There have been a few times in my life where I have been mistaken as an intelligent individual. Maybe someone sees me reading something that isn’t Hop on Pop (a rare occurrence – I read a lot of Hop on Pop), or maybe I accidently use a large word I heard in a video game.

These two very true stories are to dispel any myths about my intelligence.

Story One: The Toothpaste Incident

Brushing my teeth is something I do on occasion, and this was one of those occasions. While applying the toothpaste to the bristles of the brush, I was inadvertently pressing down a group of bristles with the tube. Moving the tube of toothpaste off of the bristles created a slingshot out of the toothbrush bristles, launching a small glob of toothpaste right in my eye.

Toothpaste in the eye is a painful experience.

Story Two: The Mouthwash Incident

Often after brushing my teeth, I’ll use mouthwash to really rinse the gunk out of my mouth. Since no one else shares my bottle of off-brand mouthwash I decided what the hell, I’ll go ahead and take a glug straight from the bottle. I sealed my lips over the opening, tipped my head back and took a mouthful. Well, my lip seal was too tight, creating a pressurized bottle of mouthwash. Removing my lips released the pressure, and with it a healthy splash mouthwash was projectiled straight up my nostrils. For a second I was worried. This is going to burn, I thought. After waiting a second, green teeth cleaning liquid dripping off my face, I breathed a sigh of relief for the lack of pain I was feeling.

I use a washcloth to clean off my face, when out of nowhere the stinging starts. My nostrils are on fire. At this point I consider suicide, but decide against it because I feel hunger coming on and killing myself on an empty stomach is an unattractive proposition.

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In other news, two new articles I’ve written are up. My PS3 review for Fairytale Fights and a new edition of Comics That Don’t Suck. If you love me, you’ll read them!

Last night while avoiding doing anything that might resemble being productive I stumbled on Eversion - a free to download old school style platformer. It came out at the end of last year, but it’s new to me. The looks are cutesy, but we start with a quote from H.P. Lovecraft and a warning that reads “NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE WITH A NERVOUS DISPOSITION.” This is, of course, a joke, but it ends up being a little closer to the truth than I originally thought. Looking at the readme file reveals the story, which is as follows. (No joke.)

princess is kidnapped

you must save princess

Well they get points for being concise, at least.

The rest is over on my n-philes blog, which you should go look at because you love me.

The n-philes staff (that includes me) did a write up on what we thought was the best of E3. It’s actually a pretty fun read, I think, so you should stop being dumb and read it.

A while back I started a cooking blog called “/cooking”, cleverly named after the url of http://adamglasgow.com/cooking.  The very perceptive of you might have even noticed a link to it on the right hand side of this page. I never mentioned it here before because frankly I had done almost nothing with it, but today I posted a pretty awesome tasting recipe for spinach and mushroom manicotti and a guest recipe by Steve for fried tofu and stir fry that looks tasty as well. If this keeps up, that blog might actually be worth looking at sometimes. If you’re interested in writing a guest recipe for the site, let me know either by contacting me here, commenting, or getting a hold of me in some other way. I’m sure we can work something out.

The very perceptive of you might also have noticed the new flickr sidebar over there on the bottom right. This will show off the newest uploads to my flickr page, which will usually be my picture of the day, as discussed a few posts down.

My Klonoa Wii review, Pangya PSP impressions and Tales of Monkey Island impressions, all over at n-philes. It’s an exciting life that I lead.

I wrote some stuff up about the three big companies’ showings at E3 over at n-philes, check it out if you feel like torturing yourself.

I’m sure pretty much all of you already know this, but I’m headed out to LA tomorrow morning to cover E3 for n-philes. If you’re bored/nerdy enough, you can read all my EXPERT REPORTING from there. To tide you over, you can check out my “picture a day” thing me and some friends starting doing. See you all next week!

EDIT: I previously had the photo-a-day photostream posted here, but it started to get out of control, so here’s a link to the set instead. I also added my latest photo-a-days to the right hand side of the page.

This is straight up copy/pasted from my blog over at N-Philes. 

Braid is not a new game. It was released on the 360 almost a year ago. But it just came out on the PC, which means it’s new to me.

For monetary reasons I’ve chosen to sit most of this generation out. I have a Wii and a PC, but I haven’t been able to force myself to spend the money on a 360 or PS3. Plus, my Wii hasn’t really gotten much play. For the most part I haven’t really felt like I’ve missed much, save for a few shining stars like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Little Big Planet, which I’ve had to weasel my way into friends houses to play.

Quite a few games this generation have begun their lives on consoles I didn’t have and drug their feet onto the PC. Which makes me happy not because I’m a PC snob, but because I actually own a PC. Well, Braid finally made its way onto Steam. My review can be summarized in three words.

Buy. This. Game.

It’s beautiful, especially if you’re a sucker for sprites like I am. The music is fantastic, the level design is great and the time shift puzzles are a blast to figure out. I’m not done playing it yet, but I feel pretty confident saying that it’s one of the best games in the last few years.

Buy it on the 360 or buy it on the PC. It’s even out on Mac, I think. Just do yourself a favor and buy the damn game.

My review for Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People finally went up over at N-Philes, as well as a little blog entry on some bullet hell style shooters for the PC.

If you’re unfamiliar with the term “bullet hell,” this video sums it up pretty well I think.

Thanks in part to my insomnia and the holiday break I’ve been enjoying, my sleep schedule is all sorts of messed up. This is a big problem, as this week I’ve been back to work and soon I’ll be in classes again. No more staying up until five am and sleeping until noon or later, unfortunately. But how am I going going to get back into something that even kind of resembles a semi-regular sleep pattern? (It’s never completely regular, thanks to the aforementioned insomnia.)

I think I have a solution. Stay up all night tonight and work all day. If I can somehow make it to tomorrow night without falling asleep I should be able to go to bed at a reasonable hour and BAM. Sleep schedule normalized. There are no flaws with this plan. It is perfect. 

Okay so there are plenty of problems with this idea but it’s almost six am already and I’m not in bed so I’m doing it anyways.

UPDATE: It is now 7:14am and I’ve started playing Full Throttle to pass time until I have to go to work. Sweet Jesus this game is incredible. Also I did not remember/did not know that Mark Hammil did voice acting in this game. 

The Soyuz TMA-13 capsule carrying American computer game millionaire Richard Garriott soared into a clear sky atop a Russian rocket as the latest paying space traveler’s family watched from a viewing platform. Also aboard were U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov.

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