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Sunday, November 19th, 2006
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We picked ourselves up a Nintendo Wii today. I can't remember the last time we got something (larger than a CD / movie) the day it came out.
After passing packs of people with sleeping bags and coolers who had camped out overnight we ended up going to Toys R Us, which had a whopping zero people outside it. Amid reports of 10 units being there we got in line, found out they really had 39, got ticket number 5 and went home to wait until 10:00 when the store actually opened.
Having played with the Wii for most of the day I can say the system has some real promise. The interface is very responsive, which was my biggest doubt, and although the initial games are a bit on the primitive side there is definetly plenty of room to grow and everything they do have is rock solid. You only need to spend 5 minutes in Wii Boxing to see they have something unique going on.
Other random things that are nice: usb ports, wi-fi connectivity, SD memory cards, GC compatibility.
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
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For anyone who's still trying to patch, I've placed the patch here. Just unzip that and run the updater.
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
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There’s a pretty nasty virus that activates on Feb. 3rd that will delete all your .doc .ppt .zip .rar.. basically any file you’ve put work into. I reccomend everyone update your virus definition files and run a full system scan today or tomorrow, and of course back up all your work to cd/dvd (which you should be doing anyways).
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
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Ok, whatever you're doing, it's not as funny as this video. Trust me, this is one web video that's worth the time to check out.
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
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So microsoft has this 'game advisor' web program which is supposed to be used to help you tell if your computer will be able to play a given game decently. I ran it on my laptop and got the following result: "100% of the systems scanned by the Game Advisor rank higher in performance than your system." Sweet, my laptop sucks for playing games! No big surprise, really.
Just to restore some of my dork-ego I scanned my desktop machine, on which I actually do play games.
"Your system is among the top 4% of all systems scanned by Game Advisor."
This is actually slightly surprising because I'd consider my video card to be the low end for anyone who actually cares about playing modern games on the PC, yet it's near the top of what people actually have. It is amusing to see my video card on my desktop clock in with as much memory as my entire laptop has for system memory.. hehe The good thing about having such a spread like this though is if I actually make a game myself, if it runs on my desktop, great. If it runs on my laptop, anyone can run it :p
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So there's a trailer out for the upcoming doom movie. Get this though, it's not demons from hell, it's demons from some sort of genetic experiment/research. Sorry guys but that makes it not-doom. Also, there have already been one movie, oh, wait, and two movies using that plot.
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Evolution may not be an absolutely bulletproof theory, but seriously, these "Intelligent Design" people are going to have to do better than trying to tell me the grand canyon was formed by Noah's flood. I've been there. I'm not even a geologist and it's pretty freaking obvious how the grand canyon got there, and let me give you a hint: it wasn't from one stinking flood.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -Galileo
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True or not, this is a pretty amusing story of chemical hijinks.
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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
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If you think that just maybe you can find a yahoo discussion group about an interesting topic, about which you could talk with intelligent, thoughtful people, allow me to share with you this post I just recieved.
"thanks for you advice but this dream has happend about to or tree mouths a part"
Tree mouths.
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
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So when people buy books in canada, can they help feeling but a little ripped off, seeing the lower U.S. price right there? Conversion rates aside, I know I can’t help but feel good I’m not paying the “higher canadian price".
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If you like Orson Scott Card books, then here's what you should do, read nothing but his books. I swear every time the guy opens his mouth outside of his books he sounds like an arrogant asshole. I'll be honest, I didn't read that whole "commentary" I just linked, but I've stopped reading Card's rants since that one where he ripped into homosexuality. C'mon Card, don't you have something more important to be doing than ragging on how people show affection for one-another?
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Just for your reference, mouthwash + canker sore = jesus christ!
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Normally I find online quizzes to be absolutely moronic, like having to pay over $150 for a ps2 that first came out in the stone age, but this one was pretty good.
Your Linguistic Profile:
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50% General American English |
40% Yankee |
5% Dixie |
5% Upper Midwestern |
0% Midwestern |
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I really don't understand drawn-on eyebrows. Which part of shaving off your eyebrow and drawing this little pencil-thin line in it's place is attractive? Didn't you people read that calvin and hobbes strip where hobbes shaves calvin's head and tries to draw hair back on? It didn't work if you recall. Calvin ended up in the tub. The tub that he hates.
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Saturday, April 9th, 2005
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Livejournal has this page that probably most of you have seen already where they list the most popular interests of their users. Examining this list leads to some interesting conclusions.
Reading is more important than friends.
Photography is better than love.
Boys are more important than food.
Anime is better than sex.
Johnny Depp is more important than clothes.
Traveling is more important than eating
Family Guy beats out history
Mp3s are only slightly more interesting than vampires
God is more important than baseball, but not volleyball.
Dragons are better than pirates.
Puppies are better than swords.
Cats are twice as good as dogs (bullshit).
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