Apparently in China they have a phone that is loaded with an NES emulator and hundreds of games (ROMS). It also comes with a nifty little controller hook-up. Of course, the legality of this is very dubious, but hey, this is China we're talking about.

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-13775-Century%20Sutra%201688%2C%20the%20crazy%20gamer%20PDA% ( Read more... )

What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Literature Nerd

Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's ( Read more... )

Wow, it certainly has been a long time since I have updated this journal, but I think I can fairly attribute that to this having been my first semester of graduate school here at Mississippi State and my basically just being up to other things besides worrying about updating this journal!  Still, I feel that I should apologize to those who read ( Read more... )

Well, it seems that another year has gone by already, and what a year it was!  Quite a few major events happened in 2006 and I will go ahead and talk about them here in this update (the events that pertain to me, anyway!).

First, however, I want to appologize for not having updated my LJ since September 11, 2006- I've been very busy lately and ( Read more... )

Five years ago today, on September 11, 2001 I was a Junior at St. Stanislaus College Prep. sitting in my Honors Chemistry class with Brother Malcom when we first heard about a plane hitting one of the Twin Towers in New York.  Of course that was all you could see on most channels that day and, in fact, several of my teachers insisted on spending ( Read more... )

Steve Irwin was killed today by a stingray...Kind of ironic in a way, isn't it?  To think that the famous crocodile hunter, a man that people would have thought might have died wrestling a croc' or being bitten by a poisonous snake would be killed by a peaceful sea creature, basically by a freak accident.  A poisonous barb that had to be pierced ( Read more... )

Wow, It certainly has been quite some time since my last major update!  In fact, the last time I posted an update was *checks* July 25, since the August 1 post was not a true update!  Anyhow, that aside, quite a bit has happened since then!

If you've been keeping up with my posts, I spent the summer working for the Navy in Gulfport, MS, employed by ( Read more... )

This is something my grandfather e-mailed me today that I thought was funny...If you are an Ole' Miss fan (or go to the University of Mississippi), then there's no harm intended:

The Mississippi State Fan

A first grade teacher in Jackson, Mississippi, explained to her class
that she was a Ole Miss fan. She asked her students to raise their
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Since it's been a little while since my last update, I figured I'd make one while I had a little time.

Things have been going smoothly here on the coast, especially with work over at the Navy "Seabee" Base with the MWR's youth program.  We are currently in week nine (of ten) of the summer program, although I am staying for a week or so of the ( Read more... )

I should have posted this on the day of his birthday, but on July 7, 1981, the original Donkey Kong was released to the world, marking the debut of Jumpman, who would later be renamed by Nintendo in 1983 to Mario for the release of the arcade classic Mario Bros.  Thus, 7/7/2006 marks the carpenter-turned-plumber's 25th birthday...Happy Birthday, ( Read more... )