I have bought Starcraft 2 and I have no regrets. Sure I’m posting this comic at 3 am in the morning on a work day, but the single player is just too damn good. I started off playing “brutal” and man is it BRUTAL. So I had to step it down a notch and play hard. The strange thing is Normal mode is actually at a slower game speed then hard and brutal.

There are tons of new units in single player. The Medic is back, as is the Firebat, Goliath and Vulture. Also a couple of new ones like the DiamondBack that shoots while moving. Also units have a ton of upgrades that keep them alive in single player that are not available in multi-player.

As for the real wood knocker, I just need to finish the iphone application, and submit that bad boy to apple.

Unfortunately I still have an ass load of stuff to do this weekend, so I’m not sure how this is going to work.

Danny

I remember my uncle keeping a “fighting fish”. He didn’t arrange duels or anything like that, but the name just sounded cool. The moniker belongs to the esteemed group of “things that do what you expect” like the Mexican jumping bean, the pistol shrimp, and Snakes on a Plane.

Here’s a little creativity exercise: what would you name a fighting fish? Here are some examples to get you started:

• Fighting Nemo
• Orange Roughly
• Drinky MacFinn
• Lungebob Squarepants
• James Pond
• You’ve Got Scale
• A Swimmer Nightly
• Feed the Troll
• Moby Dick Jr.
• Gone Thrashin’
• Fish-o’-War
• Just Sleeping
• Alpha Betta
• Fancy Feast
• Humuhumunukunukuapua’am Gonna Knife You

– Alex ^.^()

This guy lives life more than most:

The Double Rainbow song:

2001 version:

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go win one or twelve medals in exotic car throwing competitions. One handed fish catch.

– Alex

I just took a stroll back in time and watched Conan the Barbarian movie. It was awesome, there was little to no dialog, but I loved ever moment of it.

While searching for the IMDB for the barbarian I stumbled upon Conan the remake. Why oh why?

Danny

#blackout #toronto There was a blackout in Toronto today. I was busy surfing the internet at work when I heard what sounded like a rumble, like a giant ship crashing slowly into a wooden dock. The office went black, there was brief pause, as people though perhaps it was a short glitch or they blinked for a little too long. I looked outside the window and noticed the traffic lights were off, but the TTC was still running. This made me realize that it was not a city wide issue. Immediately my officemates went on their mobile phones checking twitter for the latest news.

They should make twitter a news station. Just have confirmed locals just like they do for celebrities.

Danny

I read Naruto. There I said it, is it such a crime? My introduction to Naruto was about 2 years ago, and I watched all 134 episodes up to the point of Sasuke’s and Naruto’s first epic battle. I did this all in one weekend, about 38 hours of anime. I tend to binge these things. I did the same thing with Battlestar Galactica, I ended up catching a fever, not one for more cow bell, but one where I thought I was a cylon. I did the same for Firefly, and found myself looking for fan fiction after it was cancelled. I read 500 chapters of One Piece over the course of one week. I had to port it over to my PSP at the time, so that I could be mobile while reading it.

So after binging all these years I’ve learned one very useful tip, Wikipedia summaries. Using this wonderful short cut I’ve binged Star Trek Voyager/TNG/TOS, Doctor Who, Lost, Dexter, to name a few. It is just so much faster. Just as reading the manga is so much faster and fulfilling then watching stupid fillers, reading summaries is so much faster then sitting and watching everything.

I get bored easily.

Danny

RE: “Epic” anime

It took me halfway in the Soul Society arc before I realized Bleach was going to be the next Dragon Ball Z. Now, I watch series which don’t spiral onwards into infinity. I have a compulsive nature to watch everything, and I don’t want to be trapped watching a series which doesn’t end. It’s kind of a bittersweet policy though, because I’d watch a series, it’d end, and then I’d wish there were more =/

– Alex

After moving together all engineers, about 50 of us. There has been an exponential increase in the amount of office warfare. What used to be the odd dart flying across the room, has exploded into a Nerf Armageddon. We have teams now that have setup a mini shooting range, with cardboard cutouts.

Being a pacifist mainly, I’d decided to not buy a Nerf gun in response. Instead I opt to pick up the darts and throw them at the aggressor, usually unsuccessfully.

Besides the table behind me has an Olympic shooter.

Danny

PS. HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!

Toronto was hit with a 5.0 – 5.5 magnitude earth quake on June 23, 2010. I didn’t feel it because I was in the subway at the time. When I got back to my desk my girlfriend gave me a call to see if I was OK. Since I heard it was a small earthquake and the calmness in her voice she was fine told me she was fine, I began to wonder out loud how my newly bought TV was doing. This pissed her off, because it totally sounded like I didn’t care about her as much as my TV. I have got to bolt things down so this doesn’t happen again.

Danny

Recently Gates and Buffett held a conference urging billionaires to donate half their wealth to charity. Though I’m all for helping people out, I find it hard to believe anyone who has accumulated such massive wealth to simply hand over their bank accounts.

I can’t help but think about Gate’s buying out Homer Simpson.

Also checkout the podcast section, the latest POD cast is a real treat.

As for the book front, do you guys prefer Calvin and Hobbs style, where it’s just the comics and no chatter? Or would you like comic, hidden text below, and comments on the back?

Danny

Yo

You can read up on Warren Buffett’s pledge here. His argument is that even if he gave away 99% of his wealth, his day-to-day life would not change. Money that is doing nothing for him now can instead be used for charity. I think that’s a pretty good deal for everyone. He’s a really cool guy.

– Alex

Everyone’s eager to catch up to where Nintendo was four years ago. Go large businesses! Though, I think Microsoft’s Kinect is at least a bit more creative than Sony’s 3mote^H^H^H^H^HMove. Totally hyped about the 3Ds and Portal 2. GLADoS is as funny as ever.

Tangentially related to our comic, boingboing featured a cool Ada Lovelace t-shirt: Ada Lovelace and friends: ThinkGeek’s women in tech tees

– Alex