>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
>PhysX Fun
>nVidia has finally gotten around to upgrading their cards with PhysX. They bought Agea a while ago, and it’s been a long time coming. Any nVidia card that is an 8 series or above is able to be upgraded, which means no separate PhysX process is required, the firmware update uses the GPU to do all the cachunking of the (previously) dedicated physics chip. This means towers that can be taken down, realistic wall destroying, and many other items only possible with a physics engine. Just like GPUs advanced the graphics, Physics processing will advance the gameplay and realworld feeling…
>MIA – Paper Airplanes Ringtone
>I kept hearing it in the trailer and couldn’t get it out of my head so I made aringtone of the song from Pineapple Express.
NAB successfully purchases FCC
The latest FCC panel member has said Sirius needs to reserve 25% for “minority” programming for his approval. Why does it have to be minority? Why not public access?? I’d say none out of principal, but it’s an easy fix that they can leverage and it won’t be too much of an impact. It shouldn’t be anywhere near 25% either – CTV has 2 channels, DTV has none. It is the same thing, it’s a pay service! OH, and here’s where the millions spent by the NAB come in: they want to add HD radio compatibility of the radio as…
Butt Girl…The History of the Long Island Ice Tea Cocktail
If you watch this, you will never forget; a) how to make a Long Island Ice Tea and b) the name of the bartender who invented it. read more | digg story
>Photoshop & Video (Back to You – and ALF!)
>I submitted a photoshop to’day. It’s only using paint… so I guess it’s a paint-shop. In any case check out the submission. I’ve also got the original. Only 3 more days to watch “Back to You” on Hulu! I found I really liked it once I checked it out – turns out it’s because it comes from the creators of Frasier and Just Shoot Me, working together. Don’t get too attached to Gracie… I still say they’re mad for changing (ie: “…going in a different direction.”) Oh yeah… catch up on your ALF!
Past Performance
I went back today and found some previous 3DMark06 Scores since I was finally able to get my 3DMark06 up and running. I still had my old VISTA x64 install on my extra HD (haven’t needed to reformat it for space yet) so I installed everything (didn’t work) and then copied over all the OpenAL32.dll to both system32 and syswow64 directories. I removed 3DMark06 and reinstalled from my Crosshair driver CD (w/ professsional SN) but when I went to submit it said a newer version was available. The patch wouldn’t install (said 3DMark06 wasn’t installed???) so I just copied the…
>New SLi Comparison
>I picked up another card to do SLi this weekend. I wanted more, I wanted 2560×1600. I priced out what it would cost me to get a 9800GX2 including the trade-in from EVGA and it was going to be like $350+, so I instead spent $170 for another 8800 GTS – which were getting scarce so I moved on it. I tested using 3D Mark Vantage (for VISTA) as my existing 3D Mark 2006 is not working in VISTAx64 because it says OpenAL32.dll is not present (which it is).I’d rather use 3DMark 06 as it’s a more accurate guage given…
>Learn How to Create Web Applications in Visual Studio 9 – Virtual Lab!
>I found a virtual lab for Visual Studio 9. This particular one is for building web applications, but if you’re interested in teaching yourself you can get your start with the virtual labs and then even download Microsoft Visual Studio Express for free!
>Gas-ma-geddon
>I just paid $4.19 for Super using CASH. I could have paid $4.39 if I used credit. Separate cash and credit prices?? Way to go back to
>First Look at FarCry2
>If you thought Crysis was cool:Video: First look at FarCry2 They did it even better with FarCry 2, without aliens. Top 100 Best Tech Products – top 10 are right on… minus a few (like Facebook, XP?!!). I had never heard of the SD card that turns your camera into a wifi device.
Interestings
So I’m working from home today, collected a few tidbits durring my hours upon hours of meetings:There is still no concrete info on the Wii pole dance gameEA PR is spinning, Tech is confirming they suckEver wonder if your local sewage treatment is up to snuff? Holyoke’s isn’t.Kind of a dramatic image of an old Iraqi woman not quite the caliber of the Afghanistan girl from Time, but still powerful. *update* gotta hand it to MSN, they find some cool stuff, particularly Jott – a free service where you can dictate text messages.
2 Weeks of Josh
After a long time of being unable to find a chance to hang with anyone the past 2 weeks have been great. I think I can finally hunker down and maybe do some work. After seeing what Justin has been able to do with his free time, I’m inspired. It started two weeks ago when I was able to finally get together with Josh & Katie, of course Nicole had a previous engagement she realized after we made the plans but that was fine, still time to go grab something to eat first. Note to self:: the Eastside Grill in…
>GTAIV (GTA 4) for PS3 Not Using 1080p
>I picked up GTA IV this morning, and by some odd cooincidence also had today off. I popped it in, it did a file copy to the HD (about 5 to 10 minutes) which is like 3+ Gig. I got in it and it looked blurry… I checked the box, 720p, 1080i, 1080p… and then I checked the TV – 720p. There were no settings in the game (guess I’m too used to PC games) so I went out to the main PS3 menu. There are normally settings when hitting /_\ but not in this case – nothing relevant other…