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Unpacking is keeping me from MMO gaming, but television is new and exciting. I turned it on last night hoping to see “Mythbusters”. Everyone talks about it, I heard it would be on. I couldn’t find it. As I stepped slowly through the channels, looking for the logos on the bottom of the screen to tell me what network was on that channel, it occurred to me that there must be a great need for some sort of ‘guide’ for ‘TV’ that would tell you what was playing on various channels so you would know what was coming up. ...

Just in case anyone asks. I truly detest moving. Found the above picture of the flight simulator Mark Snow and I built. Everything you see there - the LED instruments, the control yoke, even the computer hiding behind the simulator on the right - was built by Mark. All the blinking of the lights and the display on the computer was done by me. Behind the simulator sits the cassette tape player that loads the program I wrote into the computer. ...

I have only recently been playing EQ1 again, and the new expansion kinda snuck up on me. I knew Prophecy of Ro was coming out, but I really did not know when. EQ2’s Kingdom of Sky, I knew about. I figured I’d pick up a copy of both on the way home so I could check them out on at least one account before springing for the other. But Walmart… never heard of EverQuest. They had lots of WoWs, though. ...

I refuse to believe that any day that begins with finding your dice, can be a bad day. Those blurry bits of plastic saw me through a lot of hard times. Not long ago, I’d have sat right down, pulled out a clean character sheet and rolled up an adventurer. When I found these while packing this morning, my first thought was: I gotta put these in my blog! ...

Someone asked on the CE boards for everyone to list the things they remember about the year they graduated. I graduated from Concord High School, in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1979, and here’s my essay about the year. – I graduated in 1979. Saturday Night Live was still funny. My mom was into disco. When your parents disco, it is no longer cool. That was about the end of it then. The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant was nearing completion, but the Clamshell Alliance, that opposed it, had the fun rallies, which I would attend on the lawn of the state capital. ...

Was going to show my family where I was moving using Google Earth; but according to them, the place I am moving to, doesn’t exist… Just gonna keep my eyes closed all the time and hum. I can believe them into reality! Oh, speaking of moving, here’s a fun game to play: go to Cox Communications, enter the zip code 92069, and try to figure out how to get basic cable. If you end up at the end of the spiel with services more than the price of your rent PLUS your car payment, welcome to the club. ...

First of all, they don’t have every MP3. I don’t care what they say. I don’t even know if they say it… but ya know… given the name. Anyway. Who they are, are a Russian outfit that sells MP3 by the pound megabyte. No, really. It’s like a butcher shop, except the sides of beef are albums. You tell the man with the heavy accent at the counter what you want, he takes it off the hook, chops off the tracks you want, packages them how you like (format, bit rate, what have you… 192 kbps, Ogg format, please), he slaps it on the scale and you pay two cents for every megabyte. ...

Pandora music recommendation service claims to discover what music you like and give you more of it. I’m always interested in discovering new artists. Portishead, Sleeper, The Breeders, Sneaker Pimps; I discovered all of them by using such early services like HOMR and Firefly. So I figured I’d try and see if I could find jazz music like that played on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. A local radio station plays that sort of music on the weekends; I like it; would definitely like to hear more of it and add it to my collection. ...

“Whatever is said in Latin, sounds profound” This little list of common phrases written in Latin to make you sound smart is precious :) But that’s not the exciting news. Today I found out that my new apartment application has been approved, and I will be moving to sunny San Marcos from the distant Escondido February 17th. This will put me about four and a half miles from work with NO Route 78 stretches. ...

I used that word below; thought I made it up but Google says otherwise. Anyway, I liked the word and decided to Flickr-ize it with this cute script that spells any word with Flickr images. Oh yay, Google finally indexed this site… time to toss in the adwords and retire on all the $$$…