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First of all, I feel the need to address my audience. Judging by the fact that I have over 1100 views and 0 comments on my last blog, I'm going to have to conclude that my audience consists of 1095 internet bots and probably 5 people who know me in real life and are spying on me. To the people who know me in real life, you're creeping me out by silently watching me! To my internet bot fans, I have no idea what you're reading my blog for, I have yet to mention anything about "Nike" or "Cheap Perfume". ...

Paper Towel Dispensers

It used to be that when you'd go into a public bathroom, you could do your business, wash your hands, and use as many paper towels as you needed to dry your hands off afterward. In the past few years though, I've noticed more and more of those electronic paper towel dispensers creeping into public bathrooms. These are the little devices that require you to wave your hand in front of it before it will dispense a paper towel. Now you know, the first time I saw ...

Parking Spaces

Many a passenger in my car has taken issue with the way I find parking spaces. The issue here is not so much in how I park, but rather that I don't have any problem with walking ¼ of a mile from my car to a shopping center. They would rather have me drive around the busy parking lot for 5-10 minutes searching for "the closest spot to the store" and therefore "the least amount of distance to walk to get to the store". What is with that?

I like to think ...

Now, I know what you might be thinking: KOTOR 1 was brilliant and KOTOR 2 was a totally confused clusterf*** with very little (if any) coherence to the storyline (wait a minute--there was a storyline?). And I'd have to agree with you 100%. However, all is not lost in Mudville as a dedicated group of gamers has put together a project to restore content that existed in the game's files but didn't didn't make it into the game proper (I blame Obsidian, they were in a hurry to cash in on the reflected ...

One of the things I've been reading on the Internet recently, not just in forums, but in blog & YouTube comments that is just irritating the fire out of me is this: "We can no longer trust GOG.com with our money because of this."

Seriously, people. You are tech-savvy geeks, and you cannot back up your DRM-free GOG.com executables, to a CD, a DVD, or otherwise, to save your life?!?! The hypocrisy contained therein is absolutely irritating to me, because not only do you HAVE executables ...