Church of D and B, turn it up.

This is a video mashup of bible thumpers and thumping D and B. Those crazy evangelicals.

Fun Reverse Motion Photography

Balancing Point from DANNY BROWN on Vimeo.

I think that this is really cool. Also, I was impressed that they used john frusciante in the soundtrack.

This just sounds dirty to me

I was walking into the gas station the other day and saw this sign posted in the window. The title of the foundation did not make any sense to me but it does sound funny. I don't know who would want to be a member of the Christ's Starfish (Asshole) Foundation but I know some that I might refer to it. Just think of it, people can have business cards made up for the Christ's Asshole Foundation.

The Joker weighs in on the bailout

The Dark Bailout

Funny but scary

Awesome Chick Fil-A #1 mod

During our last vacation we stopped in Atlanta on the drive up to Indiana and had a bit to eat at Chick Fil-A. As usual at almost any place that you eat, they place the most idiotic shit on your table to get you to buy more product. This is really apparent at places like Chili's, Applebee's, Outback Steakhouse, etc. Here is a picture of the piece of advertisement on out table that I modded.




I just wanted to tell these guys how I feel about crap being on our table while we are trying to eat. I am really surprised that places to eat still do this crap. Restaurants in other countries do not do this kind of needless advertising on the tables of where you eat. It's a waste of space, resources and time. Other than that, the sandwiches were delicious.

Asteroid Impact Simulation

Very cool simulation and great soundtrack!

ShowBiz Pizza band, still rockin?

If you are familiar with ShowBiz Pizza then you are definitely familiar with the animatronic band that played there. Many times in my youth, I was subjected to watching the robot gorilla sing some silly songs that you really could care less about. The cool thing was that they are robots. I thought that these things would be sitting at the bottom of a landfill or that they maybe turned them into Kia's. After coming across an article on the Laughing Squid website that said that people actually buy and restore these animatronic works of art and program them to perform music of all sorts.





Who would have thought that people would keep these things up and running? By the way, if you are in a different part of the country than me, I think they are called Chuck-E Cheese. Grab a beer and enjoy the show!

Text to speech is fun!

I dropped some knowledge on my co-workers by showing them the AT+T labs Text to Speech page. It will say pretty much anything that you can phonetically spell. We have entirely too much fun with this. Try it out.

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

Buy.com flat out sucks

I made the mistake of using a different website to purchase a set of VModa Vibe ear buds two months ago. Immediately I knew that I had made a mistake in using this website when I logged into the site the day after I had paid for the merchandise and my order was not able to be located. I contacted the customer support and they were not able to locate my order either but my credit card was indeed charged. Two days later, I sent another email to customer support with the transaction number and I received a reply that stated that I had made the purchase through buy.com but it was through a third party seller. I told them that I knew that the purchase was through a third party seller, kind of like Amazon.com. Hmmmm. They were still not able to locate my order. I explained to the (buy.com) customer service that even though the purchase was with a third party seller, I made the purchase THROUGH buy.com and they should easily be able to display and track my order. A week later, I received an email from the third party seller stating that the order has been received but not shipped. I needed the ear buds seven days after I ordered them but this was not going to happen. I tried to cancel the order through buy.com but they mysteriously couldn't find my order yet again. I then contacted the third party seller and cancelled the order directly. I received an email from the seller stating that the order was cancelled and to have a nice day. Five days later I received the ear buds from the seller and the old credit card was charged yet again. I FINALLY got the second charge taken off and just kept the ear buds. Now, the ear buds are shorting out. To return the ear buds to VModa, I need a receipt of purchase to send them back and no one seems to want to acknowledge that I bought the ear buds either the seller or buy.com. What is the moral of the story? Stick to Amazon, Newegg or whatever your familiar website is to make your purchases. Thanks buy.com for wasting hours of my life that I will never get back.

The Hoover Dam

NBA Summer League, Las Vegas NV

I have just recently returned from a two week adventure in Las Vegas, NV. The NBA Summer League took place there from July 10th to the 21st. I don't care what anyone says, twelve days in a row in Las Vegas is too many. The "norm" for most of the visitors that I have encountered in Las Vegas is that they are staying two to five days. This was my second work trip to Vegas and my fifth trip overall. Let me start by pointing out that I worked thirteen straight days without a break. With that said, let me turn my attention to the work that I was doing. I was the courtside engineer for the stats crew. I sat through thirty five games, three or four at a time, back to back with only ten minutes between games. All in all, it wasn't a bad experience but it made some of the people that I worked with, as well as myself, a little testy towards the end of the day. Everyone made it home and are on speaking terms now, so that is all that really counts. Sorry guys! With that said, I would like to do a review of some things that I noticed in at the NBA Summer League, Las Vegas. Let call this section of the blog: Cool vs. Not Cool.

Firstly.


Drinking with friends and making new friends while drinking is cool. See picture to the left.












Drinking so much that you pass out at 2:00 p.m. at the NBA Summer League is not cool. This guy sat directly behind us at the scoring table and slept for a full hour and a half before security kindly asked him to leave. He had an L.A. Clippers jersey on, no offense Clippers.











Secondly-


Eating peanuts and throwing the shells on the floor at a Roadhouse of some sort is cool. If the management is cool with it, then so am I.
















Being a fat and lazy PR guy that sits at the table and eats a bag of peanuts, 3 hot dogs and some nachos and then throwing the peanut shells on the floor is not cool. This PR guy that works for the Portland Trailblazers didn't see the problem with this. Lazy and not cool. See evidence below.


























Thirdly-


Going out in Vegas is pretty common and most people that go there do this. The guys always want to look good and smell good, of course. That's cool.
















Wearing so much Drakkar Noir that when I have to sit next to you, for hours at time, makes my eyes water is not cool. Hey guy, Drakkar Noir went out with the nineties, switch it up. This guy wore so much of that crap that I had to get up and put drops in my eyes twice during a two hour game. Not cool. Hey, we get it. You are going out right after you get done with this gig. Bring the bottle with you in the car and put it on when you get to the place. Check your head gear guy.











Other than that, everyone else was cool. Good event people. I did actually get to visit the Hoover Dam or Hoover Darn as some say. I will post those pics soon.

Captain America, Fuck Yeah!

I feel the patriotism. I found this video on Boing Boing today and thought that I would share. Someone took the Team America "Fuck Yeah" song and added it to a REALLY crappy Captain America TV show from the 80's. HAPPY 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July Mr. President!!

I think that this is exactly what those that wrote the First Amendment of the Constitution had in mind when they created it.

Hey Mr. President, did I hear someone say "Sic, Semper, Tryannus?"

George Carlin will be missed

I was very sad to hear that actor, comedian, writer and all around funny guy George Carlin died today. In a world of half truths and whole lies, he entertained the world with his insight and observations of the world around him. He was the first host of Saturday Night Live and had a supreme court ruling passed for his actions on a New York radio station regarding free speech and obscenity (look it up). I could list his stand up, books and movie appearances but it would not even come close to giving him the credit that he deserves. He worked doing what he was best at up until the week that his life ended. He had reportedly had a show in Las Vegas last week that was his last. This makes me extremely upset because I am slated to go to Las Vegas in July for work. It would have been nice to make it to one of his shows even in his elder years. Thanks for the comedy George.

Freshwater Cichlid tank

Well as the saying goes, "The two best days for a fish tank owner is the day that they bring it home and the day that they sell it." I finally got the tank finished after adding some more rocks and upgrading the lights. We now have three Jack Dempsey Cichlids and three Convict Cichlids living among us. The best part is that my dog Canada sits and watches the fish with the same interest that we do.

So I guess that when we are at work the dog has some entertainment. As with all fish tanks, they are a work in progress and tend to change with time. I like the current set up that we have now though. We haven't had any casualties yet but the fish have only been in this tank for 10 days. I have a feeling that one of the Convicts isn't going to make it since he is not eating as far as we can see. The dog hasn't given us any complaints yet but I am waiting for the attention monster to rear its ugly head.

KISS Rick Roll

I guess that the members of Kiss were feeling like some Rick Rolling.

Media Defender makes a boo boo, I hope that they have good lawyers

Last week, the great people over at Media Defender were accused of shut ting down the Revision 3 website with a denial of service attack. If you are not familiar with Media Defender, you should be. They are the ones that the record companies, movies companies and pretty much anyone who owns distributed and copyrighted material out there hires to take down peoples websites that share these files using bit torrent. I don't see how that is legal at all but then again, I'm not a lawyer. I think that this is a hilarious mistake made by Media Defender to shut down the website of the company that actually owns the material that they are distributing. Revision 3 produces many pod casts and other forms of media through various websites. The files that triggered this to happen was apparently pod casts being distributed using legal bit torrent sharing programs. The website was down for a full three days before it was made public that Media Defender was accused of being the source. I am a big fan of the Revision 3 pod casts and was a little surprised that during this period I was not able to get any new material from my sources that distribute Revision 3 pod casts. I hope that Revision 3 gets a HUGE settlement from these douche bags. These are the same guys that tried to shut down The Pirate Bay and did actually shut down Torrent Spy for a short time. I wouldn't be surprised if some grey hat hackers turned the tables on these sell outs and shut down their entire service. (Not that I condone that) Oh yeah, here is a picture of the president and CEO of this company. Like I said, bags of douche.

New blog layout

For those that actually do read my blog, let me know if you like the new layout. I am still working on the page but I like the progress so far.

Burn After Reading, Red Band Trailer

I saw this on Movieweb.com and thought that it looked promising. I just hope that all of the good parts aren't in the trailer, which is pretty funny.

Lost your Dell laptop recovery disk? Any Dell disk will do.

If you have ever experienced the panic that comes along with needing to reformat your laptop HD but you can't find the exact recovery disc that came with it, worry no more. While I was at work we had this issue present itself and I had to be creative to solve it. We have hundreds of different Dell laptop models running around the tech departments and no one person has ALL of the model specific recovery discs for each model. I did some research and through trying some different things I found that a Dell C840 recovery disc will work with a Dell D620 machine. The recovery discs aren't model specific at all, only the OS is the difference. So, if you lose your recovery disc for that old laptop, pop the newer laptop recovery disc into it and format away.

Bill O'Reilly behind the scenes remixed

I have never been a fan of Bill O'Reilly but this makes me like him even less. If I wanted to see and hear en ego maniacal deuce bag, I would watch the State of the Union address. This is pretty funny though. The original video is below this, it's as equally disturbing.

I think that I could take more than this

30

I found this on my co-worker's blog. If you want to see how many children you could take in a fight, click the link to take the test.

Madonna ruins another art, too bad it wasn't her own.

I contacted the Center for Movies and Other Stuff for some reference materials regarding Guy Ritchie last night after watching Revolver. As you can see, the graph starts strong with Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and peaks with Snatch. After this, you can see the sharp decline in creativity due to Madonna crushing Guy Ritchie's soul. I can't feel sorry for Guy Ritchie because he chose to be with her but his movies are really lackluster lately. After the Madonna entrance, the Swept Away premiere was met with "Gigli" type reviews. And then, Revolver. Geez, I really had high hopes for this movie. The beginning started strong and the setup was great but as the story went on, both my girlfriend and I started to look at each other in confusion. The action was there, the stars were present, the story had potential and then it took a sharp right turn and somehow it ended up in Ishtar. The last movie on the graph is Rock n Rolla. This movie hasn't been released yet but if the prior two movies are any indicator of how this movie will be, it will be a stinker. I don't usually write about movies on my blog but I couldn't let this one pass. Madonna, release your clutches on this poor soul who is now dead behind the eyes.

Apple pushes Safari on unsuspecting users

I don't trust Apple even more after this last stunt that they have pulled with Safari. As many network administrators have discovered this week, Safari is now standard with ITunes! I was actually surprised that Apple would pull this with their "loyal" followers. Maybe the other way to look at this is that they are pushing this junk onto users that don't necessarily know about or like Apple software. I do know that network admins now have a problem on their hands in getting rid of this garbage from their systems. It actually looks like Apple took a page out of the Microsoft or Adobe play book for this one. It seems like an "opt in" would be necessary to install this software but they have it set up for the opposite. Let's be honest, who actually reads the legal mumbo jumbo that pops up when installing or updating software? It's hard to read and even harder to understand unless you are the one that wrote it. Last week after the Pwn to Own contest, Safari came in last. Using the Safari browser, the hacker was able to get into the Mac and shut it completely down within 2 minutes. Do you really want this on your system? Hey, Safari actually makes Internet Exploder look like a better option! I will stick with FireFox, good luck everyone else.

Happy April fools day Google!

When I checked my email this morning, I saw that Google has a new mail option. Gmail custom time! This allow you to send emails to the past, supposedly. The idea would be nice if it were possible to send emails to people in the past.



I took a screen shot of this April fools day prank. Hats off to you Google, thanks for the laugh.

Home media electronics not working properly? Check the firmware.

Having a lot of electronics around can be bliss until they stop working the way that they are supposed to. I have noticed that the media equipment that own and have at the house sometimes like to misbehave. I have a 37" Philips plasma television at the house and it started to do some strange things like just turn itself off in the middle of watching a program. This started to happen more frequently as the days went by. I went to the manufacturers website and did some research into the problems that these devices encounter. It turns out that there was a firmware fix for this issue. It was as easy as taking a thumb drive and putting the firmware on it. I followed the instructions given with the program and it was fixed before I knew that it was over.

This made me think that maybe I should check the firmware for all of the other devices that I have in the media center. It turns out that the DVD player, MP3 players as well as the cable box all had software updates that were available. Updating the firmware can be risky sometimes because if it fails you might have an expensive paper weight afterwards. Check the manufacturer's website for the updates and read what it was released to fix. If the fix doesn't pertain to you then skip it. Software updates for DVD players are more common lately because of the advanced types of players being in the market. When I say advanced, I mean up converting DVD players as well as Blu-Ray players. There are already DVD and Blu-Ray players that have RJ45 ports to have a dedicated network connection and receive updates as well as additional content for the media that is inserted. Pretty soon your DVD player will be part of Skynet and the terminators will make you watch "The sound of music" in 1080P. Until then, just check your firmware.

It's official, I'm an adult.

I have been slowly and quietly, kicking and screaming against the fact that I am an adult. I think that I realized this fact today when I checked my Myspace account and saw that I had a dozen or so unread messages from people that I went to high school and college with. Granted, I have a very cool job and career, a great dog and an awesome girlfriend. I did not realize how long it has been since I have seen some of these people that I sat in class with. Some are married, some are divorced. Some have kids, some are still doing the same stupid things that they were doing ten years ago. I think that if you want put some perspective on your situation, you should take a look at your peers that have the same background as you. I have found that if I try and gauge the success of myself compared to the people that I have chosen to surround myself with, I always feel like there is something that is missing. I read the emails from the people in my past and didn't feel too bad after that. Perspective can make or break you it seems like when you are having a some self reflection time. So this is the guy behind the guy to quote a movie line.

Expand your 360 storage on the cheap

I was looking at my Xbox 360 the other day realized that the HD that came with the unit is just too small. I have the newer version of the system with the HDMI port but they skimped on the HD, 10 gigs. I have found that I can plug a thumb drive into the system and the 360 reads the content without a problem. I tried to plug my external SATA drive into the 360 but it did not see the content at all. I went online and priced an external HD that Microsoft sells, 129 gig for $179. What? Just like the wireless connector for the 360, that is too much. I was able to get around the wireless signal issue with a network bridge but now this. After doing some research, I found that thumb drives are FAT32 but my external HD that I tried to plug in is using NTFS.

I took an old 2.5" laptop HD and converted it to the FAT32 format. I found an enclosure an plugged the HD into the 360 without an issue. The Xbox now sees the HD content and I am now able to use the sneaker net method to take content to my Xbox. With the latest 360 OS updates, I can now play .avi, xvid and also HD H264 content. It is nice to be able to take HD movies and play them on the Xbox. So for $79 I found a 120 gig HD and for $12 I found an enclosure that looks great on top of my 360. The FAT32 system is limited to 127.5 gigs unfortunately but that is better than 10 gigs. I don't use the network sharing feature of the 360 because of my network setup but this works nicely. Don't ask, it's a long story.

Make your IPod happy

I am not an Apple apologist or fanboy material by any means. In fact, I really don't like Apple that much at all since they want you to pay for absolutely everything and also most OS X users don't even know how their hardware or software works. If you are in my situation though and own an IPod, this is for you. My Ipod has been running slowly and having trouble accessing the files and music when prompted. I plugged the thing into my PC, ran a defrag on the contraption from XP and it seemed to do the job. I now have no lag or hesitation from the IPod at all. Who would have thought that the PC and the Mac would play together without someone getting their feelings hurt?

Weird call of the day

I work in an IT department for a relatively small company that needs our department to work nights and weekends when needed. On the way to my desk today, I was walking by the elevator and heard the emergency telephone in it ringing. For some reason, I picked up the handset and this was the conversation that followed:

Me: Um hello.

Female caller: Yes hi, I was wondering if someone could help me with the order that I had placed earlier today.

Me: Well I am not sure what order that you have placed but I will try.

Female caller: Well my name is blah blah and I was wondering if I could add some more pizzas to the large order that I had placed for delivery at 7:30 tonight. Also, I would like to change the type and toppings of some of the other pizzas that have already ordered.

Me: Sure, why don't you go ahead and just tell me what you originally ordered and I will try and find the order slip.

Female caller: Why can't you just look the order up in the computer?

Me: Oh, well I am the only one here and they don't let me touch the computer.

Female caller: What? Why?

Me: The last time someone called in and asked me to change an order that had already been placed, I smashed the computer and yelled at the customer.

Female caller: [Silence for ten seconds]

Me: Oh, look here! I found your order slip!

Female caller: That's alright, just deliver what I had originally ordered. Thanks.

End of call.

:)

COD4 Dance tune

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A fellow COD4 player sent this me today. I thought that it was pretty creative. Enjoy.

Sick of being sick

This is the wonderful time of year that most people get sick, including myself. I have not been updating my blog very much lately because of that. I have however been spending more time in front of the Xbox and less at work. Now that I think about it, that part is not so bad. I would trade going into work for feeling better though.

Upgrade your experience, you deserve it

There are many things that are just facts of life, we deal with it and move on. When you purchase a console gaming system, MP3 player or even put a computer system together, the headphones that come with what you have bought suck. I have ran into this a few times this past year and found some audio upgrades that make a huge difference without breaking your bank. The first set of headphones that I purchased were for my IPod. I found that when I travel, my MP3 player gets a whole lot of use. The original set of white headphones that came with the player now reside in a landfill somewhere in the southeast. Sorry, the recycling guy didn't want them either. I tried a few different sets of headphones and decided to stick with the Philips SHE5910.


I found that these have a great sound and use a virtual surround sound technology that works extremely well. This model comes with a carrying case and replacement in ear rubber gaskets. This makes them great for traveling and keeps them clean and organized. I found them for under $20 at many places.

The next set that I found myself needing to buy was for my XBox 360. If you own a 360 and use the Live feature for chat or gaming, then you maybe feel the same way that I do about the headphone / mic combo that they give you. Uncomfortable and useless. The one ear chat and one ear game sound is just distracting to me. I was walking around Best Buy and saw that they have a new product in the XBox section that didn't even have a price yet attached. The Turtle Beach X3 gaming headphones for the 360.

This was one of the coolest products that I had seen in a while but it came at a cost. This wireless set of gaming headphones cost around $85-$100. The main thing that sold me on this set was that I could hear game play in very loud stereo and also hear myself speaking in stereo. The game sound and microphone levels have separate level adjustments. The bass level in these are great and the battery life well exceeds 8 hours of continuous play. I bought four AAA NiMH rechargeable and I was set. The headphones use two AAA and I keep the other two charged and replace them as necessary. Now that I think about it, not very often. I even put the diagram of how they connect to the wireless controller. For serious gamers at an adult price. I don't remember how I played without these truthfully. The wireless signal is line of sight though for the game audio. The voice feature uses the 360 controller signal which is very strong. The IR signal for the audio will reach about 50 feet. I also use these to watch movies and listen to music when others around may not want to hear what I am doing.

The last set of headphones that I received was on a recommendation from Patrick Norton (Tekzilla, Systm, and countless other Revision 3 pod casts). The Grado SR60 headphones.

I have to admit though, I was not impressed by the appearance of these heavy hitters. Truthfully, I thought that the website had shipped me the wrong pair by accident. I took them out of the packaging and put them on to find out that this was the best set of headphones that I had ever purchased. I have tried other sets of headphones out that were maybe better but they were the AKG K701 sorts that run upwards of $180 USD. I found this Grado SR60 set for $69 on Amazon.com with zero tax and free shipping. I definitely recommend these especially for the price. They are comfortable and don't squeeze the head too badly, as long as you don't have a huge melon. One major thing that I like about this model is that you can take them almost completely apart and replace some of the components if they get worn.

This is just a review of some of the items that I have purchased and how they worked out for me. I have been lucky with some of the purchases that I have made lately but unlucky in others. If you are at all like me then you research almost every purchase before you make it. The impulse purchase that got the best of me was the Turtle Beach gaming headphones but I am extremely happy with them. I later found them $18 cheaper online and I feel the burn in my wallet still. Use the Internet to gather information, reviews and prices as always.

Team Fortress 2 problems with Xbox Live

If you are on Xbox Live and have played Team Fortress 2 at all, I am sure that you may have noticed a problem with the networking. To be more specific, lag. Recently an update for the PC version of this game was released but we are all still waiting for the Live version problems to be addressed. I was trying to play today and could not get through an entire game without some type of problem. I know that some say "Maybe the problem is with your network." Nope. I am constantly playing COD4 on Live and have very little issues with that, if at all. You would think that the developers would try and fix the problems for subscribing customers that actually did pay for this game. This is not a jab at PC gamers but they are the ones that pirate the majority of the titles. Microsoft and Valve need to get their act together and get this worked out. It's bad enough that players could not even log onto or retrieve their gamer tags over the Christmas break, now this.

HD-DVD Death Made Official

Toshiba put HD-DVD out of its misery today. Reuters confirmed this afternoon that it will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, following earlier reports from Japan's NHK public broadcasting network.

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Social Wallpapering

This is one of the best collections of desktop wallpapers that I have ever seen. This new web 2.0 type of site offers the user the ability to rate wallpapers and actually save them to your computer. I think that this is a great idea and it also gives graphic artists the ability to show off their work. Check it out.

www.socwall.com

HD DVD vs. Blu Ray is almost over, almost.

This is a graph that I found on several sites and RSS feeds representing the HD DVD vs. Blu Ray sales since Christmas. As you can see Blu Ray is killing HD DVD right now. I could not really care less truthfully and I think that most people follow me in this thought. I think that people are just waiting for one of these formats to be declared the winner and get on with life. There are a few things that will be affected by this decision though. The gaming consoles that back each of these formats could be changing formats as well. The PS3 already has the on board Blu Ray player but Microsoft backed the wrong horse in this race. The XBox 360 has an HD DVD player add on available to go with that nice new HDMI port now available in the newer units. Well recently Sam's Club has lowered the price of these external HD DVD players to $72. They have been selling out and popping up on various market places on the web at a lowered price. Also rumored was Microsoft's new love for the Blu Ray technology and that they could possibly have an external version available for the 360 soon. What this is going to do is lower the cost of older technology such as Dual Layer DVD's and then the Blu Ray drives and blank Blu Ray DVD's will be the new expensive thing. Well at least some good will come from this painful battle but I just want my plasma to have a 1080P feed for movies. After a few hits and more misses it looks like Sony put their money on the right technology.

Whoops. Has someone seen my tape?

This story is just another example of careless people that oversee our day to day lives. An iron mountain "secure" facility that backs up our personal data that has been collected by retailers such as Sears, J.C. Penney and even G.E. have "lost" a SCSI tape that contained hundreds of thousands of credit card transactions and also social security numbers for employees of different companies. The spokesperson said "The tape was never checked out, its just missing." I guess that they work under the honor system at this place. I find it very easy to believe that someone that wanted to steal data from one of these facilities would not sign it out and just take it. This is Social Engineering at it's best if I had to guess. They are going to look at the obvious people that have easy access to the equipment but I think that the blame is going to lie somewhere else. The data has been encrypted on the tape but it depends on the level of encryption that they decided to use. Judging by the level of security around the "protected" data at this facility, the person who took it should not have a hard time breaking the code. Maybe they should try 12345 for the key.

http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/219705350/article.do

COD 4 Fun!

I have just started playing COD4 on Xbox Live and thoroughly enjoy it. Above is a video of a guy that is a sniper, has a few kills and makes a lot of guys look bad. One of the kills might even be me. A friend from work sent me this link and I thought that I would share it with all of you. If anyone that reads my blog wants to saw hello online my gamertag on Live is SWILK3RS. Happy hunting!