Oddball Update – Page 35 – Chief Oddball writes about tech, games, cars and family life

Battlestar Galactica Premiere

January 22, 2005January 22, 2005 Chief Oddball

It almost snuck up on me undetected, but fortunately somebody alerted me to the fact that the new Battlestar Galactica series was starting last Friday on the Sci-Fi channel. It’s the new series that continues the grippingly dramatic story begun in the 2003 four-hour miniseries, which was incredibly good, and I’m pleased to report that the first two episodes of the series continue the unfaltering greatness.

486 Saved by a Penguin

January 11, 2005October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

The core components of my Dell 486 have apparently bit the dust, but its hard drives remain intact. I’ve known this for a couple of weeks now, but it’s been beyond me to do anything about it. The smaller, secondary hard drive mounted fine in one of my other DOS boxes about a week ago, but there was nothing really on it.

Dell Dimension Deceased

December 30, 2004October 7, 2011 Chief Oddball

A moment of silence, please, for my Dell 486. While my new copy of Vampire – The Masquerade: Bloodlines was installing last night (thanks Pooch!), I decided to slap the old Dell 486 back together, plug it in and see what would happen.

WOOOOO…BOO BOO BOOOO…CHRISTMAS MORRR-NING!

December 25, 2004October 7, 2011 Chief Oddball

God, you knew I couldn’t resist using that as the title of today’s post, right? I mean, it’s just tailor-made for the wackiness that naturally ensues when one gets out of bed at 3:30 a.m. on Christmas morning, goes to his computer and starts blogging quotes from a story he wrote about ten years ago.

Lah De Dah Delightful…

December 18, 2004October 3, 2011 Chief Oddball

Last night was my company’s Christmas party. I usually attend every year, although I am not really a party guy. (Okay, let’s face it. I just plain don’t “do” parties.) But we have a pretty small company and there are a number of people here I get along with pretty well, so there’s almost always somebody I can hang around and chat with for the evening.

Retro Game Review: Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare

October 26, 2004October 2, 2011 Pooch

For my second installment of Not-Quite-Retro-Gaming-Month™, I was going to reinstall and play Gothic, a medieval RPG that I thought was a major bore back in the day (but which a friend thought was quite fun), but I really wasn’t in the mood to install and slog through an RPG just yet.

Freedom Force: Still As Boring As Ever

October 25, 2004October 7, 2011 Pooch

Yeah, I know – March was Retro Gaming Month. Well, excuse me for not having posting privileges then. And now it’s time to feeeeel the flaaaames! Ahem. What I mean is, I think I’m one of the only people on Earth (along with Sparse) who didn’t like Freedom Force when it came out.

Gradoop Gradoop!

October 15, 2004October 15, 2004 Chief Oddball

Well, even when it comes to random installments, it seems I can’t get my butt over to the Oddball control panel to actually input anything! Well, no matter. I’m here now, so stop yer bitchin’. What a week! I should have known something was amiss when I managed to completely eliminate the backlog of messages in my inbox on my first day back from vacation.

Doing Things Out of Sequence

October 10, 2004October 10, 2004 Chief Oddball

It occurs to me that I should be posting here more often. Posting stupid crap. I mean, why not? It’s why I have this site, right? When I first acquired this domain and slaved away for a week to put this design up, I intended for the site to house my more random, spur-of-the-moment thoughts.

What Time Is It? What Day Is It?

October 4, 2004September 14, 2012 Chief Oddball

My wife and I are just back from two weeks in Thailand! What a great time we had. Took millions of pictures (okay, more like four hundred, but who’s counting). Saw all kinds of fascinating stuff, enjoyed some truly beautiful places, and now we’re both dealing with the rigors of jet lag.