Month: June 2006
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Flash Game of the Week: Street Fighter Online
This week brings us a very cool game. Street Fighter Online allows you to actually play other people online as actual Street Fighter or Marvel characters. I wasn’t able to get the online part to work because I wasn’t forwarding the proper port on my router, but I did play the story mode for a…
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Drying a camel's back
Not long after we moved into the Brighton House, my roommate Mike bought a camelbak to quench his thirst on those long bicycle rides along side the Charles River. Coincidentally, I came across this article days later. It describes how to create a Do-It-Yourself cheap Camelbak dryer using little more than just a plastic hanger.…
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Flash Game of the Week: Puzzle Bowling
Shift the tiles to make a path for the moving bowling ball so it can knock over all the pins in the allotted time. This gets tricky by the second level. Puzzle Bowling.
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Nothing Personal
There are many readers of this blog and I only know for sure who a handful of them are. That is on purpose. I don’t want to know. If I knew who some of my audience might be, then I might pander to their needs and this blog would no longer be as honest or…
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Flash Game of the Week: Red Bull FlugTag
If you’ve ever enjoyed watching the Red Bull FlugTag on television, this is your chance to take part in your very own FlugTag. Essentially you fly this custom built glider off a moving pier and see how far it can go. The custom gliders are often decorated…uh…imaginatively. My high score so far is 104.655 feet.…
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PUSH
As I sat this morning, in the weekly workflow meeting, I watched Ken pick up a bundled cable of ethernet cord and unwrap it. He then proceeded to tie one end to the handle of the door to the conference room we were in. As he sat back down, he was unraveling the rest of…
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Hey Miss Murder can I…?
I bought the new AFI album this past week and I have to say I’m definitely digging it. I really loved the last album, Sing the Sorrow. Silver and Cold was probably my favorite track off that. This new album, Decemberunderground has some really catchy songs, but not in the annoying-repetitive-pop-kind-of-way. I put lyrics to…
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Gateway drugged
Shortly after upgrading WordPress to 2.0.3, I had a number of entries I wanted to write, but first I decided to reload my main desktop computer because it was periodically freezing on me. I wasn’t able to leave it on during the day to download files or leave a scheduled job to run because I…