Posts Tagged ‘failure’

The Xbox is Dead, Long Live the Xbox!

Which is to say, our Xbox died the other night mid-game, tak­ing with it our beloved XBMC. This evening we broke down, bought a replace­ment and I’m set­ting it up right now. Wheee!

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Banana, Crackers and Gatorade… Oh my!

Well, I finally feel like I am at least partly back from the dead. But really, that’s get­ting ahead of myself; allow me to back­track a bit. 2005. May. 7th. Ariesna and I were joined in wed­ded bliss. Unfor­tu­nately with her just fin­ish­ing her degree and pay­ing for a wed­ding money was tight so we didn’t […]

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Pukka’s Links of the Week

From Pukka: Things Hagrid the Half-Giant Would Say If He Served Jesus Instead of Harry Pot­ter. Con as in Con­ven­tion! Ding! Regard­ing New Orleans Bad­ger Bad­ger Bad­ger Cof­fee So Strong.….…. [Edi­tor] I don’t know seems like it’s kind of weak cof­fee to me if you actu­ally have to drink it to wake up from the […]

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A Gamer’s Manifesto

Instant-Failure Stealth Lev­els. Ack. This brings back hor­ri­ble mem­o­ries of a Gold­en­eye level where if you tripped an alarm, an infi­nite num­ber of bad guys poured forth. We knew a man who failed that level 37 times, then got the Infi­nite Health cheat for it and came back. He inten­tion­ally tripped the alarm, the guards […]

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Self-Evaluation

Like many wage slaves in the US today, I recently had to fill out a self-evaluation form. After doing so, I started to won­der what these use­less time wasters would look like if both the employer & employee were being com­pletely honest…

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