January 2001

02/01/01 4:00 PM
Can't talk, playing...
    That is, I have happened upon a new item to consume my time besides rambling about pointless shit to people who don't care. At the moment I'm feelin particularly giddy as I have made my first online purchase. Soon I will have the confidence ot buy everything online, then onceI get a job through the internet I'll never have to leave this chair. MWA HA HA. You see, I'm particluarly lazy by nature. I don't like to sweat, or lift heavy objects, or whatever, I mean, why do it yourself when you could get someone else who is better suited to the task to do it for me. I've gotten into a few spots due to my lazines actually. Way back in eight grade I was int he "advanced Math" class which meant that myself and a few other people got bussed over to the High School every day for Algebra while the other students took math about, whatever. The point is due my laziness and the fact that I once took the "Presidential Physical Phitness Test" mile run and onlymade 3/4th of a mile in 45 minutes got me put in the "secial Gym class" for eight grade. In the "Special Gym Class" read: "The Retard Gym Class", we actually didfun shot like the balance beam and play hockey instead of trying to impress George Bush by running a mile in 3 minutes. Then I wuped all over the kids who were there because thye actually lack coordination and athetic skills so bad they kicked me out. Basically when they let me do things I really enjoyed, I did really good and they realized I'm not really uncoordinated and slow physically, I'm jst lazy. so it was back to doing shit pull ups and running the mile every single fucking day in 30 degree weather. Too bad though, since Hockey kicks ass.

01/26/01 10:45 AM
Aparently going ot the dentist is one of the most feare things in the US. I know I don't really care to go. A bunch of strangers poking around in your mouth with sharp thingies, trying to jab thier fingers down your throat. And they allways say the same thing, "You don't seem to have any problems, but you need to be brushing more, and flossing." Well ok, but my theory is, if the current brushing system is not causing ay problems, why change it? Chearly brushing your teeth is a process set up to help prevent damage to ones teeth, and clearly the process that I use to brush my teeth(am I late yet or do I still have time to brush before leaving?) is working, so why should I change this set up? Lat time I also got a comment about a piece of chicken that had apparently logged itself in my gumline, I assured the nurse that I had had chicken last night and it was probably from that. She then told me it was several weeks old, to which I replied "Oh THAT chicked, yes that's my winter hoard in my cheek food pouches." She then assured me that humans do not have food pouches in thier cheeks and I called her nieve and told her to tell me that aain when she was a real dentist and not some nurse lacky. For some reason after that she kept accidentally poking my mouth a lot with those sharp proby objects. But I don't have time to brush my teeth wekk all the time, I have other important things o do in the morning before leaving like uh.. update this webpage... and uh... spend 20 minutes cooking tastey bagel sandwhiches.
    Speaking of late, never rent videos at Blockbuster. One, thier prices are way too high, and two, aparently thier late fees are the same as the full rental cost. I spent 26 dollars to rent 2 N64 games and 2 (non new release) movies for 5 days. And I did return them on the day they were due back, but for some aseninely stupid reason, 5 day rentals doesn't mean "Return by midnight on the fifth day" like at the store I usually go to but it means "Return by noon on the fifth day". Noon, who returns tapes at noon? That's not 5 days it's 4 and a half! What a fucking gyp. I don't even go there usually but I had received some gift cards for the place over the holidays. Besideds it costs 1.95 to rent a "Blockbuster Favorites" movie, which is a non-new-release tape. I can go tot he grocery store on monday when they have "rent one get one free" and get two non-new-releases for 99 cents. Granted that the Ghrocery store doesn't carry Anime, I but I've seen pretty much all the anime I've seen to rent anywhere. Anyway, I was going ot fix up the links page, but I need the extra time to brush my teeth.

01/24/01 7:15 PM
So I rented this movie... You can read about it on the new link button on the left, or click Here.
Also, I've learned how to hack ROMs. My current project can be seen on the right. The SNKization of Ninja Gaidan. For the ill informed, SNK is a game company fairly well known for thier Engrish. That is, it's not quite proper, but it can be desiphered sometimes. There is a trend going around currently of quoting the Zero Wing intro lines, because they were once funny. Now that they are completely overused, the fun value is somewhat, gone. For more on Zero Wing, try Sharkey's page. That's all, just real content this time.

01/23/01 12:40 PM
I'd like to take a moment hre, to talk about myself (not to be confused with me, me, me , or me). Because this particular blockof text cusomarilty appears at the opening of a webpage, and well, I guess I've just not gotten around to it. Mostly because I figure you aren't really interested in it. Anyway, my name is Josh Miller. While some people complain about those who use "hadles" on the internet, I rather prefer mine because Josh and Miller are probably both in the top ten common names for thier type (fisrt and last respectively). Plus it has been my experience that the name "Ramen Junkie" is generally uncommon. that is, I'm the only one using it. Though someone else appears to have it on sega.net, that could be some fluke or I was going something wrong when signing up. Anyway 've never come across another peson with this handle. Also if I ever become a 133+ h@x0r, it will fit nicely since "oriental food the food of choice for hackers". Chaos on the other hand, while being a word I like very much and used to use for a handle, is very common, hell I've even seen other "Chaos Storm"s which was what "Chaos" evolved from. Currently I'm going to school for Mechanical Engineering, which get all kinds of "ooh"s and"ahh"s everytime I tell people that. This is usually followed by "Don't you have to be really smart to do that?" and "Don't you have to know a lot of Math for that?". Though currently I have finished my Associates in Engineering at Lincoln Land, and once attended Purdue University before moving to Illinois. In the fall I plan to transfer Southern (famous for being closed on Holloween due to riots and shit that occured one year). also yes you have to know lots of Math and yes you need to be generally smart to major in Engineering. I prefer to act dumb most of the time myself though since whenpeople think you are dumb they a) give you less responsibility since they think you are probably incabable, and b) underestimate you should you ever need to crush them with your wit. all the spelling errors int he site come from some sort of Dyslexia though, that's not being dumb,that's just that I can't type fast enough to keep up with what I'm trying to say and I'm too lazy to proof read.

01/22/01 12:20 PM
The other day, I woke up and ate breakfast while reading the paper as usual, when the headline on the front suddenly struck me. "BUSH SWORN IN". Or something to that effect. Basically I Suddenly realised that is was really true, George W. Bush is in fact our 43rd President. No more Bill Clinton, which is a shame because Bill is such a cool guy. I don't know why but for some reason I figured W. would just be President Elect forever and Bill would just continue to run things, but now, it's different. Bush is THE President now. He could destroy the world now if he felt like it, unquestioned by anyone. Then I dropped the paper and ran to the bathroom screaming like a little school girl at which point I dove into the bathtub naked, curled up into the fetal position and cried for the rest of the day while sucking my thumb in hopes that the terrible newspaper with it's icky headlines would just go away. How could it happen? Everyone worked so hard! I mean, I had really hoped that something would have occured to keep anyone besides George and Al from taking office. Maybe if the vote had come out a dead tie people would say "No one want's these two to be Prez really, let's let Bill stay!" or mabe if Bill had run, despite the term limits he'd have won 100% of the vote and then there would be no choice, term limits or no, but to let Bill stay another 4 years. I'm not sure why I don't like Bush, maybe he just seems a little too, Texanish for my tastes. Though I'm not sure what's wrong with Texans either. Then there is Al, he just seems like a real snake, even before all the court shit after the election. Basically I REALLY liked Clinton. Despite all the problems, Clinton did a very good job as President and he just seems like such a nice guy.

01/21/01 2:30 PM
So after buying yet another Sonic Game the other day at Best Buy I was drivinghome and thingking about various 'phases' of gaming. Like when I was younger, till I was oh we'll say, 10, I didn't even know you could BUY computer software. I was using a computer, I've been using a computer forever, I've been through C64s, various version of DOS, hell I've use Windows version 1.1 How many people can claim that, I have a copy around here somewhere too. Anyway, as I was saying, when I was younger, my grandpa had lotsof games and I'd always look forward to going over to visit so I could lay all these grat games on his Tandy 1000 PC, cause his PC has a COLOR monitor unlike our home PC which was just black and green. The thing is all of his games were just copies of the orginals. He had 100s of games, and I have no idea just who he was copying from, but I'd copy them as well and basically I was a software pirate till age 10 or so. I had no idea these things came in any other form. So anyway, one day I went to a coputer convention with my parents and I bought my first ever game. It had a box and instructions and a printed lable instead of a hand written one. It was still a big black 5.25" disk, but it was a legic copy. The game was War Eagles BTW, a very fun WWII flight sim that ran too fast to be played even on a 286 PC. That didn't keep me from contunuing the pirate ways I was brought up to be. Myself and my friends all had more or less the same set of games since we would all let eachother copy all of out shit. Of course the funnest ones were the most trouble, the ones with passwords, why would a software company DO such a thing? I mean, I had to call my buddy up everytime I wanted to play Earl Waever Baseball because it was too hard to copy the code wheel. I had to spend HOURS writing down the square patters of the Simcity code sheet since it was printed on maroon paper with black writing to 'prevent photocopying'. Thise bastards at Maxis. Though I've since bought a new copy of Simcity, the versiont hat doesn't require the passwords anymore, but it seems like they had adde some upgrades so my old cities wouldn't load or something. And I loved the original so much I later bought SC2000, then SC3000 (which is a piece of crap BTW, buy SC2000 if you have the choice, they dropped too many features). so anyway, what does THAT say about pirating software? Anyway, once consoles got big I more or less blw off PC games. Mostly because the PC we had was only a 286 and could only run Wolfenstein and not Doom. Though Wolfenstein was one of the biggest hits among everyone I know.
    So anyway, like I said Consoles got big,a nd for a while I played those and I'd get games at Christmas and for Birthdays and so on, but eventually I got job, and could afford my own merchandaise, though, I still only had a 486 by then, so I couldn't play many new high tech games. Still sticking to the consoles, though in a brilliant move I chose N64 over PSX when the new systems came out. So my console collection didn't grow too fast since N64 doesn't have a very large library of games. Then eventually I felt the need to keep up the old NES collection, because I realized most of the games I really enjoy were for NES and most of thegames I really enjoyed on NEs were my friends and I'd just play at thier houses, which menas I didn't actually own my own copy of anyof them. So like a binge alcoholic, I started racking up NES titles at shops that sell used games. The guys at Babbages recognize me I'm in there so often (not anymore though, those fucks can keep thier scalper prices, besides they seem to have dumped thier used game supply somewhere). Luckily there is a game that specializes in used games now in my area (beautiful Saturn... must resist the urge to buy ANOTHER console, but it's soo aluring....). Anyway I also upgraded to a decent machine in there somewhere so I also wen ton a binge of new high tech games. Like Half Life and Simcity 3k, and Deus Ex. anyway, once you have income of your own your gamin habits tend to take off abit compared to when you are leaching money off your parents.
I've also updaed the art page. I'm sure you can read where it is if you want to find it.

01/18/01 2:30 PM
Just what are YOU drinking?
So I was rearranging the shelves across the top of my room the yesterday... (wait, this might get good!)...anyway, it turns out I had a sort of scientiffic experiment going on up there. It all started back in 1999 when Pepsi released a sereis of collectable Star Wars cans, which through my brother and his biddies I managed to collect all of, which would normally have been hard seeing as I don't drink Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi One or Mountain Dew. Anyway, I went to move the cans down out of the way to commenc with the rearranging and found that some of the cans were stuck to the shelves. You see in the interest of preserving the cans I didn't drain the soda out of them. All of the Diet Pepsi cans had almost fused tot he shelf by means of a thick brown goo. This was obviously soda residue, but the can were not open, nor did they have holes in them, and after I drained and washed them out they still held water, which means basically the Diet Pepsi had somehow managed to seem THROUGH the aluminum can. Now just imagin what this shitis doing to your insides for a moment. Anyway, something slightly more baffeling came from the Pepsi One cans. They had not fused tot he shelf like the diet, and the shelf was actually quite clean where they were sitting, however the cans themselves were almost empty. SEALED FUCKING CANS. I'm not sure what happened to the liquid, maybe some sort of demon came and took it away through some sort of incantation, or maybe it just evaporated and turned into a foul flesh eating fog that I released and inhaled when I opened the year and a half old cans of soda. Either way, I'm guessing Pepsi One only has one calorie because it's mostly air that given time will seperate from what little soda is actually in the can. Further proof that these cans did not have holes for the liquid to drain through is that they still gave that soda can splurt when you open them, that is, they were still under enough pressure to sound fresh. Speaking of fresh, he regular Pepsi and the Mountain Dew actually seemed perfectly normal, I was almsot tempted to drink one to test it out to see if they would still be good a year and a half after the expiration date. Unfortunately, in the best interest of keeping my innards intact Ihad to decide against it. The moral, God only knows what they hell they put in and do to those nasty diet type sodas, maybe they make people loose wight by eating away at the fat through some sort of nasty acid.

01/13/01 1:45 AM
Well, so far the new "mascot" has fared well with test audiences, though the page itself is getting opposite ends of the spectrum comments wise. But then I've promised myself I would NEVER post about the validity or (lack of) popularity of this page. So...
    I have kept my promise. Though I must have done something with a lot of my old Mega Man drawings because I could only find a few. Ah well, it gives me something to update it with. so without further delay... Mega Man Art! Well, that certainly probably wasn't worth the hype, but then most things often arent.
    Speaking of overhype... I am reminded of Shenmue. You see, you can cause a lot fo stir among people, a lot of intense debates involving a lot of swearing, by stating things that people disagree with. Like saying shenmue is a rather dull Vending Machine Simulator. Granted it's a VERY PRETTY Vending Machine Simulator, but generally, I'm tired of constantly wandering around aimlessly hoping I'll happen to run into whoever it was the last person told me to go see. I am only mildly entertained by the chance to blow simulated money on tapes and vending macine prizes and Jet Cola. That and the arcades which consist of emulated Sega games that I could have downloaded for free off the net. Sometimes it pains me to think how many REAL shitty vending prizes I could have gotten for the money I spent ont he game. Though maybe eventually I'll get into it or get to a point where I do something useful, I just hope it doesn't trun into something less exciting than a Vending Machine Simulator, like say... a Forklift Driving Simulator.

01/11/01 9:00 PM
Sorry, I've buried the most pointless thing I've posted here. You can still get to it but you'll have to work for it.

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01/04/01 10:45 AM
Sorry, no clever picture, I did get a new camera but the film has to develop. so anyway, I made a list of stuff while on vacation, so here we go...
    First let me say that I bought this nice pack of racing games but after driving 13+ hours each way on the trip, I have little want to play any sort of driving sim at the moment. Also Illinois is very flat, sriving through the mountains is quite a rush when you are used to driving for miles and seeing everything for 1000 miles in all directions.
    Hmm what else... did you know there is a Hello Kitty store? I've never seen such a beast before but while in one of the fanciest (read:Trendiest) loking malls I've ever been in I passed this small store called Sanrio filed with nothing but Hello Kitty mrechandaise. This mall also had this nifty NASCAR racing simulator (it was in Charolette NC, the middle of NASCAR country) where you sit in these full sized NASCARs and race against 30 other people. I would have done it but I didn't end up with enough time. Also the toy stores in thsi mall were surprisingly crappy and carried more knockoff merchandaise than all the local convenience stores and the local Big Lots combined. I didn't burn any money on new knockoff Transformers unfortunately, just a new deceticon window sticker for my car.
    In other news, there is a Survivor board game. i won immunity both rounds which essentiall ensured that I would loose in the final vote between my and the other final player. what a bust. I also saw this movie called Frequency. Pretty decent, sort of a suspence thriller sort of movie. Oh and Miss Congeniality, which was good for a few laughs but it's not guing to be winning any awards. Also Herbal Essence is not NEARLY as sexually stimulating as the commercials for it suggest. Hell I didn't even get hard using the shit. But hey, it was the only decent shampoo in the house. Maybe it only works of females or some shit.
    On some non vacation related notes, It's clearance time again at Toy stores, whcih means lots of cool shit for dirt cheap. Hell I bought a ton of cool Star Wars stuff yesterday for 20 bucks. I've also become a SEGA junkie. What as once violently opposed to, now dominates my gaming lineup.