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Custom Roller Coaster Tycoon Coaster

January 16th, 2009

I’m not very creative when it comes to building custom designs for roller coasters. Usually when I attempt it, I go overboard and no guest will go on it because it “looks too intense for [them].” But this one…

…actually turned out pretty good and the guests will continually go on it. However, it’s not that creative or inventive. I call it “Cyclone.” It’s set on Powered Launch Mode (45 MPH launch speed). It’s made up of three small upward helixes. The design of this is pretty much a rip-off of the pre-made design “Shuttle Loop.” It’s the only custom coaster so far that I’ve actually added to the official list of Steel Roller Coaster designs.

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24 Hours of Non-Stop Music

January 12th, 2009

I hit an iPod landmark today when my order of the Beatles’s Anthology 3 arrived in the mail. My iPod Touch now holds a solid day of music… if I wanted to, and had nothing else going on, I could listen to music for twenty-four hours non-stop (plus an extra eleven minutes, to boot).
I have 449 songs that take up a mere 1.73 GB of my 8 GB total.
Here is a break-down of the amounts of different musical groups I have on my iPod currently:

Band Name Songs Time (hrs:min) MB
The Beatles 277 13:01 803
George Harrison 29 2:09 256
The Blues Brothers 23 1:20 75
John Lennon 18 1:19 114
The Rutles 20 :50 47
Simon & Garfunkel 10 :33 73
Pink Floyd 9 :42 83
Cream 5 :19 17
Eric Clapton 5 :23 22
Paul McCartney 5 :19 31
The Rolling Stones 3 :12 11
Billy Joel 2 :12 11
Led Zeppelin 2 :12 11

Some notes on the graph:
- I have other songs, but I chose not to include them here because I had only one song per artist.
- When tallying individual artists I do not include in their total any band they were in. (Cream is separate from Eric Clapton/The Beatles is separate from it’s members.)

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My Animal Crossing Chronicles – 1/09

January 5th, 2009

I’ve been playing a lot of Animal Crossing lately (probably three hours a day), and this is what has happened since my last “Animal Crossing Chronicle”:

I went to the city and got a makeover, to make myself look like my Mii (who I also use for online play in “Mario Kart Wii”).

At first, I didn’t like it because the Mii head was so much bigger than the default one, but I got used to it, and I like the more personalized aspect of it.

On January 3rd, I attended my first KK Slider concert. I was expecting a much bigger crowd, but I was the only one who showed up. Little did I realize that the KK Slider songs are just a chance to roll the credits, which bugged me. I was trying to listen to the song and I didn’t want to be distracted by all those names. Either way, I enjoyed the “concert” very much; would I be crazy to say that K. K. Slider should release an actual album… I’d buy it.

On January 4th, Tom Nook’s store was closed for remodeling. Usually my daily routine is to catch fish and sell them to Tom Nook, but he wasn’t around and I still wanted to catch fish, but I didn’t know what to do with the fish because my pocket would get filled up after about ten of them. So…

I decided to put them in my house…

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