I did some research (“googling”) last night and discovered that the latest installment of Guitar Hero – dubbed “World Tour” can already be pre-ordered and is set to release at the end of October. It will include a new guitar, an electronic drum kit, and a microphone, a la Rock Band.
The song list includes Foo Fighters, The Killers, Weezer, The Eagles… and Blue Oyster Cult.
I hope it comes with a cowbell, too.
More info at http://www.guitarhero4.com.
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Whenever a shirt gets stained or the car starts making a new noise, I am quick to tell Julie that Entropy is simply running its course and these things are to be expected. But when it all strikes at once, it can be a little overwhelming. A host of housing-related concerns have sprung up in the last 2 weeks, with the basement flooding to the dishwasher ceasing to function altogether. Currently I have a bathroom toilet in pieces as I try and replace a Fill Valve.
We had to replace our washing machine within the last couple months as well, but we really lucked out and that ended up going really well (Our “new” machine flooded on the first load… it ended up having an old sock stuck in it). I’m hoping we can soon say the same about our current concerns.
Julie and I had a brief conversation this afternoon that was both anti-dramatic and failed to deviate in the least from our normal sort of conversation. I found it enjoyable nonetheless.
The office door opens and Julie appears; a wide-eyed. pig-tailed 1-year-old peers out from behind her leg.
“Hey Joe, What do you want for dinner?”
Myself, only half-looking-up from the careful formatting I am applying to my newly-created document.
“Roasted duck, with seared asparagus and a light cream sauce.”
Julie, unimpressed.
“So, pasta with a meat sauce?”
“Excellent.”
It’s a good day.
In other news we had another uneventful trip to the doctor’s office this morning. Like our conversation this afternoon, uneventful is a glorious success. Julie (“We”) is (“are”) not quite half-way through the pregnancy yet, but, as Julie has been telling me lately, “Our baby is the size of an avacado!”
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This week I re-launched our district NYI website, http://www.mainenyi.com.
I was actually a part of the group that first purchased the domain and brainstormed such a site. I vividly recall pulling an all-nighter within a couple days of graduating high school, busting out code for the first iteration of this site (back in ’01). Since leaving and going to college, grad school, etc., it has gone through several more iterations, before finally being hacked and left dormant for about a year. I saw an ad for someone who would be willing to breathe new life into it, and I am really pumped about working on it once again!
I have posted several times about my love for WordPress as a Content Management System, and I wasted no time in setting up an installation for the site. Now up to version 2.6, I get absolutely overwhelmed with each new release – WordPress is so great. I have also discovered a new plugin for integrating google calendar into the sidebar (wpng-calendar) that is simple and amazing. I had tried some plugins before, but this is the best one by far.
Near-future updates will include more social interaction, but I don’t want to install a disparate forum component. I am hoping to take advantage of WordPress’s built-in user/subscriber system, and push users towards posting comments to posts and/or pages.
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