Rock Band - I HAS IT

I met Don this morning at Target, right after they opened up at 8. I walked right into the video game section, handed over my credit card, and waited along with about 10 other people for them to grab the stock out of the back. It turns out they had plenty of Rock Band bundles - after everyone got their bundle, they had probably 7 or 8 PS3 copies and 4 or 5 360 copies left.

Now, I just need to find myself a Falcon 360 and I'll be all set for Thanksgiving. :)

sigh

I think that this is the most painful Bills loss in at least 10 years.

They're not going to make the playoffs this year. They're not going to finish close to .500. They've lost lots and lots of starters to injury.

But tonight - it looked like the stars aligned for the standard bearer for small market teams to knock off Jerry Jones and the big-money NFL. The Bills never trailed in the game, but they found a way to keep letting Dallas back in.

Until the end. One part of me kept thinking that with all the tough losses we've suffered over the years, that there's no possible way Dallas could pull off a win. I guess I was wrong.

On a positive note, it looks like this is Trent Edwards's team now. Gotta keep hoping for next year. :)

does Guitar Hero rock the 80s?

I picked up Guitar Hero 80's Edition yesterday. Some thoughts:

The game is just the Guitar Hero 2 engine with some new songs and new outfits. There's one programmer listed in the credits, and the rest are art and music people.

There are a lot more 3-note chords in these songs. Also, I noticed a green-orange chord or two.

I've seen some framerate slowdown in Hard and Expert modes. WTF? Throttle the background graphics if you need to, but *don't* mess with the framerate!

Overall, the song selection is kind of meh - I've had more fun rocking out to songs in Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2. However, this song has been stuck in my head for the past two days.

So, I'd have to say that it's the weakest of the Guitar Hero series, but worth the $40 I paid for it. Bring on Rock Band!

what a game...

I almost passed out when the Sabres won Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals tonight. After Chris Drury scored with 7 seconds to go to send the game to overtime, the camera panned over the euphoric crowd. I was stunned to see my cousin Evan screaming his head off cheering!



I've always kind of half paid attention to the crowd at Sabres games on TV, thinking I might recognize someone. Tonight I finally did!

enough already

Dear Enterprise Rent-A-Car:

I appreciate the fact that you guys are advertising during the NHL playoffs on Versus. However, I must see the commercial where the 3 girls are throwing their scarves out of the back of the convertible anywhere from 5 to 10 times during *each* game. It's getting a little old.

Can you guys please run a new commercial? And maybe one that's targeted more towards the people watching hockey?

Thanks!

Firefox text size on OS X

I've been using ctrl-scroll wheel in Firefox on Windows for ages to increase or decrease text size. Firefox 1.5 used cmd-scroll wheel on OS X to do the same thing. I was irritated when cmd-scroll wheel stopped working in Firefox 2.0, but never irritated enough to find out why.

Apparently they changed this in 2.0 to ctrl-scroll wheel, I guess to be more consistent with the Windows version. This collides with the default setting for OS X's zoom feature.

I've never been able to figure out the Firefox setting to change the text size shortcut, so tonight I finally reassigned the OS X zoom to cmd-scroll wheel.

Yay, now I can use ctrl-scroll wheel in Firefox to change text size!

I think I need one of these

I'm not sure why, but I really would like a beer pouring robot. I'd prefer one that spoke its preprogrammed witty bartender phrases in English though.

Guitar Hero

So, I got Guitar Hero II this past weekend as a wedding present. (Thanks, Don and HM!) Initially I thought, "hey, cool, I played this once before, it was pretty neat." It definitely wasn't something I'd go out and buy myself.

That was Sunday. As of Tuesday, I stopped by Hollywood Video GAMECRAZY (TM) OMG to pick up the first Guitar Hero.

I'm officially addicted. As in, early stages of WoW addiction. The past few days I've had Guitar Hero songs going through my head during most of the day, waiting until I get home to try to complete more songs on the next level.

Time to go sneak in a song or two before heading to work. :)

w00t!

After probably doing more research on a new TV than I did on my new car, I finally pulled the trigger this morning. I ordered a 61" 1080p Samsung set from Amazon - free shipping and no tax! I so can't wait for the Super Bowl this year!