I 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 [...]
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The Irony of the Open X Package Opener
Published by June 12th, 2008 in Gadgets and Random. 0 Comments
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 of "company" [...]
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 [...]
A company that limits access to driver downloads is a company that doesn’t appreciate its customers. Today, I was trying to find a simple driver for a little USB 801.11b network card to patch a hole in my network. Couldn’t find it anywhere. I finally had to go to Uniden’s website, where I was forced [...]
The Sad State of Smartphone Software
Published by October 17th, 2007 in Gadgets, Random and Software. 0 CommentsI was going through my blogs today and stumbled on a note from the guys at Smartphone Thoughts. I like these guys, but again, it was a plug for a piece of software they hadn’t tried, in the vein of “looks kinda neat - anyone try it?”. This brought me over to the best-seller list [...]
Zarch’s Gear: Garmin nüvi® 360 GPS
Published by October 13th, 2007 in Gadget Reviews, Gadgets and Reviews. 0 CommentsI know the question you’re all asking. “Zarch, you live 1.3 miles from your job. You live in Utah, where all the streets are laid out as a numbered grid. You have two other means of GPS navigation. WTH?” To that, I answer, I am a gadget admirer, and I constantly seek the gadget [...]
Guild Wars + Third-person Shooter. Those are my first impressions. And you don’t have to aim, really; just hit your mouse button, and you’re shooting at the enemy. I like the mechanics so far, but I’m not sure of a few things.
The story so far is pretty much “Guild Wars in Space”. It starts very [...]
Tried out the Call of Duty 4 demo this morning. My first thoughts are that it’s certainly a little more frenetic than 1 or 2, but the feel is very much the same. Graphics are excellent, even on my rig; my video card is a 6800 Ultra, so that holds me back a little bit [...]
Oh, come on now - Red Ring of Death strikes
Published by October 11th, 2007 in Consoles and Random. 0 CommentsSo it’s an open secret that Microsoft sort of ganked the first-gen Xbox 360. Rudeboy and I were in the local Toys R Us on a lunch break, and wandered over the sad, sad video game section. Even sadder than them having no new PSP slims was the sight of a damaged Xbox 360, [...]