December 18, 2007
64-bit Windows Not Quite Ready for Prime-time
I recently built a new main system. It is really nice with a quad-core processor, 4GB of RAM and two top-of-the-line video cards to enable me to drive three monitors. After reading an article on one of my favorite blogs, Coding Horror, about 64-bit Windows and being encouraged by my friend, Punish, I decided to give it a shot. Everything seemed great and the only problems I had were ones that I was convinced were your typical problems with a new setup and I would take care of them soon enough. Until I decided to try out the new Windows Home Server.
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March 6, 2007
See This? This is Sand!
I was reading an article this morning about people who work at Disneyland, but don’t make enough money to afford a decent place to live. It said that some of them live in two bedroom apartments that cost in the neighborhood of fifteen-hundred dollars a month … so they have to pack in three, four, even eight people into these apartments or motel rooms. The article was advocating that Disney should assist with various efforts to create low-income housing near the park.
As I was reading it, all I could think of was the late, great Sam Kinison …
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January 16, 2007
World of Warcraft Burning Crusade Expansion
So yeah, I’m a geek. I pre-ordered the Burning Crusade expansion and then attended the midnight event so I could be one of the first to walk around in the new areas post-launch. (Which, if my gaming habit were completely rational, I would admit to myself that at the very least people on the East Coast would get in three hours ahead of me … not to mention others outside the US. Time-zone-wise, California is on the ass-end of the world.)
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May 22, 2006
E3 Pics Are Finally Up
I know the vast Internet has been waiting patiently for me to put up my E3 pictures …
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May 11, 2006
Console Wars Reveal Sony's Hubris?
I set out this morning, steeling myself for the dangers that lay ahead. Despite the stories, I knew so little of what truly lay before me …
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May 9, 2006
E3 Coverage - Day 1
So this is it … time to head to Los Angeles and see what the scions of the gaming world have come up with to entrance, amaze and entertain us this year. Read on for today’s travelogue …
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April 30, 2006
E3 Coverage Here
On the ninth of May, I’ll be travelling to Los Angeles to attend the Electronics Entertainment Exposition, more commonly known as E3. It is the annual show where the video game industry struts its stuff … but only to game industry insiders. I’m not necessarily an insider … but since I work for one, I was able to wrangle a pass. Bu is supposed to be going with me … this has been our dream for the past two years, to go together … but he’s been having problems with obtaining his pass, so we’re not sure if he’s going to be able to make it.
So I’ll be doing my best, whether Bu can come or not, to provide a glimpse into what this show is all about right here on legoinrants.com. Pictures of booth babes, information on the latest games, all right here as soon as I can find an Internet connection to upload it.
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April 24, 2006
Tomb Raider: Legend
So rather than pick up Rumble Roses XX, I picked up Tomb Raider: Legend. Although it stars equally curvaceous feminine heroes, it has a lot more game to it. Punish long ago extoled the virtues of Tomb Raider to me, but I just couldn’t get past the marketing (vis-a-vis Lara Croft’s figure) … so this is actually the first Tomb Raider game I’ve played. I must say, that it is fun for a 3D platformer … though it suffers all the standard 3D platformer challenges: inobvious camera angles, sometimes superhuman accuracy requirements, etc. And, since this is the first time I’ve played a Tomb Raider game … I’m not sure if the Dragon’s Lair-style follow-the-bouncing-button animation sections are new or not. So far, I invariably fail the first time through one of these animations … and then find them trivial thereafter. Not a complaint … just an insight.
Maybe more on the game later … right now, to work! I have to support my habit, y’know …
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April 22, 2006
Enough to Make Me Blush
I saw the ad for Rumble Roses XX on my Xbox360 guide screen. It advertises that the game “features all female wrestling”. Now, anytime a game features all-female anything … its bound to be something that would put out any woman with the barest minimum of feminist leanings to be certain, but this takes the cake. I have to admit that I have a certain niggling morbid curiosity about the game … but, then again, if I play it, my Xbox360 Gamer Profile will display that fact forever and ever.
And really, what kinds of Achievements would it offer? Skankiest Outfit Evar?
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April 5, 2006
Teacher Blows Off Own Hand in Front of Students
That is the headline I would have put over this article. And if I could have gotten away with it, it would have started with “Dumbass”. The man picks up a 40mm shell … which, by the way, is the size of a large grenade or mortar round while out hunting and assumes it’s not live?!? The irony is thick here … this is a teacher!
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