Sentimental Value

I guess the only reason this hasn't been deleted yet is due to sentimental value.

Boring.........

Well, to all dear people that have ever read this blog I am leaving the blog scene. Probably for a very long time. Why? You wouldn't really care but I don't have anything to blog about. Now if an aliens started to invade, you bet I'd have a blog to tell what remains of the world I had for breakfast. Or maybe if I started making something I would share it on a blog but I don't have anything interesting or important. Cya fellas!

Blog Blues: Hiatus and a Merry Christmas!

Hi everyone! Several things have been running through my mind recently. One of them is deciding whether BF:BC2 is 100% better than CoD:BO. Another one is what to write next. But the most important thing I have on my mind right now is the blog hiatus. BlueJamK will be put on hold for about a month or so while we/I sort out some stuff with it. No, BJK is not going offline/dead but just in a  break/unconscious state. So, while BlueJamK is on hiatus, share the previous posts with friends and consider sending in that epic story that you wrote last week but can't be bothered to put it onto FanFiction.net. Anyway since it's the nice festive season I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas getting lots of gifts and giving generously (to an extent...) to friends and family. See you soon!
BlueJamK

I Think It May Be Time For Some Consumer Advice

If you are an avid reader of this blog you may have realized that we don't do consumer advice very often as it is a boring as trying to fall asleep while being drowned in a torrent of red bull.

THE TOP GAMES RESPONSIBLE PARENTS SHOULD BUY THEIR KIDS FOR CHRISTMAS.....

1. Splatterhouse

2. Black Ops

3. GTA 4

4. God of War

5. Resident Evil 5

6.  Left For Dead 2

Jam

01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00111111

How cool'd it be if you could write in binary code? Just imagine the countless possibilities!

1. Dazzle your online friends by pretending you know binary code!
2. Befuddle your real friends by jabbering out numbers then stating at their confusion "It's a smart person thing."
3. Wasting your time and energy by deciphering meaningless code like a computer!
4. and much much more!

Advertisement aside, binary code is the "language" in which computers speak in (instead of the stupid little "beep beep beebeep!" that you're used to). Each 1 and 0 is turning a switch on or off (don't know which one is which so don't ask) making commands for the computer to follow. Simple see?

We all know that no sane human would dedicate his/her life to remembering and deciphering binary so there are generators to do it for them!

Techmynd
^ that's all you need. Just type in what you want in the box and press the ASCII into Binary button.

Strange Wilderness gypsy song

If any of you smart people have seen the movie "Strange Wilderness" then you might remember that song that plays when the team is about to meet Gus. Something like...;

I saw a gypsy woman heading my way
"random stuff"

Yeah?
You'll notice that you won't really be able to find the song on the internets too easily. Why? Because this piece of music was composed for Strange Wilderness, meaning that it's not some huge rock song. Anyway with some searching I found it (mp3 thankfully) on some random website (maybe the composers website?)
Enjoy the neatness C:

http://www.waddywachtelinfo.com/downloads/SWGypsy.mp3
CREDIT: The song clip playing was composed by Waddy Wachtel for the film "Strange Wilderness". Vocals and piano are by Brett Tuggle. All other instruments are played by Waddy.
Check out his site at Waddy Wachtel info

2014 edit: For some unknown reason (absolutely all resources were used in researching for a solution, I guarantee you), the mp3 embed wanted to keep playing like some sugar-hyped 5 year old. I dunno about 5 year olds, but I just decided to 'fix' this by completely removing the embed. Gahh.

Robot Unicorn Attack :D

OK, in all honesty I was going to make the title "Harmony Harmony oh Love!" but I decided the professionalism was more important. For the readers that are all like "wut?" about what random trash I'm blathering (ok not really) about, there's this game called Robot Unicorn Attack (skipping all the relatively minor details like the fact it was made by [adult swim] games and produced by Spiritonin Media Games) that rose to fame after being released in February this year when some nutters of 4chan got hold of the song (Always by Erasure) that plays constantly in the game. Now this would be a bad thing if the lyrics didn't look something like this...


Open your eyes I see
Your eyes are open
Wear no disguise for me
Come into the open

When it's cold outside
Am I here in vain?
Hold on to the night
There will be no shame

Always
I wanna be with you
And make believe with you
And live in harmony harmony oh love

Melting the ice for me
Jump into the ocean
Hold back the tide I see
Your love in motion

When it's cold outside
Am I here in vain?
Hold on to the night
There will be no shame


(some part are repeated. The italics indicate the famous line.)


The song is quite catchy and after members of 4chan requested the background of the /v/ (videogame) board to be changed to some rainbow colours, it really kicked off. Robot Unicorn Attack on the  [adult swim] games website had a massive increase in plays (now 34 million). The colourful masculine virus spread through the internet with pictures like this...

Well yeah you get the point. Now aside from the fact that it started some internet frenzy, the game itself is rather playable (set in some stupid magical world where you play as a robot unicorn with rainbow hair in a land where grass is purple and the sky is polluted with rainbows and pixies) and is useful if you find yourself bored. If you're really curious, check it out at [adult swim] games or download it from this awesome site called dagobah (play there too).

AND LIVE IN HARMONY HARMONY OH LOVE!

iPad 2 launch ready

You may have heard already, but Apple is set to launch the next iPad. The super/ultra cool electronic window pill (iPad 2) is yet to be named but is believed to be available some time in April next year (according to "reports"). The company that manufactures products for Apple, Foxconn Electronics is getting pumped to make 600,000 units of the iPad 2 over the next 100 days in their massive Chinese slave powered sweatshops where no-one gets decent pay or pay at all  factories.
The electro-powered tablet will be shipping around February after some crappy firmware set the whole thing back schedule (not that you'd actually care because you can't buy them til' their in shops).
Lots of people are expecting a huge number of new features in the new iPad such as the over-rated Retina Display (smaller but more numerous pixels for a better image quality), dual-cameras (camera on the inside and outside) to enable the Facetime chat, bigger/smaller screens (for more variety = more money) and a thinner shell (for posh people that are convinced the smaller a computer is, the better). Not to mention a built in USB port for (obviously) "USB's", cameras, printer cords, mouse cords, keyboards, speakers and lamps. Oh wait! Apple is too stupid to put something as simple as a USB port in because it's not cool.
Ok fine if there is a USB port, let's hope for a USB 2.0 at the least (USB 3.0 optimal).

The thing I'm confused with is why are they releasing a new iPad when the old one is pretty good and is only about a year old? They could squeeze so much more cash out of the bad boy before laying smack-down with the new one. One could say that the reason for this quick release is that Apple consider the iPad 2 so damn good that it just can't wait. Or maybe people are complaining that they can't see their girlfriends/boyfriends on video chat. Or maybe it's that long line of wannabe professional competitors that are hastily producing iPad equivalents. But then, dear Apple fan who cares? Just hope it's a good one.

FIFA 2018 location decided

It was decided not too long ago that the 2018 FIFA World Cup would be hosted in Russia by our vodka drinking uhh... Russians.
Each country that wished to be the host of the World Cup presented the FIFA council with a presentation with the "Why it should be in our country" sort of thing (sounds kinda like a job interview). Then the council goes through several rounds of voting, with the countries that receive the least amount of votes being eliminated (hahahaha England being taken out with only 2 votes on the first round what???).Russia won on the second round with 13 votes and are already planning to build thirteen (wow...) stadiums and renovate three.

On the other side Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. All I know is that Qatar is mega rich from all that oil/gas/power stuff that it's sitting on in the Persian Gulf (so their stadiums have to be good right?) and run by an even richer royal family. People in USA were super-duper-mega-not-so-awesome disappointed by this and not only did thousands of angry burger-eating (that's mean) American citizens spam Twitter with stuff like "Qatar? Wow. Soccer actually just got less relevant in the US". What's so wrong with the Middle East? Oh.. wait...

Anyway, wait around for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Rio De Janeiro and international relations to improve!

Monthly update now

Hey all,
December already? Here's the update to no-one in particular!

November quotes of the Week:

1. "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it" ~ Desiderius Erasmus
2. “I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

There are only two because it started half way through the month.

Please (again) excuse the lack of [quality] posts. Jam and K seem to be somwhere in the Limbo and I've been hooked again by some Total War game (getting more time off it now). There have been numerous events this month though so I'm gonna list them.

Fails

1. I failed to even reach 5,000 words on the NaNoWriMo

Wins

1. Got an ipod Nano 5th gen (camera timez) and I'm putting the camera to good use
2. I've managed to keep my game production going
3. Several productions have survived the long "no progress" month

Anyway have a Merry Christmas and a nice relaxing December. Time to crank production fo' real.
PS. You can publish your piece of literature on this site. Just send it to us at bluejamk@hotmail.com and it'll be posted ASAP (e-mail is checked twice a week).
C:

Camera timez!

Mark me as out of date but I just got my first ever real/decent ipod. It's a 5th gen ipod Nano with epikz camera. The camera is currently being put to good use in some production stuff. The lulz is that the camera quality for the ipod is the same if not better than my old Canon digital camera. Once I get a good Youtube name, I'll upload one video that I've captured.
Blue
(Wish it was blue though... at least if was free right?)

Quote of the Week

With the steady (however slow) progression of the blog, it's time to do something crazy and boring that plenty of other people have done before. That's right. A quote of the week. From now on, every week for as long as I can be bothered, there will be a little (or big) quote on one of the sidebars. At the end of the month all the quotes will be put into the new month post. Have fun reading quotes/proverbs.

Youtube legends: niganiga vs. Ray William Johnson

If you've never heard of these guys, you're living under the worlds largest anti-internet rock. Anyway, (to the people that do know them) it has been debated quite often which one is "better". Here are the common points;
nigahiga

• He's Asian (this can be a bad thing to racist people)
• His comedy skits are original
• He does a variety of topics
• He's Youtube most subscribed
• He collaborates with other Youtubers (giving an overall sense of awesomeness, he's also collab'd with Jay Park o_O)
• Overall more fan interaction (talks to his fans though live chat and his video site, HIGAtv and shows bloopers/deleted scenes)

Ray William Johnson

• He's funnier
• Shows people funny videos and makes jokes about them
• He's actually a comedian
• Has a cool backdrop
• Uploads videos twice a week (nigahiga is whenever he feels like it)
• Did I mention he's funnier?

Who do you think is better? Comment below and/or vote in our poll!
I'm a nigahiga fan. What??
(still need to add pics)
nigahiga's Youtube channel
Ray William Johnson's Youtube channel

Remembrance Day 2010

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of each year, every Commonwealth nation stops and pays respect to the people, that gave their lives for their country in times of war, especially The Great War. At 11AM, we observe a minutes silence after the Last Post is played. So remember the fallen of war and their sacrifices, Lest We Forget.

3 followers!

We all know that some of the planned posts crashed due to an unexpected thing called real life. Who cares when you have three followers (lame compared to nigahiga but whatever).
CRANK THAT ROFLMAO!



:D

News grind: San Francisco bans Happy Meals

Not a big post but just showing people that are unaware of this uh... this. Check it out. What do you think of it? Right or wrong? I think it's right. I mean really, we keep complaining about child obesity and then go back to letting kids play Warcraft and eat crap junk. Heh... "Happy".

Comment and be replied.
ninemsn San Francisco bans Happy Meals

NaNoWriMo 2010

November is the month of novel writing. Or so says the internets. Anyway, the National Novel Writing Month is an online competition (against yourself mostly) for EVERYONE (with internet) challenging them to write a 50,000 word (175 page) novel by the end of the month. Read on (from the site).

What is NaNoWriMo?

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children.
In 2009, we had over 165,000 participants. More than 30,000 of them crossed the 50K finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists.
So, to recap:
What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month's time.
Who: You! We can't do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let's write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.
Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era's most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.
When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster and browse the forums. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.

So it doesn't matter if you're C.S Lewis or some really crappy amateur wannabe homebrew junkie made it on notepad writer, join in TEH FUN of writing a quick (as in, 50,000 word quick) novel. I've started (will post my story at the end of the month, have no intention of getting to 50,000), why don't you?
Let's see me you with at least 5,000 words!
Blue
NaNoWriMo homepage 
How NaNoWriMo works!

A lonely, late month update

Yes we haven't been posting in the fervor we were in before for a few reasons (scapegoat time); we've been having end of year exams, Blue has been ill with a virus and is tired often, Jam and K have planned to post for the holidays and we all have our own projects at hand. So, happy November (pinch and a punch for the fourth day of the month) and be sure to check BJK often (posts have been planned). 

Sincerely,
BlueJamK

Happy Halloween!

A pumpkin carved by a guy with way to much time on his hands.

Happy Halloween people! (yes, it's the 31st of October...)
For the guys in different time zones, it's tomorrow (or something close to it) but better early then late.
Halloween isn't that big of a deal in Australia so uhh.... any international guests willing to comment on what they do?
So remember to trick or treat people. If you don't live in a gated community (because they could hunt you down), you should also try pelting their mailboxes with off eggs or leave toilet paper lying around.
Oh yes and try not to eat Snickers, not everyone is aware of your life threatening peanut allergy (what a way to end you night by lying in hospital with a whole bunch of hives on your face).
Hooray!

Paul the Octopus rest in peace

Paul in action

The oracle octopus of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Paul, passed away yesterday on Tuesday, 26th of October due to natural causes (common octopus only live for 2 years). The little common octopus lived in an aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany in a Sea Life Centre and was born in the January of 2008 in Weymouth, England.
Paul's claim to faim was his stunning ability to accuratly predict all of Germany's matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup (he got 8/8). Paul would be presented with two boxes (both marked with a flag of the countries in the upcoming match) with mussels inside them. Which ever box he swam in first would be predicted to win.
Paul's remains were cremated though they are still deciding where to bury the ashes.
Paul's life was undoubtedly more eventful then any other octopus, and will be remembered for a long time.