Archive for April, 2006

It’s all about Wii

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

I won’t go off about the new name of the former Nintendo Revolution — there’s plenty of commentary floating around the web right now about the new name. (My personal favorite is, as usual, from Tycho at Penny Arcade). All I’ll say is that I can’t stop thinking about that crazy squirrel. Weeeeeeee!!!

Just another day at the office

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Bob Slydell: So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?
Tom: That, that’s right.
Bob Porter: Well, then I gotta ask, then why can’t the customers just take the specifications directly to the software people, huh?
Tom: Well, uh, uh, uh, because, uh, engineers are [...]

Just in time for Earth Day

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Al Gore is featured in a new film titled An Inconvenient Truth. It’s all about the former VP’s battle against global climate change and looks to be well worth the viewing.
On a related note, I know you’ve seen the commercials/billboards/etc. Find out what your carbon footprint is and what you can do to reduce it [...]

Ancient history rehashed

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Thanks to the Internet Archive I’ve been able to add some old posts to the site that were previously lost. If you go back to the archives from September 2002 and older, you can read just how depressing and crappy my writing was. There’s a big gap between November 2001 and June 2002 and I [...]

Family Guy: Ding fries are done

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you need to see it for yourself.