Feb 17
Mass Effect was a great game. I finished it two years ago so I kind of forgot just how great it was…and just about every major plot point too.
Now I’ve started Mass Effect 2 and it’s all coming back to me. I just got to the part where Garrus makes his appearance and I was happy to see him and I actually got excited to have him on my team again.
I’m a big nerd.
Here’s a Mass Effect 2 rap about scanning for minerals. Note the remixed galaxy map music and Shepard sound clips!
Feb 16
Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers. Allegedly.
Sure, I’ll buy a Kindle for $79. Just don’t expect me to pay for any books.
Feb 16
Feb 12
I mentioned it on Facebook a few months ago, but not here on the ol’ blog. We’ve got another baby on the way. Kate’s going to be a big sister to…a girl! She’s due at the end of June.
At first I was like “Yessssss. Now we don’t have to buy any more toys or baby clothes!” and then I was like “Nooooo. Now we have to pay for two weddings!” And just like that, the savings canceled each other out.
Men seem to always want sons. Not me. I was a boy and I know what that business is all about. I’m happy with two girls. And two is the end of the line for us. Mentally and financially, two is the limit.
I’m starting to look forward to my empty-nest retirement days now. I’ll have some peace and quiet around the house and I’ll be able to get through this backlog of video games, books, and TV shows that are just passing me by.
Feb 12
Take a ham radio license test online and see how you do. The technician test is 35 multiple choice questions. 75% is passing.
It’s just for practice. If you want the real thing you actually have to show up somewhere and talk to people. Which nobody does. Which is why the hobby is dying. Also, the Internet.
Feb 10
Between the end of the LAX runway and the Pacific Ocean is a little sliver of land that, from the satellite image, looks like a residential housing development…without any houses.
That’s what it used to be, but it was seized and razed by the government in the 60s. Now it’s just a ghost town, and the 800 homes that were built in the 1920s are long gone.
Not that anyone would want to live next to an airport runway.
Feb 10
But sometimes at my job, without anyone’s permission or direction, without any papers in hand or abbreviations or acronyms or any right except a self-imposed one, I say something that feels very, very important to me. It’s this: It’s going to be okay. I was raised by a single mom, and I turned out just fine.
via Hobocamp.
Feb 8
One of my Top 5 favorites from the NES has been reborn.
Blaster Master…
…has gotten a 2D sequel.
It’s available for purchase starting today on WiiWare. Nobody even knew that SunSoft was working on it until they announced it last Friday!
Feb 5
Blogger announced that it’s dropping support for FTP publishing, so I’m announcing that I’m dropping support for Blogger. I’ve been using it for ten years (this month) and it’s time to move on!
I’ve imported the last decade of Blogger posts into a custom WordPress install with a free theme I found. I figured why reinvent the wheel?
The move to WordPress lets me have things like unbroken images in my RSS feed, comments on posts (hi Jeff!), post titles, feature-adding plugins, and all kinds of other things that’ll make my life simpler. And DreamHost’s auto-updater will keep this install patched without me having to lift a finger.
Between work and the crazy child at home, I haven’t had much time at all to come up with very many original thoughts. So this will probably be more of a link dump than anything else. It’s a lot easier to take five seconds to post a link into a bookmarklet than it is to take five minutes to write thoughtful musings about anything.
Vomitron.com is a domain I’ve had registered for years but never really had a use for. This seems like as good a time as any!
Thanks for sticking around.
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