Author Archives: Brian

Firefly – not impressed (yet)

So, I have heard all the buzz over Firefly and finally decided to watch it. I have watched the first three episodes and I am just not overly impressed. It’s not bad, it’s just not great like I thought it would be. I guess I’m spoiled by Battlestar Glactica – I heard the buzz about that too and watched the first season way after it had been aired. Balttlestar is fan-freakin-tastic and I’m all caught up now. With the lack of good SciFi shows on TV, I’ll definitely finish watching the first season and I’ll be interested to see how the new Serenity movie turns out.

Speaking of Firefly, here is a lego-ized Serenity. [via]

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I’m similar to….Bill Cosby?

I used to do the Mostly Trivial podcast (hosted by JohnneeBee now), and because of that, I am listed on AudioScrobbler/Last.FM. Take a look at who I am similar to. Quite an assortment there – Adam Curry, Jimmy Jett, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, and even Bill Cosby and Chef (from Southpark I assume). I don’t know that I actually have any similarities to those people, but at least I’m in good company.

If anyone wants to download those old Mostly Trivial episodes I did (31 of them), let me know. I can repost them here if there is any interest.

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Cable modem is back up

So the cable guy fixed up my connection today. Turns out one of my cable splitters was shot (who knew?) – he replaced it and now we are just peachy. So the site should be stable again – probably will still be a tad slow to render since my server is a measly P233 with 96 MB of RAM hosting 8 or 9 domains via my cable modem. Like I said though – I’m going to move this site to a real server soon.

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D-pad origin?

I have no idea what made me think of this the other day……what is the origin of calling the little pad/controller thingy on a gamepad a “D-pad”? It’s not shaped like a D, it’s shaped like a plus. Why isn’t it called a “plus pad” or a “cross pad”? And when was the first time it was called this (and why)? And what controller had the first “D-pad”? I couldn’t immediately find the answer to this via Google. Things that make you say Hmmmmmmmm…….

Anyone have an answer?

UPDATE: Found it – D-pad is short for “direction pad” (I knew that). I found it on the very next google search after I posted this.

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