This is a quick post to let you know that Ava’s here (finally!). She was born on October 31 at 2:57am. She’s healthy and beautiful. She has a ton of super dark hair and huge feet. Christina’s doing fine, though a bit sore.

Sierra’s 7th birthday was yesterday, but she didn’t have much of a party yet. That’ll be in a week or two.

Check out the pics here: http://deanish.com/photos

“He is my neighbor Nushuktan Tulyiagby. He is pain in my assholes. I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass. I get a step, he must get a step. I get a clock radio, he cannot afford. Great success!” - Borat

Just in case Borat isn’t up your alley, guess what else is on sale?

Wow! With savings like that, I could save up to buy more air!
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This video is a guide through the Nintendo Museum exhibition from earlier this year in Japan. It’s an amazing look at the rich history of Nintendo in their never-ending quest to entertain the masses. I really enjoyed seeing things like Nintendo’s Lego-like Mii-ish toys, the original pre-NES Duck Hunt, and the Famicom Disk System - things I never got to play with, but I probably would’ve. This video was made as a pilot for Points, a new series of videos by Jason DeGroot that focuses on not games, but gamer culture.

If you like the music in that video, you’re not alone - I dig it too. It’s made by the producer of the video, under the moniker 6955. From what I understand, he makes all of his music with the Game Boy Camera accessory. Yeah, crazy.

In addition to his own gig, 6955 is doing all of the music and sound effects for a sweet looking game still in development called Fez, which is being developed by a small studio in Montreal called Kokoromi. I originally found out about this game (and 6955) on 4 color rebellion, which sent me on the link-clicking goose-chase that is the internet and has blossomed into the post you see here today. Check out the trailer for this sweet looking game:

Based on that trailer, Fez looks like it’s gonna be a great game. It’s part platformer, part puzzler, part wtf-I’m-manipulating-space-zomg - what’s not to love? The art style’s a throwback to the 2D 8-bit/16-bit days, but it’s actually completely 3D which is just awesome. Plus, it’ll have new old school music to go along with it. Long live old school!

BTW, to those of you who may subscribe to my blog (all 2 of you [if I’m lucky]), you may have noticed that I’ve been away from ye ol’ blog for a couple months. I should be gettin’ back into the swing of things.

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Now playing: Spoon - Don’t Make Me A Target

Stare at that for a while and tell me it’s not creepy. You can’t; it’s damn creepy. It’s like when Pennywise the Clown winks at Jonathan Brandis in Stephen King’s It, but worse, because you kind of expect a certain level of creepiness from a clown - not from a baby.