How to Fix the Xbox 360’s E74 Error

Please be advised there is now a part two to this post. After about a month, his fix failed and I had to go back in for a tune-up. You can read about that by clicking here: Return of the E74. Don’t worry; if you follow these instructions you aren’t doing anything wrong and you […]

If you live near a Borders…

…you could do worse than to check and see if yours is one of the Borders locations that’s going out of business. If so, now’s a great time to go stock up on ridiculous books, board games, and as many silly novelty pens as you can get your hands on. Everything in these closing stores […]

These spammers are getting harder to please.

I went ahead and turned comment moderation off when I realized that I hadn’t had to manually trash a spam comment for at least a couple months. Apparently my spam-detection plug-in is pretty savvy! That got me to thinking, though, about whether there were any “false positives” sitting around in the ol’ spam folder. I […]

Two Years Etc.

…and somewhere in there, scibbe.com turned two years old. The archives are big and bloated enough now that I can’t keep them in my working memory. I’m pretty sure I’ve managed to keep the whole thing daily, but I couldn’t swear to it at this point.

I want to change the site somewhat, but I’m […]

It’s Nice to Have Goals

Last night I received a call from a man who asked if he could come to our parking lot and scrape the ice off all the car windshields. For this service he was going to charge $5 per car, which would enable him to (as he so succinctly put it) “buy more booze”.

Well, at […]

Racing the Clock

While it’s true I sometimes play portable games at work, it’s not like my job consists of nothing but empty hours of me sitting there trying not to drool on myself. Cases where I just kick back and play a game for hours on end are exceedingly rare; more often, I’m playing a game while […]

Siiiiick.

My body has this alarming ability to go from zero to sick in about eight seconds. Last night I was sitting at work and feeling pretty good about life, then in the span of a single cough I immediately began to yearn for the merciful release of death. Waking up today (at around 6pm) was […]

…and to all a good night.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I will be marking this festive occasion with a repost. Please enjoy this poem I wrote last year about Christmas and zombies:

Zombie Annihilation on 34th Street

Thank you to everyone who stuck with me through 2010. I hope your holiday is warm, joyful and relaxing.

I Unwisely Chose to Go Shopping Today Instead of Sleep

And now I’m exhausted, and have to work in an hour.

Also I bought a pretzel dog. It’s been an all-around Bad Decision kind of day.

Three Interesting (to me) but Unrelated Things

Unrelated Thing the First: Castlevania HD patch! Holy crap! I haven’t had a chance to hop on and try things out yet, but apparently matchmaking is easier and lots of characters are more powerful. Lots of characters have had their subweapon cost reduced and mana regen rate increased, which means less downtime and more fun. […]