>now for a bit of lighter fare:10 Futuristic Computer Designs – some make use of connectivity, but the impressive stuff makes use of flexible organic displays.10 unusual places to stay on vacation – includes a giant dog, underwater, and cave dwellings.
>"a slogan among New Yorkers"
>The USS NY was christened yesterday and I saw an article on MSN about it that angered me. So matter of factly they state that the bow hull is made from scrap steel that was salvaged from the World Trade Center and what’s emblazoned where. It was the statement about: “Never Forget” – which is “a slogan among New Yorkers” that really flustered me. Among New Yorkers?!! They were attacking AMERICA, it was an attack on everyone that happened to happen in NY. Now I may be inclined to forgive who wrote this since it’s an AP wire, but I…
>BitComet
>It’s been a long time since I needed to download something I couldn’t find on a web page, and I guess that’s why I’ve stayed away from Torrents. I am digging through my pile of older games now and after trying Gothic 3 again (yes, it did the same stuttering crap – guess it’s not compatible with the 7950GX2) I tried Aliens VS Predator 2.I had the CD along with the insert that has the serial key. Apparently there is also a disk 2, as I was prompted for it when I got about halfway through the install. I checked…
>GTA IV
>GTA IV (as ususal) looks AMAZING Change the number at the end of the url to see other random pics:http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_53.htmlhttp://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_17.htmlhttp://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_21.htmlhttp://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_45.html
>My Song
>So I was forwarded this little utility for finding random music. I’m still not sure of the full story behind it but I’ve tried typing in many a random song name and it found something. I’m not sure if it’s similar to what I searched for but it’s rather difficult to not have something come up. Hint: Try Song Name – Goose, no Author Also – I am posting this because I got it to turn out remotely how I wanted it to. I actually redid this one because the one I did last night didn’t involve MY NEW MIXER!…
>Playing with VISTA dictation
>Some random stuff for today. I was trying to use the VISTA dictation but it’s very difficult. It types when you want to select something on the screen and it selects something on the screen when you want to type. It always seems to assume the opposite of what I actually want to do. A creepy message to Scientology ~ where do I sign up?Newsweek article about it.
Clarissa Explains It All – Drinking Game
*** here is the original article ported over *** Nicole and I couldn’t find a Clarissa Explains It All drinking game so we made up our own: Keep in Mind:~ Both the DVD and the real show (should you see it somewhere with commercials) still have commercial bumpers.~ you shouldn’t try level 2 unless a) you’re only watching 1 episode b) you’re so super hard core, there’s no need to pull punches c) glrealjrlj …. get nakked! blrgl.. *hic* auuuuuuuuuuuuughhhhhh… Level 1 – Lets Watch the Whole Disk! / Marithon Update/Report (Clarissa Report, Clarissa Financial Report, Clarissa Update, etc) –…
>Video: Ferguson From "Clarissa Explains It All"
>I got Clarissa Explains It All S1D1 in the main today from Netflix and we were wondering what happened to Jason Zimbler… after finding nothing I discovered the following cameo in a recent music video: Video: The XYZ Affair – All My Friends …look for all your favorite red-headed actors such as the guys from “Pete & Pete”, “Salute Your Shorts”, and “Clarissa Explains it All”. Check out the Clarissa Explains It All Drinking Game we made up.
Clarissa Explains it All Drinking Game
…not having luck reposting this from the old link: http://www.synthetic-x.com/2008/02/clarissa-explains-it-all-drinking-game.html Wednesday, February 06, 2008 post://118971903657824975/ Nicole and I couldn’t find a Clarissa Explains It All drinking game so we made up our own: Keep in Mind:~ Both the DVD and the real show (should you see it somewhere with commercials) still have commercial bumpers.~ you shouldn’t try level 2 unless a) you’re only watching 1 episode b) you’re so super hard core, there’s no need to pull punches c) glrealjrlj …. get nakked! blrgl.. *hic* auuuuuuuuuuuuughhhhhh… Level 1 – Lets Watch the Whole Disk! / Marithon Update/Report (Clarissa Report, Clarissa…
>Inbreeding and Free
>An interesting article – blue eyes are related to Melanoma. EA announced “Battlefield Heros”, due out this summer. It’s from the Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2 team and it’s FREE. However before you go screaming in delight like a little girl… it’s cartoon (cell shaded?) and there will most likely be a ton of kids playing. They’ll probably use it as a springboard for all their other games and/or something 12 year olds like.
>Digital Nexus
>I’ve been needing to revamp the whole computer situation, and I think I’ve finally got it all in hand for the main PC: WinXP, WinXP64 on my SATA 3G RAID Striping HDs, and VISTA64 on my single SATA 3G. I’ve got to rebuild the VISTA boot menu to include the older choices, but that’s just a matter of indicating which partition they’re on. The motherboard itself is acting wanky in the main machine. I bought an ASUS Crosshair so I could do dual 16x SLI and it appears to be having some sort of short related to the Clear BIOS…
>Silverlight
>I’m building a web site for my mom and practicing my Silverlight.What is Silverlight? It’s a JavaScript front end for VB. I can write limited VB and use it on the web, so all the stuff I’m familiar with how to do can be translated to a flash-like experience, animated, rich gui application (webpage). If you’re interested, check out the following:Silverlight introductionSilverlight Quick StartSilverlight ReferenceSilverlight Gallery
>Why aren’t you developing in paralell?!!
>All these mulititudes of core… no code to back them… what a shame.Step up and code in paralell! Oh, and here’s a fun little Red Sox vs Yankees tit-bit.
>Some of the Best Fark Headlines of 2007
>Here are some of the best Fark headlines from 2007
>SLi x 3
>I think I’m done with computer gaming. I just don’t have the money to do it well. I invested for the monitor – and it’s served me well, but I just can’t believe what NVidia just announced – SLi x 3. I have 3 major problems with this: 1.) Cost – If you want 3 8800 GTX Ultra cards you are spending 3 x $700, that’s $3000 just on video cards. I’ve never been one for building a $5000 PC, and this is hands down the way to do it. 2.) Space – Who has room for 3 oversized, extra…
>Beeceuticals Sues Bee Movie
>I guess Jerry and Co should have made sure no one else had the trademark on “Give Bees a Chance”. Beeceuticals had it first, sounds like really good stuff.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Steroids and Baseball*
* – but were afraid to ask No list of players right now, but check out the extensive report on steroids in baseball.
>Bogus!
>Check out these results of the Crysis DEMO.Crysis x32 vs x64 DX9Crysis x32 vs x64 DX10 Granted, it’s the DEMO but if you’re going to include separate bin32 and bin64 directories then why isn’t it native? I think Crysis intended to do it right and then EA swoopt down with their bagful of money… and pooped out the game.
>New Games
>So I had heard about “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.” a while back and was quite excited by it. I looked it up and wow… it was already out, and had been out since March! That meant it was only $30 now, so I went to go pick it up. It ran like crap, and ran even worse at lower resolutions which shouldn’t happen. Every other time I’d run it I’d get really good frame rates in the rendered intro scene and then it would get better rates in the game but still nothing too good.I was rather disappointed by the whole thing… I…
>All I Want for XMAS
>I know this is impossible, but I wish I could get this for XMAS. The reviews show better performance out of 1 of these 8800 GTS cards then 2 7950GTs in SLI. Plus… this one comes with a free copy of Crysis… and Crysis runs natively under XP64.
>Can’t believe it
>So here I am at work, after working last night from 7 to 12:30… getting in at 9… working until 5… to pop back on at 7… I've now had to move around meetings, get people to cover me in some while being there for others. I have projects that I've had to farm out, getting other individuals working on pieces because I've got so much else to do. I feel important, but it's stressfull. I may not have to do the work, but now I'm worrying if it's done right if I'm not doing it.
>Like seeing whats up with new sites, this was a fledgling service, and I was all on board with it, finally ponied up the dough and blam, they went mega (Yahoo bought them). This is what happened with Blogger (kinda) I had been using Blogger for a while and finally went pro – a few months went by and they decided to thank everyone who actually paid for Blogger with a free sweatshirt. I think they sent the same M size to everyone, but I’ve still got it and even occasionally wear it. Try it out, it’s pretty neat… and…