Monthly Archive for October, 2005

Impromptu Top 10 list

Published on October 28, 2005 in Tunes. 0 Comments

So I got listening to some music tonight, and thought I’d make a quick top ten of my favorite tracks. In no particular order:

Let It Be – The Beatles
Please Let That Be You – The Rentals
Ultraviolet – U2
Sometime Ago/La Fiesta – Chick Corea
Checkered Past – John Scofield
The Obvious Child – Paul Simon
The State That I Am In – Belle and Sebastian
Between Us – Harry Connick, Jr.
Vienna – Billy Joel
Sugar Magnolia – The Grateful Dead

Anyhoo, just felt the urge to make a quick top tracks list. I’ll dupe this in the forum for comments.

Who taught you how to park?

Published on October 28, 2005 in Random. 0 Comments

Know someone that has a hard time parking their car between the little yellow lines?

Get them an IParkLikeAnIdiot sticker from www.iparklikeanidiot.com and warn the rest of the world to find another parking space on the other side of the lot.

The ‘Mod-O-Lantern’

Published on October 27, 2005 in Case Mods and Geek Fun. 0 Comments

It’s hard to deny the seasonal sweetness of this wicked cool pumpkin mod:

CLICK HERE to check out the build process and see lots more cool pics of the Pumpkin Computer.

What’s better than average, every day Geeks?

Published on October 27, 2005 in Geek Fun and Random. 0 Comments

GEEKS WITH GUNS!!!

I realize that this has nothing to do with Computers, Games or Geekdom in general, but I had to show off my latest trophy.

I went out deer hunting this weekend with my ‘crew’ and put all that Counter Strike sniping practice into action. I got this sweet 3-point with a 24 inch spread.

I'm a poser!
I’m a poser!

'The Crew'
Here’s ‘The Crew’

AAARRRRRR Matey!

Things that MUST GO!!!

Published on October 20, 2005 in Gripes. 0 Comments

There’s a local radio station here in Salt Lake (X96 KXRK) that compiles a list of ‘things that must go’. I’ve thought of contributing to this list quite a few times, but I’ve decided instead to start my own.

The permanent list is located in the forums HERE so please feel free to add anything you think is a ‘must go’ sort of item, action, behaviour, etc.

To start the list, here’s most of my first entry (which can be seen at the above forum link):

You see a lot of custom paint jobs on cars these days, but I gotta say, you’re not foolin me into thinking that your car is actually made of diamond plate steel and that you just drive soooo fast that the paint is starting to peel back and reveal the diamond plate beneath.

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Gallery source is up!

Published on October 18, 2005 in Announcements. 0 Comments

Well, I still gotta load all the sweet pics, but the source code for the gallery is up and running. I’ll be adding pics over the next couple days and try to fill it out so there’s actually something to look at here.

We plan to have a few different galleries including some gameshot galleries and a casemod gallery. Unfortunately the current code doesn’t allow for public uploads, but if you have a pic you’d like to have considered for the casemod gallery, please post it in the forums and we’ll get it posted.

As usual, if anyone actually looks at this page and happens to have any suggestions, please let us know (forum is the best way to do that).

“What’s another word for thesaurus?”

Published on October 17, 2005 in Random. 0 Comments

So I had the iRiver on random today and came across a voice clip from Reservoir Dogs. If you’re familiar with the soundtrack, it was one of the K-BILLY radio sequences between songs and it got me wondering if the guy doing the voice was the guy I thought it was. After some quick searching, it turns out that it was the guy I was thinkin and his name is Steven Wright.

Well, long story short, I ended up on his Wiki page and they had a list of some of his comic one-liners (I’m incredibly busy today as you can tell). These are a couple of the more humorous ones:

- “I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
- “When the guy who made the first drawing board got it wrong, what did he go back to?”
- “What’s another word for thesaurus?”
- “A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”
- “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and doesn’t stop until you get to work.”
- “There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.”
- “We had a quicksand box in our backyard. I was an only child. Eventually.”
- “Why’s the alphabet in that order? Is it ’cause of that song?”

PEZ – Is there anything it can’t do?

Published on October 17, 2005 in Case Mods, Geek Fun and mp3. 0 Comments

PEZ is probably the most overpriced and delicious candy you can find at your local Wally-World. Who knew, however, that it could be converted into music as well? engadget posted this neat item this morning.

PEZ, of course, holds a special place in eBay lore (see here. Maybe that PEZ player could be this year’s corporate gift?

(sorry, links are broken because someone… ahem… broke the database this weekend.)

Burnout… not just for top-fuel dragsters anymore!

Published on October 6, 2005 in Gripes. 0 Comments

Today’s topic is burnout.

Now, I’m not talking about slamming the gas pedal to the floor breifly to prep my tires for a screaming fast run down the quarter mile. Today I’m referring to the type of burnout that makes you say ‘I CAN’T FREAKIN TAKE IT ANYMORE AND I WANT SOMEONE TO JAM A LETTER OPENER THROUGH MY BRAIN STEM TO MAKE IT STOP’, or at least something similar to that.

To be fair, I don’t have it all that bad. I’ve got an ok job with a reasonable stress level. I live on 1234 Nowhere St. in the dead-center of your typical middle-class American suburb. I’ve got 2 kids, a house, 2 cars and a motorcycle and none of my stuff has been recently spread across five square miles by the wrath of mother nature. But still…

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Vancouver – a City in Canada

Published on October 6, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

My report is on Vancouver. Vancouver is in Canada. They are a different country. My Dad went to Canada once. They don’t take normal money. Cars can’t go as fast, and gas is twice as much money. It’s rainy.

Yep, I’m in Canadia. I made the whole journey with a rip in my Dockers cargo pants, about 7″ right in the seat. Also, the guy at the Delta counter threatened that I would be forcibly removed by the police. I did not balk. I told him to get his boss, and when he said no, I told him I would wait at his counter until he did. Stupid putz. I guess I’d be grumpy too if I was working at the Delta ticket counter at 60 years old.

Here’s a fun link if you ever want to make a fuss. Bankruptcy serves those hosers right.