Archive for October, 2006

Hendricks Bad Karma Comes Due

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

I just read that Brian Vickers had been locked out of Hendricks team meetings since announcing his move to Toyota at the end of the season. Way to go Hendricks, stirring up all of that bad karma! I don’t know all of the internal details obviously, but I’d hardly call that a classy way to […]

Thank You Brian Vickers!

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

After 107 starts, Brian Vickers finally got his first Nextel Cup victory at Talledega today. This victory came at the cost of wrecking teammate Jimmy Johnson and race leader, and fan favorite, Dale Earnhardt Jr.. Needless to say, Brian isn’t going to be very popular with a lot of people, loud boos were plainly heard […]

Cooking Mama: Iron Chef DS?

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Well it’s not exactly Iron Chef on the DS yet, but it is definitely one more reason for me to get a DS of my own (my daughter bought one for herself recently) and another reason that I think Nintendo may just clean up with the Wii versus the PS3 and Xbox 360. Cooking Mama […]

Windows Vista: The Man Gets Tough

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

I was reading up on the new anti-piracy measures in Windows Vista on Information Week this morning and was reminded of that Star Trek episode in which Q first introduces Picard and crew to the Borg. There’s this scene after the Borg’s first curt surrender demand in which Q says something like, whew, they’re tough, […]

Cosplay Is Addictive

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

There are just a few more weeks until this year’s Reactor and my first foray into cosplay, and now I find myself with not just one cosplay project nearly complete, but two! Once I started making things, the JoAnn’s fabric store I get supplies at took its place alongside the Microcenter and Home Depot as […]