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Norman Mailer dies at 84

Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital. From his debut novel to his literary journalism,  the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner always got credit for insight, passion and originality.

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Are video games getting too easy?

I’ve been a gamer all my life. From the days of Atari and Intellivision to King’s Quest to Quake to Kingpin to Call of Duty to Neverwinter 2. I’ve played pretty much all of them, and even designed maps, skins, arenas and worlds!

 

When gaming first started there were no saves and respawn points. When you played a game you played it from start to finish. If you died you died and you’d have to start from the beginning and play your way through again. Of course, back them there was no such thing as hard drives built into the machines. Hell, my first PC didn’t even have a hard drive.

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Automotive Sin

Today I saw the worst thing I’ve ever seen done to a car. I was outside smoking a cigarette and here comes a Mary Key Pink De Lorean driving down the road. I was horrified on many levels.

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

A Little Diddy from “Annie”

The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There’ll be sun!

Just thinkin’ about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
‘Til there’s none!

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Google for the Blind?

The other day I went to Google to look something up, and as usual they had a new theme of the day. Hey, most of them are pretty cool, except I really didn’t get this one. The word Google was in Braille. Blind people can’t see and as far as I know monitors aren’t touch sensitive. I love Google, but WTF? Well it was good for a laugh! har, har, har…

Thursday, January 5th, 2006