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Archive for January, 2005

Observations: Saturday, January 29th

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, January 31st, 2005 in Life

Apple and I went out for dinner on Saturday night. I have to say, we had a great time, despite the restaurant we selected not quite being up to our expectations. As usual, though, the simple observations of life once again proved interesting enough to write about in and of themselves.
The restaurant—a Japanese [...]

Search For $A, Find $B

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, January 29th, 2005 in Site

Here’s some light and cheerful kookiness (which, as you know, is the best kind). A lot of people have fun posting the top 10 search terms that people use to get to their website, because often it’s something ridiculous. My statistics report that most of the terms people use to find my site [...]

Chii wa Chii!

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, January 28th, 2005 in Television

As animes go, there are only two series that I have seen in their entirety. One is Neon Genesis Evangelion and the other, now, is Chobits. Yes, not even Kimagure Orange Road—possibly my favorite anime—makes that list; while I do own all the tapes, there are still some I never got around to [...]

Random Tidbits, Cause I’m in a Hurry

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, January 27th, 2005 in Randomness

Yeah, so I’m hankerin’ to play some Vampire or something before I trot off to bed, so I’ll make this snappy. I’ve had random little glimpses of complete thoughts floating through my head today, none of which warrant more than a passing mention. To wit:
After seeing some more photos of just how apparently [...]

Save a Life. Pay Attention.

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005 in Rants

Everything in life comes back to how much you are paying attention. I’m serious. This occurred to me yesterday after a woman in a Pontiac Bonneville made a right turn on a red light directly into my path of travel, as I was approaching at 45 miles an hour and was only about [...]

2004, Oddball Digest Edition

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, January 24th, 2005 in Randomness

So I saw this idea on another site. You take the first sentence of the first post of each month for a year, put ‘em all next to each other and you get an (often amusing) overview of what kind of crap you write about. Thought I’d give it a shot for 2004.

January [...]

Vampire: Bloodlines

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, January 24th, 2005 in Games, PC

My friend Pooch bought me this game for Christmas, and it took me a couple of weeks before I really spent some time getting into it. But now I’m hooked, and totally wasting unchecked hours playing it. Basically Bloodlines is an RPG with some elements of a first-person shooter thrown in, in fact [...]

“Name” Problem with Online User List

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, January 24th, 2005 in Site

A couple of readers reported a strange ”{name}” bug with the online user list over on the sidebar, so I looked into it. Turns out that ”{name}” was being shown to represent any user who had chosen to login anonymously. Weird thing was, nobody chose that. That’s because I omitted that option [...]

Productive Weekend

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, January 24th, 2005 in Life

I’ve been mostly spending my spare time screwing around, which is why it was good this weekend for me to actually get some stuff done. For starters, I washed both the Trans Am and the Mazda6, neither of which had seen hide nor hair of the sponge in an embarrassingly long time, and were [...]

January in Michigan: The Return

Posted by Chief Oddball on Sunday, January 23rd, 2005 in Randomness

Rated R. R for REALLY BAD WEATHER.

Our front yard…somewhere in there

Well, last year I believe I posted something called “March in Michigan” in which I described an sudden onslaught of snow. Well, it’s still January, so of course snow is to be expected—but [...]