Month: August 2011

“I am not a robot, I am a unicorn”

What happens when you let two chatbots talk to each other? Comedy gold:

Hong Kong Might Be Out Of Child-Bearing Women By The Year 2798

Never really thought about this, but with women in richer parts of Asia going on a “marriage strike,” there could be a point where several countries run out of women

I Know What I’m Going To Do With My Wii

Load time is always an issues with Wii games, it seems. Our kids play the Wii extensively and it’s always fun for parties at the Ortman house, but sometimes it’s a buzzkill when you’re waiting for the next song to load in Just Dance 2. It’d sure be nice if it could load off the hard drive.

There have been ways to hack the Wii before to play games off a hard drive, but they usually involved an ugly exploit or game hack to get it to work. Lifehacker shares a quick five-minute process to hack your Wii. Then you can run games off a hard drive, which will be really handy so the kids don’t keep scratching up my their disks.

Now if I can just convince the wife and kids to let me tinker…

I’d Hire This Guy

When I ever get a chance to put up a good online resume (instead of my basic PDF version that really needs to be re-written and updated), I need to create something as frickin’ awesome as this.

It’s Super Mario Bros. with a Portal Gun

Mari0 would be a lot of fun to play:

Yes, it is under development.

Time Killer For The Evening

You’re a penguin. You want to fly. Go for it in Learn to Fly 2

I can’t honestly remember playing Learn to Fly, the original, but here it is should you want to try that first.

Apparently People Are Still Looking For Google Plus Invites

If you are, I have 149 here. Knock yourself out.

Video Dump

Need to get these out of my stash…enjoy!

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Time Killer For The Evening

Safety Instructions will put your typing skills to the test. You screw up, you kill the airplane passengers. So don’t screw up.

Been On A Bad Date?