Geek vs Life

Ehh. I can’t come up with something clever about this without it being cheesey. Therefore, [insert cheesey quote here].

California to ban incandescant bulbs.

Back in the day, anthropomorphic personifications were my sole reason to exist. A very early memory in my head is of me walking into the kitchen at my grandparent’s house bawling, and my mother asking what was wrong. “Knight Rider isn’t on!” I cried back. “Why not, honey?” “Because of the following special programming!”

Today, I’m having flashbacks to that portion of my life. I saw this, and wished I had a ton of disposable income. And my old black leather jacket. And a greased mullet.

Playstation 3 Steak Sauce.

Available from Sangatsu Usagi over in Akihabara.

I don’t think the joke will ever get old.

Ok so am I the only one left that sees an army of robots and galaxies exploding at the mention of Cricket?

Apparently so.

Here I was, all excited about getting to blow stuff up, and instead I’m drawn to chugging a Foster’s and yelling at the bloody bowler.

Last year for the annual festival that we’ve grown to love, PAX, we all pulled out our various gaming wangs and compared sizes. Cronotose whipped his out in the line to get in the door. His N-Gage. We stared at it in confusion and befuddlement. Could it be? One of us actually had one of these monstrosities? And worse, why was I oh so tempted to mod it with an external hard drive and a new processor?

We all knew the system was dead. Apparently, we were wrong. It’s a zombie. Instead of revamping the dreaded taco, they’re going to use existing phones and adjust the operations procedures and systems.

Go ahead, Cronotose, laugh at our lack of foresight.

Bugger. It’s like everywhere I look, there’s something on Ebay. I guess it’s a source of endless entertainment. So, umm…check this out. It’s an auction for every NES game. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. It’s every US licensed NES game. And accessories. And it’s really expensive, last I check it was at $21,000. I’m obsessed, but that? That’s insane.

After reporting losses in it’s game devision, Sony is considering another price cut (yes, the console’s price was cut before it even made it to the market in Japan, from just over 60,000 yen to 49,980 yen) for the PS3 for 2008. So, if you’re on the fence because of price (which is only part of my hesitance), there could be a slight relief on your wallet in the near future.

Yup. It’ s a digital environment, according to them. This means that Ebay’s attempt to shut down in-game item auctions does not affect property and items within Second Life.

Remember kids, life isn’t a game. Neither of them.

Amber Belkin, age 24, was found in the back room of an EB Games in San Antonio. No security tapes recorded the assailant(s) who suffocated her shortly after the store opened. Police found that the safe had been emptied. No witness as of yet presented any information. If you have heard anything please call the San Antonio police department.

This has been around for a bit. I thought it was just funny. And oddly appropriate. Anyway, I just found the Cease and Desist letter that Linden Labs sent the guy that owns it.

“This notice is provided on behalf of Linden Research, Inc. (“Linden Lab”), the owner of trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights in and to the “Second Life” product and service offering, including the “eye-in-hand” logo for Second Life and the website maintained at http://secondlife.com/.

It has come to our attention that the website located at http://www.getafirstlife.com/ purports to appropriate certain trade dress and marks associated with Second Life and owned by Linden Lab. That website currently includes a link in the bottom right-hand corner for “Comments or cease and desist letters.”

If it weren’t for my total lack of credentials, I’d take this job in the blink of an eye.

Reggie, the heart of Nintendo of America is looking for a new assistant.

Yes, you could be the right hand of the god of Nintendo. You could be the Metatron. You could give Miyamoto a noogie, and maybe even get away with it instead of getting shot!

I couldn’t put it down.  Rather, that’s not entirely correct.  I could physically put the book down, but it wouldn’t get out of my head.  I kept thinking about it, the temptation to start measuring my surroundings building up in me.  I’ve started closing off parts of my apartment just to make it so that I can’t see more than I have to.

 A friend told me about this documentary, the Navidson Record, about this house out on Ash Tree Lane.  This photographer, Will Navidson, bought it.  But it was all weird like, ya know?  All of a sudden a closet appears between a couple of the bedrooms.  The inside kept changing, but the outside stayed the same.  Anyway, my friend hadn’t seen the movie.  He was talking about a paper examining the record by this blind guy named Zampano.  But, this other guy, Johnny Truant, he found it after the old man died.  Put it all together into this book, House of Leaves.  Put it online, so people could find it up there.  This whole community formed around it, and eventually it got published.

For those that are still hoping to squeeze the last bit of digital goodness from your Playstation 2’s, this is it. God of War 2.

According to Joystiq, the game seems like it’s going to make make its March deadline.

Huzzah!

Two years ago, Verizon was the first cell phone company approached for the exclusive iPhone contract. Verizon declined the deal because Apple wanted too much.

Apple would, according to the agreement, get a percentage of the cellular contract and would control where the phones were sold, as well as be the primary service contact. Verizon felt that Apple would be coming between them and their customers.

Cingular didn’t think so, so when Verizon vetoed the deal, they were waiting with open arms.

Read more here.

Apple really is scary, if you ask me. Mad with power. Building giant robots with freeway on ramps for arms and hearts as black as night. Oh, wait…no. That’s me.