter/facebook/etc to get it out there).

Here's to you, 2009.

15 July, 2009

The Way It All Ends

After 15 years, and almost 30 million units sold, EA LA have announced that the Tiberium saga will finally come to an end in Command and Conquer 4.

"Command & Conquer 4 will introduce a multitude of innovations to the to the classic fast and fluid Command & Conquer gameplay while retaining the core compulsions that fans have come to love over the series' history. Introducing new class-based gameplay, mobile bases and persistent player progression throughout all game modes, Command & Conquer 4 offers players new, innovative and compelling strategic depth."

Command & Conquer 4 will be shipping in 2010.

26 June, 2009

Most Definately Not A Thriller Night

The music world was rocked, today, when none other than the pop king himself, Michael Jackson, was taken from this world, courtesy of a cardiac arrest.

The 50-year-old pop icon was pronounced dead at 2:26PM Local time, at the UCLA Medical Centre in LA.

More details can be found here.

14 June, 2009

Bender says "We're Back, Baby!" again.

That's right, folks, according to a couple of sources, as of the ninth of June, 2009, Futurama is back in town!

It looks like Family Guy is not the only Fox show to get a resurrection, because Comedy Central has picked up 26 NEW episodes of Futurama, to be aired in the Fall of 2010.

What could be better?


...well, I suppose they could do the same to Firefly...

Intended Purposes

Well, I went back to the beginning of this blog - ie. the very first post - to find what I had originally intended to use this blog for.

For the most part, I've put Sonic Slam news, as well as any other site news I could scrape up. However, it seems I intended this to be used to talk about stuff that related to the different aspects of the site (at least as well as the site stuff).

So, I've decided to begin anew...sort of...from now on, I'm going to use this to talk about stuff like I had wanted to. I might even throw in a rant or two.

Mm-mm, b!%@#!!

02 May, 2009

Birthdays And Delays

Well, it was my birthday, yesterday - I turned 24, not that epic a number. More on that in my Myspace blog.

Sonic Slam could be better - I've been struggling with the strips - both with writing and creation, thereof - and instead of 180, it's only at 172. I'll have to step up the pace a lot if I'm to get to the big 2-0-0 by the end of June.

13 February, 2009

A Tyresome year

(From coramaximus.com)

Welcome to the year 2009 (I know it's February, just bare with me, here...) This year hopes to be a good year, but alas, another may go without realised dreams of being a tyre, as well as without being any good. There's nothing slated for semester 1, and I'm not sure I'll be ready for uni, come sem 2. Job-wise, I don't think I'll ever be ready, so yeah - I'm back to this.

AV In - To start with...Transformers 2. The first was awesome, and June will tell whether the 2nd lives up to expectations or succumbs to sequel syndrome. Then there's Futurama 4/4: Into The Wild Green Yonder, which hopefully, will be better than "Bender's Game", which was ok, at best.

Nothing else comes to mind, right now...

AV Out - Sonic Slam's at 160, I upgraded the coramaximus main page, last month...that's about it, unfortunately, unless I can think of something else to put up.

...and actually get myself to do it - oh, that would be the bee's knees, alright!

...mmmm...bee's knees...

TODAYS LINKS (WHY NOT?):

I just ate a grape and I might accidentally get killed

08 December, 2008

To 150, and beyond

Well, as you may or my not have (most likely not) noticed, Sonic Slam is at 150 comics...well, it was, as of early November, I updated with 5 more, yesterday. Here's 150, for your enjoyment...unless you've never read Sonic Slam before, in which case I recommend you start, here, at the crappy beginning. It gets better.

As for other things, I am planning a site 'upgrade', mainly the coramaximus main page. Hopefully, I'll be able to vitalise the site and...well, stuff will happen...

Here's to more...stuff...

29 September, 2008

The Road To 150

Well, there have been a string of Sonic Slam, updates, lately, and there's almost a 100% chance that it will get to 150 by the end of the year. Actually, #150 will probably be up by the end of October. Hopefully, I'll be able to boost to 200 by Mex's 6th...or 5th, depending on whether you count the year-long hiatus or not...

...oh, and that site I mentioned is online.

25 May, 2008

GOAL 2 COMPLETE

Ok, cool. With the latest comic up at this dumb site, I have finally (you know... after what...FIVE YEARS!!) gotten SonicJesus J. McSlamSauce up to 125. Go me, or something. SOMETHING!! (Ehh, whatever, nobody actually reads this, anyway...)

Now to just do something about #4 (since 3's already done, as you know... you don't? OMG, that's weird!). That site is a sort of joint project with a friend of mine, so it's not going to be so easy to put up. Collaboration is required, since it's the new sensation, these days. Newgrounds told me so, and it never lies unless I blam something, which I do, but that's not the point...