November 2008
26 posts
WatchCall of Duty: World at War Bonus Mode: Nazi Zombies
This is completely bizarre but awesome. The upcoming CoD game has a bonus mode where you’re in a building trying to fend off scores of Nazi zombies. As if I didn’t want the game enough already. (Sorry for the age verification thing!)
Me: Oh, so last night I had a dream where at one point I met up with you and Sara and Evan and Matt.
Me: And Sara was smoking. And I was like, "Um, what?"
Me: She was so nonchalant about it, as if I was a dumbass for even mentioning it. "What? I've smoked for *years*!"
Me: And in my dream, for some unknown reason, I just slapped her across the face.
Shawn Morrison: LOL
Me: Like Cher in Moonstruck.
Me: Just hard, right across the face. And she dropped her cigarette and just sat down rubbing her face.
Me: And then I look over and you're smoking.
Me: So I slapped you in the face.
Me: And then I slapped Matt in the face.
Me: But he wasn't smoking.
Me: I was about to slap Evan too, but my doorbell rang and I woke up.
Shawn Morrison: That is the best dream I've ever heard that wasn't my own.
Me: Anyway, Happy Friday!
October 2008
64 posts
Domainr →
Between this and Instant Domain Search, it’s a lot easier to find a domain in today’s everyone-single-fucking-domain-in-existence-is-already-taken world. (via fling)
I don’t usually like first-person RPGs. I tried to play Oblivion IV when it first came out for Xbox 360 but I didn’t make it more than an hour because I was bored to tears. So when I pre-ordered Fallout 3, not realizing it was basically Oblivion IV with guns, I was expecting an action game. Luckily for me, about 6 hours into the game, I’m actually enjoying it.
There are a lot...
When is Daylight Savings? →
Twice a year, this will come in handy. Especially now that we’ve changed the date for both the beginning and end of DST. (via fling)
Me: Honestly, what I'm most worried about is Palin possibly being President in two years.
Me: That scares the living shit out of me.
Me: I don't want Biden to be President either, mind you.
Me: But Palin... I don't want her anywhere near the Whitehouse or anything else related.
Shawn Morrison: You know, I agree, but I still ordered one of those airbrushed full-face Palin t-shirts with an airbrushed flag on the back.
Me: They are pretty sharp, I'll give you that.
Shawn Morrison: Sharp. That's the word.
Okay, the government is probably on their way to my apartment right now, because today, while talking to my mom about creepy serial killer history, I searched for the following on Wikipedia: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Zodiac killer. That probably would have been okay, except I was also talking about an Ask Metafilter answer to getting rid of a body, so I searched Google for “how to get rid...
“If I was in charge, every time someone made a stylesheet with one-line class...”
– Shawn Morrison
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WatchHardly Working: Bug
Brian Fling: You know, since consumer confidence as at an all-time low.
Me: Has there ever been a time when consumer confidence was at an all-time high?
I keep hearing people talking about wanting to see the new Charlie Kaufman film, Synecdoche, New York, but everyone is calling it Schenectady, New York, which, though that is an actual city in New York, is not the name of the film. While the title is a play on the real city’s name, it also has its own meaning. The Wikipedia page for synecdoche provides the etymology and meaning of the word,...
Question: Why doesn’t Nicholas Cage just shave his head and move on? Why does he keep wearing increasingly ridiculous wigs in every one of his absolutely terrible recent films? We all know you’re bald. Seriously. You look like a drag queen with that mop on your head.
“Basically every single menu in New Zealand was the same: Lamb rump. You could...”
– Brian Fling, describing the sore spot in his recent 23-day trip to Australia and New Zealand
WatchThe Dark Knight Meets Superman
“Haha, no, seriously, what is it, like heat vision? ‘Cause I have that. It’s awesome.”
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Tip: Avoid IE Issues with Rails’ respond_to
For some reason, Internet Explorer (all versions) will always get the first format block you specify. So, if you’re doing something simple with respond_to in Rails, like, say, delivering an RSS feed if the URL contains .rss, IE won’t respect the format.html block unless you put it first. This can yield very strange results, like IE...
One of the smartest things Apple has done with the iPhone platform is release a non-iPhone device that has the same OS/capabilities—the iPod touch. If you’re not interested in buying an iPhone, in switching to Cingular, in all of that, you can still build and thoroughly test iPhone web apps and native apps by purchasing a cheap iPod touch.
This is not the case with Google’s...
Zima Discontinued →
Fan of the podcast Kae sent in word that MillerCoors is discontinuing Zima. Back in 2007 we did a Zima episode of the podcast wherein we drank Zima the entire time we recorded (spoiler: It didn’t taste very good, but drink enough you get drunk). Of course, it was XXX Zima (WTF?), but still. If you haven’t sat around guzzling Zima while hanging out with your friends, you’re...
I finally got a chance last night to sit down with Dead Space for a little while, and it’s pretty great. There are a lot of familiar elements here—horror and violence, surrounded by darkness, alone and confused, et cetera—but the unique game design makes those common elements work really well. The weapons are very strange and fun, and the whole idea of dismembering enemies...
WatchBaby (via soxiam)
Parenting looks super easy.
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No Man
I am reminded on a daily basis that I have a problem saying no. When it comes to clients, I tend to say yes when asked for additional functionality or modifications and in most cases it leads directly to headache and money loss for me. Yet I continue to do it. When it comes to relationships, I’ll often get myself into situations I don’t like or no longer want and yet I tend to say yes...
Obama raised $150 million in September and has raised over $600 million to date in his campaign. Part of me really wants Obama to just suddenly yell, “Yoink!” and run off the stage somewhere and never come back. Then a few months later we hear he’s in the south of Spain laying around on a big yacht and Joe Biden is there too just hanging out playing checkers and a reporter asks...
That's a Spicy Meatball
There are now over 40 videos in the My Day, Yesterday pool, and we’re nearing our 300th member. Since doing one of these videos requires shooting all day and then editing, I’m immensely proud this many people have already contributed (it has only been 11 days since I started the project).
I’ve done two of them, and I plan to do more in the future. They’re fun to shoot and...
WatchMy Day, Yesterday: Going to Vegas
Time for another one. I was headed to Vegas for one day, so I thought that’d make for a good day of video.
Yesterday, in video (actually, two days ago, I just didn’t have time to edit it until now due to travel). Shot throughout the day, put together and uploaded today. You should do the same. And when you do, put it in the My Day, Yesterday group....
Things I like about the newly announced Vimeo Plus:
Priority uploading/conversion (I’ve complained in the past about Vimeo’s uploading/conversion issues)
HD embedding
Player customization
Domain-level privacy, allowing you to specify who can embed your content
Higher video quality
Things I don’t like about the newly announced Vimeo Plus:
HD embedding is limited to 1,000...
Just got a chance to watch the Apple MacBook/Pro event since it happened while I was in Vegas. The new machines look really great, but I think the most interesting item was the new Cinema Display that is designed specifically for laptops. If you buy that display to, say, be your secondary iMac display, you’re going to have a MagSafe power adaptor just hanging out, which is awkward.
I think...
Flickr Blog: My Day, Yesterday →
The official Flickr blog picked up my video and wrote about the group. Thanks, Heather! Now we’ve got over 20 videos and counting. Nice!
Now, I’m not some fancy, big-city economist, but it strikes me as a bit strange when the market is down 20 billion points one day because everyone thinks shit is just gonna hit the fucking fan and we might as well die, and then up 10 billion points the next day because well, maybe everything will actually be perfectly fine so let’s just settle this and go get a drink.
Why go through...
WatchAll RA Floor
I was an RA (read: NARC) in college and this made me laugh because it’s true. RAs are losers, but they paid for my room and board and I needed the money. And, honestly, it was FUN AS SHIT to bust punk 18 year-olds drinking Natty Ice.
Me: When I think about this Vegas trip, I really should have gone today.
Me: Because now I have to wake up at 6:45AM tomorrow, I'm on a full flight sitting in a middle seat, I get into Vegas, have a few hours, present, go out, sleep, fly back.
Frangry: That sounds like a nightmare.
Me: OH, and it cost me $350 more this way.
Me: I'm a fool.
Frangry: Yeah, but you didn't know how sick you'd be.
Frangry: Imagine having to get on that flight sick as a dog.
Me: Right. I gambled and lost. That doesn't bode well for my TRIP TO VEGAS.
Me: It's strange to see that my non-unique hits are still roughly 2x my uniques.
Me: I wonder why that is... it has been that way for as long as I can remember.
Shawn Morrison: Yeah, I have no clue.
Shawn Morrison: Perhaps that just means that the average visitor goes to 2 pages per visit. Though you'd think it would be closer to one page per visit.
Me: Right.
Me: Web stats are annoying.
Me: I'm going to build a version of Mint that just says, "You're awesome!" when you log in.
A few days ago I created a video called My Day, Yesterday, which was a day in my life, shot in various video clips and edited down to 90 seconds. That time constraint is based on Flickr’s restriction, but it also serves to create a great challenge to fit your entire day into a short amount of time.
When I released the video I also created a group (also called My Day, Yesterday) and urged...
Two hours of sleep plus not eating anything all day plus Benadryl makes me feel like I’m inside my own body, wearing it as a costume, scratching at the edges of my gloves. That also made a lot more sense in my head than it does written out.
WatchMy Day, Yesterday
Yesterday, in video. Shot throughout the day, put together and uploaded today. You should do the same. And when you do, put it in the My Day, Yesterday group. Don’t add any music or anything, only what’s recorded via the camera.
Shot with the D90, with the 50mm 1.8 and 28mm 2.8 primes.