March 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:00 AM

Alright, MacGyver, what are you going to do now?

I read a lot of poker blogs, as I mentioned before, and this one guy, CJ, who is one of the posters on the Up For Poker Blog, referred to a hilarious post he made to his personal blog about getting stuck on a balcony in Monte Carlo.  He was out there to do a big poker tournament.

Good stuff...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:40 AM

Great insight into Hollywood from an "insider"

I was reading the Battlestar Galactica blog like a good geek and ran across a really cool posting by Ron Moore which happened to have some commentary about Hollywood that I thought was really great.

On Gaming: "...To put it succinctly: these are seriously smart people, doing seriously smart things with a deadly seriousness of purpose..."
On Gaming vs Hollywood: "It was especially interesting to contrast the conversations I had with people in the gaming industry with the typical conversation with people in my own industry. My industry tends toward the narcissistic, finding new and exciting ways to be in love with itself and its own hype, sometimes to the point of being in love with being in love with itself."

Yes, Hollywood is full of asshats that don't try to improve themselves or their industry and feel that they deserve to be where they are.  The gaming industry is young and hungry and works really hard to improve rather than resting on their laurels.  They deserve our money more than Hollywood does.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:24 AM

Miscellaneous


That's all for now. :)
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:07 AM

FSM Sighting in Baltimore...

This is great.  Someone actually (last October) had a Flying Spaghetti Monster billboard in Baltimore (on Falls Road, for those locals)...

My favorite quote from this discussion:  "Arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics - even if you win, you’re still retarted."

(NOTE:  The guy misspelled "retarded"... How ironic is that?)

All hail the Divine Noodly Appendage...

Ramen.
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:31 AM

Identity? What Identity?

I'm glad to see that Chase (JP Morgan Chase, actually) is doing so much to protect us from dumpster divers...

Asshats!
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:25 AM

A blast from the past...

Sometimes someone writes something really poignant and funny that touches on pop culture references and my own memories that touches me.  I'm was sitting in my basement at 7am laughing all by myself.  I still have a smile on my face when I think about it.  Things like this are great.  I wish I was as eloquent as Wil Wheaton is at recounting old memories.  We all have memories like this, but he just has a knack for phrasing it for optimum smile-factor.
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