Oct 1 2006

dogs are 99% and 88% accurate at smelling and detecting lung and breast cancer, respetively, in human patients.

Sep 29 2006

So we rocked up to the airport and filed into the plane like good sheep, only to find that our window seat was a dirty lie of the worst sort. What kind of bastard fills in a window??

Games

Sep 1 2006

Back when the Nintendo 64 was new and the Jag was still clinging to life, I was at CES. This would have been January 1995. Atari was flush with cash from a settlement with Sega, I believe over Atari’s game controller patents. I asked the guy at Atari how the money from Sega was affecting […]

Sep 1 2006

Many of you might not know I’ve been writing a book. I don’t talk about it much ’cause of the problems I’ve been having getting it done, and working with the publisher, but it’s starting to look like it’ll actually get printed, so here’s an update. It’s nearly finished. I’ve completed the main body of […]

Aug 25 2006

I’ve been abused in the past for hating on Australia. I’d like to take this moment to write some positive words about this country. Specifically, I’d like to talk about Australia’s super-happy protective gun laws. Let’s start with the backstory. Nolan sent me an airsoft gun from Korea. Customs in Australia seized it and sent […]

Games

Aug 1 2006

This is a screenshot from Art of Fighting 2, a decent little brawler from SNK for their now-venerable Neo Geo system. The screenshot has been enhanced to isolate the characters, but has not been otherwise modified. The two characters are brother and sister, the story goes. In this screenshot I can’t help but project some […]

Games

Jul 25 2006

UK magazine Advanced Photoshop has reviewed the NFG book and has apparently been bribed into giving it a 5/5 rating, saying “…there’s inspiration galore here for you and although it may be out of your usual book budget, it’s well worth a splurge.” What were they thinking? I’m gonna go out on a limb and […]

Jul 8 2006

So not long ago I had to call 3, my cellular provider. While we waited for answers I chatted up the girl who answered the phone. The company that pays them chooses their name. Though she said her name was “Julia” she confessed that it wasn’t her real name, and said it was assigned to […]

Games

Jul 1 2006

You may remember an older writeup I did on the elusive, nearly mythical Samsung Saturn. I recently received a pair of additional units, and after having had a look at them there are definitely new things to learn. The two biggest things of interest are:1. Not all of them have the Japanese-language option disabled from […]