bedeviled mojo slop

*yawn*

It's not that I breezed through Assassin's Creed, but the game only took me maybe 3 nights to play through it all. I was quite disappointed. Early buzz was high for this game. But, I wholly concur with the New York Times review of the game.

This is all pretty fun, but by the time you have assassinated your first victim you have experienced almost everything there is of the game. After that it is simply a matter of going to a city, climbing towers, fighting guards, assassinating someone, escaping, and then doing it all over again. The game is never bad, but repetition makes it less and less good.

And yes, I used Eagle Vision to peep all the writing around the room after the credits. And yes, I know it's a planned trilogy. It's an OK start, but honestly, this game could've been much better.

I'd give it a 7.5 out of 10. I don't know if I could go 8 out of 10. Repetition made this game utterly boring.

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I had dinner this past weekend at Asiate. Excellent food.

Sorry, no signed menu although I did get to go back and talk to the chef for a bit after dinner.

And here's my big gripe about the entire evening. This restaurant has a 4 star rating from the Mobil Travel Guide for 2007. So, tell me again why they let people wearing jeans into the restaurant? The fact that you're in a hotel is no excuse. It's the Mandarin freaking Oriental hotel. If you can stay at this hotel, you can afford a decent pant, shirt, and jacket. If their dress code says "Smart Elegant" for dinner, they sure as hell don't enforce it!

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Lay Down - Priestess

Gothic Raggedy Ann and Andy Rag Dolls

A resulting IM exchange with a friend went as follows:

Friend: Those look a lot happier than the depths of my soul.
Me: I would've preferred the fabric in raven's feather black, but I guess midnight black is OK.
Friend: Midnight black sucks. It's like the sun to me.

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I want video game companies to start offering a "Pay It Forward" option wherein you buy into a series of games even before the 2nd or 3rd or Xth release is available. You'd get all the games in the series ... eventually ... and it'd be less than buying them each individually. And the video game companies would have extra cash upfront.

Looking back at games I've gone through ... I've played through the Ratchet & Clank series, both God of War games, almost all of the Katamari Damacy spawn (Beautiful Katamari comes out tomorrow), 2 out of 3 of the Halo series, and others. My point is, I already know that games like Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed are planned trilogies and they've both gotten really good early reviews. And, given my past history with games in a series, once I buy into one, I'm going to buy into the rest.

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A few weeks ago I started in on the Halo series. I guess I took my time with Halo and beat it within a week. I just finished Halo 2 in about 9 or 10 hours. I'll start in on Halo 3, but after tomorrow, it's all about Beautiful Katamari.

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I laughed ... hard ... at both of these.

Wiimo from HijiNKS ENSUE

Crayola Emo - "Tears of Midnight", "Raven Feathers", "Light Sux".

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Had a wonderful dinner at wd~50 in New York City. Here's the wd~50 photo set of their tasting menu.

I should highlight one dish that was particularly amusing. Pizza pebbles. So at dinner I'm saying, "I don't want to insult the chef at all, but this tastes exactly like pizza combos." In talking with our waitress, Abigail, after the course about how fun that dish was, she says, "It reminds me of pizza combos." ZOMG!!1! That was good for a laugh. She also asked if the photos were going to end up on a blog (+1 for progressive wait-staff). I had told her they'd definitely be up on Flickr. So, Abigail, if you're reading this, thanks for a great evening.

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Ingredients:

• 5/8 Vodka
• 2/8 Mescal
• 1/8 Bossa Nova Açai Juice

Mix. Shake. Enjoy!

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On the geo-blogging front ... Geo-Blogging with Blojsom and RouteBuddy + Google Earth

I've just written up a little how to on how to Geo-Blog using Blojsom and RouteBuddy + Google Earth on RouteBuddy forum. RouteBuddy is a very slick and well thought out GPS application to the Mac. My little how to should allow you to bridge the gap from reading about a location to getting there in reality in your car or on foot. If you have a RouteBuddy installed on your Mac just click on the little RouteBuddy icon below. To see a little demo movie click here.

Excellent work there Adam!

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