Are We… Baddies?
Hooray, for YouTube! It brings The Funny right to my virtual doorstep, copyright infringement be darned! From That Mitchell and Webb Look. Ahhh, the Brits, always ready with the humo[u]r-making.
Doug
Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...
Tribes + Halo 2 + Unreal Tournament 2004 = Battlefield 2142
I haven’t been paying a lick of attention to the development of Battlefield 2142, so it was with complete and utter surprise that I viewed the following “Titan Mode” training video: Holy cow! That looks incredible! I’ve always had a…
The Midianites Won
So, about that Gideon experience: the Midianites done trounced the Israelites, bigtime. Ain’t no change goin’ on here. *sigh*
Someone’s Getting A Fatwa For Christmas
Imagine my total non-surprise to find out that the man behind Dashboard Mohammed, a bobblheaded version of the now-infamous “bomb turban Mohammed” Danish cartoon, is a former United States Marine (Note to the NY Daily News: There is no such…
Showin’ Off A Bit
I’m experimenting with allowing for custom stylesheets in Elbee Elgee, so don’t be alarmed by the current style. It’s still the same back-end code with a nice ode to the superlative Tarski thrown in for good measure. I’ll likely head…
Computing News And Notes
A few small compuer-related things have popped up over the last few days and I thought I’d take a second or two to jot down my observations for the benefit of all you fellow Intertron users out there. Apple’s recently-released…
“I, Node”, Or: `man mankind.fs`
I think that the restaurant at which my coworkers and I eat our traditional weekly Chinese Tuesday recently changed fortune cookie suppliers, as their “fortunes” are now no longer anything of the kind. Instead of predictive fortunes, we routinely find…
The 80’s Called: They Want Their Consoles Back
I’m basically sold on the concept of buying a Wii as of this moment, which makes the news that Nintendo will be selling Commodore 64 titles on their Virtual Console service just icing on the cake. It may be taking…
WARNING: Do Not Download Toribash
If you acquire Toribash, there is a very good chance that you will lose sleep. You have been warned. At heart, Toribash is a turn-based physics-intensive ragdoll simulator, which might not sound too interesting until you realize that you’ve been…
Straight Outta Lynwood, Straight Into My CD Player
Album Title: Straight Outta Lynwood Artist: “Weird Al” Yankovic Year: 2006 I went out and snagged a copy of Weird Al’s latest album yesterday and, after giving it a few listens, I have to say that it’s one of his…
