Mel Gibson drunk? Oh what glee!

I haven't liked Mel Gibson for, oh 5 years. And now he turns up drunk, and rowdy. Joy. He acts all 'holier than thou, you goddamned peasant, I made the Passion ' but to see him fall like this: priceless. That's all I wanted to say, gnite.

Edit: I just learned that the new PC/GC/PS2/DS/GBA/PSP Sims 2 game is out. It's called Sims 2: Pets. Yup, anothe Unleashed. Remember that first time you saw a bird? Aww. Surprisingly, there is no Xbox/Xbox 360 entry. Seems a little odd really, and I'm gonna find out why! Now, if only I had an Xbox 360....

My, I have been quiet.

Well, I've been moderately interested in quite a few developments, but now theres enough stuff to put my raving hat on (it's an Akubra. Go Aussie! Hmm, guess you don't know what an Akubra is. It's like Crocodile Dundee's hat except not scaly.) and post again.

E3 will no longer be the awesome, cool, awesome, sweet, fun (did I say awesome?) event that it has been. The major developers who want to spend the money on 'games production' say that E3 is, quite simply, not worth what they pay. If they spent the money on games, I'd be thrilled, but I really think that they won't do that.

Vista is going to have an inbuilt recovery tool - sure you couldn't delete a file and have someone half competent recover it, but now anyone can do it, including your boss. This wouldn't work for me anyway (my supervisor is an ITT at 3 schools) but it is sad to see that so many of you won't be able to 'accidentally' delete that work. Unless of course....*whisper* change the file over and over or just turn it off.

Not much else to say really...poor hat, he usually sits in a closet.

As a thought, did you know the word 'terrific' derives from 'terror'?No, really, it's true. Honestly. I have a quote here that sums it up perfectly -

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.
-Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

The story concerns the people of a small kingdom who have remembered all the old tales and words, but somehow construe elves as beautiful. Plus, of course, I've been waiting ages to insert a Pterry quote.
I'm off. Cya!

The name 'cloudy'

Well, since White Mouse has mentioned it, yes, I will explain the origin of the name 'cloudy'...

It all began one dark and stormy morning in 1997, when a new game was coming out. Thousan-what do you mean there were two people? Ah well. The game was Final Fantasy VII, whose main characters name was called Cloud Strife, which somehow caused people to believe those fluffy white things up in the sky (outside) were named (never? Well get outside for once! Oh, c'mon sunlight does not cause you to catch aligh...ooh. I have some cream i think) after this character. Let's flash forward, oh, I don't know, 4 years, yes?

I was walking down to the local bird and fish shop, $150 dollars clasped in my hand, off to get a lovable pet. I walked in and walked around until I spotted a group of cockatiels on top of a cage at the front counter for sale. So I waltzed up there and said "I say, shopkeep, how much are those little birdies in the window, those birdies, those birdies in the window there?". He told me $120. So I leaned down at the little birds, all fun and feathers and bright chirpie smiles. As I lean closer, one takes it into his head, his little red unfeathered head, to jump into my hair.

So I have all these cute, adorable birds to chose from, or the runty small one without feathers. I took the runt, and at that time he was named Razor for the cute way his claws ripped your skin to pieces, and bit clean through clothing. However, I tamed him, eventually, and after a week his feathers started to come in. His perfect pearly white feathers. So I started calling him a cloud, playfully, and eventually the name stuck better than Razor did.

Now he's bigger than the average 'tiel and twice as smart. His yellow feathers came in, his crest grew, and he only rips up skin and clothes when he feels like it. He turns 5 in October, within a week of my birthday. So, since I spend time with him so often, he has become quite often my screenie.

To make this perfectly clear: I did not use the name from Cloud Strife. I hadn't heard about it till 2003, and hadn't played it till 2004. Hmm, I do have an old FFVIII, but it's missing disc 3, and I loathe Playstations.

Cya! btw White Mouse, you ARE a script kiddie sometimes - but it's in a playful way lol.

An Introduction

Just to introduce the final 3 bloggers, who haven't introduced themselves or written profiles (hint hint). Welcome Sparky, Gerry and White Mouse. Gerry is very good with computing topics (waay better than me, but I'm far more handsome. Then ANY of the other bloggers. In fact, if you look it the mirror RIGHT NOW, if you make the face better by a factor of 10, you get me after a car accident. No, I'm joking, but he is better than me at computing)

Sparky is a friend who goes to my school, and is probably the strongest. (I reserve the right to challenge this, deny this, and make a mockery of anything I've said.)

White Mouse is another friend of mine who goes to my high school. Well, I guess everyone does but I will persist in introducing people like this. He (I think) chose the name because his cousin sometimes refers to him as a mouse. Which he does, I suppose, but theres a much better resemblance I can think of :D but I'll let him decide whether or not to show his pic.

Tyro is a Nintendo fan, through and through. He knows a lot about it, and is getting a Wii the day it comes out (would that I could!). He will tell you everything you want to know about Nintendo products events and happenings, and very probably more. He also has a very nice computer, along with Gerry and to a lesser extent White Mouse.

Strike Blaze is in the grade above me and knows a lot about things like mecha games (on the ps2), warhammer 40K and stuff like that. He's also nearly as short as me :D.

I'm pretty sure that everyone knows each other, but White Mouse hangs out with Gerry and Tyro, and sometimes Sparky, but Strike Blaze hangs out with people that aren't bloggers here. And cloudy? Well, cloudy hangs out with every one.

I was going to have someone who can draw, knows about Japanese media, and whom I persist in describing as a hippie but I guess he isn't really, just like White Mouse, no matter how endlessly hilarious.

As for me, well, I'm odd. I call people hippies without evidence, and then go on about it. I have been told (in actuallity) that I can argue with a wall, and win. It's not like I don't like not being right; it's the suggestion that I just possibly might not be infalliable that gets me. I also think of myself as funny, although this has been refuted. Oh, and I'm seedy about birds. Yay! I made up pun! It's amaizeing!

Liquid Breathing

Liquid breathing is a topic that's always fascinated me. I have always wondered what it would be like to breathe liquid and be able to breathe. Also, there is a massive cool factor involved in not breathing a gas.

Unfortunately it isn't as simple as just pumping oxygenated bubbles into water. I wish. Instead, you have to make complex-ticated (it is so a word) flurocarbon chains that can both trap oxygen and release it into the lungs' aveoli.

My friend (who declined to join this blog for some reason) has just asked me a question while I'm typing:

Why can't you just breathe liquid oxygen?

I hope I don't have to draw you a pretty picture of your lungs freezing solid, as my friend here would have it. No. No funny comments either.
Anyway, I would like to one day breathe a liquid. Although, even with the methods here today, it causes cancer, cuts, bleeding, tissue death and clotting. Also, death. Now they can use it on babies for up to 72 hours and actually improving lung function, after which they lived long and healthy live (god I hope one is a smoker - how terribly ironic of fate.

I'm off. Cya.

Microsoft Zune

Just catching up on all the news opportunities I've missed. This post is about the Zune, the new mp3 player being brought out by Microsoft. It's still in development though, so don't get too excited. It does look OK...I guess, but seeing as I bought an iPod, theres probably some legal mumbo jumbo in that bloody Terms and Conditions that says I have to like the look better. Well they do look cool.

Heres a Zune pic for you. Anyone noticed how close the names Zune and iTunes are? Does Microsoft think we are so stupid so as not to notice that? Not only that, but rumours are flying that it wont be compatible with Windows Media Player's own Plays for Sure program. I would pay to see Microsoft be that hypocritical. I have...35 cents (Australian cents!) so far. Any donations? Anyone? Fine.

Although (since the bottom half of my iPod nano is screwed. Really mega chibi-screwed) I want another mp3 player, I really think I'd rather get a pda. 35 cents in, $999.65 to go! I've had my go with mp3 players; and they're bloody bloody annoying. Game consoles on the other had are better, mostly because I got a huge discount. Let me regale you:-

I'd gotten really sick of the GBA because of it's lack of backlighting. This starts to be an issue when you start to wish your eyes merely felt like they were on fire. So I got together my $150 and happily waltzed down to my local Target. I went it, picked up the cute little GBA: SP box and skipped (yes, yes, and no) all the way to the little electronics counter. So I paid for my SP, and when the guy looked in his drawer, he said he was all out, but that there would be some at the front counter. So I paid the money, got a reciept off him to take to the front desk, and the guy gives me a DS. I was bloody amazed, since the box is, like, twice the size, obviously different, and heavier, but I didn't stand around to ask questions, so I took it and went home. Ah memories.

My iPod on the other hand was a struggle from day 1, or possibly several weeks before. I went to Dick Smith, and bought one with several dead pixels. Dick Smith then proceeded to explain for 10 mins that Apple does not have a very good dead pixel policy so we can't take it back, now go away you little yellow bird. Eventually they swapped it for another one, but Great Zombie Jesus was that annoying. Ah well. Let's see what the Zune's like!

AMD buys ATI. Wow.

This is...odd. It's all over the internet, but hey, for all of the 0 people who have read this blog, AMD bought ATI for 5.4 billion dollars. Imagine all the childrens tears I could buy with that....It's a valid response. Don't diminish my beliefs! It's a traditional...bird...er...pastime.

Anyway, so what does that mean? Basically, I think it will mean less competition, and less quality (I know they are in different technology areas, but with a bigger corporation, there comes more security. Intel was young once too.) When you feel secure, you don't innovate. So this isn't necessarily a good thing

On a side note, we have (finally!) an extra blogger. Welcome Strike Blaze!

I'd forgotten.

Oh yeah, soon there will be lots more people blogging here, so I bet you can't/won't/radiator/3 choc chip cookies wait eh? Don't worry, it'll be pretty soon. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! Well they do...I wasn't implying anything...I'll go quietly...
EDIT: I'm creating a Technorati Profile to get more hits. For some reason they want me to put the link on. Guess it's to check that I really can edit this blog. Meh.
EDIT: By the way, just so that everyone can enjoy the pure unadulterated coolness that is this blog, the font I will be using is Calibri (I reccomend you download it; I'll post a link later. It's too late right now *yawn*. Google it.) then Trebuchet MS and then Lucida Grande and Arial for those people who don't have Windows, or a very old copy. Well, I will soon when I'm not so tired. Be warned!

Hurrah!

Welcome to head.in.the.clouds, THE website for, well, I'm bored too. Will have more members soon, so enjoy the cool premade graphics. Gnite.

Me Pwning Worlds.
Me Pwning you.

Just to make it abundantly clear where we stand. Until next time, cya.