Today's Word: "Italy" The name of the nation of Italy comes from the Latin word, "itallus,", which means "to lean, slant or fall over." there are several theories as to how this became today's "Italy". *picture of the leaning tower of piza* One theory asserts the name stuck as a descriptor of the country's architecture *picture of a man tripping* Another theory suggests that ancient cartographers noticed italy's resemblance to the leg of a man tripping on the island of Sicily. Whatever the origin, there is modern usage of "itallus" that has survived, and that is in the name of the slanted font-stle used for emphasis: italics wow, crap, guys. does that sound real? I totally just made that all up.
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Codes

August 28th, 2008

Everyone, name some video game codes off the top of your head. Don’t say the name of the game though. I’ll start.

ABACABB
dnkroz
iddqd
idkfa
justin bailey
up up down down left right left right B A start

In case you haven’t realized by now, I like video games.

-Justin


tee hee

August 18th, 2008

I can’t be the only one giggling at those uniforms.

-Drew


RC Pro-Am

August 11th, 2008

That game has to be my favorite NES game from when I was a kid. I just played it on my PSP on the way to work and holy crap, it gets really really hard. It goes from totally possible to win because the computer makes mistakes to them running perfect races every time. Only chance you have really is to blow them up with some rockets or bombs so you have at least a little bit of a head start.

I was playing Mega Man 3 before that, but my buttons were extra loud and I didn’t want to annoy the people sitting next to me on the train with all my jumping and shooting.

-Justin


I Hate Cockroaches

July 31st, 2008

There is a dead cockroach in the bathroom at my office. Well, he’s not dead yet, but I think he has given up. Man, I hate those things. I remember when one popped up in my apartment, so I trapped it under a cd spindle cover until it died. That meant that for about a week, there was a cd spindle cover sitting in the middle of my computer room with a cockroach underneath it. I’m weird.

-Justin





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