I recently received this amazing piece of WWII era history through the Civilian Marksmanship Program: A Springfield Armory M1 .30 Caliber Rifle, commonly called an M1 Garand. The serial number is in the 278xxxx range, which, according to Fulton Armory…
John's Random Review
A totally random collection of stuff. Though now that facebook exists, its mostly guns and video games…
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Random Review: Overlord 2
The first few hours were very enjoyable, much like the first Overlord was. I didn’t see much new stuff, other than that the minions could have mounts that would let them get to other places. I really liked the original…
Now I want an ACOG even more!
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. — From ABCNews.com I love how all of…
Random Review: Modern Warfare 2
Fastest review: Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare was better. The AI might have been crappy in the first one, but at least the story made sense. Yes, there was a controversial section in this one. But it should have been…
Random Review: Ghostbusters (the video game)
I really liked it! It had a few glitchy things at the beginning, though. You’d think that if you were making a game about ghosts you would maybe maybe write your code in such a way that said ghosts don’t…
Halloween this year, not like the others.
The thing I misses the most since the tragic end of Rosetta Biosoftware will be not having a real Halloween party tomorrow. And not just because someone in the carpool had won either Best Costume, Best Group, or the Golden…
I would buy this thing instantly.
I’m going to need to start emailing around Microsoft Research now that i work at Microsoft…because i’m intrigued by this thing: Microsoft Research’s Courier This new device, called “Courier” showed up on Gizmodo today, and i don’t know why it…
Random Review: Mirror’s Edge
In haiku form: mirror’s edge, the game it is a jumping puzzle and that’s about it. Well, maybe it had other things, but i never found them. I just couldn’t get into it, because it was just jumping puzzles, so…
Hardware pain!
I’ve spent a couple weeks now trying to get this server back running and have had the wierdest problems…The network keeps disappearing! After a few hours, the NIC just stops working. Device manager still shows it, but the link light…
Random Review: Fallout 3
Fallout 3, by Bethesda Softworks is probably the best game I’ve played so far in 2009. Personally, i think the world felt a lot bigger and a lot more immersive than GTA4. There was so much to do, and so…
