Archive for December, 2008

Seriously ef This

In the last 4 days, I have shoveled my driveway 7 times.
There are piles of snow in my back yard that are literally taller than I am.  My back is utterly destroyed.   My arms and legs are tightened and sore.  My car has gotten stuck 3 separate times.  The wind blew the cover off my [...]

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30 Rock.
Snow sucks.
DeAnelo Williams doesn’t.
I need new tires.
Super Mario world. One sitting.
Keystone is alright.
Snow sucks.
Mario 64.
Bourne Identity.
Lions suck.
Snow sucks.
Baby penguin = brb.
Bourne Supremacy.
Fantasy Football sucks.
Snow is awful.
Michigan is ruined.

Media Center… Sort of

This week I decided to take up the task of setting up my old laptop as a “media center” for my 42 inch rear projection television.
The program “Boxee” is what sparked my curiosity and made me start pursuing this.
Boxee is a media center application based on the source code of Xbox Media Center (or, XBMC).  [...]

Warnings

I really miss warnings in AIM.
I’m not exactly sure when or why they stopped working, but clearly AOL needs to bring them back.
I still have some pretty LOL screenshots of all my friends being warned up to 100% and barely being able to chat…
[Sigh...]
Those were the good ol’ days.
I would warn vanbergs and vanlandw immediately.

Xbox “Mii”

I finally got around to doing the Xbox 360 dashboard upgrade yesterday…
This new version of the dashboard blatantly copies the Nintendo Wii’s “Mii” functionality where you can create a mental projection of your digital self for all fellow persons and virtuosos to perceive.
It’s really the exact same functionality and it’s almost a shameless ripoff. But, [...]