For the first time in my life, I actually think I *want* to work at Microsoft, and it's all because of this.

Also, Ping is the best video game in the history of the universe.

I am under orders to post this. The Patron Saint of Snarkiness himself has commanded me!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAokayI'mdone. Seriously, though. I need an XBOX 360.

I already have a new favorite character, though; in search of more video footage of the two new characters (couldn't find any, for what it's worth), I watched a clip of one of the directors talking about some new features and a world-specific character: Hilda, who, as the ( Read more... )

Uhm. Last batch of pics for 2007 are up, if people haven't seen them already. It was an interesting experiment; I missed two days, but those were while i was in the middle of end-of-semester projects and I really didn't want to take another picture of my monitor/desk. I do think I'm going to continue with it, though. Enough friends are going ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, for one of my classes we had to create personas related to our research, which meant that we were to go out and conduct live interviews with people and compile their data into 2-3 demographic profiles of who might be interested in our projects.

Here's the thing. My project is on the effects of technology on homiletics-- ( Read more... )

#$@&!!!!

A friend posted a link about googling your online name as opposed to your real name. What the hey, right? I tried it with firstcrusader just to see what came out. Oddly enough, my deviantart account is the first result (never mind the fact that I haven't touched the thing in ages. My Twitter account is number 3, then other than a couple of ( Read more... )

I've been going through and tagging my old LJ entries lately and have come to the conclusion that I hardly ever write anything interesting anymore. For the last year or so, and especially the last 2-3 months, I feel like just about every other entry is basically just a link. Which, of course, may be interesting in and of itself; but really, has my ( Read more... )

This game is pretty sweet--it's a challenging little vocab game, and for every word you get right, a sponsor donates ten grains of rice to the U.N. World Food program. Granted, ten grains of rice is pretty insignificant, but it's still a pretty neat idea.

Also, one of these years I'll get around to posting a general life update. Suffice it to say ( Read more... )

And now, in the spirit of only posting what others have already posted, I present, courtesy Carl, the best halftime show evarz in life:

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I wish my marching band had done stuff this awesome. Though the Star Wars/Swing show in high school was pretty sweet.

Yoinked from Lindsey: You don't have to know much about football to know that this is unusual: