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Seaweed and salt chips from the Japanese market. They are...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:13:53 -0600

Seaweed and salt chips from the Japanese market. They are actually from Hong Kong.

I love the potato man character on these chips from the Japanese...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:13:21 -0600

I love the potato man character on these chips from the Japanese market.

I love the packaging for this Japanese green tea candy.

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:27:55 -0600

I love the packaging for this Japanese green tea candy.

I feel like I’m on a weekend trip to Tokyo. I brought some...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:29:00 -0600

I feel like I’m on a weekend trip to Tokyo. I brought some of these chips home for purely cultural immersion reasons…

Latest in bathroom comfort at the Mitsuwa Marketplace.

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:22:02 -0600

Latest in bathroom comfort at the Mitsuwa Marketplace.

Sun beams bursting through the clouds in Rincón, Puerto Rico.

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:43:54 -0600

Sun beams bursting through the clouds in Rincón, Puerto Rico.

Get yer money, right here!

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:17:25 -0600

Get yer money, right here!:

If you ever lived in Illinois, they may have your money. I had some unclaimed property going back to 1993. I was able to get all of it back in about 2 months. It is totally worth taking a look. Just go to the Illinois treasurer website (www.treasurer.il.gov) and click on their Cash Dash program. They make it very easy to search online. You can even search for other peoples’ stuff :) Who knows, maybe you never received that million dollar check and it is just waiting for you there…

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:37:22 -0500

A History of the World in 100 Objects:

This BBC series is one of my favorite podcasts of all time. If you are a history buff or even just someone who enjoys going to historical museums, then you will love this podcast. It covers the entire history of man by focusing on the objects that we make. It does a fairly good job of covering the history of the entire world without being too focused on the western world. Absolutely fascinating. I can’t recommend it enough. Subscribe to it now!

LOST COMIC CON 2011 - New OFFICAL Trailer! Man in Black’s...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:42:35 -0500

LOST COMIC CON 2011 - New OFFICAL Trailer! Man in Black’s name revealed! (by FrankAndBros)

This beer was tasty and the label is hilarious.

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:33:39 -0500

This beer was tasty and the label is hilarious.

I just love funny street signs!

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:28:35 -0500

I just love funny street signs!

The Origin of Orsmab

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:05:52 -0500

I’ve been using the handle Orsmab since about the year 2000. People often ask me what it means. When I tell them it means nothing I often get “no really where does it come from?”. So I’ll attempt to explain the less than interesting, completely boring story here on the interwebs so that everyone can be thoroughly underwhelmed.

In the previous century my friends and I used to use the term smabbage in a similar way the smurfs use the word smurf. Smabbage really began as a rhyming word for cabbage (initially spoken by my friend Rick). Eventually we would say things like “what the smabbage?!?!?” and “I want the get me some smabbage!” Also: “Have a smabby day!”, “Smab you!”, etc, etc. Yeah, we were pretty lame. Well eventually I started using DrSmab as a handle for playing games like Quake.

So in 2000 myself and some of my coworkers were at a bar which had the NTN trivia boxes. I was using DRSMAB as my user name. Due to a horrible font and a fuzzy TV someone yelled “Who is ORSMAB?” After that it kinda stuck and just like the Wii I had a weird name that wasn’t used by anyone and didn’t mean anything.

So if you ever need to find me I’m now Orsmab on Twitter and Flickr and my blog is at smabbage.com.

Orsmab out.

retrogasm: Hot chicks sell geek games…

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:13:48 -0500

retrogasm:

Hot chicks sell geek games…

Scalia clearly doesn’t play Mortal Kombat, read Dante

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:15:00 -0500

Scalia clearly doesn’t play Mortal Kombat, read Dante:

Interesting article from GamePro about the latest Supreme Court decision on video games.

First post of my new Tumblr blog

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:47:00 -0500

I’m going to try using Tumblr to push out to all of the different social media that I use. It has a lot of great features. I like the way it deals with photo streams and the way things can be shared from one blog to another. Obviously it’s very similar to Facebook, Twitter and Flickr but has some of the best features of all of those. Who knows, I may abandon this right away but for now it seems interesting. Also, I get to use the domain that I haven’t done anything with for a decade or so - Smabbage.com.