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Now onto your regularly scheduled Wordless Wed:

Beer Me Up via Fashionably Geek

Rock, Paper, Scissorhands

Worlds smallest car is SICK

Cab rollin proper

50 looks funny

Are Reality Shows Setting Unrealistic Standards For Skanks?

On that Brooklyn Bullshit

Poison

Dudes got skills but… Soulja Boy?

What’s G?

Epic win, then Epic fail (or More Epic win)

Gas powered Lazy Boy

Japanamation

It’s been awhile since I have discussed my One Hundred Push ups endeavor and while I quickly failed at taking weekly pictures I didn’t give quit doing the push ups after one week like a lot of my friends. I saw the program through to the end (week 3-6) as recommend by my initial test.

At the end of week six (which I did while in Vancouver) I was able to do 50 good form consecutive push ups. That’s 50 away from my goal but also double what I started at.

So what now?

Well I am going to modify the program a little. While its a great start to training it becomes somewhat repetitive and boring so my new system will work like so:
Every other day to do as many consecutive push ups that I can then make up the difference in sets of 10.

Once I finally get to 100 consecutive good form push ups I will take an after shot and move on to two hundred sit ups.

In the meantime I am also going to keep active by riding a lot of BMX and boxing since my hockey season is over now (we won it all baby!).

Previously: Healthy Livin’

Ever since I can remember I have never been fairly impatient. I hate waiting and always have. This probably explains why I was born 6 weeks early. My mom says as a baby she never had to wait for me to wake up to get the day started, she would come into my room and I would be wide awake and as I got older trying to get out.

My impatience also extends to waiting on my body to heal, I don’t like to take it easy and I don’t like to be victim to any sort of illness. This is pretty funny since I was a sick kid, but being a sick kid was not a bad thing since I was a Sick Kid – a child patient of sick kids hospital.

When I jumped the gun in coming out of the womb it meant I wasn’t quite done yet so I was placed in an easy bake oven (incubator) until it went ding. I was such an unattractive baby that to this day I have not seen any pictures of me prior to my actual due date (Dec 16th).

Soon after I was born I came down with a serious case of pneumonia, serious enough that my pediatrictian told my parents were told not to travel to Jamaica with me. However my parents figuring they could deal with whatever happened decided to go anyway. The story goes once I got to Jamaica I made an immediate recovery and became a huge ball of energy. Even at a young age their was no way I was letting a little cold keep me from having fun in the sun.

My health was pretty stable until around the age of four until my parents and day care workers noticed I developed a limp. When my parents tried to ask me what was wrong apparently I couldn’t really explain it. While everyone was pretty worried being four I was unconerned. So they just watched to see if the limp got worse, which it did. It turned out I was developing an urinary tract infection due to a UPJ (Ureteropelvic junction) obstruction and I needed surgery, fairly important surgery, since one of the complications of a UPJ obstruction is losing a kidney.

So I went under the knife, and a lot of my friends have seen the scar.

On my way to the operating room seeing the games room at Sick Kids and wanting to go in there. I had to stay in the hospital for about 9 days under observation and for seven of those days I made my way down to the games room IV pole, catheter, stent and all to play ExciteBike.

The IV meant that my hand was heavily bandaged so I wedged the controller between my leg and the arm of the chair. I played hours of Excite Bike and this not only sparked my love for video games but also my love for bikes on dirt tracks.

Soon after release I was diagnosed with fairly severe asthma. Most kids with asthma are forced to take it easy lucky for me though my parents purchased a breathing machine I could use at home to cut back on the amount of time they spent in hospital cots. While I still logged quite a few hours on this machine in front of the TV and still had to carry a puffer (yes I was that kid) it was way better than the alternative.

As I got older, thankfully, I got healthier, and aside from incident where I urinated blood (complication of my operation), I have been health issue free.

I am however left with an everlasting love for Excite Bike

There are far too many movies coming out in May that I want to see with tickets being 13 bucks a pop if I see every single one of these movies I am out $65. Damn, I need some coupons… anyone? Bueller?

Wolverine

Star Trek

Angels & Demons

Terminator Salvation

Up

“I’ve dropped twelve albums with at least twelve songs in the past twelve years do the math right there that’s one hundred forty four on a one a month average and that don’t even count what I’ve produced for other rappers” – Classified quit while you’re ahead.

Classified has been quietly, but steadily, producing consistent solid hip hop. I caught on late but ever since I listened to Hitch Hikin music I have been a fan of this Nova Scotia born word and beat smith. When I heard he was dropping his latest effort, Self-Explanatory, I knew it would be worth the price of admission.

While this might be Classifieds thirteenth (!!) studio album it’s not cursed or hexed in any way, shape, or form. Classified is a unique hip hop artist since he isn’t flamboyant or boastful like a lot of the artists of today, he also doesn’t have to depend on guest artists to sing a hook via auto-tune for people to make a great track. As Class spits on Oh Canada he’s “still doing rap like the 1990’s but that’s how we like it off timed and grimy”.

Classified isn’t reaching to make the type of hip hop that’s hot right now he’s making the type that comes from the heart and works as an unfiltered emotional release.

Behind bloodshot eyes, a calm persona and laid back flow lurks an extremely creative mind which initially blew me away on the track Beatin in from Hitch Hikin Music.

With Self Explanatory Class just continues to explore his creativity.

The aforementioned Oh Canada is one of the best hip hop songs about being Canadian I have ever heard. It makes me proud to be Canadian and laugh at the same time all over a beat that samples the anthem perfectly.

All of the “Chose Your Own Adventure” songs pay homage to my favorite type of books as a child, and while I don’t recommend following it’s instructions until after you have listened to the album in it’s entirety go back and play with these songs later, it’s worth it.

As a testament to his skills other hard working hip hop rhymers such as Choclair, Maestro, Saukrates, and Royce Da 5′9 have contributed to making this album one that Canadian artists are going to have to step up their game to compete with.

At 21 tracks this album is a solid all the way through and has a lot of replay value. If you need anymore reason to go check it out here is some inspiration.

Stand Out Tracks:
Oh Canada
Inspiration
They call this hip hop
Up All Night
Still Got it
Trouble (single)
Anybody Listening (single)

Tattoo Tape

Knight Light

Beer Filled USB Drive – Gizmodo

7 Horrific Horse Racing Crashes

What happened to Em’s old voice?

Boom Headshot

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Worlds Fastest Lambo

Since my last traffic experiment failed I decided to get a twitter account. I will add the widget to my blog later tonight but until then expect anything not quite worthy of Wordless Wed but still funny to end up on there and whatever else I feel like.

It won’t tell you what I am doing cause homey don’t play that.

RandomAsRhyme on twitter.

There is a somewhat universally known fact among gamers movie tie ins, regardless of how good the movie can or will be the game will suck. Most if not all tie in games are rushed out the door to meet the movies release date and since their sales are more dependent on how the movie does as opposed to how the game actually plays. I know this and I currently have two movie tie in games collecting dust in my closet. So why on earth did I get another one?

Well I am a pretty big fan Wolverine and this trailer tipped the scales:

The game looked and the developers and bloggers have been hyping the game up for so long I figured there was know way they could screw it up too bad and it turns out I was right.

Graphics 3.8/5
This game looks great for the most part and a few things stand out more than others. As you incur damage Logans upper body reflects the damage (though he appears to wear adamantium plated jeans). His shirt rips through to skin, which rips through to muscle, then bone, then finally vital organs all and all it is a nice effect and not one I have seen used in other games.

The cinematic cut scenes are above those of any movie game I have played and the kills are just things of amazingly gory beauty. Certain theatrical moves are slowed down and serve as a great visual and comedic treats. Surprisingly this does not get old which I thought it would.

I have only noticed 2 strange graphical glitches, both of which came while I was rotating the camera around the character. Sometimes Logan isn’t really standing on anything just slightly hovering above it and while some mutants can levitate he is not one of them. The other strange bit is that the game seems to have a hard time remember whether or not Logan is wearing a shirt, if you zoom in close it’s gone but when you pull the camera away it re-appears. However neither are game breaking or hideously jarring just strange.

Sound 5/5
“That game is loud!” – my girlfriend.

The sounds are well done and yes it can get pretty loud as the action heats up.

Controls 5/5
The controls are great I was able to pick this game up and start of playing instantly with only a quick flip of the instructions on the latrine. It starts of as a bit of a button masher but as you go on helpful hints pop up that allow you to do different combos by using a combination of weak and strong attacks as well as rage powered attacks. The multifaceted grab button also makes sense in all of the different applications it’s used for, such as opening doors, and pushing pulling and carrying things, in addition to throwing useless enemies onto poles.

The only thing that took me a little bit to get down was the lunges but once I did they were immensely useful.

Creativity 4/5
This is where, for a movie game, this game really shines. The last movie game I played was Transformers and it was repetitive to the point of being annoying. Wolverine seems to have a few repetitive bits but even though I am still early in the game play I can confidently say its not as bad as Transformers.

This game has some shooting aspects, some puzzles, and a few different types of enimies, it also follows an interesting flash back focuses stroy line which obviously follows the movie I have yet to see.

The most creative part of this game is the gore which is the games intentional lure. Anyone who buys this game will be rewarded with a plethora of interesting ways to stop your enemies, my two favorite right now have to be shoving enemies heads into helicopter blades and ripping their arms of and beating them senseless with them. Sure these kills are probably not the quickest and easiest way to off someone but they sure work at keeping the simple minded (myself) amused.

I can easily say the Wolverine origins is the best movie tie in game I have played thus far and the best I own. If you have been waiting for a tittle that really gives you an idea what it is like to be a mutant on the edge this is it, and if you are patient I would recommend picking up a used copy so that you can save a few bucks. The un caged pre-sale edition promotion is over now anyway.