I sit around thinking about outlandish things that would be cool, but here is someone making their dreams reality. Nickbild built a way to play Laser Blaster with a light gun.

When I lose faith in what the internet can produce, I’m going to come back to this video.

I didn’t know there were so many posers paying for video game cheats. Vice looks at the cheating group that made $70 million off of PUBG. The only winners in this are the people selling the cheats, because the players playing the game lose on both sides.

Someday when your bored, ask me to weigh in on how much I don’t really like Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Unfortunately, I don’t get to rant in court about how bad they are. At least, not yet.

Here are some people answering the important question, What is the shortest possible game of Monopoly. Unfortunately, you’re limited to what the dice rolls, so the chances of this happening in a real life game is pretty slim.

This is awesome, Massively Multiplayer Online Deathmatch Joust.

This past week I bought a new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Nano (say that five times fast). It’s been awhile since I have set up a new machine, so I started to document setting this one up. I’m surprised how quickly I had it set up, no wonder I haven’t automated it. In no particular order, here are the apps I use regularly. Browsers Windows comes with Edge installed, but I also install Google Chrome, Brave, and Firefox.

Here’s something you don’t think of when using flashcard apps, the fact that most card decks are automatically set to public. And if they contain nuclear secrets, that can be a problem.

One way that police track down illegal weed growers is to monitor energy usage. However, there is another profitable venture with free energy, and that is mining Bitcoin.