Because Laura is the best girlfriend ever [and also because she had free press passes], she took me to see a sneak preview of a highly-anticipated yet-to-be-released movie!
Quick review: I’d say it’s better than the first movie, because it’s much darker, and the monster scenes should cause some irreparable psychological trauma to unsuspecting children everywhere.
Wow.LiquidMetal Technologies has developed a metal alloy that is harder than steel or titanium but that, when heated to 750F, melts to an amorphous tar than can be molded like plastic.
Watch out, John Connor!
A while back, I had an idea about how to keep thieves from stealing my CD player: Craptastic Faceplates (R)(TM).
The Craptastic Faceplate would look just like the front of an old beat-up 8-track player, a Radio Shack AM/FM-only receiver, or best of all, a Sparkomatic tape deck with one knob missing. They would be completely non-functional, but would fit the faceplate slots for most high-end car stereos. That way you could easily swap out the real faceplate with the decoy when you had to park your car in some unsavory neighborhood [like where Robert lives].
This holiday season, buy your loved one something that shows you really care about her [or him].
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It’s hard to be an addict.
While on vacation a few weeks ago, I signed up for an AOL dialup account so that Laura and I could suckle from the Internet’s great digital teat. Since I no longer need the account, I decided to cancel it today. This should’ve been easy. Instead, it’s very similar to cancelling a membership to a nation-wide gym.
First, it is quite impossible to find any customer-service contact number via their external website, www.aol.com. I suppose they never planned on people having alternate connectivity. I actually had to ask someone who used AOL to locate the number for the Cancellation Hotline, which in turn was very well-hidden.
Yesterday, I found a highly interesting analysis of Microsoft’s Palladium. The original article, in German, is located [here][1].
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One of my favorite [read: “only”] childhood Nintendo games was Capcom‘s “Section Z“. Section Z was like the poor-man’s version of Metroid: guy in a space-suit killing things in order to kill a bigger ‘Brain’ thing.
The one important thing about this game was that it taught me how to non-linearly map things. I was used to pen-and-paper RPGs, so I was used to drawing areas that had rooms that lined up. After a few days of frustration trying to map Section Z, I realized that it didn’t matter where I put the rooms on my map. At the end of each room there were two teleporters. The key to mapping [and beating] the game was to note where the teleporters took your character. By the time I was done with the game, I had dispensed with graph paper, and just had a list of section names and where their ‘up’ or ‘down’ teleporters took me.
Even the monkey loves Mac OSX.