For the last two days I’ve been hunting the exclusive Regis Pokemon from Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire. I’ve burned through countless Ultra Balls and used various forms of sleep attacks to no avail. Having to start over after losing all my Pokemon or after losing my train of thought and actually killing a Regi is [...]
Hey, “enlargment”, thanks for you spam. Appears that the reason my “MT-Blacklist”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ didn’t catch you is because you’re too clever by misspelling your name. Gee, you must be proud to have a name like “enlargment”. For the record, not only is this blog protected by MT-Blacklist, I’m also running the super special de-Google juicer which [...]
The new “Pokemon Colosseum”:http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=m-Game-0000-1847 for Nintendo Gamecube is getting ready to hit the states on March 24th. In order to prepare for the event, Nintendo has been offering a free Pokemon Colosseum “bonus disc for pre-orders”:http://www.pokemon-games.com/presell.html. When you plunk down your pre-order you get the disc on the spot which includes an ultra rare Pokemon [...]
Out of all the vendors and monthly services I pay, AT&T and Sony are the first to finally cough up some free swag. In a few weeks I’ll be receiving two free “Sony Ericsson T226 phones”:http://www.sonyericsson.com/T226 from Sony to replace my current line of T68i phones. I was a little miffed to learn about this [...]
In what seems to me like another attempt at the French trying something new for the sake of world attention, a “French group is going to sue Apple Computer”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=1292&e=1&u=/ap/20040310/ap_on_hi_te/france_apple over their sales of iPods in France. bq. The argument centers on a fee levied in France on sales of blank CDs, tapes, hard disks and [...]
I can’t believe I’m actually going to boycott EB Games for this but frankly “what they did to this women”:http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2004/01/040129hallofshame.shtml is just fucking unbelievable. Not only has EB Games broken the law, they’ve attempted to charge someone for getting their stolen games back. EB Games is in quite a bit of a “quagmire”:http://www.snapturtle.com/archives/2004/03/09/random_word_quagmire.php wouldn’t you [...]
MacSoft has finally released a patch to Age of Mythology that is suppose to correct the dreaded online gaming issues with AoM I’ve spoken about frequently. bq. Most of the changes for this version were for improving GameRanger support, which now works much better overall. In addition, the following specific changes were made: – The [...]
Random Word: “swivet”:http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=swivet bq. Main Entry: swiv?et Pronunciation: ‘swi-v&t Function: noun Etymology: origin unknown : a state of extreme agitation Ironically the “Merrian-Webster”:http://www.m-w.com/ “word of the day”:http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Mar.10 happens to describe my state of mind recently.
Napster CEO “Chris Gorog is crying”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1164179,00.html over the fact that Apple uses the AAC encoding format for it’s music downloads from the iTunes Music Store instead of the “bully” format of WMA, Windows Media Audio. bq. Gorog believes pressure from iPod owners will force Apple to reconsider its stance: “The iPod is great if you’re [...]
Random Word: “quagmire”:http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=quagmire bq. Main Entry: quag?mire Pronunciation: ‘kwag-”mIr, ‘kw‰g- Function: noun 1 : soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot 2 : a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position : “PREDICAMENT”:http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=predicament Haven’t heard this word in a long time but it was used today in an elevator conversation so I thought I’d [...]