From the makers of the City Commander and Superion Appendage Upgrade Kit, these two (yes, t-w-o) Crossfire robots replace 2 units on your existing Bruticus Maximus figure and adds not only sheer awesomeness to the already-awesome combiner, but also more guns and infinitely-better-looking appendages!

Crossfire XF-02A Explorer is a sort-of rocket trailer vehicle transforms into a new right arm for Bruticus, while Crossfire XF-02B Munitioner turns into a new right leg and has most of the guns.  Each figure $48.99 — amounting to almost a hundred dollars for a complete upgrade.  If these protos are any indication though, it’s gonna be fantastic:

So if you already have the Energon or the Universe Bruticus Maximus, and your fanmode combination still doesn’t look cool enough for you (and you have an extra $100) — preorder the Fansproject Upgrade Kit NOW!

Here’s a recent copy of my resumé:

• If you’re a potential employer, and you’d like to give me a high-paying job, you could obtain a PDF version of this file by sending me an email, or leaving a comment below.
• If you’re a true friend-of-friends, sweet sugar of hope or umami of life, you could do me a solid by RT’ing this tweet. 

Thanks!

Also, what’s with all the Bumblebee lovin’?

[01252010 Update!  Here's the alt-mode version --- also, "War OF Cybertron"? LOLOLOL]

Transformers: War for Cybertron features two distinct storylines: the AUTOBOT campaign tells a story of heroism to save their home planet against overwhelming odds, and the DECEPTICON campaign tells a story of an unquenchable thirst for power to control the universe.  For the first time in a TRANSFORMERS title, fans will be able to play the game with their friends through team-based online co-op, or go head to head in a variety of intense, online multiplayer game modes.  The game features a sci-fi art style that introduces to fans the entire living, metallic world of CYBERTRON, as well as all-new visualizations of the iconic TRANSFORMERS characters in their original Cybertronian forms.

So.  More than a full two weeks after New Year’s and still no New Year’s post?  Crapinahat.

Back in 2008, I bought my Sony Ericsson K850i.  I’ve always been an SE fanboy, and, since it was the same week that the C902 got here, the price of the K850i dropped slightly.  It was the first 5 MP SE phone, so it still had kinks to work out.

From the K-series phone, people were expecting a step up in camera performance from the vivid photos of the K800.

What we got, instead, was a fantastic daytime/outdoors camera phone.  In low light situations, the superstrong Xenon flash would wash out the colors of the subject, especially up close.  Colors were pretty bland, which was temporarily remedied by the inclusion of the PhotoDJ app.  But even then, you’d have to fix up the colors in post once you’ve transferred your photos.

Looking for a screen adjustment hax, I discovered Witchking’s Cyber-shot XPerience camera driver.  It replaces SE’s camera driver with one that’s more robust, flexible and adjustable.  One that utilizes the phone’s 5 MP sensor and pushes it.

There are just situations when you don’t have a camera and you need to take a quick photo of something, and since the phone’s always in my pocket — having something else running the hardware to make it better is just.fucking.fantastic.

Here’s a list of added features:  (from the se-nse forums post by Witchking)

*Amazingly vivid colours and quality
*ISO Control
for both flash and non-flash shots
*Advanced Auto-ISO Flash mode
*Shutter-speed control
for both Flash and non-flash shots
*Manual Focus
*Manual Contrast
*Manual Saturation
*Manual Sharpness
*Auto-exposure lock on/off
*Advanced Hue/Tint selection
*Manual Colour balance: Cyan, Red, Yellow, Purple
*Forced flash on/off
*Colour Correction On/off

Shutter-speed control?!  Manual Focus?!  On a cameraphone?!

I’m still getting the hang of it, but here’s a coupla sample shots:

Using the phone’s camera is an entirely different experience already — and I haven’t even gotten to some of the features yet!

So if you have a Sony Ericsson K850i and you’re pretty much disappointed with the camera, (and if you’re feeling BRAVE, because installing this might brick your phone!) give Cyber-shot XPerience a try!

I am not my job.  (If you notice, I don’t write much about my livelihood.)  I am not my reviews.  I am not about the events I get to go to, the interesting people that I meet, or the things that I eventually end up doing.

I am how I act like at my job.  I am how I feel about reviews.  I am how I approach events, the first impression I leave on people (for worse or for absolute better, there’s only one me) and how I do the things I end up doing.

That realization makes me think — am I a character I write about, or am I the digitized memories of the person writing this?  (at.this.exact.moment?)

Sometimes, I even wonder — do I write for you, or do I write for me?

2009 was a helluva year — many thanks to the friends, family and other people who made it strange. (And kept it that way.)

Also, if this is a week late, consider that *I am* perenially late, so…

Here’s a coupla random pics from 2009 — remix’d in Poladroid! Check it!

Here are a coupla toy pictures instead:

TFU Predacon Bruticus

So.  Younger cousin Duncan (thanks, yow!) gave me this as a Christmas present.  Yep, his colors are really like that — surprisingly though, I’ve grown to like him — now I want a Beast Wars Optimus.  The munky one. 

I enjoyed him for his playability — even more so than the next two toys:

TFU Bruticus Maximus

Here’s my favorite gestalt (for now) — only because his core robot, Onslaught is pretty solid.  Looking forward to the upgrade kit!

TFU Superion

NOTE: Always listen to friends.  Was pretty disappointed at this guy when I got him open.    His combined form really feels … less solid than Bruticus Maximus.  Plus, one of his “laser fingers” has a crack   Also — he sells out more!  )

All together now: