Obama’s State of Union is in about fifteen minutes. It was busy day today, so I’m not going to get anything together for today… But there is this:
Source: http://imgur.com/gallery/aqP09
If I was in a room with Hitler, Osama Bin Liden and Toby and only had two bullets...
Sorry, skipped a posting yesterday. I got caught up this weekend in uploading all of our CD’s into iTunes. While I was doing this I realized how shitty our taste in music was ten years ago (I haven’t bought a CD in several years now, I purchase everything through iTunes…). I mean I found really terrible stuff, like Snow Patrol or Weird Al Jankovic.. I also found some really fun old CD’s like At The Drive In and all of my old Nirvana CD’s from the 90′s.
All of this was spurred by the Christmas ornaments which I put away on 12/26. However, none of that stuff every fits in the same place, seems we continue to accumulate more Christmas stuff. So, I had to completely re-organize our guest room closet, which doubles are our storage. While doing this, I found CD’s and old computer games.
Having started the CD project, I started playing around with trying to get Bootcamp to work on my Apple, so I could install Windows Me to play all of the old computer games I had found. I couldn’t get Windows Me to install on a OSX Lion machine (apparently you can only install Windows 7 using the new Bootcamp 4.0), so I settled for the 20 day trial with Parallels for OSX. Parallels is a pretty amazing program. I think I may even pay the $80 for the full release, so I can virtualize other OS’s.
After getting Parallels to work, I squandered the day playing Civilization 3 (circa 2002), Heroes of Might and Magic 4 (circa 2000), Port Royale 2 (circa 2001) and other games you probably can’t even find any more. Total time suck, but it goes to show just how durable stuff used to be. The new Civilization 5 is nothing compared even to Civilization 4 or Civilization 3. Not sure how that works, but normally games get better over time. Not so with Civilization.
Also, Port Royale 2 arguably is one of my favorite games ever. That game can suck up so much time and is completely scalable to it’s difficulty. As you progress it gets harder, but only as hard as you make it, if that makes sense.
Anyways, I hope to get myself organized tonight and get back to posting more music, funny photos and cool videos.
Found Klaypex’s ‘Feel Alright’ on Hype Machine earlier today. I had jumped on the computer this morning to balance my checkbook, and had Hype Machine just play songs in rotation in the background. At first I didn’t realize that this song wasn’t just a regular Daft Punk song. As ‘Feel Alright’ progressed, I got to hear what Klaypex had added to the song. The muted lyrics, the sped up tempo, the boosted synth and altered bass. Klaypex has done a wonderful job keeping the ‘Daft Punk’ sound, but making it dancier. Making the song more, more… more ‘Daft Punk’? Just listen to ‘Feel Alright’ below and you’ll see what I mean.
Klaypex – Feel Alright (Daft Punk)
Went to Blockbuster Express after work to rent a few movies. Ended up on ‘Source Code’ and ‘Just Go With It’. Started to get really into Source Code and the disc starts skipping. So I take the disc out clean it off and put it back in.
After hitting the skip forward/menu button a gazillion times and finally get to the play menu. Try jumping around all over, argue with Lesleh about where we were in the movie, we start watching again. Goes good for about five minutes and then it skips two chapters in the movie.
Ended up not really getting the whole movie, but Lesleh commented it was the fastest movie she’s ever seen…
Called the Blockbuster Express line and after a few minutes on hold, they said they’d flagged the DVD for when I return it tomorrow and will give me a few account credits for the hassle. Annoying that it happened, but Blockbuster handled it well and they did what few companies do now:
(1)They had a number you can call. (2) The number you call is open when you’d most likely have an issue. (3) Then they had an actual person you could talk to about the issue. (4) That person you call speaks English. (5) That person is able to fix your problem without a transfer.
Good for you Blockbuster!
As everyone is aware of and probably tired of hiring about by now, yesterday a few websites went offline in protect of the SOPA and PIPA legislation that are currently in the US House and Senate. Wikipedia, Imgur, Reddit, TheOatmeal, and Failblog were just a few of the major websites that blocked content in protest. Here are a few of my favorite parodies/commentaries I’ve seen of SOPA so far (I’ll add more as I found them):
Source: http://imgur.com/gallery/BLRrI
Source: http://imgur.com/gallery/y58tB
Source: http://imgur.com/gallery/8k8nX
