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Category Archives: random
A Little TOO close to Flatout
So, today I am driving to school, and I’m at the point where one of our freeways merges into another and, because it’s rush hour, the merging lane slows to a dead stop. I am a paranoid bastard, so I … Continue reading
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Can’t read your own shirt, huh?
One really popular pastime for native English speakers, when visiting Japan, is to gawk at and make fun of all the t-shirts with bizarre, fractured, or profane English prominently featured. This, then, would be turnabout. My wife has gotten rather … Continue reading
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In the club, again!
Not only did my Xbox 360 die (and, miraculously, return from the dead, albeit with a different serial #), but I’m a Washington Mutual customer and cnn is telling me that my bank just failed. This may be an odd … Continue reading
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Auction ranting
So I’ve run two sets of auctions lately, as I try to clear out space. The first was mostly old games. We’re talking, Apple II games, other early 8-bit micro stuff, TurboGrafx, Sega CD, that sort of stuff. I had … Continue reading
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Lifetime Coffee Table Expenditures: $30.
Yesterday’s post was more than a little consumer-whorey, so I wanted to offer something up in my defense. My first apartment, when I was 19 or so, was shared with Carmen Spray, who is, in addition to an accomplished fan … Continue reading
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Paranoia Defined
OK, so in the course of organizing the apartment, I’m looking through some boxes that haven’t been gone through in a few years. And I find a stack of 3.5″ floppy disks labeled “C: Drive Backup, 10/1/1994, Norton Backup Format” … Continue reading
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A weird little memorium.
A weird little memorium today. Back in the early 90s, there was no such thing as cheap public internet access. If you were a student, or worked at one of a very few large corporations, you could get access, otherwise … Continue reading
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Musical moments, slightly embarassing:
So I keep hearing a song when I’m driving home from school, and it’s rather catchy, and so I finally went and looked it up on Google. It’s apparently by the actress/singer who plays “Hannah Montana”, which is apparently all … Continue reading
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Nostalgia hits hard
Our local Fred Meyers had a DVD sale, a few months back, where they took a bunch of movies they’d overstocked on and put them all out at $5.00 each. This is how we came to own Ghost Rider on … Continue reading
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Evil in a can.
I grew up in the 1980s, and if you weren’t around at the time, or if you’ve managed to block them out, people saw the devil at work in a lot of things. Rock Music, Comic Books, Video Games, Dungeons … Continue reading
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