http://www.remi1000revised.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:43:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had the chance to muck around with the new Xbox Dashboard for about ten minutes earlier today, and will generously share my thoughts: Avatars On the Wii, you can make a Mii look like yourself fairly easily, largely because Miis are so simple and cartoony. Avatars might also be cartoony, but ... http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/11/19/new-xbox-experience/ ... if you don't run over and check out Spokane Food Blog right now! http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/10/23/youre-a-douche/ "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..." Probably one of the most puzzling and unsettling stories ever written, those two lines written by Fredric Brown are actually a short-story within a short-story. And while the 1948 text obviously is awesome, I have ... http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/09/29/knock/ I don't hate Microsoft. Xbox 360? Awesome. Some of their web development stuff? Really underrated. Even the Zune, despite being a substandard iPod clone, is not really that bad. Vista, while having some nice features, is not a good product. For being a six or whatever years in the making OS ... http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/09/20/microsofts-clueless-ad-campaigns/ Yes, the tabloids got this one right; I did get an iPhone. There were multiple reasons why I took the step, the biggest of which was my previous provider, T-Mobile, going from being a tragicomedy to a snuff film. Three months with dropped calls and delayed text messages (seriously, T-Mobile, ... http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/09/09/iphone/ We launched four (count 'em!) sites at iluvspokane, many of which are updated daily. Downtown Spokane has a new taco truck. I'm finally a published writer. http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/09/04/reasons-this-blog-currently-is-slow/ Follower of Hip as Fuck will probably remember the Mario Kart DUI experiment. If you don't, just click that link. Anyway, it came, it went, and it got a few hits from people Googling Mario Kart, as well as a handful of hits from iluvspokane and yada yada yada. As ... http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/08/22/were-bigger-than-moses/ Fo realz yo. http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/08/20/frank-zappa-was-awesome/ ... yeah, I don't really "get" them. I mean, some of their songs are fairly catchy, but whoever called it all, and I paraphrase, "pretentious pap," was definitely right. Actually that might have been me. And exactly why do they dress like hippies, look like hippies, act like hippies while claiming ... http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/08/19/fleet-foxes/ As anyone with good taste knows, we ("we" being the visionaries behind the gone but not forgotten Tortillaphilia) launched All Over Your Faces yesterday, a site dedicated to the fauxlosophical musings we often come up with. You should visit it right now. For those interested in these kinda things, here are ... http://www.remi1000revised.com/2008/08/12/all-over-your-faces/