Archive for June, 2004

I wonder why we’re supposed to flip the flag up on our mailboxes when we have outgoing mail. Is it to let the mailman know that there’s mail in there for him to pick up? If that’s the case, then why bother with a flag? Isn’t he just going to open it anyway to drop off your mail?

Maybe the flag is there to let US know when the mail has arrived. But then it becomes useless on days when you have no outgoing mail.

What’s the story there, huh?

18 MB of MUST SEE VIDEO. Genius asian kid TEARS UP a piano with nothing but Super Mario music. It’s amazing, incredible, stupendous, and wonderful. Watch the whole thing. The finale is so fast that I think he’s a robot.

Since the PS2 hard drive was introduced in March, only two applications that use it have seen the light of day: Final Fantasy XI Online and the infamous HD Loader.

Someone spilled the beans over at the official PlayStation2 HDD message board about HD Loader, and it’s now full of locked threads and mass hysteria. You really need to dig to find any questions about Final Fantasy.

If you haven’t ordered a copy yet for yourself, you may not be able to for much longer now that it’s on Sony’s radar. Divineo has proven itself to be an incompetent reseller, so your best bet is to try an alternate source.

A man just came up to me with a parrot on his arm and asked me for a pair of pliers.

Just another day at the office!

I was up way too late last night watching Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal. I never knew about it until now, and boy howdy Michael Larsen is my new hero.

An out of work ice-cream vendor, Larsen had spent his spare time meticulously videotaping the workings of PYL’s ‘big board’ and discovered what nobody else had – a pattern in the board’s supposed randomness that guaranteed he would never lose as long as his concentration and hand-eye coordination could hold out.

More at SciScoop.

Anyone wanna buy a GBA flash card? I’ll sell ya mine. It works fine. 128M though.

I’ll throw in a power adapter and parallel cable no charge!

$75 for the whole thing, shipped!

Looking for downloadable videos of pretty much every ride at every Universal theme park? Look no further!

I hooked up my new PS2 network adapter this weekend in preparation for my soon-to-arrive HDLoader, and I had a hell of a time getting it to work. I kept getting “DNAS ERROR (-116)” no matter what I tried.

After DHCP wouldn’t work and assigning a static IP wouldn’t either, I figured I should start poking around on my router, and therein lay the problem!

The problem turned out to be this- The PS2 network adapter won’t work with the D-Link DI-624. Not out of the box, anyway. To make it work you have to visit the Home/LAN page on your router and ENABLE DNS RELAY (it’s disabled by default.) Turn that thingie on and you’re good to go!

Through Google I found tons of people online with this same problem, and none of them had found a fix. Hopefully by posting this here I’ll help other people in the same situation!

We saw The Notebook last night…it was a great film, but it was one of the saddest movies I’ve seen in a good long while. People were crying all around me, and I fought like hell to keep the tears in my eyes and the sniffles to a minimum.

Anyone who comes out of that theater thinking that stem cell research is bad needs to have their head examined.

Disneyland has finally caved in to the pressure and has started selling one day park-hopper tickets for Disneyland and DCA. Two-day park hoppers have been available for a while now, but most of the DLR’s visitors are locals who don’t plan on driving to Anaheim two days in a row.

This photo of the ticket booth prices confirms it. The ol’ one-day-one-park tickets are still $49, but $20 more will let you visit both parks on the same day.

If nothing else will goose the attendance at DCA, this will.