So I answered the phone at work a couple of days ago with my normal polite greeting.

MAN:  "I need to speak to a supervisor."  (note: there are probably about 15 supervisors where I work. Seeing as he called our office, I figured he wanted to talk to mine.)
ME: "Well sir, my supervisor isn't in the office at the moment, but I can transfer you to her ( Read more... )

This pretty much sums up the whole "UGO buying 1up from Ziff Davis and shutting down EGM" debacle.

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I find it harder and harder these days to find music that really strikes a chord in me.  Between the drivel they play on the radio now, and MTV taking the "M" out of...er...MTV, it's rare that I find stuff I really like.  I discovered Damien Rice thanks to the movie Closer, and Kristin turned me on to Iron and Wine, but these days, if I buy a CD ( ( Read more... )

EGM is being shut down.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21759

I had been wondering what was going on over at the Ziff-Davis offices over the past few years.  Slowly but surely, all the voices at EGM that I had come to know and respect had been vanishing.  EGM had been shrinking in size every month, and, even though it remained ( Read more... )

It's 2009 now, and I went to not one, but two all out crazy parties...er...in Vana'diel.  Such is the problem with having two linkshells, sigh.  First, went for fireworks on the beach, then did my normal streaking through a populated area thing, and then spent two hours getting a group photo together.  Not an easy task when most of your friends are ( Read more... )

It's still strange for me, not being behind the counter for Black Friday.  I still worked today.  I have worked the day after Thanksgiving every year since I was 16.  But working in the trash business is a totally different animal from retail.  I still remember getting myself psyched up the night before.  Even though Black Friday represented an ( Read more... )

Picked up MGS 4 after a long hiatus, because I had played through GTA IV and didn't want to follow a huge story driven action game up with another huge story driven action game.  I had 2 hours logged in the game as of last Sunday ( Read more... )

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My 360 just died. After bragging how my 360 has been working fine without a hitch since January 2006, I got the dreaded Red Rings of Death from out of nowhere. It was fine one moment, the next, poof ( Read more... )

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