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Movies

Silent Rage

My friends and I stumbled upon another classic film last night.  Silent Rage, which starred Chuck Norris.  Nothing like watching a Norris film, the man is arguably on of the finest actors to ever grace the silver screen.

The film was originally released in 1982, and it shows.  From the attire to the hair, clearly the wonderful early eighties.  The plot involves the sheriff of a small town played by Chuck Norris who finds himself face to face with an unstoppable (until he met Chuck of course) bionic killing machine.

The fight scenes are vintage Chuck Norris.  The music is really cool, lots of Casio synthesizers.  Unfortunately we did miss the beginning, so I’m not too certain how John Kirby (the bionic killing machine) became the unstoppable force that he was in the film.  This was a very entertaining film, mostly for the wrong reasons, but entertaining nonetheless.  

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Sports

Terrible at Basketball

Played a little basketball last night in Longport with Mr. Yuk-Yuk.  First let me begin with a Wow I’m really bad.  I mean really, really bad.  But oh well, I just went out there to get a little exercise and was successful in accomplishing that feat.  It was getting the ball in the hoop and not dribbling it off my foot that I was not quite as successful at.

Unfortunately my left ankle has little to no support in it.  Even the lightest of jump and the thing caves in with a healthy dose of pain to go along with it.  I’ll have to look into purchasing an ankle brace and some high tops for some support.  

Hopefully we will continue playing. Who knows, maybe I might even graduate from terrible to pretty bad.

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Adventure Sports

South Vineland Park Monsoon

The good Shepherd and I embarked on a voyage to play the disc golf course in South Vineland Park.  We had a hard time locating the park, apparently the park doesn’t have a mailing address, so attempts to map it to the car’s GPS proved impossible.  So we had it map what we felt was the street where the course would be found.  This of course took us a great distance out of the way (also known as very lost).  

Luckily we did enjoy another fine lunch as Sugar Hill Subs.  So despite being lost, tempers never did flare.  While driving there the heavens opened up and let loose a downpour of biblical proportions.  With little to no visibility it seemed that not only would we not find this legendary course; even if we did locate it we’d be rained out.  Luckily we were able to weather out the storm (with headlights off almost the entire time dummy), and eventually find the park.

The 18 hole course was amazing.  And the heavens cleared during the the 2nd basket, giving us a most glorious day to appreciate this newfound course.  This proved to be a most challenging course, with the distance to the baskets being much greater than what we’re accustomed.  Another notable challenge is the narrow lanes that one is faced with.  There’s times where you must navigate a 300+yd forest opening that’s no more than 5 feet wide.  An extremely daunting, but rewarding task.

The changes in elevation brought a new dimension to the great game of disc golf to us rookies.  It’s something that must be seen to be truly appreciated, on a drier day I will have to take some photos to share.  The Shepherd took a nasty spill down on of these treacherous slopes that I speak of.  While and extremely funny sight to behold, there was no shame in the slip.  For I almost had several spills myself.

An extremely impressive disc golf course, one that must truly be given a try.

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Development

ACCCEA Site

Just updated the ACCCEA (Atlantic Cape Community College Education Association) website.  They were one of the first freelance sites I built.

The biggest upgrade to their site was moving their blog from the custom one I built for them a few years ago to being powered by WordPress.  As a result of the upgrades they now have a fully featured CMS (Content Management System).  So now they can just login and make edits to their website on their own.

Moving the blog over to WordPress also gives them a much more feature rich blogging engine then what they were currently using.  They can be a lot more creative when writing posts, adding images, video clips, styling the text, etc.

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Development

Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

Just upgraded to WordPress version 2.5 yesterday.  My host Dreamhost has a super easy 1 click upgrade, so it only took a few minutes for the upgrade.  Just had to update the database and I was all set.  My custom theme didn’t break, nor does there seem to be anything else broken (cross my fingers) since the upgrade.

From the user end not too much will probably change as a result of this upgrade.  But the admin upgrades with 2.5 are very impressive.  The whole look and feel has been overhauled in a good way.  It took a few minutes for me to adjust to some of the changes, but so far so good.  

The upgraded RTE (Rich Test Editor) is great, works so much better with Safari.  The Add media functions are a great addition, including a YouTube video in a post just got a whole lot easier.  Overall I’m very impressed with the upgrade and will begin moving my clients over to 2.5.

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Video Games

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. BrawlWith it’s overall attention to detail, this game might have the most production value I’ve ever seen. There’s a ton of playable characters (35 I think) from all the games I grew up playing. Numerous characters from Mario Bros., Zelda, Metroid, Sonic, Fire Emblem, even good oldR.O.B. was a playable character.

Brawling with four characters is fast paced and fairly easy to pick up. The online play is very cool too, very little if any lag in the play. Tons of events and extras to keep you busy for a very long time. It is kinda cool in a 3rd grade way to collect the various trophies and stickers.

The single player Subspace Emissary is an impressive game in itself. It got tough towards the end. I beat it with one of my all time favorites, Luigi. It was very fitting that he got the final blow to save the day. There should be a holiday for him. The music like the entire game was very impressive. It’s easy to see that no expense was spared in making this, and it shows when you play it.