Goofus Maximus

... hears the wind blowing through the trees, and the sound of crickets chirping, in the background... NOBODY has played this yet?

I just use noscript. Nothing runs unless you give it permission, including javascript, java, flash, or any plugin.

Hmmm. Insanely expensive not-very-upgradeable quickly outdated console, or gas for my car? Which should I save for? I guess, I'll ignore the name, and go with the Way of the Wii...

The technology? Yes. The infrastructure to make and fuel these cars in quantity, at a price we can afford? Not yet. The ones with alternative fuel cars at the moment don't stop to think what would happen if their fuel of choice suddenly had a 2 million barrel per day demand on it. As gas gets more expensive, conservation and Thermal Depolymerization plants along with nuclear and eventually Orbiting Solar Power Plants (I can dream, can't I?) will become more mainstream.

It seems to use the Doom 3 engine, downloads through steam, and really needs a LOT of work. Bad acting, textures that don't look like they're using a state of the art engine, and bugs galore. Still, there were lots of monsters, and it kind of reminded me of "Take No Prisoners" (DX5 vintage game; a top-down shooter from long ago, which I really liked).

Time to break out the bicycles and motor-scooters!

Anyone know of some good free online tutorials for "painting" with graphics programs? I can't seem to get this seascape to look right...

Though the baby is kind of "Silent Hill" creepy! How did you go about doing those? Oh, and here's one I did a while back. Yes, the moon is cut/pasted. My original hand-drawn one just didn't look too good.

Hanged, by the hemp you brought to your own thread!

Wrong legend! You need to tear the map out of a Xanth book!

In a moment of boredom, I had fun playing around with the Gimp to make these little doodads, and I was wondering what sort of fun things you all do with the Gimp or Photoshop in moments of boredom.

"Fla." is the old Old OLD abbreviation for Florida, or "FL". Only extremely old, decrepit, senile geezers like me even remember this!

Oh no! A Xanth fan! Everybody run!

Bah. House Centipedes and Silverfish; everyone has 'em. Nothing to blow a fuse about. Unlike Black Widows and Brown Recluses.

Fear not the Wii...

Canada has lots of history! The War of 1812 comes to mind, where we went up and caused a ruckus in Canada, then the English came and burnt down the original White House! Then there was the French and Indian war, which cut off the New Orleans French settlers from the Quebec French settlers, and set the stage for the Revolutionary war in the US... PBS had a really good special on that war, a while back.

Whee! Wii is such a wee name, we think. They would have done better sticking with "Revolution"

I've had ping-spike problems with Zone Alarm, but Windows Firewall is perfectly okay with all my games. I just don't feel safe without a firewall keeping those evil HAXXORS out of my computer. That's why I also learned how to password-protect the hidden "Guest" account in Windows XP Home.

I never got past 1900 lb on my snowball, before I'd crash into a house. How high did you get yours?

That song at the end should be a CS theme-song though, don't you think? I couldn't stop laughing!

I'm ing this topic so far.

It's worth it just for the song at the end Remember to just hold down the space bar instead of rapidly tapping it.

use bone "go", "look", "get", "give", "use", and "ask for" EDIT: and "talk" are all the commands you need, and the words in capital letters all need looked at, sometimes in greater and greater detail, like "look log" - "look hole in log" or "Look window" - "look condiment stand" - "look condiments"

How did Mrs. Jones know the Devil was literate? "He looked well-red" ... sorry... If your card (obviously both 6600 and 9800) were overheating, it sounds like the case might need improvement in it's venthilation, so the fans aren't blowing reheated in-case air against the heatsinks. You may even have to switch to water-cooling, to get the heat out of the case without putting in so many case fans that your computer sounds like a jet engine...

I don't think the steering would be good on that thing, unless it has the special control arm that decouples the shock absorbtion from the steering control...