The WWE, one of my favorite things to be into, last night was the big extravaganza Wrestlemania 20 and I am not one to complain about the quality of a wrestling event cause it does happen every once in a while, but this was the biggest disappointment for large scale pay per view I have ever seen!! Wrestlemania, the Grand Daddy of all Wrestling events, I have always found to be top notch and interesting and always a crowd pleaser, this year there seemed to be more interest watching my friend Shirley Anns Gecko in his cage while the event was going on in the background.
Firstly I think that there were way too many wrestlers involved with the card. A Normal PPV has approximatley 30-35 wrestlers while last night they tried to cram in a whopping 50 wrestlers in 12 events.
Secondly, the matches that were suppose to be huge and great and were utter disappointments i.e. Brock Lesnar vs Bill Goldberg, this match was a literal waste of time. The only thing this match was set up to do was to allow Stone Cold Steve Austin give a couple of Stunners. (Although it was quite comical to see stome cold get hit in the head with a beer)
TWO FATAL FOUR WAY MATCHES FOR TWO TAG TITLES. How disturbing is this? Tag fatal four ways are usually boring enough, let alone having to sit through 2 of them. This doesnt allow any of the wrestlers to build up to anything exciting in the matches cause there are once again TOO MANY people involved.
Chavo Guerrero defending the Cruiserweight championship in the 10 man Cruiserweight open? 8 more people then what was needed in this match up, Cruiserweight matches have always seemed to be overly fast paced and exciting, 10 people, not enough room to make this happen, a very useless match indeed.
Matches that were decent. GET THIS EVERYONE!!! The opening match, Big Show vs John Cena was a great match compared to the rest of the Card. There was actually some excitement and I thought for an opening match the rest of the Pay Per View would be spectacular...WRONG!!!
Christian Beating Jericho was also fairly interesting as well as the Eddie Guerrero Kurt Angle Match, and the final championship triple threat, although started off slow, turned out to be a great match.
However, In my mind, the BIGGEST disappointment all night was The Return of the Dead Man. What joke this was. OK Paul Bearer nice touch, Druids coming down, again nice effect. But come on now, the big hype was the dead man to be reborn, and be vintage Undertaker, and here comes what my friend Chris calls "The UnderBiker" Wearing a vintage undertaker cloak, but not the proper attire for the rest of the way. That hat was soooo not classic undertaker hat, Yee Haww Cowboy-Taker, and he was still wearing his biker gloves. All the hype about Taker coming back, was worthless.

So this is what I think of Wrestlemania XX, I will be lookward to watching RAW tonight cause I am expecting it to be damn good tomake up for last night

Well with the Expences of my appartment now, I wont be able to buy as many thing as I have been off eBay. However, my last purchase came in the mail yesterday. I purchased this wireless microphone for $34.99USD plus shipping. The Cheapest I could get it around here was at Radio Shack for $149. So I put it to the test last night for my normal trivia night and the Microphone worked so well. It was nice being able to run around the room without shouting my head off so everyone could hear. In total it takes 3 AA Batteries, one for the microphone itself and 2 for the reciever, and is suppose to reach up to 30 Meters.
Actual eBay Listing

All my life I have been addicted to simple games, especially ones that make you overly frustrated like Pearls Before Swine, and now games like this Penguin Game you just have to become addicted to. It was sent to me by my Bestest best friend Jolene who recieved it from her Cousin now Living in Germany. And I know she would never forgive me if I didn't mention I got this game from her. My Highest score so far is 320.1. next highest I have seen is 316.3

Well its about time there is no more confusing URL for this web site. I finally registered thejazzman.ca from canadianregister.ca I decided to stay with the .ca domain name just because I am overly patriotic, and just love the canadian extension. So I hope all of you will update your Book Marks, and the ones that only come here every so often because they cant remember the URL I hope this will please you as much. For all you RSS Users out there, Do what you will....its no biggie to you :o)

As some of you know, I have become an avid searcher of Ebay, and when I saw this on Compass (Our Local 6:00 News) last week I decided to keep an eye out on it. Being an from Prince Edward Island I have always been an Anne of Green Gables Fan. Somebody from New Hampshire USA, placed on Ebay a 1st Edition Hard Cover of the original 1908 Anne of Green Gables Novel. Compass stated that it was being sold for $6,100 with the end date being May 1st. After the end date happened, I immediatly checked what the final bid placed on it was.....$14,001. And the Reserve Bid was NOT met. Meaning, the price the owner had originally wanted the book to go for was not high enough.

The Actual Ebay Listing

Pretty Much everyone knows about issues that have been brought among the world when it comes to MP3's. The biggest ever being the whole Napster Cases. I too, have been guilty of such infringes....or am I. Most people have noticed that the biggest incriminations are all in the United States, but has anything come up in Canada yet? Last night, while teaching my Computer Basics course, I happened to read the Holland College newspaper; "The Surveyor" and happen to come across this article. As weird as it sounds is this as true as it seems, or has it been sugar coated?

Its been about 3 months since I bought my new monitor, and its performance has been far to none, but now I am faced with a problem with it. A couple of weeks ago I have discovered a dead pixel on it. And 2 days later, I found another one. As much as this does tick me off, its kind of interesting to see. On a normal CRT monitor when you have a dead pixel it goes black not allowing the light to go through. When I initialy saw the first dead pixel on my LCD, it was a bright green, so I thought the Liquid inside was green, until I saw the second Pixel, it is Red. after I called future shop they said it is covered under my warranty, but it would have to get sent away to the Ciccero company. And knowing this I may have to go 2 months without my monitor, is it worth it? I have to make a decision fast cause my 90 day warrenty is nearly up.

OK, like I mentioned in my last post, I am a person that likes old games. The other day I decided to break out my old ATARI 2600 and play what I could. I have been collecting Atari game for the past few years and sitting at almost 100 of them. My personal favorite is called "Frostbite" where you are a little eskimo having to jump on ice bergs collecting ice to build your igloo. In the mean time you must dodge Seagulls, King Crabs and Clams, while eating fish that swim by. Also, I have been playing a game called "Secret Quest" which I have read was ranked at a 94% for Gaming. In my opinion, one of the first ever RPG's for Video Games, and even still today I cannot beat this game. Out of the 8 Levels I have only been able to make it to level 5. The Difficulty is extreme.

Most people know I am a game lover, especially classic games. When it comes to computer games, I have downloaded a number of classic things like a Commodore 64 emulator. After a quick search I found a game I never thought I would see anymore. Kingdom of Kroz was the first game I ever played on a PC that didnt have the word Commodore in its name. I used to play it on my Dads Tandy 1000. Its a DOS based text game where you must go through collecting Whips, Gems and Teleports throughout the level, and then finish off the room by entering the door.

I know its not up to todays standards of games with high graphics, but its more challenging then ever with faster computers, nearly impossible. To give it a try you can download it here.

Speed Stacks, a game of ambidextrousness and quickness. Its been about 4 months since a long time friend and I have bought our cups, which for me over time, the novelty just seemed to go away.

The Object of the game is to build a required amount of pyramids with the 12 cups.

The formations must be created and taken down in the fastest time you can do it. It starts with 3 stacks of cups, with 2 piles of 3 and a pile of 6. You build a 3-6-3 formation, collapse the pyramids, make a 6-6 formation, collapse these, and end off with a 1-10-1 formation.

Yesterday I decided to take in my Speed Stacks for the Computer Camp kids that I have been teaching all summer, and it became an instant hit. They have played with these cups for hours and hours on end. With the Timer I have on my watch, we have been timing and keeping the best scored written down on the white board in the classroom. Today I have beaten my person best which was 16.90 seconds to 15:05. I just may break 10 seconds yet. With the kids in the class, in 2 days the fastest record is 23.22 seconds.

For all you wondering, the world record is 7.43 seconds.