I finished the new Splinter Cell game on my 360 this weekend, and while I really dig the new “Double Agent” gameplay, where you have sets of conflicting goals for each mission–both the NSA and the terrorist organization you’re infiltrating will tell you to do stuff, and you actually have to make tough choices. [...]
Archive for October, 2006
The Road
16Oct06 I’m absolutely buried today, but I wanted to take a moment between editing tasks to talk about The Road. This is the post-apocalyptic equivalent of For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Instead of pitting the protagonists against mindless zombies or other supernatural beasties, The Road firmly sets the charred remains of the world as the enemy. All [...]
Worst. Idea. Ever.
13Oct06 I usually don’t post crap from Boing Boing, since everyone reads Boing Boing, but this is undoubtedly the worst idea I’ve ever heard of.
They’re making toy Frisbees look like landmines as part of a landmine awareness scheme. You pick up the Frisbee, and on the bottom it lets you know about the perils of [...]
Pre-order the Wii? Probably not
13Oct06I got up a few hours early this morning to get a shot at a Wii preorder from my local Gamestop. By the time I arrived, roughy two hours prior to opening, there were about 40 people in line, for a store that said they had roughly 20 consoles coming. By the look of [...]
Comcast, continued
10Oct06I’ve been so pissed about the Comcast thing that I can’t really post about it. On Saturday, the installer finally came to the house. He admitted that he removed the multiswitch from my line, disconnecting my service (which is provided by his competitor). But, he claims that he left the hardware in question in my [...]
Fucked by Comcast, Part 2
06Oct06 Here’s the update. After speaking to my new neighbors, who were very cool about the entire thing, I found out that Comcast did indeed make an appearance yesterday. So, my gracious neighbor promises to complain, and at around noon they called.
The woman who called (Trish) was very nice, and totally apologetic. After our first [...]
Comcast fucked me again
06Oct06 I didn’t think it was possible, as I haven’t been a Comcast customer in more than five years, but they’ve done it again.
As I sat down to watch a little TV this evening, my DirecTiVo told me that it’s lost the satellite signal. It was a little windy last night, so I figured maybe [...]
Rain + Dog Poop = Frogs?
04Oct06I’ve spent the last three months going to the dog park at the end of my block at least 4 times a day, and I have not once seen a frog. However, this evening, when walking Chloe in the rain, I spotted my first Bay Area Poop Frog. The little guy was about 2 inches [...]
World War Z
03Oct06I finished reading Max Brooks’ World War Z last night, and I really enjoyed his take on the zombie apocalypse. Instead of writing a straight expository narrative, Brooks’ novel tells the tale of the living undead overrunning the world via a series of first-person accounts. The book is an oral history of the battle between [...]
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