Sometimes (rarely), random trips to the craptastic Walmart by work pay off. Case in point: Today they had a case worth of the new Hasbro-produced Marvel Legends up. Only one of each, and apparently no chasers in this lot. Only picked up Hercules, as the rest of the wave... Fails to impress. Quick thoughts ( Read more... )

So, do you remember that story about a guy who got shot by muggers while waiting in the PS3 launch line in Putnam, Connecticut? One of the area newspapers did a follow-up interview.

"Michael Penkala, 21, of Webster, was shot in his right chest and right arm, just below the shoulder, shortly after 3 a.m. Nov. 17 at Wal-Mart ( Read more... )

I swear, if I'm not spending out on one thing... One of the fans in my PC was dying this morning, the blue-lit Antec that I threw in there when I got the thing (largely because it was the only one Staples had), and ACDSee was getting stuck and causing one of the drives to make these horrible, repeated spin-up noises while attempting to open the ( Read more... )

From Das Allsparken:

The big announcement at tonight's dinner is in, and it's BIG!  Botcon ( Read more... )

As you may know, the black ('Onyx') DS Lite came out on the 13th, eviscerating my last excuse for not getting one. Picked it up at the Target in Milford while I was visiting Jim (and giving him a ride to Newbury Comics so he could get the new Maiden album), along with Metroid Prime: Hunters. Which I then proceeded to kill my hand with for about an ( Read more... )

Awesome.

Your results:
You are Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard
70%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
60%
Geordi LaForge
55%
Worf
50%
Will Riker
45%
Mr. Sulu
45%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
45%
Spock
44%
Deanna Troi
35%
Chekov
35%
Mr. Scott
35%
Data
34%
Uhura
30%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
25%
Beverly Crusher
15%

A lover of Shakespeare and ( Read more... )

I've had a full week to recouperate, so I probably ought to mention what happened last Tuesday and explain the previous entry a bit. Y'see, I went to Ozzfest with Jim and Liesl. Which normally isn't that big of a deal, excpet that this was Liesl's first one in several years, and she wanted to catch the entire show. So we did. From 9:30 or so in the ( Read more... )

Ow.

So, I found out that the fucktard who works opposite of me at the hotel's getting fired today. This would normally be a good thing, as this shithead sniped the fulltime position that I was gunning for back when it came open in February (a decision that the management has been regretting ever since, as it was quickly evident that he was woefully ( Read more... )

Like most of Massachusetts, I've got Verizon for my home phone provider, as well as long distance and their cheap-ass DSL, because I like nice, simple single bills. But damn, can their service be crappy sometimes. It doesn't help that I've been on the cheap and increasingly outdated plans, either. (Hell, they don't even offer the plan I was on ( Read more... )