Monthly Archives: August 2005

Funny sign 1

Saw this after I lost my shirt in Tahoe.

Snapturtle Podcast #4 – August 5th, 2005 6

Shownotes: From Marin County, CA TGIF! Happy Friday all! Freeway noise from the townhouse. Music: Sound Scientist by bill Weekend trip to Grass Valley and some gambling in Tahoe. Happy 11th Anniversary Honey! Bachelor all next week! Commentary on Aspyr’s newly announced game: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Music: Hip Hop High by Chance Music: Never Meant [...]

Eureka! I’m on iTunes! 1

The podcast has made history by being included in the infamous iTunes Music Store podcast directory. Hurray! If I didn’t feel like crap I’d probably celebrate with another show. Ok, it’s not that exciting but still.

China bans minors from playing WoW 3

China has banned minors from playing any online game that allows one to “PK” (player kill) another player: “Minors should not be allowed to play online games that have PK content, that allow players to increase the power of their own online game characters by killing other players,” Liu Shifa, head of the MOC’s Internet [...]

Protesters Bully Rockstar 7

Bully draws protesters to Rockstar’s front doors because parents have nothing better to do. First of all, why is Rockstar making a game based on this? Sure, it’s original game content but I’m not sure it even sounds fun. Secondly, with all the hot coffee noise going on lately it would be wise to “delay” [...]

Girl Spared Felony Trial Comments Off

The 11 year old girl who threw a rock at an 8 year old boy will be spared a felony trial. Looks like all the bad press for Fresno’s city officials paid off. Remember children, no more throwing sticks and stones because you’ll get arrested, especially if you break someone’s bones.

Oops! Podcast feed was borked. 3

Gah, I really hosed that one. For some reason, I have no idea why, but my podcast feed was borked and Feedburner didn’t tell me about it until today. So, erm, yeah. The RSS feed link is still valid but if you weren’t getting any data before you should be now. Not sure what changed… [...]

Snapturtle Podcast #3 – August 2nd, 2005 3

Shownotes: From Marin County, CA World of Warcraft addicition and Me WFME Podcast – Words for my enjoyment On A Podcast – clean version by Cruisebox Sound Seeing: Lunch with Sam Part 1 – Fresno rock throwing incident In A Long Time by 46 Bliss Sony PSP 2.0 update Advice for bus drivers  Subscribe via [...]

Sam & Max on Nintendo DS 1

Miss playing those old school point and click adventure games? A few months ago I did and actually bought Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, and the old Indiana Jones games. Well, now you can have them on your Nintendo DS! Hacking the DS seems to be the latest fad using a flash ROM [...]

U.S. Sony PSP 2.0 Update Coming 118

Update: Download the 2.0 firmware from Sony. Sony sets the date for the U.S. release of the already popular 2.0 PSP update. Thankfully it can be installed over the Japanese 2.0 release so I don’t have $250 paper weight after all.