People probably think that The Romantics are a "one hit wonder" since "What I like about you" gets played endlessly on those tired 80s compilations. Perhaps a better label: "The only song the band is known for". Sadly, most bands get pidgeonholed into being known for just 1 song, and the radio stations enforce it.
Imagine how many people don't know of any songs by Devo OTHER than "Whip it". Yes, kids have to be told that it is Devo singing on that Dell laptop commercial. Sad, really.
1. I'm at work for 8 hours a day: staring at a monitor 2. I go to the gym after, which have CRTs staring at you(at least for cardio) 3. I watch my shows after the gym, which is once again in front of the CRT.
I wanna get away from the CRTs. Ugh.
Actually I do. I work on the car in the summertime.
Well, I think it's actually to simply turn him into Davros.
That's what I was thinking too. I hope in the near future this neural interface makes for a cool metallic-sounding voice. Better yet, you could be a first-generation cyberman and just open your mouth(but don't move lips) to talk.
If you live in St. Paul, MN, sometimes you get automated phone calls declaring a snow emergency.
The call itself I don't mind(time to move the car), but their choice of caller ID string is the worst one possible. It's 911-000-0000.
Just imagine old folks clogging up 911 call centers trying desperately to call back after the resulting confusion. Ramsey county can't afford a phone number that just plays back the same message when you call back? It just HAS to be 911, huh?
I know it's the caliber of telemarketers, but it's still stupid.
My belief exists that those who type comments/etc in all-uppercase are mouthbreathers. It's 2007. The days of computers with no caps lock control are long gone. They don't deserve a voice on the internet if they are using cruise control for cool.
With use of the word "blockbuster" I thought this article would involve Blockbuster Video. And, well, Blockbuter Video is going the way of the dinosaur. Would have used any word but blockbuster. Wait until the company dies out for a few years, than we can use it as a generic non-TM word.:)
GTA: San Andreas - After a stressful mission, I enjoyed playing pool with one of the local yokels at the bar. Good stuff.
Done Wrong:
The Warriors - The Lock picking minigame frustrated me to no end. The 3rd final inner tumbler spins so fast you can't get it right. I can never time it right. The other minigames(boosting car radios, pick pocketing, etc) weren't so bad.
Some D&D game on the Genesis- you have a lock picking set with a set of specially-shaped keys. Use the wrong key, and it's broken. You are under such a harsh time limit, you will end up breaking keys.
The GTA:SA minigame has nothing connected to the main plot, but it's nice to have there.
"Your honor, my client was viciously raped after the attacker use the Jam-O-Matic 5000 to keep her from calling the police. We're asking $3.2 billion."
That would be like trying to sue your cell phone carrier for being in a dead spot, thus making you unable to call the police after getting ass-raped. I'm sure there's some clause in all cell phone carriers relinquishing them from liability for being unable to call 911.
...is no more black & white movies from the 40s and 50s. They are so lacking(IMO) that they are almost too easy to rip on. The more bizarreish sci fi films from the 1970s to the 1990s are much more fun to watch. I like bad movies in general, but black & white dramas are typically a snooze-fest even with the MST treatement.
My favorite episodes are from the era of bad early 1980s sci-fi flicks, usually by Italian producers(plenty of movies to rip!). One of my favorite all-time bad movies was Laserblast, seeing the DVD before I saw the MST3K version. Even got lucky and found "Warrior of the Lost World" on DVD and saw all the bits that got cut for time/content on the MST version. Megaweapon forever.
I love GTA. I love The Simpsons. Wish these two would get along a bit better. C'mon, the GTA franchise is untouchable. There have been attempts to unseat it, and have failed miserably(driver, etc). Don't see any watering down of trademarks. The Simpsons pokes fun at pop culture all the time. GTA parodies have shown up in an auto insurance commercial. Dave chappelle did a skit about it. Rockstar has nothing to worry about.
Perhaps EA should just calmly pull Rockstar aside, lean in and say softly. "We're EA. We buy game companies every hour. Don't fuck with us."
When I first tried GIMP(Many moons ago), I was looking for the central "canvas" window(like in PSP, Photoshop, everything else). I coudln't find it.
I really don't want my Windows desktop peeping through the large array of palettes, toolbars, menu bar. etc. That turned me off the app in an instant. Shame, really.
1. Spambot whack-a-mole: How many messages from "Hi! I'm Amber!" can you flag as spam before the account gets deleted?
2. Creative Cropping: Take a picture of a husky gal, and crop her face & angle to the way to make her look like a supermodel. Score is determined how high your picture is rated, and how many cheap pick-up lines you get.
3. The Tequila Challenge: Try to get as many friends on your friends list as possible. No, they won't pick you up at the airport, or go for a beer with you. Can you make it as high as Tila Tequila?
4. The Shirtless pic hunt: How many pictures of guys with no shirt on can YOU find?
5. Emo Hair Designer: Design an emo hair cut that gives you as much social validation as possible!
6. Macy's Gift Card comments: Comment as many myspace profiles as you can for a FREE Macy's Gift card!
7. Stability 2: Navigate the site as long as you can until you get the "Sorry! An Unexpected error has occured!"
8. Browser Crasher 3: The Fuzzing - Customize a myspace profile with so many bells and whistles until you can get Firefox or Internet Explorer to crash from sheer lack of GDI resources!
Yes, it was pong over and over and over again in the early primordial stages of video games. EVERY company had a "me too" pong product. If it wasn't called pong, it was deceptively named "handball", or "raquetball", or "table tennis". Exception: computer space.
I'll take video games of today instead of the heyday of Pong, thanks.
Comcast's OnDemand service is awful. There's only a handful of movies available, and even less in HighDef. Their Sundance(I think) exclusive movies charge MORE for a viewing, even though it's not in HighDef.
As if blister packages weren't nearly impossible to open now. Hmm, let's cut with a scissors on the edge so the further you cut, a plastic blade starts to form that convieneintly moves toward your hand.
Now we need a plasma cutter to open up the packaging to our latest gadgets?
Why don't we just solve the peanut allergy kid problem altogether by making a special private school for kids with peanut allergies? We could call it the Planters school. They would have a statute of Mr. Peanut in the courtyard. At the end of the year, they can pull it down like Saddam's statue in Iraq.
Or we can just let evolution take its course. Really, if your are defeated by a legume...
We will spend millions of dollars on high technology to automatically issue a couple hundred bucks worth of fines. Do people calculate the ROI for prosecuting crimes anymore? Yes, I know, apples & oranges, but there is a point where it would simply be a waste of money to worry about carpool lane violations.
Perhaps they had it right in the movie THX 1138 where the android cops simply stopped chasing THX all because they went over the realtime budget.
Yeah DTMF for calling conferences is just wondeful with the breakup of the tones. If you try to punch in "2", it Becomes "222222" according to the IVR. I assume it's too difficult to have a software-driven DTMF push where at the landline(not thru the packets) it properly punches in the tone? How the heck do cell phones do that, or is latency not an issue? I highly doubt every IVR system's firmware is going to be rewritten to listen for a longer DTMF tone threshold.
At Yobodashi(9 floor store) in Akihabara, I saw 3 Wiis being rung up simultaenously. After doing my shopping there, I stop in the little park-area outside the shop. There was a group of 4 people with a STACK of Wiis, must have been like 14-15 or so. All of them were in Yobodashi bags. Musta been hoarding.
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People probably think that The Romantics are a "one hit wonder" since "What I like about you" gets played endlessly on those tired 80s compilations. Perhaps a better label: "The only song the band is known for". Sadly, most bands get pidgeonholed into being known for just 1 song, and the radio stations enforce it.
Imagine how many people don't know of any songs by Devo OTHER than "Whip it". Yes, kids have to be told that it is Devo singing on that Dell laptop commercial. Sad, really.
Here's how I look at it:
1. I'm at work for 8 hours a day: staring at a monitor
2. I go to the gym after, which have CRTs staring at you(at least for cardio)
3. I watch my shows after the gym, which is once again in front of the CRT.
I wanna get away from the CRTs. Ugh.
Actually I do. I work on the car in the summertime.
Well, I think it's actually to simply turn him into Davros.
That's what I was thinking too. I hope in the near future this neural interface makes for a cool metallic-sounding voice. Better yet, you could be a first-generation cyberman and just open your mouth(but don't move lips) to talk.
The Sci-Fi correlations are endless!
If you live in St. Paul, MN, sometimes you get automated phone calls declaring a snow emergency.
The call itself I don't mind(time to move the car), but their choice of caller ID string is the worst one possible. It's 911-000-0000.
Just imagine old folks clogging up 911 call centers trying desperately to call back after the resulting confusion. Ramsey county can't afford a phone number that just plays back the same message when you call back? It just HAS to be 911, huh?
I know it's the caliber of telemarketers, but it's still stupid.
My belief exists that those who type comments/etc in all-uppercase are mouthbreathers. It's 2007. The days of computers with no caps lock control are long gone. They don't deserve a voice on the internet if they are using cruise control for cool.
With use of the word "blockbuster" I thought this article would involve Blockbuster Video. And, well, Blockbuter Video is going the way of the dinosaur. Would have used any word but blockbuster. Wait until the company dies out for a few years, than we can use it as a generic non-TM word. :)
8. You can throw a rock in urban cities and hit 3 starbuck locations.
I assume you meant to say you CAN'T hit it? Tim Horton's is the big thing there, and I would love to be in close proximity to one.
Damn you Canadians and your common sense approach to things!
Done right:
GTA: San Andreas - After a stressful mission, I enjoyed playing pool with one of the local yokels at the bar. Good stuff.
Done Wrong:
The Warriors - The Lock picking minigame frustrated me to no end. The 3rd final inner tumbler spins so fast you can't get it right. I can never time it right. The other minigames(boosting car radios, pick pocketing, etc) weren't so bad.
Some D&D game on the Genesis- you have a lock picking set with a set of specially-shaped keys. Use the wrong key, and it's broken. You are under such a harsh time limit, you will end up breaking keys.
The GTA:SA minigame has nothing connected to the main plot, but it's nice to have there.
"Your honor, my client was viciously raped after the attacker use the Jam-O-Matic 5000 to keep her from calling the police. We're asking $3.2 billion."
That would be like trying to sue your cell phone carrier for being in a dead spot, thus making you unable to call the police after getting ass-raped. I'm sure there's some clause in all cell phone carriers relinquishing them from liability for being unable to call 911.
...is no more black & white movies from the 40s and 50s. They are so lacking(IMO) that they are almost too easy to rip on. The more bizarreish sci fi films from the 1970s to the 1990s are much more fun to watch. I like bad movies in general, but black & white dramas are typically a snooze-fest even with the MST treatement.
My favorite episodes are from the era of bad early 1980s sci-fi flicks, usually by Italian producers(plenty of movies to rip!). One of my favorite all-time bad movies was Laserblast, seeing the DVD before I saw the MST3K version. Even got lucky and found "Warrior of the Lost World" on DVD and saw all the bits that got cut for time/content on the MST version. Megaweapon forever.
But it would take a year to charge the gun. Kinda cancels itself out.
I love GTA. I love The Simpsons. Wish these two would get along a bit better. C'mon, the GTA franchise is untouchable. There have been attempts to unseat it, and have failed miserably(driver, etc). Don't see any watering down of trademarks. The Simpsons pokes fun at pop culture all the time. GTA parodies have shown up in an auto insurance commercial. Dave chappelle did a skit about it. Rockstar has nothing to worry about.
Perhaps EA should just calmly pull Rockstar aside, lean in and say softly. "We're EA. We buy game companies every hour. Don't fuck with us."
When I first tried GIMP(Many moons ago), I was looking for the central "canvas" window(like in PSP, Photoshop, everything else). I coudln't find it.
I really don't want my Windows desktop peeping through the large array of palettes, toolbars, menu bar. etc. That turned me off the app in an instant. Shame, really.
1. Spambot whack-a-mole: How many messages from "Hi! I'm Amber!" can you flag as spam before the account gets deleted?
2. Creative Cropping: Take a picture of a husky gal, and crop her face & angle to the way to make her look like a supermodel. Score is determined how high your picture is rated, and how many cheap pick-up lines you get.
3. The Tequila Challenge: Try to get as many friends on your friends list as possible. No, they won't pick you up at the airport, or go for a beer with you. Can you make it as high as Tila Tequila?
4. The Shirtless pic hunt: How many pictures of guys with no shirt on can YOU find?
5. Emo Hair Designer: Design an emo hair cut that gives you as much social validation as possible!
6. Macy's Gift Card comments: Comment as many myspace profiles as you can for a FREE Macy's Gift card!
7. Stability 2: Navigate the site as long as you can until you get the "Sorry! An Unexpected error has occured!"
8. Browser Crasher 3: The Fuzzing - Customize a myspace profile with so many bells and whistles until you can get Firefox or Internet Explorer to crash from sheer lack of GDI resources!
I'll give you a hint on what it was.
Pong.
Yes, it was pong over and over and over again in the early primordial stages of video games. EVERY company had a "me too" pong product. If it wasn't called pong, it was deceptively named "handball", or "raquetball", or "table tennis". Exception: computer space.
I'll take video games of today instead of the heyday of Pong, thanks.
When the only tool you have is a giant magnifying glass in the sky, every problem is an ant.
I think someone took the latest Die Hard movie a little too seriously.
I think an entire paranoia-wrapped country took the latest Die Hard movie a little too seriously.
is here(warning, PDF)
I tire of websites that make you jump through hoops to show you the dealio.
Comcast's OnDemand service is awful. There's only a handful of movies available, and even less in HighDef. Their Sundance(I think) exclusive movies charge MORE for a viewing, even though it's not in HighDef.
...is packaging!
As if blister packages weren't nearly impossible to open now. Hmm, let's cut with a scissors on the edge so the further you cut, a plastic blade starts to form that convieneintly moves toward your hand.
Now we need a plasma cutter to open up the packaging to our latest gadgets?
Why don't we just solve the peanut allergy kid problem altogether by making a special private school for kids with peanut allergies? We could call it the Planters school. They would have a statute of Mr. Peanut in the courtyard. At the end of the year, they can pull it down like Saddam's statue in Iraq.
Or we can just let evolution take its course. Really, if your are defeated by a legume...
We will spend millions of dollars on high technology to automatically issue a couple hundred bucks worth of fines. Do people calculate the ROI for prosecuting crimes anymore? Yes, I know, apples & oranges, but there is a point where it would simply be a waste of money to worry about carpool lane violations.
Perhaps they had it right in the movie THX 1138 where the android cops simply stopped chasing THX all because they went over the realtime budget.
Yeah DTMF for calling conferences is just wondeful with the breakup of the tones. If you try to punch in "2", it Becomes "222222" according to the IVR. I assume it's too difficult to have a software-driven DTMF push where at the landline(not thru the packets) it properly punches in the tone? How the heck do cell phones do that, or is latency not an issue? I highly doubt every IVR system's firmware is going to be rewritten to listen for a longer DTMF tone threshold.
I was in Tokyo a month ago.
At Yobodashi(9 floor store) in Akihabara, I saw 3 Wiis being rung up simultaenously. After doing my shopping there, I stop in the little park-area outside the shop. There was a group of 4 people with a STACK of Wiis, must have been like 14-15 or so. All of them were in Yobodashi bags. Musta been hoarding.
"What's a cubit?"