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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 1:04PM
So I’m sitting here in Denny’s, eating a Lumberjack Slam with dExtrosien (who is enjoying a Bacon Cheddar Burger), and suddenly dExtrosien points out the window and says “wow!”. There’s a three-car… no, make that a four-car fender-bender right out our window! As I write this, the Tuckahoe Rescue Squad is on the scene, tending to the likely whiplash victim. Airbags went off, hoods were crumpled… Yikes. Denny’s must have soundproof windows, because all we heard was a quiet thump.
But anyway, before all this happened, I was about to gush about my newest hero, Amir Sadollah. I’m not a big fan of wrestling, kickboxing, what have you, but one night I happened to switch to Spike and caught “The Ultimate Fighter”. I wasn’t going to watch it, but I noticed that right after these two guys got done grappling, pummeling, and brutalizing each other, they got up, shook hands, and hugged each other. Huh? What about all the trash-talking and bad attitudes? Where was that?
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Sunday, June 8, 2008 - 12:53AM
So let’s say you just got home, and your car’s AC has just died. You really need to get in the house, but the door is locked. So what do you do? You look around for a key, right? Better hurry, or you might just die of heat stroke! YouTube doesn’t normally lend itself to interactive games, but with their new annotations feature, you can add subtitles, supertitles, “spotlights”, and word balloons to your videos. You can also make these link to other YouTube videos and/or pages.
What does this have to do with trying to get into your house after your car’s AC has failed? That’s the premise of my new game (or “Interactive Video Experience” as I like to call it) which is titled (strangely enough) “Get In The House”.
Alternate title is “Get In Da House” since
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Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 9:52PM
All Internet drama aside for now, I would like to take some time to say a few words about a great man whom I was very privileged to know. The man’s name was Ellsworth Gray Collier. He was my girlfriend’s grandfather, and I met him nearly ten years ago. During those ten years, I came to find out that he had been a radio operator in World War II, where he traversed and survived the Burma Road. He worked for Brown and Williamson Tobacco for over thirty years. He volunteered with his local Rescue Squad, as well the Special Police force.
He was a very likable man, who was always fun to talk to. He was born in August of 1922, and unlike most people I have met of his generation, I could talk about work I had done with electronics, and he was able to understand every word I said. Toward the end of last year, my girlfriend and I sat down with him, microphone in hand, and just got him talking. We asked him questions about his time overseas, his life here, his
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