BogusRed's Sketchblog

Random musings from the PaperDemon admin.

If you haven't checked out Nintendo's Zelda Twilight Princess flash page, you are truly missing out. And if you find all the drops of light, you'll gain access to the downloads section where you can download 4 MP3's from the game's sound track as well as some other computer goodies. The Wind Waker flash page is also worth checking out. The artistry in these web pages is some of the best I've ever seen.

In other recent news, I was in a car accident on Tuesday. I was on the freeway when traffic slowed down. I came to a stop and someone rear-ended me pushing me into the car in front of me and that car into the car in front of that one. The whole thing shook me up a bit. For your amusement, I've posted some photos of my car. At first, it looked like my car hadn't really taken that much damage. The bumpers are just dented and scratched and the trunk doesn't close all the way. But then when I took it in for an estimate, the car technician noticed structural damage. So my car is in the shop for the next two weeks while it gets fixed. I'm not at fault in the accident so I wont have to pay anything, thankfully.

Car photos
Front 1, Back 1, Back 2, Back 3

To make my week worse, I had to go in for jury duty on Monday. Thankfully I wasn't chosen for a jury. I just had to waste half a day sitting around the court house.

I was really pissed off at the car rental place. I have AAA insurance and they pay for my rental car for me while my regular car is in the shop. They use Hertz as their car rental service and the customer service there sucks. The lady helping me tried to sell me insurance for the rental. I told her just as she was starting her insurance speech that I wasn't interested and she's all like "Wait, let me finish. This is important." And so I had to listen to her babble on and on about their three different rental insurance plans. Afterward, I told her I didn't need it because my AAA insurance covers me for rentals too and she's like "Oh I see you've done your homework." So she knew that she was trying to sell me something I didn't need. I found that to be a very dishonest way of doing business.

Then she tells me I need to pick a plan for how I want to manage the gas in the car. Can you believe, Hertz has three different plans for how you will pay for the gas in your car. They make it unnecessarily complicated. And I'm trying to understand what the differences are between each plan and what the point of them is. The lady says to me "Trust me, just go with the first plan." Yeah, right. You just tried to sell me insurance I didn't need, like I'm really going to trust you! So I asked her what the pros and cons of each plan were and she goes around my question and only says the pros of each one. So I get more specific with my questions and she's starting to realize she can't answer my questions. So I ask to speak to someone else who can explain it in greater detail. So lady #2 comes along trying to explain it and she does a better job but I was still left confused about it. I hate that place. I hope I never have to rent a car again.

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First off, a couple updates
New music in the music section:
18 Minute Zelda - Zelda: A Link to the Past
En Route To Evil - Final Fantasy 7, 8

And that new PaperDemon illustration is complete but I'm not going to publish it until the new PD template debuts.

Onto my blog post...
I'll warn you first, I'm about to tell you a very ridiculous story.

Back in the days of AOL 3.1 when I was like 13 and had AOL as my internet service provider, AOL had recently introduced their Hometown AOL service where members had a couple megs of storage for a personal website. There was this one person, can't remember his alias but we'll call him Craig for now, who had a Vegeta shrine web page that I thought was pretty snazzy. His web page was auto-playing a midi file of a song I had never heard of but I assumed it was a Dragon Ball Z song. I thought the song was really cool and I forever associated it with Vegeta because of the context I had first heard it in. I loved the song so much that I decided to email Craig and ask him to email me the MIDI. He was quite rude about it and refused to send it to me. Being the smart ass annoying person that I was on the Internet at age 13, I replied and said that he should just give it to me because he didn't compose it anyway. The rights to it belong to the creators of Dragon Ball Z. He replied saying that it wasn't from DBZ but is instead from a Mega Man game.

I was just starting to learn some HTML at the time and decided to see if I could figure out a way to extract the MIDI file from the webpage. Sure enough, I viewed the source, found the file name, and typed the direct location of the file in my browser and was able to save the midi to my computer. I saved the file name as hahaha.mid.

Some years later I wanted to try and get an MP3 file of the song since MIDIs tend to sound so crappy. I could not for the life of me find any Megaman song that sounded anything like hahaha.mid and eventually gave up on ever finding it. Then one day as I was flipping through channels on the television, I heard hahaha.mid playing on Dancing with the Stars as two contestants were leaving the stage. I realized the song must not have been a Megaman song. More recently I had heard it in a football commercial. If I could only figure out the title of the song I could track down the MP3.

And then it finally happened.

Yesterday I was searching around YouTube and came across an AMV (Anime Music Video) of Dragon Ball Z that was playing hahaha.mid and credited the song as The Final Countdown by Europe. FINALLY I had the answers I was looking for for YEARS! And I immediately went onto iTunes to purchase the song.

It's funny how this whole thing started and ended with Dragon Ball Z. The source of all knowledge truly is Dragon Ball Z. Things really came full circle. And Craig, if you ever read this blog, I'm sorry for being such a brat to you.

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