Moiph.com en-us http://moiph.com/ Moiph's blog 'TWAS A MARVELOUS BIRTHDAY http://moiph.com/blog/66 Erica helped make for a wonderful birthday yesterday (and Sunday too) :D On Sunday we went out with another couple to Macaroni Grill (she planned it) and she insisted to pay for my dinner (aww<3) While there she also decided to tell the waiter it was my birthday, which resulted in a free slice of cake (delicious) and getting happy birthday sung to me in Italian (filling in "Pat" in the song sounded funny.) </p><p>Yesterday when I got home from work I found a note saying she'd be home shortly and sure enough moments later she arrives with an oreo ice cream chocolate cake. </p> <p style="text-align:center"><a href="../fdsa/cake_24.jpg"><img src="../fdsa/cake_24.jpg" width="200" /></a></p><p> I want more of it now but I don't think I should have cake for breakfast (I might cave, we'll see..) After that we went to Target and got Diablo II because she said for my birthday she'd play it with me (:DDDD) so we'll be doing that this week sometime. ALSO she spotted Big Bang Theory season 1 on DVD on sale and bought it (I'd never seen the show) so we watched a few episodes last night. I very much enjoy this show. Needless to say she is wonderfully sweet and lovely <3 Tue, 27 Jul 10 09:55:08 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/66 KreebbyMoiph adventure update http://moiph.com/blog/65 So it's been quite an intense (and wonderful and awesome) week. It's not quite over yet but we've done a lot so far: <ul> <li>Saw Alice in Wonderland in 3D</li> <li>Ate brunch at the Space Needle</li> <li>Wandered around Seattle/Pikes Place Market (we rode the monorail to get there :D)</li> <li>Went to dinner with some friends at a BBQ place</li> <li>Bought random things from Target to help improve furnishings of the townhouse</li> <li>Got a few Bluray DVDs (Matrix, Serenity, Dark Knight)</li> <li>Played Link to the Past (didn't beat it yet..)</li> <li>Went to Lost night (watched Lost with friends which occurs every Tuesday at about 9:30PM PST)</li> <li>Made tacos</li> <li>Painted pottery at university village</li> <li>Wandered around university village and in Crate & Barrel, scoping out couches</li> <li>Ventured off to JCPenny to look at more couches, found <strong>the</strong>couch</li> <li>Traveled to Ikea and wandered through the entire store, looking at things and getting ideas for more furnishings; bought a sweet desk and also a night stand that goes with my bed</li> <li>Ate chicken tenders and fries at the exquisite Ikea cafe</li> <li>Put the desk together and totally rearranged the loft</li> <li>Went to Subway and got delicious sandwiches</li> <li>Bought a whiteboard to enhance the officeness of the office (okay and gaming) area (the whiteboard can be used to strategize key sentry building points on TF2 maps)</li> <li>Went back to JCPenny to buy <strong>the</strong> couch</li> <li>Ate lunch at the Macaroni Grill (it was quite delicious)</li> <li>Cooked quite a few fried egg sandwiches cause I'm a pro chef</li> <li>Smiled at each other like, the entire time</li> </ul> So basically it's been absolutely great and Erica is wonderful and it's been fantastic having her here and I can't wait for her to be out here again :) Fri, 19 Mar 10 16:40:16 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/65 Valentine's Day http://moiph.com/blog/64 Sometimes people get chocolates, or other things. I love chocolate. Chocolate is delicious. However for valentine's day I did not get chocolate. However, this is completely okay by me because instead I got this: </p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="../fdsa/fctwin.png"><img src="../fdsa/fctwin.png" width="200" /></a></p> <p>I never owned an SNES growing up. I never beat A Link to the Past. It is wonderful ;_; Wed, 17 Feb 10 21:41:51 -0800 http://moiph.com/blog/64 THE NINJA BLENDER http://moiph.com/blog/63 IS NOW IN MY POSSESSION</p> <p style="text-align:center"><img src="../fdsa/ninjablender.png" width="200" /> Mon, 15 Feb 10 20:51:01 -0800 http://moiph.com/blog/63 New Jersey Adventures http://moiph.com/blog/62 So this past weekend I went out to New Jersey to meetup with Erica, a wonderful person. I started talking to Erica several months ago; we just chatted about nerdy things, played some TF2 and Borderlands together, and we really seemed to click. Fast forward a bit and we've grown on each other (a lot) and so I went out to pay her a visit and hang out in person. We had a really great time and definitely clicked even more so. She's wonderful and fun and smart and didn't I already mention Tf2 and borderlands? I mean c'mon. YOU ARE AWESOME ERICA. Oh yeah and we met up with Jason (webmaster extraordinnaire of zeldauniverse.net) to grab some lunch and hang out a bit and he's cool even though he likes macs. At least he thought my Zune HD was slick 8]</p> <p style="text-align:center"><img src="../fdsa/ericapatrick.jpg" width="200" /> Tue, 02 Feb 10 00:07:40 -0800 http://moiph.com/blog/62 TF2 GRIEFING AND HIJINKS http://moiph.com/blog/61 The <a href="http://svarrenglossen.com">SVARRENGLOSSEN</a> have done it again with their crazy Dutchmen ways, and have a new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyVrpLl0cUo&fmt=22">TEAM FORTRESS 2 VIDEO</a> which you should WATCH Sun, 17 Jan 10 21:50:26 -0800 http://moiph.com/blog/61 GREETINGS FROM 2010 http://moiph.com/blog/60 It is now 2010. I believe 2010 will be a fantastic year.<a class="egg"id="kreebby">.</a>I should try to post more things on here. Maybe links to awesome stuff. Or not awesome stuff with warnings that say "CAUTION DO NOT VISIT THIS PAGE" so that you know never to visit whatever links I post because they are terrible. THROW OUT SOME IDEAS THERE'S A SHOUTBOX OVER THERE and I fixed it after it being broken for a like a month WHY DID NO ONE INFORM ME OF THIS. jerkfaces. EDIT: kreebby did in fact inform me of its brokenness, which is why it was fixed in the first place today. I should have called that out but forgot to in my rage at everyone else. Thank you, dearest kreebby, my love you for you burns stronger than all the fires of mount Doom. Sun, 17 Jan 10 15:25:22 -0800 http://moiph.com/blog/60 ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY C http://moiph.com/blog/59 (that means you mr chen) let us celebrate with irc highfives Fri, 09 Oct 09 17:29:20 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/59 Today is the future http://moiph.com/blog/58 Today is October 10th, 2009. It is really October 9th, 2009. However it is really the 10th, thus making today the first day of the rest of the future. Mr. Sparks has based the rest of his life on this future date which is not really today, and thus chaos is beginning to spread through #treehouse. We can only watch as those lovely inhabitants of that IRC kingdom bost on their plogs and celebrate events before they happen. Fri, 09 Oct 09 17:27:24 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/58 The Black Box?! http://moiph.com/blog/57 So there's been some outrage recently about Left4Dead2, mostly along the lines of: L4D JUTS CAME OUT IN NOVEMBER AND THEYRE MAKIN A SEQUAL AND IT WILL COST $50 THIS IS STUPID IT SHOULD BE FREE DLC" </p><p> And hey, okay, I can see how $50 to drop for a sequel which seems like more of an expansion than a full-fledged sequel seems ridiculous... however this got me thinking (and I'm not alone in this), that perhaps L4D2 won't just be a standalone game. There was a notable lack of info around Half-Life 2: Episode 3 at E3 this year. When Episode 2 was released, it was bundled in "The Orange Box" with Team Fortress 2 and Portal. Now, of course this could be entirely wrong and Valve is actually planning a $50 L4D2 (which admittedly I will probably buy) and Episode 3 will be released in 7 years. </p><p> OR it could be released with L4D2. But then what could a third game be? Hmm... Well <a href="http://blackmesasource.com">Black Mesa</a> looks interesting... Valve is aware of its existence... Their trailer says "2009" as the release, and L4D2 will be released November '09... AND THE LAST UPDATE WAS IN NOVEMBER 2008 WHEN THE ORIGINAL L4D WAS RELEASED?! THEY'VE BEEN HUSH SINCE!? CONSPIRACIES!!!!! Thu, 04 Jun 09 23:34:30 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/57 It's Not December http://moiph.com/blog/56 o_____________________________O Wed, 31 Dec 08 22:36:04 -0800 http://moiph.com/blog/56 It's Still December http://moiph.com/blog/55 o_________O Tue, 02 Dec 08 01:56:42 -0800 http://moiph.com/blog/55 It's December http://moiph.com/blog/54 o_O Tue, 02 Dec 08 01:42:47 -0800 http://moiph.com/blog/54 Texas http://moiph.com/blog/52 I am in Texas. Thu, 02 Oct 08 12:37:49 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/52 RSS feed for the bookmark challenged http://moiph.com/blog/51 I finally realized today that it is 2008 and my blog did not have an RSS feed. So I mustered up some motivation (it was rough but the right amounts of caffeine and metal were applied and magic happened) and got to work. Now those avid readers of you out there (hahah avid readers that's a funny term to be applied here) and don't have my blog bookmarked (what a terrible thought! ...Then again I don't have it bookmarked either) can subscribe. There is a fancy icon up there in the upper right corner just above the Shoutbox. Click it and look at the wondrous feed in awe. Sat, 26 Jul 08 22:15:34 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/51 Team Fortress 2: The Heavy Apocalypse http://moiph.com/blog/50 I like Team Fortress 2. This is no mystery. However at times I like to play in a silly manner. So, last night I played as a <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=mY5qJHZCz2I">Heavy </a> on 2fort, running around punching people. Some epic moments occurred, but one moment in particular shined above the rest. </p> <p> I had just finished a punching rampage, which ended in my death (this happens a lot). The clock ticks as the respawn timer counts down to 0. I'm finally back in the game, and I exit the resupply zone and head out towards the sniper balcony doing practice punches on my teammates. As I make my way out to the balcony with plans to jump down below to the covered bridge which leads to the enemy base, an enemy scout is running atop the bridge preparing to leap onto our balcony. With lightning speed (for a heavy), my muscles prepare for the ultimate battle of the ages. A sniper behind me fires a shot. He just barely nicks the Scout's leg. The scout continues and prepares to make his jump just as I'm approaching the edge of our balcony to drop down below. He jumps, I jump ... and then like a scene out of "The Best Moments on Earth" (movie slated for release at the end of time) my fist connects with his pathetic soul in midair. He successfully dies, while I land on the ground (picture this in all slow motion) feeling like a true champion. The teammates which had the pleasure of viewing this most miraculous event cheered and applauded, and I ran on my way across the bridge to head into the enemy base, my morale boosted higher than ever.</p> <p>Unfortunately due to all the commotion no one noticed the freakin' spy. How could this happen?! Wed, 16 Jul 08 10:01:13 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/50 Adventures http://moiph.com/blog/49 You know what the world needs? More adventures.</p> <p>When I go to work in the morning, it's boring. I get out of bed, sometimes shower (as in if I don't shower in the morning I'll shower at night, not "meh i haven't showered in a few days, haven't felt like it"), munch on some readily available food from my fridge, and then wander out the door to drive to the office. Nothing exciting there. Here's a better and way more exciting scenario:</p> <p>My alarm goes off. It's 5:30AM, sweat drips down my forehead as my eyes dart around the room. I grab my ectoplasma raygun and carefully open my bedroom door. If the coast is clear, dart for the bathroom and quickly dequeue any pending bodily functions and shower. I shave my manly beard to lessen wind resistance (damn thing grows like a chia pet with miracle grow) and grab a stalk of broccoli from the fridge and munch away. I then check all the surveillance cameras on the premises before venturing to my car. On my way there a ferocious beast, half lion, half bear, all badass, attacks me from behind. I do a triple somersault backflip and take the beast on with my barehands. The brawl ends in my victorious victory, although I don't leave unscathed. I head to my car to drive to work, only to be greeted with swarms of evil ninjas (i'm a good ninja) equipped with laser shurikens. I set the car on autopilot and hop onto the roof of it and do one of those sweet "on-top-of-moving-vehicle-fight-scene" things that action movies like to do. Except this one is way more badass and has no special effects. It's all real. Unfortunately I forgot to set the car to adjust speed accordingly and I get pulled over for speeding. I call a timeout while I explain to the officer that these evil ninjas are trying to kill me, but they decide to be complete jerks and whistle innocently, claiming to have no idea what I'm talking about (grr). I take the ticket and grumble and my rage creates a fury of stormclouds to form, with lightning and thunder erupting loudly in the sky. The evil ninjas sense my rage and flee in terror. Finally I get to the office and begin my day of work.</p> <p>I could totally use a sidekick, though. Volunteers? <a id="o" class="egg">.</a> Sun, 13 Jul 08 12:59:13 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/49 Well then http://moiph.com/blog/46 I'd best start saving up some vacation time now and prepare to say "Goodbye family, friends, and life, at least for the next week or two" because of the announcement of OMG <a href="http://blizzard.com">DIABLO 3</a> OMG OM GOM GOM GOMG OMGOM GOM OMG OMG OMG OMGOMG OMGOMGOMG Sat, 28 Jun 08 15:33:16 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/46 HELLO FROM CANADA http://moiph.com/blog/45 I'm in... Canada? O_o Sat, 14 Jun 08 10:09:26 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/45 moiphql http://moiph.com/blog/44 After the comments surrounding the <span style="text-decoration:line-through">preposterousness</span> of MoiphML, I have decided to being work on MoiphQL. </p> <p> You might ask yourself, MoiphQL? Why? Wtf is wrong with you man? Instead you should ask yourself, "that is a sweet idea." Here's a sample of the syntax used: <pre><code> \m/(>_<)\m/ * NINJAS `table` RUSH `column1` = 'value' HEADBANG `column2` GUITAR HERO </code></pre> </p> <p>MoiphQL is still in development and slated for release on </p> Wed, 21 May 08 07:43:40 -0700 http://moiph.com/blog/44