THE ARIZONA CARDINALS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL…IT FINALLY SUNK IN.
This is visual proof...we haven't been dreaming the last two weeks. Go Big Red!!!
What a burger…
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Thank you, PAX, for what you’ve done to The Conduit
From Ed Federmeyer, lead programmer on The Conduit, about their obsession with reading game forums and hearing fans, since they were self-funded and didn’t have publisher restrictions:
A great example of this was that we were not going to do online multiplayer at first. The team really wanted to do it, but we just didn’t have the resources to make it work. We made plan after plan, and schedule after schedule to try to make it fit, but it just could not be done in the time we had with the people we had. After PAX though, so many fans talked about how much an online mode would mean to them, our management saw that, and brought in the resources we needed to do it. It really would not have been possible without that level of excitement from the fans!
Neil Gaiman News
Devin, I forgot to mention this to you a couple days back. The Graveyard Book was chosen for the Newbery. Gutsy choice, if you ask me. We were looking at it on the Grand Canyon Committee beforehand, though, so it does give affirmation that we’re on the same wavelength.
John Updike’s Requiem
It shouldn’t really surprise anyone that Rabbit wrote about death. But, here’s the poem for all to enjoy:
It came to me the other day:
Were I to die, no one would say,
‘Oh, what a shame! So young, so full
Of promise – depths unplumbable!
Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes
Will greet my overdue demise;
The wide response will be, I know,
‘I thought he died a while ago.’
For life’s a shabby subterfuge,
And death is real, and dark, and huge.
The shock of it will register
Nowhere but where it will occur.
Interesting take on death, especially since not too many people would know the name ‘John Updike’ if you walked up to them and said it on the street.
All librarians are trained in covert operations
There may be some changes in the Congo
Child soldiers are now testifying in the trial of Thomas Lubanga. Check out the real-life 24.
Worst thing to hit the piano since Lucy punched Schroeder
I weep:
Thanks for the link, Ohm.
Double G Intensifier Unleashed
I was thinking this morning about very important matters, one of which being the extent of English being a living, constantly changing language. (My assistant is out sick today so you, faithful reader, reap the rewards.)
The Double G Intensifier Unleashed
Since this is now published, you’ll be seeing it in textbooks everywhere. I swear.
Consider dig:
and digg:
or
dog:
dogg:
flag:
flagg:
Whenever you want something intensified, add a double ‘g’ unleashed. (Except after ‘c’ and sometimes ‘y’.)
Using a Wiimote on an Ubuntu machine and Wiimote Model Airplane Autopilot
Not quite as awesome as Unleashed Pastries, but still cool. (I would say this is more Tech Nerd Slightly Volatile in power level.)
Check out using a Wiimote as a Bluetooth device to control your computer. Now if any of us actually ran Ubuntu…
The more curious thought appears in one of the comments:
Mr Bob Said,
January 17, 2009 @ 11:13 amSo it seems to me you could put a wii controller in a model airplane running ubuntu an use the x, y, z pitch roll and accelerometer to basically have a less than $100 autopilot.
Seem possible to anyone else?
Cake Unleashed!
A lot happened in last night’s Star Wars session, but let’s not forget the most important discovery- I don’t joke around when it comes to cake. With a recipe like this, you don’t have to.
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package devil’s food cake mix
- 1 (5.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 2 cups mini semisweet chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, mix together the cake and pudding mixes, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs and water. Stir in the chocolate chips and pour batter into a well greased 13 x 9 inch pan.
- Bake for approximately 35 minutes minutes. Cool cake thoroughly in pan. Enjoy the deliciousness.
Love from LucasArts or more marginalization?
At first it sounds cool that the next Indy game won’t be on XBox360 or PS3, but instead on Wii. Exclusive content? Nope. It’s a game that they also designed for PSP and DS.
Sports question – run up the score?
To my sports fans: Was it bad for Covenant School to beat Dallas Academy 100-0? Also, what do you think of Rivals listing Dallas Academy as:
Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with “learning differences,” such as short attention spans or dyslexia.
A New Sidebar Item
You’ll notice that there’s a new sidebar item:
Now you can be updated if the world is ending around you. This is in the same tradition as didtheworldend.com and isitchristmas.com.
Where’s Waldo and Recovery.Gov
In the gigapan of the inauguration, try and find:
- A justice sleeping next to Obama
- A guy with literally four eyes
- Aretha Franklin
- Hillary yelling at Bill
- A scary detective sitting near a skeptical cowboy
- From far away you can still see Michelle Obama
- Cheney in a wheelchair
- The press section
- The band’s sheet music
Anything else of interest in the photo, folks?
Have you seen Recovery.gov? With all of the proposed investing that the president outlined in his first weekly address, I think it’s a great idea to set up a site where we can see how that money is being spent. Government spends money – hopefully now it can be a little bit better at investing.
Also, I think it’s smart that when the transition was done, BarackObama.com was put on the backburner and whitehouse.gov took off. The site is already something that we use at school as a resource, but now more people will be drawn to the info. Bush had already been RSSing his weekly speeches/announcements, but I don’t know how much of a desire there was to be informed. Hopefully more people will stop being partisans and return to being citizens.
(That’s not to say I’m a full-fledged fan. I am very sad that what has been nicknamed the Mexico City Policy has become a political football. If you’re Republican, support it. If you’re Democrat, strike it. Goofiness. I’m kinda like Jack Bauer in 24:Redemption (how many times do I really get to say that?): I’m not a big fan of the U.N. Many times it’s a “That sounds like a good idea” but then in implementation there’s some major fumbling. I mean, Promoting Human Rights in a Culturally Aware Manner sounds like my thing. But Obama’s “family planning assistance” reads like George Orwell wrote it.)
Slade, do you remember a Tribes…2?
Well, here’s the fan revival site.
Gigapan the Inauguration
Have you seen gigapan pictures, the huge resolution mosaics that you can zoom in on? Check out the inauguration. The controls are at the left.
Play Virtual Console games from an SD card
I’m starting to run out of hard drive space on my Wii. This is benefiting me so that I’m not tempted to buy more VC/WiiWare games.
But I’ve been wondering what Nintendo would come up with to solve the storage issue. I picture a sleek white external hard drive. How expensive? Will it be hard to find on the shelf?
Thankfully, Nintendo is smarter than most of the fanboys on the Internet. Instead of designing their own storage unit, they’re going to be releasing a system update that will allow you to play downloaded games from an SD card.
What’s beautiful is that everyone has motivation for SD cards to improve: cameras, phones, your mom. I’m just waiting for Scion to have an SD slot in the next xB with your iTunes library. (Oh, I miss my Scion.)
Another great feature of this is that you can have multiple cards with tons of games – or just get a 32 GB card if you’re loopy.
It’s weird to think that I carry around in my pocket a phone that has ten times the storage of my first computer.
Woo, Nintendo. And woo your Mario-lovin’ geniuses (geniusii?).
Zenon the Chiss has fallen to the dark side…but another rises.
/>Betrayal.
The Sith have corrupted an old friend, persuading him with promises of fulfillment through passion, strength through aggression, unlimited power through fear and intimidation, and chants of “Yes we can”. Rage and hate consume him now, and forever he is lost, gone now is the old jedi friend to the dark battle station known as Idaho, taking the chiss “Zenon” with him. A wookie jedi is now less of a wookie having to use a replacement leg straight up out of Darth Vader’s linen closet. Weirdness is all over the place.
In the immortal words of Yoda, “there is another.”
This is Web 2.0
Crazy irony
I’m blogging on a MacBook that is not my own at a technology conference. My brain is exploding with options. Check the “official” site for more professional stuff, but here are some cool web tools:
Google Docs now has Forms. Why didn’t anyone tell me of this?
(One of Tony Vincent’s favorite blogs is the Unnecessary Quotation Marks blog. Woohoo!)
Click here if you want to be a part of the new cabinet. How uber-techy is this conference? We watched the inauguration streaming online on a MacBook and an LCD projector. Check out the Twitter search for “proud American”.
Cue the Ohm’s, “Oh, dear” and Slade facepalm.
Who will save us? When will there be change? I think it may be our own fault.
Check the text at the top of the cup and compare it to the text at the bottom:
