What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I rented a movie from Blockbuster over the weekend. While I was browsing the rental shelves I became annoyed at all of the extraneous stuff that Blockbuster now sells. Instead of letting this get to me I decided to channel my annoyances and visualize what the perfect Blockbuster store would look like. That is, my own personal Blockbuster. I think it would look like this: The shelves would contain new releases only. I can't remember the last time I went to Blockbuster and rented anything other than a new release. It would only stock new releases that have 5 or… Continue reading...
Three traits define my shopping habits: I almost always try to find what I am looking for online before I head out to a brick and mortar store. I hate waiting. I hate waiting even more when at the end of the wait I find out what I want isn't in stock. These three traits basically sum up why I don't have a Wii Fit yet. It's not available online, except for perhaps, eBay. It is available at some brick and mortar stores such as Target but they only receive a few in each week and you still have to… Continue reading...
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My dad stumped me with a noobie question yesterday. He saw both of my sons playing with their Nintendo DS game systems and constantly throwing around the term "DS". My dad looked at me and asked, "What does DS stand for?" I opened my mouth to answer but realized immediately I didn't have a clue what to say. So I sat and thought about it. And thought about it some more. And some more. And some more. The only answer I came up with was "I don't know. I'm not sure it stands for anything." Just then my 13 year-old… Continue reading...
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I keep up pretty regularly with all things technology in the news. Which means I've known for quite some time that Guitar Hero is one of the most popular video games right now. I've even run into several adults that have the game and talk about how addicted they are to it. But until recently, I had never seen nor played Guitar Hero. That all changed on Father's Day when I received Guitar Hero for the Nintendo Wii game system. Many, many hours later I was still playing and my fingers on my left hand actually hurt from playing too… Continue reading...
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My recent pizza cravings have earned me a free 30 day trial at GameFly, compliments of Pizza Hut. If you don't know what GameFly is think Netflix for video games. If you don't know what Netflix is, think of GameFly as your online game rental store. When I decided to claim my free 30 day trial code at GameFly earlier today, I had every intention of writing about my experience with GameFly in this blog post. But the problem I ran into along with the eventual solution to that problem changed my direction completely. It all started when I noticed… Continue reading...
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