New Sisyphus made a nifty observation regarding Valve Software’s Steam, a software distribution client and network, namely: skipping the brick n’ mortar retail markets is the only way to go for low-volume game genres (such as independent and role playing…
Here’s today’s Helpful Writted/Typed Communication Primer, presented by ZDNet UK: 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid. Take notes – there’ll be a quiz later. *grin*
How are you all? I’m assuming you know that there’s now another high school in the Dubbya Dubbya Pee, “North”. My, how things have changed, eh? So, like, is there a 10 year reunion or something this year? ‘Cause I’ve…
Something has been bothering me lately, and I think it’s high time to get it off my chest: I miss ska. Perhaps I’ve been asleep at the metaphorical wheel and haven’t noticed a slew of new releases from a host…
My wife and I generally enjoy WHYY’s “Showcase” on Sunday nights (as previously noted here) and were looking forward to this week’s edition, as the Delaware Symphony’s season finale was supposed to be broadcast, featuring Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony” and Beethoven’s…
I stumbled across this one early today, which is pretty interesting in a synchronistic sense, since Ocean’s Eleven (the Clooney/Pitt/Damon vehicle, not the execrable Rat Pack one) was on TV last night: Recreation of The Bellagio’s fountain display – an…
I don’t know if it’s a universal I.T. thing or not, but at my place of employment we sysadmins have taken to blaming any freak accident/unexplainable computer phenomenon/Series of Unfortunate Events on “gremlins”. A person couldn’t log on five minutes…
A common subject of discussion over the course of last weekend’s festivities was the length of Will’s hair, primarily my various relatives’ opposition to its ever-increasing tendencies and our hesitancy to arrest said tendencies. Well, this weekend we finally found…
Phew, what a week-and-a-half it’s been. I’ve hardly had two spare moments to rub together since last Thursday, the day chosen for my brother’s bachelor party. I left work early that day, helped my wife out with some last-minute packing…
In the interests of pursuing a healthier lifestyle and scintillating conversation, several of my coworkers and I take a walk during our lunch break on a nigh-daily basis. Our usual route leads us through the Vlasic parking lot which generally…
