Entries Categorized as 'Entertainment'

They don’t make them like they used to

Date May 10, 2008

I’ve been downloading a lot of demo games on the XBox 360 and deleting a lot of them, too. It’s amazing how bad some of these demos are; it’s like the game companies don’t have a single lick of marketing sense.
the point of a demo is to let you know whether or not the [...]

Worst toys

Date February 27, 2008

The 25 Most Baffling Toys From Around the World is simply the funniest thing I’ve read on the Internet in years. Which, now that I think of it, probably means I’ve been reading too much politics.

We don’t care what he says it’s for, when a clown comes at you with a syringe, head the [...]

One down, several billion to go

Date January 20, 2008

This morning I finished Half Life 2 making it — as near as I can tell — the only first-person shooter I’ve ever played through to completion. I’ve been playing them since my college buddies hooked up Doom on the local network. But I’m also terrible at them, and that’s one reason I never [...]

More on the GOP candidates

Date January 14, 2008

I know many of you will appreciate this:
the GOP field as Buffy villains.

A further note on XBox Live

Date January 3, 2008

My free XBox Live account expires soon. For about two weeks of my free month, XBox Live has been acting flaky. I would be annoyed if I actually used the service, but I don’t, and so I’m not. It does make it slightly less likely to pay the subscription fee, but only slightly. After all, [...]