- Seriously, look at how awesome this looks. Watching the parrallax in motion is unreal. http://t.co/WMNm5MLt
carygolomb (3 hours ago)Mannnn. Rayman is sick.carygolomb (3 hours ago)One should never doubt Amazon. Sure enough, my Vita is out for delivery.carygolomb (14 hours ago)Excited to try out the new Apache. Very interested in the performance updates. Especially what looks like Varnish built in.carygolomb (15 hours ago)I have enormous faith that Amazon will get the Vita to me tomorrow... but it has to go 700 miles in 16 hours.carygolomb (24 hours ago)
Random Nonsense Archive
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Achievement Unlocked: Vending Machine Win
Posted on December 30, 2011 | 4 CommentsIf you are like me, your life isn’t exactly a cornucopia of wonder and merriment. In my average work day, the part I look forward to most is 5:00 PM... -
And now a word from our Sponsor: Bypass Gemini
Posted on May 5, 2011 | No CommentsWhen I’m not working my way through a game, ranting incoherently, or doing any of my several other jobs, I tend to write. In the past it has been mostly... -
Sliding Scale: The Problem With Review Scores
Posted on April 26, 2011 | No CommentsBrainLazy has done its fair share of reviews over the years, but from the start we had a hard time adjusting to the standard rating system. In some of our... -
Rule of Four Part 2
Posted on April 12, 2011 | No CommentsA while back I discussed the rule of four, introducing the idea that there is a long list of things that, if you have four or more of them, indicate... -
Non-Smoker Opt-Out
Posted on March 30, 2011 | No CommentsSmoking is a filthy habit. It is smelly, unhealthy, expensive, and highly addictive. I have known this ever since I was a little kid, because roughly since birth I have... -
The Rule of Four Part 1: Cats, Bumper Stickers, and Tattoos
Posted on March 3, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe other day I was engaged in one of the most important activities a man can pursue, digesting a Red Robin Bleu Ribbon burger, when the conversation mysteriously turned to... -
Apple could dominate the gaming market. Could.
Posted on March 1, 2011 | 1 CommentGaming. Gaming is the single most important force behind current consumer technology. It is and has been the driving force behind pushing the IC envelope all these years. Super Computers... -
AOL is the anti-Fox; News is the new fast food
Posted on February 8, 2011 | 1 CommentBear with me folks, I’m going to take one of my rare dips into semi-topical stuff, so if you are reading this in a few days (the Internet equivalent of... -
The Koala Technique
Posted on February 7, 2011 | No CommentsRecently, a fellow brainlazer and I were discussing a current scandal. I won’t say what the scandal is, for reasons that will soon be made clear, but suffice to say... -
Multitasking
Posted on January 21, 2011 | No CommentsThese days, everyone multitasks. There is just too much to do to just be doing one thing, so you have to double and triple up. Eat breakfast while driving to... -
Console vs PC
Posted on January 18, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe concept of “Us vs Them” is one that I’ve discussed here many times before. Something about the human brain makes it impossible to avoid dividing up the population into... -
Living On The Edge
Posted on January 14, 2011 | No CommentsThere are really a tremendous number of stupid things that human beings choose to do. Seriously, take a look at the group as a whole. Some of us hurl ourselves... -
Marketing
Posted on January 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe Internet has changed the world in a lot of ways. There was a time when, if you wanted to sell something, and you didn’t have a store, your options... -
New Year’s Resolutions
Posted on January 6, 2011 | No CommentsWell, a new year is upon us. Gone is the glorious year MMX, replaced instead by the yet to be proven year MMXI. I guess even the calendar has gotten... -
OMFG SNOW!!!1!1!!
Posted on December 27, 2010 | No CommentsIf you are anywhere in the east coast, chances are good that you are aware of a minor snow condition we’re having. Evidently all of those people dreaming of a... -
Cell Phones, Eclipses, and other Awesome Things
Posted on December 21, 2010 | No CommentsI know I rant a lot about… Well, basically everything. It is enormously therapeutic, but I don’t want you folks out there to think that I think EVERYTHING sucks. There... -
The Big Questions
Posted on December 17, 2010 | No CommentsSeveral of the people I know have a certain trait in common. When someone proposes a suitably intriguing question, no matter how rhetorical or frivolous, we will investigate it vigorously.... -
Wikileaks
Posted on December 14, 2010 | No CommentsWikileaks is one of those topics that I really should stay the hell away from. This isn't like a movie critic making ignorant judgments outside of his area of expertise or a game coming under fire for sexism because people don't get its jokes. I'd love to ignore it and hope it goes away, but it is something of an elephant in the room. As a resident of both real life and the Internet, I feel compelled to at least distill the issue down for you to the state that exists in my head. You see, Wikileaks is a kick in the balls. -
All Natural
Posted on December 9, 2010 | No CommentsThe other day I overheard a health food devotee reprimanding someone for enjoying a beverage. That alone was sufficient to irritate the hell out of me, but our conscientious volunteer food mentor managed to strike an additional chord in my legion of pet peeves by whipping out one of the most arbitrary health food buzz phrases in the book: All Natural. Now, if you want to help me to eat better, I appreciate that, but I am a practical guy, so I'm going to require something a bit more concrete than meaningless blurbs on food labels to convince me to ditch the aspartame. -
Campfire Topics
Posted on December 2, 2010 | 1 CommentFor most of my childhood I spent about one month out of every year in Vermont. Now, Vermont is a great place, but not exactly an entertainment hot spot. Sure, there is skiing, but I was up there in August, so that’s out. There are also cities there like anywhere else, but we went to family property in Starksboro. I think that we doubled the population when we visited. Seriously, our annual visit was a red letter day. They would come and visit “The Family From Jersey.” One time they brought us a pie! So for them, it was a big deal. For us, it was five people sleeping in a barn for a month. Our entertainment was lighting a pile of tree pieces on fire, staring at it, and exploring a particular set of topics. -
To A Fault
Posted on December 1, 2010 | No CommentsPeople like to be flowery in their language. I myself am known to pursue a policy of sesquipedalian loquaciousness on occasion. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it is important... -
Avatar: The Extended Collector’s Edition Review
Posted on November 25, 2010 | No CommentsAlright, I’ve got nothing against James Cameron, effect-heavy top Box Office hits, or the Na’vi, but Avatar was not my cup of tea. Granted, this is a DVD review, but... -
Over-engineered
Posted on November 24, 2010 | No CommentsThe other day, I saw a commercial that bragged that their product was "over-engineered". They used the term like it was a selling point. Now, as I've said far too many times before, I'm an engineer... Well, I WOULD be an engineer, if after I had gotten my degrees I had actually sought out an engineering job. As it is, I'm an IT specialist and phoney baloney journalist with two very expensive pieces of paper hanging on my wall. But it DOES give my opinion a little more weight when I suggest that "over-engineered" is not something you should be necessarily be looking for in a product if you are a consumer.