Thank you, Apple. Not only did you ship my copy of Tiger on time and have it delivered on April 29th, but you also did a bang up job with the OS. I have only fiddled with my install of Tiger, but I can see how it will change the way I do [...]

Note from Colin:
Check out pics of Tiger Launch Events. Yet again, big crowds at the Ginza, Japan store.
Original Post by Carl:
I’m no Apple Fanboy, but after reading this review of OSX 10.4 at Ars Technica, I can’t help but be impressed.

My copy of Tiger just shipped from Apple and should be on my doorstep by Friday… and I just scored tickets to a special advance screening of Serenity on May 5th (almost 5 months before its release).

Just wanted to share my opinion on the Serenity trailer that premiered yesterday on Apple/trailers.
First of all, aside from the pandering to Joss Whedon fanatics at the beginning (was that really necessary?), the typical techno/metal music thrown in during the action sequences (trying to grab all the scifi/action people unfamiliar with the show, I suppose), [...]

Here are a few pics, just for the purpose of annoying Carl.
Oh, and 4 more days till the Tiger release.

I don’t even know what to say about this. It should be self-explanatory:
Dungeons & Dragons for Dummies

“So, Carl, aren’t you going to paint the half-naked chicks?”
So asked my good friend Dave at the Paradise last night.
No, it wasn’t a strip club. No, it wasn’t an art show, though it certainly was art. No, it wasn’t a wild orgy plucked from the fertile ground of my imagination. If it [...]

Received this message in my inbox a couple of days ago:
Hey guys.
I’m here on the official site, so that can only mean one thing: somebody finally told me my password! (Again.) It probably also means that I have some big-ass announcement or other. Well tops on the announcement list is this: after months of intensive [...]

Wow.
I am so tired. Dead tired. And my ears are still ringing.
What a great show.

Picture from rich1million’s Melt Banana Flickr album

Thanks to Dave for pointing this out:
Atari 2600 Game Festival
Sat May 14
Sure, you can have your X-Box super-advanced 3-D action video games, but nothing matches the sheer joy and innocent fun of Asteroids, Berzerk, Combat, Defender, Missile Command, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Yars Revenge. Yes, we’re talking about the home video game system that started [...]

I have recently acquired $90 worth of Amazon gift certificates. Yay!
But wait… I have no idea what to spend it on. To me, this seems really, really sad.
I have thought about getting a Memory Stick Duo card for my camera, or possibly picking up a new RPG to learn and possibly play (Tri [...]

Gary… you were the good guy this time. You came out of it smelling like goddam roses. Why the hell do you open that idiotic mouth of yours? We all think that House dude was an idiot… but, just how dim are you?
They need to come down more harsh and stop holding [...]

I ran across this comic strip while browsing through the vast darkness of the intarweb: The Order of the Stick.
I found this one particularly humorous… The Order of the Stick #3. I know that everyone and their mother has probably already read them, but it is new to me.

Now that I have visited RideAccidents.com, I am not sure I can climb aboard an amusement park ride ever again.

Dungeons & Dragons Online
A Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG).
I was looking through the information for this upcoming game and was impressed. If they can pull off everything they claim, this could be the Next Big Thing for us table-top gamers. I’m a graphics whore, so I never went in for Ultima Online or [...]

So, prior to this weekend I was the happy owner of Zombies and Zombies 4: The End. If you have never played these games, you are missing out on some good fun.
Well, now my set is complete. Zombies 2: Zombie Corps(e), Zombies 3: Mall Walkers, and Zombies 3.5: Not Dead Yet made [...]

From a flyer I picked up today in JP:
Venerable Khandro Rinpoche
will give a public talk on
Practice in Everyday Life
Monday evening, April 25 at 8pm * $10 donation
Ven. Khandro Rinpoche is the daughter of His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen, head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. Khandro Rinpoche was recognized at the age of two [...]

Update: 10.3.9 sucks donkey balls. Well, ok, maybe not quite… But it does have some Java issues that require some attention.
Original Article: So, as I write this I am dowloading the 10.3.9 update to Mac OSX Panther that was just released. There really isn’t a great reason for me to install [...]

I recently wrote about the Fantômas show on 4/13/05 at the Roxy. Well, the Weekly Dig has an article about Fantômas frontman, Mike Patton. Its a good read.
Over the course of his career, Patton has worked with a rogues’ gallery of some of the music world’s underground heroes: Dan the Automator, Björk, the [...]

In Apple-Hippy news: ThinkSecret has posted an article speculating about some hardware bumps that could see the light of day just prior to Tiger’s release (which is a short 2 weeks away now!).
Most interesting to me is the iMac bump which will (allegedly) include an increase in HDD space, a DVD writer with dual-layer [...]