Captains' blog

This is the story of how I became... Captain Seagull.

Flashback to 2002: My cousin and I sitting outside the highschool waiting for a friend to get out of band practice. We see a lone seagull standing atop a lamp post over an empty parking lot. It stands there for ages, shifting its gaze from place to place, as if it were watching over the world, ready to protect. We fantasize how the seagull is probably some super hero to the other animals, as it flys alone in it's misunderstood life. Captain Seagull they call him.

The next day, we wait again for band practice to end. This time we see a crows corpse in the parking lot, and a lone seagull standing atop a different lamp post. That crow must have been his nemesis.

The third day we see no seagull. We wait once more for band practice to end. For a straight 5 minutes we see the sky blanketed with sparrows flocking south. Millions flew by. Once the comotion had stopped we noticed a seagull swoop down from the air to stand atop a lamp post. Those birds must have been the Sparrow Crime Families, and the Captain had just foiled one of their plans.

Forward to 2003: Cousin Zarick and I create likeness' of ourselves in a Tony Hawk game. After growing bored of our look, we decide to give our characters super-hero outfits, I am A, he is Z. We needed enemies... So I created a villian that would never speak, and wore black and white stripes with a metal mask and a beak... I called the Mime Crow... Razor Beak.

Forward a few months: Friend Säm, Cousin Zarick, and I find ourselves in a thrift store playing with electric organs. We fantasize about a space television series we could create. The sets would all have to be made of secondhand purchases, and how the organs are control decks for the bridge of the spaceship. Who would captain such a vessel? Well a human wearing a white and black outfit, with the sharp mind of Spaceghost, and all the charm of Zap Brannigan. Captain Seagull is his name. His arch nemesis? The communistic space android... Razor Beak.

Forward to 2004: Friends Säm, Pat, Daniel, and I plan to sneak into the highschool at night and hide a treasure in "The Heavens". In the heavens there is a super secret hole in the wall where you can climb through to a super secret cave-room. Students arent even supposed to enter the heavens, and many do not even know it exhists. The highschools mascott is the pirate. Wouldn't it be neat to spread a tale about how a pirate captain hid his treasure in the highschool, and for that treasure to be real!? What name would our pirate captain don though... Seagull. The treasure of Captain Seagull. It was decided. Though, who was heading the team, who put forth the un-realized plans of attack on the school? well me of coarse! so I would be the captain of the team, and subsequently... Captain Seagull.

Forward to present: Having donned the name CaptainSeagull in multiplayer gaming on numerous occasions, I decided I better stick with that name forever as scores could forever be tied to me. As well as the occasional "you must be CaptainSeagull" in the real-world of game-player meetings. CaptainSeagull is now making a larger name for himself over in the N+ group, and here on My Opera. That is the story of Captain Seagull. He has materialized in the form of a bird, a space hero, and a pirate of myth. And now me, I am the new, Captain Seagull.

Now, whenever I see a lone seagull, I salute, and silently whisper
"Captain"

Thats right, a word so absurd and never before heard is now cured by this nerd...

Flibbertigibbet

flib‧ber‧ti‧gib‧bet [flib-er-tee-jib-it]
noun

1.a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
2.Archaic. a gossip.
3. a female fool [syn: foolish woman]

use it wisely my friends, use it wisely...

- Captain Seagull

I went to the Kaiser Permanente health building to get a doctor cause I don't have one, but there office was closed. It opened again at 2:30 so I was instructed to come back then. boo.

I was succesfully able to drop my art class with the terachers signature, this way my GPA will stay the same and my FINAID will be okay to.

... anyway that Pepto-Bismol worked hella fast! I went over to the website and wrote them an e-mail, it said

"Thank you Pepto-Bismol!"

thats all. Anyway, I actually got an e-mail back from them telling me that they enjoyed the letter and couldn't wait to share it with the rest of the team. haha, the person sounded/read so excited.

lesson of the story: Do NOT digest more buffalo sauce than the buffalo has wings. so zero.

will I heed these words? nope. I likes me the hotwings!

- Captain Seagull

Internet legend .ed has recently posted his very own Opera Story that has inspired me to tell my version of the Opera tale as felt through my life, only mine includes typos (I think of them as my personal "voice" or "signature")...

During my adventures in Myspace, I had created and joined a few groups involving intereststhat were near and dear to me, mostly Nintendo groups. The largest Nintendo group aptly named "Nintendo" was largely un-moderated and loose enough to not really warrent any feeling of participation. Really it was the level of interaction a fan may have at a concert, you pay your admission stand in a crowd and scream. Nothing would be heard by anyone, and you wouldnt care what the strange men and women around you are saying. Blindly following links I ended up in a much smaller group "Join The Revolution". The group was named well before the name "Wii" had been chosen for Nintendos next gen console. This group would become my number one source for all things new(s) int the world of Nintendo, and was one of the only reasons I stayed on myspace.

Nintendo was where I started in videogaming as a young boy and had a very strong impact on my life then and now. As I grew older I was sesceptible to peers and the "in" feeling of certain games played. Games such as Grand Theft Auto had a sort of publicaly availible connection to most dudes my age. I became enveloped in the playstation 2, even though my roots were laid in Snes - N64. My view in gaming turned into the male centric violence means fun, and nothing else does mentality. However I quickly became bored with the recipe for games that most xbox or playstation games would offer, and found myself still enjoying Nintendo titles as much as the first day I had played them if not more (Animal Crossing: Wild World gets better every day I play).

This was also partially due to the education I was enrolled in at the time. Game Design was my major so I had plenty of opportunities to view gaming culture, and industry at a proffessional level, and I came to realize a few things that set Nintendo apart from the crowd.

• Nintendo will surprise consumers with what they didn't know they wanted, as opposed to delivering what the consumer thinks they want.
  
• Nintendo never sells itself out to sure 'money makers' like violence to be violent type games.
  

These were just a couple of the points that attracted me about the company on a gaming side, the other side was the business side. Nintendo designs their product to last forever, that is they design your purchase to last. In any case the product is unpleasant they will in almost all cases fix the problem for free, and quickly to boot. The company had morals that none of the other manufacturers had, and taht intrigued me as most companies, no matter what product, are money driven greed-pots. And speaking personally with many Nintendo representatives, I find that every one of these people love working for the company, and these aren't just designers, I am talking phone service reps, and demo station disc swappers as well!

News Flash: Nintendo will utilize the Opera Web Browser for the DS and the upcoming Wii console


Goodness gracious Mii batman! I must have this Webb-Bowser! but a question arose... what was it about Opera that a quality devoted company like Nintendo was so attracted to? I had to find out.

Well it appears that after immediately joining the Opera Community to co-moderate the brand spankin' new Nintendo group "N" with .ed (wich has replaced "JTR" by a loooong shot) I would realize my answer. Opera is just as concerned with it's users, ney, fans that Nintendo is with theirs. Opera is very interested in the quality of their product, and constantly looks towards it's users for input to better what it does.

Hi Captain!

Here's the shirt as promised. Thank you for supporting Opera and My Opera.
Have a great day!

cheers,
Espen A. O

Opera was what Nintendo would be if Nintendo made web solutions. pure and simple. and I stress "pure"

Basicaly after recieving a hand written post card and T shirt from one of Operas moderators Espenao thanking me for using and participating in the Opera grand scheme of things, I was 100% solidified in my Opera ways. I should be thanking them for the browser and it's many, MANY, tools and unique 'traits' that seperates Opera from everyone else, but instead they thank me.

I feel like Nintendo and I have always been the bestes of friends brothers, and Nintendo just got married. It's a good marriage though, Nintendo never ditched me, instead he was very welcoming of me to meet his new wife "Opera", and she is a very kind and loving soul who accepts me as well, a perfect compliment to my brother. Opera is now my sister, and she will be cared for as such.

Thank you Opera!

- Teh Capn