Bad excuses for not posting:
- I'm busy
- Work is really crazy right now
- I'm sitting in a temporary workstation that's literally in the middle of the hallway while contractors finish doing whatever it is they're doing in my office
Good excuses for not posting:
- I hate you all. I wish I could hate you to death
Well, now that I've gotten that out of my system, how about some early morning links. Most of which were found last week. Given that a week is about forty five years of Internet time, I might as well be posting about the Wright brothers and the fall of the Berlin wall. BTW, have you heard of this band called Lipps, Inc? That Funkytown is truly the sound of a new era.
- Apple made a lot of people very, very angry yesterday when they dropped the price of the iPhone $200 just nine weeks after release. Sucks to be on the bleeding edge of technology. This is why I drive a fourteen year old car. Anyway, Gizmodo has all sorts of fun liveblog coverage.
- It's titled like an Onion article, yet it ran on CNN. Is there some sort of cross partnership thingie that I haven't heard about? - Dudes like hot chicks. Chicks like dudes with money. Fucking A. How do I get a research grant for this kind of research. I've got a fantastic idea for a study. My hypothesis: Lazy blog 'editors' love video games, beer and pornography. Can I get tenure?
- If you're sucker enough to play the games at a carnival you might as well know how to win. I should go for the ironic quotes over win, but I just did that for the last link. Fuck it.
- Those bittorrent throttling fuckers at Comcast can eat my ass. Of course I don't presently use Comcast, but that's not relevant right now.
- QUICK QUIZ - Name a better movie than Evil Dead II
- Two quick videogame related notes:
- Bioshock is easily game of the year. Who doesn't like a video game with Ayn Randian (???) themes. Here's a story analysis. Major spoilers so if you have an X360 and haven't played it yet don't read.
- Rock Band is kind of like the spiritual successor to Guitar Hero but it's got drums and a microphone. It also has a $200 price tag, so that might limit its appeal a bit. But it also has Grateful Dead downloadable content coming. I hope that mic is wireless, because there's going to be a lot of twirling.
- Because I fancy myself a soda aficionado and I have I high tolerance for pain, I tried the new flavor of Mountain Dew the other day - Halo 3 Mountain Dew: Game Fuel. It tasted like wet death with the aftertaste of Robo.
- Ok that was three video game points. Feel free to stop reading.... now