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Just a quick post to confirm I haven’t gone off and died in a ditch somewhere. Lately I’ve been playing an XBOX Live Arcade game called Castle Crashers (And yes, I’m a bit late here), which is a fun little beat ‘em up with some role-playing elements. It’s $15 in the XBOX Live Arcade, and is totally worth it.

I’m also working on learning (Or more accurately, relearning; I took a class in it back in 2003 for college) some Visual Basic stuff in the hope that I’ll be more useful at work. Not that I’m particularly worried about my job status right now, but our VB specialist left the department over a year ago, so I figure picking some stuff up will eventually help take some pressure off the person in the department who is basically God of All Applications right now.As a bonus, once I get more comfortable with the language, I’d like to do some of two things with it–make some form of software for organizing Rock Band tournaments, and/or create what amounts to a glorified old-school dungeon crawling game in the style of the early Wizardry games.

Speaking of Rock Band2, I achieved my goal of 84 out of 84 Expert Vocal full combos, well ahead of my goal of the end of July. When I play Rock Band now, I tend to play some of my DLC that I bought and then proceeded to not play (Yeah, I’m a model of fiscal responsibility). Eventually, though, I’ll need to work on my Rock Band 1 imports, since they’ll be selectable at Game UniCon in late August, and my scores on those are…well, let’s just say I don’t have all of them 100%ed.
-EE

One of the more amusing “Life Imitates Parody” examples is the Gillette Fusion line of razors, which were announced roughly a year after this somewhat vulgar (But funny) article in The Onion. Why do I bring this up? Well, besides the fact that Gillette actually managed to go The Onion one better–as Kareshi points out here, there’s a sixth, “precision blade” on the back of the razor, meant for things like those annoying hairs just underneath your nose (Sadly, they did not “Put another aloe strip on that [fornicator]“)–I now own one of these razors, as you can tell by my quote in Kareshi’s post.

In short: Pretty much what I said there, and pretty much the opposite of what you might expect.

For several months prior to this, I had been using cheap Bic one-bladed disposable razors. They actually shaved pretty close–a little too close, most times. On average, I’d nick myself at least once every time I shaved, and 3 to 4 times in one shave wasn’t out of the question. As far as closeness goes, I’m not sure the Fusion really gets any closer than the single-blade. On the other hand, somehow (Maybe it’s that aloe strip), I’m no longer cutting myself several times per shave, so the Fusion was probably worth it just for that.

Indeed!

Since the last tiem I updated, I’ve gotten a bunch of Rock Band 2 full combos on Expert Vocals. My most recent was number 73 out of 84 songs on-disc (Downloadable, or DLC songs, are generally counted separately). The most recent, and the one I’m most proud of, is Uncontrollable Urge, which has a stupid hard ending and no real way to practice it in isolation (Thanks to Harmonix’s decision to not give vocalists a fully-functioning Practice Mode). In hitting this, I now actually believe that I can knock out the rest of the songs I haven’t gotten yet. And it’s a good feeling.