Are you ready for the Zombie Apocalypse?

I’m not, but I’m getting there. I’ve been slowly stocking up on canned and dry food for a few months. Nothing crazy, just a can of soup here and a package of dried fruit there. At this point I think I have enough food to last for about a month. Water is crucial too, and my kitchen looks a scene from Signs where water is left out all over the place.

I’ve got tear-proof screens on my windows which won’t stop a bullet or tree branch, but should hold up to zombie hands pretty well. I also purchased a bunch of plywood that I have stored in my garage for a quick solution to reinforce the windows. The attic is also fairly stocked and I’ve left some food, ammo, and a hatchet up there. I need some road flares, new sleeping bags, and a propane camping stove. Maybe some toilet paper too. Been looking at buying a fold up aluminum ladder to move from one roof to another, but maybe I should get some fence poles like in Tremors. The ladder would let me move around in my neighborhood for days without hitting the pavement.

Got plenty of weapons, but I really need a combat shotty for close encounters. Right now all I have is a Benelli over/under, two Smith & Wesson Sigmas (9mm), a long range 30-30 with a scope, and two Bowie knives. The Benelli would do the trick, but only having two shots before reloading is going to be a problem. Half my ammo is in the bedroom and the rest is piled up in the attic. In the next few weeks I’m tying to stock up on batteries and MagLite bulbs, as well as some extra mags for my guns, but I feel like I’m missing something crucial…

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“Remember When” is Good Listening

Pining for the 80’s? Need something to entertain you while waiting for the next Altcast? Want to hear some gaming geeks wax poetic on The Last Dragon, The Shield, Tombstone and of course Star Wars?

Then you should check out the “Remember When” podcast, hosted by Jay and Parris of UncleGamer / TalkingAboutGames.com. The hosts are knowledeable and have great chemistry and are pretty funny to boot. They also keep it pretty clean, so listening at work isn’t a problem.

Wow, I feel like I just did a Reading Rainbow book review.

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Farewell Steve. So long Macworld…

Steve Jobs Skipping Final Macworld Apple Keynote

Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

CUPERTINO, Calif., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple(R) today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be held at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center January 5-9, 2009.
Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple’s Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.
Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple Expo in Paris.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its
award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

(C) 2008 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Space, the final frontier…

So back in 1993, I bought my first Hallmark Star Trek ornament and that continued for the next 8-9 years. What started out as an innocent geeky obsession turned into a dangerous fantasy. You see, I don’t just hang these ornaments on the tree and be done with them. I connect them to a string of holiday lights to light them up. I lie back on the couch and pretend I am Picard or Kirk fighting Romulans on some imaginary epic space battle and then I tried to stick them up my ass. It was hard at first but year after year, it became easier. I am now comfortable with a string of lighted Star Trek ships up my ass that I can move around as far as the string of lights will let me without getting unplugged from the socket. Sadly, I had to give it up. Lets just say the inside of my anus is a burnt out husk from a short circuit in Enterprise NCC 1701-D.

Here is my collection:

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Tags: Gerbil, Hallmark Ornaments, Star Trek

This week’s gaming and movie releases, plus the most Pirated games of 2008

Only 3 more weeks left in the year and the gaming releases are slowing down to a trickle. For the 3 major consoles we only have two titles being let loose into retail this week. They are:

Playstaion 3

12/10/2008

Sonic Unleashed

Nintendo Wii

12/10/2008

Neopets Puzzle Adventure

and for the Xbox 360 -

Nothing….

Moving onto handhelds we have the PSP’s last release of 2008,  and 5 new titles for the DS.

PSP

12/10/2008

Dungeon Maker 2

Nintendo DS

12/10/2008

Slingo Quest, Cate West: The Vanishing Files, Drivers Ed Portable, Build a Lot, and Left Brain Right Brain 2.

This week’s Blu-Ray releases are probably the biggest news in the land of geekdom. Actually one release in particular….

Blu-Ray

12/09/2008

The Dark Knight

 OMGZ Christian Bale is sooo hot!

Lost Season 4

Horton Hears a Who

and for the rest of this week’s Blu-Ray releases you can check the full list here - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=br_nf_2_more?ie=UTF8&field-releasedate=1y-7y&node=16295751&rank=salesrank&pf_rd_p=325297301&pf_rd_s=center-11&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=193640011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1HRG6XJRDPV1QX2HB1VN

In other tech related news Microsoft has released two new colors for the 120 gig Zune just in time for Christmas.

  I have a Zune. I love it!  www.zune.net

Now for the list I’m sure alot of you came here to read, The Most Pirated Games of 2008. It really should read the most pirated PC games of 2008 but whatever. This list was compiled by Torrentfreak.com and in no way are these official numbers but they more then likely give a pretty good look into what went on in the GameZ Scene this year.

                           PC Game Downloads on BitTorrent in 2008 

Link to their story - http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-games-of-2008-081204/

No wonder why Crytek wants to shift focus onto the console side of development.

 In case anyone forgot Crytek’s president Cevat Yerli had this to say back in April of this year ” I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy,” “It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.”

Way to go PC gamers! Keep on destroying your hobbie and don’t come on here commenting about how successful pc gaming is doing because of Blizzard and WOW, they are the anomaly of the PC gaming industry.

I don’t even know why I’m writing about this, pc gaming dead.

PS:

Only 17 shopping days left until Christmas!

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Knick-Knack What the Frack?!

I have a lot of knick-knacks and what nots around my house. I guess you could call them chatchkis. You know stuff like action figures, statues, toys, gadgets..etc. It’s all cool. But what purpose does it serve really? Is it so people can catch a glimpse of my personality when they see it? Or is it because I like to look at it? I’m not sure really. At some point I think to myself “These are awesome… but why in the fuck do I have them?”.

It really doesn’t keep me from buying more of it though. I love the crap. I love my Big Daddy figurine, I love my Master Chief helmet, I love my Optimus Prime, I love my Moobys Funployee badge, I love it all.

Where does it stop though? I recently boxed up a bunch of little chatchkis because they were in an area where peoples kids would constantly pull them out and play with them and they were really unseen otherwise. I don’t blame the kids for wanting to play with them. They’re all just toys basically anyway. But putting them in the box I thought that’s it? That’s what happens to these things? They get displayed and then tossed away into a box? That’s the end game for all this compulsive buying?

I guess what I’m really trying to say here is.. I need to buy more wall shelves for my office.

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It’s a Conspiracy!

As a kid growing up, I loved to watch shows on the paranormal and unexplained. Robert Stack was a staple of Wednesday nights and any Discovery Channel show explaining the secrets of the pyramids was getting recorded to VHS, SLP settings of course. So over the weekend, I got bored and YouTubed some UFO footage. 9 hours later, my web journey had taken me from simple blurry footage of swamp gas to the intergalactic enslavement conspiracy that seems to be all the rage. So now I’m either extremely enlightened or more retarded now. As stupid as it all is, it’s strangely interesting. If you want the in depth version, go visit truthism.com, and grab some popcorn. For the condensed version, keep reading.

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Tags: Conspiracy, HERR DERP DERR, Illuminati