Orisinal – Casual Flash Games

 I found a great site called Orisinal  that has a bunch of casual flash games. The artwork, music, and gameplay is excellent. If you enjoy playing flash games, you will spend alot of time here. I haven’t even played all of the games yet.  Most of the games are mouse only, so I’m sure you could probably play them on your Wii.

Potty Training Progress

Luke has been making steps towards potty trained status. I think my biggest problem is that I just don’t know when he’s gonna want to go, so it’s impossible for me to encourage him at the right time. I’ve encouraged him to let me know when he has to make a dookie or go pee-pee, but I don’t think he’s prioritizing this quite the same as I am.  He seems quite comfortable with the flexibility of being able to take a piss at any given moment and anywhere he chooses. When described in that manner, it almost seems appealing to me as well.

My wife said that she got him on the toilet the other day and seemed ready to do some work. He basically kept looking down into the toilet to see if there was any potty in there. Is it possible that he doesn’t understand that he is in control of the potty making ? Maybe he thinks that when Daddy goes it’s a magic trick.

I do think we are making progress though. I have begun taking his diapers to the toilet and I put the dookies in there and let him flush them. He really seems to get excited about the flushing. Hopefully that leads to excitement about filling up that toilet instead of his diaper.

Porn Industry Backs HD DVD

It appears that some major adult film makers such as Wicked Pictures have decided to back the HD DVD format instead of Blu Ray. The companies seem to indicate that the higher costs involved in making Blu Ray content and lack of support in helping them mass produce their content. This is kind of surprising to me, in that you think that both formats would have fought pretty hard to get this content on their format.

Wicked also said that they haven’t ruled out doing Blu Ray content should it become more cost effective.

Comcast Tivo Box at CES

Comcast showed off the new HD Tivo box they’ll be offering to their customers come spring 2007.  I should note that it’s not actually a new box, but it’s the same hardware box that Comcast currently uses, with Tivo software instead of the current software. You’ll supposedly be able to just go through a download process that will upate your existing Motorola 6400 HDTV box with the new TV software.

They noted that it will not support KidZone, remote scheduling, or home network capabilities of your standard Tivo boxes on the market. I like the home networking capabilities that I have with my Series 2 Tivo,  so that’s a bit of  a disappointment.  I have been putting off buying a Tivo HD while waiting for this Comcast Tivo, and now I kind of have mixed reaction.

I was hoping that the Tivo box would be a completely new unit with more storage, the current hardware only supports about 10 hours of HDTV recording, which is simply not enough. But they also have a newer version of the 6400 box,  the 6412, that has increased storage. So I will probably request to swap out my box for a newer one.

I didn’t see any definitive reports on the responsiveness of the new Tivo-style remote. Easily the most annoying thing about the current comcast box/remote is the lag between pushing a button and the actual function being executed. Sometime they even queue the presses up and then just as you are cursing the box for not reacting at all, it then executes all of the presses consecutively — and more cursing ensues. If this turns out to be a hardware issue, and therefore isn’t something that can be fixed via the Tivo software, it’ll be a huge disappointment.