This is from my friend Yogi: A man has six children and is very proud of his achievement. He is so proud of himself, that he starts calling his wife,” Mother of Six” in spite of her objections. One night, they go to a party. The man decides that it’s time to go home and […]
Monthly Archives: November 2004
World of Warcraft
This game rocks. Even Gamespot says so: “Such high quality simply cannot be expected, nor should it be missed.“ I am addicted to this game. I could be addicted to much worse things, right? This keeps me home, saves me money, so to speak.
My Christmas Wish List
ZBoard — it’s a keyboard that helps me play videogames more efficiently. Do you want to contribute to my videogame delinquency? That’s up to you. If you act before January 9th, you get a free World of Warcraft (my favorite game and obsession) keyset. This keyboard is interchangable with keysets for popular games, sold separately. […]
I want one of these!!!
Roku Labs HD1000 This is awesome. It’s the first high-definition ready media player. Looks nice. The only thing I don’t like is that it doesn’t have digital audio pass-through. It has component video pass-through, so that I could pass my DVD player through it, but it only has analog audio pass through. That sucks. I’d […]
Gnome Warlock art
Some dude did an awesome work-up of a Gnome Warlock in his shop. Click to enlarge. I can’t WAIT for this game to come out tomorrow. Sucks that I have class and won’t get to log in until about 9pm. Boo hoo hoo!!!
HUMMER Firebomber Gets Five Years
HUMMER Firebomber Could Get Five Years A 24-year-old doctoral candidate at the California Institute of Technology could be headed to prison for five years or more, after being convicted on Friday of firebombing vehicles at a HUMMER dealership on Aug. 22, 2003. William Cottrell, a physics student at CalTech, was found guilty of seven counts […]
8 in 10 Greeks own mobile phones!!!
This is a neat little story that came onto my radar. It was actually under the top 5 Reuters Technology stories on My Yahoo’s front page I have set up. ATHENS (Reuters) – With 76 percent of Greek households owning mobile phones, interest for third-generation services is rising, the country’s statistics service (NSS) said on […]
When Overpaid Athletes Attack
My friend Alex had some nice comments about last night’s Pistons vs. Pacers debacle. I wrote some comments on his blog entry. Crazy that this happened, especially in Detroit, who is always on the radar of the nation for being a shithole. When Overpaid Athletes Attack
Look at this picture form 1954.
In reading the fine print, you see that this was a concept of a home computer for the year 2004. CRAZY!!!
Interesting article on taking better photos
Over at AnandTech, there is an interesting article about taking better photos. I’ve been getting more intrigued with photography over the past few months, and have always liked finding articles that either explain the mechanics of photography, or the “feeling” of photography and how to get better shots. Article at AnandTech