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Monthly Archives: September 2008

How not to run a campaign

30-Sep-08

I’m absolutely fascinated by all this. McCain is basically dousing himself in lighter fluid, screaming ‘I’m the champ!’ and then setting himself alight. And he’s been doing this constantly. Yet, Obama has not pushed back hard enough to throttle him. McCain’s campaign should be dead and buried by now, and yet it’s not. The two [...]

So sad it hurts

29-Sep-08

In an email to Lisa on August 15, I said “I’m beginning to think that Wachovia is seriously going down the toilet. First it was their losses for the year… then it was the fraud (not ours, theirs), and now their Bluepoint insurance group just went bankrupt.” As of today, Wachovia technically no longer exists [...]

Hold on for dear life

26-Sep-08

Where do you start with the last forty eight hours? Let me try to recap, because it doesn’t get much better than this. Henry Paulson, the same gent who worked at Goldman Sachs now at the Treasury, is begging for a $700 billion dollar bailout. George Bush supports this (even though he doesn’t support the [...]

The Call

23-Sep-08

Lisa calls me when she picks up Nora to let me know that she has her, and then she fills me in on her day. Nora always asks for the phone after the call to play with – she is daddy’s little girl of course, and she loves her gadgets. She asks for the phone [...]

Second guessing & two mini reviews

17-Sep-08

So, I’m a bit torn about the whole 360 thing. On one hand, there are very few games that I want to play for that system. On the other hand, those very same games, while available on the PC, would require me to buy a brand new PC to play them. In fact, for GTA [...]

So it is built and other things

16-Sep-08

First and foremost, the xbox 360 for all intents and purposes is completely built. In my attempts to save money I botched purchasing one or two items badly, and I ended up saving a pittance. For instance, I bought a power supply but the wrong one – I (falsely) assumed that all power supplies work [...]

A rant and nothing else

15-Sep-08

So we’re saving money instead of investing it (for obvious reasons) but really, it’s not worth saving money. The valuation of the dollar is going down, as are the interest rates, in turn depressing whatever interest we collect on it. Essentially, we’re breaking even over the course of a couple years as prices for everything [...]

Review: Gunstar Heroes Advance

11-Sep-08

If you’ve played Gunstar Heroes for the Sega Genesis, you’ve gotten the gist of this game. Rather than a sequel, this game is a weird remake. It’s weird because the opening credits recognize the original Gunstar Heroes, and the storyline suggests that the events of this game take place after that game, except it’s the [...]

Finally!

09-Sep-08

From disaster to small victories to catastrophe to triumph, the video project is finally underway (again). Write-up to follow in the project blog eventually, but here’s a first look. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] I did take [...]

Hmm.

08-Sep-08

We went to gamestop last week to buy a game or two for my almost completely built xbox 360. Almost built you ask? I have a gene that prevents me from taking the easy road, like say buying the system from a brick and mortar store as a complete set or hiring movers instead of [...]