I get home from work and this is waiting for me in my e mail.

Darwinia is a great game that was released about five years ago by a small company called Introversion (great name for a small company).  It's a game about artificial life forms that were created inside of a computer.  The little darwinians learned to evolve and develop their own world.  Computer viruses begin to attack them and you need to fight back.

Right now it is only available for the computer.  If you can find the game for cheap, pick it up.  I bought it for only $5 from a bargain bin when I lived in Minnesota.  The box cover is bright green and always caught my eye.  Amazon is selling it now for a crazy $43.  It is going to be released on the Xbox very soon which is a bit confusing to me because I can't imagine playing it without a mouse.

I just wanted to promote a tiny game that I really enjoyed playing.

If you haven't seen it, I have added the music tab.  It is still a bit rough looking but I wanted to get something out by the end of the weekend.

I put up a whole album of the music from the New Super Mario Bros. Wii game.  I hope that you enjoy it.

That stupid look at my horse animation is getting fan videos and remixes all over youtube. It seems that it won't be getting out of my head any time soon. The same guy just put out another song about Narwhals.  There is no reason to be afraid of narwhals but being afraid of narwhals isn't as bad as being afraid of pelicans.

What am I talking about?

Whales are cool.  Super cold in this case.  I found these pictures of beluga whales a few days ago.  The third picture is my favorite.  It's gonna eat you.

I like seeing those National Geographic articles about animal species that have recently been discovered.  This isn't a National Geographic article but it has some great pictures.  The last one is depressing but I hope that they use that clear cut rainforest for great cheap beef.  Not optimistic, realistic.

You may remember me talking about Muscle March and how desperately I wanted to play.  Well it was finally released in the United States today for a big fat five dollars via Wii Ware.

This is the first of three worlds, the city.

Hit the jump for more videos of me playing...

If you played video games in the late eighties and early nineties, you know that the production budgets weren't as large as they are now.  Many games were made in Japan and would only be released in the US if they were successful after a year or more.  There was no internet buzz on releases or special showings.  You would just suddenly see Faxanadu at Target.  Because the original targets for these games were not English-speaking kids, translation was not on the top of the minds of the programmers and it would occasionally be a whole different group of people translating the game.  They wouldn't know the context or story line like those who produced the game so some translations were a bit off.  Also, depending on the translator, budget, and people simply not giving a crap, you could make the game even more confusing.  Here are some classic bad game translations and a bonus bad Japanese animation subtitles.  I have a feeling that some of the cartoon translations are fake.

This past Sunday was The Simpsons 20th anniversary special.  It was a new episode (a pretty good one) followed by a one hour special which was a short documentary on the influence of the Simpson family on the world.  It was pretty good but not great.  Two weeks ago was one of the better episodes that I have ever seen.  I was amazed when d'oh became a real word and I'm still against it as much as I love the show.  The stupid words that they add to dictonaries each year make dumb culture official.  Speaking of fake stuff becoming real, look at the stupid Simpsons stuff that became real.  The good morning burger.  Die before noon.

I had a telescope growing up but I haven't seen it in years.  I used to stay up late and sit in the backyard for hours with it.  It was still never as good as lying on the ground in the desert looking straight up with none of the light pollution of the city.  The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched in the middle of last years and it has returned some really great pictures so far.  Here are some of those pictures and for fun some pictures from decades ago.

 I think that bad grammar bothers me because I suck with grammar myself.  I'm already a bad speller and depend on computers to correct my spelling for me.  I had to write a letter by hand in front of somebody about two months ago and was embarassed by my spelling and grammar.  It was even worse because we were limited for time and she gave me a pen and the paper had no lines so the text did that droopy thing where it aligned on the left but got smaller and fell down on the right.

Look at my horse, Nick Cage!

 Erin's birthday today and some links.

The registration verification process was causing some heartburn so I turned it off.

"Remember Me" cookie is fixed but the forum bio probably won't be any time soon.

I figured out why I couldn't upload more photos to the album.  After figuring it out, I added a ton.  Oh, and we need honeymoon ideas.

JasonSchlueter.com version 2 is up and being built.

Progress is being made.  Let's enjoy it.