Wow, Dan!!! Thanks for sending this link along!
The UK has always liked the Commodore era. I wonder why?
Man. I remember buying Ultima V from Eaglesoft (ESI), who was from downriver or something. The craziest thing is that it played better (enhanced) on Dan’s Commodore 128. I was always envious of his 128.
They have me blogging really slowly. Also, World of Warcraft has REALLY been taking up a lot of my free leisure cycles. Planning for the holidays has also been taking up some of my time.
I have to hit the books for the next 2 nights. We had a nice 2 week break between our case presentation and our final exam in Corporate Finance. Gotta crack the books tonight and tomorrow night. Also, with a death in the extende family, time is even tighter. Why do people always have to die near Christmas? Quite sad, actually. :(
If I don’t blog again for a while, we hope everyone has a safe and blessed Holiday Season. Be safe. Don’t drink and drive.
This is pretty funny:
deer santa:
I wud like a kool toy space ranjur fer Xmas. Iv ben a gud boy all yeer.
Yer Frend, BiLLy
Dear Billy,
Nice spelling. You’re on your way to a career in lawn care. How about I send you a frigging book so you can learn to read and write? I’m giving your older brother the space ranger. At least HE can spell!
Santa
Dear Santa,
I have been a good girl all year, and the only thing I ask for is peace and joy in the world for everybody!
Love, Sarah
Dear Sarah,
Your parents smoked pot when they had you, didn’t they?
Santa
Dear Santa,
I don’t know if you can do this, but for Christmas, I’d like for my mommy and daddy to get back together. Please see what you can do.
Love,
Teddy
Dear Teddy,
Look, your dad’s banging the babysitter like a screen door in a hurricane. Do you think he’s gonna give that up to come back to your frigid, fat mom, who rides his ass constantly? It’s time to give up that dream. Let me get you some nice Legos instead. Maybe you can build yourself a family with those?
Santa
Dear Santa,
I want a new bike, a Playstation, a train, some G.I. Joes, a dog, a drum kit, a pony and a tuba.
Love, Francis
Dear Francis,
Who names their kid “Francis” nowadays? I bet you’re gay.
Santa
Dear Santa,
I left milk and cookies for you under the tree, and I left carrots for your reindeer outside the back door.
Love, Susan
Dear Susan,
Milk gives me the shits and carrots make the deer fart in my face when riding in the sleigh. You want to do me a favor? Two words, Jim Beam.
Santa
Dear Santa,
What do you do the other 364 days of the year? Are you busy making toys?
Your friend, Thomas
Dear Thomas,
All the toys are made by little kids like you in China. Every year I give them a slice of bread as a Christmas bonus. I have a condo in Vegas, where I spend most of my time making low-budget porno films. I unwind by drinking myself silly and squeezing the asses of cocktail waitresses while losing money at the craps table.
Santa
P.S.
Tell your mom she got the part.
“Long Dong” Claus
Dear Santa,
Do you see us when we’re sleeping, do you really know when we’re awake, like in the song?
Love, Jessica
Dear Jessica,
Are you really that gullible? Good luck in whatever you do. I’m skipping your house.
Santa
Dear Santa,
I really really want a puppy this year. Please please please PLEASE PLEASE could I have one?
Timmy
Timmy,
That whiney begging shit may work with your folks, but that crap doesn’t work with me. You’re getting an ugly sweater again.
Santa
Dearest Santa,
We don’t have a chimney in our house, how do you get into our home?
Love, Marky
Mark,
First, stop calling yourself “Marky”, that’s why you’re getting your ass kicked at school. Second, you don’t live in a house, you live in a low-rent, ghetto apartment complex. Third, I get inside your pad just like all the burglars do, through your bedroom window.
Sweet Dreams,
Santa
Can you believe that we can AIM messages to WSJ? You can actually use the screen name “WSJ” on AIM much like we used to use Gopher systems via telnet when at Michigan Tech back in 1992-93. Crazy. Try it out!
So, since Electronic Arts and the NFL have a deal where EA gets exclusive NFL rights for 5 years, it seems that EA’s competitors are fighting back!
I can’t believe this. Why would the NFL do something like this? Man, EA has some serious muscle!!!
Thanks for the tip, Ike!
Blockbuster competing with NetFlix and others
Wow. Blockbuster is going to spend $50M to promote their end of late fees. Fantastic. Many a time I’ve been spanked by late fees… I can’t wait.
Thanks to Waldo for sending me this!!!
Thanks to AnandTech, they have an amazing article on the evolution of the home computer. It seems that convergence and simplicity is in style!
The author had some interesting discussion with himself:
Regardless of the explanation, the fact remains that until recently, I had read plenty about SFF cases, but I had never actually touched one. Why would anyone want to spend more money for a system that had less expansion possibilities? I certainly couldn’t see a reason for it! After all, if a new CPU socket came out, your case would now need to be replaced along with your motherboard and CPU.
Some thoughts on their evolution:
Things have slowed down now in terms of computer progress - at least from my perspective. It’s also good to see that many of the truly bad examples of computer hardware have begun to fade away. Gone are the days (mostly) of spending hours trying to get a resource conflict resolved; or to get two machines to talk to each other over the network; or tweaking and hacking your config.sys and autoexec.bat files in the hope of optimizing memory usage so that some new program would run properly. Computers have now matured to the point where any person with a moderate level of computer knowledge and a willingness to learn would have little difficulty building a computer.
Overall, the article is great. It talks about the whole SFF computer phenomenon. Give it a read. You may want to ditch that desk-eating computer case and go small, once and for all! I’ve had my Shuttle SN41G2 for 20 months now. The longest I’ve owned a single computer… it’s only had one teeny upgrade in this whole time, too!
This picture is awesome!!! Thanks, Dan, for the link!!!
My friend Tortilla sent me this:
“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO” what a ride!”
You know, I just don’t have time to blog lately. School, work, and World of Warcraft just has me so booked, I can’t even blog.
This weekend, after our Thursday night Finance Case is done, I plan to decorate the outside of the house as well as get it more “ready” for Christmas. This means to STOCK the place with candy and gifts!!!
Slashdot review of World of Warcraft
I love this game.
