Speedbump's Blog - 2old2play

This scene is amazing.

I can't watch this clip enough. Maybe working in corporate America has made it ring so true. That, or the fact that I feel like I have 8 bosses this week.

Embedded YouTube Video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o0OEtn6rfc

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Grand Central

Does anyone here use Grand Central? A friend mentioned to me over the weekend and I was wanting to sign up and check it out, but alas, it's in a closed beta right now. So I'm wondering if there is anyone on-site who is in the beta that might have an invite they could throw my way...

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Go. See. Batman.

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Goddamnit.

So LB75 posted about appropriate google banner ads. This came up earlier this evening...

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Emo kids...

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Found a Wii

Found one.

One of my co-worker's brother had purchased a Wii but never played it and wanted to sell it. Friday night I made that a possibility for him.

I messed around on it friday evening and then some more last night. My thoughts so far on the console is that it's just so damn.... happy. The weather channel, the news channel, Mii's, whatever. It seems to always have this cheerful music or sounds playing. It's definitely an interesting console.

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Finding a Wii

So I've decided to get a Wii. Now I just have 1 question.

HOW THE HELL DO I FIND ONE?!

Anybody out there have any tips on finding one at a retail store? I don't want to end up on ebay...

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Today's PA

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Life of a turret

Embedded YouTube Video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MlM6MH4mg8

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Fuck you Time Warner. If you make this policy nationwide I'll switch off your service so fast it'll make your vagina spin.

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My goddamn super power.

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My damn cat.

My cat inspired this clip (no, not literally)

Embedded YouTube Video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsdEGtPyMx8

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Something to help you thru security...

Here is a little checklist I found to include in your carry-on luggage to help speed up your security checkpoint visit at the airport this Thanksgiving.

You're welcome.

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Tycho says it best

"360 failures always spike when a game worth playing comes out, which (to me) seems to imply that most of the three-sixties installed in homes currently are used as decoration. You'll recall that it happened with Forza 2 and the sequel to Guitar Hero, as well. It's incredible that we are in a situation where every time a worthwhile game sees release, it sweeps through the entire userbase with a scythe. Literally incredible, as in, I can't fucking believe it. It's like flipping a coin, and every time it comes up heads four hundred dollars catches on fire."

-Tycho, PA

Just an FYI, $400 on fire goes up like flashpaper.

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All things considered...

...last night turned out pretty good.

Yeah, the launch day (+1 week) console Red Ringed on me last night just as I was about to sit down with Halo 3. As soon as I got off the phone with Microsoft to order my coffin, I started checking the finances. The wife asked me if I wanted to get an Elite a few weeks ago so the option was still on the table. I didn't feel like waiting 3-4 weeks to play H3 so I made a call to a friend who works for Wal-Mart (10% emp discount ftw) and off we went to get me an Elite. 30 minutes later I was the proud father of a new Elite.

I have to say I'm impressed. It's much quieter than the old console I had. The controller is crisp in its action and the whole thing is black. Black as it should of been at launch.

The only snag I had was that it had trouble getting on live initially. It found my network and grabbed an IP address as it should, but it couldn't get on live. I finally plugged the old HDD into it and it made it to live and downloaded an update. BAM! Everything worked. Swapped out the HDD for the new larger one and I was off.

After everything was done with the console, I only had time for 3 or 4 games of H3. This must be remedied tonight...

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