Inside Joe’s Head

National Prostate Cancer Coalition (NPCC)

Optimus Prime dies of Prostate Cancer!

Google Maps is a new tool to look up directions, locations, and pretty much anything anyone else does. This is still ind Beta and probably isn’t working well yet, but I have tried it and it’s pretty cool. GO GOOGLE!!!

Bro. and Mrs. Wall, they take the prize of funniest picture at the 2005 Spring Banquet

Picture of me and Betty

Disturbing Auctions

Got my computer back, it’s fixed now and I’m sitting in Eric’s office. It didn’t surprise me too much that Compaq failed to repair my DVD drive, mouse, and screen, but I didn’t really expect them to. Compaq is kind of cheap. I got this new camera too, you can check out all the cool photo’s that I have been taking with it. I’ve put them on my flickr account, so check’em out!

On another note, Betty came over the other day and we had a good time together. She was talking about how she wasn’t for sure if she was going to be able to get to mid-terms (You need to have %40 of your schoolbill payed off in order to take them). She called me on my cell phone today after about 4 hours of soul winning to tell me that she wanted to talk to me later today. This is always bad. She told me that she is leaving for home, and for good. She has already made up her mind and she is going to have a meeting with Dr. Goetsch on Monday. It hasn’t really hit me yet but I can start to feel hurt seeping into me. I can tell that this is just the beginning and that it’s going to get worse. I really like her, and she is totally someone that I can marry. Bro. Schimdt, my youth pastor, always told us that we should marry, “Not somone you can live with, but someone you can’t live without.” Can I live without Betty? I guess we’ll find out. That’s the latest thing.

Well…My laptop broke. Not too badly, I was typing in History of Civilizations and when I moved my fingers from the letter “V” to the letter “R” with my index finger, I nicked my “G” kicked and literally flung it across the room. So I sent it in to get fixed along with the pixels missing on my screen, unresponsive mouse, and vibrating DVD drive. I got scared a couple of days ago because Compaq said that Fedex had my laptop and that they never delivered it, and Fedex said that they never picked up my laptop from my house. This was disturbing considering that I saw the driver take it. I could probably blog forever about how I hate calling customer service outfits that outsource there clientelle’s calls. Most Frustrating. However, they did find it and when I recieve my laptop either Friday, or Monday. I will post about all the great stuff that happened. Well, talk to you all later.

Pacman High Score. My pride and joy, 119540 points! If you are ever in Lancaster, CA you can go to Vince’s Pasta and Pizza on Ave. K and Challenger and physically see this spectacle that represents the gaming might of Joe Philipson. Yes, you too will stand in awe at this symbolic pillar of my awesomeness. Tremble at my ability and proficiency!

Decline: ” is this internet show about these guys whose lives revolve around video games. It’s actually pretty funny, they have English accents and everything. This is the first out of 3, I’ll post the others after this one. If you like it watch the rest.

Contrapossibly the greatest video game series ever created. I actually started a petition a while ago to get the game remade and brought back. Today’s video games are too realistic. Whatever happened to the good old days of video gaming? Contra is what it’s all about. You got this Commando, probably on some type of experimental government drugs, running with his shirt off, bandana on wrapped around his head and guns blazing on alien invaders. It’s got everything a video game needs, plus UNLIMITED AMMO! Walk around and conserve ammo? NO! I don’t even know why they have a ‘fire’ button I just hold the fire key down. That’s what it’s all about. You even get invinsibility the first like 10 seconds of each level! The new Metal Gear Solid 3 game is almost ridiculous. Your character ‘Snake’ sneaks around and shoots things like any other game. However the goal of this game is to make it as life-like as possible. There are no freemen, retries, or continues. When you die you’re dead, that’s it. If you get injured your character doesn’t collect medical boxes, he needs time to heal [in game and when the game is turned off]. Not only does your character need time to heal he should make time to hunt because your character will lose energy if he isn’t well fed. This is cool but a little complicated and frustrating in a way. I like the old school games. Give me Pacman, [which by the way my high score is 102,900 points on 1 quarter], Contra, or Tetris and I’m a happy man.