Archive for 'Video Games' Category
Crime Still Doesn’t Pay
6 August 2008I got an email about that postal employee who stole one or more of my Gamefly and/or Netflix rentals. She plead guilty to 1 count of Delaying or destruction of mail or newspapers and 3 counts of Theft of mail matter by officer or employee. She’ll be sentenced on September 29 and any [...]
Massive Multimedia Update
5 July 2008I remember reading Childhood’s End a while back and getting to the point where humanity didn’t have to work for a lot of and people became absorbers of media. It made me think of how much time I spent watching TV, playing games, listening to podcasts, etc. It’s fun. I can do [...]
Crime Doesn’t Pay
6 June 2008I got a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday. A postal carrier was found to be in possession of multiple Gamefly and Netflix rentals. One of the rentals in her possession was either on its way to me or on its way back from me. Her illegal activities had been [...]
Tax Day 2008
15 April 2008Today is Tax Day. I started on my return online a couple on months ago. I realized that I was going to owe the IRS for the first time, so of course I’m waited until the last day to pay them. I just finished my return.
I’m going to celebrate Tax Day by [...]
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
23 March 2008I’ve been itching to get into another MMORPG and last week I started playing The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. I had heard some good things about it, so I wanted to try it. It’s The Lord of the Rings, so it had to be good, right? I don’t usually do this, but [...]
Lost Odyssey Advertisement
22 March 2008I had heard about Lost Odyssey before it was released and knew that I would get around to playing it sooner or later. Around the time it came out I saw an advertisement for it on TV. I knew right then that I would want to play it sooner than later and that I wanted to download the [...]
Blue Dragon
8 February 2008Some time over the past couple of weeks we finished Blue Dragon, which is a JRPG on the Xbox 360. I got it as a Christmas present and it was a lot of fun. It’s a single-player game, so we took turns playing it. It has some gameplay features that are really cool. The graphics look really [...]