Month: April 2009

  • Product Review: Mountain Dew Throwback

    As you may have heard, Pepsi has release Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, versions of the drinks that make use of natural sugar instead of High Fructose Corn Syrup. You can most likely find ’em now at your local mega-mart (/Alton Brown’d), and I just picked up the Dew Throwback up in our cafeteria…

  • Star Wars/MacGyver

    cameron I should be working on deep, well-researched posts for the Sabres early offseason, but I’m just getting cracked up over and over by this:

  • Everything Old Is New Again

    Here’s a head-scratch inducing addition to your desktop PC setup – an old VHS tape modded to act as a USB flash drive, complete with LED light and spinning reels. I don’t have the skills for this, but if I pass this along to the right person (MacGyver-esque dude in front of me) I can…

  • Old Game Tuesday – Final Fantasy VI

    There was a time when I was perfectly happy just playing my original 8-bit NES. I had fun, time-consuming games like Final Fantasy and Uncharted Waters, and didn’t need any new console just for better graphics. Then I was informed Final Fantasy II was coming to that newfangled SNES. Someone brought their system and the…

  • Happy Birthday Mattie!

    It was one year ago today (about 40 minutes ago as I type this) that my daughter was born on MY birthday! What a great present she’s been. :) We had a party for her on Sunday, I’ll try and get pictures of her cake experience up. :) Happy birthday Mattie! the fighter psp

  • xkcd – Nerd Romance

    The comic is chock full of stuff like this, but to delve a bit deeper, read this. Basically a detailed mathmatical analysis of a date in which you attempt to see the sun set twice. I did NOT study hard enough to deal with that…

  • Very Important Question!

    [poll id=”13″] I’ve been thinking about this, as my son slowly but surely gets exposed to Star Wars thanks to kids at school (and the very fun Lego Star Wars game we have). While I’m probably not showing him these any time soon, this is the sort of thing a geeky dad think about. So…