Andy Wood

No, not what you are thinking.  We have a power outage today 6/26/2009.  Yes, I got a little stressed out, but not that we were not prepared for it.

The APC battery backup kicked in and everything thing that I need to ‘keep the business’ running was on. (phone, dsl modem, router and phone)

However; the problem that we ran into was that the UPS, was about 6 years old and the battery only lasted about an hour.  So, I had to zip home and get a newer more up to date one that I have plugged into my gaming rig.

The power is up now and I will soon be getting a more up to date UPS for the shop.  Something that might be able to hold a 2-3 hour charge.

Okay, I was barely around for the 1960’s , bit I do fondly remember lost of the toons that are now available on Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Vol. 1

Disc #1
TOP CAT – The Tycoon (Also on the Complete series DVD set)
ATOM ANT SHOW with PRECIOUS PUP & HILLBILLY BEARS – Up & Atom / Precious Jewels / Woodpecked
THE PETER POTAMUS SHOW with BREEZLY and SNEEZLY & YIPPEE, YAPPEE and YAHOOEY – Fe-Fi-Fo Fun / All Riot on the Northern front / The Volunteers
SECRET SQUIRREL SHOW with SQUIDDLEY DIDDLY & WINSOME WITCH – Sub Swiper / Way Out Squiddly / Prince of a Pup
THE FLINTSTONES – The Happy Household (Also on the seasonal DVD sets)
THE PORKY PIG SHOW – Often An Orphan/Mice Follies/The Super Snooper (Daffy Duck)
THE QUICK DRAW McGRAW SHOW with SNOOPER AND BLABBER & AUGIE DOGIE – Dynamite Fright/Outer Space Case/Growing Growing Gone

Disc #2
THE JETSONS – Rosey The Robot (Also on the season 1 DVD set)
MARINE BOY – Battle To Save The World {Anime}
SPACE GHOST/DINO BOY SHOW – The Heat Thing / The Worm / Zorak (also on the complete series DVD set)
HERCULOIDS – The Beaked People / The Raider Apes
FRANKENSTEIN JR. AND THE IMPOSSIBLES – The Shocking Electric Monster / The Bibbler / The Spinner
THE MAGILLA GORILLA SHOW with PUNKIN PUSS & RICOCHET RABBIT – Gridiron Gorilla / Small Change / Atchison, Topica and San Jose (Also on the complete series DVD set)
Bonus Materials:
THE QUCK DRAW McGRAW SHOW (with SNOOPER AND BLABBER and AUGIE DOGIE) – Dough Nutty / El Kabong Was Wrong / Gem Jam
Bonus Documentaries on QUICK DRAW McGRAW, MAGILLA GORILLA, FRANKENSTEIN JR. and THE IMPOSSIBLES.

It has been a while since there was a movie that touched on the subject matter.  In the all things zombie category, Apple.com’s Trailer page has posted the exclusive trailer for Woody Harrelson’s upcoming comedy/zombie movie, Zombieland.

Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

Anyone want to take pre-orders on this?

Another packed night for Friday Night Magic

I will be the first one to admit it.  I dig gadgets, but not so much as I used to.  Honest!  I always used to be picking up the gizmo that did this or the doohickey that did that.  Now for the most parts it is all about the cell phones!

I got the iPhone on opening days 6/30/2007

What I didn’t like the about the iPhone was that it was on the low as molasses “Edge” network, so I switched to the AT&T Tilt.  This was a windows device and I liked everything about this phone.  I could even use it as a portable boat anchor too.  Yes, it was a little to heavy for me.

I stuck it out with the the Tilt until about November 2008, the fear that I might knock myself out with it was starting to keep me up at night.  I wanted to see what all the hype was about the CrackBerries.  I could see how people get hooked, but I didn’t like that the email was always on and you were forced into a data plan because of it.

About 4 month later, I went back to my favorite makers of cell phones; Sony Ericsson.  The down side of this phone is that when I need the web, it really isn’t there, only the ‘text’ version and sometimes I need the real web and not the watered down version, I also wanted to be able to access my email too, but it wasn’t that accessible.  So

As of today 6/18/2009  (Almost 2 years from when I got the iPhone) I am now sporting a Palm Pre … stay tuned!

Go Tony go!

Since I played risk for the very first time, I am always enjoyed a good game of risk. (dang dice are always against me)  At the shop yesterday, Dan, Rob, Rich and I sat down and played the latest version of risk.

This reinvention of Risk adds in Objectives.

Instead of conquering the world you can play optionally to capture 3 objectives, of which there are a total of eight possible,  4 major (hard), 4 minor (easier).  In addition to the objectives, there are also rewards that go along with them.

Rewards range from bonus attack or defense die to extra troops per turn, to additional maneuvers.  Each of the rewards are extremely useful, some are like the hand of god.

Also in this version are 15 cities. Each game you shuffle out 15 cards and place the cities on the countries of the cards. This also adds a uniqueness to every game. Cities make a country worth more as much when counting up territories to determine the number of troops you get on your turn.

We played two games, one with the basic rules where the board was pre-set for use and the 2nd was in common room mode.  Each of which it is basically the same game of risk that I remember, but the first player to get 3 objectives wins.