Sweaty Yeti
Jerry Yeti's sanctuary from work.
Jack Thomspon writes to Judge, CC's Joe Pesci
“One letter faxed to [Judge] Moore and also addressed to Alabama State Bar officials read in part, ‘I am tired of being treated like pig slop by the Alabama State Bar and by an out-of-control tyrant who sits, for now, on the bench in Fayette County.’ He attached a photo of the judge in the movie ‘My Cousin Vinny.’ Later he sent a letter renewing the bribery allegations to the Judicial Inquiry Commission in Alabama and to actor Joe Pesci, who played a lawyer in ‘My Cousin Vinny.’” Link.
We played four player Boom Blox on July 4th. It pretty much went exactly like this Penny Arcade scenario. Brianne did very well as the three boys focused on destroying each other and exacting revenge.
Boing Boing Caught In Hypocricy
Boing Boing once posted a topic entitled, “Google ‘disappears’ sex blogs?”. In that post, it mentioned sex blogger Violet Blue as an example.
Now, Boing Boing has “disappeared” all mention of Violet Blue in all of its posts including that very one (permalink to the new 404 File Not Found). Boing Boing has been spotty with the quality of it’s content lately but still it had often great material. This latest hypocrisy is sickening. It will be hard to visit it again.
Long Metafilter thread on the topic.
Boing Boing finally at least acknowledged the issue. Also long with comments.
The Best Thing About BioShock
I finished BioShock yesterday, nearly ten months after the game first made its debut and subsequently the darling of the gaming community, and also one month since I started playing myself. What I appreciate most about the game beyond all the normal praise you’ve read elsewhere was its user-friendly SAVE feature. Yes, the SAVE feature. Unlike being a slave to the oddities surrounding a game save, you can save your game anywhere and at anytime. Furthermore, when you reload you will start exactly where you saved. This, I need not tell you, is awesome. It allowed me when I only had 10 minutes, to dive in, explore a room or two & then save. Once again, awesome.
Zelda has this problem because it can take you 10 minutes of walking to get from the start of the dungeon to where you last saved. Metroid is worse since you can only save in specific locations -and these locations are often 40 minutes apart (and who wants to back-track 10 minutes to the last save point?). Hopefully more games in the future with large areas to explore will also use this method of saving. It encourages me to pick up the controller instead of dreading not know how long a commitment I’m in for.
Tapai 101 cross section.
The New York Times can't embrace Rock Band
My favorite phrase from the article, “When it comes time to script this new game…” (Emphasis mine.) The author obviously doesn’t understand music games. They don’t *have* scripts.
Unless you’re 50 Cent.
“We would like to hope that it might also be about the extraordinary musical chemistry of Lennon and McCartney, those long, long hours at Abbey Road…”
Except, being a video game it won’t be able that. It’ll be about the extraordinary musical chemistry of Sweaty Yeti on drums, J. Baum’s World saving his ass on Guitar, and Kelly “Bungalow Bill” Reeves going hoarse after the third failed attempt. “Come on Stolen Bloode, we can do it!”
I actually don’t really understand what they are trying to get at here. At first, they seem to understand the GH/RB concept, but then they try to imply that a “Beatles Video Game” would somehow degrade the music into making it some sort of sweaty ”Hard Days Night” Action-Adventure game? But if you had ever picked up a plastic guitar, you’d of course know Rock Band is nothing like that.
You Blew It Chicago Tribune. Yeti is Seriously PO'd.
I wonder what those at the Chicago Tribune were thinking when they concocted this kinda lame “Romance”. Surely the Generation Y’ers, aka the Millenials, aka Facebook Grenadiers, would goo themselves over how witty it was. Indeed, it made the Digg Front Page. Oh look, a story told through the newsfeed in Facebook. How awesome! How original!
Except that the Tribune totally screws it up. Not that it was a good idea in the first place, but a true Facebook narrative would read bottom-up, not the Old School MSM way of reading top-down. Silly old people. Hence I spent the first few news items reading top-down, glancing at the “end” and then reading from bottom up, Facebook Chronological Time (GMT +5.7333). Reading it like that, it is a confusing mess. How can Amy friend Kevin after she’s already SuperPoked him?
I’ve even tried to write a convoluted narrative that would fit that reverse order timeline, but the easiest way to do that is to propose that while Facebook was cataloging the events, Amy, Jennifer and Kevin were all simulaneously moving back in time.
Maybe that’s what the Tribune was proposing after all. Not a Romance, but a Science Fiction.
What happens when a switch pitcher meets a switch hitter? It happened last night at the Brooklyn Cyclones/Staten Island Yankees game. A BASEBALL MOBIUS STRIP!