so i bought an xbox 360

i’ve been holding out from buying a new console since i was perfectly content with my ps2. (and by content i mean i had a way to play guitar hero). even when i got a little antsy, i could go buy a game like GTA: san andreas, since i hadn’t played that yet either. but after i really couldn’t do any more with GH2, (like i’m gonna be able to beat jordan…) and then my PC died so my hopes of getting back into FPS gaming stalled, i decided to bite the bullet and buy a new console.

what i really wanted was a Wii, but since they are still impossible to find (and all i really wanted was wii sports which would get old after awhile) i decided on the 360. the ps3 wasn’t even on the list since it costs too much just isn’t worth it. now i am worried about getting the “red ring of death” but since i won’t have to pay to get it fixed, and since i’m just buying it now, the newer hardware is out which hopefully helps out a bit. i made sure to get the HDMI version also.

so now i have this new toy, and all the time in the world to play with it. there’s the obvious omg buy halo 3 but other than when we used to have those halo parties on pecan tree, i didn’t really play that game. and now that i’d have to rely on playing online to get some multiplayer action, it just wouldn’t be the same. :[ so i decided to buy skate. and holy crap, this game is awesome. part of it is just getting used to playing games in HD, since i’ve never done it before. but after i got used to the awesome graphics, i realized that this game is way better than the Tony Hawk games from PS1/PS2. and if you know me, you know how much i played those games.

one of the cool things about this game is how you can upload video to their site directly from the game. check out me getting hit by a car.

do any of ya’ll back home have a 360? add me as a friend, my name is ‘afexTW’.

looking for top-down map of LSU

so here is some background. every 3 months, yahoo has a “hack day” where instead of working you spend 24 hours on a hack. a hack can be a new product idea, a new feature for an existing product, whatever. afterwards you showcase your hack (you have 90 seconds) and a panel votes on the best. well one of the hacks from last hack day just went live in yahoo maps, but i need some help finding something. (i didn’t make this, b/c if i did, i would be pimping it 10x harder :P)

http://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer

mapmixer lets you take a 3rd party map (such as… a map of the LSU campus? :]) and overlay it on top of the global map. but in order to do this, the map needs to be a 2D, top-down view otherwise it doesn’t make much sense. all the campus maps of LSU i can find either have an angled view, or are too ugly to use. ideally it would have all the buildings labeled, since that is kinda the point. this is the best i could find, but the building names are un-readable :[

if you find one, you can post here or if you want, just post it yourself to mapmixer.

here’s an example: (don’t forget to play with the opacity)

if you can’t see anything, stop reading this from facebook and come to my site! :P