Barry Bonds is chasing Babe Ruth on the all time homerun list. But he keeps attracting bad publicity. This time by not even running out a pop up in the final innings of the game. Excellent column on this subject at Yahoo’s baseball site.
Author: Eric
Basically I have too many interests. I like to read, play PC games (ESO and various builder / factory type games), watch movies, listen to music, and tweak PC's, browse the web and read news on Reddit and hang out on twitch and discord. My dayjob is Software Engineer!
From Max to Mini
Fun post on binary bonsai, putting a Mac Mini next to an old fashioned PC ;).
Elder Scrolls Oblivion
Got the mail from Play.com that this game is on it’s way now :). Looking forward to playing it ! First reviews are looking good. Also a small piece on my other blog from a while back.
Computer Game Nostalgia
Ah found this link: Top 100 Amiga games. Probably an old one, but still true. Remember Supercars ? And ofcourse the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood on Monkey Island !
How did I get there ? Well I saw that Sid Meier is working on a remake of Railroad Tycoon. Hard to believe the original came out 16 years ago. Must be getting old ! Played the original to death. Think I might still have the original somewhere in a closet. Games sure have come a long way, since then, but thats mainly the graphics. Hard to find a game anymore that has such magical gameplay that kept you busy for hours / days on end. Hope the remake will turn out good, the gameplay should still be there…
Kirby Puckett
Baseball hall of famer Kirby Puckett passed away monday at the age of 45 :(. A great player and a wonderful personality, even though his life went down hill once he quit baseball…
Googleplex
Google employees sure have a nice workspace. I bet they get a lot of work done, in between massages, playing pool, volleyball and walking the dog…
Usenet Crackdown
Apparantly the MPAA is now going after Usenet indexing websites according to this article on Betanews. Since the host no files whatsoever and only supply nzb files, I dont see how they have a case, but we’ll see how it turns out. Hope my favorite nzb site (who also invented the nzb format) www.newzbin.com wont disappear !
There are also two related articles on news.com: MPAA sues newsgroup search sites and Are Usenet fans vulnerable to copyright lawsuits ?
Walk The Line
To be honest, I was a little reluctant to see this movie at first. I am big Cash fan, especially his American Recordings stuff, and also read some books about the man, so I already have an image of him inside my head. But decided to give it a go anyway, mostly due to my curiosity.
Well I am glad I did, because I liked the movie a lot. Basically it tells his life story from childhood up to the late sixties where he finally got off drugs, married June and rediscovered his christian faith.
Both Joaquim Phoenix and Reese Weatherspoon play excellent. Even though they arent exactly lookalikes of Cash and Carter they manage to portray a believable image of them. The music is nicely done as well. The story might be a bit superficial at times, as you mainly see Cash in trouble, especially focusing on his outbursts, but I guess they had a lot of ground to cover and picked up the most interesting bits. Cash’s relationship with his father plays a big role as well.
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