March 2008

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• Life

  Birds like Game Designers.

  03.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Scott Jennings is being stalked by a bird.
  A Pretty Red Bird.
  Apparently I also have a bird.

  He keeps coming by our apartment and tapping on the window.
  Our cats are not amused.

• Gadgets

  Go me

  03.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I bought an Arduino.
  So far, all I can do is make it blink and make a buzzing noise.
  I purchased a 7 segment vfd and a cheap 1X16 lcd, but lack any usable technical information as to how to use either of them.
  So it sits there and blinks.. and makes buzzing noises.

• Gadgets

  Sony Book Reader : A Review

  03.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So my wife broke my old crappy e-book reader, so I err… borrowed her new shiny Sony PRS-505 Eink reader.
  It’s awesome. Like as life changing as my big clonky REB-1200 was when I got it 4 years ago.
  Visually it looks like paperback book. With magical changing pages.
  Killer battery life, great form factor. The cover [...]

• Movies

  Way to jump the gun Thomas…

  03.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just finished the Mist. Fucking awesome. Greatest scary Stephen King in near memory, and best mindfuck ending since Se7en.
  As Mr. Freeman always says, Se7en proves that Fedex will deliver ANYTHING.
  Cept any of my shit.
  They go out of there way to fuck that up.

• Games

  Larry Flynt is right!

  03.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Well, not really.
  But Mr. Freeman got something right. And other industries know it, we haven’t figured it out yet.
  You don’t make the perfect MMO. You make the perfect MMOs.
  Jeff always suggests making 5 variants of the same game, catering to a variety of playstyles. Eve Online loons, WOW carebears, Second Life perverts..
  You fill up your [...]

• Computers

  Why you should not buy a Lexmark

  03.09.08 | Permalink | 23 Comments

  So I needed a scanner.
  I got tired of faxing shit, so a scanner seemed like a good idea.
  Turns out, All-in-one printers with scanners are cheaper than full scanners. So I decided to get one of those.
  I wanted an HP, but nobody had it. I wanted a canon, but nobody had it.
  I told my wife [...]

• Funny

  Jeff discovers Europe

  03.09.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Good for him.
  In case you’re wondering, I think I’m the dot to the right of everyone else, near the scandinavian “appendage”.

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