Hey everyone, another story from the wonderful world of Pokematic. Well today was shop for a laptop for college day. I got an hp notebook with 6 gigs of ram, 750 gig hard drive, 14 inch screen, i5 processor. Well when considering what lap top to get, I figured I should look into what is part of the promotion. Well to see what laptops were like, dad and I went to costco, best buy, and microcenter. I found a modle I liked and got all the specks so we can customize the one on the internet for the free xbox promotion. Well when we got it all said and done, it was $200 cheaper at costco, and the promotional xbox online was about $200. So I could get the online one with the free xbox or get the one at costco and save enough money to buy an xbox. Well since I wanted it now, and since I don't play a lot of xbox as is, it works out.
Well now for some good stuff. It runs 7 and I'm loving it. I'm not a big fan of explorer 9 yet, but I'm sure I'll warm up to it. I love stickey note. Soon I'll get more programs. But here's the great news; it has a web cam. That means videos again. I may still make text reviews because those don't require me to need to ensure that I have it quiet on the location. Movie maker for 7 looks like it will be good, but I don't know yet because I haven't played around with it yet. But I'll do that soon. Be on the look out for new videos.
Well I need to get back to playing around to better understand it. Bye.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Can we haz movie tics
Hey everyone. My friends and I decided we wanted to go see bad teacher. But there was one problem with our plan. Our friend, Max, is 16 and since bad teacher is rated R, he couldn't get in unless accompenied by an adult. Recently turning 18, a legal adult in most terms, we thought I'd be able to buy the tickets, but only I could because my friend zeldamaster93 is still 17. But there is one problem with that theory. In order to buy tickets for other people to see an R rated movie you need to be 21. None of us knew that. I got I.D.ed and he said sorry. There weren't any really good movies that weren't rated R at the theater we went to.
But there's hope. There was another movie theater within walking distance. Max used his iPhone to check movie times and listings at the other theater. While it pains to admit it, that stupid piece of icrap saved us some time. But android can do that as well, and more. Well we walk down to the other theater and go to see Captain America. Wow that was an experience. Be sure to read my review of Captain America here.
We agreed that when I come home to visit from college and Max is 17, we're all going to see an R rated movie together. Oh well, Zeldamaster93 and I are going to see bad teacher some time this week. He's 17 so it's legal. We're so bad trying to get our friend into an R rated movie since he's shy by one year. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu bye.
But there's hope. There was another movie theater within walking distance. Max used his iPhone to check movie times and listings at the other theater. While it pains to admit it, that stupid piece of icrap saved us some time. But android can do that as well, and more. Well we walk down to the other theater and go to see Captain America. Wow that was an experience. Be sure to read my review of Captain America here.
We agreed that when I come home to visit from college and Max is 17, we're all going to see an R rated movie together. Oh well, Zeldamaster93 and I are going to see bad teacher some time this week. He's 17 so it's legal. We're so bad trying to get our friend into an R rated movie since he's shy by one year. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu bye.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The power of PQI flashdrives
This is quite an amazing story. My brother has a bunch of data saved on his flash drive, but I don't know what it is and I'm not about to go snooping. Well just wait and hear what happened.
Like many guys, he will leave stuff in his pockets, but this is typically change and mechanical pencils. Once he sent a sharpe through and the lid stayed on tight keeping all the permanent ink in. Well this time his flash drive went through the wash. Initially he couldn't find it and mom checked in his recently washed pants, and there it was. We're all thinking that it's ruined. It's an electronic storage unit and it was relatively cheap.
Well just wishfully thinking, we make sure it's dry and plug it into our computer. You won't believe what happened. IT WORKED! Not only did it work, but everything was still there. The sealing on these things is amazing. Click here to buy one because this is amazing.
Your data will be safe on this flash drive. I don't recomend doing it yourself intentially, but it's a piece of mind.
Like many guys, he will leave stuff in his pockets, but this is typically change and mechanical pencils. Once he sent a sharpe through and the lid stayed on tight keeping all the permanent ink in. Well this time his flash drive went through the wash. Initially he couldn't find it and mom checked in his recently washed pants, and there it was. We're all thinking that it's ruined. It's an electronic storage unit and it was relatively cheap.
Well just wishfully thinking, we make sure it's dry and plug it into our computer. You won't believe what happened. IT WORKED! Not only did it work, but everything was still there. The sealing on these things is amazing. Click here to buy one because this is amazing.
Your data will be safe on this flash drive. I don't recomend doing it yourself intentially, but it's a piece of mind.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Southland Mall is Awesome
Hey everyone. My eye doctor moved malls, and this was the first time I went to this one. It's the mall in Southland Michigan. And it has otaku heaven. The store is called China Capital Arts, but don't let the name fool you, it has tons of anime stuff. Words can not describe it, but pictures with captions can.
In addition to China Capital Arts, there is another store called Hodge Podge. This place has more American stuff like star wars and loony tunes. They did have Pokemon stuff, but all them American toys. I was nearly turned away because of the Bieber stuff, but then I saw a Marilyn Monroe stand up and I figured probably safe. Didn't buy anything, but here are some pictures I took.
Legend of Zelda stuff. That's the master sword.
Many Plushies.
Back Packs and Laptop Cases
Cool poster things, but not blurry.
Even more plushies
PIKACHUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DBZ stuff
DBZ and Zelda figures
Mario World figures
Various Naruto things
Katanas
Anime soundtracks
I bought a cool little Naruto Figure that I'm going to put on my desk at college
Cool Star Wars stuff
Pokemon Toys
Even more Pokemon toys
There was one last store I went to, but I can't remember the name. I didn't do much there because there wasn't much to it. I guess you could describe it as a toy and novelty store, but there wasn't a whole lot. I bought a "the very best of Sabrina the Teenage Witch the animated series" DVD. They actually had a bunch of cartoons and shows from yesteryear. I can't remember them all. It's a cool mall, and I recommend it to cartoon and anime fans. This has been Pokematic, and bu bye.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Seeing Harry Potter in the IMAX
Hey everyone, Pokematic here with another adventure, or more like the end to an adventure. I recently went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 at the IMAX at the Henry Ford museum. You can read my review of the movie here, but now's the time to talk about the experience.
Ever since Prisoner of Azkaban, my family and a family of friends went to the Henry Ford IMAX to see the Potter movies. We started that 7 years ago when it came out, and now it's over. It was fun. I am a hat man, and as such, I have many hats. I have 3 Harry Potter hats. Now I'm not such a bad nerd that I have 3 wizard hats and say that they are Harry Potter hats. They are all baseball caps, one says Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, one says Raven Claw, and the last one has a Hogwarts shield on it. All of them are small on me. I wore HP5 hat to see HP5.
Now onto the IMAX experience. The Henry Ford IMAX theater is the largest IMAX screen in Michigan. It is quite impressive. They show many made for IMAX movies there, and the few that I've seen are really good. Before every show, they do a demonstration of what the theater is capable of. It's a 2 story screen. It is gigantic. In the demonstration, they always show off the amazing speaker set up. They have 2 speakers in the back of the theater, 4 behind the screen, and one sub base behind the screen. It's quite impressive, they immerse us in the sounds of the rain forest.
Then there is the projection room display. There is this giant glass window on the back of the projection room. I love to see it every time I go there. There is also a speaker with a button that tells you what is happening. The bulb is so powerful it can be seen from the moon. It's just so cool.
Every year we would take a picture by the big Harry Potter poster. Here is the final one.
If you can, I highly recommend the Henry Ford and the IMAX. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu bye
Ever since Prisoner of Azkaban, my family and a family of friends went to the Henry Ford IMAX to see the Potter movies. We started that 7 years ago when it came out, and now it's over. It was fun. I am a hat man, and as such, I have many hats. I have 3 Harry Potter hats. Now I'm not such a bad nerd that I have 3 wizard hats and say that they are Harry Potter hats. They are all baseball caps, one says Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, one says Raven Claw, and the last one has a Hogwarts shield on it. All of them are small on me. I wore HP5 hat to see HP5.
Now onto the IMAX experience. The Henry Ford IMAX theater is the largest IMAX screen in Michigan. It is quite impressive. They show many made for IMAX movies there, and the few that I've seen are really good. Before every show, they do a demonstration of what the theater is capable of. It's a 2 story screen. It is gigantic. In the demonstration, they always show off the amazing speaker set up. They have 2 speakers in the back of the theater, 4 behind the screen, and one sub base behind the screen. It's quite impressive, they immerse us in the sounds of the rain forest.
Then there is the projection room display. There is this giant glass window on the back of the projection room. I love to see it every time I go there. There is also a speaker with a button that tells you what is happening. The bulb is so powerful it can be seen from the moon. It's just so cool.
Every year we would take a picture by the big Harry Potter poster. Here is the final one.
If you can, I highly recommend the Henry Ford and the IMAX. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu bye
Thursday, July 21, 2011
No videos for now
Hey everyone. In my last post I said I was sorry about not making videos because I've been busy. Well I tried to make a video yesterday and low and behold, the mic isn't working. Well here's what I'll do: First I'll upload the few videos I have recorded just not edited. Once those are done, I'm going to do text reviews on my ccpandhgvideos blog. http://ccpandhgvideos.blogspot.com/2010/12/home.html
Click there and remember the web adress so you can read what the videos would be if the mic was working. I hope you enjoy the text reviews since I can't do video reviews. I'm really sorry about any inconvienence. I will do update videos when a new review is up. Thank-you for understanding.
Well this has been Pokematic signing off, and bu bye.
Click there and remember the web adress so you can read what the videos would be if the mic was working. I hope you enjoy the text reviews since I can't do video reviews. I'm really sorry about any inconvienence. I will do update videos when a new review is up. Thank-you for understanding.
Well this has been Pokematic signing off, and bu bye.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Camping was fun
Hey everyone, good news, my swagbucks was reactivated. Aparently because I did a bunch of searches at one time it thought I was a bot. Note to self, use bing for a while. And I'm sorry about not uploading any videos this summer. The busy excuse holds some ground, but I probably did have time to but forgot. Oh well, on to fun stuff.
This weekend was the 25th camp out my family has gon on with a bunch of family friends. Being 18, I oviously haven't been on all of them because it's a once a year thing. This year was kind of crazier, and crazy as in fun. We caught chipmunks, went to a local river festival where I shot a pellet gun, BTW I did decent, went swimming, played with my godbrother and godsister, had a fire, slept in a tent, went to Tony's on I-75, collected bottle caps and pop can tabs, went to the icecream store that's close to the camp ground, read my book, and some other miscilaneous things.
The chipmunks probably need some explaining. Well one of the families brought a can of peanuts to give to everyone. But then the chipmunks got into them by chewing through the lid. They ate half of them and we couldn't eat them because of deseeses and stuff. So what did we do? We used the bad peanuts as bait to catch some chipmunks. We set up the stereotypical trap of bait uner a box that is held up by a stick with a pull string. The oldest of us stupid enough to mess with nature people was the one with the pull string and the one that went over to release the chipmunks after capture. Here is what there was: a box, a tent stake, a half eaten can of peanuts, and a string. To my suprise, it worked really well. We captured 2 chipmunks, and I was waiting for the chipmunk to jump up and start trying to eat the one guys face. We were going to do it later, but the chipmunks ate all the peanuts. Oh well we had our fun.
The river festival was fun. We wanted to go primarily for this poorly writen event on the flyer. We had this flyer that told us all the events at the festival, and it had this event called "youth shooting sponsored by the NRA." OK, it wasn't worded exactly like that, but that's what we kept calling it because it emphasised "youth, shooting, and NRA." We weren't able to find it until the end. They had a bunch of venues where people were selling their art and some other stuff. There was some good stuff, but the shooting was the best part. Oviously it wasn't shooting youths, but designed to get the youth into shooting. It was pelet guns, shooting into a trailer that is basically a portable indoor shooting range. I won't bother describing it because if you don't know what an indoor shooting range looks like, go to one, rent a gun, and go shooting. It's really fun.
Tony's on I-75 is more than a restaurant, it's a destination. It has been on both food and travel channel many times. It's like many other restaurants with specialties and atmosphere, but the kicker is the portion size. You order eggs, hashbrowns, toast, and baccon, you will get 3 giant slises of toast, 3 eggs, a pound of hashbrowns, and a pound of baccon. You order a roast beef sandwhich, you are getting a mound of roast beef. You order icecream, you're getting a half gallon. They have giant portions. We went there becaue of the left overs you get. Get leftovers, put them in plastic bags, put them in the food cooler, and warm them up for a meal later. We got full breakfasts and lunches for our family of four out of those leftovers, and when camping, that's easy.
Now for some miscilaneous details. We're a group of maybe 7 families that have been doing this for 25 years. We started out huge, but slowly shrunk. Earlier I mentioned my godbroher and godsister. I just call them that because they are the children of my godfather. The lake had this dog beach put in where we would alwayse go to for the beach because we are almost alwayse in the same area each and every year, and we plan it like that. We prety much took over the dog beach. And teh lake water is really clear because of the zebra muscles. They are an invasive species and bad for the environment, but good for us tourists who want a clear lake. It's almost as clear as a pool of fresh tap water in a clean container. I have a book that I'm reading so I read there. I'll talk about it after I finish it. There's this ice cream store that's with in walking distance from the camp ground. It's good. I think that covers most everything. It was a fun weekend. Now if you'll excuse me, I needto go sandblast my feet. Only bringing crocks to a dusty sandy campground was a bad idea. Laters.
This weekend was the 25th camp out my family has gon on with a bunch of family friends. Being 18, I oviously haven't been on all of them because it's a once a year thing. This year was kind of crazier, and crazy as in fun. We caught chipmunks, went to a local river festival where I shot a pellet gun, BTW I did decent, went swimming, played with my godbrother and godsister, had a fire, slept in a tent, went to Tony's on I-75, collected bottle caps and pop can tabs, went to the icecream store that's close to the camp ground, read my book, and some other miscilaneous things.
The chipmunks probably need some explaining. Well one of the families brought a can of peanuts to give to everyone. But then the chipmunks got into them by chewing through the lid. They ate half of them and we couldn't eat them because of deseeses and stuff. So what did we do? We used the bad peanuts as bait to catch some chipmunks. We set up the stereotypical trap of bait uner a box that is held up by a stick with a pull string. The oldest of us stupid enough to mess with nature people was the one with the pull string and the one that went over to release the chipmunks after capture. Here is what there was: a box, a tent stake, a half eaten can of peanuts, and a string. To my suprise, it worked really well. We captured 2 chipmunks, and I was waiting for the chipmunk to jump up and start trying to eat the one guys face. We were going to do it later, but the chipmunks ate all the peanuts. Oh well we had our fun.
The river festival was fun. We wanted to go primarily for this poorly writen event on the flyer. We had this flyer that told us all the events at the festival, and it had this event called "youth shooting sponsored by the NRA." OK, it wasn't worded exactly like that, but that's what we kept calling it because it emphasised "youth, shooting, and NRA." We weren't able to find it until the end. They had a bunch of venues where people were selling their art and some other stuff. There was some good stuff, but the shooting was the best part. Oviously it wasn't shooting youths, but designed to get the youth into shooting. It was pelet guns, shooting into a trailer that is basically a portable indoor shooting range. I won't bother describing it because if you don't know what an indoor shooting range looks like, go to one, rent a gun, and go shooting. It's really fun.
Tony's on I-75 is more than a restaurant, it's a destination. It has been on both food and travel channel many times. It's like many other restaurants with specialties and atmosphere, but the kicker is the portion size. You order eggs, hashbrowns, toast, and baccon, you will get 3 giant slises of toast, 3 eggs, a pound of hashbrowns, and a pound of baccon. You order a roast beef sandwhich, you are getting a mound of roast beef. You order icecream, you're getting a half gallon. They have giant portions. We went there becaue of the left overs you get. Get leftovers, put them in plastic bags, put them in the food cooler, and warm them up for a meal later. We got full breakfasts and lunches for our family of four out of those leftovers, and when camping, that's easy.
Now for some miscilaneous details. We're a group of maybe 7 families that have been doing this for 25 years. We started out huge, but slowly shrunk. Earlier I mentioned my godbroher and godsister. I just call them that because they are the children of my godfather. The lake had this dog beach put in where we would alwayse go to for the beach because we are almost alwayse in the same area each and every year, and we plan it like that. We prety much took over the dog beach. And teh lake water is really clear because of the zebra muscles. They are an invasive species and bad for the environment, but good for us tourists who want a clear lake. It's almost as clear as a pool of fresh tap water in a clean container. I have a book that I'm reading so I read there. I'll talk about it after I finish it. There's this ice cream store that's with in walking distance from the camp ground. It's good. I think that covers most everything. It was a fun weekend. Now if you'll excuse me, I needto go sandblast my feet. Only bringing crocks to a dusty sandy campground was a bad idea. Laters.
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