On Sunday I woke up at 9:15, unusually early for the weekend, and I was really bored. Around noon I remembered that my latest fix of computer game crack was just released. I haven’t been bored since.
On Sunday I woke up at 9:15, unusually early for the weekend, and I was really bored. Around noon I remembered that my latest fix of computer game crack was just released. I haven’t been bored since.
At Sean’s cookout on Sunday I watched a few of his friends play Texas Hold ‘em for a few hours, a game that I’d never played before. Today when I got home I looked around for some strategy info and then played Yahoo! Games Hold’em Poker for a few hours. I think this will be my newest addiction.
Have you seen the new Apple Music commercial with the white-boy singing Baby Got Back?
It’s embarrasing how much the commercial reminds me of freshman year at CWRU.
Megan and I generally won’t watch the same television shows. It seems like it’s always American Idol vs. NOVA or whatever the hell is on MTV vs. Mail Call or some similar debate.
We’ve found one show that we totally agree on: Unwrapped on Food Network.
It’s the perfect mix of how-to and pure sugar. One of the features of tonight’s show was deep-fried Twinkies. Now doesn’t that sound good?
I finally finished Neverwinter Nights! Well, actually just the main single-player game. Now I can try other modules or the preview of the first expansion pack. I love this game.
A year and a half ago I didn’t really watch much TV. Ever since I got digital cable I’ve developed a semi-regular list of shows that I try to catch whenever they’re on.
In order of effort made to watch:
Full Metal Challenge (when it was on)
Home Movies
South Park
Good Eats
Junkyard Wars
Futurama
King of the Hill
Iron Chef
The Simpsons
I’ve turned into one of the kids I hated when I was in grade school: the ones that had cable.
I’ve had my old PSone packed away in a plastic bag in the corner of the room for about a year now. The last time I tried to use it there was something wrong with the v-sync making it pretty much unplayable.
For some reason I tried to hook it up and it worked just fine. Now I really need to look into getting some more older games, or maybe even DDR.
I was browsing CDs at Amazon.com and noticed that quite a few artists have freely-downloadable MP3s. The main free downloads page mostly has songs in Liquid Audio format (which I wouldn’t recommend using) but if you browse by category almost all of the available files are MP3s.
Our three-hour lunch meeting went well. I wouldn’t dare post a spoiler here so all I’ll say is that it left me satisfied. Being the middle of the story, there wasn’t as much character development as the first one but a lot more action. Luckily this one ended at a more natural break-point so I may be able to bear another year wait.
Oh, and the ents were so cool.
Is is just me, or do the previews for The Emperor’s Club make it look like a cheap knock-off of Dead Poets Society?
The Mike Doughty show was awesome, as expected. It was just as much fun as a usual Doughty show with the added bonus of a newly made-up song, Crazy Fucking Bird From Crazyland.
The show started an hour later than the tickets indicated so we had to kill some time at BW3. I think that it was the first time Megan and I were alone drinking at a bar. It felt oddly date-like.
Megan and I are going to see Mike Doughty at The Odeon tonight.
I actually forgot to get tickets until a couple of days ago so I had to buy them from Ticketmaster despite how I feel about ‘convenience charges.’ In the past I would have had to get the tickets at the will call window before the show. Now they have something called ‘ticketFast‘ where you can print out your own ticket in stead. I would be totally into it if it didn’t add yet another fee.
The ticket tickets themselves look pretty cool. You can view a sample ticket on their website (Acrobat Reader required).
Ever since it’s release a few months ago, I’ve wanted Neverwinter Nights, the latest game by the people who made the Baldur’s Gate games. My big concern was that it would take over all of my free time for a couple weeks like Baldur’s Gate did.
Last night, while shopping at CompUSA with TB, I finally broke down and bought it.
I think I’m going to be okay this time though. So far I’d say the game impresses me more that BG did, but I think I’ll be able to tear myself away from it when I have to. While it will probably use up most of my spare time for a while, I doubt I’ll ever have another 36 hours straight of a computer game.
I must be getting older.
For the past few days I’ve been listening to the music channels that come with digital cable. I wish I had discovered how good they were earlier. I’ve been listening for the past three hours while working on my computer and haven’t heard a single song I didn’t like. It’s much better than anything on the radio at least.
Apparently Mike Doughty didn’t get enough of Cleveland during his Oct 5th show with Rusted Root so he’s coming back for more. This time the show is at The Odeon and Mike is headlining. If you haven’t experienced the joy of a Doughty concert, come alone with me and see what it’s all about.
If you would like to keep up with Mike Doughty’s tour or whoever your favorite artist happens to be, try Pollstar.com. I’ve been using the site for years and it always seems to have up to date tour information.