The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Found a place

matt | June 25, 2005

3 bedroom, half duplex, about 1500 sq. ft. with plenty of storage (attic and half the basement). $600 less than what we pay here, and it's in the country near my parents.
w00t!

Everybody say WTF???

matt | June 23, 2005

Supreme court rules that the governments may sieze any properties by eminent domain in order to sell it to another private corporation for redevelopment “in the public interest”.
Super google link page
Just to be clear; this is NOT going to be used for roads/utilities/military/police/fire/etc. This is going to be sold to a private company which will [...]

Moving again

matt | June 21, 2005

Welp, the apartment complex people are silly, and don't negotiate on price, so we're looking for a new place up by my folks (Smithfield/N. Smithfield/Burrillville/Foster/Scituate/etc). If anyone knows of anything (Ideally a 2-3 bedroom house for something like $1200/month. Half duplexes, townhouses, condos, apartments are also desirable), please feel free to let me know. We're [...]

Annoyingly stupid video game design

matt | June 12, 2005

Okay, so I've gotten all the way to the end of Mercenaries. In general, it was quite a good game. It was well done, lots of fun, and aside from a few bugs in the physics engine (if you drive a tank over the seam where a road meets a bridge, something snags and tends [...]

Mega update

matt | June 10, 2005

First, I've adopted a radical new diet, or lack thereof. See, I was trying to be reasonably healthy – drinking lots of water, like that. Well, I kept feeling worse and worse. Come to find out, now doctors are saying that drinking too much water is bad for you, because it sucks vital bits out [...]

Food and VW's

matt | June 7, 2005

Today I got a check from VWofA reimbursing me for the manual I had to purchase for my Golf.
This weekend, we had the Schofields' over for dinner. The menu was as follows:

Appetizer = this recipe, sliced thinly and served on a toasted wonton in the stacking order of: wonton, some soy wasabi mayonnaise, the tuna, [...]