Archive for July, 2006

Review: Psycho Beach Party

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I love campy movies.
There… I said it. Now that’s out on the table and I can relax and tell you about this movie I watched last night. “Psycho Beach Party” would make an excellent choice for you to watch at your next “Inappropriate Movie Night” or other movie-watching gathering.
This film has it’s tongue firmly planted [...]

Review: Galaga [XBOX 360]

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I was a little slow in downloading the new XBOX Live Arcade game this week. Galaga was released Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 to much fanfare. I waited anxiously while the 15 meg game was delivered through the interweb to my 360. I was thinking back to the good times I had playing this game in [...]

Glitter Girl and the Crazy Cheese

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In my never ending quest to find unique and interesting cheese-related products, I found this wonderful kids book. I have yet to read it, but the title alone was enough for my fiance to swoon and demand that we own it.
Glitter Girl and the Crazy Cheese

It’s always the quiet ones…

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Once again, I read another story about rampant deaths. Who is the culprit behidn these heinous deaths? The headline says it all:
Sun kills 60,000… [Reuters.com]
I say it’s well beyond the time to ban the blasted Sun…

Carbonite

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As I was doing my morning reading, I stumbled across this article on CNN.com. Here’s a link for your review:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/26/backitup.ap/index.html
To summarize, it discusses a clever business outfit called Carbonite, an online backup and recovery system. For as little as $5/month, you can have this utility installed on your machine that automatically encrypts and backs up [...]

Other ice cream thoughts…

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You know, the whole Pepto-Bismal ice cream article got me thinking… what other delightfully odd ice cream concoctions would work?
The best idea that I have come up with, and am anxiously waiting to try, is a Chili-Pepper and Chocolate Ice Cream. I’ve neer seen such a blend, but I have to imagine this would be [...]

PB Ice Cream

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This is just too good to not pass along…
http://www.blogjam.com/2006/07/20/pepto-bismol-ice-cream
Seriously… Pepto-Bismal and ICE CREAM?!?! I guess there have been weirder things in life…

I should know better…

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Here’s a helpful tip to help you avoid wasting an afternoon’s worth of work: ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATABASE.
This is especially true in cases where you are learning the database administration tool for the first time and creating your first database with the potential of going into production.
Grrr…

Review: Cloning’ Clyde

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Here it is, another Thursday. the day after a Wednesday release of a new XBOX Live Arcade game. This week’s edition is: Cloning Clyde. I’ve only played the demo version of the game, but it is more than enough for me to purchase the full version, which costs 800 Points.
So, here’s the gist as I [...]

Need a penny? Sorry, I’m fresh out…

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It looks like legislation has entered Congress to do away with the beloved penny. It seems someone tried to do this in the past, 2001 to be exact, and failed. Here are a couple of links:
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=136546http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/18/news/penny/index.htm?cnn=yes
Ok, so Rep Jim Kolbe of Arizona has introduced this bill that will effectively kill the penny. Now, I don’t [...]