Here's the latest geek update:

Games being played

XBOX 360
FEAR (goddamn it's hard)
The Godfather: The Game
Shrek the Third (with my little guy)

DS
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Trauma Centre - Under the Knife
Advance Wars

PC
SNES Emulator: Super Metroid

PS2FF12, I guess. ( Read more... )

I have a new cunning plan ( Read more... )

... Is absolutely no fun when you share names with a member of the "blog technocrati elite" and one of the founding members of Greenpeace. Apparently the other living Ben Metcalfe is a bit of a douche.

Why am I posting so much today you might ask? Just feel like it.

Reminder to the new people who are reading this: If you want to read the good stuff, create an account and let me know the account name, so I can add you to my friend list.

I have rolled up three free coffees so far... Anyone winning out there?

Edit - Make that FOUR free coffees. Suck on that!

One thing I noticed when I had my case open a few days ago, was that the power supply was running really hot, so I took a better look and fired the computer up. The inner fan was working, but the hot air outflow fan on the outside of the case was not spinning. I also noticed that it was only fucking 350w and was attempting to run a P4 chip and a ( Read more... )

... but there is nothing more embarrasing than having to meet the gaze of someone who works on the floor of the washroom that you just took a dump in. I almost burst out laughing earlier when some guy from the 12th gave me a dirty "You just shat in our toilet" look.

HULK SMASH!

We bought a cheap upconverting DVD player (to the tune of 70 bucks), and running movies in 1080i is looking really good. To give you an example, watching my DVDs of The Office, you can actually see the camera crew reflected in the glasses of Phyllis and Dwight at certain points in the episodes. You can also read the writing on a lot of the ( Read more... )

So I've read that the SAG writer's strike could possibly be coming to an end this week ( Read more... )