Chykin´s Choice: TFW2005

TFW2005 is a site reporting on all things transformers. From plot spoilers to third party stuff, that got it all. They also have a popular podcast called WTF@TFW that discusses said news. If you´re into other toylines, the toyark is the place you should head to. Everything from Doctor Who to Busou Shinki to GI JOE, it´s there.

-Chykin out

Weekly wallpaper #3

This one is called Digiwarp.

The Voyage of a 1000 Miles (or whatever the heck the distance to Costa Rica is)

Oh, well I guess I should spill the beans about the trip already. I probably would have posted this from my phone when I got to Costa Rica, but as soon as I got off the plane I found out my phone plan didn’t have roaming.

Anyway, back to the trip. Where to start? I guess I start at the airport. After all, that’s where the trip started right? We got there an hour before departure. I was really nervous about the trip. I mean, I did spend almost eleven years in the United States! No doubt there would be stuff I would miss. And there is! But I digress.

Getting back to the subject now. While I was in the airport spent some time wandering. I went to the McDonald’s to get me something to settle my stomach after all that idle pensiveness. Since I didn’t want to get yelled at for ordering an entire breakfast tray, I just bought myself a hashbrown. Luckily, Mcdonald’s hashbrowns a one thing I don’t have to miss here, but again, off-topic. Continuing to wander the airport, I found the gift shop. In it I found an item which holds many memories for me. One of those diecast airplane sets you find in every airport.

I don’t have many memories of Costa Rica, indeed, I left when I was only three years old, but the few I do I hold very dearly. Among those scarce memories is one of recieving a gift before leaving Costa Rica. I don’t remember who it was from or how long before leaving it was given to me, all I remember is what it was and how much I loved it. I remember feeling the cool metal of the fuselage, playing around with the doofy little plastic signs it came with. Unfortunately since that time it has been lost, it is among the number of toys I have lost over the years. Some I didn’t care enough to remember what they were (such every Happy Meal toy I’ve ever gotten), and some fill me with painful regret that I didn’t keep (like my Armada Starscream and Optimus Prime). Understand, I really wanted to buy this airplane set, but alas, it was too expensive (I really should have seen it coming. IT WAS IN AN AIRPORT GIFTSHOP).

Anyway, after that painfull episode, I just walked over and bought myself a bunch of Kitkats (they don’t sell them in Costa Rica). After having a nice conversation with the cashier about Kitkat availability in Costa Rica and noticing a twenty dollar box of alligator-shaped chocolate, I made my way to where my parents were waiting. With only a few minutes before departure, I snapped a couple pictures and boarded the plane. On the plane we spent a good two hours flying to our destination. During which I wolfed down a bag of chips and took a lot of meaningless video. Spyshot had a good time. He spent the flight lazing about on my fold-out tray.

When we landed I scrambled to the luggage pick-up. The airline deemed the bag containing my transformers to big to me a carry-on. I was scared when checking the contents of the bag. I had heard horror stories about mistreatment of luggage and things arriving broken. Luckily all that happened was the my RoTF Prime’s smokestacks were a little bent. After that, we were picked up by my uncle. We stayed at his house for a couple days while we sorted things out. Waiting for us was one of the boxes we sent containing our stuff. Nothing really interesting. Just a bunch of basic stuff like clothes, bedding,and such. In there was a bunch of books, mostly my mom’s scrapbooks.

After a few days, we went down from San Jose to Playon Sur (Roughly translates as “Big South Beach,” I think) where my grandparents live. We’re currently staying there, but we’ve already bought a plot of land where we’ll be building our house.

Well, that’s about all I can think of for this post. But keep watching this page, I still have a lot more to post about Costa Rica! Don’t touch that tab! The next Costa Rica post may come sooner than you think!

-Chykin Out

Chykin’s Choice: Netdisaster

netdisaster.com

Net Disaster is a cool little site. If you read 55 ways to have fun with Google from last week’s Chykin’s Choice you would know about it already. Netdisaster used to be a site where you could “destroy” a site by overlaying an animation of UFO’s attacking, Cows Stampeding, windows flooding, etc.

Unfortunately On April 20th of last year eBay asked the webmaster to shut it down due to reports of phishing. However the guy has made available for people to intall a program that lets them destroy their entire desktop or whatever is on sreen.

Netdisaster Destop is available Here.

-Chykin out

Weekly Wallpaper #2

This one is called “Rainbow Galaxy.” It was pretty much just me playing around with the IWarp filter.

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-Chykin out

Chykin’s Choice: 55 ways to have fun with Google

www.55fun.com

This is the site for a really cool book called 55 ways to have fun with Google. I would describe it myself, but the site’s description really does it better than I could:

You probably use Google everyday, but do you know… the Google Snake Game? Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? In this book, you’ll find Google-related games, cartoons, oddities, tips, stories and everything else that’s fun. Reading it, you won’t be the same searcher as before! (From the author of Google Blogoscoped.)

The book is available free for download Here or for purchase on Amazon Here for $19.96

-Chykin out

Weekly Wallpaper #1

Well, this is the first Weekly Wallpaper. Most of these I will be posting  aren’t really wallpapers, they’re just wallpaper-size images to give me an excuse to mess around with GIMP.

Here it is, It’s called Vista Core Kerplosion :

(Click for Full)

 

-Chykin out

So… What now?

In my time of not being able to post I have come up with a number of ways to improve my site.

First, I’ve decided to take a page from Bighead’s book and do some “weekly’s.” So far I’ve only been able to think of two. They are Weekly Wallpaper and Chykin’s Choice (yes, I do alliterate names.) Weekly Wallpaper is going to be a weekly posted (or auto-posted) wallpaper sized image. These aren’t so much meant to be wallpapers as something to give me areason to mess around on gimp. Chykin’s Choice is a also going to be weekly-ish. It’ll be more or less a showcase of cool sites or pages I find on the net. Both of these will probably start later this week.

Secondly, I’m to keep true the site’s name and post comics made by me. So far there are to in the pipeline. One is itching to begin and the other is still in the early developmental stages. Neither I have settled on names for. Expect the first one to begin it’s “pilot” version in th next few weeks.

Well, that’s all for now.

-Chykin out

I’M BAAAAACK!

Yay! now that I can post images I can finally tell the tale of the voyage from New Jersey to Florida to Costa Rica.

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Now that think about it, it’s not really all that interesting! *sweat*

Few really blog-worthy things happened I guess. It was just your average run-of-the-mill move. Besides that all I did was sightsee, pick up some transformers, and snap a few pics.

Well, I guess I could show those pics!

  

Hmm… well I guess those were all the pics I took of Florida. Huh, at the time that I had taken the photos it felt like I had taken more than just these few. Oh, well. Next time I ‘ll post some pics of Costa Rica!

-Chykin out

Bighead2496’s Weekly Comix Strips Picks, Happy New Year

For now on i will also include At least 1 Graph Jam and 1 LOL(cat or other).

Now for our Featured Presentation:

So Mario Does Drugs. That explains his Fearless ness Agianist Millions of dragon like creatures.

Well Can you blame him He’s in Russia during The Cold War Looking for the Extreme testing grounds for Nukes. Can you say -100F.

Now lets see How the Comics Celebrated on the New Year’s Eve:

Well that Why I love cats they don’t think its all about them. Same is true with Chipmunks.

My point exactly.

And i hope you have all made New Year’s Resolution.

OK So maybe you shouldn’t make a New Year’s Resolution if its to break out of jail. Life’s not Monopoly.

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Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

Yes that whats on everyone’s minds right now. Now im going to make a pro cons list of 09:

Con’s of 09

• Death of Harry Kalis.
• Death of people in hollywood house names I do not know.
• Death Of MJ.
• More Ression.
• Another Terrorist attempt.

Pro’s of 09 

• A new president.( im on the fence about this one)
• Drastic Troop Reduction in Iraq
• I can’t think of anything else.( jeff plz add more)

Well my New Year’s Resultion Get a girlfriend. well anyway I hope you all have a Happy New Year and I hope you have a good 2010

-Bighead Out