Coming Soon: Review of the Joye 510 E-cig

Lately I’ve been a little disappointed in how much vapor my Blu electronic cigarette is kicking out, so I went ahead and ordered a Joye 510, a manual e-cig (it requires you to depress a button while inhaling), that I saw reviewed on YouTube. The review showed a ton of vapor, so I’m looking forward to more vapor and a better throat hit out of this thing than my Blu cig.

I’ll let you know how it works when it gets here!

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Doctor Who Season 5 Episodes 4-5 torrents

Okay, time for me to get you up to date with Doctor Who again. This last one’s a two parter, so here are both parts…

Time of the Angels

Flesh and Stone

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Forcing games into 1080p on the PS3

I recently noticed that Grand Theft Auto wasn’t displaying at its promised 1080p (well, at least for the map and HUD and certain elements, as most of the game is actually, I believe, in 480p). I found that in order to get it to display in 1080p and not in 720p I had to go to Display Settings in the XMB and disable 720p and 1080i (you can’t disable 480p), and then the game ran at 1080p.

Hope this helps somebody out. Happy gaming!

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The Grand Theft Auto Wiki

I’ve recently been having loads of fun playing The Ballad of Gay Tony, the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion pack, now available with the other expansion pack The Lost & The Damned, for the Playstation 3, in a bundle called Episodes from Liberty City.

I needed a little help with missions and I ran into a great resource, the unofficial…

Grand Theft Auto wiki!

Enjoy.

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Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 3 torrent

Well, the latest episode of Doctor Who is out, and I’m here to give you a link to the torrent.

The name of the episode is either “Victory of the Daleks” or “Victory to the Daleks”, I’m not sure which, but anyway, you can download it by clicking this link.

Enjoy!

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Obama as JFK? Not quite…

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
John F. Kennedy, 1962

The usually reticent Neil Armstrong went after Obama today on his lack of a “vision thing” for space travel in a letter signed by two other astronauts, James Lovell and Eugene Cernan.

Armstrong warns that scrapping manned missions to the moon and Mars and hitching rides with the Russians — for money — is not the hottest idea. “Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity,” Lovell, Armstrong, and Cernan said in the letter.

John F. Kennedy — a president who also gave the country one of its largest tax cuts — was not the sort of man who would have let us take a back seat to the rest of the world in the Space Race. But, even though he’ll spend close to a trillion dollars on his beloved and vaporific “Stimulus Package”, Barack Obama will not shell out the few billion needed to keep America in the manned space game for the next few years as we transition out of the Shuttle phase and into the early years of the Orion project.

Manned space travel is one of thew few things that makes people step back from their petty little lives, transcend themselves, and see life on a whole new level.

Barack Obama does not understand this. The “community organizer” is far more interested in continuing to sell his malignant health care “reform” package. Space travel is the triumph of the individual over great odds. Obama doesn’t have that kind of vision, never did, and never will.

Neil Armstrong and John F. Kennedy were right, and Barack Obama is wrong.

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Links to new Doctor Who torrents

Well, the new season of Doctor Who has started, and I’m posting links to the first two episodes below. Note: You will need a Bittorent client to download these episodes.

Episode 1 — The Eleventh Hour

Episode 2 — The Beast Below

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And so it begins…

Well, here I sit, ensconced in my new setup down in Eastham, Cape Cod, MA.

It’s so lovely and quiet here right now…so much less pretentious than Wellesley. I love it so far. Although we’ll see how much room I have left once I put a bed in here.

And I have a lovely new 1080p plasma TV — Panasonic, good brand.

The big move is next Tuesday, but I’ve come down here early since my computer and TV are down here. And bravo to Comcast for doing a good job installing everything. No problems whatsoever, everything is working great so far.

Now — time to go out on my deck and watch the sunset with a root beer in hand.

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Final Fantasy XIII, Chapter 9: Help with Barthandelus **SPOILERS**

**WARNING: SPOILER MATERIAL AHEAD FOR FINAL FANTASY XIII**

Okay. This guy was the first boss I hit that was a real bitch to take down, that I had no idea of how to beat, until I learned a simple little trick. But I’ll give you the whole strategy first, and I’ll highlight the trick for you when it comes along.

My battle team was Lightning, Snow, and Vanille.

First, attack his appendages. You can’t hurt the main boss until you’ve beaten the appendages. So, go ahead and beat those. Whale on them. Stick to Relentless Assault as your paradigm, switching into a healing paradigm whenever you need to.

Once the appendages are done, you’re going to want to try to take this guy down as quickly as possible, as he can randomly cast Doom on you. If he randomly casts Doom on you and he’s at like 50% health, forget it, just die and try again.

Stay in an offensive paradigm as much as you can and deal as much damage as you can to this boss. Switch to a healing paradigm whenever you get a little low on HP.

Now, here’s the trick to getting past that goddamned “Destrudo” attack that takes all your characters’ health down to zero and makes it game-over time: While he’s charging Destrudo, do not, I repeat, do NOT go into a defensive paradigm of any sort. Go with Relentless Assault, or even Tri-Disaster if you so choose, and whale on the guy while he’s charging the Destrudo attack. Once you deal enough damage, you’ll hear him scream, “Aaaahhh!” briefly, and you have then weakened his Destrudo attack sufficiently so it will not kill your entire party. Then I suggest going into a healing paradigm, perhaps even Combat Clinic (two medics), and heal yourself while and after Destrudo is unleashed.

Without knowing how to weaken the Destrudo attack, this guy is impossible. Not very fair, Square-Enix, not very fair. 🙂

Good hunting.

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Open message to comment spammers

Guess what? You’re not going to get away with posting a spam comment on my site. Because I have to approve the comment before it goes up.

So stop spamming gambling and Cialis crap on here, will you?

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