Taipei Game Show 2010

by Sander Tams 5. February 2010 21:53

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Went to the annual Taipei Game Show today. It's on from Friday 2/6 to Tuesday 2/9, so I just reached it on it's first day. A bit late though. It's open from 10 am to 6 pm. As with the book exhibition last week, I arrived at 4 pm. Too late to try stuff. But still plenty of time to locate all the booths and take pictures of loads of stuff. Took 148 photos while there, which is almost half of what my camera can contain. And that's in just 2 hours. (I make it save a raw together with a JPEG, so total size per shot is usually about 22-23 megabyte. I could cut it down to 2-3 per shot by not saving raws, should I have to snap more when I'm going back.)

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In this place there's many booths and several stages for different kinds of performance. Some of them they have turnaments. At others, you can just jump up on and get a brief instruction like this guy above is, and you're in a competition of some sort, competing for freebies.

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A day that end in a totally different place than it started

by Sander Tams 9. January 2010 19:24

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I went to shop cameras today. It's not that I bought any, but perhaps I have a better idea of what's out there now.

Went to Guanghua again, as they have not only computers, but a lot of camera stores too. Now, I am not very good with cameras, actually. I can look at a photo and tell if it's good or not, or if it's just too damn blurry to see a thing, but I don't really know much about why it's so important to stick a wide array of overly expensive lenses into those DSLR's to make them take the best photo for the occasions.

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Outside of the Guanhua New Digital Plaza, robots were rampaging the streets. A bunch of kids were running around and hitting the robotic baloons so that they almost fell over and the people who keep an eye over them had to ask the kids to behave.

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Appareantly, Intel had some promotional going on about you being able to win a trip to russia, to fly military airplanes and fire missiles at poor farmers, should you decide to buy a computer with an Intel processor inside during these promotional days.

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Inside, people are, of course, playing world of warcraft to promote some 'gaming' stationaries with lots of colored lights inside.

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Like this. I mean... It's really cool and all that it looks like some spaceship or whatever on the inside, but how is this going to be usefull to anyone? Oh, and that brick in the middle with cooler master written on it has a processor inside that outputs 2.74 gHz according to the screen to the left.

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Well, there's not much camera shopping over this, but that tauren druid totally just shapeshifted. Fuck I miss this game.

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Of course they had girls dressed up. Even some of the food courts have that kind of thing around here. A lot of guys with expensive cameras kept taking pictures of them over and over, so I decided to take pictures of those guys taking pictures instead.

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Look at that. Perhaps I should've just asked them what they use of cameras and I could've finished the day having a 90k NT$ camera in my hand smiling.

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If you walk a little off from all that digital craze, you can get to an arts exhibit with cat women and stuffs. I just walked past.

Right next to that place there's a spot where you can walk along the highways on grass. Nothing's currently build there, and even though you are almost in the absolute middle of Taipei City, there's actually space for you. It's a lovely place that I'd love to get back to soon.

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Right under this spot, theres a highspeed railway line for one of those trains that goes up to 400km/h. Amazing.

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There's also these old tracks for normal trains, but it's closed now. And here's some very rare exposure to Taiwanese graffiti. You know it already: I am in the land of video games and there's nothing you can do about that jealousy growing in you.

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After taking those pictures, I headed to another house in the rotary/rotaract-network. Maxine had some friends there, and of course, those friends were also members of rotaract and had parents that were members of rotary.

Well, I'll about how many people are, are related to, or know someone in rotary in another article. Ending up here was because some of the people there had tasted my rice pudding I made for The Christmas Party that was held at my house the 24th December. They wanted to learn how to make it and, obviously, craved it.

To make long stories short, the rice pudding didn't go well, partly because of wrong ingredients, mostly because of bad cooking. Not that we tried hard though. We played monopoly so much, that we decided to just do it another time.

Now, that was a day of events that went completely unforeseeable, eh?

I love this place.

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IBM 2009 Year End Party

by Sander Tams 10. December 2009 17:18

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Went to this IBM party thing today. It was crazy.
Dresscode said: Either you should dress up in traditional dress, school uniform or formal work clothes. And look at the outcome. Perhaps I should stock up on some of those dresses if I have any spare space when I get home. I bet they'll be popular. (Yeah, could make a good business importing those perhaps? :D)

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As you can see, a lot of women work at IBM, and yeah, they're probably overly overrepresented in my pictures since it was Maxine, my host sister, who brought me here, and so, I had to met all of her friends. As you can see, the school uniform is not a bad choice for dressing up either. Now, can you guess the age of this girl next to me?

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BoonBot.com

by Sander Tams 27. November 2009 15:50

Seems the competition for reasonable .com domains is big, so I decided to take the chance and grab boonbot.com while it's still there.
I'll be moving over stuff there soon. The portal-thingy-thing is already there, so all images are now funneled through that one instead of portal.zunavi.dk that should be redirecting people to the new place.

I don't know if the name will be effective for whatever online doings I am going to put it through, but at least it should be somewhat easier for people to remember. Well, just a little compared to zunavi.dk plus subdomains. Hopefully I can soon start up some google Adsense on it so that I can be more slack on my online investments. Also, I'd like to have some fun with the portal thing soon.

For now, here's just a link to get started: boonbot.com. There's just pictures from my taiwan trip there now, but hopefully I can stuff in other stuff when I get some more work on it. For an example integrating this blog using my own coding could be nice.

What do you think of the name? Was it a waste of money? Should I have picked sandertams.com instead?

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SF Online Tournament

by Sander Tams 8. November 2009 16:44

Yesterday I went to check out an esport tournament here in Taiwan since another exchange student, Eric Fleck kind of knew some of the people who were going to play in the tournament there. The tournament went on until today, so I went there again tonight. It was epic.

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The game they're playing at the tournament is called SF Online - Special Forces Online. It's an FPS (First Person Shooter) game very much like Counter Strike and it's pretty big in Asia. Especially in Taiwan in which it is developed.

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I arrived there some time past 6 pm today. This was just the time at which the final and biggest (probably also longest) match went on. Eric had been there all day so he kinda knew what was going on. If you're lucky, he's going to blog about it. (You can see his blog in my blogroll at the right panel of my blog.)

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