My Gaming Collection Vol 2

My Two Dads... er I mean PSPs

It was merely luck that gave me two of these awesome game systems. I got one a while back and I really liked it. I wasn't fond of the UMD system because it was rather loud and cumbersome but once I hacked the PSP is was smooth sailing. I could rip my UMDs to a memory stick and not have to worry about lugging around all those little discs.

About two years ago a friend asked me if I knew how to unbrick PSPs. Seems his friend royally screwed up his PSP trying to hack it and managed to kill it. Since I still had my hacking tools I unbricked it and returned it to factory defaults. Since no one really wanted it back (it didn't have a battery, charger, or even a battery door) I was told to just keep it. So now I have one PSP for playing backups, and another for playing games I buy on PSN, like the Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 and Gran Turismo PSP.

My Pet Monster Jam

This past Sunday our family went to Monster Jam. I was expecting fireworks and excitement and car crushing but really it was just boring and loud.

This picture sums up the whole event. Most of the time was spent watching the trucks try to get into position followed by about 5 seconds of action. There was a lot of filler as well. At one point the schoolbus shaped monster truck broke down, to fill the time they gave away a T-shirt, not T-shirts, one T-shirt. The fellow with the T-shirt cannon walked the arena looking for the loudest section, for about 8 minutes.

To sum up, my kids wanted to go home before we even got to intermission. We forced them to stay and it did get slightly better with the freestyle competition but even with that my youngest started crying to go home, so we left before it was over.

Next year I think we'll go the extra distance and check out the monster jam in Toronto, which takes place in the Rogers Centre, where the trucks have more room to play.

I'm a terrible father

My kids love batman and I've read them numerous batman brave and bold comics, and let them watch many iterations of batman cartoons. Recently I wanted to let them watch a live action batman movie so I looked at my options.

Newer batman movies - too violent
Batman- too dark
Batman 2 - way too dark
Batman 3 - Val Kilmer
Batman 4 - no real questionable content... so that's we let them watch, arguably the worst batman movie ever made. They of course loved it but I couldn't help but feel awful for making that their first batman movie.

My Gaming Collection Vol 1

I own a lot of gaming crap. I've decided to start showing off that stuff on here because it probably won't ever see the light of day again until my kids are older and start rooting through my boxes in the basement.

On with Vol. 1 - My First DS

The story of this DS is interesting. I got it shortly after launch and quickly tired of it. It was fun but still being so new there weren't any games for it. Since my wife's aunt was big into Nintendo I gave it to her (and I'm pretty sure this DS has flown all over the world with her). Soon after I gave it to her I regretted my decision and finally got a DS lite some time later. When she was done with this DS she gave it back to me and since I had the DS lite I gave this DS away again to my Sister-in-law's kids. This past Christmas she bought her kids a 3DS and guess what came back home again? It still works and now I actually find it more comfortable to use because of its size.

I need to see this

My life will not be complete until ...

1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die

While at the library I saw this large gem waiting for me to peruse its pages. It's a decent book to flip though and it has helped me see outside of my superhero bubble. I'm looking forward to tracking down some of the titles in here for future reads. But, this isn't the type of book I'd want to own, actually, I'd just be happy to the have a spreadsheet of the titles.

1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die

Mister Mxyzptlk

I've been mispronouncing his name wrong all along. I'm not sure why I thought it was "mix-ll-plix". Thanks to the internet I now know it's pronounced "/mɪksˈjɛzpɪtlɪk/ US dict: mĭks·yĕz′·pĭt·lĭk or /mɪksˈjɛzpɪtəlɪk/ US dict: mĭks·yĕz′·pĭt·l·ĭk)"

Thank God that's cleared up for me, now I can move on with my life.