As Good A Time As Any

After many faithful years with Blogger (and the same template) I have finally worked up the time and courage to move out on my own. And just as Blogger was starting to get all advanced too! But I will now become yet another slave to the WordPress as many others before me also have. Blogger's been good to me but I think I'm finally ready to get all advanced on my own.

There's still some things I want to change template and plugin wise but it's pretty close to a final product so I decided to fork over the cash to GoDaddy and get my own domain and hosting. I can now be found at www.hearmeout.us/blog and I think I'm gonna like it here. So update your links (and RSS feeds [http://www.hearmeout.us/blog/feed])...first person to do it...get's a dollar!

Welcome to a whole new era of fancy blogging and flashier substance at Hear Me Out..."The future in 'intertaining'™ 'webtainment'™"

Tales of Trails: A JPEG Story

The Rumors Are True

traffic jammy jam jam
Originally uploaded by DPimpact.

Haven't blogged in a little while and I forgot to tell you all that I am in Arkansas with my brother. We drove on Sunday in about 12.5 hours straight through with only a few stops for gas and one for food. Here's the stats:

Average Travel Speed = 61.5MPH
Average Gas Mileage = 21.5MPG
Total Gasoline Used = 32.2 Gallons

We made good time but had to drive into some pretty strong headwind heading West. Hopefully we'll have the same tailwind on the way back and get some better gas mileage. The picture above is the traffic we got stuck in right outside Indianapolis when a couple accidents shut I-70 to one lane.

I'll update you on how much fun we're having here...

Christian Hardcore

A genre near and dear to my heart is quickly becoming more mainstream than any other Christian genre. I think it's partly due to the lack of good hardcore in the big record labels, something they seem to be shying away from more and more. The latest place I noticed some good Christian hardcore was on a video podcast I happened upon called notmtv (or see notmtv.tv) at Revision3.

The show mentioned several bands that you may have heard of including a favorite of mine, Norma Jean. The focus of the show was on a young band called Bless the Fall. Pretty good stuff from what I've heard...download the podcast and check it out...pretty interesting.

Cedarmania: The Night From Hell

Many of you may remember last year when I had to stay up all night at an event called Cedarmania. You may also remember that I managed to drink 16 Mountain Dews that night...let me just say...bad idea. I knew before I started it wasn't going to be good but some things just have to be done. Anyway...that event is back and I still have to stay up all night.

Basically I want to make it though on just light sugar in Gatorade, cookies, and stolen hot cocoa. Of course that probably won't be enough so I will also use a little Dew and plenty of Webtainment™. This year's Webtainment™ will come in the form of another TWO episodes of Nathan's Overdramatic Day. Some of you liked them...some of you loved them...we;ll see how you like this one. The first is available now...the second hopefully later tonight (tomorrow morning)...stay tuned!

Nathan's Overdramatic February 16th, 2007: Part One
Download mp3 (2.34 MB)
"Mo-Def" WAV format (17.2 MB)

UPDATE 2/19: In a wild turn of events there will be no part two as previously planned. Very sorry to disappoint but you may still enjoy the first and only part free of charge. I also remixed the original as there were a few errors that slipped by my careful ear. So if you listened to it before Sunday morning you should give it another listen...that is all.

You can see my first Overdramatic Day here...

Is -6 the temperature or today on a scale of 1-10?

It's -6°F and sunny here in the Ohio city of Cedarville where many streets are still indistinguishable from the curbs and Chapel isn't canceled no matter what. Sometimes I wonder if chapel is our god here...

Yesterday, I was informed, should have been another snow day with classes entirely canceled. Instead they sent out a few very cryptic emails. The first said that chapel would not be canceled regardless of the school being closed. The second stating that if you thought the weather was too bad to make it in, you didn't have to come to school but classes would be in session. The reason: We are being reevaluated for accreditation this year and we only normally get two "calamity days." We already used one, and apparently the second was used to give us Good Friday off.

That's life I guess. Always getting screwed on the account of some technicality...

Medal of Honor

Neil Greathouse, whom I greatly respect as both a human being and a gamer has recently commented on our Medal of Honor Allied Assult "Slamfest™" of which I must also comment on.

It was truly fun playing with such a quality group of guys. A lot of good competition, although I did expect more out of my brother. Neil is far too humble though because he did win like 90% of the rounds in his usual merciless fashion.

I also must say that I hate people who use rockets. You shoot them like 100 times in the eye, then they blow themselves up leaving you without a kill! Unacceptable...especially when they manage to also blow you up!

Most of all I wish I could be in the same room as the Columbus guys because I know there's some amazing smack talk going on over there...and I just wish I could contribute more... We will meet again next Wednesday!