Orignally drafted on 2004 07 14 – not published due to the sensitivity of the emotional turmoil. It would have actually made the situation worse, so I withheld it. Still keeping this in draft for a while… >Carletta just popped in, like a tornado just pops in. She grabbed her Futon, who knows where she’s headed. I’d figure to Ren’s house but wonder if she’s giving the bed to Allen. She seemed to make a pivitol decision once Allen came back. He was there that night at Alibis. He helped her move the futon. Ren would never help her do…
Sum Sum Summa Time
It is days like this that remind me that summer is just as much a gaming season as winter. I avoid the polarization and increase my gaming repertoire. There are several new titles as of late, and I have played a few of them. Here are my general impressions: Diablo III – Yes, you’ve heard it bandied about. It’s set the record and beyond. If you don’t have it, a friend does – 3.5 million on the first day and that does NOT include the 1.2 million Blizzard drummed up with their WoW promotion, NOR the millions in the Korean…
Review: Call of Juarez: The Cartel
It’s really as bad as you’ve heard. From the very first screen you are alerted to its crappiness. The text itself is circa Mortal Kombat – giant and pixellated. It looks so dated. It really feels like a modern Sega CD – it hardly even looks 3D. I barely got through the first level. I bought it for $5 – shipped from the UK for the amazing price of $2.49 – gotta love Amazon. I figured there must be at least SOME saving grace, story, anything. From what i saw the story tries really hard to be in depth (remember,…
The Witcher 2 – 3D Vision – 1920×1080 recorded SBS with Fraps – YouTube
This probobly won’t work through the embed, but you should be able to click it to go to youtube to watch it there. I haven’t had any luck, I’ve done all the checks, the instructions, walkthroughs everything. HTML5 can’t find 3D hardware (IE, Chrome, & the preferred Firefox) so I end up looking at the same thing you see here:
Double Standards
Originally drafted 2004 09 06: >”I thought we were on a month to month basis…” So was I — month to month equals 30 days notice. How would you feel if I told you that you had to be out by the end of the week? It’s common courtesy to give 30 days notice, on top of the fact that I would need to give him 30 days notice. Previous house mates moving out had led to discussions, and Scott assured me he would give me such a courtesy. Telling me on the 27th hardly constitutes any notice, let alone…
Statement of Doing
originally drafted August 2004 editors note: 2012 05 03 not sure how all this panned out but it certainly got worse before it got better This is draft — personal rambling. I’m sick of being fucked with. – mind games – guilt trips Not going to deal with shitty people, going to start telling them to their face. People take me as too nice, it was always “just easier” for me to say nothing… things would always brighten up after that. People get to know me, know that it’s usually the way and decide to take advantage of it. I…
Updates of Drafts From Long Ago
Oh goodness, one or two of those drafts were actually published, some on purpose but there’s another that I didn’t exactly mean to. It’s up now though, so lets just hope no one reads that one until it’s fallen back into the history again. I found one particular incident that I feel I need closure on. I recently met back up with a former roommate online – so I have a way to ask about this incident. It may bring all the feelings back, but I’d like to think she’s in a similar place as I am now. We have…
>Tracy’s 21st Birthday
Originally drafted 2004 05 23: >Went out to Framingham last night for Tracy’s 21st birthday. It was quite the experience. The original plan was to check out the strip club, then the club club, then maybe a few bars. I don’t think Justin allocated enough time in the night. Tracy’s friend Jen was with her when they arrived home from shopping. Tracy had grabbed a new outfit from Deb, or Rave, or one of those stores. When she came out, she was all popping out and I said something about it. “Thats how she likes it” – Justin said, Tracy…
Reflecting on “Threes Company”
Originally drafted 2004 07 15: >I just watched an episode of 3s company and I had to write this quote. Krissy’s father the minister came to visit, was all angry that Jack was living there… “I wanted to bring you home so you would be surrounded by people who love you. Well you don’t need to come home… you are home.” You form a bond with the people you live with. You have to care about someone in order to get along with them well enough to live with them. Thats what being home is all about, being surrounded by…
Feeling Alive in NH
Originally drafted 2004 08 13 running up the mountain, then down it again… I felt like I could do anything. I wanted to run more. This is regarding the hike up the mountain in NH I did with Justin. Nicole did not come with me, but I remember telling her about it when I got home from that trip. Ticket from the ranger, lots of drinking. It was an old fashioned good time. I got to hand it to him, I wouldn’t have had half my adventures without that guy.
BOA not quite DOA
I believe this was from when I worked as a contractor at various NE Bank of America locations upgrading their computers. Originally drafted: 2005 01 04 >Anyone else see a problem with where I’m working tonight? And just in case the link is broken.
>Win 7 Configuration
Originally Drafted: 2009 11 14 >Finally got it up and running…[Details Forthcoming…]
SLi – Double V
Originally drafted August 2006: If you’re not a geek you have not heard about SLi. Even if you are a geek you may not have heard about QuadSLi. BFG fit 2 graphics cards on 1 PCIEx interface, allowing those who don’t have SLi to get SLi performance, and those that do have SLi to get QuadSLi performance. In order to take advantage of the image quality these cards allow, you need a big frikken monitor, but you will be gaming like never before if you have the money. Quad SLi – Where it Stands **2012 05 02** So a note…
Historical Articles / Posts Restored
The last post made me realize that the old template made all the old posts esentially unreadable. You couldn’t scroll down so anything other then the initial screen was only readable via the source of the page. That doesn’t really work for most people. I’ve reposted all 1200+ articles from the old site via blogger import so I’ve now got them all on the new DB. Nothing is tagged, but you can still find them by browsing back through the calendar. I’ll be tagging them with the year at least so the summaries will be browsable via that particular tag.…
It Hertz More Then It Should
So I’ve taken a break from the 3D for better 2D. 120hz is what I’m talking about. I suppose if I put on VSYNC it should now try to do 90? 120? BF3 was surprising. I had been playing with vsynch in order to prevent tearing, but I disabled the 3D, put the glasses in their nice felt bag and tonight was all about the 120hz Battlefield 3. Enabling 120hz for Games There are several steps which you need to do in order to switch between the two modes. One of which is the hertz (naturally). For Nvidia it is…
Video: Seriously? You think you know bad driving?
I saw a few repeats in here, but for the most part… an HOUR and a HALF?!!
Logo Stuff
Here’s some new logos. I didn’t need photoshop afterall; GIMP did me well with these. Couldn’t resist one more idea.
My 3D Aventure in Digitopia
I was accused of trolling for posting what I found while testing a few games with 3D Vision. I don’t take umbrage but it reminded me that this is the first time round for some people. The History Before I address the fad aspect of 3D let me say I am no stranger. It has come a long way since the geForce 3 I had about 10 years ago. It worked, and I guess it never went away, even the test screen for the glasses is the same today as it used to be with a couple extra dynamic lights…
The Viking Kittens Return!
Ok, so maybe they were only just sleeping but here they are: This is an oldie.  I remember this being one of the first “viral” media pieces out there.  Before shockwave/flash there wasn’t much for embedable media.  There was a picture here or there, but high density media was avoided to prevent isolating users with slower computers. Flash changed that and allowed everyone to see the same thing at the same time (upon visiting the site).  In any case I had sucked this down a while back and recently found it again while cleaning up the FTP.  I hope you enjoy…
I found this from Feb 2008
It was topical at the time, apparently I wrote it up into a txt file and then just uploaded to my server. I recently found it. —————————————- [Feb 2008] —————————————- Everything I’ve looked up on the internet says there is no meaning to Clutch’s song 10001110101. Even the singer says it means nothing in an interview, that some people are disappointed – like they’re looking for some secret code or something. In any case I think it’s a secret plug because of what I found. I was curious because right after he says 10001110101 is “periodic table”. That got me…
EA… Realy?!!
I signed on today for some battlefield 3 and went to check out the patch notes and noticed something else… “shortcuts” yes, for only $6.95 you too can have a whole set of unlocks that others spent hours and hours. The whole point is you would carefully choose what you tried to unlock or try to hone several similar skills to align your goals and unlock as much as you could at once. It is like giving rookies keys to the cruiser.
Review: Jurassic Park (2011)
Wow, it’s pretty impressive how lame they were able to make this game. If they made it a traditional first person puzzle / battle game that would have been ideal… but they didn’t. Everything is WASD on PC and I’m sure ABYX on XBOX. They turned a promising concept into a lame press the button at the right time, twitchy, too slow? die” lump of blech. I’m very disappointed in this title. I see a ton of blocky translucent vegitation, medium detail character models – blocky with giant eyes. The dinosaurs look good, until they move… which apparently the running…