Last Updated on March 16, 2010 by James Dziezynski
As my bio says on the right over there –> I’m a connoisseur of the adventurous and the nerdish, which brings us to today’s post. In the spirit of adventure, Paul L. is on his way out here to join me for an awesome Colorado snowboard vacation to the south west. Our hit list starts locally with Eldora, A-Basin and Vail then goes out to Snowmass, Wolf Creek, Telluride and ending in Steamboat Springs! Paul should bring his snowboarding passport because he’ll have hit up some of the best resorts in Colorado in one swing! I’m excited too because I’ve never been to Wolf Creek or Telluride in the winter. We may even sneak in a day of ice climbing in Ouray if the conditions are decent and not too warm. Last year we got the bulk of our snow late, all the way into May so I’m hoping we get the start of all that soon. It’s tough to be in a snowboarding frame of mind when it’s 68 degrees out but we’ll get there.
I also have a trip to Belize on the table that I might take in early April, we’ll have to see how it goes. More on that later.
Blaster Master stage 5 boss
And in the nerd world, I’m diving back into one of my favorite NES games of all-time, Blaster Master. I realized with great shame that this is one of the very few games that has an asterisk next to my “NES Completion Records” — for on certain bosses, I used the famous “pause grenade” trick. It’s an incredible game though, smooth play control, huge levels and a good challenge. It’s a shame that it lacks a password or save feature because getting through it in one sitting requires a pretty healthy time commitment. Add to that, without any tricks or cheats, the level 5 and 6 bosses are amongst the hardest in NES lore. Old crabby here on the right was one of the expert challenges at MagFest earlier this year– to defeat him with a no-powered gun is way difficult. But the whole game is fantastic, so I’m “training” on my FCE emulator for the official run on the NES sometime soon.
And one last note: my SEO conference in California was super cool, which I think would suffice as further nerdiness. I learned more about link building (ahem, to great trips like Natural Habitat Adventures Polar Bear Tours and Monarch Butterfly Migration. Subtle, eh?) and the new way search is going to be conducted. With that in mind, I comissioned John to help design my MountainousWords site fo’ real (the blog I’m ok with designing myself, as it shouldn’t look too pretty!) So who knows, maybe I’ll actually get it running soon.
Depend on how long it takes me to defeat the crab boss.
And yes, I’ll be 34 years old in a month.
