CCENT

I have recently started studying for Cisco's CCENT certificate - "Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician". I mainly began doing this so that I could have an "advantage" when looking for entry level IT jobs. And if I want higher than entry level positions I'll try to go for Cisco's higher level certificate - CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate).

I used to think I was pretty good at this kind of stuff. But after having seen a few video lectures on this stuff, I realized just how poor my knowledge on this stuff is :)

Which is one reason why I really love studying for this stuff. Another reason is that this subject simply really interests me. I really want to know more about this subject. And I want to be able to do this for a living, or even as something I can brag about being able to do :P

Not to mention how many different kinds of jobs one's able to find with these kinds of certificates. And of course, the higher certificate 'levels' one has, the more different kinds - and higher payed - jobs one can find.

A minor downside to taking this certificate is that I need a job to be able to take because I need to travel to Stockholm - which costs a bit of money - and pay about $150 to take the exam. There's of course no certainty that I'll pass it on my first try either.

In the future I would really like to be able to take their highest certificate - the CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) - which has been said to be the equivalent of getting a Ph.D and is generally reported as the highest salaried certification in IT.

No Lawless in Luleå

Live in Luleå and want to see Lawless in the theaters? Haha, f*ck you!

A friend of mine and I were gonna go see Lawless in the theater on the premier date. But to our devastating horror we found out that Lawless - for some so far unknown reason - isn't being shown in our city. Granted, we do live in quite a small city (Luleå) in Sweden. But still, it's not like Lawless is some minor independent film with no-name people attached to it. The director, John Hillcoat, has previously made The Road, and it contains such actors as Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Shia LaBeouf and Gary Oldman.

Not to mention that the big blockbusters of the summer either has stopped showing in the theaters or are in their last days. So a movie like Lawless should be quite a big attraction at this time of the year. Now, I'm glad that a movie like the French "Intouchables" gets shown, but is there really more of a need to show a romantic comedy such as "Hope Springs" or the latest Resident Evil flick - "Resident Evil: Retribution"?

I'm assuming that some people would argue that Hope Springs have just as much of an audience as Lawless has. But to them I ask: 'But does it have an equal amount of viewers who will see it in the theaters?'. Because the kind of people I know that would love to see a movie like Hope Springs barely goes to the theaters at all. And if they go, they go to see the more "major" films, like the upcoming James Bond movie - "Skyfall".

Perhaps this is simply the ramblings of an upset spoiled nerd who hae already seen some of his most anticipated movies of the year this summer (The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises & The Amazing Spider-Man), and still wants more. Or perhaps this is a justified outcry of a faithful costumer of cinema who has seen this abominous mistake for what it is and brings truth to the people!

...ok, it's the first one.

Movie review: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

A friend of mine and I felt in the mood to watch a really silly comedy, and since neither of us had seen Anchorman in at least 5 years, we decided to rewatch it. And it was most definitely worth it :)

I haven't laughed this hard in several weeks. I nearly keeled over laughing in the "fight scene" and the scene following that. Not only that, it's also one of the few times when I've seen that particular friend of mine laugh just as hard. So we certainly enjoyed the movie.

One thing I just have to say is that it was actually sillier than I remembered. And I remembered it to be pretty damn silly. So effectively - it was ultra-silly! So much of the entire movie seems to be adlibbed. There are entire scenes where I wouldn't be surprised if it was completely made up of us Will Ferrell adlibbing the entire thing. One example that comes into mind is when Ferrell is having a conversation with his dog, Baxter, quite early on in the film.

While this isn't a "good film" by my standards, it is exactly what it advertises that it is, and it works extremely well. And therefor, I feel no quarrel with giving Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy an;

8/9

And I willl now anxiously await Anchorman 2.

Webcomics

In the previous post I said I'm obsessed with memcenter.com. So it should come to no surprise that I love a kind of "cartoon-y" type of humor. Which brings me to something else I love to watch and laugh to;

Webcomics!

I've loved comics just about my entire life. I've read them from as far back as to when I first learned to read, and I spent at least an hour yesterday reading comics. Now, when I say comics I don't mean comic books like Batman, Spider-Man, Watchmen etc, but titles such as Calvin & Hobbes, Garfield, Nemi (Swedish comic), and Zits.

As for webcomics, the kind of stuff I mostly read are the more cynical and twisted, but still very silly and humorous. My biggest favorite is easily Cyanide & Happiness. Here's an example:

There are threee others I also love to read.

AmazingSuperPowers:

bug comic:

Penny Arcade:

Then there are some that I find to be pretty damn funny, but are either just not quite as good as the first four, or there's jst not enough of them for me to place them on that same pedestal. Some of those included are The Loading Artist, Whomp comic, and Awkward Zombie.

Obsession of the moment

I almost always have some sort of obsession - a certain movie, song, artist, website, excersice form or whatever. Sometimes I have several obsessions at a single time. This mostly happen when I have a certain obsession that have kept with me for a longer period of time. And this kind is currently my only obsession.
For a lot of people (most people?) that obsession would be Facebook. But for me, it's none other than memecenter. I go through this site several times a day and I go through each and every featured meme on this site. I still haven't gotten around to making memes myself though.

If you like humor (who doesn't?), check it out if you haven't already.

Googled myself

I just googled myself - with my real name - and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find any single thing about myself. It does have something to do with me having a very common name. But still, nothing? I'm guessing it's because I'm never called by my actual name by my friends IRL, but with a nickname I've had just about my entire life. Not to mention how I pretty much never use Facebook either. In fact, the only social media I use where my real name is written is my Twitter. And even there my username is "Kenikki_".

I do have to say that I don't find this to be negative at all. Sure, some may say that I don't turn up because I live such an event-less life, but I think it's merely because of the lack of Facebook usage and how I try to keep my online life seperate from my IRL life.
When I'm online I pretty much always use a couple of certain usernames. Mainly because of this exact thing. I don't want to be able to be tracked online. I'm quite paranoid about it. So in the end I'm pleased with the result.

Upcoming stuff... for real!

Ok, this time I really will return. I swear :)

Here are some things I'll write about:

Reviews:
I Saw The Devil
Hangover II
The Woman In Black
Iron Sky

Other stuff:
Yojimbo vs. Fistful of Dollars
Cisco certificates
TTC - Your Deceptive Mind
MiROi education

Game review: Timeshift (Xbox 360)

Despite being quite entertaining, it was quite bland and forgettable. You'd think that wouldn't be the case with a FPS shooter whose game play centers around bending time to your will, but unfortunately it is. However, it was not only bland, it was also a bit of a copycat. The main character is a "silent type" hero who's a physicist that a lot of the time dukes it out in a repressed modern city where the antagonistic ruler appears on huge monitors throughout the city babbling about various stuff.

Sound familiar much?

Unlike the struggles of Gordon Freeman, the story and characters here were completely boring and uninteresting. Hell, they're practically nonexistent. Even though I played through the entire game sober ( which wasn't the case with games such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion or Fable II) I had no idea who the antagonistic was or what he was after. There wasn't a single character in the entire game I can with clear conscious call an actual character. Not even the playable protagonist. That can't simply be filed under lazy writing. No, it's so much more than that. That's either incompetence or the creators just didn't care. Personally, I believe it's the latter, because there didn't even seem to be any attempt at it. They only seemed to care about making a fast paced shooter with cool time altering abilities. And in that regard they... somewhat succeeded. I say somewhat because while it was pretty entertaining, I can't help but feel that they could have done so much more with their set up. For instance some more difficult puzzles or battles which would require some strategic thinking. Unfortunately, there wasn't any of that in this game, resulting in an overall mediocre experience.

If you're interested in this game, then my advice is to leave your brain at the door and just enjoy blasting some soldiers in slow motion or completely frozen time.

5/9

Still nothing... but just wait.

So yeah, 20 days later and I still haven't posted anything new here. Nothing at all. And that's despite that I've watched (and re-watched) quite a bit of stuff, both good and bad. I have also listened to a bit of music and there have been a few minor (very minor) turning points in my life. And I'm not gonna forget about a certain insight I had last night when I was watching TV while being somewhat... intoxicated.

Anyway, this time I'm hoping to actually get started with my writing. At least a bit more.

So... I haven't written a single thing in here in just about a month. What's that about? Have I simply wasted all my time only hanging out with my friends, working, and learning C++?

Of course not! I've spent my time watching sitcoms, playing games, drinking buckets of wine, and getting a tan.

The details of these amazing feats will be posted as soon as I feel like it.

Have a nice day.