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  Bug is figuring out a way to streamline the process. He hates the system and how it attempts to force the general public to mold itself to its “fair and balanced standards”. He loathes greedy money grubbing corporations and their inability to see the uniqueness of their employees, while gouging the pockets of their customers. On the flip side Bug enjoys spirited drives in Volvos on challenging roads, technology that is over-developed to push the limits of its use and the crisp spring air that provides a heavenly sleeping environment.
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• Top 5 Fast Food Restaurants

  

  Written by bug 29 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 20, 2008

  With my belly full from a rushed thirty minute workday lunch break, it is the perfect time to settle in and dissect the intricacies of some of the most popular fast food restaurants. I can safely say that 95% of the population dabbles into the fast food realm, usually within limits of eating said food “every once and a while”. There are some of us out there who eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner, touting oversized brown paper bags that are reserved for family orders. These are the exceptions; the addicts. They fill that entire family pouch with their own fresh steaming feast. Fast; cheap food that goes from microwave to the toilet in under 15 minutes. Here at old-wizard.com we have gone on such binges, stayed abreast of the newest trends in fast food, and once in late 2005 even got up of the couch and drove straight to Taco Bell to try the brand new Crunchwrap Supreme as soon as the TV commercial ended. With these types of impulses, we bring you our top five fast food joints, with a little insight to each.

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• Mail Bag: June 19th, 2008

  

  Written by bug 2 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 19, 2008

  This week Bug answers a couple of your email questions:

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• Board Game Review: Candyland

  

  Written by bug 10 Comments
  Last Updated:: May 15, 2008

  Plumpy. Mr. Mint cutting down candy canes with a candy cane axe. Lord Licorice and the gingerbread house! Finally meeting Queen Frostine floating in the Ice Cream Sea before kneeling down to the all mighty King Kandy. Any of these fabled characters and places ring a bell? They sure do if you were tripping on acid and happened to wander through the psychedelic Candyland.

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• The Top 5 Web Browsers

  

  Written by bug 11 Comments
  Last Updated:: May 6, 2008

  The text your eyes are currently reading is being displayed to you via a digital medium commonly known as a Web Browser. Quite simply, a web browser is a piece of software that interfaces with an active internet connection to allow the user to display websites, transfer files and display media. Over the years web browsers have been upgraded, retooled and fancified to display websites faster, more securely, and with style. Here at Old-Wizard.com we’re obviously heavy users of the internet, often hogging bandwidth at our homes, friend’s houses and free wireless hot spots along the way. We have used several different types of web browsers and in the spirit of Old-Wizard, we decided it was time to post our top five web browsers list.

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• Doomsday!

  

  Written by bug 5 Comments
  Last Updated:: February 26, 2008

  Jesus Christos! Corpus Christi!

  It is official; the Norwegian government has excavated the former apartment / love nest of Superman, and is now using it to store seeds.

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• HD DVD is Dead!!!

  

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  Last Updated:: February 19, 2008

  Today marks a day of a new technology crashing to the ground. Toshiba Corporation, the brainchild behind the glorified new movie media known as High Definition Digital Video Disc, or HD-DVD for short, pulled the plug on their so called superior technology. The ongoing and bloody battle has been raging for months where Sony’s technology known as Blu Ray was going head to head with HD-DVD. This was known to come to an end at some time, as the differences in the two mediums were virtually unnoticeable. The Blu Ray discs hold a bit more amount of data on them, which makes them technically superior to the HD-DVD medium. The only fall back that has been mentioned about the Blu Ray is that the protective coating on the bottom of the disc is mere fractions thinner than the protective coating of the HD-DVD discs. Users have to be more gentle and show more care for their Blu Ray Discs when handling them, which can be seen as a downfall. These are the main differences in the two mediums, and both of them offer the same exact high fidelity and the difference can’t be noticed by the human eye. When it really comes down to it, the amount of movie companies that were choosing HD-DVD were dwarfed by the amount of companies who chose Blu Ray. It was always a disappointment when a new movie came out to DVD, and the company chose HD-DVD instead of Blu Ray. Well now that has been laid to rest, and in the 34th round of fighting, HD-DVD is down for the count. Blu Ray is now the king of media, and improvements will be made to this technology to offer its viewers an even more intense viewing experience.

• Super Off Road

  

  Written by bug 1 Comment
  Last Updated:: November 29, 2007

  Super Off Road. First introduced to me in the dimly lit corner of a Burger King Castle in Meriden, CT. The machine stared me down, flaunting the three primary colors, each assigned to a black steering wheel. I don’t remember if there was a gas pedal for each of the three players, but I do know for sure each of us had our own NITRO button. The three players were able to, of course, toss quarters into this machine and drive their tiny little truck around a beaten dirt course on the 20 inch color screen. Taking on the yellow truck, I began my adventure into Off Road nitro-filled racing, battling with three other vehicles on the muddy and worn pixilated track. At times these vehicles were driven by humans, at others, the computer inside this amazing stand up interactive video game would control the relentless trucks. I played course after course, winning money for finishing each race. With this money, I was allowed to upgrade my truck over and over, in many different ways. Sometimes it was the tires, others it was the engine, turbo or shocks; and so on. At first I experienced some initial shock spending $70,000 for a set of tires, but they proved to be well worth every penny. After some time, there would be random green money bags that would just show up on the dirt track. If you aimed for them, and ran them over, you collected the cash. However, the amount of money in each money bag was just as random as its location and timing on the track. It’s as if the system would taunt me, sometimes when I got the moneybag it would be $1,000. When I saw the other computer controlled trucks get the money bags, they would get $100,000. I’m sure it was rigged, but nonetheless, I carried on. This was the type of game I could play for a very long time off of just one quarter. I played until the birthday party at that Burger King Castle was over, and I had to be dragged away.

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• Mario Pary 4 : Domination Mini-Game

  

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  Last Updated:: November 28, 2007

  Mini games. Mini games were the name of the game in Super Mario Party 4 for the Nintendo Gamecube. Wandering through the digital world of psychedelic Japanese programmers, we were sent off onto little detours. Forced to play games that had nothing to do with our main goal: beating the full game. Most of the time these so called mini games were just a pain in the ass, but we came across one that was just completely pointless. It goes by the name of Domination. It was the one where you faced a never ending line of stone figures, shaped and stacked like domino’s. The only point of this mini game was to smash the A button on your controller as fast as you possibly could in a certain time period, and then it would knock down the corresponding amount of stone domino’s. Highest count of downed stone domino’s wins.

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• Oink is Dead

  

  Written by bug 1 Comment
  Last Updated:: October 23, 2007

  Today marks a sad day in the realm of digital music and file sharing. What was first started as oink.co.uk and more recently transferred to oink.cd, was the cozy little corner of the internet with a nice music sharing community. Users were able to upload full albums to the site and share their beloved musical jewels with other users. As long as users kept their sharing ratio at a decent level, everybody was allowed to take and give music or other files as they wished. We have caught news that today the owners of oink.cd got their servers raided in Amsterdam, and the site has been completely shut down. The greedy music giants have shut down a perfect utopia of people who have enjoyed and shared their music for years and years. When will the music battle finally end? When will we be back to full album sharing over a digital medium? This was a breakthrough service, which united people on a common ground, and has been devastated instantly, with no warning or remorse.

• Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings

  

  Written by bug 1 Comment
  Last Updated:: October 10, 2007

  During the Middle Ages, there wasn’t a whole lot of fun and excitement to be had in the daily musings of life. The simple minded peasant farmed the land, raised the sheep, and helped where ever they were needed by their feudal master.  The feudal master controlled and instructed his people on what their tasks would be from day to day, which could have been any number of things. You, my dear Old Wizard patron, shall be that Master. You shall be the master of the Middle Ages, and of the many different civilizations that claimed the times of castles, catapults, swords, and pikes all to their own. But it’s not just instructing the peasant to build and till the farm for the good of the colony. It is much more survivalist than that. This game can only be mastered through thinking like a King that must house, feed, and protect his people.

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