The Skepchicks posted my Bigfoot link!

Check it out here!

(I’m EP, in cse you didn’t guess.)

Mac gamers* rejoice

From MacMinute:

Gears of War, UT 3 for Mac confirmed
July 16, 2007 – 12:17 EDT According to a report on Inside Mac Games today, Epic Game’s VP Mark Rein announced “that a Mac version of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3 are heading to the platform. Rein enthusiastically announces in the video, ‘And don’t forget, we’re also doing Macintosh. Yes, Gears is coming to the Mac and so is UT.’” Further information is available from IMG.

After playing Gears on Mr. Dahlen’s 360, I gotta say I loved it. I sucked at it, but I really enjoyed it. What got me was the subtly of combat. You don’t run in full steam with rocket launchers akimbo. You use speed, cover, and battlefield awareness to protect yourself and take out your opponent. Can’t wait.

And the Unreal franchise has never disappointed me; UT has provided some of my fondest multiplayer memories. Unreal 2 was more than my POS PC could handle, and crashed it mercilessly, but what I got to play I thoroughly enjoyed. Once I get Parallels 3 running, I’ll have to install Unreal 2 and give it another go.

* No, “Mac Gamer” is not an oxymoron, thank you very much. Granted, I can’t play HL2 and that pisses me off. Well, until now anyway.

Weekend Simpsons Quiz no. 4

From Season 5 (1993-4).

1. Who develops a gambling problem in “$pringfield (or, How I learned to stop worrying and love legalized gambling)”?

2. What’s Burns’s teddy bear’s name in “Rosebud”?

3. In “Homer the Vigilante”, the Springfield Cat Burglar enters the Springfield Museum and steals the world’s largest of which kind of gem?

4. Luckily for starving Homer, Bart, Ned and Todd Flanders, what’s located on an offshore oil rig in “Boy Scoutz ‘n the Hood”?

5. Whose voice? In “Homer and Apu”, who’s the guest star that replaces Apu at the Kwik-e-Mart?

6. Complete the line. From “Bart Gets an Elephant”: “KBBL is gonna give me ___________________.”

Moby, the trend-setter

Or not.  From his blog:

see, i was out to dinner this evening in paris and i was talking about the records that i had brought with me for my dj’ing gig later on. i was greeted with looks and words of incredulity.
‘you still play records?’
‘why, yes, of course i do. doesn’t everybody?’
well, imagine my surprise when i found out that most(if not all)dj’s currently playing music for the young people no longer play vinyl records.

Granted, I don’t exactly spend a lot of time in dance clubs, but I have to admit being surprised.  I thought the pro’s would never give up vinyl.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman out on DVD!

I used to watch this when it first came out and never knew how over-my-head it was until I saw a repeat of the last episode of season one when Mary has a nervous breakdown. I was riveted. It was the saddest, bleakest, least funny moment of any “sitcom” I’d ever seen.
Cheap, cheesy, brilliantly satirical, rent it on Netflix as soon a you can. (Sorry: not due until 3/27/07) You youngsters need to watch this.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman finally out on DVD

On IMDB : Read the comments of diehard fans.

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Hoping that Ian is stoopid

When you’re on the posting page, scroll down to the section with two tabs, “Upload” and “Video”. Click “Video” and it tells you what to do.

Weekend Simpsons Quiz no. 3

From Season 4 (1992-3).

1. In “Krusty Gets Kancelled”, competition from whose show kills Krusty’s ratings?

2. From “Selma’s Choice”: Tipsy, Queasy, Surly and Remorseful are four of the seven what?

3. Who plays Stanley Kowalski in “A Streetcar Named Marge?”

4. Regarding a riot at “Kamp Krusty”, who says, “I’ve been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.”

5. Whose voice? In “Mr. Plow”, what guest star sings, “Señor Plow no es macho / Es solamente un borracho”?

6. Complete the line. Homer in “Marge vs. the Monorail” when someone opens the fire extinguisher cabinet, but inside there’s a family of opossums: “I call the big one _______.”

Perfect

What the hell. We can’t embed YouTube vids? Does this suck or am I stoopid?

Weekend Simpsons Quiz no. 2

From Season 7 (1995-6).

1. Who shot Mr. Burns?

2. In “Bart the Fink”, who fakes his own death, then starts a quiet life as Rory B. Bellows?

3. In “Treehouse of Horror VI — Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace”, who begins murdering Springfield’s children in their sleep, Freddy Krueger style?

4. In “Two Bad Neighbors”, which neighbor sparks a feud by spanking Bart?

5. Whose voice? Name two musical acts who tour with Homer on the Hullabalooza tour in “Homerpalooza”.

6. Complete the line. From the auditions for Fallout Boy in “Radioactive Man”:

Lunchlady Doris: At last the world is safe, eh, Fallout Boy?
Ralph: What’s for lunch tomorrow?
Director: Next!
Ralph: ________________?

Weekend Simpsons Quiz no. 1

My new idea for a weekly (weekendly?) feature. The questions are supposed to be somewhat hard, but not unreasonably so. I’ll adjust them next time if they seem to be too hard or easy.

This week, they all come from Season 9 (1997-8).

1. What fictional ethnic food does a street vendor sell to Homer near the World Trade Center in “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson”?

2. What’s the name of Snake’s convertible that Homer buys at a police auction in “Realty Bites”?

3. When Jasper freezes himself in the Kwik-E-Mart freezer to prolong his life in “Lisa the Simpson”, what name does Apu give him, as a sort of freak show attraction?

4. Whose portrait (giving a thumbs-up with one hand and an OK sign with the other) is on the trillion dollar bill that Burns has stolen in “The Trouble with Trillions”?

5. Whose voice? Who voices the real Seymour Skinner (as opposed to the impostor Armin Tamzarian) in “The Principal and the Pauper”?

6. Complete the line. Complete Homer’s line from “The Last Temptation of Krust”: “Whoops, sorry son. I didn’t know you, Jay Leno, and a monkey were __________.”