PVP can be really hit or (mostly) miss. This was a palpable hit.
Sometimes too much knowledge can really beat the kid out of you.
I've Totally Been There
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2010-06-30
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A Model of the Heavens
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2010-06-29
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http://www.hammacher.com/Product/77480?promo=search
For those who don't live outside of town....
Rock Band 3 With A Real F'ing Guitar!!
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2010-06-16
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Announced this week was Rock Band 3, available for a premium spot under your Christmas tree later this year. They completely redesigned the game from the ground up and it looks pretty swanky. Vocal harmonies are integrated (as experienced on the Beatles Rock Band), a keyboard is introduced, all the previous songs from earlier Rock Bands can be imported, a Pro Mode is introduced, and there's a new (not cheap) guitar that can read your hand position to show you on the screen and act as a real guitar! Reality and games blur together by one more degree!
Hit the link for a video of the guitar in game and real life action and be wowed. Soon we will all be Rock and Roll legends in our own living rooms!
After almost twenty years Devo returns as geriatric, angrier, nerdier, sarcastic nihilists.
The link sends you to an article talking about Devo's new album and a wee bit of their history that actually put the band in a much better light for me. I didn't really appreciate just how counter-culture these guys were and still are. They hate commercialism, so much so that they write pop songs dripping with sarcasm to sell to the dumb-ass masses who eat it up, especially in our current climate of Geek-chic.
There are a couple of videos at the link as well, from a live performance on Jimmy Kimmel. I don't like the first single, Fresh, but I do dig the other song, What We Do, I can relate to it.
So read the article, listen to the tunes, get a chuckle, think a bit, grudgingly admit that Kyro is not completely mental (not completely...), and whip it, whip it real good!
R.I.P. Gary Coleman
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2010-06-07
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The kid from Different Strokes is dead.
"What 'choo talkin' about Willis?"He will be buried later this week in this custom designed personalized coffin:
Red Faction: Guerrilla
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2010-06-01
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Total Time: 19:43:54
Time Spent at Red Alert: 3:01:48
Total Destruction: (B)1.799 Credits
EDF Death Total: 2957
Favorite Weapon: Assault Rifle
Least Favorite: Singularity Bomb
Sledgehammer Kills: 173
RFG is one of your getting-to-be-standard open world games where you can sorta float around and pickup missions occasionally advancing the main story line. I played most of Prototype, and the first couple of hours of inFamous, and I can honestly say something about RFG was far more enjoyable.
Prototype was more gorey and intense, sure, but RFG was sorta charming. Lemme give you an example... When I'd be done wrestling with the dogs after work, I could stand up suddenly, stare at Cary or Morgan with a crazy face à la John Cleese and exclaim "RIGHT! Time to save Mars!"
The graphics are nice and smooth, the vehicles are fun to drive, the buildings are VERY fun to destroy by hand, using the nano-rifle, and by REMOTE charge! For a short time, I indulged in the destruction of civilians using cleverly constructed death traps that they would wander senselessly into, ah, good times... but then the seriousness of the thing over took me, and I realized I had to liberate these mindless plebes (no one else was going to obviously).
Anyway, this game has lots of fun shit - marauders, explosive weapons, blowing shit up, tanks, blowing shit up, nano-forged weapons, blowing shit up and one reasonably sexy sounding female NPC. The music is great, and the end is short but sweet featuring an orbital death weapon (my favorite!).
My kind of game.
You can get it cheaply these days... I think I paid like $24 after tax.
It's Over
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2010-05-31
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Thanks to everybody who made it out this Saturday - it meant a shit ton to me to see that many friendly faces out for one last schbang! Major props to Josh, Kim and Kara (it was their first - and likely last - all electronic/DJ show). ScrewLoose, SteveO and the ultra old schoolers, wow... just wow...
You guys are the best.
(There will be some video and sound coming - links for those who ask for it)
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Fuck Me
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2010-05-20
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Vinyl is dead.
Oh, BTW, my last show DJ'ing (probably ever) is the last weekend of this month. That's right, on May 29th I'll be playing as Psience DJs for what is sure to be the last time EVER.
Call/Email for details if you'd like to go out with a bang - I know I plan to!
Get rid of IE6 or else
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2010-05-17
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Nothing like bizarre Monday morning news. Microsoft's current campaign for getting people to upgrade supposedly includes sending 9 year old milk to your friends
The Story of Electron Boy - I Almost Cried
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2010-05-03
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This is such an amazing story.
The short version is that a boy in Seattle is suffering from liver cancer and the Make A Wish Foundation made his wish, to be a superhero, come true in one remarkable day.
I'm just dumbstruck at the lengths to which they went to make this boy's dream come true before he died.
Read the story and have some faith in humanity restored.
Destroy All Locked Files
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2010-05-01
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So, I use rar, zip and 7z across my PC and Mac, and recently after password protecting an archive, copying it to another machine and unarchiving it, I discovered that I had somehow set the "Locked" attribute. When unpacking files on my Mac I was suddenly having a couple of problems... I couldn't delete the files or manipulate them in a editor (Logic in this case) without getting various 'file is locked' / 'insufficient privileges' messages. Annoying.
We're not talking about 2 or 3 files here, but a directory full of samples and loops that I use for music production. The thought of manually going through each files "info" dialog and unchecking a box made me throw up a little in my mouth - there is ALWAYS a way to script or automate this kind of shit.
After a little digging I was able to uncover this little gem:
sudo chflags -R nouchg ~/
What the hell does that mean you ask? I know it looks like it has the word douche in there, at least, that's all I could see initially, but I'll explain.
sudo will run the chflags command as root (this prompts you for your root password, so I hope you know it).
-R will cause the command to affect every file in the directory and all of its subdirectories. Make sure it's uppercase, as it's case-sensitive.
If uchg is the flag for "Locked" in the info dialog, then nouchg is the syntax for removing the uchg flag.
The tilde (~) indicates that you want to run this command against your home directory. If you have only a subdir inside your home directory you can path it out (I used ~/Music/Resources/SampleBank23/ and it worked a treat).
