It is Halloween. I am Doug Ballantine. Auto/Boat/Home/Life Insurance agent. 1983 Top Sales Associate – #1 Western US Region
Month: October 2005
I’ve beaten Shadow of the Colossus twice now – once normally and again on hard mode. I guess I’ll try and do the time trials now. The game’s just so short! And easy! ‘Hard Mode’ should have been the normal difficulty setting. However! That doesn’t change the fact that it’s a beautiful, totally fun, and…
Wow! Mr. Sulu is gay? That still doesn’t explain why he’s such a horrible actor. I want answers, people!
15 of the top 31 most reliable cars for 2006 are Toyotas. I’ve said it for years – Toyota makes the best cars! Le scoop.
To follow up from my post yesterday it turns out that low-level electrical pulses applied to your ears can affect your sense of balance, effectively guiding you to walk in a certain direction. Researchers in Japan have already developed a remote control/helmet system that basically does just that! This is either sorta spooky or TOTALLY…
Google Video just threw up a bunch of interviews with TV legends like Sherwood Schwartz, Bob Newhart, Carl Reiner, and even William Shatner. The interviews were conducted by the Archive of American Television and are available in their entirety, completely unedited. The interviewees talk about their lives and their work – and they save you…
The human brain is capable of staggering feats! But unless you’re born a savant or incur some type of brain ‘damage’ throughout your lifetime, most of us will never have the ability to tap into or harness even a fraction of the mental powers that we all carry with us. One researcher claims that a…
Attention Internet! This is not a picture of me!
I discovered this morning that my VCR had died. I put a tape in and nothing but a horrible grinding noise came out. The tape won’t even eject. That’s life I guess. Granted, the VCR has been sitting unused next to my TV doing the 12:00 thing for the past three years, so I’m not…
You know what feeling I miss from my days as a wee lad? The feeling that you get when you take sharp pair of scissors and cut through construction paper. It’s like biting into a crisp apple.