Today I went into work dressed as “the Internet” in the form of a series of tubes. The homemade costume was made of 12 cardboard mailing tubes I bought off eBay, web page printouts from 12 of the most popular sites that printed well, and a phony ID badge bearing the name and photo [...]
This bizarre graphic pretty much sums up my reaction to tonight’s Steelers-Jaguars game on Monday Night Football. The Steelers lost 9-0 on a national ESPN telecast. (Final box score)
I do own a television. During the week I usually watch about an hour’s worth of TV a day, give or take. Beside the TV is a small storage unit with about 50 DVD boxes, many of which contain season box sets of TV shows I really like. Beneath the TV is [...]
Tetris DS High Score
Originally uploaded by genericman.
The first game system I ever owned was an original Game Boy. Its pea-soup-colored screen and stereo sound from the (included!) headphones captivated me all through the winter of 1990 for years to come, until I left it [...]
I’ve been playing with Ask.com Maps (use Firefox or Internet Explorer; Safari isn’t supported) for a few weeks now and I’ve been pretty impressed. It supports several features that Google Maps doesn’t (multiple waypoints, walking directions, right-click support to add a waypoint right on the map) and it has no ads. Inspired, I [...]
Earlier this year I finally gave in and signed up with Flickr, the popular photo-sharing site now owned by Yahoo!. (I’m genericman on Flickr if you want to add me as a contact.) Thanks to the immensely-cool plugin FAlbum and some simple PHP/CSS hacking, I now have a dynamic new photos system that [...]
I’ve been 25 for a little more than a week now. We celebrated with what has become a tradition among my friends: an outing to Green Forest, a Brazilian-style churrascaria where generous portions of meat are served rodizio-style at the table. It was also Kristin’s birthday so we had a decent crowd in [...]
Visit this news story between 9:30 AM and 4:00 PM EST during a weekday. I really don’t care about the content of the story — I’m just amazed that those stock prices tick in “real-time” (15-20 minutes delayed, but they still update as time goes on). That’s really cool. I wish more [...]
I am happy tonight. My PowerBook now eeps with displeasure. I found a link to the Mac OS Classic Sound Pack which includes all the classic sound effects that, for whatever reason, never got incorporated into Mac OS X.
Eep?