Posted in Culture, Dr. Who, Entertainment, Personal, Science Fiction on 12 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
And then there’s this nostalgic take… Love it. I grew up with Dr. Who, and remember clearly the first Dr. Who I saw–Leela walking over a pit filled with grub-like monsters. I must have been 3 or 4 years old–and I think that I did indeed hide behind the couch, as it [...]
Posted in Personal on 18 July 2007 | No Comments »
A.O. hails its latest crewmember, Aiydn. Aidyn is a [REDACTED] by trade, a gamer, and a fine writer. Welcome, Aidyn: we hope your tour aboard A.O. is rewarding, and we’re just glad to have you.
Aidyn will grace A.O.’s pages with erudite commentary on games and the games industry, as well as [...]
Posted in Personal, Uncategorized on 27 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to you, we now have had 10,000 “reads.” Woot woot!
Thank all of you for visiting and reading our daily prattle, humor, thoughts, and occasional deeper thoughts.
We’re just glad to be here.
Cheers,
H Lime, yojoe, and Fredegar.
Posted in Culture, Humor, Law, Personal, Politics on 16 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, not really. But the incomparable fellow Law Professor Ann Althouse does indeed claim, tongue-in-cheek, that this bloke’s posts give her bouts of ADD (as I think they do me), and I venture that perhaps a well-timed lawsuit might be one way of finally ridding ourselves of this biting midge.
Greenwald and his daily [...]
Posted in Personal on 9 June 2007 | No Comments »
I’m on vacation for 2 weeks, and hope to keep it up from here. I’m gonna kick back with a gin and tonic, suffer withdrawal from my 360, and (without real appellate filing deadlines looming over my head) get you some meaty posts.
Of course the good yojoe and the truant Fredegar respectively will, or may, [...]
Posted in Gaming, Personal, Reviews, Tech, Windows Vista, Xbox 360 on 7 June 2007 | 5 Comments »
Now having had my 360 Elite for just over one month (I bought it on release day), I’ve developed a good sense of its performance over the 360 Premium, enough so that I can give a true hands-on review with some depth of use.
Posted in Appellate Law, Culture, Gaming, Humor, Law, Personal, Psychology, Xbox 360 on 3 June 2007 | No Comments »
Or so people used to say back in the day… dating myself here, but that means the ’70s and ’80s. Well, Cyber Moon Studios has a hilarious animated recreation of exactly what it was like for young roleplayers in the day. I was the GM in almost all of these sessions, and let [...]
Posted in Environment, Health, Personal on 3 May 2007 | No Comments »
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal reports on scientific studies suggesting strongly that the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere results in hardier, larger, and more potent allergens from allergy-inducing vegetation. For the 35 million people in the U.S. that suffer nasal allergies, none of this is good news.
Giant Ragweed
Dr. Lewis Ziska of the [...]
Posted in Exercise, Gaming, Health, Music, Personal, Xbox 360 on 3 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
When I lived in Japan, one of the thrills of the weekend (cheap thrills, to be sure) was to go to the local Japanese video arcade and see the throngs of Japanese teens dancing “Padda Padda,” as I recall the game was called, or as we call it here, “Dance Dance Revolution.” [...]
Posted in Culture, Environment, Personal, Psychology on 17 April 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last week Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post, one of my favorite columnists, wrote about a little experiment he conducted in D.C. He managed to convince Joshua Bell, one of the most celebrated American violinists, to play for quarters in the D.C. Metro. For 45 minutes, dressed in jeans and a ballcap, Bell played some [...]
Posted in Culture, Exercise, Health, Personal, Science on 1 April 2007 | 3 Comments »
The 29 Mar 07 Wall Street Journal reports World Health Organization (WHO) figures that indicate obesity is only getting worse in the States, and around the world. Estimated obesity rates for people aged 15 and older have grown since 2002:
United States. 2002: 34.9%. 2005: 39.2%.
UK. 2002: 20.0%. 2005: 22.9%
Germany. [...]
Posted in Gaming, Personal, Tech, Xbox 360 on 28 March 2007 | 23 Comments »
[UPDATE 4, 9 July 2007: Xbox 360 Price Drop Coming Soon? And, PS3/Xbox 360 News Roundup, HERE.]
[UPDATE 3, 7 July 2007: the extended warranty and the "Red Ring of Death." Is the 360 still the better value? Analysis HERE.]
[UPDATE 2, 11 June 2007: Despite denials by Microsoft, indicators are that a price drop [...]
Posted in Culture, Islam, Personal, Psychology, Religion on 19 March 2007 | 5 Comments »
Now this is interesting. Everybody knows YouTube, but who knows IslamTube?
Allow me to take a step back to our own majority religion. Yes, there’s also GodTube (catchphrase: “Broadcast Him.”). Looks like the top videos include titles such as “Lyrical,” “Heart for the Lost,” “Baby Got Bible,” and “Creation Short Film.” I [...]
Posted in Culture, Health, Personal, Psychology, Science on 16 March 2007 | No Comments »
Center for Disease Control reports that Americans still don’t eat right:
March 15, 2007 — Fewer than a third of U.S. adults eat enough fruits and vegetables, according to the CDC.From coast to coast, no state (or Washington, D.C.) meets the CDC’s goals for adult fruit and vegetable consumption.People should eat at least five daily servings [...]
Posted in Culture, Gaming, Personal, Tech, Xbox 360 on 15 March 2007 | No Comments »
I just finished teaching a class to smart law students. I took the train home, talked about how impressed I was with the amount of preparation some of my students did for class, and now I’m blogging about Xbox Live.
What a contrast. To tell the truth, Xbox Live and the Xbox 360 are some of [...]
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