I'm not sure if I mentioned it but I finally offloaded all of the advent calendars last week. It was nice to see them out the door. Since then I've been trying to sell off some other things on ebay including my Flip Ultra. It's a wonderful camcorder, taking great video for the size and price. I took it with me to both Origins and Gencon this year ( Read more... )

Police: Man Stabs Mom, Assaults Another Woman With ChickenYPSILANTI, Mich. -- Police said an Ypsilanti man is accused of stabbing his mother with a fork and hitting another woman over the head with a frozen chicken ( Read more... )

Looks like I've got a bit of a reprieve with the pain meds. I've got another batch of codeine coming in with a shitload of refills attached. I still need to find a better solution at some point but at least I'll have enough dope on hand to keep things running smoothly. Now that Origins is over with, there are quite a few other things that I should ( Read more... )

I just finished Final Fantasy Crisis Core for the PSP and it was pretty spiffy. Definitely a departure from most of the FF games I've ever played. It was strange only controlling one character the entire time. With most of the others, you usually have a whole group of people you can use and customize. Overall, the best part of Crisis Core were the ( Read more... )

Sunday started earlier than I might have wished. I was hoping to sleep right up until I had to leave for the con, but stabbing pain had other plans. The real irritation is once up, the pain always gets worse and all you can do at that point is wake up, pop pills, and hope they eventually kick in. Since it takes up to 2 hours for that process to ( Read more... )

Since I hadn't gone to bed and I wasn't doing much of anything anyway, I decided to head over to the con early on Saturday. The earliest thing on the schedule was a game of Oregon, a game I had never heard of before but was willing to try given the lack of other options. This was pretty much what I found when I got there:

Luckily, there were a few ( Read more... )

Well, the flip issues continue. After a suggestion by the tech people, I tried plugging it into the desktop and had no problems there. It's just unlikely I'm ever going to use the desktop as a platform for it though. All the USB ports are cluttered together and there's no way to fit it in without disconnecting just about everything else. Not bad as ( Read more... )

It's just back and forth with the tech support people at Pure Digital. They don't seem to have any idea what's wrong with the Flip Video's movie maker. So far, all the basic steps have been taken. Programs have been reloaded, firmware's been updated, versions have been checked, and still notta. The darn thing locks up each time I try it ( Read more... )

I've only had the flip for a couple days and I'm already hit by buyer's remorse. Not because of the product, but I just got an email from Connie about the price dropping on Amazon. I purchased the black ultra for $142 and the white one's now selling for $135. Feh. I called Amazon's customer service line and got the entirely predictable response ( Read more... )

I took the flip out and used it to document my day. Nothing all that exciting compared to what an average person does. I mostly just wanted to see how well it would handle and overall, I'm pretty impressed. I'm having some issues with the included software which means that all I was able to do was splice the various videos together. No bells and ( Read more... )