Herd of Cats

I haven't had much time to play in the last weeks; I am working 16 hour days. Sucks to be me.

Because if you have nothing to mix with your rye, what's the point of surviving?

Guard zombie cat on dutySo as a different kind of Coxxorz's Bargain Corner Food Basics is having a sale on Coke. As you can tell I felt it was necessary to stock up. So I did.

18 cans for $3.97.

In a previous discussion with Coxxorz he told me how he would only buy 12 cans for $3.00 when they were on sale at that price and that he wouldn't bother with the Food Basics sale. I explained to him that 18 cans for $4 was a better deal than 12 cans for $3. After mumbling numbers to himself for a good two minutes he came up with "oh yeah." I still don't think he bought any, which Guba found particularly humorous as Food Basics is right next to his fracking house.

As it turned out, we only discovered this as it is the Food Basics store we went to.

The store flyer had a big LIMIT OF 4 pasted all over it. So when Guba and I arrived at the Coke Nirvana Aisle with two carts ready for two separate trips I was delighted to discover an additional hand written sign: No Limit.

My gasp of "no limits" was worthy of a Stanley Cup win. Guba swears she has never heard me say anything as blissfully as those two words... "NO LIMITS." (other than "I Do" of course).

We had brought the big car!

Yes! The CR-V was waiting outside! With all of it's extra storage! How many cases can one two of these carts hold? The kid will have to go, we need the room. He'll understand when he grows up.

Wait... I can leave his mother with him, how many extra cases is that?

Wait... she scares me. Nevermind. And she'll want to keep the kid. Darn it.

   
I was hoping to create an epic blog about the challenges and hurdles of installing an external drive on the Scientific Atlanta 8300HD PVR in use by most Canadian cable providers. Read more

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Not that great of a deal (certainly not as great as the Arkham Asylum deal - whew! you shoulda been there), but it has some potential. Especially if you still play games on your PC. But there are some interesting bits on there, like the Rainbow Six Pack for $50, and classics like FarCry, as low as $10.

The observant among you (Stormblade?) will note that there is a Mac "section", complete with three (3!) games available for immediate download.

Deal ends Sunday.

I hate to think what Darth Vader would do to these guys if he ever caught them

What Stormtroopers do on Their Day Off

But this is pretty cool and removes a massive aggravation for us aliens. It's a little app that permits non-Americans to access Hulu and other US only content by spoofing a US IP address. Read more

This is a great article on the 20 weirdest Zombie movies ever made. Have patience. It's on Digg, so there are some 500k hits per second on the site.

Yes, they are weird. Yes, most of them suck. But, hey, they're zombies!!!

Here's a sample. Read more

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Back to the great gameplay baby!

Okay, time for a break from the dark world of Gotham City, and into.... the dark world of MARVEL!

Dig out your copy of Marvel Ultimate Alliance (I know you have one), and let's make the Crimson Dynamo laugh hysterically!

And if you don't have a copy, they're like ten bucks at EB Games, for pete's sake. Possibly your last chance to experience a true Marvel creation, unsullied by the Disney Corporate Juggernaught (that's twice this week I've used that!). Read more

At the risk of running contrary to our clan motto (something about randomness I'm told), there are just so many reasons to have a contest right now. Not least of which, the grand prize is AWESOME.

And here it is: one shiny new copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum for Xbox 360. And no, not Blackwalt's used copy, which I'm sure will be available any day now at the rate he's been playing. This is the real deal. And it was a real deal too. So not only will you get an excellent game, but a story and a half about how you came to own it. (Hint: you can use it to pick up chicks!)

Want to know how to enter? Easy:

I think Blackwalt could do better.

And I suspect he's about to go home to try ...

Ha Ha! take thatCan you just leave me alone now!

I know you have all been glued to the ongoing stories of Half-pint's latest health issues: here, here, and here.

You will all be happy to hear that Half-pint's latest examination went well. Cancer is still on the table but the Vet was extremely surprised by Half-pint's weight gain and the virtually disappearance of the swelling in his jaw.

This is precisely why we must let our kids play Left 4 Dead at a very young age!

Just in case you missed it

For a piddling $4 billion dollars, Disney is buying Marvel.

The deal gives Disney ownership of Marvel's portfolio of more than 5,000 characters, which include such iconic characters such as Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, many of which have been turned into successful movie franchises in recent years.

Two countries to blame for over 30% of game piracy

During the month-long study, piracy was concentrated in two countries - Italy and Spain, accounting for 17.1% and 15.1% of total piracy activity, respectively. The ESA believes that the lax approach taken by the countries’ internet service providers to anti-piracy initiatives is to blame.

Original story at That Video Game Blog and a link to the ESA 2009 Annual Report.