June 2008 Archives

Wow, I don't have a video games category.  /me gone to put one in there.

The Daily Mail is reporting that the Wii Fit told a 10-year-old she's fat.  What bothers me though is comments like "Only about 10% of children are truly overweight" when that clearly isn't true.  The father states that his daughter only weighs "six stone" but that still seems a bit heavy.  Six stone for us Americans is 84 pounds.

Hat tip: Gamespot

I met someone I graduated from high school with while on campus yesterday. He was bringing his daughter to college freshman orientation.

I feel old.

Image from here.

Legally Blonde the Musical.

And it's coming to Charlotte next year.

Luke wasn't impressed.  I thought she was pretty good for a ten year old.

I've been reading Backwards Compatible and Ding for a bit over at Crispy Gamer for a few weeks now and I really enjoy them. (OK, I wish Ding had more back story and published more often.  I'll admit to that.)  Imagine my surprise though to see in this comic a 30 day trial message for what I'm assuming to be the image uploader or ftp software.  Something labeled RADActive I-Load.  There's no less than 4 of the comics like that.

Now I don't mind folks using trial software.  Right now I'm using the 2nd release candidate of Movable Type 4.2. (And I just love how the auto-save sends the cursor to the front of the post every time it goes off.) I just would think that one should make sure stuff like that would be visible in a production environment.

Not being negative by the way.  It just bothers me.  Go read the comics. They're good for some laughs.

I went to write up a description but for some reason no one really talks about this magazine.  It was the original TSR newsletter, published a total of 7 issues starting in 1975 but was then canceled and developed into The Dragon (aka Dragon and Dragon Magazine) and Little Wars.