Successes for the week:

Monday I finally beat the Normal mode batch of puzzles in Picross DS. I could've finished them a while ago, but I have to add my own challenge. I replayed each puzzle until I completed them in under 1 minute for the 10x10 puzzles, 3 minutes for the 15x15, and 6 minutes for the 20x20 and 25x20. Yes, that involved a good deal ( Read more... )

Nothing too exciting from the remainder of this weekend. James invited me to join the other Jameses in a Mario Strikers Charged assault. The Tri-James Experience Featuring Me failed to materialize, though, due to Triple's not showing. Three times we tried to win the Crystal Cup. The first time, we had a mediocre record going into the finals, but we ( Read more... )

OK, I have Frisky Dingo on, and Killface's son asks him if he can has cheezburger. Awesome.

(Hey, my mood icon matches for once.)

Update: Xander Crews just said it in his presidential debate. I love this show.

Take DDR, implement it in Flash, add color matching, subtract arrow positions and the life bar, and set it to all house. You now have Rhythm Fireworks. If anybody can identify any of the songs he uses, please reply to this with the info ( Read more... )

From Paul, a very funny take on Intarweb forum discussions in the real world. They missed the thing where you prove how cool you are by bashing something popular: iPods, Crocs, Wii, or whatever. I also didn't hear one ROFFLE, but I can forgive that. Still very funny.

If you haven't enhanced your productivity enough with the enhancers in my previous two posts, try Storm Winds. This one has you mounting cannons and guns to the side of a cliff to fend off wave after (really long) wave of enemies. You don't spend money to upgrade your weapons, but to repair them and buy new ones, and the weapons will gain levels as ( Read more... )

Armor Games has another productivity enhancer called Momentum Missile Mayhem 2 - (Ultimate Edition) (spelling corrected by me). This one plays kinda like your tower defenses, but instead of building towers you have to use an energy slingshot to smash enemies into each other. Note that the enemies keep coming while you have the Upgrade menu open, so ( Read more... )

Thanks to tOdd for posting the link to this Flash version of Valve's Portal. People not running Windows might want to crank up their mouse speeds to the hyperactive setting commonly found on that platform because some levels will require it. I've only gotten halfway through Level 15, but I'll probably figure it out once I eat something. Of course, ( Read more... )

More fun today, this time courtesy of Nick. It appears that he still has some small capacity to recognize awesome.

I have a costume party coming up for Halloween, but I can't decide whether to go as Snape, for which I would just need to get a wand, or DJ Jesus, for which I'd need to borrow a set of DJ-style headphones and maybe get a fake beard. ( Read more... )

I enjoyed this weekend, even if it didn't last long enough and I didn't get enough done.

Jason came up from Ohio again. This time he took Kyle and I out to dinner with his parents. Dimitri's makes some good spinach pie, and considering you get soup, salad, and dessert for one low price, I would definitely eat there again. We split up to stop by ( Read more... )