Nice but no Cigar....

Sometimes when playing a game I simply want a gamepad. My favorite PC gamepad manufacturer is Saitek who makes quite a few PC peripherals that are nice. Especially their most updated pad the P2600. It has six face buttons which is enough to emulate capcom fighter games (I hate having hard punch and hard kick on shoulder buttons).. N64, etc. and it has four shoulder buttons which is more than the previous pad which I had which only had 2 shoulder buttons. So that pad has enough buttons for just about any emulator or game that I would want to play. It's actually not much to look at but it has what counts to me.

Saitek has dissapointed me with their latest pad though.. take a look:


Read about it here.

They've decide to go with the status quo this time around with just four buttons on the face of it. It is pretty cool that you can switch the left analog stick and the d-pad around depending on which style you want to use at the moment (Playstation or Xbox). But the four button thing has pretty much turned me off it right off the bat. Also the directional pad on the other one was already perfect besides how the paint wears off of it after a while. I don't know how this new directional pad compares to it.

I just hope they continue to sell the older pad or make a pad similar to the new one but with the same six button layout as the old one. My disappointment with this pad is the same one that I had with the Nintendo Wii classic controller. The layout on that controller may be enough for NES and SNES and other systems with similar layouts but not for systems like N64 and Sega Genesis which feature 6 button layouts. Don't get me started on the gamecube controller.. it may work well with games specifically designed for it but not for all games at least in my opinion.

But I may be the voice in the wilderness when it comes to this particular issue and I don't mind.

Nice but no Cigar....

Sometimes when playing a game I simply want a gamepad. My favorite PC gamepad manufacturer is Saitek who makes quite a few PC peripherals that are nice. Especially their most updated pad the P2600. It has six face buttons which is enough to emulate capcom fighter games (I hate having hard punch and hard kick on shoulder buttons).. N64, etc. and it has four shoulder buttons which is more than the previous pad which I had which only had 2 shoulder buttons. So that pad has enough buttons for just about any emulator or game that I would want to play. It's actually not much to look at but it has what counts to me.

Saitek has dissapointed me with their latest pad though.. take a look:


Read about it here.

They've decide to go with the status quo this time around with just four buttons on the face of it. It is pretty cool that you can switch the left analog stick and the d-pad around depending on which style you want to use at the moment (Playstation or Xbox). But the four button thing has pretty much turned me off it right off the bat. Also the directional pad on the other one was already perfect besides how the paint wears off of it after a while. I don't know how this new directional pad compares to it.

I just hope they continue to sell the older pad or make a pad similar to the new one but with the same six button layout as the old one. My disappointment with this pad is the same one that I had with the Nintendo Wii classic controller. The layout on that controller may be enough for NES and SNES and other systems with similar layouts but not for systems like N64 and Sega Genesis which feature 6 button layouts. Don't get me started on the gamecube controller.. it may work well with games specifically designed for it but not for all games at least in my opinion.

But I may be the voice in the wilderness when it comes to this particular issue and I don't mind.

Nice but no Cigar....

Sometimes when playing a game I simply want a gamepad. My favorite PC gamepad manufacturer is Saitek who makes quite a few PC peripherals that are nice. Especially their most updated pad the P2600. It has six face buttons which is enough to emulate capcom fighter games (I hate having hard punch and hard kick on shoulder buttons).. N64, etc. and it has four shoulder buttons which is more than the previous pad which I had which only had 2 shoulder buttons. So that pad has enough buttons for just about any emulator or game that I would want to play. It's actually not much to look at but it has what counts to me.

Saitek has dissapointed me with their latest pad though.. take a look:


Read about it here.

They've decide to go with the status quo this time around with just four buttons on the face of it. It is pretty cool that you can switch the left analog stick and the d-pad around depending on which style you want to use at the moment (Playstation or Xbox). But the four button thing has pretty much turned me off it right off the bat. Also the directional pad on the other one was already perfect besides how the paint wears off of it after a while. I don't know how this new directional pad compares to it.

I just hope they continue to sell the older pad or make a pad similar to the new one but with the same six button layout as the old one. My disappointment with this pad is the same one that I had with the Nintendo Wii classic controller. The layout on that controller may be enough for NES and SNES and other systems with similar layouts but not for systems like N64 and Sega Genesis which feature 6 button layouts. Don't get me started on the gamecube controller.. it may work well with games specifically designed for it but not for all games at least in my opinion.

But I may be the voice in the wilderness when it comes to this particular issue and I don't mind.

I was poking around LJ and stumbled upon this...

Doctor Who TARDIS USB Hub Holy crap.. is that cool or what? I want to put that on top of my Mac Mini! This video of it is amusing. My birthday is coming up in five days. Anyone want to buy me one as a gift? ;) (yeah right). It's not available there anymore but on Amazon it's available and it's $60USD! Holy crap that's expensive! It would be nice to have though however I think that I probably might want to get the TARDIS talking bank better. It's $14USD.

The former site seems to have a few other Doctor Who related toys like these "phone flashers" which look neat to me.

Wow.. this page is just loaded with goodness.. take a look at these "Star Wars Chubbies" (more like chibis) which are russion Matryoshka style nesting dolls. Another interesting thing is the matroska (.mkv) format is named after these dolls because it's a container format that holds other codecs within in a typical .mkv file.

What can I say I love toys. :)

I was poking around LJ and stumbled upon this...

Doctor Who TARDIS USB Hub Holy crap.. is that cool or what? I want to put that on top of my Mac Mini! This video of it is amusing. My birthday is coming up in five days. Anyone want to buy me one as a gift? ;) (yeah right). It's not available there anymore but on Amazon it's available and it's $60USD! Holy crap that's expensive! It would be nice to have though however I think that I probably might want to get the TARDIS talking bank better. It's $14USD.

The former site seems to have a few other Doctor Who related toys like these "phone flashers" which look neat to me.

Wow.. this page is just loaded with goodness.. take a look at these "Star Wars Chubbies" (more like chibis) which are russion Matryoshka style nesting dolls. Another interesting thing is the matroska (.mkv) format is named after these dolls because it's a container format that holds other codecs within in a typical .mkv file.

What can I say I love toys. :)

I was poking around LJ and stumbled upon this...

Doctor Who TARDIS USB Hub Holy crap.. is that cool or what? I want to put that on top of my Mac Mini! This video of it is amusing. My birthday is coming up in five days. Anyone want to buy me one as a gift? ;) (yeah right). It's not available there anymore but on Amazon it's available and it's $60USD! Holy crap that's expensive! It would be nice to have though however I think that I probably might want to get the TARDIS talking bank better. It's $14USD.

The former site seems to have a few other Doctor Who related toys like these "phone flashers" which look neat to me.

Wow.. this page is just loaded with goodness.. take a look at these "Star Wars Chubbies" (more like chibis) which are russion Matryoshka style nesting dolls. Another interesting thing is the matroska (.mkv) format is named after these dolls because it's a container format that holds other codecs within in a typical .mkv file.

What can I say I love toys. :)

Slap someone silly today!

This was quite amusing to me today it is a flash game specifically about out slapping your opponent. I found it at joystiq...

"You play a woman named Reiko who married into a noble family only to have her husband die shortly afterwards. The women of the house don't respect her, so its your job to slap some good old fashioned sense into them."

[Link to the game here]

Slap someone silly today!

This was quite amusing to me today it is a flash game specifically about out slapping your opponent. I found it at joystiq...

"You play a woman named Reiko who married into a noble family only to have her husband die shortly afterwards. The women of the house don't respect her, so its your job to slap some good old fashioned sense into them."

[Link to the game here]

Slap someone silly today!

This was quite amusing to me today it is a flash game specifically about out slapping your opponent. I found it at joystiq...

"You play a woman named Reiko who married into a noble family only to have her husband die shortly afterwards. The women of the house don't respect her, so its your job to slap some good old fashioned sense into them."

[Link to the game here]

I want one...

Look at the mario key chain plushies.. awww.. I want one!

They have them here for 7 bucks. But I've read that you get them at random so there would be no guarantee that I would get the Mario one I want.

I want one...

Look at the mario key chain plushies.. awww.. I want one!

They have them here for 7 bucks. But I've read that you get them at random so there would be no guarantee that I would get the Mario one I want.

I want one...

Look at the mario key chain plushies.. awww.. I want one!

They have them here for 7 bucks. But I've read that you get them at random so there would be no guarantee that I would get the Mario one I want.

The next version of Windows...

Is being called 7 right now...

If you count Windows 3.1 as the first version it's also the 9th major revision.

Windows 7 of 9!

Seven-of-Nine ... which means that it will have very large breasts and be covered in blue Spandex.

This one may have potential.

The next version of Windows...

Is being called 7 right now...

If you count Windows 3.1 as the first version it's also the 9th major revision.

Windows 7 of 9!

Seven-of-Nine ... which means that it will have very large breasts and be covered in blue Spandex.

This one may have potential.

The next version of Windows...

Is being called 7 right now...

If you count Windows 3.1 as the first version it's also the 9th major revision.

Windows 7 of 9!

Seven-of-Nine ... which means that it will have very large breasts and be covered in blue Spandex.

This one may have potential.