Recently I switched my dogs food just to change it up for him. I figured he has to be sick of the stuff he has been eating for 4 years now… I’m sick of it, and I don’t even have to eat it! (haha) All kidding aside, I switched his food to a similar type of mixture (both were mainly lamb and rice) so I figured it would be fine.

He has been eating it fine with not problems. He had solid stools for about a week, now all the sudden he has been having extremely bad diarrhea for about 2 days straight. The stool is so soft that it is barley being held together, and appears to have mucus or slime in the diarrhea as well.

I did notice that this new dog food is quite a bit oilier/greasier than the last one that we had. Could the extra oil/grease in this new food be making it too hard for him to digest, causing the diarrhea?

I am a little concerned that something else is causing these symptoms because he was fine for about a week eating this new food. And now he starts having this runny diarrhea. Can it take a week or so after a dog’s diet change to start effecting them? Or should I be worried that he picked up some kind of a stomach parasite?

Our dog has not been in contact with many other dogs lately either, so I am not sure if he would have been able to pick up a parasite from another dog.

If anyone else has had this same problem, please fell free to post a comment below. I will be changing my dog’s food back to the old kind tonight, so if that fixes the problem I will let everyone know.

It has been announced that Halo 4 for the Xbox 360 will be released during the Holiday Season of 2012.  Seems like a long wait, but its just over a year from now.

In the meantime, you can Pre-Order Halo 4 from amazon from Amazon.com.  I did this for Halo Reach and got my copy the day that it was released in all the stores, plus I saved a few bucks, and got a free giftcard to use on Amazon for my next gaming purchase!  I would definitely recommend doing this for Halo 4!

So for now, Pre-Order your copy of Halo 4 and check out the Halo 4 Trailers, and stay tuned for news, updates and new trailers as we get closer to the release date of the best game ever

made!

This has been discussed for a long time, whether the blue flaming armor helmet even exists! Turns out it does, and Bungie finally released it for free!

All you need to do is:

1. Have a ipod or iphone

2. Download the Bungie Mobil App

3. Activate the Blue Flaming Helmet!

Its that easy!!

PLUS… you are able to gift  the all-star emblem for behind your gamer tag to 7 of your friends!

Cheers!  See you on the battlefield!

If you get one or two betrayals while playing Halo Reach online in a fairly short amount of time (couple hours) the system remembers that you have betrayed your own team and for the rest of the time that you are playing, and if you accidentally betray someone on your team, they will ALWAYS have the option to boot you!  This is F!#&%ing retarded!!!  Bungie needs to do something about this soon.  There are too many jack asses out there that just want to boot people just because they can. The problem is when someone on your teams boots a decent player for an accidental betrayal, your team is now at a great disadvantage and chances are you will now loose the whole game because you are out-manned.  I don’t want my team to lose a good player because of one bad grenade throw or rouge rocket.

Can’t bungie recognize if you are shooting your own team deliberately?  They can track how many bullets you shoot and where you shot your opponents (i.e. “killed with a headshot”). So, they should be able to recognize if you have a high percentage of your bullets hitting your own team compared to your opponents.  If someone is trying to kill their own teammate constantly, they I say, yes, ALWAYS give your teammates the option to boot you.  But if you are getting an accidental betrayal once in a while, let it slide, or reset the clock on it more often!

I think a good way to solve this is just put a 2 betrayal cap on all new games.  If you betray someone more than once in one game, the second time you do it, give them the option to boot you.  At least that way if you start a new game and get one accidental betrayal on a game you are trying to win, you don’t get booted.

Most peole are playing to have fun and win, not to get kicked out of a game for a bad grenade toss.  Bungie needs to handle this situation along with many other things for Halo Reach real soon!

Share your views… Post a comment below!

I typically just have 1 serving of protein powder before and after I work out mixed with about 12oz. of water.  I started getting pretty severe and painful cramps in my lower intestinal area later at night after having a couple servings of the new protein powder and working out in the evenings.  Initially I didn’t think that it was the protein powder that was causing these cramps because they wouldn’t start until a few hours after having the shakes, and sometimes they wouldn’t start until late in the night.

It doesn’t seem to hurt my stomach at all, it’s more in the lower intestinal area, and feels like a sharp pain (like a knife)  that will be there for about 10 seconds, then fade.  This will continues on and off for a couple hours then goes away completely.  I am not sure if I might be allergic to this new protein or what?  It feels almost like its gas bubbles that are causing the pain, but nothing seems to be able to get past, and I can’t/don’t need to go to the bathroom.

Could it be that there is more Whey in this protein than the last one that I was using and my body doesn’t like it?

If anyone know what causes this or has experienced the same thing, please feel free to post comments below.  Thanks!

About a week ago however, the connection seemed to slow pretty bad.  I thought it was the Internet, so I called the cable company and had them reset everything. I ran some speed tests on my computer that was also linked wirelessly through the router.  The speed was a little on the low side, but should have still worked fine for everything I was doing online with the Xbox.

When I try to play halo online, I was connected online and it seemed to take a little longer to get a game, but once I got into a game, it was unplayable.  My connection would be so bad, either the opponents or I would just be bouncing lagging all over the place the whole game.  It makes it impossible to play.  A lot of the time it would show my connection at full green bars though which really confuses me.

Then when I try to stream videos through Netflix, the movies title pages would load, but when I select one to play, it just site there and can’t seem to load the movie. This had gone on for about a week.

So I decided to pull out my modem and connect the xbox directly to the it with an Ethernet cable.  This fixed the problem. So now the question is, is the xbox wireless adapter going bad, or is my wireless router going bad?  It there a way to test?  Is it common for one of these to start slowing down like this? Its strange that the connection is still there, it’s jut not very strong.

Any info would be greatly appreciated before I start buying new equipment.  Post comments below!  Cheers!

After doing some research on what might be going on, I discovered that my Graphics Card in my Macbook Pro had gone out.  I came across this article on Apple’s website stating that they would fix the problem under warranty as long as the computer was within 4 years old (which mine was) SEE ARTICLE HERE.  So I took the computer into the Apple store and after running some diagnostic tests, they told me that my model computer and everything was correct, but the graphics card in my macbook pro was not one of the ones that they are covering.  Apparently they use different graphics cards in the same model macbook pros and are only covering a certain card if it fails.

And to further the piss me off, they tell me that the graphics card is soldered onto the Logic board (which is basically your motherboard) so I would need to replace the whole Logic Board. And if I could find a logic board it would probably run me about $900.

I left the apple store furious!  I cant spend $900 dollars on a computer right now, you can buy brand new computers for less than that!

Solution:

After asking around and about this problem a little more I found a way to get my logic board/graphics card replaced for free under warranty.  Here is what I did:

After being refused by the apple store, I took my computer and a print up of this page to a third party apple maintenance shop.  Most of these shops do everything that the apple store does including fixing computer problems under warranty.  They are paid by apple to do repairs for them. So I found one locally and took my computer in with a print up of the problem that has been diagnosed.

They ran a couple tests, to make sure that the graphics card had failed.  Once they saw that the graphics card had failed, and my model computer matched the print up, they ordered a new Logic Board and replaced it all under warranty for FREE!!!  They didn’t check to see what graphics card I had, they just checked to make sure it was failing and I had the right model computer.

If you run into any issues where something on your computer is questionably under warranty, and the Apple store turns you away… Try taking your computer to a third party apple repair store!

What do the Data Pads Unlock?

If you are wondering what the data pads do, or unlock, read before you waste your time looking for all of them. It would appear that the data pads don’t do anything. After finding all of them and beating the game all the way through on both legendary mode and normal difficulty, the game endings don’t change, you don’t get any new weapons, armor, or anything.  It looks like the data pads don’t give you anything and are a big waste of time to go looking for.

I wouldn’t recommend wasting your time looking for these things, but if you decide to, below is a list of all the data pad locations.

All Halo Reach Data Pad Locations:

1. Data Pad 1: Winter Contingency Data Pad Location
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2. Data Pad 2: ONI: Sword Base Data Pad Location
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3. Data Pad 3: Nightfall Data Pad Location
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4. Data Pad 4: Tip of the Spear Data Pad Location
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5. Data Pad 5: Long Night of Solace Data Pad Location
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6. Data Pad 6: Exodus Data Pad Location
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7. Data Pad 7: New Alexandria Data Pad Location
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8. Data Pad 8: The Package Data Pad Location
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9. Data Pad 9: The Pillar of Autumn Data Pad Location
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10. Data Pad 10: Legendary Mode – “Winter Contingency” Data Pad
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11. Data Pad 11: Legendary Mode – “ONI: Sword Base” Data Pad
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12. Data Pad 12: Legendary Mode – “Nightfall” Data Pad
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13. Data Pad 13: Legendary Mode – “Tip of the Spear” Data Pad
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14. Data Pad 14: Legendary Mode – “Long Night of Solace” Data Pad
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15. Data Pad 15: Legendary Mode – “Exodus” Data Pad
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16. Data Pad 16: Legendary Mode – “New Alexandria” Data Pad
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17. Data Pad 17: Legendary Mode – “The Package” Data Pad
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18. Data Pad 18: Legendary Mode – “The Pillar of Autumn” Data Pad
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19. Data Pad 19: Legendary Mode  – “Lone Wolf” Data Pad
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If you are looking for a list of the data pad locations click here.

Halo Reach Skull List:

Primary Skulls
• Iron Skull
• Black Eye Skull
• Tough Luck Skull
• Catch Skull
• Cloud Skull
• Famine Skull
• Thunderstorm Skull
• Tilt Skull
• Mythic Skull

Secondary Skulls:
• Blind Skull
• Cowbell Skull
• Grunt Birthday Skull
• IWHBYD Skull

Skull Locations and Effects:

Iron Skull

Skull Effect: Reload checkpoint if teammate dies. Restart level if first player dies.

Black Eye Skull

Skull Effect: No auto-shield regeneration, only when you melee attach an enemy.

Tough Luck Skull

Skull Effect: Needler fire, grenades projectiles (ie. Rocket Launcher, Brute Shot) and vehicular attacks are more easily evaded by the AI. Brutes go Berserk and Grunts will turn Kamikaze more often.

Catch Skull

Skull Effect: NPCs throw twice as many grenades. NPCs always drop two grenades when dying.

Cloud Skull

Skull Effect: Motion Tracker is fully disabled.

Famine Skull

Skull Effect: Dropped weapons have much less ammunition.

Thunderstorm Skull

Skull Effect: All enemies are more difficult.

Tilt Skull

Skull Effect: Enemy defensive resistances/weaknesses are increased.

Mythic Skull

Skull Effect: All NPC’s health is doubled.

Blind Skull

Skull Effect: Your entire Heads-Up Display is disabled. You can’t see your weapon, shield meter, motion sensor or ammo/grenades.

Grunt Birthday Skull

Skull Effect: If a Grunt is shot in the head colorful confetti explodes out of it which causes minor damage to nearby enemies, and a sound clip of cheering can be heard in the background.

Cowbell Skull

Skull Effect: Physics effects are tripled. Explosions and melee attacks launch characters and objects farther. Damage does not increase.

IWHBYD Skull

Skull Effect: Unlocks new, funny, or unusual dialogue for the characters.

After all the beer was transferred to bottles and ready for the stopper and airlock, I proceeded to put it in place.  The stopper, and the glass carboy were both wet, so when I applied a little pressure to the stopper to fit onto the carboy, it shot right through the opening and into the beer.

I didn’t have a choice but to tape up the top of the carboy with the airlock in place.  It worked well though!

Once it came time to get the stopper out, I was a little nervous to how I was going to do it, but it turned out to be pretty easy to get a rubber stopper out of a glass carboy.

How to get a Rubber Stopper out of a Glass Carboy
Once you are done transferring all your beer from the glass carboy into bottles, rinse out the inside of the carboy.  Easy to do outside with a hose.

Once the carboy is all rinsed out, just grab a pair of needle nose pliers. Hold the glass carboy upside down so that the rubber stopper will come as close to the opening as possible. You may have to juggle it up and down a little to get it into the right position to grab.

Get the rubber stopper so that the hole in the center is facing down, towards the opening of the carboy.  Stick your pliers into the carboy and have on of the ends of the needle nose pliers go through the hole in the rubber stopper, and have the other go on the outside of the stopper.  Squeeze tight and yank it out.

It should slip right out, but make sure the glass and the rubber stopper are both wet.  If its dry, you will have some trouble getting that thing out.

Good luck… and don’t feel dumb, it happens to the best of us when learning how to brew at home!

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