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Month: April 2012

Truth!

April 30, 2012Jaybird 30 Comments

I feel somewhat self-conscious about being the “before I can tell you this story, I have to tell you that one” guy but, before I can tell you this story, I have to tell you that one. In Frank Miller’s… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Mass Effect

Sunday!

April 29, 2012Jaybird 8 Comments

I found out who the dagger belonged to (it’s a slow crawl because I find the book so very stressful). So that’s where *I* am. So… what are you reading and/or watching?

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Saturday!

April 28, 2012Jaybird 16 Comments

Oh, golly it’s early. Well, the game I’m spending most of my time with remains Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (I have no end of love for games where, besides the main story, you have to do things like “invest in bookstores”)… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Mass Effect, SECOND, Turn Mass Effect

Twitter!

April 28, 2012Jaybird 4 Comments

In the comments to yesterday’s Weekend! thread, Dman and Miss Mary mention the phenomenon where you spend a good part of the day thinking that it’s a different day than it is. We’ll get back to that. Now, here on… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Weekend

Wrong!

April 27, 2012Patrick 14 Comments

Mixing up the old Friday theme of “wrong” with the Movie Quotes Friday, as inspired by the morning I’ve had… here are 10 movie quotes wherein a character is delivering a line right after something went wrong.  Well, from the… Continue Reading →

movies Gjryir Zbaxrlf, Gur Gbjrevat Vasreab, Trar Xryyl, Trareny Orevatre

Weekend!

April 27, 2012Jaybird 23 Comments

Holy cow, is tomorrow Friday already? Indeed it is. Well, now that the semester is, for all intents and purposes, over, we can finally have the weekend of Maribou’s birthday! Which, of course, entails waking up at O’dark-thirty on Saturday… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Weekend

Arcade!

April 26, 2012Patrick 25 Comments

Okay, Jaybird’s recent post really got me thinking about old school uprights and what really ought to be in an arcade. So, if I won the megamillions one day, and could afford to both buy these things and upgrade their… Continue Reading →

video games Food Fight, Karate Champ, Lunar Lander, Space Ace

Wednesday!

April 25, 2012Jaybird 17 Comments

There is a word that I am looking for. It’s when you swear to goodness a particular song came out 10 or 20 years before and, nope, the song only came out in the last few years. I had this… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized music, Wednesday

Tommy!

April 24, 2012Jaybird 23 Comments

Ever since I was a young man, I played the silver ball. There were definite stretches where I found myself preferring pinball machines to video games. The biggest ones that we played back in the early 90’s were The Black Knight… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized pinball

What’s the Matter With… the NBA Draft?

April 23, 2012Jaybird 7 Comments

(We’ve got another guest post from our very own Kazzy!) (Note:  This article will not touch on the ethics of an amateur draft system only because I do not consider myself knowledgeable enough on labor, economics, and other related areas… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized MLB, NBA, NFL, Van Gundy

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