This Infiniti ad asks, "Does your car have real silver dust hand-polished into the woodgrain?" Then it answers, "Of course not."

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NO, OF COURSE NOT! Jesus! I'm not a comic book supervillain! I'm not Montgomery Burns! What the hell kind of question is that?! I didn't even get leather upholstery! Man....

As every year, it comes time for the speculating... Which fake items from ThinkGeek's April Fool's Day email will be made into real items? This year? Most of them, I think ( Read more... )

I've been contemplating creating a technology blog for a while - primarily focused on programming (techniques, style, tools, etc) - and I've finally gotten off my lazy ass enough to do it. It's called //double-slash It's WordPress, so you can get it by RSS and use all the other features they support ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting blurb about all this new-fangled 3D display technology:Will your next pair of shades be Ray Bans, Revos or possibly SimulEyes? The latest in virtual-reality glasses are so inexpensive that they may slip into the mainstream. The glasses' effects make games seem more lifelike: the end of a "hallway," for example, creeps up just ( Read more... )

Damn, Cablevision. I had hoped you'd improved a little since I dumped you for Fios at the old house 2-3 years ago, but clearly you haven't. Upping your Internet to 30/5 isn't going to cut it when you still periodically do things like drop packets for no reason. And now you can't even keep a broadcast station on the air? And you offer your ( Read more... )

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|-...is a really good packing pattern for some things. You can put 4 stacks of DVD cases in a 14x14 box that way (with room for boxset slipcovers), or 4 stacks of mass-market paperbacks in a 12x12 box, with very little wasted space in the center. I haven't started packing VHS tapes yet, but if memory serves, they're 7x4x1 inches, in which case ( Read more... )

I may be at the point where I post so rarely because I only post things this big....

We are closing on our new house this Friday!!
Now I have to try to schedule some other stuff and then movers; if I can get all of that scheduled as soon as I'd like, we'll be moved in by Monday or Tuesday ( Read more... )

SimCity Societies was released less than two years ago. At the time, EA and even Will Wright himself made the claim that while SimCity still appealed to die-hard fans of the series, it had become too complicated for new players to pick up and play, so they had to take the series in a new direction ( Read more... )

Rep. Wilson's outburst during Obama's address reminded me of a scene in Idiocracy:President Camacho: Shit. I know shit's bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution ( Read more... )