Wednesday, March 7, 2007

This Week in GTA

While I should have been working on the screenplay that I've been trying to get started for what seems like a year I've been playing a lot of San Andreas. I've unlocked all of the cities at this point and have been going through doing some of the odd jobs. My accomplishments:

All R3 Missions complete
50 Taxi passengers in a row
All Oysters collected
All Grafitti Tags sprayed
All Snapshots taken
All Horseshoes but 2 (that require the jetpack)
All Gym challenges completed
All Trucking missions complete
All Courier missions complete
Full lung capacity, muscle, and stamina
Got a yellow Infernus (a tough find, and my favorite car)
Most properties outside of Las Venturas

Unfortunately, I spent most of my money on the various properties and now I can't afford to by the airstrip for the Verdant Meadows mission. I'm only $10k short, but that's a lot of cash when you've already completed all of the side missions. But I have a sweet ride, so it's all good.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Post of the Month

Ah, it's been a while since I've posted here. I've been going through kind of a rough period, but now hopefully I'll be back to stay. Recently (i.e. in the last two days) I've worked a little bit on Ubuntu Beginnings, although I haven't posted any of it yet because it's still not done.

I never knew it took so much work to blog about technical things. First you have to spend forever researching the perfect tool for the situation, then you have to test it to make sure it's the right one after all. Then you have to repeat the process and take screenshots along the way, cropping the image to include only the window in focus. Then you have to write the article and it's just exhausting. But I'm still doing it and it will eventually get done.

I've been playing lots of games of course. I'm almost 80% complete with San Andreas, which is by no means an easy task. Especially when I'm trying to have good stats (no deaths, no arrests, few safehouse visits). I've been trying to get Half Life to work with WINE again too because it's such a great game. Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga has been taking a lot of my time too.

That's it. I don't feel like putting any more effort into this post.