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Microsoft risks irrelevance in the rapid-fire tablet market dominated by rivals Apple and Google.

--Gina Smith and Larry Press, writing for Byte

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I’ll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined for 70 points.

--Chicago Bulls forward Stacey King, ( Read more... )

With my precious time away from work being divided between household responsibilities, my wife, my children, my hopes, dreams & desires - television rarely rears its ugly head into my existence (though I am excited about the new Rizzoli & Isles; more on that in a future post). Nonetheless, I do occasionally get to sit down in my chair in the ( Read more... )

I was commissioned to make some avatars out of a very limited set of interests (yes, there were a lot of different bands, but 'bands' as a whole is quite restrictive) so I picked out ones that would interest me, one that I thought I could make visually striking with animation, and then let my mind wander and re-created Peter Criss' solo album with ( Read more... )

The wife and I watched the first disc of House (M.D.) Season 4 last night, and while I was disappointed that this season continued in its power-rangers-everyplot routine, it also got me thinking about my friend who, despite Dr. Gregory House being a fictional character (who would likely have been kicked to the street living as a junkie long ago) ( Read more... )

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And now, a word about schpydurx. To open this forum, I'll admit, I don't understand these Gen X'ers (or Y'ers or whatver the hell 'they' are being called these days). Sure I was young, and had periods of confusion because I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. But this whole angsty "I'm angry at the world because I'm retarded." just doesn't ( Read more... )

It starts out a friendly conversation amongst friends...

ProfessorTom: What, praytell, does photogoot do for a living ( Read more... )

I'm still trying to decide if Tony's glaciphobia pertains to fear of alpine glaciers, continental glaciers, or just fear of glaciers in general. Because this is a sensitive subject for him, I never discuss it outright, rather, I try to pick up on associated fears to pinpoint what exactly about glaciers frighten him (though even I admit that ( Read more... )

Final Fantasy Advent Children Soundtrack is at times beautiful and melodic. At others, WAY too fast paced for a 2200 entry ( Read more... )

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.

Chose Batman Begins to be my HQ-mode testing on the Magnavox. Granted, it runs 2:30 (read three DVD's) but I have yet to see it, and when I do...*shivers*

My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe ( Read more... )