Mass Effect was a great game. I finished it two years ago so I kind of forgot just how great it was…and just about every major plot point too. Now I’ve started Mass Effect 2 and it’s all coming back to me. I just got to the part where Garrus makes his appearance and I…
Month: February 2010
Free Kindles?
Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers. Allegedly. Sure, I’ll buy a Kindle for $79. Just don’t expect me to pay for any books.
Two years already
Two year photo preview. More to come.
Who…does…number…2…work…for!
I mentioned it on Facebook a few months ago, but not here on the ol’ blog. We’ve got another baby on the way. Kate’s going to be a big sister to…a girl! She’s due at the end of June. At first I was like “Yessssss. Now we don’t have to buy any more toys or…
Sample ham radio license tests
Take a ham radio license test online and see how you do. The technician test is 35 multiple choice questions. 75% is passing. It’s just for practice. If you want the real thing you actually have to show up somewhere and talk to people. Which nobody does. Which is why the hobby is dying. Also,…
Palisades del Rey
Between the end of the LAX runway and the Pacific Ocean is a little sliver of land that, from the satellite image, looks like a residential housing development…without any houses. That’s what it used to be, but it was seized and razed by the government in the 60s. Now it’s just a ghost town, and…
Tales from the NICU
But sometimes at my job, without anyone’s permission or direction, without any papers in hand or abbreviations or acronyms or any right except a self-imposed one, I say something that feels very, very important to me. It’s this: It’s going to be okay. I was raised by a single mom, and I turned out just…
Blaster Master is back
One of my Top 5 favorites from the NES has been reborn. Blaster Master… …has gotten a 2D sequel. It’s available for purchase starting today on WiiWare. Nobody even knew that SunSoft was working on it until they announced it last Friday!
New digs
Blogger announced that it’s dropping support for FTP publishing, so I’m announcing that I’m dropping support for Blogger. I’ve been using it for ten years (this month) and it’s time to move on! I’ve imported the last decade of Blogger posts into a custom WordPress install with a free theme I found. I figured why…
There. I fixed it.