Welcome 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 [...]
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Grammar for Bloggers: "Line Up" vs. "Lineup"
Published by January 15th, 2008 in Gripes and Random. 0 Comments
Office 2007 Color Schemes / Themes
Published by December 20th, 2007 in Gripes and Software. 3 CommentsIn an effort to keep all us little monkeys up-to-date, we were all just upgraded to Office 2007 here at work and the first thing I noticed was the nasty default “toothpaste” color scheme. Don’t get me wrong… blue is one of my favorite colors, but that shade was just plain offensive. And so I [...]
Well, I cranked up the BioShock demo last night. It played pretty well with my system, in spite of the fact that I didn’t bother trying to tweak and turn things off. The framerate was too low, but I wanted a feel for what a DX9 card would present. My current rig has a Core [...]
Hello all. Just read a post about Adam Mapleson, the guy who took a bullet for a stranger to stop a robbery. He’s in pretty bad shape, but he should be ok, fram what the reports are saying. Props to Adam for having some guts, and our best wishes for a speedy recovery. I’d like [...]
Do Australian Crickets Play PS3?
Published by March 22nd, 2007 in Gripes and Playstation. 2 CommentsBecause a soft and soothing chirping noise seems to be the only sound coming from the Australian PS3 launch lines. At least that’s what the following picture would suggest: I don’t deny that I probably come across as a bit of a Sony hater, but lest you think it’s due to my devotion to some [...]
In this day and age of almost constant web surfing we’ve become pretty used to being bombarded with stupid banner ads. But there are a few of these lame ads that seem to be far worse than others. I’m refering specifically to the freaking stupid silhouette dancers. Now I’m not a fan of the dumb [...]
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 [...]
Burnout… not just for top-fuel dragsters anymore!
Published by October 6th, 2005 in Gripes. 0 CommentsToday’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 [...]
Apple attacks the software for my new Zen Vision!
Published by September 30th, 2005 in Gripes, Software, Tunes and iPods Suck. 0 CommentsHere’s hoping this is just a fluke, and not some plot by the Mother Brain at Apple to make us all wear stupid white headphones and blink in unison, but Quicktime fragged the software for my new Zen Vision. I was happily unpacking components and slipped the CD with drivers and software into my drive. [...]
So… what’s up with all the trash talk that seems to occur in every freakin chat room on the planet? Regardless of what game I happen to be playing, people are talking smack and worse. More than half the time the trash talk degrades to “what are you wearing?”. I’m sure I’m not the first [...]