The REAL Josh Anderson

My poor mother drove herself crazy trying to land a Wii for her baby boy's big Christmas gift, but was unlucky in her travels across Northeast Ohio. However, The Creator certainly deserves an "A" for effort.

However, thanks to the power of the internet and itrackr.com we were able to nab one in early January at a local Target. Since then, I have had multiple husbands drag their poor wives to my house for demos of this wonderful little system. So far, we appear to be batting .500 in our sales pitch. In fact, my wife is probably the best Wii sales person I have seen!

I truly do love the Wii (insert gay joke here). It is Nintendo's classic triumph of gameplay over graphics. By no means does it look like a crappy 8-bit game, but it certainly is no Gears of War. Zelda is fantastic and the family loves Wii sports. Throw in the classics on Virtual Console and I am in heaven. Well done Nintendo!

If only I didn't have to sleep... :(

Labels: video games

A co-worker of mine and I placed a small wager last night on what Samuel L. Jackson (A.K.A. Jules) calls the "What?" kid in Pulp Fiction when he correctly answers the Quarter Pounder question. According to IMDB.com (see below), the kid's name is Brett, but I (having watched the movie waaaay too many times, just ask my wife), and everyone else who actually listened to the soundbite (again, see below) hear Brad.

From IMDB.com:
Jules: Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?
Brett: No.
Jules: Tell him, Vincent.
Vincent: Royale with cheese.
Jules: Royale with cheese. Do you know why they call it a Royale with cheese?
Brett: Because of the metric system?
Jules: Check out the big brain on Brett. You one smart motherfucker.

Actual soundbite from movie: click here

OK, so IMDB.com is pretty well respected and that seems like enough to win the bet, right? I say no. Take a listen to the actual clip from the movie. Having refused to pay off the bet based on the "script" as opposed to what I hear, I will give in if most people out there think I am wrong.

Labels: movies

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