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After deciding $60 for a new Xbox game could instead buy me 4 months of a 1-game-out
GameFly rental subscription, I decided to take the plunge and signed up for an account yesterday. After
setting up my queue with
Mirrors Edge at the top I restrained myself from hoping I'd get it any time soon, instead expecting to get the first "Available Now" title (Assasins Creed) as my first game. An
email today, however, had me tickled pink as I learned the 'just released' game is on it's way. And while I wait for it, I can
learn the controls and
download the manual. If it arrives before the weekend I may just have to do a happy dance.
Even my
cat can't get a wire to my Xbox 360 in an inconspicuous way, so I've been stuck with the
Xbox wireless adapter which only supports 802.11G. Too often have my HD video streams stuttered into unwatchability and caused Lisa to cry, so today I decided to end her suffering. Microsoft has no official 802.11N support, so a
wireless bridge was my only option, and I remember Whineyho having success with his. This being one of the many draft N versions, I wasn't 100% certain it would inter operate with my routers flavor of Draft N, but surprisingly they both got along extremely well and so far no more tears from Lisa. If you're stuck with a wireless Xbox 360 I'd recommend this option over the official adapter any day. I also took the opportunity to switch my wireless security layer from my lowly 64-bit WEP to WPA2-PSK(AES) since WPA-PSK(TKIP) was
hacked, and my house has long been a prime target for drive-by hacking on account of my immensely popular blog.
As a manual transmission fanatic, I'm always entertained by people with shift-tronic, tiptronic, or steptronic transmissions who are convinced they drive a manual transmission vehicle. There's no talking them out of it, so I don't even bother telling them the presence of a
torque converter disqualifies it from the definition. Driving a manual seems to have become more important as a status symbol than an actual performance advantage, so marketing has successfully convinced a great majority they are one and the same. Enter the
hill start assist introduced by Dodge for the 2009 Challenger (thanks
Enorym). It looks like a sufficient number of people didn't swallow the automatic-as-manual pill, and now instead of glorifying a power-sucking torque converter into a manual, a genuine manual transmission has an assist to help novices get over the fear of starting off from an incline. I just hope there are enough people who know what a torque converter is opt for the manual on this model, and the demise of the manual transmission is delayed long enough for my
2011 Focus ST.
After hearing about the
leaked Xbox 360 update I did what any self respecting fanboy would and downloaded it immediately. Updating with the leaked dashboard causes your Xbox to catch fire and/or explode in addition to getting locked out of Xbox Live, but since my upstairs Xbox never connects anyway, I happily sacrificed it to the update. After a short update process, my dashboard jumped from 2.0.6717 to
2.0.7356, and immediately looked
fanboy hot. The new avatars, unfortunately, were not included, so for now I'll just have to get off to the new interface until the final version drops in 3 weeks.
With Lisas recent transfer to a not-yet-open birthing center, her job has shifted from pulling babies out of vaginas all day to primarily paperwork. This sudden lack of seeing random vagina has put her in some kind of withdrawal phase, which involves alot of moping and whining (more than usual). The situation will only gets worse as the center is not scheduled to open for at least two more months, and that length of time with no vagina may very well kill her. What can you do to help? If you own or have access to a vagina, please consider donating 5 minutes of it's time to Lisa. She'll measure it and and ask you a few questions, then you'll be on your way, but the benefit she'll receive is immeasurable. I thank you in advance for your time.
Less than 2 years ago I remember visiting Whineyho to check out his new Xbox 360. At the time I was fully against console gaming since I had a perfectly good (and free) computer to play games on, but I was impressed nonetheless. Eventually I decided to get one to use the built-in media center extender. Of course that meant I had to get one for my other TVs, which lead to the 3 Xbox empire. Suddenly surrounded by the consoles, my practicality was quickly defeated as the games and accessories for the system increased exponentially. I'm now a full-on raging fanboy ranting to everyone about why they need one immediately, especially with the
new experience launching soon. My neighbors $400 PS3 which he uses exclusively as a Blu-Ray player, along with my brief 2 week ownership of a Wii have convinced me it's the best of the next gen consoles, and true to fanboy operating principles, I defend it like a rabid dog when someone suggests otherwise. Soulja Boy
agrees with me and he's obviously got my back, so to PS3 and Wii fanboys, I say bring it.
The
NZXT Sentry LX fan controller caught my eye a few weeks ago, and try as I might I could not resist the urge to buy one. My fan setup was more than sufficient, but the animated lights and almost 5 inch screen was too much temptation, not to mention the nerd factor which was off the charts. Today it finally arrived and after
setting it up I'm convinced it was the right thing to do. Beyond the pretty factor, each fan cranks up according to what I'm doing, keeping the case almost totally silent when idle. Intense file decompression sessions have my HDD RAID fan max out at 2,000 rpm, while gaming gets the two closest to my CPU/Video card close to 1600 each. Other than that all 4 sit at the silent 1,000 speed until needed. I'd say it's saving energy with all this fancy automation, but I'm sure the ultra-bright monitor offsets any savings I could hope to realize. Score one for
EternalOne, this is most likely an anti-hippie mod.
Lisas complaint about the cord on my mower the one time she mowed my yard was sufficient reason to upgrade to a cordless model. After selling my current model for $60 at my garage sale (which was still going strong 5 years later, contrary to
previous predictions), I found a $200 cordless
clearance model on Amazon. On arrival, the circuit board was damaged from shipping so I had to wait till lastnight for the replacement one. An hour later it was up and running and my
first cut was a success. The battery meter still shows 3/4 charge, so I can easily get two mows per charge. It's definitely heavier than my corded model, probably due to the equivalent of 4 motorcycle batteries on board, but easier to get around and now Lisa approved. Hopefully this hippie mower will turn out to be just as dependable and effective as my last.
Today my frost warning light came on in my Cougar meaning the temperature was below 42 fahrenheit, and as it indicated the ground was covered in frost. The last time this light came on it kicked off 5 long months of freezing weather. With the
Free Press promising snow this weekend now is a great time to move to Florida with Joseph.
Not satisfied with infecting unsuspecting Michiganders, it was time to move my Rock Band addiction machine south (yes, south) to Windsor for some Canadian action, eh. What was scheduled to be a relaxing sleepover at Melindas house (with occasional girl-on-girl action) turned into a 10 hour Rock Band marathon fully hooking
Ron on drums, Jenny on vocals, and Melinda/Adriano/Lisa on Guitar. I operated as a substitute when someone needed hydration or muscle relaxant. While my achievement points per minute rating was lower than I had hoped, the successful hooking of all involved assured additional sessions to further increase them. Normally I'd include photos but my boycott of Facebook prevents it.
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