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MSc Project Started and Mr Foott Got a new Toy

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Footsies CorollaSo i have started on my project properly now. Working on some interface stuff. I am gonna be using the Wiimote to control some 3D models hopefully. Its all being developed on a Mac so I gotta get up off my ass and start learning Cocoa and Objective-C. They really dont look too bad and XCode is doing a pretty bang up job of handling the whole development side so no real complaints outta me … yet, trust me they will be a coming. These control structures arent too bad but everything i have been looking at has criminaly poor commenting. I think it might just take a little longer to learn all the syntax and figure out just how i will get this whole thing done. Still at least i have started and i am familiarising myself with the task, i set a goal of having something running 2 weeks from now and we will see how that goal is holding up this Friday/Saturday.

In a completly seperate topic of which nobody will be interested in Mr Foott finally got himself a car to be truly proud of and may i say it is fair pretty. I took a few picks with my Phone, tried to put its camera to the test and its didnt do too bad. The pictures are after the break and the few i had a bit of a play with using the simple filters in photoshop are in my flicker photostream or just use the photos link above and wander on to the “Stuff” folder. Use whichever and hopefully pass some of your day. The original photos are in a gallery after the break.

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Diablo 3 Announced

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Diablo 3 AnnouncedWell i didnt get to go to the Blizzard invitational but i can do my best to keep track of what they are announcing and hurrah for us its Diablo 3. I am fricking delighted. That makes 2 Blizzard products i am dying to get my hands on. Starcraft 2 which i believe is due this October but i will have to check up on that one and now Diablo 3 has me excited all over again. Go blizzard and excellent work on the whole working the internet into a frenzy with the ever progressing splash screen. Have a look at the official for some excellent videos and artwork along with the details of what the game will be offering

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Spore Creature Creator

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5/5

The Creature Creator Box ArtI got the demo for this little as soon as it was released and about 20 seconds after creating my first creature I went straight to the site and bought the game. Though to be perfectly honest its more of an investment than a purchase because i get the price taken off  the full game when it finally gets to a stage that i can buy it. For anyone who doesn’t know I have been following this game since Will Wright’s talk at the 2005 Game development Conference. Just another 70 odd days to wait before I get my hands on Spore but the Creature Creator will more than tide me over. Read More…

Rated 5/5 on Jun 24 2008
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Spore Creature Creator First Impressions

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Firefox 3

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Download Day

I hope I’m not late. I am after getting well confused and even if I’m not late time is running out sharpish. The Mozilla Foundation is going for the most Downloads in 24 hours and its nearing the end. I just had a quick look at the home page and Ireland is at just over 20,000. Lets see if we can bring that up a bit. So go to the Headquarters and do your bit for a great browser. While you are there you can also pick up a certificate to say you got involved and hang it prominently on the wall of you choice. Now stop reading and GO GO GO.

UPDATE: You have 1 hour left

UPDATE: Times up and the result is being checked. The above link should still work so Have a look. I’ll post again when i hear anything

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The Incredible Hulk

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4/5

The Incredible Hulk (2008)So Here we go with another movie interpretation of a comic, and like most of the others this one was done before, and just like those others they kicked the old ones ass. As you may guess I really enjoyed this movie.

I have to admit right now that i was not a fan of the last one. It just didnt sit right with me. Every moment i spent thinking about it the more little niddling problems started to irritate me. Now dont ask me what they were now cause it has been a long time since I saw the movie and i have no intention of digging it up again, also This is a review of the new movie, not the last one.

This movie’s first move in the right direction was is refusal to accept the existance of the last. Scrapping the story and rewriting it. That said it doesn’t go about trying to re-introduse the characters all over again. This is a mojor bonus for me. I always hate the first movie in a series cause it feels like the stories are tacked on to the introductions. So this makes the second movie that comes to mind that does this. The other being resident Evil so draw your own opininons about whether that is a good or bad thing. Its all about personal preference.

After this refreshingly quick start the action gets going and rarely lets up. There is a simple and effective formula running through the whole movie of introduce where the action will happen and then have an action scene. Wash rinse repeart through the movie. All that really changes are the locations of the fights and what the hulk is fighting, how can you loose?

On the side of casting everyone put in a solid performance. Personally i though Liv Tyler was the worst there but she did a great job so no complaints. Edward Norton played an excellent Bruce Banner. I loved Eric Bana in the last film but Edward Norton fitted the character far better for me. He seemed much more normal. He wasn’t scrawney but he wasn’t as big as Eric Bana in the 2003 movie and so in my eyes was more believable. Tim Roth played his character perfectly, that is as much as you can say really. You didnt see the actor, just the character.

Of course, no movie is withoutits flaws and this movie did have one or two. One which really got to me, and this is the second recent movie to do this, was a 24 hour chase scene. Now if there was a chase which did last 24 hours then that wouldnt be so bad. This chase however should have unfolded over the space of 2 – 3 hours at the very most and to be perfectly it should be in real time. These chase scenes however tend to start at night and then continue on through the day with the characters never stopping until they come to a climax at night again. The transformers movie was the other one with the same thing so next time you watch it keep your eyes open and the same goes here. I cant really go into any more detail without giving away part of the story. Its not very crucial but its always better going to see a film without any notion of what is going to happen.

So there you go. Another great movie from Marvel this summer and one i reccomend going to see. The earlier the better and definately one to see in the cinema.

Rated 4/5 on Jun 13 2008
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Billy Connolly at the INEC

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Billy Connolly at the INEC
5/5

What a funny manOk its been some time and i couldn’t take notes due to the fact i laughed so much i got hiccups so this will be pretty short. I went to see Billy’s show in Ireland’s National Event Center on May 26th. It was his second show in the venue and to be honest i was luckily to snap up the tickets having missed the opportunity to grab them in the fiasco surrounding tickets for the Cork Opera House Gig. But that is a different Story and one which i will save you from having to endure here.

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Rated 5/5 on May 31 2008
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Out the other side

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Watch His Face Melt

Ok that was a hectic month. More hectic than previously anticipated. A full month of exams. 4 weeks with 3 exams each week and now its done. Thats the academic studious part of this masters course completed and on to the project which i will expand on later, or i would if I knew what i was doing.

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More updates

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And the site seems to be growing. Taidy has completed a review on “Meet the Spartans” and i have put up another snowboard movie on the video page. The reviews are going into their own little section cause for some reason they arent displaying on the min page. You can find them here in the review section. And thats me done. Partly because everything has been said but also cause the laptop i am using has a busted keyboard and the A key is all crappy. Damn it i gotta stop adding words that have so many As. AAAAAAHHHHHHH

UPDATE: I have now put up a New page containing quick animations. Hopefully this page will grow as i play with the program a little more and learn new techniques but until then the clips there are at most 8 seconds long so feel free to enjoy them for a quick distraction

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Review: Meet the Spartans

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Right…..Worst Day Ever. Ok i went to see this film there last week. Before we went in it had a posting on the front saying that the film contained Two credits, the first was 1 hour and 40 min, and the second was about 10 min or so. From this witty poster (slaped up with blue tack on an A4 sheet) i gathered that the film itself was going to be poo……yet i still entered!

Basically this films takes the piss out of every blockbuster film that was released last summer……SO ITS ALREADY OUT OF FUCKING DATE! The story line is loosly based on 300, although instead of 300 spartans they have….mmm lets say 7….no joke, just 7 clowns standing around.

So the film plods along with this 300 style story line. And if you can imagine the story line of 300 in Essay form, then at every full stop, “Meet the spartans” Decide to throw in an ol gag just for the laugh……they’re not funny, in fact they make you cry a lille. I do believe they are meant to be funny or witty, but they are not, they are shit. Not only are they not funny but they go on way too long, mar shampla: 300, Leonides kicks in 3 dudes into the hole, Meet The Spartans, he kicks in like i duno….. a million people, some i didnt even know cause it was some sort of american boring ass reality Tv references (Conor you would hate this film, imagine you watching reality Tv, and then it crawls its way into a movie your watching). I can see what it was trying to do….banish all the shit from last year to Spartas pitt of doom ( i think thats what they called it) but to be honest they should have all just jumped in after them. Fuck me that was a shit scene!

Right so the movie rambles on through all these gay ass senarios much like the last, with shit jokes, every fucking breath. Unfortunitly for those of you wanting a climactic finish to the end of this tale you are going to have to go out spend the 9 yo yo’s to see it. Then you can tell me the ending cause i didnt see it, as you may have guessed i walked out! I have to say i have never walked out of a film in my life, but this was shit. I did die a lille inside as my record of staying to the end of all fims was now blemished, but lucky for me as stated on the front door this film was a set of two credits…..so i only walked out during the first, so my clean sheet is still clean……FUCK YOU MEET THE SPARTANS, YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD ME, BUT YOU SHOT YOURSELF IN THE FOOT, YOU BIG PIECE OF ROTTEN EGG YOKE ON A DOLUP OF MARMITE. I left some time round after they meet that clown Xerxis, played by Borats boyfriend…worst actor ever, although he did look fairly mank so it was kinda funny. I must comment on his dismount from the fucking chariot that his gypo fuck slaves carried. It was fucking terrible, it was trying to be slapstick, it was not, its too hard to explain so you’ll just have to see it for yourself…….dont go see it its not worth it. They should have shown his big ass fall flat on his face from the side in slow mo 300 style…..that would have been funny, not just show his face on the ground, lettin you imagine the fall….thats shit!!!

Anyway, i think we were debating leaving a hell of a long time before that, but we took ages. There was one momment however that kept us from leaving, in retrospect it wasnt worth it. Your mans wife….queen i duno eh “Only spartan Women give birth to Real Men” one was gettin some massage so it was relativly arrousing, for about point 5 of a second.

We all left it soon after, and cursed walshy for gettin the tickets (thats right walshy were going to blame you), although honestly it was all our fault, if eric drove as the crow flies we could have made it in time for Drill bit Taylor….and i suppose i have blood on my hands too. If i hadnt stopped for a brief 15 min dance on some park bench we would have made it for a more varried and fruitful selection. If only i kept dancing for another hour we wouldnt have fuckin seen the cinema let alone that boiled scrotum of a fim.Meet the Fuckwitts that should never have been aloud to create such a shit film.

To cheer ourselves up after such a dissimle display of putride rat shit in movie form we decided to comfort feed ourselves with K.c’s….it helped, only a lille, so then we got chocolate, we felt happy after that.

It was one crap film, compared only to a papercut on your eye, and whats worse is…….i want to know how it ended, the seed of curiosity is still sewn in my head, so if anyone wants to donate 9 euro, a kashmire burger, and a snikers bar then ill go see it again.

Appologies for the speeling, grammer and what not, my use of the written english is, how shall we say, ehh….meet the spartans!

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