This past weekend Sara and I went to her family’s house in Wintergreen, VA for some skiing and to have a relaxing weekend. On Saturday I got up to cook up some breakfast and since I was the only one in the kitchen at that point, I decided to put on one of the Fancy Pants Gangsters podcasts while I was cooking. Without thinking, I turned on the visualizer and was surprised that it made the podcast look owwsome:
Kotaku recently featured some image of modern movies imagined as Atari game cases. I am a huge sucker for making something new look old, as you can see in this other blog post.
Here is one image, you can click on the image to see the full gallery over on Kotaku’s site:
I just finished my last day of my coop, and to unwind I booted up some Team Fortress 2 because nothing says relaxing like running around with a blowtorch or building an automated sentry gun.
Best. Server Name. Ever.
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Yup, a heavy in an argyle sweater being healed by a medic in a Ghostbusters outfit. Find me a better game… I don’t think you can. Should you ever wish to join me in the carnage, look for neff_ on steam (yes, the underscore is a necessity)
I was listening to an episode of Yet Another Gaming Show, and Ashley, one of the people on the podcast, mentioned that she was done playing Scribblenauts and if there was anyone out there that wanted to borrow it, she would send it to them. Since I just got a DSi not too long ago, I figured I would take her up on the offer. The game was one I was interested in and getting it for free is always better than paying for it.
I had to laugh when I got the package…
It was funny that she felt the need to put both her and my XBox Live/Forum names on the envelope. I don’t know if she thought I wouldn’t know who the package was coming from (even though she uses her real name on the podcast) or what, but seeing mail addressed to my internet nom de plume made my day.
I am playing through Scribllenauts and will be recording a review for the fine people at YAGS… hopefully they will use it. Also, I am sending a surprise Ashley’s way.
Make sure to watch Dr. Horrible before is expires from Hulu on Nov 29th.
You know, geek cred, sort of like street cred but only important on the internet.
(From Geeksix via @GeekTrooper
I have a full blown post on hacking an AppleTV to get it to play nice with MythTV in the works, but it is something that benefits from step-by-step pictures and that is something I can’t get while I am in New York. To help bridge the gap, I am going to just point you to the patchstick creator and give a general outline of what needs to be done. If you are going to follow this to modify your AppleTV, please do research to fill the gaps. I can’t be held responsible for you bricking your AppleTV.
Like I said, I will have a full guide once I get home to take some pictures, but this will have to do for now.
If you ever pay attention to my rants and raves, you know one of my main problems with my Windows Mobile based phone is the lack of decent applications. Both the iPhone and Android-based devices have a centralized “App Store”, and there seems to be a metric shit ton of active development for both platforms. Microsoft is rolling out their “Mobile Marketplace” tomorrow, but I feel like it will be too little too late.
There are some decent applications that I have found, with the largest range being in twitter clients. I was having some problems with my phone constantly hard reseting lately, and in doing research I came across a new twitter client for Windows Mobile, and so far it has been great.
moTweet from Panoramic is a really smooth application. The interface looks really nice, however, I did have some trouble figuring out where everything was. After a few minutes of poking around in the app, I was able to find most of the features I was looking for.
They have two versions of the app, one for free (with add support) and a $4 version. I went with the free version, since I am rather cheap. The client can also handle multiple accounts and comes with a variety of skins.
If you are like me and not cool enough to own an iPhone or Android based device, you should check out moTweet.
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?”.
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