Church Of The Geek

Worldwide console sales figures mean more to the Big Three than they do to the average U.S. gamer. While my red-white-and-blue bretheren tout the PS2’s game library and mod-friendly X-box, Japan’s sales figures continue to outline one possible (and likely) future for the industry.

In Japan, during the last 13 months, the Nintendo DS has sold over 5.44 million units. It took the Game Boy Advance 14 months to hit the 5 million unit mark, and the PS2 took just over 17 months.

Huzzahs are in order!

vis dsfanboy

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A quick bookmark for Lansing Michigan and the surrounding area readers…

Lansinggasprices.com is a community run site dedicated to its direct-to-the-point domain name.

Sunoco in Okemos ($2.22/gal currently) is where I’d be making my stop

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Just updated the page template to include comments and trackback linking from Haloscan.

Just wanted to let the few comment submitters know that things will look a little different from now on.

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Maglite, my favorite flashlight manufacturer, has a note up on their web site that they will introduce LED-based models in 2006.

I’ve been a long-time user of their products, and I’ve always thought an LED mag would be the best of two worlds: Time-tested durability and power efficiency.

I’ll have one on preorder as soon as they’re available
via Gizmodo

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132 RSS feeds + Christmas Vacation = A whole mess of info to catch up on.

Click on the pic for a full size view.

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Just a quick post wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I’m having a great day myself and I hope you are too.

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No more job for Jason!

Seriously, just found this out about 10 minutes ago. Somebody in New York will be doing my job.

Honestly it’s a relief.

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The first official teaser footage for the upcoming Ghost Rider movie is now online.

(flash, click on “The Rider Revealed” near the upper left at the link above)

I imagine most comic book fans (like me) are going ape-dookie right about now.

via The Movie Blog

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I’m addicted to coffee. At least I’m honest about it.

My love of the stuff started when my parents took me to church every week, and the apple juice and punch got a bit tired so I switched to “the hard stuff” as far as the congregation was concerned. It got me through many a falling-asleep-in-the-pew Sunday mornings.

In college I worked at Beaner’s, a mid-Michigan based coffee house which has a huge following around Michigan State and Lansing. They teach their employees classic espresso methods and have a great coffee selection. To put it simply, Beaner’s can compete with all the local Starbucks and not only stay in business without a problem, but expand over 150% in the last five years.

For those in other areas of the country: Yes, I am aware the stereotype connection. Unfortunate choice of names.

Anyway, as much as I love the place they recently increased the price of by-the-pound brew beans to over $11.00 per pound. The last time I was regularly buying their beans it was just over $8.00 a pound and that wasn’t even a year ago.

As a result my home-brew experience (a little coffee geek humor there) has turned towards the pre-ground Meijer’s shelf selection, and this week I’m trying out the Maxwell House Smooth Master Blend.

Normally I just use a tablespoon and estimate how much is needed but today I decided to try brewing a full 10 serving pot of the stuff based on the label recommended amount: A full half cup of grounds.

Yeah, I’m twitching.

God bless coffee.

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I know what I’ll be spinning this year!

Make your own Droidel

via BoingBoing

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