Observations, rants, and musings by Joe Siegler.
I’ve been playing video games for a LONG LONG time. I’ve played a lot of bad ones in my time. I’ve played a lot of good ones. The one I want to talk about most definitely falls in the BAD category. While I’ve not personally played the game, I ran across this review of Big […]
In an event most Doctor Who fans figured probably wouldn’t be happening any time soon, today the news comes that a lost Doctor Who episode has been recovered and returned to the BBC. This is Episode 2 of The Daleks’ Master Plan, the 1965 William Hartnell serial. Any episode of Doctor Who that is recovered […]
As 2003 drew to a close, I decided that since I have this blog now, I was going to do a retrospective of some of the CD’s I bought in 2003. I have a listing online of all the CD’s I own here. I’m going to be moving that into my blog once I find […]
The people the fell for this are just stupid. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3373739.stm
I like coffee. Ever since the one year I spent in College, I kind of got hooked on the stuff. I was going to Temple University, and when I would get off the Subway in North Philly, I’d get what I called “A Cup of Mud” from this Roach Coach that was right outside the […]
I can’t help it – I think my cats are damn cute – and when I take pictures like this of them, I am suckered in even more. :)
If you work in customer support, I’ve got a couple of links you need to check out – you’ll love them. I guarantee it. :) Steve’s Think Tank Blog Entry Customerssuck.com – A Classic! I got a major laugh out of these. The first one is new to me today. The second one I’ve known […]
There’s a new version of the Winamp media player out, and I really REALLY am into this new version – so much so that I wrote my history with Winamp, MusicMatch Jukebox, and how iTunes got me to go back to Winamp (sort of). :) When Winamp first came out, I really liked the program […]
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner This book tells the story of John Romero & John Carmack of id Software. It talks about the creation of id Software, through Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, and later Doom, Quake, and the breakup of the two Johns. I […]
Philadelphia Then and Now : 60 Sites Photographed in the Past and Present by Kenneth Finkel, Susan Oyama This book isn’t big (128 pages), and it isn’t that wordy (about 80% of the pages are taken up with pictures). But it is fascinating if you like Philadelphia, and you like history. This book takes 60 […]
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