halo: reach controller packaging is suhweet

Click to super duper uber size.There is only one word needed to describe the packing of the Halo: Reach Limited Edition controller: Suhweet.

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new threadless threads

Purchased new Threadless tees thanks to a birthday gift card from Jamezila. Behold: Rain Bow, Southbound Pachyderm and The Morning After!

summer box office guesstimates

Summer movie season 2010 is here, which means it's time to make a random wager with Demolition Elmo and attempt to win said wager by guessing the domestic opening weekend box office numbers for eight summer flicks. The person who comes up with the closest cumulative domestic box office total to the actual total wins eternal admiration and cookies.

Listed below are the eight movies, along with their release date and my best guess at their opening week domestic box office. Feel free to play along :D

MacGruber - 5/21: $18 million
- Actual: $4.0 million - Difference: $14 million
Sex and the City 2 - 5/27: $42 million
- Actual: $31.0 million - Difference: $11 million
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - 5/28: $59 million
- Actual: $30.1 million - Difference: $28.9 million
The A-Team - 6/11: $27 million
- Actual: $25.7 million - Difference: $1.3 million
Toy Story 3 - 6/18: $115 million
- Actual: $110.3 million - Difference: $4.7 million
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - 6/30: $92 million
Salt - 7/23: $15 million
Charlie St. Cloud - 7/30: $12 million
TOTAL: $380,000,000

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xbox 360 qwerty keyboard activate!

Do you use the Xbox 360's onscreen keyboard but dislike its default alphabetical layout? Well, there's an easy (but semi-hidden) solution that'll take your ABCs and convert 'em to QWERTY keyboard awesomeness!

To change the Xbox 360's onscreen keyboard layout to QWERTY style, simply:

1. Navigate to: System Settings > Console Settings > Language and Locale > Language
2. Select: English (QWERTY Keyboard)
3. Bam! Insta-QWERTY!

yes, it's a shiny black laptop

Never did I think that I'd be penning a blog about purchasing a new laptop less than two years since my last "new laptop blog", but here we are. Yay me!

This past week, I had the displeasure of having my 2008 purchased (and now out of warranty) laptop's motherboard decide it wanted to end its life. So, it did just that and I was left to deal with the aftermath. Luckily, I got a lift over to the local Best Buy and found myself a new toy for the low, low price of a few hundred bones. Specs wise, it has an AMD Turion X2 RM-75 processor under the hood along with a 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB HDD and a 15.6" LED lit display. Geeky fun!

My only hope is that I will not have to post a similar "new laptop" blog come 2012. Fingers crossed and rabbit's foot rubbed.

fake locke

Just don't make him mad.

grammy predictions!

I made a wager with one @RichardElliott to see who could best predict the 2010 Grammy winners. The loser must update their Xbox Live profile with the text "I have poor taste in music." and their Xbox Avatar is restricted from wearing any music related items up until the start of the Halo: Reach beta. Below are my Grammy winner picks and over here are Richard's. Let's win this for the Dunner!

(Wrong and Right)

Record of the Year: "Poker Face" Lady Gaga

Album of the Year: "The Fame" Lady Gaga

Song of the Year: "Single Ladies" Beyonce

Best New Artist: Silversun Pickups

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my xbox died (again) and i lived to share my story

Just tonight, my fifth Xbox 360 red ringed and died. More precisely, it diagnosed itself with a fatal case of E74 "general hardware failure". Now, while one's natural reaction to such a catastrophe would be to scream obscenities, be furious with the world and put all the blame on the last game that was being played (in this case, it was the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo), I instead manned up and had a good cry. After my brief sob, I did what any Xbox addict would do when their Xbox dies; I wiped my tears, hopped on a bus, braved the frigid weather and picked up a replacement Xbox 360 Arcade from Target. I figured it'll last me for the time being while I figure out my warranty situation. Yup, that's my story. Curse this evil world.

Oh, and look at the pic above that illustrates how adorably tiny little small'ish the new Xbox AC adapters are. You almost want to pinch its little plastic cheeks. *pinch* *pinch!*