The REAL Josh Anderson

I stumbled upon the Chumby a few weeks ago, and I keep an eye on the progress over there. The possibilities truly are endless with this little device (see their explanation of what it is here). In fact, I even requested a beta version to implement an idea I had for it.

Sadly (or maybe not), I think the popularity of this little project has the company a bit over-run with these requests, so I have pretty much given up hope on a freebie for development purposes. Oh well. I will just keep my eye out for it's official launch. Until then, this little gadget rates right up there with the Wii...

Some how, some way, I will have the Wii (insert gay joke here). With classic NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, and Turbo-Grafix games for less than $10, I am screwed. Yeah, I will always buy the new Mario or Zelda games, but probably not much more than that. Add in the recently discovered "infinite pause" feature, and I believe we finally found video game Nirvana...

Labels: video games, wii

Is it perfect? No.
Is it complete? No.
Is it live? Yes.

After much re-thinking and many re-writes, I finally kicked PokerRadar.com out the door.

All of my ideas for what this site would be have changed over the past 6 months or so. I turned it into a poker news/forum site, just to get some momentum built up with the site. I plan on integrating the local game search and some other cool ideas someday, but if I didn't at least put it out there, nothing would ever come of it.

So, check it out, sign up, and let me know what is wrong with it!

Thanks.

Labels: PokerRadar.com

I can't tell you how many comments I have read on websites, such as digg.com and slashdot , quoting Ben Franklin with regards to our country's current political upheaval. In a comment thread debating Bush's Martial Law, I stumbled upon another brilliant quote in a discussion of Bush's tactic of selling safety, in place of freedom:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

Damn, that is cool. To me, heroes require ideals and associated convictions stronger than most people can possibly imagine (can you spot the cheesy Star Wars reference?). Anyways, this dude is damn inspiring.

My childhood, hell, my whole life, has often revolved around heroes of some type. Not always the good guy (i.e. Darth Vader), but always a hero of sorts in my eyes with larger than life ideals. Batman, George Washington, Robin Hood, Thomas Jefferson, James Bond, Zorro, The Lone Ranger, Dirk Pitt, Chuck Norris (I couldn't resist that one. :) ). These are the heroes that shaped me into the oddity that exists these days. I think I missed one, big time, in Mr. Franklin. Ben may be the ultimate American Hero. Maybe I should read that book of his sitting on my shelf...

Labels: heroes, politics

You are supposed to bench the QB, not the CB. Just put the bastard on the bench. It isn't this guy's fault Ben threw two interceptions in the redzone, again. We aren't any worse off with Charlie Batch in the game.

I have that eerie feeling of the Kordell Stewart era where everyone except Bill Cowher thought the QB was the problem. I hope Bill snaps out of it sometime soon. If not, it is going to be a long decade as a Steelers fan whilst I wait for them to rebound.

Labels: football, steelers