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Hard Being A Woman

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It’s harding being a woman on Zack’s island.

I played Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 from start to finish, as Kasumi. I didn’t win one game of volleyball, I got my ass bruised from the butt-bumping game, I fell in the water 57 times during the pool hopping, lost several hundreds of thousands of Zack-Dollars, I had at least a dozen gifts re-gifted/returned to me, and I lost my only friend after seven days on the island. And not one damned Achivement point – in spite of the endless bouncing, I feel so…

Unsatisfied.

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Moof… Overload.

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CES Data Overload… IPTV coming to the 360. Live Anywhere demo’d in the wild – nice job Uno! Rumors about Geometry Wars moving to the PC… More Vista demos… Not to mention the home server bit. Aiiiiigh.

Makes me wonder why MacWorld runs on the same week as CES… guess there’s more than enough analog bandwidth to go around, but yeesh – I’m already uber-distracted.

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Blogging Host: Slip!

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If you can see this, congratulations: your ISP is pretty fast at picking up DNS changes.

You see, as much as I enjoyed the maintenance free-hosting of my blog on TypePad, they screwed me one time too many with some of their “internal” crap. Like having a server-based XML-RPC feature broken for just about half a year. And then preventing thousands of users from leaving comments on my blog – not to mention all TypePad-hosted blogs – with an overagressive black listing system. When pressed on that – and when I requested a personal whitelist to minimize the damage – I was told “we’re working on it, but it’s for your best interest”. Right. Having everyone you work with be unable to leave comments for you is for my best interest. Nothing against Six Apart – I’m still using MovableType – but I’ve had enough of that crap… so I moved over to DreamHost and installed MT on my own there.

Y’all shouldn’t notice a change – if you do please let me know! – but I’m a happier mammal, in spite of taking most of Saturday to move it. In fact, I think I want some dinner…

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Clickity-Clack

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One of the hardest things about returning to a cube farm is that of noise. Ambient noises, I mean. The benchmark I use for it is what my reaction to it is. If I notice it, it’s a distraction. If it bothers me enough to put on headphones, it’s annoying but it’s something that I can live with. If it comes through my headphones, it’s too loud and is a problem. Keyboard noise is a subjecting thing on this scale. Some people type louder than others and some people have loud keyboards – either way I tend to not notice it above my own typing, so it’s typically OK.

However, when I hear it coming from a bathroom stall it’s repulsive in more ways than one.
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WhoopWii

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Engadget: Wiimote strap breaks, controller destroys TV

Not often that I’m proven “right” during the first 36 hours of a product launch. In fact, I remember saying “Hey, good idea on the strap” because of this very scenario. However, I’m with Engadget on this one: doofus probably forgot to put on the band and is now trying to blame a faulting strap…

Wonder if he picked up the split or not…

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Wild Wii

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Not willing to leave well enough alone tonight, I went back out to see what was going on in Wii Land, about an hour before Fred Meyer opened their doors. Didn’t go to Kirkland this time; went to Bellevue instead. They had only 54 units in store and they had already handed out their tickets – by 11:15, the line had no where to grow. I then went over to Redmond, to see if any riots had broken out… nothing going on there: quite orderly. I also noticed Target already had a line forming. Eight hours before their doors opened, they already had at least 30 people in line.

Wiild – good thing I don’t care all that much about it or I would have had to drag out my tent tonight.
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Primal Forces

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I was flipping through the radio stations this morning and came across the Adam Corolla Show. They’re sending someone to a local Best Buy, where Sony fanboys – or auctioners for Sony fanboy, but it shouldn’t matter – are lined up to get a PS3 on Friday. They want to see if they can get people to get out line, if bribed with free sex from the Bunny Ranch [in Nevada].

Man… that’s a hard one to call.

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25 or 6 After 1

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Gears of War landed on my desk yesterday. I picked up Call of Duty 3 tonight. I’ve still Need For Speed: Carbon sitting on my coffee table. And here it is, nearly 1:31 in the morning – the obvious question is what did I play all night?

Ghost Recovery Disc Version 10.0
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Time Slip!

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Between work, school, and work, I seem to have misplaced October. Which is kinda nice actually because I’ve been waiting for November to kick off, what with all the GeekStuffs coming out:

11/?? – Xbox 360 Live Wireless Headset (already released!)

11/07 – Gears of War

11/07 – Call of Duty 3

11/07 – Blitz: The League (looks interest)

11/07 – History Channel: Civil War (The History Channel? If realistic, it could be fun)

11/07 – Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player

11/07 – Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

11/09 – Viva Piñata

11/17 – Playstation 3

11/19 – Wii

11/20 – Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 *g*

11/20 – Rainbow Six: Vegas

11/21 – Star Trek Legacy

*** all dates provided by EBGames

At least I didn’t have to freeze myself like Cartman did.