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The Zoomquilt

[found this over at the Larry Young Forum]

Joystiq pointed me towards this nice Half-Life 2 themed casemod. Wow. I wonder if it will look as snazzy when he’s playing Quake 4 or whatever is “next”. But still.

Ooooh, one of the Joystiq writers doesn’t like the Nintendo DS.

The stylus control (a wonderful idea) will result in thousands of run-down screens within months. I already notice scrape marks from using the Nintendo stylus. I can only imagine what my nephew’s DS looks like. My guess is something between a 1989 polaroid camera and a ten cent whore.

The review isn’t as one-sided as that quotation indicates (just made me laugh). You can see in his review that he hates the hardware, but likes the promise of the games that might come from it. But he really hates the hardware.

Me? I have no opinion. My general sense is that Nintendo knows its audience very well and caters to it to their mutual satisfaction. Their games trend more towards all-ages fare, which is not my cupa. I’m more interested in the PSP, but my 25-minute Metro commute prolly isn’t long enough.

I took this picture while I was waiting to cross the street the other day after work. It was dark but the camera’s shutter adjusted to make it look much brighter out. I think it created a cool-looking effect.

This is pretty cool.

And it’s searchable, so if you’re in desperate need of a reference image of the cover of ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ #2 for that Fiery Furnaces show poster you’re working on, they’ve got it!

It’s funny. I read Wired.com on my Clie just about every day (using AvantGo). I’m also a huge fan of the magazine. For a measley $12/year, it’s a monthly shot of cool tech news, fun gadgets, and generally neat things. Wired makes me feel smart and always has a handful of things that I want to show Allison right away (like last month’s internal images piece).

So what’s funny? I generally only read the “culture” stuff on Wired.com. I go to a tech news site to read about culture.
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If you’re familiar with the subservient chicken then you will get the gist of the virtual bartender.

Check it out.

Be advised, she’s a naughty bartender, and likely not appropriate for work environs.

I thought Eli looked great for a rookie making his debut at quarterback, at home in New York, against one of the top 3 teams in the NFC who have a defense that is predicated on quarterback pressure. Yes, he made some mistakes: he missed some wide-open receivers with passes that just sailed out of his hands. And that 2nd interception he threw to the defensive end who had dropped into zone coverage was a textbook example of a ‘rookie mistake’. It was just something he hadn’t seen in a game-speed situation. That’s totally allowable in my book, just as long as he’s not making that same mistake in a month, I’m cool with it.
I was impressed with the way he handled the pressure the Falcons brought. More than once, he recognized a blitz right away and got the ball out to a receiver or, and this is huge, he threw the ball away. That was always my biggest beef with Warner, the guy just would not throw the ball away. Made me crazy.
Anyway, I think there were a ton of positives to take from Eli’s first start and I think they will be lasting. He showed me that he could stand in the pocket when faced with a rush, that he could break the pocket to buy time if needed, and that he could get through the progression of reads without panicking. These are all vital to him being successful in the NFL.
And I think the things he did wrong in the game: throwing behind receivers, overthrowing open guys, misreading that zone blitz; I think those are all correctable and I’m sure he will be better with them next week.

As a Giants fan, I am excited about watching him grow. This should be fun!

Here it is.

I’ll leave it up for a while or until the bandwidth gets silly.

Well, I’m getting old. I sit all day in front of a computer and the eyestrain is finally taking it’s toll. I caught a blind spot in my field of vision last week and it freaked me out enough to get me to go to the doctor. Fortunately my eyes aren’t damaged, but they do get tired from all of the computing.

I think they make me look smart.