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Archive for January, 2007

Duke Nukem Lives?

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 in Games, PC

The gaming community (well, a small niche of it, anyway) is awash with the news that 3D Realms has just released the first screenshot of the eternally-delayed Duke Nukem Forever in over six years — without really meaning to.
Apparently, the image you see here (shown actual size) was posted on a 3DR job listing on [...]

Tooling Around Town

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 in Life, Rants, Road Rage

Apple and I ran a few errands today, most of which were related to tax preparation and other items of life’s miscellany. I tell you, the traffic around here is astounding — it’s definitely busier than last season, and perhaps one of the busiest we’ve had yet. Naturally, I may only be saying [...]

Wii Blog

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, January 29th, 2007 in Console, Games, Quick Takes

I’m posting this from my Nintendo Wii! It has a special version of the Opera browser on it. In truth, this browser has spent a lot of time locking up on me, but has been behaving better since the last system update.
Now I’m off to play some Wii Sports. It’s bowling time.

Escape To Inspiration

Posted by Chief Oddball on Sunday, January 28th, 2007 in Randomness

Inevitably, whenever I change my surroundings, my whole way of thinking changes right along with it. Somewhere, trapped just beyond the tenuous perimeter of my conscious mind, is an ethereal font of inspiration that can, at certain moments, be grasped and held onto. Sometimes it requires only that I use my mind in [...]

Life, Abstracted

Posted by Chief Oddball on Sunday, January 28th, 2007 in Photography, Randomness

As some of you may know, I have a deep fascination with abandoned hospitals, particularly mental institutions. Recently, the cause of that fascination has started becoming clearer to me. I believe we all feel some strange compulsion to experience the things that frighten us most, but beyond that, there’s something strangely artistic — [...]

Oh, Hello.

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, January 27th, 2007 in Life, Site, Work

Goodness sakes, you haven’t been sitting here waiting since December, have you? Well, I apologize for leaving this site derelict for so long. In truth, I’ve been too busy to even think about posting here, most of the time. During those times when I’ve actually had a few minutes to myself, writing [...]

Search for $A, Find $B: 2006 Edition

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, January 27th, 2007 in Site

About a year ago I posted a humorous sampling of some of the search engine keyphrases people are using when they stumble across Oddball Update. This seems to have become an annual tradition, so here we go again — I’ve culled the best of the best from my 2006 statistics archives. Bon appetit.

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