later nerdz; it’s about techgnarlogy

It must be easy to rebrand snack food.

This morning the bus smells like whiskey.

I’m not sure who on here is the culprit.

See?

I think Jim Beam is the best inexpensive whiskey. This is disappointing.

Found this on Alaska Airlines. You probably can’t make it out but the people tucking in this illustration have small Nike swooshes on their shoes.

I thought I was on to something. Sitting in a stall in the bathroom was a great idea for passing the time at the airport. It seems I was not alone.

A number of small, no-name banks went under last week causing small runs on banks all over the nation. I saw pictures of angry penny-savers mobbing police-guarded doorways. The only difference between depression bank runs and these are the number of bowler hats.

This appears to not be limited to small banks, however. Wachovia is apparently collapsing and a particularly distraught branch is being accused of passing counterfiet bills. Bank of America is also said to be hurting.

Lucky gen-Y’ers, new to money and with relatively small amounts to lose, are frothing at the bit for inexpensive real-estate and milking their earning potential. In my circle of friends we are still throwing large amounts into our 401k with the assumption that the economy will rebound and we will never recieve a pension.

I think that despite all the bad news, we are still generally upbeat. It is as if Americans, and particularly gen-X/Y, were expecting this like a hangover. The party was called “Fuck It: We’re Gonna Drive This Thing into the Ground”. Only the party goers who didn’t know what they were doing are surprised (and foreclosed on).

We continue going through the motions our parents and financially-savvy family members have recommended. No investing in gold. No diverting our retirement into CDs or cash in the floorboards. No panic.

Last night, driven by my bottomless apitite for escapism, I joined the Lord of the Rings Online 15 day trial. The game looks like ass on my computer. Everything is aliased and the textures and models look like something done at community college 3D school.

I’ve heard the gameplay is kind of like WoW, which if true means I won’t be playing LOTR:Online much longer than 15 days. Can the simple fact that the storyline is familiar to me keep me in the game? Does it really matter that my 250th quest is the MInes of Moria? I don’t think so.

Is the road to true digital immersion paved with incremental simulation?

this is interesting:

http://home.novint.com/products/novint_falcon.php

http://gear.ign.com/articles/833/833067p1.html

but still, nothing’s quite so direct:

NWS: http://www.ascensionsuspension.com/extreme/images/rotisserrie%20(1)_jpg.jpg

I got the Dungeon Masters guide book. Expect to see “Level 0 Dungeon Master seeks similarly new D&D players for epic after-hours office dragonslaying” on craigslist soon.

I’ve heard their new album and it’s terrible. Not even worth pirating.

More

The price is lowered but the increase in monthly fees equals more!

Sticking with Helio and waiting for a GPhone!

Also: Mobile.me is nothing new. BORING.

“don’t care”

Overheard: “aww you made me a CD?? That’s so novel and old school. That’s cute.”

No I cut you a record.

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Listen: Cicada - The Computer Takeover

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

There is a third theory which suggests that both of the first two theories were concocted by a wily editor of The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in order to increase the universal level of uncertainty and paranoia and so boost the sales of the Guide. This last theory is of course the most convincing as The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the only book in the whole of the known universe to have the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on the cover.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything