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  • Music and Camping

    Hello. I am back. I went camping. Here are some observations: How do forest fires start when it’s so damn hard just to keep chunks of dry wood burning? Apparently, if you leave garbage out overnight while camping, animals actually will find your campsite and rip it open. It’s not a myth. Real snakes are…

  • Horror of Horrors

    Here are some things which I have seen, read, and played lately, and the eerie connections between them: White Zombie (1932): This film is believed by many to be the first to ever deal with zombies. I find it a bit difficult to watch movies this old. Today, the acting seems cheesey, the plot slow-moving,…

  • Microsoft Zune Will Play Xbox Live Arcade Games

    Although it’s been known for a while, Microsoft recently admitted that they are working on a portable media device. In the hyperbolic words of geeks, it’s an “iPod killer”. It’s called the Zune, and looks to have some nice features. Most exciting for me is WiFi – that is, you can transfer songs to it…