Busy-ness and Threadless shopping
Too much happening in my life at the moment with work, wedding planning (argh, must figure out invitations ASAP), Watchmen reading (awesome book, btw), etc. Because of current state of the economy, we’ve been keeping an eye on the housing market, so that plus wedding/honeymoon booking… taking a good look at our finances is also giving me headaches.
Yet I still find time and money to buy four shirts at Threadless, where everybody and their mom buys T-shirts. I last bought shirts in December, and I wanted to swear off Threadless for a while. But then the bastards came up with this shirt a few months back:
Police Quest is one of the first games I played as a kid (which, now that I think about it, is kinda bad with the drugs, gambling, murders, etc. in the game), and it got me into adventure games which got me into computer and video games in general. All games I had at the time were pirated (5¼” floppies, ah the memories), and I remember spending so much time at the beginning of Police Quest 1 wondering why the hell my squad car kept getting flat tires, preventing me from leaving the police station and resulting in an instant game-over. Apparently, the physical game manual mentions explicitly you need to check your tires before leaving the station. Tricky Sierra and their tricky copy-protection methods.
Anyway, I really wanted that t-shirt homage to PQ. Threadless is having a $12 shirt sale right now. Not as good as their $10 shirt sales of past years, but their sales this year have been weak sauce so far (at least for the above shirt), so I bit with the $12 one. I also ordered this reprinted shirt which I always thought was cute. (The other sheep shirt I ordered last year ran out of stock after I ordered it, so I never got it :( )
I ordered a couple shirts for Kelvin without his permission. I’m not going to post which styles I got here in case he hates them :P
New thing I learned today: The Seminole tribe of Florida owns the entire Hard Rock Cafe chain (aside from the Las Vegas Hard Rock Cafe). The Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood, FL (I didn’t know FL had a Hollywood) is also a full-fledged casino with slot machines and card games outside of poker.
The following graph is a little dated, but it depicts the home price to rent ratio which is worth looking at before buying a house:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/worries-about-the-fed-a-wonkish-post/
Sierra games … I miss “The Incredible Machine”!