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January 29 Meatball Mea Culpa and other RandomocityFirst the mea culpa. KP bought a crockpot *snicker*. KP made meatballs in the crockpot and was kind enough to bring me some at work. Sooo like a dope I left the meatballs in my office all weekend. So obviously I can't eat them. But I don't want KP to know I wasted his balls. So do I wash out the bowl and return it and lie about how delish they were, or 'fess up to my idiocy?
And now for some Randomocity:
January 25 TriXie finally at #1... drinks on me!Here are the top 10 gamertags for the week:
1. trixie360 2. Major Nelson 3. YOUSTINK2 4. Souljaboytellem 5. MO MOSS 6. DGgeoff 7. GameSpotting 8. Knuckles Dawson 9. borocouncilman 10. agent arenas Oh yeah, it feels great to finally make the top spot! I will NEVER let Major Nelson forget this.  YouStink2 is up six places from last week. Our friend e took a tumble clear down to #44. MO MOSS makes his first showing in the top ten, due to his recent gamer spotlight on Xbox.com, and DGgeoff dropped two spots to #8. Last week's number 6, recent Spotlightee kp1990 was knocked down to #12.January 24 Don't Miss Sniper SchoolHey there's a couple more days to register for the awesome Play & Win with US Army Sniper School. You could win a really cool framed piece of Halo 3 artwork (grand prize) or 800 MS Points!
January 18 Top Gamertags this week
Have a good weekend everyone! Don't forget that Saturday is your chance to play Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom with the Developers at Blue Side. January 17 Abercrombie & BitchMy daughter is about to turn 12. At this time last year she and her friends were pretending to be horses at recess and arguing over who had the most beautiful mane and tail. Suddenly horses are about as appealing as Barney (who as any parent knows becomes the anti-Christ as soon as kids hit kindergarden). And suddenly my little tomboy is interested in earrings and shoes and...brand names.
Her friends like to shop at Abercrombie & Fitch. Now, being the kind of kid who wouldn't have even dared to ask for a brand name anything and was lucky to get new jeans when I grew out of the old ones, I don't intellectually have a problem with this. Yeah, it's stupid but my handbag means a little more to me with its distinctive Burberry design, and shoes that Steve Madden designs just ARE cuter than knock-off.
So last night I take my daughter to Abercrombie at Redmond Town Center. I open the doors and am immediately assaulted by three things: the music, the smell, and the huge black and white posters of pretty much naked prepubescents. The pervasive stench of the Abercrombie perfume gave me an instant migraine. The music was so loud my ears actually started to hurt. And the ads were just...disturbing. If you've read my blog at all, or seen my stuff on Xbox.com or Inside Xbox I think you know I'm a pretty open-minded kinda chick. But MAN. If you collected those ads in book form you could sell it as a guide for how to attract a pedophile.
The clothes aren't slutty per se, but they are clearly designed to be worn by children. If an averagely-endowed woman can't squeeze her rack into an Abercrombie XL t-shirt their market is not women...it's little girls. The small (not extra-small mind you) t-shirt was pretty snug on my daughter who is small for her age and sometimes mistaken for a 2nd or 3rd grader.
If they want to sell clothes to children and anorexics, great. But don't pave the walls with borderline child porn. January 11 Top 10 Gamertags this week
Who is YOUSTINK2, and how did he or she beat the mighty Major? Notwen is our very own GM of Xbox LIVE, and steve519 was in the Gamer Spotlight last week. Congrats to the top ten! January 10 Nerds and Bodice RippersI started reading a new book on my Kindle last night. Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them by David Anderegg PhD. It's funny and well-written and really fascinating. It asks interesting questions about why we teach kids that being smart is a bad thing, and that if you're good at math you'll never get laid. Not a great message to give to hormone-addled junior high kids. Maybe this is why the United States is still falling behind other countries in math and science. And what does it say about a country where smart = bad?
In other Kindle news, I was showing off the device to someone I'd just met. Someone who will form instant opinions of me, perhaps based on what books I read. So, as I showed this person how the next page button worked, I was mildly horrified at the title of the book I was reading and the fact that an uninformed person could miscontrue it as a romance novel of some sort. I wanted to say something, but how to explain that it's basically a history book, and not a bodice-ripper*? It would have been too difficult to explain, and trying to explain it might make me look like a bigger freak than someone who reads romance novels.
*Note: Lads, 'bodice-ripper' is a term for soft-core chick porn featuring excruciatingly detailed descriptions of hoop skirts and bonnets while engaging in much euphemistic glossing-over of anything sweaty or sticky.
Anyway, check out the Nerds book. It's got quite a bit to say about video games.
January 08 The King is Dead, Long Live the KingElvis Presley would be 73 years old today. Here is a picture of him at the height of his hawtness, the 1968 comeback special.
Is it a coincidence that on the King of Rock -n- Roll's birthday, Kingdom under Fire: Circle of Doom releases? Well, I guess I won't give Blue Side that much credit (and I don't know how popular Elvis was in Korea) BUT... Check out Kingdom under Fire today... there's a demo and some theme/gamerpic type goodness on Xbox LIVE.
AND here are some other games to play today to honor THE KING:
January 05 The Top 25 Gamertags of 2007Here are the top 25 gamertags on Xbox.com for the year 2007. This could result from people hitting their profiles or posts in the forums. Anytime the gamercard or profile is called up, that's a hit. At least that's how the dev boyz explained it to me.
1. Major Nelson 2. e 3. trixie360 4. souljaboytellem 5. nizmojoe 6. agent arenas 7. PMS Kitty 8. fourzerotwo 9. frankie 10. CerealKiller5 11. dirtydiva 12. Angel of Evil 13. Rance6 14. Gamespotting 15. yhslaw 16. doadea 17. logik893 18. casinoguy 19. Knuckles Dawson 20. DeaconBlade 360 21. Shuckey 22. bear 23. Im Getting Huge 24. thelazywolf 25. ngc7 January 04 Top Gamertags for DecemberHere are the top 25 gamertags served up on Xbox.com in the month of December:
And other FOT's:
30. ske7ch 31. bear 52. dirtydiva 53. kiki kat 78. cpaladino 90. konsolekingz 104. koolaye 138. QueeeenY 147. gabe 152. Knuckles Dawson 163. DeaconBlade 360 173. Lit Bomb 188. Calyber FD 217. mischief fd |
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