Monthly Archives: December 2007

big things attract many idiots.

The bigger something becomes, and the more people who participate, the more apparent it becomes that there are too many idiots in the world. The Internet is one example. Another would be roads. When there are a few cars, it’s alright… but as soon as there is heavy traffic it seems that the collective intelligence […]

hours from everywhere.

Today Nadia got a phone call with the results of her urine test, turns out she has another infection. No biggie, we have the antibiotics now. But damn, was it a journey to get them. She has to get them from her insurance’s locations, and the closest one closed before we left the house, so […]

Halo 3

Last night I booted up the xbox 360 to play a new demo that had been made available online (Burnout Paradise) but somehow I ended up playing Halo 3 multiplayer and… well, that was the end of that. I stayed up all night playing against people around the world (Ireland, Scotland, England, America obviously, and […]

Halo 3 screenshot

Halo 3 screenshot

Halo 3 has a special feature where you can replay previous games as videos. The cool thing is that they’re not normal video files, they’re game script files that replay the action exactly - meaning you can move the camera around, see the game from another player’s perspective, make the action unfold in slow motion […]

UNO, sans cockroach.

While driving around town for the vitamins Clad was saying we should do something, and we said we should get UNO. Yousef didn’t like the idea at all, he was in a bad mood over being dragged away from his Matrix game - but boy did things turn around when we got home and started […]

barbara and the kids

barbara and the kids

vitamin shoppe-ing

Today we went to the doctors so Nadia could get a urine test, then drove all the way back home to pick up Clad and the kids so that we could go back out and shop for vitamins. It was cold. Yousef wanted to stay home and play his Matrix game - Path of Neo. […]

mum and nadia

mum and nadia

taken around here somewhere.

first day back.

Hey everyone! Last time I tried to keep a blog to stay in touch with you guys it didn’t go to well, but I’m going to give it another shot. What I’ll do this time is make the blog something of a daily record of what goes on over here, and if I have anything […]