Wii-less
Curse and blast! Above is the screen that I am now resigned to staring at each day until my Wii returns from the Nintendo service depot.
It started exhibiting "visual tearing" (little black shimmery spots) artifacts a few months ago, particularly in Zack & Wiki and Super Mario Galaxy, so much so that Z&W almost [...]
Soliciting Reader Feedback, Minivan Edition
So it's official: we're in the market for a minivan. Our legendary Passat has run its course and is no longer sufficient for conveying our burgeoning little family about town, so we're looking to upsize (read: with two car-seats in the back and with an eye towards more some time in the next 3-4 [...]
Great Grandpa B.'s Kiwanis Club Chicken
Update Note: My grasp on family lore was apparently mistaken. Note the corrected portions.
With Father's Day behind us, we're into the grilling season proper. My family rang in the summer last weekend with an old family standby: Great Grandpa Blomquist's "Award-Winning" Chicken. Family legend has it that the recipe was actually my [...]
'Cause I'm A Big Picture Kind Of Person, That's Why.
The Boston Globe's online edition has an incredibly cool photo blog called The Big Picture featuring very large photos culled from the day's news.
Get started on the pictures of Chile's Chaiten volcano, follow that with shots from the Space Shuttle then take a gander at shots from Mars. Very cool.
The Internet: Giving New Meaning To "Alternative" Music
Let's face it: there's lots of folks on the Internet with lots of time on their hands and more money/talent than sense. Fortunately, these surpluses generally result in entertainment for the rest of us.
For instance, Radiohead's "Nude" performed on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer, HP Scanjet 3c and a whole [...]
Bravo, Sun. Bra. VO.
As you'll note, there was very little blog output 'round these parts two days ago (read: I didn't post a single durn thing). This was entirely due to a very, very long 16 hour day which featured a large-scale LAN outage. The root cause was a bit of a heat problem we had about [...]
