Archive for August, 2008

Three Inconvenient Red Rings

Posted by Lance on 27th August , 2008

Yes, I’ve finally joined that club. My Xbox 360 Elite gave up the ghost Saturday after just shy of a year’s service. No big deal – I’ve still got a great list of games to play on other systems – but the Fall Avalanche of Goodness is nearly upon us, and I haven’t even received [...]

Zork on a Blackberry?

Posted by Lance on 25th August , 2008

Several of us on the Crackberry forums are trying to drum up interest to get a developer to write a Z-Machine interpreter for Blackberrys. What am I talking about? Remember the Infocom text adventures (interactive fiction) from the late 70s / early 80s? Games like Zork and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? Z-Machine is [...]

JoCopedia, or Why the Internet Gives Me a Boner

Posted by Lance on 19th August , 2008

First, a little background. I haven’t really played guitar much at all since my son Zack was born 12 years ago. I’d sold my cherished Gretsch electric and amp due to lack of free time (and impossibility playing with sleeping babies around). Before that, I’d been playing since I was 13. Back to the future, [...]

Writing for Recon

Posted by Lance on 1st August , 2008

I am very excited to announce that I am getting published! My product review of the Dangerous Power G3 paintball marker will be included in the forthcoming issue 4:2 of the quarterly woods paintball magazine Recon.

New Layout

Posted by Lance on 1st August , 2008

Well, I finally got sick of the old “Snapshot Tequila” template screwing up the header, so I made a switch. In this age of expansive flat screen real estate, I also decided to avoid a fixed-width layout. Unfortunately, Blogger only has a few “stretching” templates, so this one will have to do for now.