Yep that's right I'm now learning another language. This would be my third language along with English, American Sign Language, and now Spanish. I'm doing this on my own and with the help from my family, girlfriend, and My Spanish Coach... that's right I'm learning to speak Spanish through the use of my Nintendo DS. Its a lot of fun and I cant wait till I can start using it and conversing with people such as to my girlfriend and here family in Spanish.

I had just posted my review of the game here on GS feel free to read it :)

Woot the big 2 0 :D

Heres some random things that i have found on the net.

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1.Popular Desktop Apps And Their Online Alternatives

Heres some cool online applications.

2.15 Powerful Ways to Differentiate Your Blog from the Crowd

Useful for people who want to make their blog into a somebody.

3.Why Not Having Glitches in Video Games Matters

A gamers opinion... its interesting.

4.Halo Movie Casting Call

I thought it was interesting as to how similar the actor and actress that they picked looked like the characters from the game serise Halo.

5.super mario galaxy DS !!!

Is it real? idk... but it looks like a great idea. However i wish it was Smash Bros for the DS.

6.Apples For The Army

Oh its now only a matter of time before people start hacking and making viruses for Macs... NOOoo!!!

7.Why Nintendo can't ship enough Wii consoles..

This is the Best picture that i have seen in a long time, lol.

Heres some in-depth research that i had found online about the existence of Santa Claus.

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As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renown scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus.

1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be ****fied, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18.) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist cihldren, that reduces the workload to to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seemes logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept),we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5) 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enourmous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake.
The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

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Found at:
http://www.jokes2go.com/jokes/4963.html?14

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So there it is, proof that he did exist.

Let me sum it up. This father put his sons GH3 up on Ebay because he found his 15 year old son smoking weed. Isnt it great to see parents caring about their children and disciplining them when they need to be. However they had cancelled the bidding and took the item down before the auction was over because they felt that it was getting out of hand.

Heres what the father had to say:

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Here's the deal:

So I spent who knows how many hours of my life trying to get "Guitar Hero 3" for the Nintendo Wii for my 15 year old son who has been begging for it since he was born (well not really but he's wanted it for awhile). So after waiting in lines and going into every game store in the city over the last 2 weeks (practically being laughed at when I asked for guitar hero 3) I finally got lucky and got one at EB Games (they just got a shipment of them 25 minutes before I walked in!).

So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Xmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn't wait to spread the jubilance to my son.

Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what to I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the backyard with 2 of his delinquent friends.

Now I know santa applies the "naughty or nice" paradigm to determine who gets what on Christmas. My son (Isaac) hasn't exactly been Mother Teresa this year (he got suspended for fighting in the spring, among other things) but I thought I could still justify getting him this present. Maybe it would make him stay home more and "rock out" on this fake guitar thing. He pretty much spends all his free time at his friend's house playing it anyways (while high on marijuana, I would imagine).

Anyways, I am now finding it hard to justify rewarding him with this gift after he so greatly disappointed me. I know smoking a joint isn't the end of the world, but if you can convince me that he deserves the gift, then I will end the auction. You will have to be very convincing. I am an elementary school teacher and I know that rewarding bad behavior is just asking for more of the same�?�

After I caught him getting high on my patio I did the typical yelling, screaming, kicking out the friends, etc�?� but I had not decided on a suitable way to punish him. As of the time of me writing this, he does not know I got him Guitar Hero 3. I will show him the auction once it is posted and we can watch it finish together. Sort of a "Father-Son bonding experience". While I doubt this will keep him from ever smoking pot again, I think it will make him think twice before doing illegal (well I think pot is still illegal in Canada) drugs on my property.

I am still considering getting him a game for his Nintendo. Maybe something like Barbie as the Island Princess or Dancing With the Stars. These games are in stock everywhere I go, and I know he will just love them.

Merry Xmas Isaac. I hope you've learned your lesson. �??Father.


On 05-Dec-07 at 22:16:02 EST, seller added the following information:

UPDATE: I showed him the listing... at first he didn't believe what he was reading, but once the truth hit him, he was not amused!

On 09-Dec-07 at 14:49:27 EST, seller added the following information:

UPDATES ON THE AUCTION, AND SITUATION IN GENERAL. LOTS TO BE SAID HERE.

Thank you everyone for taking the time to comment on this situation, no matter what your opinion is. The response has been unbelievable. I feel that providing this update on my thoughts and intentions is the least I could do.

Concerning my relationship with my son�?�

I would like to clarify some things: I am not: "sadistic", "publicly humiliating my son", "power-hungry", "an a--hole", "a douchebag", or any similarly bad things - especially when it comes to my son. Many of you may feel this way based on the very limited scope which has been provided concerning the background of this situation. I understand this, but I would like to clarify these for those of you who are honesty deeply concerned for the welfare of my son and his psychological well being (which I appreciate).

I am not kicking my son when he is down, so to speak. He and I are very close and are more like best friends than father and son (right buddy?), especially over the last couple of years. I will not get into the details of my family life, but rest assured that I knew when posting this that he would not be driven to run away from home, or do any other of the un-thinkable. If this was a possibility, of course I would not have gone through with it. Think of the auction as me "joshing him", as friends often do, in addition to letting him know that he seriously disappointed me. Yes, I thought it would be funny to an extent, and tried to keep it light which should be obvious from the description. Calling his friends "delinquents" and threatening to buy him a Barbie game just out of spite are really just jokes. Lighten up people. The good-hearted nature of the auction description was intended to counter-balance the more serious nature of the situation. He and I have shared many laughs about it since, as well as a few thoughtful discussions. To everyone out there who thinks I am a terrible parent, rest assured I am not. Every parent-child relationship is unique and generalizations should not be made. So while I sincerely appreciate your comments, I have no real intentions of them letting them govern my parenting decisions concerning my son.

Concerning the "public humiliation" of my son�?�

The auction has been getting somewhat out of hand, to say the least. Many of you have insisted that I end the auction and give him the present as this "public humiliation" has been enough. As I mentioned above, I am not publicly humiliating my son. The auction has received some 60 000 hits as of now. This is probably the best indicator of how many people know about this situation in the highest level of detail possible (i.e. have personally read the item description). Anyone who can appreciate the number of people on the world wide web should realize that this is practically insignificant. The odds that someone in my town has read the auction personally (or even heard of it though the very light media coverage it received) are quite slim. Furthermore, the odds that someone who knows my family and can make the connection is even more exceedingly remote. Adding to this, my son does not even go by the name Isaac. It is his middle name and I intentionally used it when creating the auction out of respect for his privacy. Needless to say, this paid off. I haven't even received a call from a sibling or in-law asking if this was me who posted the auction, although I certainly have been expecting one.

Concerning my disapproval of my son smoking pot�?�

Many of you seem to think I am an archaic, ultra-conservative who puts marijuana use up there with heroin and cocaine. This is absolutely not the case. I am not ignorant, or anything of the sort. Yes, I realize that pot is undeniably very safe relative to any other controlled substance, and yes, I would rather my son be smoking the occasional joint than going on bender-drinking binges with fratboys or being addicted to cigarettes (he assures me he doesn't smoke and I believe him).

This is beyond the point. I don't want my son smoking pot. It's that simple. It's my decision as his parent. He knows this, and the topic has come up in discussions prior to this incident. Many of you think it could potentially benefit him in terms of stress and/or school performance. Well, he doesn't need it. Not to brag, but my son is highly intelligent. He was designated a gifted student in grade 4 by the school board and has stood out from the crowd ever since he stepped into a ****oom. Schoolwork comes very easy to him. It is my strong opinion that he smokes pot because he is bored. He is not challenged in school and he lives in the suburbs. Yes, it's a sad fact: we live in the suburbs and kids get bored here. We have spoken about this and are trying to find ways to circumvent his boredom. Peer pressure is of course another contributing factor.

This also has nothing to do with the legality of pot use. Just because it is legal doesn't make it right. For all of you out there who have provided me with this fact as part of your argument, I would like to see you give your offspring a cigarette and a beer when s/he turns 19 (actually no, I would not, but you get the point). It is, however, my strong opinion that outlawing marijuana use is a gross hypocrisy while alcohol and tobacco use are permitted. This is just one reason why I am fortunate to live Canada, where the laws concerning pot use are significantly more civilized than in many other developed countries. Not to say they are perfect however.

And to those of you who feel that his body could find some physiological benefit from marijuana use, I am not convinced. I know there are proven benefits for the terminally ill in terms of pain relief and appetite-induction, but none of this applies to my son. Other than this, I think we are a long way to telling our kids "Jimmy, take your Flintstone vitamins, eat your asparagus, and don't forget to take your bong-hit".

Concerning the internet discussions this auction has sparked�?�

I think these discussions are fascinating and highly productive. I am glad to see both veteran parents and young adults getting involved in the discussion, as it is an important one and it is likely one that you or someone you know has had to deal with, or will have to deal with in the future. How you choose to deal with it is up to you. All I know is every situation is unique and cannot be approached in a straight line. Discussion is good to reveal new ideas and perspectives, but ultimately it is the parent who will have to make the final decision as to how to proceed. This decision should be precisely tailored to be as empathetic, pragmatic, and - most importantly - as loving as possible.

Concerning the authenticity of the auction�?�

A few people think the auction is fake. I guess this does not surprise me, as it almost seems unreal to me at this point. All I can do is assure you that yes, the auction is real, and if you don't want to bid on it or have anything to do with it, I am fine with that. Please don't slander me as an alternative.


THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOURS.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/Guitar-Hero-III-3-Legends-of-Rock-Wii-NEW-WITH-RECEIPT_W0QQitemZ200181539427QQihZ010QQcategoryZ62053QQssPageNameZWDVWQ QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

I was walking to one of my classes today and on my way this person handed me a booklet called "Is the devil in your laptop?". I started to read it and these people are talking about their ideas as to how to save USA from its self-destruction and to do that is to save the youth from the three greatest threats. These threats to our youth according to them are Myspace, Facebook, and videogames. I'm thinking to myself here we go again another group of old people bashing on the youths pop trends. I had guessed right, they did attack these three "threats". When they started to talk about myspace, or as they call it "MyDeathSpace" they had some interesting facts surrounding it, especially under the section "MySpace:Graveyard of friends". Im not going to talk about that section because i don't think its Gamespot appropriate, but i would recommend people who are interested in it to read the section.

After reading about Myspace i skipped the next readings about facebook and straight to a section about Wikipedia. To sum that section up they felt that Wiki was a conspiracy full of anonymous editors. I rolled my eyes after reading this, its like no poop Sherlock. Everyone should know by now that wiki is not a reliable source for information. Finally i got to the section about video games, but once again with most just assumptions, opinions, and no real proof that games leads to violent behaviors. I found this section to be rather week and i have a hard time seeing why knowing/learning how to perform military drills from a video game as being such a horrible thing.

In the end they conclude that "If people of the united states, led by the 16-to-25-year-old age bracket, do not destroy MySpace, Facebook, and these computer games, the United States cannot survive." All that i got to say to that is that times are changing, means of social networking and entertainment are advancing, and by the time the 16 to 25 yearolds get to be in their old age these current negative issues against this kind of entertainments will no longer be. Just like how when Elvis would swing his hips the older crowd of the time disapproved, but as the young Elvis fans got older the body shaking in entertainment became more and more accepted, and i have a strong feeling that's exactly whats going to happen with these issues today.

The booklet

Its been five days since my GS profile has last gotten exp points, and today i finally got some exp... some, meaning i only got a days worth of exp, what about the other four days? Oh well, guess i'll just sit it out and wait. After all GS is very busy with removing all of the inappropriate game reviews that were posted under the Kane & Lynch.

What has happened to gamespot? Has GS become corrupt thinking money is more important then giving ones own honest opinion when it comes to reviewing games. How will i ever be able to trust a game review on this site again knowing that good game score could be bought.

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Heres an artical from http://kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/gamespot-editor-fired-over-kane--lynch-review-328244.php

We've heard an unsettling rumor today from an anonymous tipster that longtime game reviewer Jeff Gerstmann from Gamespot has been let go. That wouldn't necessarily be newsworthy, but the conditions under which he was allegedly dismissed were. According to the source, Gerstmann was fired "on the spot" due to advertiser pressure for his review of Eidos' Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. A visit to Gamespot shows that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game has taken over the site very prominently, with backgrounds and multiple banner ads all pitching Kane & Lynch. Allegedly, publisher Eidos "took issue with the review and threatened to pull its ad campaign."

Jeff's review was certainly less than glowing. He assigned the game a 6.0, otherwise known as "Fair" on the Gamespot scale. The game is currently enjoying a Metacritic score in the 65 to 69 range, which the site describes as "mixed or average reviews." According to our tipster, it wasn't necessarily the score that was reason for Gerstmann's rumored axing, but the "tone" of the review.

Gerstmann has been no stranger to controversial reviews, as his scores of 10 for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and 8.8 for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess had sensitive internet users up in arms. It's now possible that many bitter fanboys may have had their wishes for his firing granted.

As our tipster points out, if the rumor is true, it could point to a distressing precedent at Gamespot and parent company CNet. "As writers of what is supposed to be objective content, this is our worst nightmare coming to life," wrote the tipster.

Our efforts to confirm the story with Gamespot haven't proved successful. Our current requests with PR, Gerstmann and other CNet contacts have either gone unanswered or yielded a "no comment."

Update: We did get confirmation that Mr. Gerstmann is no longer with Gamespot. The circumstances in which he was terminated or left of his own accord, however, were not disclosed.

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I'll miss you Jeff Gerstmann, but at least you stood up for what you believed. *Salute*

Update:

OMG! look at the Kane & Lynch users reviews on GS. it got as low as 2.6

lol before i went over my bandwidth from my photobucket and none of the images were showing on my GS blog thingy, but its all good now :)

LOL looks like i exceeded my bandwith on photobucket... none of my pictures are showing :( guess i got to go fix that.