I have made many references to “melting face”, both here and on twitter. I realized that not everyone understands what exactly I mean by having one’s face melted. I just finished playing “I am the Walrus” on Beatles:Rock Band, and I finally have an example to help illustrate:
Just watch all the visuals for this song.. and put a drip pan on your lap to catch all the pieces of your face that melt off:
The first thing I said once I finished the song was “What the fuck just happened?”.
I pretty much have a raging hadron for Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk. The man is a genius, and I would love to have his baby.
There is great unrest in the nerdiverse. The announcement of Disney purchasing Marvel comics has sent many a geek into red alert. People all across the interwebs are complaining and bemoaning the end of an era, the loss of some last bastion of purity (really, is Marvel all that pure? It sure does whore itself out.. look at the Spiderman Musical. ‘Nuff said).
I, for one, do not think this is as bad as people are making it out to be. Here are my two reasons why this might be ok:
If you haven’t seen these concept sketches, it could be understandable to think that Disney is all sunshine and flowers. But they have a dark side (which is separate from their alleged anti-semetic side.). They have a “steampunk” type game in the works, and it looks sick:
Sure, everyone is making jokes right now about some cheesy crossover, where Donald is teaming up with The Punisher, but there is the chance for something cool to happen.
Images from http://www.serge-kliaving.info/pagecomixs.html
Please enjoy this video while I enjoy my 3-night Disney cruise.
(Yes, it was a hack move, but I never promised I would deliver quality.)
This is the long awaited follow-up to Part 1, where I assembled the actual system that would serve as my ultimate HTPC. After the system was built, I needed to get some software on the system. I chose to go with MythBuntu since it was the distro that I had used in the past and was the one I was familiar with. There are a few options for MythTv:
Since I chose to go with MythBuntu, I downloaded the 64-bit live cd image, as that was what I needed for my system. I burned the cd, put it in the system, and followed the prompts.
That was it. Well… mostly.
I had issues with the install hanging at the last step. At first it was an issue with the live cd, and after that the problem was betwixt the keyboard and monitor. I had become impatient, since I had built the system and started installing all the software on the same day.. I was already a good 4 or 5 hours in to this (remember: I had no idea what I was doing putting the system together). Just remember, let the final step finish on the install. It takes a little while, but if it does not finish properly, your install will not work.
Once everything installed properly, that was it. The system recognized both of my capture cards without an issue, was able to use all three hard drives I have installed, and played nice with setting up a static IP.
Speaking of static IPs… if you are planning on only having a single machine run as a backend/frontend combo, then you should be fine without setting up a static IP for the machine. If you are like me, and want this one machine to serve content to every TV and computer in your house, you are going to need to assign a static IP to the backend. This is because all of the various frontends need to know where to look for content, and not having to change settings every time your router restarts will save you tons of headaches.
The only issue I had on this backend/frontend was getting the HDMI audio to work properly. Some quick googling led me to the changes I needed to make in the audio config files. It was pretty much toggling a 1 and 0. After that, I had the foundation of my HTPC system in place. The backend was able to record 2 different cable stations, store all my video/music, and play back all this content to the TV it was attached to.
In the next installment, I will show how I set up the AppleTV. It was a smidge more “fun” than setting up the backend system. And by fun, I mean it made me pull out my hair.
This was the song used for the opening scene of the last season of Moral Orel (which, if you haven’t watched… watch it now. The show was amazing, and the last season was some of the most powerful television I have seen in a long long time).
Embedding was disabled for this video, so I am going to provide the link.
WARNING: This video is not safe for work.
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