Random Blatherings of a Geeky / Gamer Girl

How to Ride Japan Rail (JR)

I went to Japan for vacation last month. Before then, I’ve never rode on a train before - I’ve never had the need to. So, I did some research on “how to” but didn’t really find any good instructions. Now that I’m back and I understand the JR Trains a bit more, I’ll try to […]

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Bananas Help Scratched CDs

Ok, this sounds ridiculous, and I don’t know why this works, but it did for me.
Last weekend I was playing Gears of War (again) when I started encountering the scratched parts of the disc. Usually, an error message pops up for the XBox 360 saying “disc read error, clean it and try again”, and then […]

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‘Zap’ Annoying Web Pages Away

So I’m at work, and I’m doing research…about gaming and blogging…Just kidding! I’m honestly doing technical research, but some of these web sites look fun and goofy with colored backgrounds, funky images, and text colors. They don’t look serious, and they give me guilty pangs when a co-worker walks by behind me. If I were […]

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