Archive for the 'Funny Stuff' Category

Colbert and Stewart vs the Writer’s Strike

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

I’ll admit I was a little disappointed to tune in to the Colbert Report and see re-runs the day the writer’s strike started.  In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s a writer’s guild strike going on that’s taken Hollywood’s writers offline (or “Pencils Down” as they say).  This means the behind-the-scenes folks who come […]

Hey I’m Famous

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I must be famous, I’m in a cartoon!

XBox Media Center Update

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Here’s an interesting rumor:  A new Media Center client is in the works, but this time instead of being based on the Remote Desktop protocol, it’s based on a direct connection between Vista’s media center and a new Xbox applet, which will be downloadable from Xbox Live. This should eliminate the long delay when you […]

How could you not want it?

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

It’s got ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT MEGS!

Some Gifts Not To Buy for Christmas

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

A New Cell Phone.  Now, if it was just a new cell phone, where you could take the SIM card out of your old phone and put it in the new one and have a better phone than you had previously, then it would be a good gift – maybe a great gift – but […]

Buying an XBox 360 on eBay

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Here’s another misleading XBox 360 auction on eBay.  I’d feel guilty selling an email address for that much cash.  

Sims Community

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

A game that’s done an incredible job of building an online community is The Sims. My wife is playing, and trying to get the kids into private school. To get into private school, you have to invite the headmaster over and show him what great parents you are – by having a nice house, making […]