Vox Import

Escalated

An endless stream of moviegoers:

Moviegoers

Confidence problems

Seen near my house:

Stupid truck

I like that, if you look closely, someone has penciled in a retort defending this poor truck.

Flying Lizards

I saw these for sale in Chinatown last Friday:

Flying lizards

They're the real deal, dried and rubberbanded to a wooden frame.

Give me a P!

Playcraziness

Beau and I took a walk to the Metreon for lunch today, partly to get something new to eat (I almost always get the same thing at Whole Foods every day) and partly to gawk at the line forming around the Playstation store.  Aparently tonight at midnight is when they throw open the doors and the line to be there stretched down the block, twists around, then jumps to the other side of the street!

In the front!

We found the front of the line and found out that these guys have been waiting since yesterday morning.  They were being interviewed on camera and taunted by a man wearing (for some reason) a Nintendo Wii controller costume.

There seemed to be a lot of support for these people though.  Aparently Starbucks was

Burrito man

bringing over coffee for everyone in the morning and while we were walking by, there were two taco trucks pumping out trays of burritos for people in line.  There didn't seem to be money passing hands (and they certainly didn't get out of line to order) so I'm wondering if Sony just bought food and coffee for the first X people in line.  I suppose spending $8 on someone who is about to pay you $600 isn't too bad a deal.

QotD: Top 5 Video Games

What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.

I was just thinking about this on my way into work this morning.  I guess it would be:

• Beyond Dark Castle
• Katamari Damacy
  
• Civilization
• Warlords (playing until 4am with friends)
• Gran Turismo (thanks to jprall for reminding me!)
  

There are so many though that I would probably put in if I thought long enough about it, like:

• Ico
  
• Pirates! (Sid Meyer, you rock!)
• The Colony
• Prince of Persia (old skool version)
  
• Sim City
• Grand Theft Auto (Vice City)
• Fools Errand
• Metal Gear Solid

Hmm, I know I'll think of more later...

Pipes!

My friend The Ez wrote in a post recently commenting on how quickly buildings tend to be built.  They spend years as barren land with trucks and then maybe a hole.  Then suddenly over a few months there is a building, without seeing a single drop of concrete poured.

Well, I think I have captured our Nessy on film!  Here she is in action:

Nessy

 

The concrete is snuck in through pipes!

Burning sunset

I pulled my nose up from my computer screen today around 5pm and was rewarded by this sunset trying to get my attention outside:

Burning sunset

The good old days

I was cleaning my garage out last weekend and I cam across a technical manual for my old TRS-80 color computer (which I still have by the way).  Paging through it I was amazed to find it had a full parts list, organized by component type (resistors, ICs, capacitors, etc), plus had full schematics for each layer of the PCB.  If I wanted to, I could probably build my own!  Today, this parts list would look something like:

   Part #  |   Description
          1  |   MacBook
          2  |   Apple Care