Music
Five Re-Recorded Songs
It is always interesting when a band re-records a song. Whether it is for some type of anniversary release, stepping up to a major record label, or some other situation where it is necessary or […]
Year: 2008
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iPhone Hilarity
Here’s an IM session I was having with Julian a couple weeks ago on my iPhone. It was so hilarious, I had to take a snap-shot of it. Wonder how that happened…?
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What Do You Want To Hear About?
I realize I have not posted anything up here in a while (though I did recently make a post over on vgconvos). I suppose it could just be the time of year (we are all […]
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The Old “Games Never Made Anyone Cry” Situation
We have all seen various blog posts and comments about this (usually tying in to uneducated nonsense spewed by the otherwise-well-educated Roger Ebert) whole dilemma: can video games make you cry? Of course, the real […]
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Rock Band Drum Casualty
Technically it’s not my first Rock Band casualty, since the whammy-bar on my guitar is busted… but that’s not really essential for gameplay. Last night I was playing some good ol’ Foo Fighters songs on […]
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General Thoughts and Updates
So apparently the Master System version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is available on Virtual Console today. As you may know, the Genesis/MegaDrive version is one of my favorite games of all time. If I […]
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Problem Solved: Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar Not Showing
I guess I can start up a new category for the blog, now that I have two entries with similar subject matter. I had previously posted about a Photoshop crashing issue I was experiencing and […]
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Grammatical Insanity
If there is anything that drives me nuts more than basic grammatical errors in so-called “professional” publications (whether they be “in real life” or online), I have not yet discovered what this additional insanity-maker could […]
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Mike Does Some FPSing
So Valve was running a deal through Steam a little while ago offering the original Half-Life for only 98 cents (it being the ten-year anniversary of the game’s release in 1998; I’m aware that Ocarina […]
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Podcast Episode 003: Dumping Ground
Wow. Whoda thunk that episode three would be out so soon when there were two months between one and two…? I know I certainly didn’t! Them’s the breaks here, though. When Jeff and I get […]