Halo 3 - Hidden Silver Skulls Locations

Silver skulls don't give you any achievement points, but they can be interesting to play with. Bungie put 2 Blind Skulls in Halo 3, but I am going to list only one of them as you can't get the skull twice.

Special Note: It is good luck to hit your co-players in the head with the skull once you find it.

Blind Skull - Silver
Effect: You lose your HUD when this skull is turned on. You won’t see your weapons, shield, radar, etc.
Location: The “Blind Skull” is the first of the Silver Skulls in Halo 3, and can be found in the first mission, “Sierra 117″. It is located relatively close to the beginning of the mission. After your first encounter with the Gold Armor Brute, Two enemy dropships will appear a bit further down the stream. Go towards the dropship that is furthest away, and stay on the right side of the stream. Continue along the right (towards the cliff edge), and a rock will jut out a bit over the large lake. The Blind Skull is located on this rock.

Grunt Birthday Party - Silver
Effect: When you get a headshot on an enemy Grunt, they will explode into confetti, and you’ll hear children cheer, “Yay!” in excitement.
Location: This is one of the more fun Silver Skulls in Halo 3. The “Grunt Birthday Party Skull” is located on the second mission, “Crow’s Nest”, just before the area where you team up with the Arbiter (it’s the piping area where you see Drones buzzing in and out of an array of pipes). Just before you jump down the pipe to meet up with the Arbiter, stop at the ledge, and look directly below you. Along the wall that you drop down, there is a small ledge with a green arrow pointing backwards. Jump onto this ledge (rather than all the way down), and go inside this secret room. The skull is in the dead center of the room.

Cowbell Skull - Silver
Effect: Explosions become much bigger in the game.
Location: The “Cowbell Skull” is found on the level “The Ark”, and marks the third Silver Skull found in the game. It’s fairly far into the level, so it takes a bit of time to find it. Begin by heading all the way to the part of the level where you battle the Scarab. After defeating it, look in the middle of the desert area which you battled it in for a fairly large structure (it’s the building you see if you are at the bottom of the ramp you are supposed to go up, and turn to look in the opposite direction). Inside of this structure are several Gravity Lifts. Take one of these for later. Next, head up the huge ramp, and head inside of the building (the one with the cartographer inside). Pass through a few of the rooms in this building, and you’ll eventually come to a room with a whole lot of Explosive crates. Right after this room is a Staircase/Hallway that leads to the level below. The Skull is located at the top of the room, at the point where you turn on the staircase to head for the next part of the slope. There are four platforms above you, the Skull is on the uppermost of these platforms. Use the Gravity Lift to jump up to it, and there you have it!

IWHBYD Skull - Silver
Effect: Unlocks hidden dialogue throughout Halo 3’s campaign.
Location: The Skull is located in the level, “The Covenant”. After defeating the Scarabs, and going inside, get to the location with all 7 Ring Holograms. You must jump through the rings in a specific order. That order is as follows (1 is at the entrance, 7 is at the end): 4 6 5 4 5 3 4

After jumping through them in this sequence, you will be awarded the “I Would Have Been Your Daddy Skull”. It will be right next to the bridge that brings you over to the Prophet of Truth.

When you jump through the final halo, the rings will start lighting up in a linear fasion. Go grab the Skull over at the Bridge that connects to the Control Panel. When you grab the skull, all of the rings will start playing the main Halo Theme Song.

You can work as a team in co-op with 2-4 players jumping through the rings to speed up the process. Just make sure that the rings are jumped through in the correct order as a team. It really speeds things up this way.

If you mess up, you can start the sequence over without restarting the mission.

Halo 3 - Hidden Gold Skulls Locations

Just finished Halo 3 in Legendary mode with 2 of my friends (John B & John M). Thought I would share with everyone where these hidden skulls are located. There are 2 types of skulls, Gold & Silver. You get achievement points for the gold skulls, but you do not get any points for finding the silver. There are 13 skulls total. Actually there are 14 skulls, Bungie put the Blind Skull in the game twice. Skulls are listed in order they are found in the game. Gold Skulls are listed here, I will make another post for the silver skulls.

Special Note: It is good luck to hit your co-players in the head with the skull once you find it.

Iron Skull - Gold
Effect: If you die, you restart from the beginning of the level.
Location:The “Iron Skull” is located at the very end of the first level, “Sierra 117″. It is located behind the building where Sgt. Johnson is being held captive, up on the roof. You can gain access to the roof on the far right side of the building. Travel all the way over to the left side of the roof, and the Skull will be concealed in the corner.

Black Eye Skull - Gold
Effect: When you lose shield, the only way to get it back it to melee an enemy.
Location: This Skull is located in the beginning of the second level “Crow’s Nest”, the very room you start in. Hanging down from the ceiling is some piping. On top of this piping, on the side nearest to the large display (the one that Hood appears on) lies the “Black Eye Skull”.

Tough Luck Skull - Gold
Effect: Your enemies never back down, always make their saving throws, and always charge you.
Location: The “Catch Skull” is found on the third level, at the point in the level when the huge covenant cruiser flies overhead. On your left is some large piping following the road you are walking on. Underneath this piping are some support beams that extend out over a cliff. Jump onto the first of these beams, and travel to the end of it. Look to your left, and the Tough Luck Skull will be sitting on a rock extending from a cliff edge.

Catch Skull - Gold
Effect: Your Enemies throw LOTS of grenades.
Location: The “Catch Skull” can be found on the fourth level, in the first area where you need to destroy the Wraith Tanks. When you enter this area, do not eliminate the Wraith Tanks (The skull appears when the tanks appear, and disappears when the tanks are destroyed). The Skull is located on top of the circular building next to the Anti-Air Tank. You can access the roof using a grenade jump, or jumping on the back of a hog.

Fog Skull - Gold
Effect: “You’ll miss those eyes in the back of your head.” You lose your motion sensor.
Location: The Fog Skull is found on the level "Floodgate", at the very beginning of the level. As you are walking down from the anti-air gun you destroyed in the previous mission, you encounter a ramp (next to a missile launcher). Around this ramp, you hit a checkpoint. At this point, you should also hear a marine yelling, “There! Over There!”. You have a small window of opportunity at this point, but it is fairly easy to get the Fog Skull. Look up, and to the right, directly at the roof of the building next to the missle launcher. There is a single flood form (not to be mistaken with the two other flood forms jumping in front of you) which is holding the skull. Kill him before he jumps, and he will drop the skull down to the ground where you can retrieve it. Too early, and the skull will get stuck on the roof though, so just time it carefully.

Famine Skull - Gold
Effect: Enemies drop 50% of the ammo they usually drop.
Location: This skull requires a bit of grenade jumping skill/luck. You can find the “Famine Skull” on the sixth level, near the point where the path you follow branches off into two sections (one leading to the area where you need to let the tanks across the bridge, and the other leading towards the area where you meet up with the frigate). Take the right path, as you would if you were completing the mission, and you’ll notice a structure above you / to the left of you (near the area where you encounter a few ghosts). You need to scale the rocks to the right of the structure, and then travel across it so that you pass 3 of the large support beams extending into the cliffs. Inside of the fourth support beam, lies the Famine Skull. A well placed grenade should have you up there in no time!

Thunderstorm Skull - Gold
Effect: All enemies are given a field promotion, and ranked up to their next available level.
Location: The “Thunderstorm Skull” can be found on the level, “The Covenant”, after you take command of one of the Hornet vehicles. Fly towards the second force field generator (the one the Arbiter disabled), and land. The skull is waiting at the very top, at the end of the ramp extending over the sea.

Tilt Skull - Gold
Effect: Makes enemy resistance much greater. For example, Brute power armor becomes nearly impossible to take out with nearly anything except for plasma bursts.
Location: The “Tilt Skull” is found on the level “Cortana”, in the circular room where Cortana mentions that she “Likes to play games too…”. It’s a bit difficult to get to, as it requires getting on top of the ceiling of the room. Upon entering the room, head towards the left side where you will see some mushroom shaped extrusions along the wall. Get on top of these, and then look up and towards the right for another set of extrusions. Jump to these. From here, you should be able to jump on top of the ceiling of the room, where the Tilt Skull lies in the center.

Mythic Skull - Gold
Effect: All enemies have double their usual health.
Location: This is probably the easiest Golden skull in the game to get. It is located in the very beginning of the final level in Halo 3. Begin by heading into the canyon, but hug the right wall. Very soon, you will notice that there is a turn to the right that is off the normal trail. Head a bit down this path, and the “Mythic Skull” will be sitting there.

Fishless Night, Again!!!!!!

I haven't caught a fish worth mentioning since July. The bite has been very slow and I even went as far as tiring liver to see if I could get the small cats to bite. Went to Reevesville, WV tonight and it seemed everyone in town was there. Had boats racing and doing donuts in front of my lines. People having fires up and down the banks, screaming, whistling, drinking, and probably more. Now I remember why I always stayed home on weekends and fished on weekdays. The cops did show up at some point and got things under control, but by that time I was ready to leave anyways. No one wanted to do donuts with there boat while the police was there. Not sure why those guys couldn't have had respect for some of us that really wanted to be out fishing and not partying. The way I see it, if they felt they couldn't do something because the police was there, then they shouldn't do it when the police are not there.

Guess I need start hunting for a better fall spot. The ones I go to now, nothing seems to be biting.

Click to activate - Fix for Flash in IE

Click to activate and use this control

While redesigning one of my websites, I ran into this problem when displaying the page in Internet Explorer. The problem was, I was using flash on the page and when using IE, you had to click on the flash to get it to work. So, my hunt began for a fix. Adobe actually had a fix for this on there website, but I didn't like what they wanted me to do. I was using the flash in a header page and I didn't want to add Javascript in the head tags of all my pages that used this header file. That would mean a lot of pages I would have to edit.

To make a long story short, here is the fix for this problem. All you have to do is add a small piece of JS under neigh your flash movie. Nothing to put in your head tags, which made me happy.

Add this right after the closing object tag in your html code:

theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;
}

If you really want, you could save this code in it's own page titled "IEflashFix.js" and then call that page each time you need it.

Nintendo - Original NES

I didn't post about it, but I finally sent my xbox360 in to get fixed. I check the status everyday waiting to see if it has been shipped back to me yet. While waiting, I decided to bring out my old Original Nintendo and play it. There is a few things that amazes me. The graphics that I once thought was great, I now wonder how I played some of those games. And to think that at that time there was no game saves. If you wanted to beat a game, you had to sit there for hours until you reached the end. I guess you could leave it turned on and paused and come back, but I usually chose to sit there for hours.

The other thing that amazes me is, how come I can still play my original NES (bought around 1984) with out to much more problems then I had back in the day, when my 360 can't last 3 years without being unplayable? Today's systems cost way more, and they do have more technology, but can't they get things to work before releasing there product for purchase? It just amazes me that my NES still works after all these years and all the hours of game play it has taken.

While playing through the games, I found it fun trying to remember all the secrets that they put into games back then. I was surprise that I remembered where the secret flutes was located in Super Mario Bros 3 and where the Warps was in Mario Bros 1.

Although it was fun, my interest in playing those games, today, didn't last long. I found my self only playing maybe a half hour of each game and not hours like I did back in the day. But.......it helps to tie me over until I get my 360 back.

Credit Cards that Tap Dance

I am sure you all have seen the commercials. The commercial shows people standing in line to pay for there food, each customer gets to the register and taps there credit card on a reader then it's the next person's turn. This goes on for a few customers until someone whips out some cash to pay and the whole line stops. It seems this customer is holding up the line by paying with cash.

Ok, here is my issue with this.

1. Why is tapping the card better then swiping it? Maybe you save 2 seconds of your time tap dancing your card instead of swiping it but who is counting there time of the day in seconds?

2. I never checked into this, but the commercial doesn't show the customer signing for there purchase like you would have to do if you swiped your card. Two points on this, either the commercial is giving you false since of saving a few more seconds of your time, OR I guess since you don't have to sign the receipt and one can use your card with no questions asked. Maybe they are trying to help a credit card thief out. Lord knows how rough there life is trying to forge a signature when using a stolen credit card.

3. Are tap dancing credit cards (or side swiping credit cards) really faster then paying with cash? I am sure my neck of the woods is not on a high scale like bigger cities, but here I live, after you swipe your card, you have to wait 30 seconds for there machine to approve your card. Where I live, it is credit card payments that hold up the line, not cash payments. The cashier can take the money and give change back before a credit card machine is dialed up, connected, and verifies the card and sends back a approve message.

In my opinion, I don't see any hype in tapping my card instead of swiping it. Here is a suggestion to the credit card companies, Why not just do away with cards altogether and start handing out little wands that people can tap? It makes more since to me to tap wands around the place instead of cards.

Funny Fishing Picture

Here is a funny fishing picture I found the other day.

OSHA Class

Yesterday I had my first OSHA class. I signed up for the OSHA 10 class but didn't really know what the 10 meant. I needed the class so I signed up for it. The 10 ended up meaning 10 hours. Even though the class was a lot of Power Point slide shows, I actually learned more then I had thought I would. Just glad I didn't have to do the OSHA 500.

OSHA has a great website with information on anything you want to know about a certain subject. I am not sure how fast I can remember every rule, so I am sure I will be using there website as a reference.

http://www.osha.gov

"Hooked" anti-smoking ads spark record complaints

LONDON - British Government anti-smoking posters featuring men and women with fish hooks through their mouths attracted one of the highest numbers of complaints the advertising standards watchdog has ever received.

Nearly 800 complaints were made about a series of poster, TV, newspaper and Internet adverts which many felt were offensive and distressing, particularly to children.

It was the highest number of complaints received by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) since a KFC advert in June 2005 which featured people singing with their mouths full, which notched up the highest ever number with 1,671.

The Department of Health had commissioned the anti-smoking adverts in an attempt to shock smokers into breaking the habit.

"The average smoker needs over five thousand cigarettes a year. Get unhooked," the posters read.

The government said it believed people would not be seriously offended by the adverts, particularly because they aimed to protect people from the damaging effects of smoking.

It had taken measures to ensure the posters would not be placed near schools.

Nevertheless, 152 people said the posters had upset their children.

The ASA upheld those complaints, saying the posters could easily be seen by children. It did not however consider the adverts breached its decency code.

The government also ran a series of TV adverts along the "hooked" theme, which showed men and women being dragged along the floor with a hook inside their cheek. The ASA received 103 complaints from people saying they upset children.

The Department of Health had toned down the images by ensuring that the hooks were not shown to pierce the skin of characters, and the adverts had been cleared by the Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre, so long as they were not shown around children's programmes.

But, again, the ASA upheld the complaint, saying the ads could still be seen by older children, and that it was likely to frighten them.

There were also 10 complaints about the campaign run in national newspapers and magazines and one for an internet advert, which were not upheld.

I hate the USA's "Spread the Knowledge" campaign also, or whatever there catch title is. What other company has to spend millions every year advertising that people should not use there products? If people want to smoke, let them smoke. There is NO proof that second hand smoke causes cancer, so don't give me that line either. Someone goes to the doctors, the doctor says "You have lung cancer", the person says "O' it must have been Jim that always smoked around me". WTF, there is no proof, it is just guesses. Not saying they are not good guesses, but don't state it as a fact when it isn't proven to be one! Same as the "Global Warming" that isn't really a fact, but just a guess, and everyone takes what the news says as being a fact, but I won't get into that one in this post.

I remember when they took off the cartoon camel from Camel cigs. That was the dumbest thing ever. A cartoon is not making people/kids smoke. If you don't want your kids to smoke, then don't let them. Simple as that. Try being parents and quit letting your kids set the rules.

Beer is worse then cigs, but they do nothing to stop all the drinking. The issue is, the Fed Gov does not get money from the cig company like they do the beer companies. This is a punishment started by Mr. Clinton to get back at the Cig Companies that didn't want to give him money.

Just knock the crap off.

13 Things PMS Stands For

1. Pass My Shotgun
2. Psychotic Mood Shift
3. Perpetual Munching Spree
4. Puffy Mid-Section
5. People Make me Sick
6. Provide Me with Sweets
7. Pardon My Sobbing
8. Pimples May Surface
9. Pass My Sweatpants
10. Pissy Mood Syndrome
11. Plainly; Men Suck
12. Pack My Stuff
13. Potential Murder Suspect

4 fish farm workers rescued from feces

TURNERS FALLS, Mass. - This nasty rescue is no fish tale.

Rescuers cut through a filtration tank of dense fish feces to reach four workers who fell into the sludgy dung Friday while cleaning the 18-foot tank at a western Massachusetts farm.

The workers became trapped for 45 minutes after a bracket holding a plastic filtration pad collapsed as workers stood on it to clean the fiberglass tank at the Australis Aquaculture fish farm, said Turners Falls Fire Capt. David Dion and the fish farm's manager, Josh Goldman.

One of the farmhands was submerged in what Dion described as a sand-and-feces mix, while the other three had their heads above the sludge, he said.

Dion said rescue workers cut a hole in the side of the tank at the farm, which raises barramundi, a fish farmed as a replacement for grouper.

"It was very slimy and it was heavy," he said. "Never seen anything like it in my life."

One worker who fell under the feces was airlifted to Bay State Medical Center in Springfield, but was talking with paramedics and did not appear to have life-threatening injuries, Dion said. The other three were taken by ambulance to a local hospital with minor injuries.

I would love to see some pictures of this. lol I haven't seen a large tank's filter, but I have seen what my filter on my small tank looks like, and I would not want to be trapped up to my head in that stuff.

The farm raises barramundi, a new fish farmed as a replacement for grouper, according to the Web site for Australis Aquaculture, an Australia-based company.

10 Reasons you might be a Redneck Fisherman

1. You have more fish on your wall than pictures.

2. You're raising catfish in your bathtub.

3. Your wife has earrings that you use as fishing lures.

4. You've ever combed your hair with a fish scaler.

5. You video tape fishing shows.

6. You received a tube of crickets as a wedding present.

7. You keep bait in your refrigerator.

8. Your boat hasn't left your driveway in years.

9. You've used your fishing license as a form of I.D.

10. You have your picture taken with other people's fish.

If you want more then 10, here are a few others that members from Katmasters has added to the list:

11. If more than half the numbers on your speed dial are to bait shops.

12. your fishing tackle is worth more than your house.

13. If your idea of a vacation is a week of fishing.

I can relate to more then one of these. lol You have some other things to add to this list? Lets hear 'em.