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A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
There’s no point in questioning authority if you aren’t going to listen to the answers.
— , Slashdot
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Dungeons and STR+2
I've been thinking about Dungeons and Dragons lately. It's an interesting social phenomenon. (Before I go any farther, I should make it clear that I'm not out to bash D&D. I earned my gamer cred a long time ago, and I don't have anything to prove to anybody. I learned D&D on literally Dungeons […]
Skewed Reviews
Do the X-Play
hosts ever give less than a 3 out of 5 rating to a game? I've watched them
verbally thrash several games and then give them a 3 star rating. What's the deal?
Do they have some sort of behind-the-scenes deal with the game publishers that keeps
[…]
PVR PC Bleg
I'm thinking about putting together a PVR
PC from an old PIII 866 with 768Mb RAM. Eventually, I will probably buy a Hauppauge
PVR-350 because it has hardware MPEG2
encoding and decoding. In the meantime, though, I'm stuck with a crappy ATI
TV-Wonder for video capture. I do have […]
Green Chri$tma$
Miracle on 34th Street endeared Macy's to celebrators of Christmas, at least
the secular holiday.
Now, Macy's is saying "bah humbug" by refusing to use the phrase "Merry
Christmas" in their advertisements and store displays.
It doesn't bother me too much that Macy's won't acknowledge Christmas. I don't expect
[…]
I Am the Great Cornholio!
Beavis would be proud.

