Acadia Preview
Posted by Stretch | Filed under Personal, Photography
This week has been pretty busy, so I haven’t had much time to work on my Acadia photos, but I’ve gotten a few more ready for viewing. Enjoy!
Diablo III
Posted by Stretch | Filed under Games
Blizzard has recently announced Diablo III. Its the newest and greatest of the Diablo series. A release date has yet to be announced, but gameplay videos look pretty good already. I do have to say, it looks like they took many parts from WoW. Either way, this is going to be a highly anticipated game, we’ve been waiting since Diablo II was released in 2000.
I’m really hoping that this will run on my iMac, and that I’ll be able to play it soon.
Canceling Xbox Live?
Posted by Stretch | Filed under Personal, Rants, XBox360
Thinking about canceling your Xbox live account? Good luck, and have fun. You can search all over the Live tab on your 360 and you won’t find a single option to cancel, or downgrade your account back to silver.
Well, so how do you do it? Well, you have to scour the Xbox 360 website, in hopes to find someway to cancel it.
Eventually, you should find this.
To cancel your Xbox Live® membership, please call (800) 4MY-XBOX (469-9269).
Oh, thanks. Now I get to spend time on the phone, trying to get someone in India to understand that I want to cancel my live account. I spent 10 minutes on the phone. 6 minutes on hold. 2 minutes talking to a person with a heavy accent, and the last 2 minutes trying to get the voice controlled operator to understand that I wanted to get to the department to cancel my account.
Seriously, it should not be that involved to cancel my account. I should be able to do it in under a few minutes, without having to do a Google search on how to do it. I can sign up and activate the account in a matter of seconds, but no easy way to cancel? And to top it off, they kept trying to get me to keep the account, and bill my credit card. They wanted me to give the account to a family member, or friend so they could keep it active.
Desktop Release: The Eleventh
Posted by Stretch | Filed under Desktop Releases, Downloads
This is one from a local car show. Its a custom 1947 Ford Cab Over with I’m guessing a early ’40s Ford coupe.
Exif: ƒ9 • 28mm • 1/80th • ISO100
Acadia, The Return
Posted by Stretch | Filed under Personal, Photography
I spent the last week in Acadia National Park. It was a blast. I climbed several of the parks mountains, and took a great many photos. When you first get on the island, there isn’t that much to see. In fact when I first got there, I couldn’t believe I had just driven 9 hours to get there, when I have the same thing in my backyard, just 2 hours away. But then you come to the coast, and see the vast blue expanse in front of you. Or you reach the summit of one of the mountains and look out and see the harbor and beyond that a few smaller islands and the ocean.
After spending a few days in the park, I’m tired. Climbing up and down the mountains really takes a toll on your knees and legs, but I’ll be ready for more in a day or too. I climbed 3 of the 4 tallest peaks in the park, and climbed on of the hardest trails. A few of the harder, cliff-side trails were closed due to the peregrine falcon breeding season, but the trail up Beehive was still open. Its a very exposed climb, right up the side of the mountain. The trail has iron rungs and ladders bolted to the rock to help you up in some places.
Enough with me talking, I know you have been waiting for some photos, so here you go:
