For this to be a “gaming” blog, I sure don’t do much gaming from April through June.  I haven’t even touched a game in 3 weeks!  From my class, to setting up my new rig, to running the kids to their sports, to the school year finishing up, I barely have time to sneeze, let [...]

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A couple of months ago, Bill Harris – of the always excellent Dubious Quality – linked to a set of internet posts from a recording industry insider dubbed “Mixerman.”  Mixerman gave an in-the-studio account of a major label band recording songs with a world famous producer.  Well, he almost gave the whole account.  And, of [...]

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It’s May, which means it’s annual bonus time!  I was pleasantly surprised with my raise/bonus, so I decided to splurge a little more than usual this year.  I’m currently typing this update on my brand new AMD Quad Core 6 GB bundle, and viewing what I type on my new 23″ widescreen monitor!  If you [...]

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Bleep you Kerry Wood. Bleep you Jhonny Perralta Bleep you Grady Sizemore Bleep you Fausto Carmona Bleep you Jensen Lewis Bleep you Rafael Perez Bleep you Jeremy Sowers Bleep you Travis Hafner Bleep you Ben Francisco Bleep you Ryan Garko Bleep you Anthony Reyes Bleep you Kelly Shopach Bleep you Mark DeRosa Bleep you Shin [...]

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I got back from class last night, in time to take my son to his soccer game, and then to his baseball game.  Of course, he had another double-header today.  My week last week was peaceful, but even though I’m busy here at home, I wouldn’t want to miss my kids’ activities for the world.  [...]

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My programming class is going okay.  The hardest part is that I have the weakest programming background of all of the students.  I get the concepts without any trouble, but if I had to come up with the code from scratch I’d have no idea about 50% of the time.  The good news is that [...]

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I’m heading out tomorrow morning for my ASP.Net Visual Studio 2008 class!  I’ll be training all day from Monday-Friday.  Hopefully, this knowledge will spur me on to complete some of my programming goals.  Since I won’t be at home, it will give me the opportunity to work on some “me” stuff, like my writing, some [...]

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Manny Ramirez has just been suspended 50 games from MLB for using a banned substance.  What substance, you ask?  Why, a female fertility drug – human chorionic gonadotropin.  I guess Manny was having problems ovulating? Actually, the drug is commonly used among steroid users when coming down off of a steroid cycle to encourage the body [...]

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The season of suck continues for the Crew and Indians…  The Crew are still winless, now standing with 2 losses and 5 ties.  They’ve blown 3 leads at home in the second half.  It may be tough to recover in terms of winning the Supporter’s Shield, but if they get it together soon, they are [...]

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