Do you enjoy "first-person shooter" (FPS)-style video games? Like me, have you spent an inordinate amount of time playing FPS games? Do you sometimes get the feeling you are still "in the game" after quitting for the night and your motions feel awkward? Beware, these may be the first symptoms of "Duke Nukem's Disease", a rare and sometimes ( Read more... )

Jeff finally got his Wii Balance Board/Wii Fit today. The thing is a hoot. The exercises are simple, yet pretty effective, and the balance-oriented games a challenge. I can see us using this quite a bit in the future ( Read more... )

Well, today was my last day of work for the year. I did put my name in a pool of those willing to work over the holidays for this one particular program that really never shuts down. I hope that I dont get called in, but at least it would be extra pay, something I really could use. In the meantime, I have a bunch of things to do around here at the ( Read more... )

I stumbled across something the other day I thought was just extreme coolness. Rocker that I am, I was always fascinated with synthesizers. While I have lusted over owning my own synth way back in the early 70s, it never panned out. Instead, I played around with old test equipment and built oscillators and amps and made some cool (interesting, ( Read more... )

Much has been written concerning the new video game from Rockstar Games/Take-Two entitled "Bully". Hell, people were condemning the game, calling for it's banning, etc, before it was even close to release. Well, a lot of these aforementioned people were disappointed when they discovered that the game was not what they were expecting (hoping, ( Read more... )