[1up] Clan

If you like free games like counter strike an such check out Urban Terror. It's a really fun game, runs on linux, windows, or mac. You can usually find me hanging out at the [1up] clan servers, of which I am now a proud member.

Ted Kennedy

It's sad when anyone dies, be it a wealthy old Senator who has lived a full life, or a 28 year old woman drowning in the backseat of that senators car while he tries to cover up his involvement. Fuck Ted Kennedy, and fuck the media for treating him like a saint when he was anything but.

Exclamation points

I would like to posit a new theory I am working on. I believe there is a inverse correlation between intelligence and the number of exclamation points used at the end of a sentence. For instance:

This is a very exclamatory statement! (Intelligent)
This is a very exclamatory statement!!! (Below Average Intelligence)
This is a very exclamatory statement!!!!!!!!! (Borderline Retarded)
This is a very exclamatory statement!!!!!!!!1!!!1!!! (WTF)

Still on Vacation!

Still just chilling out in St. Ignace, we went to the island today, it was pretty cool, a little oldtimey though. I did get a chance to take some good pictures and make some nice panoramas though.

Vacation

I am officially on vacation! Friday I went over Dan & Rachel's and played tiger woods with Brent, Scott and Andrea. Then on Saturday we had the day of birthdays. First we went to Wing Lee for Suzie's, then to Missi and Mikes for Zak's then went to lime light with passion and Carrie. I got passion a can of dust-off for her birthday, it's a long story. Sunday was a more laid back affair, we went over to Dan and Danielle's and played some more tiger woods. Tyler and 'Anna are soo cute. Really starting to talk and walk and make me want to have some kids. Next we head up tomorrow to St. Ignace to enjoy the UP! To the great Michigan wilderness. lol.

DEMF Phone Friendly Schedule

No more will I have to create some scrappy little spreadsheet that gets lost in the first day. This is a great little tool, gives you artist bio info and times weather and a ton of other great info. Definately the tool to have this weekend.

http://www.mpiii.com/demf

On a side note I can't wait for this weekend! My birthday is Friday and I plan on partying from 4:00pm Fri straight through 12:00 Monday. Hope to see you there!

Wolfram Alpha off to a rocky start

So I heard it was going live tonight and it seems they are having some traffic issues but once I finally got the site to load my first two queries were met with confused looks from HAL, I mean Fram. I tried "Autism rates in Europe vs. US" and "autism rates" (I was watching Jenny Mcarthy on The Dr's, don't ask me why). Any way my next question, "Car Sales 2005" did return a result, then it crashed. But judging from the live feed from skynet it seems they are having a grand old party. Well as much of a party as you can have with Wolfram. Then I destroyed the universe (see pic).

Budget Cuts Visualization

NES Reviews

Ok I have given up on the dream, there are about 1,000 roms in there and I would say 90% are shit. I can't waste my life reviewing sewage like "8 Eyes". I am going back to griping about Windows and generic vitriol.

Retro Review #4 "8 Eyes"

Ok in this game you play a homeless little shrimp that dresses a bit queer and hangs out with a bird. You hit people with a tiny little stick and your bird basically just flies around not attacking anything. Also you can't leave the room without the fucking bird.
I give this game a rating of: Better than getting your eyes pecked out by a raven.

Retro Review #3 "The 3-D Battles of World Runner"

Ok, third times a charm. Here we have "The 3-D Battles of World Runner", from... Square? The same Square that gave us Final Fantasy? Oh man this is going to be awesome!
Wrong. Sucks. I have no manual for this game but even a traditionally epic Square story line could not save this pile of wasted silicon. I am guessing you play the part of World Runner as you take part in 3-D Battles. Well mostly you run forward on a auto scrolling checkerboard world towards what looks like giant stacks of ham with wings jumping over pits and avoiding smiling green balls. I actually played this piece of shit twice hoping against hope to find a redeeming quality in there and I came up with: you can jump for a very long distance and there is minimal flicker. Good job Square, stick to the RPG from now on.

Reto Review #2 "2-in-1 Tough Cop + Super Tough Cop"

Well fall off the horse get right back on right? Fuck, another light gun game. My only note on this one is, why? I mean if you have the option to choose to be a tough cop with a gun or a super tough cop with a fucking badass gun, who is going to pick tough cop? Kind of kneecapping your whole "2 for 1" value scheme aren't you?

Retro Review #1 "2-in-1 Cosmo Cop + Cyber Monster"

I have decided to try and review every Nintendo NES game released in the US. Here is #1...

Well this is going to be fun! There are so many great games on the NES, I hardly know where to begin. I have so many fond memories of playing video games in general but I hold a special place in my heart for the NES. This was the mighty system that birthed Zelda, Metroid, and Contra. Introduced the world to a couple of brothers named Mario and Luigi. Legendary stuff. So I decided to go alphabetical, only way to be fair an make sure I hit them all right? Well this is my punishment for such a method. There are two games here, neither of which I can play because I have no light gun. A shame really because I always wanted to grow up to be a Cosmo Cop or a Cyber Monster. This is the only screen I saw and I would say it left me underwhelmed.

Brooklyn

My sister had her first child yesterday, 3/3/09 at 12:42 and named her Brooklyn. Very cute baby. Congrats to my sister and her husband, they did a great job !

How to import .eps files into Inkscape

Ok after much fruitless searching on this subject I have finally found the solution. After installing the package pstoedit I am now able to nativley import .eps into Inkscape. Now I don't have to open Scribus just to export a .eps as a .svg.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!

Little bit of a late post but the holidays have been busy. I also decided to take the leap to Ubuntu 8.10 and ended up having to do a complete reinstall. SUCKED. But now I have a much sleeker looking desktop so I guess it was a necessary evil.