Randmness

Portal, a apart of the Orange Box edition of Half Life 2, is a pretty fun game. It’s not a 1st person shooter; it’s a puzzle game. The basic story is that your character is in secret testing facility and is being forced to figure out how to get through a set of rooms using a ‘Portal Gun.’ The gun is able to shoot large holes in walls and floors that are big enough to walk through, making it easy to get from one side of a room to the other by just shooting a hole in a wall next to you and shooting a wall at the other end of the room. Below is a screen shot of what I’m talking about.

Cloverfield is out today but more importantly just before the movie starts there is a new trailer for Star Trek XI.

After I got U-Verse installed the day after Christmas my fiance and I started to notice that shows would freeze for up to 10 minutes, that the picture would become distorted and blocky with pixels, and that the HD stations would have a hard time keeping up with the picture (we’d get colors from past frames in the new frame making things look like an acid trip).When the install tech left he gave me his card and told me to call him if I had any problems so I gave him a ring. After answering the basic questions he asked me to go to the U-Verse router’s information page. After reading out some of the numbers that were on the screen it was decided that the phone line going into my apartment was bad. Here’s a screen shot of that screen.

A week or two ago a friend of mine graduated from a recording school and told me that he was going to be interning at a studio and asked if I had any words of advise or any pointers that I could give him.

I love Dr Pepper. I don’t know why – I just do.  I think it’s a combination of the way it’s bubbles tickle my nose when I have that first sip out of a can and the fact that it tastes good with just about anything.

Ah CES, the Las Vegas convention where techies, audiophiles, videophiles, gamers, and computer nerds like myself drool over the new toys that will be coming out over the next year. Today I was playing around on the internet and came across a company called OWLink that has a device that is on display at the show.

This past weekend I had lunch at Philippe’s in Los Angeles. You may not have heard of the place before but you may have heard of the sandwich they invented – the French Dip.