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Last night I hooked up the rest of the game systems, including Nicole’s old NES. For the first time I briefly played Super Mario World on the NES. This morning I tried all the Atari Carts, including some I had never played but just picked up at a thrift store. Four were dead but the […]

I have this new projector that is capable of HDTV resolutions. I’m moving where all the A/V stuff lives and that also means moving the game systems. First to hook up is the Atari 2600 and of course I had to test it with a little Yar’s Revenge. Projector capable of displaying better than the […]

I just finished level 9 of the exercise bike. On to level 10.

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There still a little fine tuning on position and such, but the picture is so beautiful, and it’s just projecting on the wall! DVDs look wonderful and you can see stuff even inthe dark scenes. Video games are made to look not as good in some ways now in that it is so sharp you […]

At least for now we are done with the office. The floor is still unpainted concrete but it’s nicer looking and functional again. Later we’ll pull everything out again and put in a floating floor. There was an article in This Old House that made it look pretty easy. It’s also been re-arranged to make […]

This morning I was up early and didn’t have to go to the gym so I decided to hook up the Gamecube to the small tv (the projector is busted). I figured it was about time I tried those bargain bin games I picked up in the past 9 months. First up was Minority Report […]

When I was ripping out the carpet in the computer room and moving everything around I felt fine. The night while my body was resting it was also responding to all the mold and dust in my system and clogging my allergies. Now it’s all draining. On the bright side, did I mention I’m up […]

I didn’t think I was goign to make it to the end of my cycle today. My legs were tired and I wanted to stop, but I just kept telling myself to go and see how it turns out. I finished level 8… barely.

I’ve been wanting to see this for awhile to find out why it was so popular. The main characters aren’t believable stoners, and they don’t play morons very well. The surrounding characters are all more interesting to watch than they are so the movie ends up being a loosely tied together set of skits that […]