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Heard on my way home from a frantic pre-MC shopping run Sunday, this bit on Prairie Home Companion about finding love with English majors on the Internet was hilarious. I knew nothing about the Prairie Home Companion until the late 70s, when my cousin Mark put it on one night while we were visiting down … Read more
So anyway, everything we were hearing about Microsoft’s new Origami devices (er, Ultra-Mobile PCs – I liked Origami better) was confirmed today. They’re just small, keyboard-less tablet computers with built in WiFi and stuff. If it can’t play WoW, EQ1, EQ2, Vanguard and so on, what good is it? Using Remote Desktop and the similar, … Read more
Initial reviews of Final Fantasy XII look really good. This is the one that uses a FFXI Online-like world map. If they could let me make my own characters and use them, instead of pre-generated ones, this would be anything I could ever want in a console RPG. And it still may be. Devices based … Read more
Being a liberal geek, my car radio is pretty much perma-tuned to NPR (especially if the jazz station is out of range). So driving home Sunday from Escondido after not getting my Miata started, I was listening to Car Talk – two brothers from Cambridge who weekly answer car (and other) questions. They have a … Read more
Watched the Academy Awards; followed by placing my characters on the red carpet. I guess I should have gotten a better dress for Nash… Changed the name of my Guitar Hero band to the suitably necrotic Death2U. I also became a guitar god and was lifted bodily into Rock Heaven for beating the game on … Read more