Yesterday I spent a few hours at Fry’s Electronics since my brother and his girlfriend don’t have them on the East Coast. I checked out their collection of (inexpensive) original Xbox titles, realizing just how many games are written for it. I can get more flavors of Medal of Honor for Xbox than I can the PC.

I got thinking about the Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3 war going on with the media. Most of their stories end with “let’s wait and see how much better the PS3 will be.”

Who are these people but more importantly what do they want?

Continue Reading »

The topic of drilling for oil in the Arctic refuge has been at Capitol Hill for quite awhile. The NRDC has been fighting tooth and nail and for good reason: experts state the oil reserves in the refuge are insignificant for the stated purpose.

Anyway, the Senate narrowly defeated the bill and the refuge is spared yet again. However, these politicians should be ashamed of themselves for other reasons.

What you ask? Pork barrel politics. You’ll never believe the booh-hooing going on because by defeating this bill our troops in Iraq don’t get more funds.
Continue Reading »

Christmas 2005 goes down in history as one of the best. Junior was the main draw and got plenty of loot. He’ll have enough until age 10.

Watching our parents turn into grandparents is an experience. You can’t tear Junior away from my father and he’s been named the “senior Baby Whisperer.” My mom gets some time here and there but mostly handing him back to dad.
Continue Reading »

For once, my inbox has only 30 unread messages and my RSS reader is completely caught up. It seems Christmas time (or Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus if you prefer) is one of the few times of the year I can keep my laptop closed without fear of falling behind.

It’s a Christmas miracle.

blog/atari-logo.gifThis is the coolest thing…ever.