As a counterpoint, here is a commercial I like It’s when she opens her eyes and you hear the “ting”. Brilliant. And when you hear it for the 3rd time. Magic.
Also, this is from my capture card. I was going through my recordings and I found this in last week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother.
Hello there, friend. You look bored. Are you tired of the internet? Perhaps MySpace/Youtube has let you down, getting boring you might say. Afterall, you don’t want to end up on Dateline, you sick little paedophile you.
You need a little spice, in the form of massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in a quarantined region of the fictional city of Malton dealing with aftermath of a zombie outbreak. You need a little Urban Dead.
It’s the perfect game. It has that important quality of being easy to pick up and play. And it always leaves you in that “just one more turn” mode. What more could you want from a game that only takes about 5 minutes a day to play.
Anyways, if you do decide to try it out don’t be a Doctor. I picked a Doctor and it’s been hell. I figured in a post-apocalyptic scenario, what could be more awesomer than a man of science, a Doctor. But it’s taking forever to level up.
Also some important links,
If you still haven’t decided to try it out, Urban Dead was even mentioned in the NY Times. I thought that might convince you. Just click here to begin. And if you see rince tragic, watch out. I’ll hit you with an axe and heal you afterwards, for the experience points you see.
You know what commercial I really hate This one,
I hate it so much, I seriously think about turning off the TV. Something the Gap “Fash-on” ads and the VW “Safety Ads” never did.
For one, I don’t like AC/DC. Also the little snippets of dialogue mixed in just make things worse. And, I can’t stand the look of it. It’s so jumpy and cheap feeling.
Palm, not only are they on the losing end of the PDA market, they’re on the losing end of my heart!
See I recently bought a Palm Tungsten C off of eBay. I was super excited when I got it today. I mean a PDA with a thumboard and wireless for $70, that’s a heckuva deal.
But all was not well. Try as I might, I couldn’t connect to the internet. So, I went to update the software, http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/tungstenc/tungstencupdate30.html. Following the instructions, I noticed that my MAC address didn’t match the sticker on the unit.
Seems upon release there was an issue with the Tungsten C losing it’s MAC address. So I contacted Palm. Explained the situation. Waited on hold. And found out it would cost $200 to repair.
That dog won’t hunt, monsignor.
So after discussing with the telephone guys supervisor how much Palm womps, I gave up. They wouldn’t budge. Even pointed out how Apple would honor out of warranty iBooks for logic board problems. So at this point, I’ve contacted the eBay seller and informed him he sold me a bum product.
In conclusion, Palm sucks for not repairing a known issue that’s entirely their fault. The eBay seller, tradingcircuitliquidation (Circuit City’s auction front), is a cock for selling me an item that should’ve been returned to Palm. And Dave Gorman and John Oliver are hilarious.
Look forward to an update on how tradingcircuitliquidation responds. I’m interested and I’m sure you are too.
I’m awake.
Just woke up at 4pm today. Something I haven’t done in quite a long time. See, from the hours of 1am to 8am, I was watching Weeds.
I had always dismissed it as a gimmick. A show with no real value except for Kevin Nealon getting the munchies, man. You know, like something Fox would air. But after watching 14 episodes straight, I have to say it is a pretty decent show. At times even great. But what really holds the show back is the kids, Nancy’s (Mary-Louise Parker) kids. They’re just so unbelievably annoying. And also the show lacks a real sense of danger. You have a feeling that everything will turn out alright by the end of the episode. I’m not saying someone needs to die or go to jail, but the show just feels too “safe”. Which I understand since it is sold as a comedy first.
So if you haven’t already, give Weeds a shot. It’s definitely a lot better than most of the new Fall shows from the networks.
And Don’t Buy a HP Jornada 680e
The Ultimate Dream, being able to surf the web from the bed/toilet/couch. It’s a dream that I’m sure everyone shares.
I bought the HP 680e in an attempt to fufill said dream on the cheap. I got it off eBay for $50. That’s including a wireless card!
I was excited to install Linux on it, but the Linux distribution, JLime, has broken wireless support. Thus I was boned.
Not giving up and not settling for crappy Windows, I installed NetBSD through much pain and suffering. It was a glorious moment when I got wireless working.
With that out of the way, the next challenge was getting X to work. After getting some help, I got X working.
But you cant really expect someone to use TWM (the default window manager). So I’ve been trying to compile IceWM for the past 3 days and it’s been brutal. If it’s not kernel panics, it’s been the wireless card dropping the connection. It’s amazing how slow the 680e is. It may take weeks, possibly months, maybe years? But I’m so close to realizing the dream.
If only JLime wireless was working, I’d probably be typing this from bed.
So, my suggestion, pass on the 680e for now.
Today’s video of the day is Basement Jaxx’s Take Me Back To Your Place Part of what makes this video “Video of the Day” worthy is that I spent weeks looking for it. It appeared on Videos.Antville but before I could view it, it was gone. So I kept on looking for it every few days, on Google, YouTube, Mininova, all the usual places. But today I finally found it.
It’s a good video. I’ve watched it a few times. Certainly better than a lot of the videos playing right now. But it’s not great, definitely not “great” considering all the trouble it took to find it.
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