Redneck Robotech

Geek quote of the day from Alex Albrecht of Diggnation:

“I would love to see redneck robotech!”

Referring to a spider mech built by rednecks.  Rednecks or no, this shit is totally awesome.

RIP Netscape browser

It’s not like anyone’s still using Netscape all that much anyway, but it’s still kind of sad to see a pioneer in an industry go down this way.  Kind of like how Atari closed up shop.  Then was reborn, then closed up again.  Netscape will live on in the hearts and minds of old timers on the internet, and anyone whoever took up the “fuck Microsoft in the ass” cause.

Fantasy Basketball changes how I look at the game

The premise of Fantasy Basketball leagues is that you’re the general manager of an NBA team and you’re tasked to put together a roster of players that’ll take you to the NBA finals. You’re allowed to draft actual players in the NBA and based on their real time performances in the league you’re given statistics that add up to points. The more points you have the “better” your team is, and thus your spot in the league commensurately increases.

Fantasy Basketball makes watching games a little bit more exciting, if not a little confusing. The players you draft into your fantasy team will actually be playing in different NBA teams, so you may come across games where your players team are actually playing against each other in real life. This leads to situations where I’m cheering for both sides of a game, or even worse, situations where one of my players gets shot off in the face of another of my players and I’m left with a bemused look on my face wondering whether or not I should cheer.

It also leads to untimely shouts of joy after events that normally do not call for such an outburst. In basketball, you usually cheer a good fadeaway or a dunk (or as quinito henson would say, “dunk shot”), but since the league I’m playing in gives more points to assists, rebounds or steals, I quite often find myself reacting to a very minor assist in the most deafening fashion.

I find that my obsession with managing budgets also puts me in good stead, since you’re given $300 at the start of my league to spend on players, and constant retooling is necessary in order to get the most bang for your buck. I have spent many nights up until way past my normal bedtime crunching numbers, trying to get the best value proposition for my team. I made a few missteps in the beginning, but I think my team, the Lower Antipolo Lakers, is finally starting to gain some ground, and I’m currently third in my local league of 8 players, 274th in a larger league of 1896 GMs, and 2516th in the global league of god knows how many people.

Gilbert Arenas wins celebrity blogger award

It’s a curious state of affairs when the blogging superstar of the internets is also an NBA All-Star.  Apparently Gil, Agent zero, the hibachi, whatever you wanna call him, won the Best Celebrity Blogger award Thursday at the 2007 Weblog awards.  Check it out on number 2 of the daily dime.  It’s a sad day for nerds and geeks cause it looks like the jocks have taken over again.  But at least this jock’s got a sense of humor, because when he found out he beat Wil Wheaton of Star Trek fame to be the best celebrity blogger he had this to say:

“When you start beating the Star Trek people, you know you’re somebody.”

My Simpsons avatar

Here’s a neat little online app that lets you make your own Simpsons avatar. Check out my friend luis’ avatar here. Not having such a great day, but this cheered me up some.

Intendo Reborn

Intendo, the other site I “write” for, has been reborn with new writers, more content, and a facelift that does the contect justice.  most of my gaming related stuf will be posted there, so do check it out once in a while kids.

Doom! via Manblog

 

Reading the manblog reminds me of when I was much snarkier.  Now it seems I’ve lost my snark, and I don’t know how to get it back.  Or, maybe being snarky just takes up too much of my energy because I’m really a nice, fun loving guy.  So.  To the man blog it is, for some snarkilarious Doctor Doom! on Peter Parker commentary.

Engrish

 

So I’ve been thinking about directly importing electronics lately, since I’m a gadget fiend.  I know that Korea has some lowkey electronics companies that put out good products, and since my dad was able to get a hold of a Korean company over the net to sell him home water purifiers, why can’t I?  I staked out a few companies, namely Cowon, Meizu, and iRiver.  Samsung seems like the obvioius choice, but they’re so big now that they have partners all up in the hizzay, and an email or fax from me would just get lost in the shuffle.

Cowon and iRiver are starting to make a presence in the DAP already, and it looks like it’ll be difficult reaching them, but Meizu seems like they’re small enough to give a guy a chance, so I stumbled through their barely comprehensible website until I came upon this bit of Engrish comedy gold.

Meizu.com will support our customer with various,and interesting information.
Also,meizu.com will have customer services to who using meizu mp3 player as precious value.

meizu.com will be with you any time whenever you want. Thank you.

Well, I certainly hope they keep their promise to be with me “any time whenever I want”.

Engadget writer can’t spel.

I love Engadget, but I’m a spelling nazi and I just can’t let this slide. I mean seriously, I know they’re “just a blog”, but I think that they’d hold themselves to higher standards seeing as they’re read by millions of people around the globe. Spell check much?

Efficient. Ok? Efficient.

Dealnews.com FTW!!!!

Oh. My. God. I just found my favoritest website ever. Ever ever EVAR. Anyone who knows me well knows that I love going to sales. I love getting things at a good discount. Dealnews.com is like discount heaven. It’s a virtual sale anywhere you look, like this sandisk sansa 2GB mp3player for only $50, or a refurbished Sony PSP for $130 (which incidentally is exactly how much a DS Lite costs).

Excuse me, I think I just wet myself.