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Archive for July, 2006

The World According To Darfh

Posted by Pooch on Saturday, July 29th, 2006 in Console, Games, Randomness

The last few days have been quite hellish in these parts (heck, the entire summer has been hellish), so I’ve been pretty much cooped up inside my air conditioned house for the past week or so. Getting tired of the same old, same old, today I decided to trek out to the EB Games closest [...]

Seeing Double: A Pair of Black Goats

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, July 29th, 2006 in Cars, GTO

Attempting to honor my “I’ve gotta get out more” remarks of a few weeks ago, today I got together with Mike, a fellow 2006 GTO owner and member of the LS1GTO message boards who came across me quite by accident. He was looking at the pictures of my cars that I’ve got online when [...]

Netflix Queue Reordering: Film at 11

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, July 28th, 2006 in Media, Movies, Rants

If you have Netflix, beware: Last-minute decisions to reorder your queue most likely will be ignored.
Last night, Apple and I watched our nightly episode of 24, season two, disc two. The cliffhanger ending was so good, we decided to go ahead and watch another one. Afterwards it was almost 1:00 a.m., and since [...]

The Malevolent Management Moppet

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 in Life, Rants

WHOA! I’M POSTING SOMETHING! …But seriously. The latest developments in the ongoing drama at Apple’s workplace have proven fascinating, so I thought I would clue you in.
Herein, ladies and gentlemen, we’ll introduce you to to the concept of the Malevolent Management Moppet, or “Connie” as I have nicknamed her, who plays at running [...]

“Splurge” Review AND MORE!

Posted by Pooch on Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 in Media, Music

You knew this was coming, right?
Since I posted my thoughts of the Puffy concert in Detroit last week, I figured I’d post my thoughts on the album that spawned said tour – Splurge, due out today in the U.S. on Tofu Records. You cannot escape the Puffy machine…at least when I’m posting, that is (which [...]

“Wanna Buy a Spockie Boo Bib?”

Posted by Pooch on Sunday, July 23rd, 2006 in Media, Movies, Quick Takes

First teaser poster for the upcoming Star Trek 11 film released.
I’m of two minds about this. First, why make it about Kirk and Spock’s early years, as has been reported? Why not just make a movie that takes place during the TOS timeline? And two: no matter what, this certainly can’t be as bad as [...]

No Shit.

Posted by Pooch on Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 in Auto News, Cars

Front page headline of today’s Detroit Free Press: “How Plans Went Sour For Ford’s Turnaround: Gas Prices Dent Truck Sales”. Am I the only one smacking my head against the wall after reading this? My friends and I (and most anyone else with half a brain) have been saying for years now that, eventually, Ford’s [...]

We Hope You Like ATI!

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 in Computers, Headlines, Quick Takes

According to headlines, CPU manufacturer AMD may be about to announce an outright purchase of graphics chip maker ATI. That’s right, the very kings of kludgy drivers themselves. As I don’t have much nice to say about ATI, I can only hope this doesn’t end in favoratist moves that make building an AMD [...]

Puffy on YouTube

Posted by Pooch on Friday, July 21st, 2006 in Media, Music

Since yesterday’s post was warmly received by all two people who read it, and because I’m so “ubseased” (as ARCHORRobin2 would say back in the old Sailor Moon Room Chat — how’s that for an old school reference?), I decided to post some of my favorite Puffy clips currently available on YouTube.
YouTube is, of course, [...]

Knee-Deep In 12-Year Olds…

Posted by Pooch on Thursday, July 20th, 2006 in Media, Music

Okay, there’s too much doom-and-gloom ’round these here parts lately. It’s time to FUNK. IT. UP!
I’m not a regular concert-goer; since attending my first real concert in 1993 (not counting the time my dad took a friend and I to see the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when they were a “rock band” around 1990 or [...]