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Eee! Fanboys!

This is the week of E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, being held in Los Angeles. It’s the big American video game trade show of the year, and it’s when all the video game companies make their upcoming hardware and software announcements. Many sites, like Joystiq, are publishing reports from the show floor.
One of [...]

Vacation Debriefing

Things I learned on my Pennsylvania trip last week, that I didn’t learn from my trip last year:
Pennsylvania has strange beer laws. You can’t buy beer in grocery stores or liquor stores (!), but you can buy it at convenience stores and “beer distributors”. Also, I think you can buy six packs in [...]

Find The MacGuffin

I’m slowly working my way through the 2007 Best Picture nominees. Last week, N and I watched the Blu-Ray disc of No Country For Old Men, and this weekend it was the Blu-Ray of Juno (or, as I like to call it: Gilmore Girls: The Movie). I love that NetFlix rents Blu-Rays, BTW.
In [...]

Happy Tower Day

Well, after years and years of legal squabbling and other setbacks, the Lookout Mountain Digital TV Supertower finally went online today! Now we can get all our local digital HD channels from LM and I no longer have to rotate my antenna between LM and downtown depending on what channel I want. High-powered [...]

What I’m Playing At

I realize I haven’t posted an update about my Playstation 3 experiences lately. Well, I haven’t had much time to play it or play with it. I haven’t done any online play at all. I’m working my way through Heavenly Sword, which is a bit of a button masher, but pretty and [...]

Major Distraction

Got my PlayStation 3 today. I rushed right home after work to set it up, and I’ve been playing with it all evening (aside from a break to watch tonight’s Lost, which had another didn’t-see-that-coming ending). What an amazing machine! I haven’t even really done much with it yet gaming-wise (aside from [...]

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