My Christmas List (in no particular order)

The R4 (R4DS)

A sweet DS flash cart for running homebrew and other less than legal things. I have a GBA flash card, and loved it, but it's been obsoleted. Now that the R4 is pretty much the standard, I feel like it'd be a great addition to my increasingly niche gaming collection.

Expected Price: Around $40
Where to buy: GameYeeeah.com

Logitech mm50 Portable Speakers for iPod

These portable speakers would allow me to do my best Jack Whitman impression. They sport a rechargeable battery and would also charge my iPod whist plugged in. Bloking borrowed Doug's for our Winnipesaukee trip, and they were excellent.

Expected Price: No more than $100
Where to buy: J&R, Amazon

Peace on Earth

This would really go great with my yin-yang coffee table.

Expected Price: One BILLION dollars!
Where to buy: World Food Programme

Western Digital 500GB My Book

Time to upgrade the storage. My 80GB WD is great, but I can get more than 5 times that storage for about the same price.

Expected Price: Around $120
Where to buy: Amazon

Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii

The best Wii game to date, and I don't have it.

Expected Price: No more than $50
Where to buy: Any store that sells video games

New Earbuds

First, I broke my Apple In-Ear Earbuds, then superglued them back together, rendering one side mute (although they are passable). Then, my dollar store backups bit the dust. Today, I washed and dried my original iPod Earbuds. Time for new ones. Nothing fancy, just looking for in-ear, white and volume control on the cord would be nice.

Expected Price: Less than $25
Where to buy: Anywhere online... these are nice.

Gravel gets remixed

I figured I'd use this video to test YouTube's Blogger intergration. Enjoy this honest, wacky, well-meaning, snowball's-chance of a man.

Web Hosting Change

I've moved my hosting from a really cool free secret web host to another server at the same very cool secret web host. On a completely unrelated note, check out Infotree for excellent web hosting in Connecticut.

Top 10 Track Ones in My iTunes Library

Inspired by TheCookBlog's Track 6's, here my Top 10 Track 1's.

1. 01 Counting Crows - Round Here
   from August and Everything After
2. 01 Harvey Danger - Wine, Women, and Song
   from Little by Little
3. 01 Saves the Day - At Your Funeral
   from Stay What You Are
4. 01 William Shatner - Common People
   from Has Been
5. 01 Green Day - American Idiot
   from American Idiot
6. 01 Desaparecidos - Man and Wife, the Former
   from Read Music | Speak Spanish
7. 01 Weezer - Tired of Sex
   from Pinkerton
8. 01 Foo Fighters - This is a Call
   from Foo Fighters
9. 01 Save Ferris - The World is New
   from It Means Everything
10. 01 Sublime - Waiting for My Ruca
    from 40oz to Freedom

You may also want to check out my links to all the SXSW MP3's from 2006.

Bloggin' from the 'Fox

I'm testing out the Firefox extension ScribeFire. Seems pretty nice!

Powered by ScribeFire.

Excellent lecture on Copyright, Culture and the Internet

Definitely worth a watch (or listen, if you're at work).

Micro-budget film avoids Hollywood machine, draws huge comedy ensemble cast

Against all odds, Paul Francis Sullivan and his brother, Ted Sullivan, combined to write and direct a Hollywood film with Hollywood stars without a Hollywood budget. I'll Believe You started with a bold concept: make a film that's both a family-friendly comedy and, at the same time, a soul-searching sci-fi mystery. Determined to hold true to this format, the brothers began to recruit a top-notch cast despite having a budget comparable to Kevin Smith's Clerks. A summer blockbuster comedy featuring Patrick "Putty from Seinfeld" Warburton, Ed "The Office" Helms, Fred "Every comedy in the last ten years" Willard, Chris "Something About Mary" Elliot, and Mo "The Daily Show" Rocca would be no surprise, but seeing all this talent line up for one little movie filmed in Melbourne, FL is an amazing sight. Heading the cast is up and coming actor David Alan Basche, who previously starred as Todd "Let's Roll" Beamer in the film United 93. Basche brings feeling to the film and serves as the magnet for the insanity of the ensemble cast around him. Playing the straight man suits him, and it's reflected in his role as a radio show host; a man amidst attention-craved people looking for a chance to be heard, coherance be damned. Originally titled "First Time Caller", the film premiered at the Melbourne Independent Film Festival on November 11th, 2006. One year and tons of tweaks later, the film was retitled "I'll Believe You" and presented to Stand Up Films who brought the movie to it current state. The film will be released this weekend in select theaters nationwide.

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