Saturday, January 31, 2009

My new radio

I don't listen to the radio anymore. Nor do I listen to my iTunes. Now the only thing I listen to music on is Pandora. It is unbelievable. I made a quick mix channel of "Violent Femmes, They Might Be Giants, and the Talking Heads" 5 hours later, I have yet to hear a song I haven't loved. I want to get an iPhone, just so I can take Pandora with me everywhere... Plus it is helping me find some new bands to fill my iTunes up with. My music library is getting pretty stale.

Where did that 2 hours go?

The game is very simple, click once, and try to get the maximum number of dots to hit your dot. Kiss the next 3 hours goodbye, sucker!

Boomshine

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Priceless...

I had a sales guy walk into my office wanting some CDs duplicated with custom labels. He asked what format I needed the label in. I told him whatever he wanted to send it in, I have alot of toys I can probably open whatever he had. His response is the quote of the day:

"Cool, I will send you something, I am pretty creative."

Sales people are so cute like that. I got $5 that says it is sent to me via a powerpoint slide that he imported into Word, and it is about 15kb. "That should work for a 4.7x4.7 inch image at 300dpi, right?"

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Well, I never thought of that

If I get pulled over by the police, I am going to trying this little trick.

That is one of the more obscure superpowers...that and Speak with Corn.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

That didn't take long

Lilly lost her second tooth yesterday. We told her to put it under her pillow and the Tooth Fairy will come and give her a dollar.

She asks, " Can't you just give me the dollar now?"

"What about the tooth fairy?", we ask.

She looked at my wife, and said "I know you are the tooth fairy."

My wife and I looked at each other with that "She is wicked smart" look. But then the wheels in Lilly's head started putting things together...

"Are you the tooth fairy for everyone?!?"

We almost ran with that one, but the conversations at school, we decided, would get a bit heated, and we didn't want that kind of trouble.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Does it count...

Don't know if this technically counts as a high score. But I did 20 million damage during last nights raid of Naxx. (World of Warcraft, for those not keeping score at home). The report we use says I was doing 3314 Damage per Second. Whee!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

High Score Update

Frogger - 13050
Pengo - 62360

Times are tough

I will admit that I have my fair share of debit, and the like. But as I was driving around town yesterday, I saw something that horrified me. There are a million Title loan places where I live, and one of them had this message on their marquee:

"Consolidate your Title and Payday Loans with Us!"

Sweet Jebus! I stress about the amount of credit card debt I have. My APRs are pretty low, and I pay more than the minimum amount, on-time each month. But I cannot imagine having a Title Loan or a Payday Loan. I am sure they aren't quite as bad as the stigma that I have attached to them. (insert image of thug breaking knee caps here), but I cannot FATHOM having to CONSOLODATE a number of them to make my situation better.

I would definately have to stop sniffing glue, if I had to do that.

Friday, January 02, 2009

For the record...

Here are my best scores on the Mame cabinet.

Donkey Kong - 62,700
Mr. Do - 121,900
Dig Dug - 63,860
Bosconian - 78,020
Pengo - 48,100
Mappy - 38,490
Asteroids -28,450
Burgertime -24,100
Ms. Pac-man - 38,690
Galaga - 67,350
Frogger - 10,620

I haven't really been pushing my self to try and beat any scores, I have just been keeping track of my own personal bests. The MAME cabinet resets everything when I power it down, so I have to do it this way.... actually I keep a piece of paper on top of it, and just scribble down the score if it beats the old one. This way you all can check my progress... yeah for you! I will post any broken records here from now on. You're welcome. (Told you it was going to be boring)

New Year, New Start

Is this thing still on???

Well, one of my many new resolutions, is to try and keep this thing updated a bit more. But I warn you, it is going to be boring. Obviously, anything will be less boring than the last 4 months posts.

My other resolutions are your standard ones... lose weight, get in shape. Some are more obscure, do 100 push-ups without stopping. Bench 350 lbs. Focus on the Genealogy project. Some are just weird, 100,000 points on Donkey Kong. 50,000 on Asteroids. Beat Dragon's Lair without continues. You know Geeky, nerd stuff.

There is going to be a lot of just plain random thoughts on here too. I am sure I read my old posts more than anyone else, and that is strange to me. But I enjoy reading it. That seems very narcissistic, but it's just something I do.

So, Welcome back, Happy New Year, and away we go...