December 22, 2008 – 2:16 pm
I got a chance to see the epic movie Australia in the theater recently. I saw this movie as an American along with with a few Australians. This detail is important as it was very obvious that the different nationalities got something completely different out of the movie. As I’ve noticed in the past with [...]
December 22, 2008 – 1:40 pm
With Christmas drawing near it means only one thing at work: the holiday dinner. There is a lot of anticipation by most for the grand dinner, escape to a ball-like atmosphere with fancy attire, and expected workmate who drinks a little too much and is remembered by everyone the following year.
This year we didn’t have [...]
December 17, 2008 – 1:21 pm
It’s no wonder the world hates the US.
What happens if you take Transylvanian farmers who have never eaten a burger and ask them to compare Whopper versus Big Mac in the world’s purest taste test? Will they prefer the Whopper? These are the Whopper Virgins.
A new [...]
December 17, 2008 – 10:28 am
In the long line of tower defense games in which there are many variations, my favorite would have to be Vector TD by David Scott. I discovered this Flash game last year and instantly spent countless hours playing it and its two other sequals, Vector TDx and Vector TD 2. The game is similar to [...]
December 16, 2008 – 2:01 pm
With so many web sites in business to collect as much of your personal information as possible it would seem plausible that we’ve become used to giving away our personal information at a whim. Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace exist to extol and datamine as much personal information as possible from as [...]
December 16, 2008 – 9:03 am
Having just gotten into this show midway this season I can’t say whether or not they did a Christmas special last year, but this episode (season 2, episode 11) was just the right amount of Christmas cheer without inducing any vomit. There was also a bigger part by Howard and Raj, Penny and Leonard’s relationship [...]
December 15, 2008 – 1:47 pm
I’m a huge fan of Terry Goodkind’s “Sword of Truth” series — I’ve finished all but the last book in the twelve book series in fact. So when I accidentally discovered that the book was being made into a TV series I was a little worried as I’m one of those jerks who adamantly believes [...]
December 12, 2008 – 1:10 pm
In one of my more expensive posts yet, a Russian guy this week has patented the wink emoticon. You know the one:
;- )
I guess I just infringed on this patent right there.
In most cases the use of a patented trademark is not cost prohibited. When asked about this he mentioned that “it won’t cost that [...]
December 11, 2008 – 9:46 am
I started the blog in late 2005 as a means for me to document my time in Japan starting the following year. Back then it was a C++ application which I had written from scratch in a lab at a university. Writing it in C++ was an absolute pain as everything had to be done [...]
December 10, 2008 – 4:10 pm
Sixty-four-year-old Rebecca Willis of Marshall, North Carolina won a settlement against the town hall recently and was awarded $275,000. What was the crime committed against this grandma? Banning her from a community dance hall on allegations that her moves were too risque.
Residents complained that Willis dances in a sexually provocative manner, wearing short skirts while [...]