Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 22, 2008 6:00pm PSTChristmas week! I already scored a ton of cookies and cupcakes so I am pretty happy.
Mom made a ton of stuff this year because she is cool.
- Whatup with
href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/18/technology/yang_wimax.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008121815">WiMax
? - Whatup with
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/SmartHome/story?id=6491554&page=1">internet
radio
? - iPhone prayers
- Growing fingers is
hot
- Innovation
href="http://news.cnet.com/Year-in-review-On-Web%252C-innovation-meets-hard-times/2009-7345_3-6248471.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1">still
needs money
- Your cat hates you, dont
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/18/tech/main4675245.shtml">be fooled
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Batman: Arkham Asylum screenshots
- F.E.A.R. 2 screenshots
- Crackdown 2 kinda possible, maybe
- Assault on Dark Athena screenshots
- Factor 5 is done
- GTA4 PC already off the PC sales
charts
- EA on Steam now international
- Guitar Hero: Metallica trailer now
available
- Tabula Rasa now free to play
- Xbox 360 scores a $5 fireplace app
- Battlestations: Pacific trailer
- Braid PC coming next year
- MS shows off XBLA stats
- Nintendo DS causing house fires?
- Halo half price on XBL
Lastly, so glad to be home. I was in New York briefly last week for a day trip that
went along with a snow storm. Extended my stay by a few hours there but I managed to
barely squeeze on the last flight of the night Friday. Considering all the Saturday
flights were also booked, it was not looking good there.
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=56487
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Recommend me a power supply to go with. Was thinking the Antec Signature 850W?
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Something about TNG just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. I think it was because I used to watch the syndicated reruns every school night with my father, and it was such a safe and easy time in my life.
I can't think of any of my current activities that I will look back in 15 years and really feel this nostalgic for.
What other shows or games have you guys felt super nostalgic for lately? You guys think you'll look back on the 360, etc with such fond memories?
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{raises hand}
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lets have a shack airing of grievances.
http://www.msgr.ca/msgr-2/festivus%2002.htm
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Here's my entry: http://www.topsocialite.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/marisa-tomei.jpg
She's cute! Mousey cute!
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Things like this just add complication to an otherwise simple life.
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Left 4K Dead. Neat little game.
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FPSDavid? Or did the shack just throw up a group post to finally get us chicks?
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My family went up to IA for Christmas yesterday. I had some work to do yesterday, so I was going to go up today.
Unfortunately, http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=N0R&rid=EAX&loop=yes plus 5-7 inches in IA means that I'll be staying home today and traveling, slowly, tomorrow.
The bad part is that I'm sitting here by myself watching infomercials/commercials on the Weather Channel, and I can feel my will softening. I'm kinda digging the Egg Genie, because man, Eggs Bennie sounds really good right now.
I have a 20 page PDF document where the text was scanned in as an image.
What's best way to convert this to text?
Is there an OCR software that can convert that image to text?
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Definitely worth a purchase even though I used gamefly for the game.
There were a few moments when I got frustrated with some of the jumps and puzzles because of control issues, but I have to say that the series has come a damn long way in the control area. 99 percent of the game was fluid and made jumping and acrobatics seem easy when you were doing it right. The boss battles were tiered just right, so by the time you got to the last fight, you were ready.
I was definitely impressed with the balance and fluidity of the entire game.
Lets not forget that the game looks amazing. What an awesome art design and execution.
The shack needs to get off the hate train for this wonderfully made and tons of fun game.
ConanDan gives it two swords up.
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Please keep me company on my iPhone over Christmas shack :/
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failing so badly was never this funny (or easy)
http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
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