Monthly Archives: September 2006

second lifeless

Update: By the way, I’m Les Ofarrel in Second Life. Drop me a note sometime. :) A few times during my couchbound past couple of weeks, I’ve jumped into Second Life. The place both overwhelms and underwhelms me. I’m overwhelmed because it’s so wide open, and I have no idea where to [...]

i’m in the nintendo ds homebrew club now

Passscard is the perfect flash card boot-up solution for DS LITE & NDS . It is compatible with most types of flash cards including M3, Neo, SC & G6 etc. Source: Divineo.com – Product Information I’ve just received a Passcard 3 in the mail. Nintendo DS homebrew, here I come! I’m particularly excited about NitroTracker [...]

Just call me “Crash”

So, in a few hours, it’ll have been a week since I rendered myself couchbound for the foreseeable near future. I hopped off a bus on the way home last Monday and through a bungled confluence of toes, curb, heel, and street, I managed to rupture my left Achilles tendon. That’s pretty much [...]

mc chris ftw!

I’ve just picked up MC Chris’ new album Dungeon Master of Ceremonies, and I can’t stop playing it on repeat. It’s nerdcore perfection.

Futility in alternate pasts and futures in human augmentation

While it’s great to draw inspiration and ideas from the past, recreating the past in the hope that it becomes the future seems like a futile idea. Does anyone really want to return to a command-line interface to manipulate documents? It’s designing for a past that never happened, one where we all became computer scientists [...]

world of warcraft is my world of warcraft

Remember when I wrote that hacking is my World of Warcraft? Well, lately, World of Warcraft has been my World of Warcraft. Yes, that’s right: I’m on that slippery slope now. My best friend and Best Man back in Michigan handed me a copy of the game as a going-away present, [...]