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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Follow-up

28-May-09

I posted this entry a month ago regarding the purchase of running shoes. Unlike most things, I was determined to not simply sit back and waste that purchase. I’m happy to report I’m running four times a week and I can run a full mile. Unlike DE, this isn’t a flat track. There’s an 85 [...]

Wii revisited, part 2

27-May-09

Mario Strikers Charged: I didn’t really like the gamecube one, and I’m kind of on the fence about this one. I don’t like the random nonsense that appears on the field, and the super moves aren’t as quite as interesting as the Sega Soccer Slam. But it has online play! And I was hardcore schooled [...]

Wii revisited

26-May-09

Thanks to M&M, I have a bunch of Wii games that I haven’t played. So for the first time in a few months, I turned the wii on and played something other than Wii Sports (never did finish Madworld, oops). Games I wish I never bought Sonic and the Secret Rings: the control scheme is [...]

Psychonauts Review

25-May-09

Psychonauts: greatest game ever. The end.

Longing for an SLR

22-May-09

After using M&M’s SLR over the weekend, I’ve been fiending for an dSLR of my own. This is my baby, sitting at home, doing nothing. It’s a shame that 1) digital back technology more or less halted with Hasselblads and 2) no one develops film cheaply; even mail order, high volume stuff is still expensive. [...]

No sleep

20-May-09

I can’t sleep. I was bone tired and then was suddenly wide awake. Maybe it was because I read about Kaboni Savage’s daughter dying in a hail of gunfire right before bed. Ciara Savage died in York, PA protecting her four year old sister. She was nine. I’m amazed at that age at the level [...]

All these games

15-May-09

I keep buying games when the show up on Steam ($5 here, $3 there) and yet I keep playing this. Why? Because it makes me feel like this. Thanks, Leesie! I love it. It makes sense that retro is in. The average gamer is 35 years old. That and the current crop of consoles, including [...]

Micro rant

12-May-09

I know my car is cheap, but… come on! It turns out the two inch speakers sitting in the tweeter spots were 13 (!) ohms with a capacitor, which is a really cheap way to make a (poor sounding) crossover. The way they did it meant they wired in parallel without actually adding much to [...]

Musings

12-May-09

It seems that Apple has saturated the iphone market. The uptake overseas was limited, as expected, since there are better, more equipped and cheaper devices exist there. AT&T’s market share increased, but only as far as their network covers. In steps Verizon, which has the other 85+ million subscribers that Apple needs to continue producing [...]