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Entries from April 2006

Halo: A** Hole Video

April 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Dennis Leary’s A**hole and some Halo clips spliced together for a music video.
Don’t watch it if you are offended by profane language, gratuitus alien and subordinate death.

Halo 3: A**hole edition

While your looking check out the Bungie Weekly update for some cool Halo Schwag.
[tasg]Halo, Dennis Leary, youtube, halo video, profanity[/tags]

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Tags: Games · Misc. · Tech

Sesame St and V for Vendetta Mashup

April 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Over on Youtube feistyheath posted a mashup of Sesame street featuring Elmo, Bert, Ernie, Oscar, other characters making appearances as characters form V for Vendetta based in the future where cookies are contraband and only the government has control over them.
Check out the C is For Cookie video

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Tags: Misc. · Movies

Ft. Wayne Komets Robot

April 26th, 2006 · No Comments

A few weeks ago at a Ft. Wayne Komets game their mascot brought out his robot to cause trouble and entertain.

Watch out the Robots are taking over.
A few more on Flickr

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Tags: Misc.

Interview with BloggingOhio.com

April 25th, 2006 · No Comments

I was e-interviewed by Bloggingohio today, BloggingOhio.com is a Weblogs inc blog covering topics in ohio ranging from news in Ohio and Concerts/Local events to politics and food. The bloggers live in various parts of the buckeye state.
Snip from the interview.

1) You and your town: a marriage of love, convenience, or necessity?
Living in Findlay [...]

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Tags: Misc.

Amazon to offer DVD on Demand service

April 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Amazon.com will begin to offer DVDs of TV shows as soon as 24 hours after the show has aired.

NBC Universal will offer titles ranging from the “Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show” to a compilation of “Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” segments from the “Today” show, according to Kim Niemi, senior vp video, music [...]

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Tags: Misc.

Featured in Electronic Gaming Monthly

April 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment

The Halo 2 Profanity Study that I completed in January of 2006 was published in the May issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly on Page 24.
Check out a scan:

More on the Halo 2 Profanity Study
If you need anyone to rant about violence in videogames being the scapegoat for violence in society contact me smithj AT gmail.com

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Tags: Games · Misc. · Tech

An Accessory worth Buying

April 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Datel has released an accessory which I would defintily reccomend if you have an Xbox 360, or are thinking of purchasing one. The item is a headset adapter which allows you to plug in any headset and keep the mute and volume control buttons.
The item should be available at most retailers shortly after you [...]

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Tags: Games · Tech

Coffeepot Explosion Part Duex

April 20th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Back on March 28th my coffeepot made by Krups exploded with my hand inside it. I suffered a laceration which required 6 stitches. The coffeepot was actually a carafe so an outer metal part forced an inner glass part to cut my in several spots. After a 2 week hiatus from video [...]

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Tags: Misc.

Beefs with Madden 06 Xbox 360

April 19th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Problems with Madden 06
- No Challenge call
- Unable to view the replay on certain calls (ie the ones you would want to challenge)
- Overly strict penalty calling
- What happened to being able to move between players backwards and forwards I feel like I have been transported back to Madden 1996. When there weren’t enough buttons [...]

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Tags: Games · Reviews

Healthacker.com: Geek Health Tips and more

April 18th, 2006 · No Comments

If you are reading my site you probably fit somewhere into the segment of society called Geek.  I use this term with pride and the knowledge I can do what many cannot, fix technology, know technology, and use google to find out everything my co workers ask me about.
Healthhacker posts about many different health related [...]

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Tags: Misc.