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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Zombies

I’ve been playing a lot of Left 4 Dead and really itching to play Call of Duty: World at War’s Nazi Zombies mode.  Also looking forward to Dead Rising 2, which appears to be zombies in Las Vegas.  Dead Space was essentially zombies in, well, in space.
I don’t actually know what the appeal is.  I’m [...]

Chess, The Musical!

It exists, and has existed, for a long time.  I’ve wanted to see a production of it, but I’ve never been able to catch it anywhere.
Involved: Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson formerly of ABBA and Tim Rice.  Yes, those guys.
What most people don’t realize is that they’ve most likely already heard music from it.
One Night [...]

I feel like doing

Something musical.
Well now, this sounds like a project.

Twofer

For a while now, the air conditioning convectors in the condo have been adequate, but they suffered from a poor air distribution model.  That is, one side of the condo would end up extremely cold or hot, and then the other side would gain no benefit at all from the cooled or heated air.
I’d prefer [...]

The new ways. Same as the old ways.

The plaster walls are off white, the color that white gets when a last minute paint job has been slapped together to sell a house, or in this case a condominium.  The dappled sunlight leaks in through the windows from over the trees, the windows barely bring in enough air in this too short spring, [...]

The old ways

The cinder block walls are off white, the color that white glossy paint gets when it’s too cheap and has been there for too long.  The dappled sunlight  leaks into the room from outside, the windows are cracked open enough for me to tell that it’s a nice spring day.  The air is fresh, clean [...]

Netbook time

I really consider the netbook more of a gadget than an actual computer.  Something with a real keyboard that happens to be able to access the internet and “act” like a computer.  Or enough like one that I can do all of the things that I need it to do while I’m out.  Like post [...]