So I’ve been playing with Mandrake linux the last few days. Yesterday I was sick so I ended up even swapping out hard drives and installing it on my primary machine so I could get a really good feel for how I liked it. Good things and bad things, that’s for sure. Mainly, it’s not [...]

Heard a really good Engines of Our Engenuity this morning. Take a look at the transcript. No tag for this post.

So I went and saw Disney’s Beauty and the Beast IMAX Special Edition last night at the Minnesota Zoo last night. Mostly it was as good as I remember it. There were several things that translated really well to the really-big screen, and a few that didn’t enough to almost be distracting. For example, there [...]

The Brunching Shuttlecocks present The Geek Hierarchy No tag for this post.

These days it seems like just about everyone that I know is doing something on Live Journal. A problem is that I really don’t like Live Journal, and it has nothing to do with the basic service, it has everything to do with what happens when people start using it. I have a relatively well [...]

From an okay article about Ion Storm in Salon: “I thought some of the members acted like — to use their own parlance — whiny little bitches; they obviously saw themselves as the arbiters of Good Games Everywhere, much like the new breed of film geeks on Ain’t It Cool News.” hehehe. Tags: game

Woo! What an Idiot. No tag for this post.

Would my blog resemble anything like it’s former self if I didn’t link to a Dara Moskowitz column? I didn’t think so… “Did I forget anything? Oh yes, the suspicious eyeing of the house pets for tinsel-related illnesses.” No tag for this post.

On Monday (Dec 31), Betsy and I stopped by the Toyota dealer and picked up her new car. It’s a gorgeous blue Toyota Prius. So far, we’re really happy with it. There aren’t many options available for it, so we basically took almost all of them: 6 disc CD Changer Onboard GPS/Navigation System Alloy Wheels [...]