IT CAME! IT CAME! IT CAME!

I’ll post process pictures tonight.

-Dean

So the Canadians are cleaning up at the paralympic games. Apparently they’re doing so well because Canadian paralympic athletes receive the same funding and access as their able bodied olympic counterparts.

As much as I loathe sports… If other countries don’t fund all of their athletes equitably that’s just sad. Shame on the rest of the world.

-Dean

Jamie generously gave me a gmail invite. so if anyone wants to e-mail me something for kicks. Doesn’t matter what, surprise me, or just say “hey Dean, I enjoy your page and you probably didn’t even know I read it” Now’s the time, because I’m enjoying fiddling with this.
So that’s

deanwelsh
@
gmail.com

thanks kids.

-Dean

Have you ever bumped your funny bone? of course you have. That tingling sensation you’ve experienced results from striking the nerve that runs between the bumps in your elbow. The ulnar nerve. Most of your other nerves are padded by a nice layer of fat and it’s pretty hard to give them a jolt, that’s why you’re not constantly tingling whenever you take a step. Anyway, the ulnar nerve is largely responsible for wrist movement and runs all the way up your forearm and into your ring and pinky fingers. So, next time you bang your funny bone, pay special attention to which fingers are tingling.

Incidentally, the actual bone involved in “banging your funny bone” is the “humerus”, which I’ve always thought was pretty great.

-Dean

nerd
n. Slang
1)A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.

2)A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.

geek
n. Slang
1)a.A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.

b.A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.

2)A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.

dweeb †
n. Slang
1)A person regarded as socially inept or foolish, often on account of being overly studious

Been working.
Been helping David set up ads and pamphlets and stuff for his campaign.
Been sleeping.
Tomorrow (read: tonight after I sleep all day) I’ve got 5 more pages of Adam strange, then I’m putting up some Dave for mayor signs.

Just thought you should know.

-Dean

Vanessa: Steph says i should get you to help with my bio homework.

Dean: Alright, here’s the scoop, Your report is on the circulatory system right?

Vanessa: No?

Dean: Tough. Cause I already wrote your report. it’s on the circulatory system now. “The circulatory system is a distribution vector for Oxygen. Basically it’s like a highway system and UPS for your organs. The guys dressed up in the ugly shorts are called “hemogoblins” they ride around in their UPS Trucks a.k.a. your red blood cells. Hemogoblins pretty much only carry two things, Oxygen (fuel) and Carbon Dioxide gas (waste).They scurry around your body picking up and dropping off packages back and forth between your lungs and organs in an endless cycle.

At this point I stopped to look up the origin of the “Hemo” part of the word hemoglobin and found
THIS PAGE
http://www.globalclassroom.org/hemo.html

I could totally be a gradeschool science teacher.

-Dean

Just so you know, I’ve always hated robotech.

When I was a 3 year old kid, still figuring out this whole “timeslot” thing. I’d excitedly plunk down thinking I was either seeing Transformers (because of the giant planes with feet) OR Thunderbirds 2086 (because of the anime looking characters), and I’d watch robotech and think “boy, that was a piss poor episode of the robot show.”

I didn’t figure out that Thunderbirds 2086 was an entirely different show from transformers until about a year later. Until that point I thought it was sort of a spinoff, within the same wonderful brightly painted robot universe, I always wanted the Decepticons to kill the entire Robotech cast, while the thunderbirds tried to save them. Maybe the Autobots could swoop in and give the thunderbirds a talking to

“you know… I think there’s a whole city that needs saving from a hurricane somewhere, why don’t you go do some real good and save them instead. Let the Robotech people handle themselves. It may look like they’re being massacred under the trudging feet of giant angry robots, but they’re fine, they’re just playing… you run along now.”

Best show EVER (we’re talking 1983 ever here.)

-Dean

I nominated Dave Kucherawy for mayor today. (Incumbents need nominations too kids.)

I’ll probably set up a website for him later this week.

-Dean

So that Megaman anniversary collection I bought, it could very well be the perfect game.

Except it’s not.

Here’s what Capcom did in their infinite wisdom. “let’s give those good fans, all 8 oldschool Megaman games, perfectly emulated right down to the slowdowns, all on a single disk. plus some other stuff, stick an interview with the Megaman creators on there as an unlockable bonus and sell it for under $40 canadian dollars” holy mess in my tights batman! that sounds great!

But wait! there’s more.
“Just because we here at Capcom, secretly hate our dumbass fans, We’re going to switch the buttons around, just to mess with them.”

So, if you’ve been playing megaman games for the last 15 years or so, and you’ve gotten used to the jump button being on the right and the shoot button being on the left. You are totally hosed. TWO GODDAMN BUTTONS! and they messed it up. How hard would it have REALLY have been to include a controller configuration screen? Actually I lie, if you’re a megaman player, you’ll recall, the start button accesses the weapon select screen… yeah? Well, now that’s on the near impossible to hit in a pinch, gamecube “z” button and the start button accesses some lame “back to titlescreen” menu… yeah… thanks, I’m sure I’ll use THAT more than I’ll switch my damn weapons, good executive decision there Capcom.

I’m glad you know that it’s going to be a bunch of preteens who’ve never heard of the old school megaman series that are going to be playing this game. If it were me I would have assumed that nearly every single person who picks up the collection will be over the age of 21, and will have years of reflex conditioning telling them to hit the other button.

Hats off to you.

You might think I’m just whiney and I should shut up and learned to adapt. You might want to check out every other review ever written about this game, they all seem to agree… wish i’d read them beforehand.
Note: This is the Gamecube version i’m talking about. The PS2 version has the right button placement, but it has a lame ass episode of the Megaman cartoon on it instead of the creator interviews.

-Dean