Archive for April, 2008

Awful quiet ‘round these here parts

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Given a choice between writing a blog post, or playing Grand Theft Auto IV, which would you be doing?

 

I love my Harmony remote. Deeply.

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I am in love with a remote control. I can’t help it.

My entertainment center is particularly crowded right now. With my current and classic game systems, TiVo, DVD player, and receiver, there are nine separate components in my entertainment center. That’s a lot of stuff to manage. But, then, my Harmony came along, and she helped me get control of my living room…and taught me how to love.

The Logitech Harmony 550 Advanced Universal Remote is part of Logitech’s line of activity-based, programmably sexy universal remotes. The Harmony won my heart because of two things:

  1. No codes: More >

This is not the greatest film in the world (this is just a tribute)

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Despite my belief that this YouTube thing is just a fad, occasionally there is some mild entertainment to be found amongst the teens desperate for attention and the busty women talking about words. But I was pleasantly surprised to discover barringer82 and his stash of filmmaker tributes. They’re painstakingly edited clip tributes that not only show off more of the memorable scenes and moments from the filmmakers’ works, but really capture the essence of their films as well. And they’ve prompted me to go directly to my Blockbuster queue and start moving stuff around.  Clips after the jump. More >

Weekend to-do list

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Things to get done this weekend:

  • Watch TiVoed 30 Rock from Thursday
  • Get Legendary map pack for Halo 3; use spare points to buy jams for Rock Band
  • Find the head vampire and drive a stake through its heart
  • Laundry (especially whites!)
  • Clean car
  • Return all stolen underpants; apologize
  • Find out where Alex Trebek lives to complete Phase 1
  • Go to grocery store
  • Research gopher pants; find out if in fact, plausible
  • Start a polygamist cult (thanks for the idea, Justin!)
  • Play more Advance Wars on the DS
  • Drink the blood of a freshly slain baby goat
  • Read Sunday’s “FoxTrot”
 

Teen pregnancy can be fun! The Obscenely Late Juno review

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Obscenely Late Reviews are opinions on something that’s been out for long enough that all the respectable blogs and publications have already reviewed it to death.

Honestly, about ten minutes into Juno, I was worried. The dialogue seemed forced, stilted, and was approaching dangerous levels of snark. The main character, Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), had so far failed to make enough of an emotional impression on me that I really didn’t care that she was knocked-up.To this point, everything had been empty, borrowing from other quirky-protagonist movie playbooks, like Rushmore and Napoleon More >

An Open Letter to Your Mom

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Well, good afternoon Mrs. Henderson. How are you? Mhmm, mhmm. I’m pretty good, thanks for asking. Yup. Oh, he’s not home? Okay, I can wait here for him, if you’re sure you don’t mind. Thank you.

Have you redecorated lately? Yeah, I see that. I like them, I really do. Cookies? Oh, thank you, you’re too kind. No, I love chocolate chip, they’re my favorite. Yes, I’d love some milk to go with them. Thank you. Oh, no, nothing’s wrong with the cookies, I just really don’t like to be touched when I’m eating, and well, your hand is on my thigh, Mrs. Henderson. More >

This game is not for resale

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You remember the music industry, don’t you? The guys who are desperately trying to cling to charging you $17 for a new CD, the ones who sued a twelve year-old? Well, they’re at it again. Universal Music Group has sued a man in California for reselling promotional CDs that go out to radio stations and reviewers. If they win the lawsuit, it could seriously affect your rights as a consumer to resell your CDs, DVDs, or even video games.

This has been around the news for a while, but Joystiq has a Law of the Game column up on why this is so important, and how it could have far-reaching More >

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