Author Archives: Doppelbock
Credit Card Companies Can Bite Me
Credit card companies like Chase and Captial One can just bite me. I was carrying a balance on two different cards at decent, single-digit fixed interest rates (which is what I agreed to when I signed up for the cards) … Continue reading
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A Terabyte of storage for a hundred bucks?
I never thought I’d see the day but Newegg had a Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB internal drive (with 32MB cache no less) for only $99 last week; it’s back up to a whopping $110 now. Even after all these … Continue reading
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Red Alert is Free from EA
Electronic Arts is offering a free download of the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert for download (to help pump up interest for the 3rd installment of the game). It’s over ten years old now though so it will require … Continue reading
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Speed 2
I guess that last test wasn’t a fluke, I got about the same again today. I’ll have to read about that Boost stat though since it was over 13Mbit/sec this time. ***Edit*** Yep, should’ve saved that image locally.
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Whoa, my upload speed increased
I don’t know when it happened but it looks like Cox uncorked my upload speed at some point. I used to get maybe 400k/sec or something but I just ran a test to a server about 425 miles away and … Continue reading
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Heart Attack Grill, here I come!
Damn, after watching this video I may have a trip to Chandler, AZ in my future. Just imagine a place with a Quadruple Bypass burger (four 1/2 pound patties) and an all-you-can-eat french fry bar (they are cooked in real … Continue reading
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Warmachine Loot
Wow, I scored pretty well on Warmachine goodies for Xmas. My brother Gary got me a box of Idrian Skirmishers and an extra blister to bring the unit up to 8 guys. My wife let me pick out some stuff … Continue reading
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Tagged Miniatures, Privateer Press, Tabletop Gaming, Warmachine/Hordes
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Another reason not to work (or shop) at Wal-Mart
Another reason not to work or shop at Wal-Mart… Wal-Mart worker trampled to death by shoppers in New York Black Friday shoppers straining to get into a Wal-Mart in a suburb of New York City trampled an employee to death … Continue reading
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Nigerian scam really works!
Apparently some woman actually fell for the old “send us your life savings and we’ll give you $20 million”. The really sad part is that she sent strangers some $400,000 over a two year span and her bank even warned … Continue reading
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She walks!
Holy crap, we got home tonight and out of the blue Saratoga started walking on all four legs for 4-5 feet at a time. This is truly amazing, it was only about six weeks ago that we brought her home … Continue reading
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Quote of the Day (boy it’s cold!)
Well, I’m going to go read e-mail while my balls warm up. That gem was uttered by one of my co-workers after riding his new motorcyle in to work this morning. He picked the wrong time of year to switch … Continue reading
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What if the world could have voted?
My old friend SicPreFix linked to this site, I was amazed at how one-sided the world vote was. Anyone in the world could cast a vote for McCain or Obama. While not scientific or random it’s still very interesting.
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Election 2008: Mixed results so far
I’m glad that Obama has apparently won the electoral college but sad that he seems to have barely squeeked by in the popular vote, I wanted him to get at least 55% there. More importantly (and more upsetting to me) … Continue reading
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Quote of the week: History
I read this one in The Week magazine today (in an article about economic bubbles): What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history. -Warren Buffett
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SA Achievements for TF2
I got the bug to start playing lots of TF2 again and noticed that there is now unlockable gear for some classes. I had no clue about them so I Googled for info and this page of fake acheivements on … Continue reading
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