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All day I’ve been working on my first Ruby On Rails project. Not out of any trendiness or pure curiousity, though I have been very curious, but out of dogged determination and desperation. I have a project that needs to get done fast, and the initial way I started out just wasn’t going to work […]

The weather here in Chicago has been pretty lousy for spring weather. Nevertheless, there are signs that the tourists are beginning to return. The return of the tourists usually coincides with the return of interesting new fashions to upper Michigan avenue and of course my favorite Borders bookstore. Yesterday during my usual shopping of the […]

Went back to watch the race just in time for Martin Truex Jr. to wreck after a Tony Stewart induced spin. I guess the 5 second delay wasn’t turned on today because Fox broadcast Truex’s crew chief talking to him after the wreck and he referred to the car set up as “a piece of […]

Watching the Bristol race today I just saw a Toyota racing ad in which Daryl Waltrip says that his brother Michael will be driving a Toyota in the upcoming 2007 season. Other drivers mentioned were bleeped out in the ad. This isn’t really a big surprise since Michael Waltrip has formed a team that will […]

Soyokaze no Yukue is the opening song of a Japanese adult dating sim game called X-Change 2 (nsfw!). It’s a very catchy and upbeat tune whose lyrics I’ve been looking for for quite some time. I finally decided to accept the challenge of transliterating the song myself. My Japanese skill is minimal at best, but […]

Walking the streets of downtown Chicago, one sight that has become more and more common is that of little Asian girls with white families. In most cases, it was safe to assume that they were a part of the wave of Korean and Chinese adoptions by American families that have taken off over the last […]

Another Monday has rolled around, so what better thing to kick off the new week than a little piece about PSP porn…ugh not exactly. I was looking at the web logs over the weekend and noticed a bunch of searches for PSP porn. Of course, people searching for porn or pr0n on the internet is […]

I saw someone’s dream today. It was a ‘57 Chevy parked on the street. It was in terrible shape with faded paint, rust, and a shattered windshield. I wondered why anyone would keep it around? It wasn’t abandoned because I think I’ve seen it parked in other places from time to time. So I concluded […]

Just another morning full of thoughts as I approached work today, suddenly brightened up by the sight of an attractive black woman with nice legs and really high spikes. As I got closer, I also noticed that she was very short and began to wonder if shorter women tended to wear higher spiked heels. Since […]

Over on Slashdot today, a minor flame war has erupted over whose linux distribution is better in Will Novell’s Desktop Linux Catch On. The usual assertions that you need a company to provide full support behind a distribution, like Redhat or Novell, have been raised. And in particular, some felt that Ubuntu had no chance […]

Here are a couple of pieces from my favorite little prolific artists. Click the images to see more of their work.

Months ago, when Nintendo unveiled the controller for their upcoming Revolution video game console, I was all WTF! The thing looked like a remote control, which Nintendo hoped would lower the barrier to video games that many nongamers feel when confronted by the typical video game controller. But now I think I’ve seen in real […]

Sickdays always sneak up on me in the morning. I woke up from a strange dream that involved an unannounced tour of Whitney Houston’s and Bobby Brown’s house feeling totally out of it. Most of the time, I just need another half day of sleep to get over these things, but I really hate the […]

After a weekend’s dusting of cold wet March snow, according to the prevailing hemlines, spring is coming back to Chicago. The first sign was a short-skirted, high-healed woman who was nearly hit by traffic crossing Congress. She was a bit too into her coffee and not enough into the traffic signals. Well, at least it […]

GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that 2K Games has secured the rights to produce a video game based on the Family Guy TV series. The history of movie and TV licensed video games is not great, but I hope they at least have a good Lois mini-game! I like where this is goin’! Giggidy, giggidy, gig-gi-dy!