Month July 2008

Updating A Classic

While playing Mario Kart Wii, for some reason I was reminded of this Far Side cartoon: I decided to update it a bit for the videogaming era: Heh. (Click the pic for full size.)

A Bad Day, Indeed

Most dangerous job in the world? Few people realize that it’s “professional sporting mascot”. Srsly, folks:

Notice!

Remember, folks: Burn Notice‘s new season starts tonight at 10pm. Tonight. Burn Notice. Oh, and Bourne Identity is on in the meantime. UPDATE: It’s entirely obvious to me that the Bourne movies wouldn’t be half as good were it not…

Kudos For Praized

Yes, I avoided the “praise for Praized” pun. My buddy Stephane (he of fellow WPhone fame) and his workmates have gone live with their social app, Praized. Think of it as a Web 2.0-ish Angie’s List, with local business/hotspot search…

Further Reader Minivan Bleg

You guys were great the last go-round, so I figured I’d solicit further advice. Here’s the situation: We’re looking at an ’06 Honda Odyssey. Y’all (and others) were convincing in your arguments and I’ve decided that loyalty to ancestors is…

Blasto Is Bleepin’ Brilliant

I cannot describe the utter joy Captain Blasto embodies to me. Art style, music, concept — it’s brilliant. I could describe the premise, or I could simply let the official trailer tell the story: (Okay, short short version: ordinary guy…

A Prim(us) Time Slot

Nintendo Wii Fanboy’s story of Les Claypool’s contributions to a forthcoming Wii game caused me to go back and pull all my Primus MP3s out of cold storage and (begin) to listen to them. With that in mind, here’s one…

Wii’s Back — Wheeee!

That’s right, the Wii arrived back, safe and sound. Turns out my “main circuit board” needed replacing. I’m unsure as to what was specifically wrong, but the solution was really the best I could have hoped for. All my Miis…