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The Best Toy a Guy Could Want
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 | Rants | 1 Comment
I’m a geek. I’ll admit it, it’s true. I like adapters for various wire and cable types, I like network switches, hubs, and routers. I like VNC clients and Virtual Private Networks. I love tinkering with websites, but most of all; I love video games.
I always have loved video games. When I think back on my childhood, I have strong nostalgic feelings for the days of the Nintendo (or Intendo as some of my younger friends called it). It wasn’t until 3 months before the Nintendo 64 came out that I owned a Super Nintendo Entertainment system because my failure to manage, let alone save, money inhibited me from obtaining the money to purchase one.
Ok, enough back-story. I bought an Xbox 360 in November of last year, and as some of you know, this pretty much invalidates an original Xbox. Well, I am happy to say I have revived, no no, re-invigorated my Xbox. It is now more powerful than ever before, and can do so, so much more.
By using a handy software modification, I was able to transform this waste of space to a fully funcional entertainment center. Where before it only played Xbox games, it now re-lives the days of my youth. Here’s what it did before the mod:
- Play Xbox games (and DVDs with a remote).
After upgrading the hard drive to 200GB, here’s what it can now do:
- Copy Xbox games to the hard drive for play without the disk.
- Emulate the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/CD/Master System, Nintendo 64, Playstation (one), NeoGeo, You name Atari System it can play it, Intellivision, Vectrex, older PC engines, and don’t forget Multiple Arcade Machines/Games.
- Play *just about* any digital video format.
- Store and View Pictures
- Store and Play music / Rip Music from CDs (even accessing CDDB).
- Play DVDs (without the remote)
- And so much more that I haven’t even figured out yet.
So, now I’m knee deep in nostalgia, and really enjoying video games in new and different ways — and I’ll tell you this: Good graphics alone do not a good game make. I’ll end with this: Contra seems HARDER than it was when I was a kid, and Tetris never gets old.
LISTEN Craigslisters!
Monday, August 4th, 2008 | Rants | No Comments
UPLOAD A PICTURE!
I have no interest in reading about an item you have for sale from your home, which I also have no interest in visiting UNLESS I see a PICTURE of an item I WANT TO BUY!
How hard is it to post a digital photograph? Almost everyone has a digital camera now. It’s not like it’s ebay charging you to post a photograph, craigslist is free. If you want to take out a classified with no photos, use the newspaper. The bottom line is that people browsing craigslist are looking to see pictures of stuff.
POST A PICTURE…it doesn’t cost you anything, and I promise you’d have better luck selling an item on craigslist!
Things that are annoying
Friday, July 18th, 2008 | Rants | No Comments
Long email addresses…having to spell your name for people, people that say “right?” when they are making a point, as in, “So, the health system in this country is screwed up Right?” Expecting a baby to be born at any moment, but the baby isn’t in any hurry. Those things are kind of annoying.
My plans have changed. Instead of making this into the new face of jhgraphicdesign.com, I’m going to discontinue this domain (probably). It kind of irritates me, having to type out my full email address which is more than 20 characters long, and I’ve had it with that. So, I’m going to make a new domain and website, not just for me, but for my family…and my upcoming baby girl. We’ll have updates for everyone. So…since REALLY no one reads this, that might be interesting to you.
Peace.