Bless those handsome devils at Valve! Looks like the Demoman is nerfed a little, and spies (I hate them so much!) and engies get a little boost. Here are the official changes (I’ve bolded the ones I found interesting): The Engineer’s teleporters can now be upgraded to level three. It will recharge faster the higher [...]
Archive for 2008
The Irony of the Open X Package Opener
Published by June 12th, 2008 in Gadgets and Random. 1 CommentI was shopping on ThinkGeek the other day, and had some points to have this thrown in with my order. Either that, or it was cheap enough that I thought I’d throw it in the cart. Me no remember so good none. Anyhoo, everyone hates those crazy impossible packages, right? Here’s where the IRONY attacks. [...]
It’s not a great picture, but I got a phone snap of a Google Street View car on the freeway the other day. Nothing special, just thought I’d share.
A clever blogger for diylife.com has posted a really nice how-to for adding analog gauges to your PC, including the needed USB hardware and some great advice for finding old gauges to work with. If that’s something of interest to you, check out the full post for all the details.
Grammar for Bloggers: Possessive or Plural?
Published by January 16th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsToday’s article comes from Autoblog. Here’s the line that prompted a post: The economy appears to be swooning, and before we land softly (or crash hard), company’s have begun to circle their wagons and reduce unnecessary spending. Leaving aside the questionable sentence construction, let’s address the apostrophe problem in the word "company’s". The correct plural [...]
Grammar for Bloggers: "Line Up" vs. "Lineup"
Published by January 15th, 2008 in Gripes and Random. 0 CommentsWelcome to a snarky new series. A beautiful thing about the advent of blogging is the availability of so many sources for getting news and information. The trouble is, many of our friends in the blogosphere have some difficulty with the written language. This can be a barrier to adoption for the snobbier sections of [...]