the rumored Super Soaker Thunderstorm

Super-Soaker/Nerf is expected to be bringing back electronic water machine guns,

you can see it here on the Urban Taggers blog

these things were a hit back in the 80's, it was a simpler time back then, many of them were shaped like real guns and some made machine gun sound effects when you pulled the trigger example of course nerf is puting thier own spin on the look so it doesn't look like a real gun.
It hasn't been announced in the US, but you can bet it'll make it's way here soon enough, strictly speaking the toy water machine gun never left the market completely there has always been some on the market out there like this and this so the real significance is that a hasbro is making it so these will return to shelves at major stores

HvZ Contest Submission, and Powerpoint

my first post,

Well I saw the Humans vs Zombies contest and decided to enter just for fun. the contest entitled that you submit a video describing your favorite HvZ memory. I believe that the best way to tell a true story in a video that had a short deadline would be in the form of a monologue with flashy graphics describing what's being said.

Well I decided that I would use powerpoint. I am extremely familiar with powerpoint because back in middle school, (when I was even more socially incompetent [even compared to my peers] and reserved than I am now) I would spend my spare time making stupid powerpoint animations of things that I thought were funny back then This was partly because I didn't have video games, cable tv, friend to hang out with during free time at school, or even real animation software along with the patience and artist ability to use it. Nevertheless I became completely familiar with powerpoint.

During my high school freshman year I actually found two opportunities to use my mad powerpoint skillz. One of the powerpoint I made had a mini music video intro a scene selection page and a bunch of bonus features and side animations. Both teachers said that those were the best powerpoints they had ever seen, so of course they would be ashamed to give me anything short of an A for those presentations regardless of the requirements.

Nowadays I still use power point when ever I make simple diagrams to help explain things (eg. explaining a mechanical design to someone on a forum), because for most diagrams I make I don't need anything more than squares and circles along with basic snap to grid adjustment limitations so it turns out symmetrical and neat unlike most ms paint diagrams. I do know how to use other drafting programs like autocad, inventor, and visio, but nothing lets me produce diagrams as fast at powerpoint.

Anyways I made a powerpoint and a script of an HvZ mission I played with Mark. However I never added a Narration for several reasons. First off I was late to submit the video anyways, second my voice sounded absolutely horrible. I intended to have someone else narrate the presentation but I couldn't find any volunteers. In the end I only put in text subtitles and I'm not that happy with the result.

However I did discover an awesome site called authorstream. I was looking for a way to convert the powerpoint into a video and I was directed there. The site is awesome you can view powerpoints in the browser and download them either as a ppt file or a video file. Powerpoint is my specialty so for me this is like discovering image hosting website when your specialty is photography or photo editing. well since the site allows people to view the ppt in their browser I didn't bother convert it in the end after all.

anyways here's the presentation,

Click here

I gotta get to work