Archive for January 13th, 2005
Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Best. News. Ever.
Bungie has released the wondrous Marathon Trilogy as a free download. Life is good. I’m going to go home, download this, and play through the whole thing at maximum difficulty! So, who’s up for a LAN party? Update: I went home, got Marathon, set the difficulty to “Total Carnage,” and died, repeatedly, about 10 feet […]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
A New Velodrome in Ontario?
There’s a few crazies trying to build another indoor velodrome in Canada, this time in London, Ontario, something I found out thanks to Gord’s blog. The killer part? They’re proposing a 142m track with 50-degree banking! The Burnaby ‘drome is already one of the tightest, steepest tracks in the world, but it’s a comparatively roomy […]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
The Aviator: a brief review
You know when the exact moment that Martin Scorsese lost me in The Aviator? As Hughes throttles up for his record speed run, the tachometer goes up to eleven (4500, I think), and then the needle falls off. You see that sort of thing, and the credibili-meter drops near zero. I know that anyone with […]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Mac mini, iPod shuffle
A lot of the time, I find myself looking at new Mac products and going “that’s nice, but a bit too much, and I hardly need it.” After the introduction of the Mac mini, I have started calculating when I will buy one, and which monitor I will use with it. It’s just enough computer […]