The article: Actor Cuts Throat on Stage in Knife Mix-Up. I immediately thought of the Curtains Down level in Hitman: Blood Money, where you can take care of one of your targets by swapping out a prop pistol for a real one. (The target is normally shot in the head with a prop pistol, as …
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Asymptotic Career
Looks like Cuttino Mobley is hanging up his jersey for good, due to a previously-undiagnosed heart condition. Now I feel a bit mean for cracking wise about his “asymptotic” condition.
CD Death Watch: Record Store Edition
I’ve made a few posts in the past about the ongoing death of CDs, and, after some haphazard Googling following a bout of watching ‘90s music videos, dug up some news that hits close to home. A music store where I spent a lot of time in college, CD World, recently closed both of its …
Optimization Tradeoffs
This recent post by Raymond Chen highlights some interesting memory optimization scenarios, and the wide-ranging impact of size optimizations. A quick summary: Changing a structure definition such that a bunch of Win32 BOOLs use one bit each saves memory in the struct, because BOOL is typedef’d as an INT. Accessing the bitfield data members requires …
Cuttino Mobley’s Heart Rate Goes to Zero As Mike Dunleavy Approaches Infinity
Here’s a link to the original story. The source said Mobley would see a heart specialist on Tuesday. Normally players have 48 hours to report to their new teams and take a physical examination, followed by another 24 hours for all the test results to come in. Because this trade was completed after business hours …
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“Games” Versus “Experiences”
My wife completed The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess the other day, after starting it several months ago, and playing in sporadic but lengthy bursts (the kind that you tend to indulge in only on the weekends, and which usually leave you feeling guilty about “wasting timeâ€). I was a spectator for a small, but …
Election
Earlier this week, I packed my bags and drove out to Las Vegas, Nevada, to volunteer on the ground for the Obama campaign on Election Day. This was part of their “Drive for Change†campaign, which encouraged people from California (and other states) to volunteer in battleground states. I decided that, given the historic nature …
Vile (Yet Funny)
On the way home today, I saw a sign spinner at the corner of MacArthur and Fairview in Costa Mesa. Here is the sign: “Vote for McCain. Obama is a socialist and a friend of terrorists ! (William Ayers)†The “socialist†label is just ridiculous – I also like the grammatically bizarre parenthetical note on …
The EEE PC
I recently picked up an ASUS Eee PC 900HA, after having seen and used one of the earlier EEEs when I visited my sister in September. I was pretty taken with the idea of having an inexpensive, lightweight PC. I’m actually writing this entry on it — touch typing on its smaller keyboard requires a …
The Backlog: Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
I did some air travel a few weeks ago, and had a chance to play and finish Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime. It’s a fairly easy action RPG with some interesting features, and a very good localization, which makes the charming humor in the game seem, well, charming, as opposed to bizarre. Gameplay is split …
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