FlasshePoint

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How Green is my Invisible Plane?

I love that there’s a holiday devoted to just drinking and acting stupid, but shouldn’t it always fall on a weekend? It should be a real, organized holiday where hordes of righteous, good, teetotalling samaritans are posted at drinking establishments everywhere in order to act as designated drivers for the rest of us fools. [...]

Elves who Drub their Dings

Please God no, not a musical based on Lord of the Rings…
“OooooklaMordor… where the orcs come sweeping down the plains”
What’s next, Star Wars: The Musical? Hey look, Chewbacca can sing and dance!
Latre.

The Return of Shouty McShoutshout

My favorite reality show, Project Greenlight, finally returns to television next week. It has moved from HBO to Bravo for the third season, and I hope it’s not diluted now that it’s not on pay cable. Bravo is showing a first season marathon this Sunday the 13th and then starts showing the new [...]

Adventures in PC Frustation Land

I’m back. Got the new PC working and everything I need (hopefully) transferred over from the old one. I actually ended up bringing the first one back to Best Buy – they said the DVD drive was definitely dead and gave me a whole new machine, which was nice. I’ve been very [...]

Things Won’t Play Nice Together

I spent the weekend not only rearranging my home office for the new PC (and completely destroying my printer stand in the process), but also trying to get everything to work on the new PC, and all the apps and data copied over. The new PC has problems. It can’t even see the [...]

Buy New York and Sell Chicago

My favorite CD of the year so far* is Mistakes We Knew We Were Making by Boston band The Information. It was recommended to me by mr. pathetic, who does indeed know what kinds of musical things I like. The tunes are bouncy and new-wavey, an uptempo combination of frantic vocals, guitars and [...]

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