In no particular order, my favorite games of all time:

• Marathon (1, 2 and Infinity)
• Quake 3: Arena
• Quake 1
• Katamari Damacy
• Rez
• Ico
• Burnout 3: Takedown
• Carmageddon 1
• Trackmania
• Doom (1, 2 and 3)
• Unreal 1
• Kingpin: Life of Crime
• Metal Gear Solid
• Troubled Souls
• Tetris
• Columns
• Marble Madness
• Lemmings
• Space Quest (1, 2 and 3)
• Secret of Monkey Island
• Prince of Persia (1 and 2)
• Karateka
• Wipeout (1 and XL)
• Adventure
• Resident Evil 1
• Silent Hill 1
• Super Mario Bros.
• Star Wars: Dark Forces 1
• Far-Cry
• Out of This World
• Half-Life (1 and 2)
• Deus Ex
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
• Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
• Adventure Game Construction Set (Apple II)
• Pinball Construction Set (Apple II)
• Need for Speed 1
• Ridge Racer 5
• Final Fantasy for Game Boy
• Final Fantasy VII
• Tekken 3 (PS1)
• SimCity 1
• SSX 1
• Ultima Underworld
• Halo 1

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

Yeah, yeah. Waterproof flash memory for your digital camera.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

Having watched the excellent trailer for the upcoming second remake of the first James Bond film, I noticed this post elsewhere on Vox using strong language to refer to the referee who set a World Cup record of red and yellow cards doled out in a single game.

Anyway, these blokes look alike. Since I didn’t do much in the way of answering yesterday’s QOTD, I present for your viewing pleasure:

Edit: Added link to first version of Casino Royale, the made-for-TV movie (not the Peter Sellers spoof).

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

If the soul of the dashboard meme is to mark the passage of time or the significance of an event, I humbly submit my entry: New Year’s 2000:

My date for the evening (my good friend Jessica) wasn’t having a good time at the party, so we split and drove down the George Washington Parkway. We pulled into the park north of National Airport on the Potomac and waited out the clock watching the planes land before the fireworks.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

I am a unique and delicate snowflake.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

Because Anil reminded me of this classic.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

Reblogged from Flickr:

Ingredients:

• 2 small pork chops
• 2 small/medium pears
• 1/2 large red onion
• 5-6 long sprigs fresh rosemary
• 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• sea salt
• pepper

Recipe forthcoming.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

Part of me wants to be altruistic and do the Right Thing. Another part of me agrees with Mena and needs two wheels (in my case a Ducati 748). The responsible part of me says by a $10k CD. Or sink it into some incredibly underpriced stock and hope the graph goes upward.

Nah, I’ll probably just flip Patti for it.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

At the aforementioned DWR warehouse sale (a disappointing shadow of its former self), I acquired a bookshelf. It’s a nifty stainless-steel & molded plywood affair with 3 shelves + an extra they threw in for some reason. Edit: It was designed by Richard Holbrook.

So finally after 4 months I unpacked my book boxes. I also moved a lot of the various CD/DVD/electronics/cables/old mail boxes up to the closet. I came downstairs about an hour later and (maybe it was the time of day with the light streaming in through the window) my place looked twice as big. Or at least a quarter-again. All this extra space to work with, joy!

Dear Lazyweb: I’m looking for a desk. I have weird specific requirements:

• It’s more like a table than a desk. No drawers, sides, etc. Just a tabletop and legs.
• It has an extremely high width-to-depth ratio. 80 inches wide by 20 inches deep would be ideal.
• The tabletop isn’t reconstituted anything. Butcher block, hardwood ply, concrete, frosted glass, whatever. Just. No. Melamine.

The dimensions are important because I have a smallish office with a long wall behind my kitchen. It should be deep enough to slide my knees under, and hold a laptop next to a keyboard/mouse or two for other machines. All screens will be wall-mounted.

Craigslist/Ebay are utterly useless searching for this. Help!

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in June 2006.