Yearly Archives: 2008

Nintendo DS Thoughts

I’ve owned a Nintendo DS handheld gaming system for a year and a half now.  I recently came across an old Game Boy cartridge, which worked in the original black and white Game Boy.  I couldn’t help but think about how far gaming has come in the past couple of decades, and how much playability there is in the Nintendo DS, which is poised to become a successor to the Game Boy Advance as the top selling handheld gaming system.  There’s a lot to like about the DS, and it does a few things uniquely that other handhelds do not offer.

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Honda: Future Models

Anyone who knows me, knows that I’ve been a Honda fanatic for awhile. I’d struggled with other cars that left me stranded, or just fell apart well before their prime. (Don’t even get me started on our ’02 Malibu.) But I’m usually excited to see new Honda models come out, since Honda keeps their models on a strict 5-year schedule now. At the North American International Auto Show back east in Detroit, Honda has unveiled two cars. Read on for a couple of “borrowed” pictures!

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Burt Bacharach: Something Big

If you have been looking around the world to get CD versions of Burt Bacharach’s A&M albums, there is no better time than the present to grab yourself a copy of the Something Big box set, issued by Hip-O Select. Fortunately, Bacharach’s A&M albums are under the same corporate umbrella as his Kapp recordings from the 60s, so it was an easy task to put all of them into a box set.  So, how good is this set?

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