Archive for September, 2005
Looting Brain’s Computer
One of the many awkward side-effects of Brain’s current condition is the loss of one of my decent computers. It’s a long story, but here’s the gist: I had built a sweet little small form-factor system for the dining room so my dad and brother had a community internet station. Well, my brother abused his [...]
Read More..>>Have I Mentioned I Hate Sony?
Word on the street is Microsoft and Intel have HD DVD’s back, which are big wins, but I don’t know if it’s too little too late. Blu-Ray has a bunch of supporters, including Universal (music), Fox, Disney, Apple, Dell, and HP. I’m not exactly sure why there’s a problem in the first place; HD DVD [...]
Read More..>>Pointless Art Project: Duplicate the Pictochat GUI
I’m trying to cycle my sleep schedule since I start work in less than a week, so to kill time until Nanostray finally shows up in the mail I had to come up with something tedious and time consuming to keep me up. For whatever reason, I decided I would duplicate, pixel-for-pixel, the Pictochat interface [...]
Read More..>>Fastest House Call Yet
So it’s about 8:30 in the morning, just about time to go to bed, when I get a phone call. The number is not programmed into my phone, which normally denotes a wrong number or tech support call. It was the latter, but my heart dropped into my stomach when they greeted me. It was [...]
Read More..>>Electric Sheep
If I remember correctly, I was in 5th grade when Jurassic Park came out. I was big into dinosaurs at the time (I know, really original), and the movie only strengthened my obsession. I saw the movie over ten times in theaters alone, including a special showing with local paleontologist Robert Bakker who, along with [...]
Read More..>>Bomberman DS
Too fired up over Advance Wars to go to bed (yeah…it’s past 10AM), so here’s a quick rundown on Bomberman DS.
Played Bomberman? You’ve played Bomberman DS. The single player game is exactly (well…almost) the same game we’ve been playing for 20 years. The only thing that’s really changed is the ability to stockpile your powerups, [...]
Advance Wars DS
I’ve been intentionally putting off impressions of my new DS games so that I could spend a little more time with them to really give a definite opinion about them. I decided Advance Wars: Dual Strike will be the first because I am so PISSED OFF at the goddamn thing that I need a break [...]
Read More..>>Sony Cuts Another 10,000 Jobs
Sony’s new, foreign CEO is trying to get the company back into the black, and is cutting 10,000 jobs (after recently cutting 20,000), shutting down 11 of their 65 plants, selling 120 billion yen worth of real estate, and is planning on reducing product models by 20%.
They have also posted a loss for the year, [...]
New Computer Phase I: Planning
So, I haven’t mentioned anything, but I got a boring data-entry job starting at $8.60/hr (which, by my state’s standards and cost of living expenses, is pretty good) that starts in about 2 weeks. This, of course, has opened the door to the possibility of catching up on game and DVD purchases, but I’m going [...]
Read More..>>Nintendo Absolved
Nintendo may be making strange business decisions in recent years, but they clearly saw what it would mean for their future if they made their radically different “remote” controller the only input option for the Revolution.
While there are no official prototypes or pictures of the device available from Nintendo, the existence of a “standard” controller [...]
