This blizzard will be the death of me, I’m currently attempting to ward off back spasms with muscle relaxers and aleve. I was just getting over it too, and now I’ve done WAY too much shoveling. I am writing to try and keep my mind off the spasms, pain, and absence of breath I’m feeling, so I won’t be hurt if you stop reading here 🙂 It started a week ago Thursday. I hurt my back doing nothing special – I was sitting in my office chair and turned right to grab my laptop out of the case on the…
>It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia – Full Episodes
>I love Hulu, and now they’ve got my favorite show: It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia – watch the full episodes. If you can get the beginning of the season the final episode will be a lot funnier 🙂
>Video: 1st Rockstar Social Club Video Submission
>So this shows a few issues with Rockstar’s “video editor” in GTA IV for PC.You’ll notice you don’t see any fire after the first clip or two yet some vehicles tend to blow up for no reason. I’m a little disssapointed considering it took me over 40 minutes to encode this “web quality” video. Other options are 720p and 1080p. Last time I tried 1080p I crashed. Go fig. Anyhow, take a look at my GTA ‘fire storm’ video here.
GTA IV Performance
Here’s the same progression in GTA benchmarks. I didn’t have to do much work for this because GTA writes each benchmark to a separate txt file automatically. I pasted into Google Docs and made a graph of it all. The details are here but this is the graph:
It’s the Final Benchmark!
Ok, so after the dust has settled I’ve completed the Hard Drive externalization (technical prototype) and here are the past couple benchmarks: 2 x New Graphics Card + CPU New Graphics Card + CPU New Graphics Card New Motherboard Original Read em and weep.
>HD Caser
>I’ve got a new project – an external HD case. I had 6 hard drives in my tower and really needed the power of my 700W for the rest of the componenets. Hard drives just need a warm cable, so to speak. So why not put them on the outside of the case? Well sure, there’s all sorts of reasons like dust and damage and heat. I think I’ve thought of all that though being short on material and the means to create something like this, I’m a bit unsure how I’m going to work it all through. For now…
New Benchmarks
Latest Benchmark 3DMark06 – 11059 2.0 PCI Ex Motherboard 3DMark06 – 10879 1.0 PCI Ex Motherboard w/ 2 8800 GTX 3DMark06 – 10674 *** authors note 07 07 2012 *** TABLES! Ahhhh! So not HTML 4.0…
>GTA IV in all it’s glory and then some
>Ya know… sometimes I hate PC gaming and then other times. I looooove it:[ 1st Try, beloved MMA10 ERROR ][ GTAIV 01 ][ GTAIV 02 ][ GTAIV 03 ] *[ GTAIV 04 ][ GTAIV 05 ] * = driver upgrade mmmm hmmm
>Rockstar fails to see the forrest…
>Rockstar apparently wanted their little foot in the online pool. GTA IV for PC may be exclusive to XBOX Live (Windows) but since they have it all centralized via their Rockstar Social Club – it all depends on their servers having the stones to support everyone logging in at once. I guess they didn’t expect such a rush. I called support:Wait, you called before?No… I don’t think so.Yeah, for PS3 – not showing 1080p.Oh yeah, yeah I did.So why’d you buy it for the PC too? I had it for PS3, I wasn’t going to go buy it for PC…
>Grand Theft Auto IV
>Yeah… I got it. I couldn’t help myself. I looked at the screenshots, I pondered, and after finding there was no demo to quench my thirst, I ventured to go get it before the stores closed. It’s installing now, and I’m enjoying the extra items in the box. I’ve got plenty of time to read it all – the game is 18g over 2 DVDs. I wonder if they’re dual layer. I guess they’d have to be, even compressed it would be at least 12 to 16g and that’s more then 2 4g DVDs could handle. The new social club…
>New Lilly Allen – Fear
>Listen to the new Lilly Allen track “Fear”, or if you’re so inclined, download it.
>Google Blog Gadget API
>I saw a link when I published for “add gadgets to your blog”I’m still using a template and I like i that way. I have my own ways of adding things to the page but I don’t have the time to do it. That’s why the scrolling links page has been a white box slapped on top of everything else for so long. I know what I want to do with it, but haven’t gotten around to it. In any case I thought Google’s new gadget APi looked like a pretty cool idea.
DJ Software
I’m asking for a USB mixer for XMass so I can mix my MP3s together.I’m a bit concerned how it does the BPM matching. I’d really like to have a dial to adjust it for either so I can do it manually – but just as I feared this I ran into the following (Free) software: Zulu DJ Mixer by NCH Software Please donate while you’re at it since it’s currently free and really great. There are many options, drag and drop files to load them, then drag them to either A track or B track – you get a…
Michael Crichton Died Today
I was surprised to hear that Michael Crichton died today.He’s probably my favorite author, followed closely by Douglas Adams who died just a few years ago. I think I need some new authors, but I’m afraid they might die on me. At the very least there are a still of Michael Crichton’s books that I have not read and remain on my bookshelf. There’s just so much I loved about how he created a picture with his words that my mind just ran off with. I was able to picture them much more vivid then any movie could convey, and…
McCain has a Rubber Band But Obama has Hanuman (monkey god)
Recently each of the candidates revealed their lucky charms. McCain had a rubber band and Obama said monkey god. I thought “monkey god” sounded a little weird, but it appears it was a nod to the group in India that sent it to him as a gift. read more | digg story
>Fallout 3
>Hummina humina – Fallout 3 is fabulous. It’s everything I wanted it to be. It plays similarly to Oblivion with all the awesomeness of Oblivion & Fallout combined. The combat system is your run of the mill point and shoot… until you activate VATS which stops the action and allows you to choose which body part of which target you want to shoot, with a very RPG % likeliness of hitting each body part. You can shoot the gun out of their hand – or blow the arm off completely – and to accompany these shots is an awesome (VERY…
>GOG.com (Good Old Games) Beta Goes Live!
>GOG.com has gone live, you can purchase Good Old Games for 5.99 or 9.99 depending.Descent 1 & 2 (or 3 & Expansion), Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics, Kingpin, Messiah, and Redneck Rampage – remember that one? I also found this little gem: Castles 2 No more trying to get Win95/Win98 working with your new hardware, or break out the old Pentium II in order to play these old gems – they’re all certified to play on XP and Vista (including x64!). Awesome.
On the Road Again
We’re headed to NY for Nicole’s brother’s wedding – some tandem garbage truck flipped over so traffic has slowed to a crawl. I really just wanted an excuse to use the G1. Typing is odd with the thumbs, I’m used to doing it all with one thumb so getting thumbkin-2 in on the m.ix is a tad faster 😉 We got a late start due to some issues with Merek’s vaccinations. We missed one by 2 days so they were all like no no!! And we were all like “we were just there!” But we got it straightened out, got…
>Google phone – G1 Review – First Glance
>Nicole got her G1 yesterday – the first and foremost “Google phone”It runs android – the open source phone OS developed by Google. At first glance it’s about the side of an iPhone (and that’s the exact demographic this phone is going for) though no where near as sleek. The screen swings out from the base and pops into place when going into landscape mode. The home screen has a clock widget with 4 basic icons at the bottom. It appears you can fill up the whole screen with up to 16 icons, if you didn’t have the clock there.…
>Video Game Movies
>I’ve been loving 2560 x 1600 for all games lately with the latest version of nVidia drivers and now I took some video. First one is 25fps, other 2 are 60 fps but I belive Windows Movie Maker does 15fps for WMV 720p. They were originally recorded at 2560 x 1600 but the compression doesn’t really do it justice. In any case, have fun viewing:
Review: Knight Rider GPS Directs You in K.I.T.T.’s Voice
It’s been a rough couple of decades for Knight Rider fans. In 1982 the show’s co-star, an AI-enhanced Trans AM named KITT, stole our nerdy hearts. Seven years after the series ended, everyone’s favorite talking car started a downward spiral…by moonlighting as a high school teacher. And don’t even get us started on the stinking zombie resurrection read more | digg story
The Future Is Back: A Tour of the New DeLorean HQ
Owners of the ultimate geek car, the DeLorean, are no strangers to modifying their McFly rides, including hovercraft and electric conversions of the iconic silver-skinned sports car. Now, thanks to the new DeLorean Motor Company, buyers of new DeLoreans and owners of the classic ones can outfit them with everything but a Mr. Fusion. read more | digg story