I cut down all the oak and fruit trees and just kept the palm trees closest to the hut. Why? Because you have to scare away the warf roaches and the other little bugs crawling around to get the expensive beetles to respawn. So you have to continually run a circle around the island and if you leave the palm trees in…

Tips: The game you want will probably go on sale unless it's very, very new. There's a storewide sale of 25% off and a good indicator that the game you want won't be cut down is if it is not affected by the store-wide sale. However, it's best to hold out until the last day just to be sure. Skyrim didn't get reduced…

Apparently this song is back in New Leaf though I haven't found a Retro TV to test it out. I was seriously sad when this song didn't make it on both the DS and Wii AC. Glad to see it back!

Nah, nah, nah. 1PM is where it's at. Those fucking cat noises still make me laugh like shit.

I really hated the beginning in this iteration. The town is absolutely barren when you first start up. I can see how it's a little bit of a "wtf" moment to people unfamiliar with the game.

"Dolphin-safe" seems like such a weird marketing term. Marketing terms are usually weird in general but this one is especially so. The whole process involves catching, shredding, and canning fish and companies still proudly flaunt "dolphin-safe" on every single can.

Anything north of San Fernando Valley might as well be a void in time/space. Last time I went through there it was just dirt. For miles. Though I guess that's still inexcusable. It's called Interstate 5 in it's formal name.

I unlazied myself and took a quick screenshot of it on the iPad. There's enough changes between the two (Apple's looks a lot cleaner, for sure) but I guess I'm not the only one who thought they looked alike. Also, holy crap. The Five goes all the way up to Washington.

That top pic looks an awful lot like Apple's maps. It's the font, I think.

Some of my best gaming moments have been playing The Sims franchise. Back when I was 13 and figuring my sexuality out, being able to warm up to another guy (albeit a digital one) was a really big deal to me. So it really saddens me that The Sims 3 turned out to be such a disappointment. Still, despite the fact that…

I was thinking the same thing. Except I don't think they announce hardware at WWDC very often. It's typically a software conference.

This thing looks a little weird and creepy. Where can I buy one?

You've made me realize, this is exactly what it looks like. I remember my elementary school was handing out old textbooks from the 1960's they were planning on throwing away anyway. The few I managed to snag had really simple colors layered on clean strokes, a lot like the above image.

Oh man, I'm in love with the art style on "John Lautner Griffith Park Nature Center 1972." I did a couple of Google searches but all that's coming up is architectural photographs. Anybody more knowledgeable on this willing to tell me if there is a name for this particular art style or where to even begin looking?

Hey wow, this sounds really great. Many, many thanks. And good look on your book. Mine was shelved for about a year before I decided to do anything with it.

Yep! I gave it away twice on two separate days. I think I got about 400 downloads total? I've gotten some really good fan mail and it made me really proud of my stuff, but it didn't occur to me until months later to ask those readers to leave a review. D'oh. :(

From my experience, the Apple keyboard works really well in long distances. The Apple mouse also works really well wirelessly but it's just such a terrible mouse that I wouldn't recommend it at all.

Has anyone here successfully marketed a Kindle book? Or know where to even begin?

I'm pretty sure I sat next to Junie at a summer festival at Santa Barbara back in 2012. We were both there to see Garbage. If it really is her (and I'm really positive it is!), she's a very nice person.

If you're really trying to cheap out, just get a ceramic pot (they retain heat better) and place it over tablecloth in your living room coffee table after heating up the ingredients. A pot like that should be around $10 at Target. Walk a few more isles to the appliances and you can probably find a really functional…