Tinman
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I've had that song from The Muppets stuck in my head all day. "I've got everything that I NEEEeeed..."
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And so we begin the annual game of "Which Christmas Lights Still Work?"
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Owen had a friend spend the night last night. At some point one of them put a hockey stick through my computer monitor.
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You may want to be very careful ordering a joystick from Legacy Engineering. I ordered one in September of 2010 and it arrived defective, with a loose USB port that made it unusable. After sending more than one email I was able to get return information from Legacy and I sent it back to them to get a replacement. Since then I have followed up with Curt many, many times, but to this date, over a year later, I have never received the replacement. They took my money, but I have no joystick. Every time I follow up with Curt, I am assured that he will send the replacement "immediately", but it never happens. I'm not sure he intended to rip me off, but he did, so you may want to think carefully before buying from him.
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Watching COPS. The scene in Hillsborough County was filmed about two blocks from where I work.
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I hate to say it, but the Amazon Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 is just awful. S-L-O-W, incredibly buggy, and crashes often.
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Holidays just fly by, don't they? Seems like 11/11/11 11:11 was over in a minute
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It takes a real man to show up to a workout with all women but you... And you're the only one with a bright pink workout mat.
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Busy night tonight. Work dinner followed by CAP squadron meeting then a sorely needed workout at LA Fitness
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Since we were discusing it, I played some Starship since I hadn't in ages. Meh... still don't care for it. I'd rather play Starmaster (or any of the other first person-space cockpit games) any day.
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Looks very cool! Thanks for noting it. @MissDestructo: It's official @zemanta rocks, usually it takes me forever to write a blog post ...
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My avg. daily fitbit #fitstats for last week: 3,801 steps and 1.8 miles traveled. http://t.co/bgRiOsbD
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I admit that I hadn't played Starship in forever so I pulled it out and gave it a new try. Sorry, I still don't care for it much. I can appreciate what Atari was trying to do, I really can, but it just doesn't put me "in the cockpit" like the later games. Perhaps I came into my first Atari just a bit too late. We got ours shortly after Space Invaders had been released, and we quickly got Asteroids and Missile Command for it, too. But we never bought Starship. And it wasn't too long after that that I played Star Raiders on the Atari 800 for the first time. That game really gave me the "you're in the cockpit!" feel and it remains my all-time favorite video game to this day. On the 2600 I picked up Starmaster as soon as it was out and it is still my favorite 2600 game (along with Adventure). The 2600 version of Star Raiders is also good and I do like it, although I prefer the 800 version. And I've grown fond of Phaser Patrol, Space Attack, and Star Voyager, too, as worthy space-cockpit games.
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I really WANTED to love this game. I couldn't love it, but I did like it, for what it was. If you remember when it came out and what other first-person space games there were back then (NONE), then it was indeed pretty impressive. Of course, it can't compare to Star Raiders or Starmaster (my all time favorite 2600 game), but then it didn't have to for the first four years or so that it was out.
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Well we didn't win the football game but now we're at soccer so we have another chance for the W.
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