Replay Cleanup

Due to the space taken up by these Zuma Blitz replays (including that ones that make it up on Youtube) I had to put some controls on what replays to keep, which to archive, etc. The rules ended up to be the following:

• The top five replays from each category for each board (spirit animal, powers, no powers) will be kept here, the rest will be archived.
• All Zuma Blitz replays recorded must be converted to x264 q32 or better before being archived.
• Replays must be named correctly and have a naming convention attached (see guide.txt on how to name files)

Fun Fact: In the one year that I've hosted this blog about Zuma Blitz, I've accumulated

• 150k+ hits on Zuma blitz posts on this blog
• over 150 hours of game time
• 3,626 videos recorded
• 7.3 billion points accumulated total from video replays
• 260+ spirit animal uses
• 19 spirit animal malfunctions (accept spirit animal, takes your mojo, but game fails to start)

Rosebowl Parade

I woke up to this rose bowl parade. I knew about the other ones, but didn't bother seeing them, but I paid attention to this one. Why? Someone I knew was there - it was Brett Butler, the District Governor of CNH Circle K. The float that I would have possibly helped with should I have went down there for Go West, but wasn't able to attend - it's 300 miles to get over there, and last year was because of no-interest (no one else felt like going down), and this year was a no-ride available.

I look through my older posts, some were long with no picture. Recent pictures were all picture few words - why not try both?

And thus begins the week of (possibly unnecessary) backstories trying to explain a picture or diagram as much as possible.

New Year's Resolutions

With the new year comes in many resolutions. I have my own share, and despite not having a pic for this post, a few of them are:

• renew friendship with a Sac State student
• post more content on FB with the "get x friends" goal completed.
• Successful hangout with a MCHS class of 09 student currently living at SF
• Get half of artwork done for Spring 2011 image set (120 pictures) - Known as Fall 2011 in Pics Extended Version.
• Find a job
• Ride a bike, get a car, etc. Anything to prevent me from being stuck at UOP for up to five hours a day due to lack of transportation. (Finding a bus route didn't help much either)
• Get A's in all classes.
• Finish those Day Zero projects (after all, time flies quickly, and this is the last semester before those 1001 days are up.

Note that I didn't call out explicit names, so don't assume anyone.

Fired Up

GK Mongolian BBQ - one of the places that we went to for a MCHS Reunion Lunch, class of 2008.

Stuff that you might like: Ability to choose your meat, sauce, amount of noodles, and various toppings and have it made in the oven (see above) - and it's actually pretty good to be worth going a second time. Costs 7.51 (with tax).

Star Lost Speedrun

Merry Christmas, everyone! *or Happy Holidays, if you're celebrating something different.

Even though it's Christmas today, my family got together yesterday, so I still have time to get a quick vid up for a game released two days ago, Star Lost.

In under eight minutes.

Even though it might be helpful to upgrade your ship with all that stuff, it isn't actually required to win.

Beginning of Winter

Today marks the beginning of the Winter (at least in the US, according to Wikipedia) - hope you all have a good winter break!

Also, due to not enough people in the area seeing the previous Fall Picture album, I've decided to do an extended version by pushing it towards spring (it still retains the Fall labeling however)

Image: Taken during FTC (See the image on Facebook for a full caption of the image)

Fall 2011 in Pictures Summary

Fall 2011 in Pictures: Started off great at the beginning, but tapered off at the end... just like the others. No sketches were completed due to lack of time / proficiency in that skill, and is now accepting user submissions of missing pictures in question. Overall, no more effort may be placed in it, due to the fact that very few people from the intended audience actually saw this. All people that can be identified were tagged on FB on a per-picture basis in the caption area, leaving them free to tag themselves or others.

There were five other people (Claudio, Wei Wei, Aarafi, Yoon, Nhi) that would've been on the 'People of Note' but I didn't have a picture of them available.

Errata:

• "Szelagowski" is spelled incorrectly on the image.
• Missing Christine Phan in the list of people mentioned (supposed to appear in unimplemented sketch "Crossword Inception")
• Missing May Chen in the list of people mentioned (supposed to appear in unimplemented sketch "Apples^2")