Otherworldly wonder

I’m completely fascinated with the night sky. On a clear night I can’t help but stop and look up at the stars, often for long periods. I just lose myself in wonderment.

 

I’m not sure I find it so alluring, but I genuinely could just stare away at the stars for hours without realising.

I often wonder if humanity are alone in the universe, or is there life out there somewhere?

 

I’m not a “true believer” or anything, but I do feel there has to be some form of life elsewhere, surely. I mean, the universe is no small place, for Earth to be unique in its sustaining life would be… well I don’t how to describe it but you know what I’m getting at.

 

I can’t help but feel that the scientists are bit narrow minded when it comes to astrobiology, always looking for signs of life as we know it. I always wonder why life elsewhere seems to have to conform to the way it works on earth. Who’s to say there isn’t some alternate form elsewhere, that happened under different conditions. Looking at bacteria, it’s quite possible, right?

Days forever gone

I've touched on this before, but I think I need to revisit the past once more.

I'm not going to lie, I really miss being a kid. Everything was just so much simpler back in the day. I had nary a thought of the wider world, and everything was well. (Or at least so I thought).

They say youth is wasted on the young, but from I stand, those years may not seem like much at the time, but when you get older, the memories become cherished.
Nothing quite compares to the naivety of a child, I feel. Their innocence is enviable.

I often contemplated keeping a diary in my younger years, but I never got around to a proper effort. I regret this now of course, as all I have are scattered memories.

I'm only 20 and already world weary....what is the world coming to?

The end of TRF?

TheRexFactor.

The name most of you reading this will likely know me by. I've used it, or some derivation of it, for most usernames I've made over the past year.

However, over that same period I've come to detest it. Go me, creating a name that I now find irksome. Why oh why did I have to use it for so much?

I'm not sure why I've come to dislike it so much, but I really do dislike it now. I may need to change things...

Where has all the time gone?

This is my first post post in a while, no?

One has to love the hectic life that occurs in families in the process of a divorce. My mom somehow managed to rope me into living with her (as opposed to with grandmother, with whom I had been staying with for the two months prior). Hence I've been lacking 'net access due to the location of the house.

I was going to go on about how deluded my father is...(I haven't seen him in those same two months), but I can't be bothered anymore really. Mellowing is fun.

Anyway, I really can't keep track of the time anymore. I only have Uni on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays atm, and once I'm done on Thursday, the rest of the days until Tuesday following just melt away.

I have a PS3 again at least. Sony failed me completely so we just got a new one. It all worked out in the end.

That said, things look set to get a lot tougher in future, but I'll go into detail next time.

Go away, I want to be alone.

Today's post is dedicated to my cousin. Who happens to annoy me more than I can describe.

I genuinely prefer to be left alone, I like my own company. However, my dear cousin, who's older than I am, refuses to let that happen.

He just doesn't seem to get me at all. And I can't see how anyone can't see that I like being left alone :G
I wouldn't mind, but whenever he's around, he literally follows my steps, and he's near always present.

I probably sound like a horrible person right now, but I truly can't stomach it. I'm not a fan of conversation really; I find it difficult to talk to people unless the subject matter is something of interest to me. However, he constantly talks to me, and always asks the same thing:
"Do you think you'll ever travel" or some variation of that. And I always give the same reply:
"Probably not". And yet I still get asked the same thing almost every week.

Another thing that grates me is he has no manners. I mean, he's so rude it actually disgusts me at times.
Also, we live in Cork. He lived in the capital, Dublin for a few years though. Now in almost every conversation we have, he always brings up Dublin > Cork. And believe me when I say that's an insult to a Cork man like myself. I would get over this, but he brings it up at every opportunity, and quite frankly I'm sick of it

And today he managed to really tick me off. I was literally about to get on the bus to go home after Uni, when I get a phone call from himself asking me to wait on in town so we could browsing the shops (which is something I don't really do). So I agreed just to keep him happy. So I had to wait around in the cold for a while.

Then when he finally arrives, I meet some of my friends whom I'd not met in ages. Now, I don't talk much generally, but with himself around I hardly get a word in, as he seems to be incapable of hearing me speaking and always speaks over me. So anyway, we eventually arranged to go to the cinema. I was pretty happy about that, except you know who was coming too ;-;
That feel through in the end though (about ten minutes ago in fact, hence my irritation).

I could go on, but I won't subject you to my angry rantings any further.

The return of “Stop n’ Swop”

Ah, the infamous Stop n’ Swop. Any fan of Banjo’s games on the N64 should know of it.

 

If for some reason, you don’t know what Stop n’ Swop is….then shame on you.

Basically it was a theoretical system by which certain items (Six coloured eggs and a giant Ice Key) collected in the game Banjo-Kazooie could be used to unlock secrets in its sequel, Banjo-Tooie.

However, due to changes made to the N64 during it’s lifetime, this “hot swapping” became an impossibility, so eventually the idea was scrapped :(

 

However, as Banjo fans should be aware, early last December, Banjo-Kazooie was relaunched as a ported game on XBLA. This new BK had Stop n’ Swop functionality with the new 360 game, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. However, this was not the true Stop n’ Swop as originally planned by Rare. More of a cop out in fact.

 

However, gamers who did this new Stop n’ Swop, quickly noticed that the items collected it BK stayed in the game, even after “swopping” to Nuts & Bolts…

And so began the speculation that Banjo-Tooie’s port for XBLA may have S n’ S functionality restored, as it was originally intended.

 

And as of today, it’s been confirmed that this is indeed the case.

Naturally enough that is an exciting prospect.

 

I take this with a pinch of salt however, as Rare wording could mean it’s not the S n’ S. Hopefully it is though.

The sound of silence.

If you've been following my writings, then you shall notice it's been a day or day since I last posted anything.

Reason for this is I've gotten myself addicted to Fable II. With my PS3 still....not working....I needed something to fill the void.

And Fable has done just that.

And so I've locked myself away from other actual people.
Go me!