Sometimes, the hardest thing about working on your pet projects is keeping them under wraps until they are finally finished.

Not that mine is ground-breaking or anything - and few people that I know would be able to use them once completed - I still think the geek community at large will get a kick out of them.

I found out that Netflix can display the most popular titles for the area in which you live. I decided to check it out for my new area (ZIP code of 20171) and see what everyone else is watching around me. Their taste isn't bad, but it's not great either (TWO Battlestar Galacticas? Really now).

But what is interesting is the number one movie: ( Read more... )

TL;DR version: Don't buy it. If you want to give Maxis EA some money, pirate the game and then buy a Spore shirt from them.

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If you are one of the few people that understand what the LHC is and what it's going to do over the next coming months, you will find the following link absolutely hilarious.

Has the LHC destroyed the Earth?

Physics and sex both yield practical results, but that's not why we do them.

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I tell ya, I can feel the fun being sucked right out of me. I'm starting to put work in front of play every day when I shouldn't be. I have no lady friends down here. I cannot imbibe alcohol lest I want to put myself back in the ER. What's next, Verizon cuts off my internet access because they feel like it?

This sucks.

Within the past two days I have single-handedly installed a short ram air intake on my Altima and also repaired my Wii by replacing the DVD drive. I believe I have earned my man and nerd points for the month.

Among the many differences between Michigan and Northern Virginia there's one that I personally find refreshing: free parking garages.

In the want-to-be-urban planned-corporate-community called Reston, there are SIX free parking areas. Six. How comparable is that? Think of Royal Joke or Ann Arbor's Main Street district pretty much openning up ( Read more... )

I decided to get my Wii back up and running (please check my earlier post for Wii codes of myself and LJ friends) after it being out of commission for the past eight months. What would cause me to give it such neglect? It got dropped at my company's Christmas party and immediately started spitting out disc read errors ( Read more... )