Upping the Redneck Ante

Considering the neighborhood I live in, I MUST have this...



"Many people have bought one for both sides of the bed." What a great idea! I'm going to get one for each couch too.

Chocolatey pagan death!

I'm not a huge doughnut fan, but I have to say I'll try Voodoo Doughnut next time I'm in Portland.

Number one on my list to try is the Voodoo Doll doughnut, a raspberry blood filled man with a stake through the heart.

Of course the Memphis Mafia (a glazed banana fritter with peanut butter, chocolate sauce and chocolate chips) sounds pretty damned good too..

Time travelling pie thief

One of my most anticipated games from E3 is The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, an indie game scheduled to come out this year (I hope). You control time (ala Blinx) in order to steal pies. Sounds fresh and puzzleriffic!



Hell, I don't even know what platform it's going to be on, but I want it. Hopefully it will be a PC or Wii game, but if not this may even be a console seller for me.

Rocket Sox

I have no words for this, except maybe "I want!":



One more word: DUDE...

Update - embedded video should be fixed, if not link is above.

Sporeiffic

Spore is slated to come out sometime this year (hopefully). Maxis has already released a creature creator, allowing future players to create new lifeforms.

The cool part of this is that the creatures created between now and when the game is released will be included in the actual game. Apparently, these new creatures will populate your first world. As you play, some creatures will inevitably become extinct. When this happens, the creator is emailed saying that their critter is no longer!

Both sad and cool at the same time! I so can't wait for this frakking game...

E3 wrapup

E3 ended on Friday and this is lining up to be a pretty great season for video games.

Mirrors Edge is a unique game based on free running. When I first heard about this game I thought, "Great, what's next? A game about wogging? After seeing the game played, and reading more about it, I'm pretty excited about it. It's technically a first person game, but the emphasis is on athletics and evasion, not shooting. You can pick up weapons, but you'll be penalized with slower movement, the game encourages you to drop the guns.

Project Origin is a sequel to F.E.A.R. and looks pretty cool, if not very revolutionary. Although you do get to drive a mech!.

Of course there are two big titles that I can't wait for, Spore and Starcraft II. These look even better after seeing some more of the games. Now if they can both find a release date sometime this year.

Rise of the Argonauts also holds some promise for me. I've always been a closet fan of the Jason & the Argonuats movies (Sinbad too), so the storyline is right up my alley. Rise is about the Jason's mythical adventures. Gameplay seems to be similar to the God of War series.

I hate to say this, but I'm actually excited about the Star Wars: Clone Wars - Lightsaber Duels on the Wii. Please, PLEASE, PLEASE don't suck. The Wii was made for a lightsaber game, but that by itself won't make a good game.

Speaking of Star Wars games, I would be remiss if I didn't mention Force Unleashed. This game looks incredible and is also available on the Wii. Again, I hope I'm not going to be disappointed by LucasArts yet again.

Basically, tte rest of this year is looking to be a lonely one for my wife...

Tap

This tops the LED faucets:



Apparently you adjust the temperature by moving your hand side to side. Tres cool. I expect to see one in Jackal's house soon...

Bloxy with Moxy

A few weeks ago I picked up a Wii game called Boom Blox. It's a quirky little game that was created by EA and, of all people, Steven Spielberg.

In theory, its a simple puzzle game. These simple puzzles though, quickly become surprisingly challenging (at least to get the gold star on). Because of this hidden challenge, the game is also surprisingly addictive. There are a few different types of puzzles. Levels involve shooting, Jenga-like puzzles, and ball throwing. The shooting levels are a tad boring, and aren't exactly flawless in funtion -especially with multiplayer. The Jenga levels are exactly that - Jenga. While these are a lot of fun, the throwing levels are the most fun. Basically there is a stack of blox that you must knock down with as few throws as possible. Some involve exploding blox, some vanishing blox, and others have "chemical" blox that only explode when in contact with each other. All of which add an interesting twist to an already eccentric game.

While single player is fun, the game doesn't really shine until you're playing it with others. Multiplayer levels offer both co-op and vs modes, and both are a blast. When playing with my friends, the favorite seems to be the castle mode. Each player has a castle that the others are trying to demolish with thrown baseballs. Think Warlords for the Wii.

This isn't to say that multiplayer coop mode isn't just as fun. Here the mode du jour seems to be the Jenga mode. The night we all tried it out, the sound of "ooo's", "aah's" and spirited screaming for the stack to stay upright could be heard around the block.

The game is easy to pick up and start playing and the Wiimote lends itself well to both the throwing balls and pulling blox (just don't try to pull towards yourself). Shooting is another story, single player works well but there seemed to be a lot of lag with multiplayer. It's possible, though that this is due to the setup at my house and not the game.

Bottom line, I can't recommend this game enough. It's good for everyone, from hardcore gamer to grandmas. While Wii Fit get's more of my time right now, Boom Blox is easily my favorite Wii game at the moment.

shhhhhHHHH!

No longer do movie goers need to worry about people and their damned cell phones.

No longer will we have to rely that the nice "Please silence you cell phones now" messages actually get people to turn the damn phones off!!

Introducing the cellphone signal blocker. It's a portable unit that has about a 6 hour battery life, plenty even for most of that Lord of the Rings marathons!

The only problem is that it doesn't seem to work too well in the US, but we can hope - it may still be worth the $43.

Oh, one other thing - this may have a tinge of illegality to it as well - but is that really an issue when Gabby McTalksalot is sitting behind me in the theater? I think not.

Now if they'll only invent the "Cone of Silence" for those that just talk to each other...

Syndication on the road

Direct TV has announced this very cool TV.

It's fully satellite capable and completely portable. Finally I can watch my Fresh Prince of Bel Aire while I'm camping.

No word on battery power or actual reception capabilities. Or for that matter ease of setup - I can tell you setting up regular satellite TV is a pain in the rear.

Interesting side note: apparently the inventor of this technology also created CHiPs! Now that's a man that's changed the world!

Now I just need a portable couch...

Great Scott!

A Houston company has bought delorean motors and plans to make about 200 a year.


They're gonna run around $42K which isn't bad if you consider that it's one of the coolest cars of all time. Of course $42K is a lot to pay for an less than average performing car.


Now I just have to find me some flux capacitor and Mr. Fusion schematics online...

...and he's....SAFE!

So I finished HP: Deathly Hallows last night.

Now I can stop avoiding everything online (which is way harder than I thought). Now I can actually get something done.

WOOT.

I really liked it (No spoilers here), and while I know this is the last Harry book, I hope that J.K. Rowling thinks about other books in the world she's created. Because frankly, I'm glad this is the last book about Harry. From book one, Harry has always gotten on my nerves, but I love the wizarding world the author has developed.

Oh, and literary/internet gods, I'll get started on those promises tomorrow...

Prayer to the literary/internet gods

To the powers that be:

Last night I started Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. PUH-leez let me get through it without anything being ruined for me. If you allow me to read this book unspoiled I promise I'll read a super dull book (I'm talking Grapes of Wrath boring) and won't look at porn for a week.

I know I'm asking a lot, this is going to be impossible, probably not as impossible as some people I know (one that works in a book store and one in radio), but difficult nonetheless.

Which is why I'm willing to sacrifice so much time being bored and pornless (a great website BTW, boredandpornless.com - but I digress).

Anyway, please, please, PLEASE help me out here.

Sincerely,
Me.

Oh, I'd also like a pony and a plastic rocket...

Snooze this!

I need this, simply because the snooze button is my nemesis.

It's an alarm clock that not only beeps and chirps annoyingly, it jumps off the nightstand and rolls around your bedroom, making random turns.

So in order to snooze more, you have to chase the little bugger down, which could be under the bed, down the hall or down the stairs.

I bet my dog would LOVE it...