MSNBC: A 19-year-old man suspected of killing a woman who answered an online ad for a baby sitter was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder. […] Olson had gone to Anderson’s home Thursday to inquire about a baby-sitting job she had seen advertised on the popular Internet bulletin board Craigslist, authorities said.
Be ready, folks: a huge “the interwebs are unsafe!!1!!1!” backlash is about to begin.
Xbox360FanBoy: Warning future Guitar Hero III purchasers … Walmart is evil. And yes, we know the word evil carries a lot of emotional weight behind it, but we’re comfortable and confident in using such an adjective to describe Walmart seeing what they’re doing with their Guitar Hero III bundles. You see, Walmart somehow received an exclusive GHIII bundle from Activision in which they sell the game with old GHII guitar controllers. That means Xbox 360 owners who’d buy the bundle wouldn’t get a wireless Les Gibson and instead get the corded Xplorer.
In some ways, I have to put some fault on the consumer for not reading the box. Would be like the first person that bought an N64, Xbox, or PS2 and complaining there’s only one controller in the box, because the last gen had two… even though it’s clearly labeled on the box.
Yet, I still think this is a completely shitty deal, since Wal-Mart is still charging full price for the lackluster bundle… guess this is what happens when you stock your stores on a consignment basis: you do what you can to save money, even if it’s by screwing your customers. If they took $10 off, that may be something, but full price? Glad I went to Target.
While a picture may be worth at least 1K words, I say this one is worth $99.
Was looking at a Best Buy flyer today… holy crap. Guitar Hero III hit shelves today; The Simpsons and Naruto and a few other games hit this Tuesday or Wednesday… so much eye candy, I dunno what to do!
Well, kinda – I did head out to Target this morning… *g*
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Swung by the Bellevue Apple store last night, around 8pm. Yes, there was still a bit of a line. Yes, they had no T-Shirts left. Yes, I bought a copy of Leopard for my 1.66GHz Core Duo Mac mini.
Ya know… if you have the cash to support it, OSX is surprisingly usable.
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I need the net-based citizens of interwebs to weigh in on an issue for me… it’s one part sociological and one part I-Don’t-Understand. The situation is this:
A couple have been together for over a year. Both people in the relationship are between 27 and 29. They aren’t having sex because one of the people in the relationship is afraid to take that next step for different reasons. One is an unplanned pregnancy. Another is that it would be the first time. Lastly, the worried partner is concerned because a younger sibling [also in their 20’s] have not had sex yet and they don’t want to set a bad example.
I have an opinion on this that I won’t share yet because I don’t want to taint the survey, but I’m asking you all: do you consider this normal/weird, healthy/unhealthy?
Comments are open – post away.
while (life) {
if (rand() == GetCurrentTicksFromBirth())
break;
years++;
}
Should be as simple as that, but it never is. Sorry – I’ve just been rather… reflective lately. Changing things around my house. Toying with shaving my head for Halloween. Contemplating blocking Fox from my cable box for the next couple of weeks, to avoid the insanity of Boston in a World Series. It’s also probably the re-org – whenever work changes gears I usually need to take a step back to catch my breath…
Maybe it’s because I’m turning 35 next month. Or maybe it’s because I now have one retired parents. Or maybe it’s because I know people that are younger than the socks in this picture, which have made their way from my Freshman year of high school in 1986, through two other schools, a cross-country move, and four different residences… even so – Chuck’ll confirm this – these are the thickest socks known to man, and while the elastics probably gave out years ago, they are still in one piece which is truly bizarre. Almost as bizarre as the fact that I found them in my sock drawer just this morning and said “what the hell do I have these for?”
I think I’ll just put them back in the drawer.
Ah, there’s nothing like the crisp air of autumn to make you truly enjoy a re-org within your own team.
Yes, there’s been a shuffle which now begs the big question of now what is Randy doing?
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Meh. I was going to post a whole long diatribe about some rock guy that was on KISW this morning, calling for the removal of our electoral college system of electing presidents (something about “who are these guys anyway?” and it being their fault that Gore lost ) but I’m just not in the mood to bother with it.
Long story short: the electoral college was designed so bigger states can have louder voicers while not leaving out smaller states entirely, the electors are tasked to mark their ballot based on their regions voting, read a political science text book before forming opinions on the political systems of the world, and place blame where blame belongs which usually means on the ppl in FL.
That just about covers it.
The Rockies had best continue their post-season winning ways.
Number of days since contacting your publisher about re-printing your book so it sucks less: 365
Cost of re-printing the book: about $200
Number of pages changed in the year long re-printing effort: 0
Years at current sales rate before making back original printing costs: about 20
Time spent blogging when I should have been editing my book: infinity + 1
Meh.
I should just stop sleeping altogether so I have more time to do things.
YOUR MOTHER!
TUAW: What’s the opposite of flamebait? It’s when your PowerBook really does catch fire and nearly kills you–and you write a love letter like Jimm Lasser did. After his PowerBook burst into flames, he didn’t lash out at Apple. He grew to love them even more. He writes, “a Mac almost killed me, and I came out of the whole experience feeling more strongly about Apple as a company.” TUAW rejoices that Lasser survived and has been able to move on from the whole experience, but reiterates that this kind of bonding, consumer-trust-enhancing experience is not typical.
Maybe TUAW is guilty of taking the guy’s comments out of context, but as their post is presented in its entirely, I have to say that this guy is a fuckin’ idiot, as it’s posted. I’m sorry, but notebooks bursting into flames [under normal use] is an unacceptable event. If that notebook was on a lap, it burns badly; in a computer bag, it could start a massive fire. So why would you feel more strongly about Apple? Because it was a metal notebook? Because the notebook that caught fire looked pretty? I’m sorry, but whichever company is at fault for this – be it notebook or battery – it should never be praised for it, much less forgiven.
Ever.
I wanted to take a moment to thank the Yankees for winning on Sunday night. After the Seahawks put up as many points as I had in football on Sunday morning, I fully expected to have a day of nothing but sports angst. At least this way, I had a brief moment of happiness before baseball went dark for the rest of this week, now that all of the LCS teams have been settled.
And on the LDS series: shit or get off the pot. This 5 game nonsense is just that: nonsense. Either get rid of the thing or make it a proper 7 games, like the NHL does.
Otherwise, I am somewhat intrigued that the ALCS and NLCS teams have shaped up like they have. First off, there’s two teams from the NL West: waaaaai? Looks like we’re getting an East vs West no matter who wins – if the ratings are off this year, maybe we can put the “not enough of the nation is involved” battle to rest, finally. In addition to that, the top four teams from the MLB have made it to the the LCS: it’s almost like going back to the days before the Wild Card. I can’t remember the last time that happened – maybe it hasn’t since the Wild Card started?
Onto the “Curse of A-Rod”. I don’t think it’s A-Rod that is carrying a curse… I think it’s another person that’s very much beloved by lifetime Yankees fans: Donnie Baseball. Has anyone else noticed that it? I mean, Mattingly left the team after playing in the post season in 1995. The Yankees won the Series in 1996; they hadn’t been to the Series since 1981, the year before Donnie came up in 1982. Breaks my heart that Donnie played for the team all that time with no Ring to show for it, but what can you do? Well, in our case, we can bring him back to the team in the form of a coach. His first year with the team again was 2004 and we know how that year turned out… *sigh* It’s just a trend I see. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think I am.
Oh, and just for tradition’s sake: fuck you, Boston!
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c|net: Microsoft has unveiled the second generation of Zune digital music players and will offer consumers 1 million unprotected songs on its online music store.
Finally some news on new Zune devices! Yes, I’m getting this same off at the same time that you are: the Zune team has been extremely quiet on their latest plans, which is one of the reasons why I bought an iPod nano a couple of weeks ago without shame. How do I hold off buying a new player if I don’t know what’s coming? Now that I do know, is it causing Buyer’s Remorse? Not yet – in fact, I’m eying the 80GB Zune rather than the flash-based Zune models, but I’ll have to get my hands on hardware before feeling anything one way or the other.
I do like how c|net takes features specific to the iPod touch and iPhone and applies them to the whole iPod family – means they get a whole bunch of information wrong.
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