<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Geek Stuff @ obsidianpotency.blog-city.com</title><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Geek Stuff) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 obsidianpotency.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:06:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Geek Stuff @ obsidianpotency.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>[Review] The Dark Knight (spoiler warning)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_the_dark_knight_spoiler_warning.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_the_dark_knight_spoiler_warning.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=review%5Fthe%5Fdark%5Fknight%5Fspoiler%5Fwarning</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What can I say about The Dark Knight that hasn&#39;t already been said?&nbsp; It&#39;s made so much money -- my guess is that it&#39;s from people seeing it over and over again -- that it has an outside chance of overtaking Titanic as the biggest-gro]]></description></item><item><title>Predator Rap</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/predator_rap.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/predator_rap.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=predator%5Frap</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wow.&nbsp; This song  is amazing.&nbsp; Some mediocre British rappers sum up the movie Predator in 6 minutes 30 seconds, splicing in dialog and footage from the movie and rhyming it with their own lyrics.&nbsp; It&#39;s pretty funny, too.&nbsp; Thank]]></description></item><item><title>Soundgasm</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/soundgasm.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/soundgasm.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=soundgasm</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just bought this bass effects processor  in order to prepare tones and sounds for my second (and probably final) studio recording session with my college buddy S and our album project.&nbsp; I hemmed and hawed about it for a while, because I wanted]]></description></item><item><title>[Review] Iron Man</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_iron_man.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_iron_man.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=review%5Firon%5Fman</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Iron Man  I&#39;ve now seen Iron Man twice, and I have the same opinion about it after both viewings.&nbsp; It is a very, very good movie, but not a sublime or transcendent one.&nbsp; The film&#39;s obscene 93% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes  is]]></description></item><item><title>Brand Old Day</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/brand_old_day.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/brand_old_day.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=brand%5Fold%5Fday</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Usually I keep my comic book geekiness in check on OP, but the latest Spider-Man storyline has made CNN and I have to talk about it.&nbsp; First, I&#39;m going to provide a summary of the story so far.&nbsp; If you plan on actually reading the storie]]></description></item><item><title>Nerd Happy Hour</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/nerd_happy_hour.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/nerd_happy_hour.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nerd%5Fhappy%5Fhour</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As some of you know, I collect comic books.&nbsp; I used to read my brothers&#39; comics when I was a kid.&nbsp; When I got to South Africa, me and one of my housemates started collecting again from what had to be one of only a tiny number of comic s]]></description></item><item><title>Costume</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/costume.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/costume.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=costume</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am really fired up about my Halloween costume this year.&nbsp; It&#39;s totally in my wheelhouse.&nbsp; The costume rules for me are that it can&#39;t be something that&#39;s uncomfortable to wear or dance in (so no boxes or ridiculous appendages/p]]></description></item><item><title>Just one more...sorry...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/just_one_moresorry.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/just_one_moresorry.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=just%5Fone%5Fmoresorry</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I forgot to include this one  and this one  in my Transformers spoofs  entry.&nbsp; The first one in particular just goes to show (again) that Starscream is easily one of the most entertaining television characters of all time.My favorite line: &quot]]></description></item><item><title>Transformers Spoofs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/transformers_spoofs.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/transformers_spoofs.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=transformers%5Fspoofs</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you don&#39;t find this  and this  funny, then I suppose you just aren&#39;t as big a dork as I am.&nbsp; I&#39;m sure that&#39;s a horrible conclusion for you to come to, but it&#39;s the truth.&nbsp; (Thanks to The Rob  for alerting me to these.]]></description></item><item><title>Maddox on the iPhone, and iPhone users get a second shaft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/maddox_on_the_iphone_and_iphone_users_get_a_second_shaft.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/maddox_on_the_iphone_and_iphone_users_get_a_second_shaft.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=maddox%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fiphone%5Fand%5Fiphone%5Fusers%5Fget%5Fa%5Fsecond%5Fshaft</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Apparently, Maddox has many of the same reservations  about the iPhone that I do.&nbsp; It also cracks me up how much the price has dropped -- whether they want to admit it or not, that wasn&#39;t Apple&#39;s plan all along.&nbsp; Sales might be slow]]></description></item><item><title>iPod fixed...for now.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/ipod_fixedfor_now.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/ipod_fixedfor_now.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ipod%5Ffixedfor%5Fnow</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had my iPod fixed in about 25 minutes or so.&nbsp; Turns out that an internal cable had come loose, preventing the iPod from recognizing the drive.&nbsp; Apparently, that is a fairly common problem.&nbsp; The guy who fixed it for me was surprisingl]]></description></item><item><title>My like-dislike relationship continues...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/my_likedislike_relationship_continues.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/my_likedislike_relationship_continues.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Flikedislike%5Frelationship%5Fcontinues</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...with Tuesday Morning Quarterback, who has returned for the NFL season.&nbsp; In his first column back from his annual offseason hiatus, Easterbrook attacked various plot points  of the final Harry Potter book. I have to say that even by his occasi]]></description></item><item><title>[Review] Transformers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_transformers.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_transformers.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=review%5Ftransformers</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I heard about Transformers with very low expectations a couple of years ago.&nbsp; I never thought anyone could pull off a live-action version of one of my favorite toys and cartoons from childhood.&nbsp; Then I heard that Michael Bay was attached to]]></description></item><item><title>[Review] JBuds Ear Buds for iPod</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_jbud_ear_buds_for_ipod.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_jbud_ear_buds_for_ipod.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=review%5Fjbud%5Fear%5Fbuds%5Ffor%5Fipod</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[JBuds Hi-Fi Noise Reducing Ear Buds for iPod (White)I got these a couple of weeks ago from Amazon (the black ones - they aren&#39;t as visible).&nbsp; I was tired of having uncomfortable headphones (the over-the-ear ones suck when you wear glasses),]]></description></item><item><title>Finally, iPod Resolution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/finally_ipod_resolution.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/finally_ipod_resolution.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=finally%5Fipod%5Fresolution</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My iPod finally returned to the land of the operable on Friday night, after a lot of phone support and work.&nbsp; I called the Pentagon City Apple Store back when I came home from work; they guided me through several steps that didn&#39;t address th]]></description></item><item><title>Guitar Hero Turns Real</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/guitar_hero_turns_real.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/guitar_hero_turns_real.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 13:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=guitar%5Fhero%5Fturns%5Freal</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some intrepid geeks reprogrammed the guitar-based controllers from the video game Guitar Hero, plugged them into real amplification equipment, and played actual, live music  with their controllers.&nbsp; I suppose this was inevitable.&nbsp; I only ha]]></description></item><item><title>[Review] Spider-Man 3</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_spiderman_3.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/review_spiderman_3.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 15:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=review%5Fspiderman%5F3</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Spider-Man 3Spider-Man 3 is about at a 61% on Rotten Tomatoes,  and I think it only deserves to be a bit higher - maybe 70%. &nbsp; There are a lot of things I liked about Spider-Man 3, and a lot of things I disliked.&nbsp; Let&#39;s talk about the t]]></description></item><item><title>H-Dog in Wikipedia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/hdog_in_wikipedia.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/hdog_in_wikipedia.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hdog%5Fin%5Fwikipedia</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Naturally, Wikipedia has already updated its entry  on Herbert Kornfeld to reflect his passing.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>My First Kickball Game</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/my_first_kickball_game.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/my_first_kickball_game.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Ffirst%5Fkickball%5Fgame</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As an adult, I mean.&nbsp; My team lost, 3-1.&nbsp; It was a bit of a defensive struggle.&nbsp; Let me just say that adult kickball is a lot harder than it looks.&nbsp; With 11 fully-grown people on the field, you can&#39;t just blast the ball and co]]></description></item><item><title>Serpentor&apos;s Got You All In Check!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/serpentors_got_you_all_in_check.htm</guid><link>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/serpentors_got_you_all_in_check.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://obsidianpotency.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=serpentors%5Fgot%5Fyou%5Fall%5Fin%5Fcheck</comments><dc:creator>jcabana</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This video  has changed my life forever.&nbsp; And this one  is even better.&nbsp; In many cases, the action on the screen matches the lyrics both in the characters&#39; speech patterns and the theme of the scene.&nbsp; Who had th time to make someth]]></description></item></channel></rss>