As I mentioned a few days ago on twitter, I have been working with Geektool to really turn my mac’s desktop in to what I need it to be. I figured that since I had this brand new machine (read: my old one finally was replaced after 10 visits to the Genius Bar in under 3 years), I should make everything work the way I wanted it to while it was nice and clean.
I set out in this customization with a few goals in mind:
I wanted to be able to view the weather at a glance
I wanted to have the date/month visible
I wanted to have information from my iCal displayed
I wanted my dock to take a back seat in the visual hierarchy
More and more, I am noticing twitter infuse itself in every aspect of life. There is a part of me that wants to “buck the system” and stop using it, solely because everyone else is… And when I see ads like this, it only helps reinforce that opinion:
If gold selling ads weren’t enough on websites, in-game, through email, and just about everywhere else you can look, they will now be in my cheap Russian porn:
The WoW Gold selling website, MyMMOShop.com has paid Russian porn star Anna Morgan to tattoo their company’s logo and website URL to her breasts. The company feels that her natural dd sized breasts will provide an ample space for the advertisement. Given the number of films porn stars tend to make in a year’s time, the tattoo should be seen many thousands of times. Anna has agreed not to alter the tattoo for at least two years.
Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) June 3, 2009 — http://mymmoshop.com, which sells virtual currency for massive multiplayer online games, has contracted rising Russian Porn star, Anna Morgan, to tattoo their company logo and URL on her breasts. The company feels that the link between porn, the internet, and online gaming is as strong as the pairing of peanut butter and jelly, making this an excellent fit.
Anna Morgan is a 19 year old from Zeya, Russia. She likes Tennis, computer games, and hockey. Endowed with natural dd sized breasts, she provides an ample canvas on which to tattoo the advertising logo and URL for MyMMOShop.com. She has just signed a multi year contract with Top Studios in San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. “A female porn star can easily appear in 50-100 films per year so this gives mymmoshop.com a lot of exposure for years to come,” according to Hunter Crowell the media relations office for the company.
Anna is set to receive the tattoo at Soul Tattoo Shop on June 15 of this year. She has agreed not to alter it in any way or have it removed for at least two years.
I think the best line of the press release was:
The company feels that the link between porn, the internet, and online gaming is as strong as the pairing of peanut butter and jelly, making this an excellent fit.
I was trying to figure out how they did this.. At first I thought it was a camera on a dolly, and they shot each person individually then composite them all together. But after watching it a few times, I realized that wasn’t it… The time of each person stayed constant regardless of the radial position of the camera. I am not sure how this was done (and if I took the time to look online, I could probably find the “making of” video). Maybe they had a ring of cameras, a la bullet time in The Matrix, and then took all the cameras out in post.
As you may remember, a while back I posted a shopping list for the MythTV system I was revamping. After almost two full weeks of tweaking, I finally have the full system built. It was an adventure, to say the least. Thankfully my wife was very understanding… I know she was getting frustrated watching me tinker with all these various machines without results for a while.
What is MythTV?
In short, MythTv is an open-source DVR system built for linux systems, with the ability it interface with Mac and Windows systems. It is a system that manages recorded television, movies, music, photos, and much more (with the use of additional plug-ins). A MythTV system will consist of at least two parts, a backend and a frontend. The backend is the server of the operation; it stores all the content, manages recordings, and makes everything go. The frontend is the part that you interact with; it displays lists of recordings & movies and plays back the content.
The Beginnings
When I first started messing around with MythTV, I was using my wife’s old pc tower. This was a computer put together in 2002, and when it had Windows on it, it would struggle to just start up. After moving all of her old content off the computer, I did a clean install of Ubuntu, as I had read it was the easiest Linux distro to get working with MythTV. I was far from succesful when I tried to install MythTV as a seperate package.. After some more research I decided to give Mythbuntu a try, since it is a special version of Ubuntu compiled specifically for MythTV use.
He gives out tons of geek love (not the “sitting at home along on a friday night” type)
Slow Jam the News
Every now and then, Jimmy will “Slow Jam the News”, and it is amazing! If that is all they did and released them as webisode, I would gladly pay for that content.
Apparently times are tough for everyone in Team Fortress 2. The Scout was seen selling the Slap Chop, and now the Heavy has started selling Kaboom! I am waiting for the Pyro to sell Jimmy Dean Smoked Sausages…
