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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Thinly Veiled Overtones

Good buddy Len sends me this EBGameStop commercial.
I may not agree with the whole upscale pawnshop business model, but at least the commercial is funny.

Post contains term: Weaponized disco ball

In a pretty strange move, Sony is recommending that retailers break street date for Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction.  Which is great news for me because this was one of the games I was actually looking forward to.  Nice to see them do something right for a change.
Thank you, I’m here ’til Friday.
But with [...]

Boy, I sure do love whitewashing this fence!

I’m kind of hooked on Google Image Labeler. I know it’s work that computers cannot do. I know it’s work. I know that despite their best efforts to not be evil, google is exploiting the citizens of the internet as cheap labor. I know that it’s a clever, trickster god method [...]

Everything is better with lasers attached to it

To be honest, I don’t know what train wreck of reasoning led me to rationalize the purchase of a laser pointer assisted non contact thermometer. I’m still working on that whole, “need versus want” rationale.
Also on my priority action item list is “impulse control,” so that may have explained the ease with which my [...]

The Obsoletes

I have a box labeled, “The Obsoletes.” It’s filled with an older gadgets and whatnot that for some reason, I just don’t use anymore. Going through that box (not as big as you’d think) I found my Casio WQV-3.
It’s a wristwatch camera.
Here is a picture from today, some artwork that I found [...]

Halo 3: Hilarity Ensues

After slogging through the disappointing single player game, (mostly via inertia from the cliffhanger ending of Halo 2) I have to say that the multiplayer aspect of Halo 3 is the “real” game that I paid money for.
While the single player game brings nothing new to the table, the fact that I can save my [...]