JPNor's blog

If I had thought about visiting the Valve store sooner, I would have thrown this on my Christmas list:

There's some other cool geek shit at http://store.valvesoftware.com/ but the fuzzy WCCs are IMO the coolest.

My lovely wife gave me an early Christmas gift this weekend - Orange Box for the PC. Got it set up through Steam and received an interesting message-

Since I already have a copy of Half-Life 2 registered through Steam, and it's bundled with Orange Box, I'm able to give away a copy of the game for free. Of course it has to be a "digital download" through Steam, but hell, it's a free game for whoever wants it. Not to mention it's arguably the best first person shooter ever made, but that's neither here nor there.

My lovely wife gave me an early Christmas gift this weekend - Orange Box for the PC. Got it set up through Steam and received an interesting message-

Since I already have a copy of Half-Life 2 registered through Steam, and it's bundled with Orange Box, I'm able to give away a copy of the game for free. Of course it has to be a "digital download" through Steam, but hell, it's a free game for whoever wants it. Not to mention it's arguably the best first person shooter ever made, but that's neither here nor there.

Whenever I have a morning meeting in or around Boston, I leave my house exceptionally early to beat the traffic, then as an end result sitting in my car playing Solitaire for an hour before the meeting starts. So this week, I've been installing a couple different games to keep my occupied in that situation. The laptop isn't exactly a gaming rig though, so new games are out of the question.

I don't have a ton of hard drive space either so I can't install my whole library. Ironically though, the only games I'd want on there, are the ones I've already played the shit out of.

Whenever I have a morning meeting in or around Boston, I leave my house exceptionally early to beat the traffic, then as an end result sitting in my car playing Solitaire for an hour before the meeting starts. So this week, I've been installing a couple different games to keep my occupied in that situation. The laptop isn't exactly a gaming rig though, so new games are out of the question.

I don't have a ton of hard drive space either so I can't install my whole library. Ironically though, the only games I'd want on there, are the ones I've already played the shit out of.

Seriously, why won't some of these wierd trends just die?

MSNBC as well as other news organizations today are reporting that Christina Aguilera posed nekkid and preggo for this month's Marie Claire.

We can all thank Demi Moore for Christina's cover.... as well as Britney's cover.... and Heidi Klum's... and every other pregnant celebrity in the last 15 years. Remember this?

Seriously, why won't some of these wierd trends just die?

MSNBC as well as other news organizations today are reporting that Christina Aguilera posed nekkid and preggo for this month's Marie Claire.

We can all thank Demi Moore for Christina's cover.... as well as Britney's cover.... and Heidi Klum's... and every other pregnant celebrity in the last 15 years. Remember this?

I've been thinking of actually doing something with my blog as opposed to just randomly ranting about traffic and defective Xbox 360's. I'll probably try a couple different formats in the next week or two but here's a shot at something new.

The past 2 weeks I've been looking for a way to ditch Verizon and considered the iPhone. Based on a few reviews and valuable advice from 2o2p members, I ended up ruling against it but I still wanted to use the non-phone related features. So I saved a hundred bucks by picking up....

I've been thinking of actually doing something with my blog as opposed to just randomly ranting about traffic and defective Xbox 360's. I'll probably try a couple different formats in the next week or two but here's a shot at something new.

The past 2 weeks I've been looking for a way to ditch Verizon and considered the iPhone. Based on a few reviews and valuable advice from 2o2p members, I ended up ruling against it but I still wanted to use the non-phone related features. So I saved a hundred bucks by picking up....

OK, time for another rant. I'm making awesome time yesterday leaving a client's location. The weather was kind of shitty but traffic was still moving. I come around a corner by a busy shopping mall..... and I run into a sea of red brake lights. Takes 3 red-green cycles before I can get through the intersection and when I finally do, I see the reason for the tie-up: