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Fill Your Cravings at the Circus of iPhones

September 12, 2012September 12, 2012 Chief Oddball

Apple finally introduced us to the iPhone 5 today. Funny thing is, I felt like we’d already met. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that almost every piece of this phone already leaked out of Apple’s sieve-like supply chain in the last couple of months.

They’ll Bury You In A Lunchbox

September 11, 2012September 12, 2012 Chief Oddball

I’ve always been an avid video gamer, but lately I’ve started to get into tabletop games as well. One of my colleagues is a newly-discovered tabletop geek, and every day he brings a new game in to the office for us fellow geeks to play over lunch.

One Year Later: The Oddball X Relaunch and its Mixed Messages

September 10, 2012September 11, 2012 Chief Oddball 1 Comment

Just shy of a year ago, I relaunched Oddball Update. Revision 10, or “Oddball X”, was a sea change in the presentation of this blog. Whereas before it had been a blog and only a blog, Oddball X attempted to transition the site into a news-and-reviews format, featuring big glossy images and a clear separation between blog and review content.

There Can Be Only One: Choosing a Smartphone in Q3 2012

September 9, 2012September 9, 2012 Chief Oddball

I’m pretty familiar with what my wife is going through right now with her smartphone. She bought her iPhone 3GS in April of 2010, just one month before the launch of the iPhone 4. Worst possible time to buy an iPhone, you might say.

Acclimate or Die: The Importance of Keeping Pace with New Tech

August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 Chief Oddball 2 Comments

In my younger days I spent a lot of time experimenting with a great many things in the realm of computers. New games, new software, new OS tweaks, new hardware types, new ways of doing old things. I loved being on the bleeding edge, and if something new that I tried didn’t work out, I usually fussed and fretted and pounded away at it until I made it work out.

The Dishwasher Dilemma

July 24, 2012July 24, 2012 Chief Oddball 4 Comments

My wife and I have decided that we really, really need to replace our dishwasher. It hasn’t cost us hundreds of dollars in repairs. It hasn’t leaked all over the floor. It hasn’t caught fire. But it doesn’t clean the dishes.

But Who Will Represent You?

July 14, 2012July 14, 2012 Chief Oddball 1 Comment

If there’s one word that I’d pick to describe the mood of the United States citizenry today, it’s “polarized”. Increasingly, it seems like we’re split nearly right down the middle on most of the big issues, with equally loud voices on both sides trying to drown out their opponents.

The Big Save

June 30, 2012June 30, 2012 Chief Oddball 2 Comments

There have been an unusual number of changes around here lately. Some of them even affect situations that have remained static for so long that I’d begun to doubt their ability to change at all. They’ve all brought with them a scent of opportunity on the wind, a feeling that now is the time to be bold and to make a grab for something that always seemed just out of reach.

Making Things Happen

June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 Chief Oddball 1 Comment

Just thought I’d stop in for a proper journal entry for once, since the interval between the present day and my last post on here is starting to elongate into a yawning chasm once again. I don’t really have much to complain about.

An Alternative Source for Musical Nostalgia

May 10, 2012May 11, 2012 Chief Oddball

I freely admit to being a huge nostalgia head, which only seems to be getting worse the older I get. (I can only imagine the calibur of “In my day…” curmudgeonry that I’m going to engage in when I’m 60.) I spent much of my childhood not really listening to music at all, believe it or not, but as my tastes started to evolve, I mostly became interested in songs from my early years or from before my time entirely.

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