Quick Post

I do apologize for wasting your time with such a short post, but I noticed something rather disturbing. The Facebook widget squished my profile picture. I promise, I'm not that fat. The Twitter widget's thumbnail still appears to be normal, so use that for reference if you want to get a good idea of what I look like. Of course, if you are doing that, I have every right to be creeped out.

Keyboards

First of all, apologies for not posting over the holidays. Not that it matters. Enough people hopefully wished you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year anyway. So, here's a sure sign you're a geek: if you get excited when your parents come home with a nice, shiny new keyboard, you might wanna check yourself. Yes, I just did this. If you must know (and even if you don't care I'm going to post about it anyway), it's an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad. Yes, that's capitalized properly. It's the product name. Anyway, I love it. It has the 'chicklet" keys, as opposed to the raised ones. It feels a lot faster to type on. Watch out, that might mean much longer posts here (which I guess is better than no posting at all).

Snow

Snow... a lot of people I know hate the stuff. Personally, I love it. Christmas Day is not complete in my book without plenty of snow on the ground and a few flurries falling. It creates the perfect picture out the window. Right now there isn't enough on the ground. It looks stupid with the tips of the blades of grass poking out. It reminds me more of the end of winter, when the snow is just starting to melt. There is a little bit of snow falling right now, and all I could hope for is some more accumulation to cover up those dumb grass blades. Plus, I wanna dig a snow tunnel.

The Search for "Tron"

I wasn't around when Tron first came out. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I have not seen it. However, with Disney's new Tron Legacy on the way, I really really want to.  Problem is, I can't find it. ANYWHERE! None of the local video rental stores have it. Netflix does not have it in there infinite archives of DVDs, nor is it available on Netflix streaming. Oh, sure, I can find it on internet shopping sites like eBay or Amazon.com, but there isn't a single copy out there that's going for a reasonable price. I'm sorry, but I really don't feel like paying $90 to watch a cheesy sci-fi that uses "breakthrough" animation from 1982.  I did manage to find cheaper DVDs in the $40 range, and that got me excited, until I found out they were "Region 2" DVDs. That means they will only play on European DVD players. That does me a lot of good. I live in the US of A. It's probably not gonna happen. My last ray of hope resides in the possibility of Disney re-releasing it around the release time of Tron Legacy. But I haven't heard anything about that happening thus far. It would be cool, considering the movie hasn't been in print (if that's the right term) since 2002. Oh well. One can only hope...

Side note: this is probably my lengthiest post in a really long time. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. But since I spent all this time typing it, feedback would be nice. 

Black Friday

Yeah, yeah. I know what you're thinking. "But Black Friday was yesterday! Why didn't he post about it then?" Let me tell you, it wasn't because I was out shopping. I hate Black Friday. I hate oversized mobs of insane shoppers that are fighting to get in the store to get one of 15 super cheap HDTVs. You just might be one of those lucky 15 people. But I never win drawings, or raffles, or any sort of crap like that. So I'm not even gonna bother. "But the ad says minimum of 6 per store!" I got news for ya, buddy. There will be exactly 6 no matter what store you go to. But enough of that. Wanna know what I do on Black Friday? I decorate. Because I looove Christmas. But I hate Black Friday.

New Gadget

On the right sidebar you will find a "Leave Me A Voicemail" gadget courtesy of Google Voice. Go ahead and give it a try!

Christmas Without Video Games

On September 30, 2010, my parents decided i needed a "lifestyle change" (read: no more videogames). they wanted to see if i could go a whole year without them, blah blah blah. So i havent played video games since the 30th of September of this year, and cannot play them until the 30th of September 2011. So far it's been okay. The real dilemma, though, is what to ask for for Christmas. Sure, i get gifts other than video games, but it's still kinda puzzling. I did discover the wonderful world of ThinkGeek, which has some pretty amazing stuff, but (just my luck) my parents claim theyre finished shopping. oh well. Better luck next year...