The Zeitgeist Movement

I highly recommend you watch the Orientation Slideshow or either Zeitgeist Movie.

The Zeitgeist Movement now has its own YouTube channel as well.

Please check it out, especially if you consider yourself an open minded individual. It could change the world.

You can see other videos we have worked together on at http://www.youtube.com/cerebraltrauma

So recently I’ve had some ideas on what I want to do, including with this outlet, yet I don’t think I’ve made one step towards the end goal.  I am trying to fix that, but alas… its very clearly slow as hell LOL.

So what have I been up to lately instead of making this blog the most amazing thing ever?  Sleeping.. that’s most of it.  Not being employed has given me the free time to prioritize my well being and work on things such as further education and even self-drivin creativity.  Yes, that means I have other projects I have been working on during this whole time as well.

Such as my video contributions.  My friend, my wife, and I created a very funny short that my friend posted out on his YouTube channel.  Here it is:

So that was one of them. Yes it is hallarious and we will have MANY more coming. We are actually currently working on 2-5 more Chronic episodes, a 911 call center spoof, and a few more.
This will be out in due time!

Now… I am also working on my short stories, and yes they are currently available here; however, my friend and I, which if I ever reference my friend 9 times out of 10 its gonna be Ironspike from over at www.bonesnap.com, we are going to post them out to Amazon at some point in the future.  Not that I mind giving my works out for free, because I don’t.  But Amazon makes it pretty easy to score some dough off the project and well.. we are not free yet, and a mans gotta eat, so I’ll take the money.  This means that I will be removing all but the first chapter of each of my stories from here, but I tell you what (and yes each first chapter will state this too), if you like the story… Email me, tell me you liked the first chapter, and I’ll just send you the rest.  Free, no problem.

So… as of late I have been looking for work, dealing with the shitty weather of North Dallas, and educating myself in a few new topics that I find very interesting.  I actually anticipate going back to school pretty soon, I want to learn more about renewable energy and how it can help shape the future. That too unfortunately costs a shit ton of money which I do not have… so for now thats on hold… :(.

I am trying to apply some organizational tactics to my day to day life so hopefully pretty soon I’ll be back on the ball and contributing to my creative works more often, but I cant promise it will happen too soon.   If you have some advice on ways to organize day to day by all means shoot them over to me, I’m not past taking recommendations.

Last topic I want to touch on today before I move on to the next thing my A.D.D. kicks me over to, I would like to introduce The Zeitgeist Movement to the one or two people who read my blog LOL.  And get it a start on here because I believe in the very near future I could become a VERY passionate advocate of the possobilities that the Zeitgeist Movement (www.thezeitgeistmovement.com) and The Venus Project (www.thevenusproject.com) offer as a pheasable substitue for todays corrupt and essentially degrading social standards.

I am not going to dive into the CT today; however, if you consider yourself an intelligent individual or a free thinker then I implore you to watch the Zeitgeist Movement orientation video(Here), the Zeitgeist Movie (Here), or Zeitgeist the Addendum (Here).  I will forewarn now, if you are smart enough, any one of these may challenge your self identity, please do not take the immediate fear reaction and shut it all out.  Be proud of your ability to think for yourself and re-educate yourself.  That is the one thing that is an individuals responsibility, education, so strive for it!  By all means please post your thoughts here as I am looking for as much intellectual conversation on the topic as possible.  I want to see if others can see the light offered by this proverbial tunnel and possibly support the one thing that will actually make the Earth a better place tomorrow than it is today, unlike what our current social standings promote…

Until next time my friends…

~Geoff

I know I know, its been forever since I have been on here.  And for that I am sorry, but I wanted to take a minute and inform you that it will be just a little bit longer.  Today I am tackling the project I set forth for my Company Netstratix.  As of right now the Netstratix face has been redesigned into another, yes you guessed it, Wordpress blog.  I intend to use it to help those in need in the IT world.  Check it out.  http://www.netstratix.com

It’s not done yet of course, but in time you may have a computer or website question and the answer you are looking for may be sitting on my front page, or even in an archive.

So… once all this crap is done I plan to jump back on board here 100%.  I have already written a few more chapters in my books, so those will be here.  Once the Netstratix project is complete I will be doing active blogs and reviews here again.  I will also get the new sections of the site up and running.

This is a very busy, trying, exciting time for me right now so bare with me and I will have the entertainment flowing forth once again.

OHH!  If you are not a regular to Bonesnap already please venture over there and check out my friends stuff.  He has a great blog and a funny YouTube channel you can check out.  The site is http://www.bonesnap.com Very video game oriented, but he’s like me with a little bit of everything.  Hopefully soon we will be working on projects together again.  Until then :-D.

Alright have a good one everybody.  See you soon!

~Geoff

I am going to be putting the new posts on hold for a little bit. It has come to my attention that some of the things I want to do require a bit of redesign on the site, but coming forward there will be some nifty suprises. You have already read about one (hopefully) with the lock down section, but I will have plenty more along with that. Just a little extra teaser, my wife will be joining me in the ranks of postdom so check back every so often to see the new stuff. Shouldn’t take too long (saying that after I quit posting for like 2 months lol).

Till I get back to posting. I hope you enjoy all my oldies.

~Piece

This is just a teaser (no pun intended), but I should have some updates on here about that soon. Gotta write em all, then after that gotta figure out how to lock the section down, and keep all the pervy kids outta my shit…

Till then!

The last campaign we played I just made up sitting around one day, and grabbed the minis and started playing. This led to a night of some enjoyment and use of my minis (since I got a shit tone and I haven’t actually used em in a while) for a night of game playing. I gotta say… I know D&D and shit like that can be dorky, but there is just nothing better than spending that one on one time with your wife, a friend, a son/daughter, I mean… It’s nice to sit back with the ones close to you and just enjoy time together. We (I say we because I love this shit, and my wife caters to my needs) really enjoy sitting down and she gets to roleplay to a degree, and I DM on the fly. I do wish we had a few more players to amp up the team, but I gotta admit.. I dont know if I could DM a large group or not… I prefer playing, but DMing is close enough for me.

I think we will break out the minis again and start doing small skirmishes. The new 4.0 minis are really cool, and I have been wanting to buy another box of boosters.

Anyway.. this one was just a rant, but of course you’re welcome to comment all you like and we can discuss.

~Later.

I thought the story line was a bit whack, but then again who cares… just a game. Turns out Conan was going to raid some temple, and he released some big dog wizard who steals and imbues his armor with some magic powers and gives it out to various creatures. In turn you run around killing these guys and getting your armor back with the help of some Amazon woman. You save naked women along the way and smash up various bad guys from Spartans, to Egyptians.

The thing I liked the most about the game was the actual build of Conan. You had different weapon options, and the environment provided plenty of interactive weaponry. You could use a single weapon, a weapon and shield, a two handed weapon, or two weapons. This was pretty cool, as you had to learn the weaknesses of each type of enemy and try to utilize your skills against them. You got experience for each skill as you used it, and up on master some of them gave you bonuses for a successful completion of that skill. That turned out to be pretty handy when you were low on life, and you could do a back breaker or shield smash to get some life orbs out of a baddie.

All in all pretty cool, and I enjoyed it. I would say if you like hack and slash games this is a good one to pick up cheap at the local game store. Think I payed about $10 for it.

But I just wanted to blurb about it and say that I was actively using my XBox live membership again and playing online. I was probably the one pissing everyone on my team off because its been forever since I played and I suck pretty bad once again.

On to COD5. I really don’t have much to say about COD5. If you haven’t caught on yet I’m talking about Call of Duty 5: World at War. Take COD4, remove the awesome weapons, take away the interesting story line, dumb down the lighting and graphics, add in a few glitches, and BAM you got COD5.

Set during the world war, you don’t have too many cool guns. Just the boring shit they used back then. The game play was chaotic, but once you beat (by reading my relentless glitch post and getting past that…) it you got the actually fun shit. Nazi Zombie mode and the full campaign in split screen co-op. The split screen co-op was the reason I got the game so my wife and I can play together, but you can only start up to where you have left off on single player, and you cant get Nazi Zombie mode beating the game in co-op. Needless to say I took a few days to beat the bitch and we played it for a few more days and quit. Now and again we break out and play a 2 player Nazi Zombie, but back to COD4 for me.

If you like the game style, COD5 wasn’t a complete waste of money, especially since I caught it on sale for like $25 a month or two after it came out (Thank you best buy marketing screw up number 2! The first was a whole season of Avatar for $11). I would recommend this one to the gamers who like the style, but please do not expect it to bring you into the style. If I hadn’t fallen in love with COD4 I would have ditched COD5 at the curb side and moved on with my RPG style games.

I must admit I had to change my mindset once I got there, as I didn’t realize that this place was a “fine dining” type of place. In other words the same shit the other guys offer, they offer with more fancy display and more money on the tab. Down to the details.

The food was pretty good. I ordered a beer, and the “Taste of Louisiana” to start. The beer was of course Dos XX and even they couldn’t screw that up. The ToL included fried shrimp, fried calamari, and fried gator. This was not too bad. The gator seasoning was pretty plain, no flavor to it at all, but all around pretty good. I ordered a salad as well that was a typical greens salad, nothing special.

Our meals included the shrimp scampi for my wife, and I got the chicken breaux. This was not the best part of the experience. My food was very plain and served at room temperature. The meat was pretty good, but chicken is chicken even with a $16 price tag. Not impressed. My wife’s scampi was served on a bed of noodles and looked very tasty, but she almost couldn’t eat it. The scampi was so spicey even I couldn’t stomach very much of it, and I can pack the heat away. She picked at it for a bit, but neither of us ate very much of it.

We took a look at the dessert platter, but nothing looked worth a damn so we called it a night and went to cold stone.

As an overview, the service was funny. We had like 3 waiters all night. No one had any clue what anyone else was doing, but it felt good to just have someone want to help you no matter what. It was a cool atmosphere with nice looking things around the shop. The amount of food we got from start to finish was pretty dismal. I ate all of mine and left hungry. The appetizer was good if you looked past the bland gator. All in all I personally will never be back, but if your looking to treat yourself or your better half it was an experience. Just not one I require.