A new episode of a life well wasted came out and I'm soooo excited to listen to it.
It is literraly the best pod cast I have ever heard. It's so well crafted in as many ways as I could imagine. Ok, ithere's caveat, it's about video games.
Ok, but it isn't really. It' about people, but people who's live are effected by video games which if you're alive in (the United State of) America is you too. Someone you know games.
The guy who puts it out is a musician who's band is average to sub par. I think if he ditched the other dudes he'd do a lot better. He does all the sound design in the show and you'll see what i mean if you listen to even one episode.
it's not just a story, or periodical information, or visual art (there's a limited edition poster released with each episode), or sound design, or a sociological study of the effect of a billion dollar industry in this country on it's citizens….or any of that. It's all of it.
Check out an episode, or just go browse the artwork, or look at the slick web design of the site. Well worth wasting some of your life on.
Episode Six: Big Ideas
This is just a music video of some music in the podcast. It's also the beginning of the episode..., but it's got video and such. Kay. I'm done.
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06/24/2010 13:29 #52023
A LIFE WELL WASTEDCategory: nerd
06/22/2010 11:01 #51997
RRODCategory: nerd
Ok my nerdy (e:peeps).
Are you excited or pissed that the RROD has been "solved" in the new XBOXs by causing them to shut down?
In the programing world we tend to call solutions like this a kludge. Which if I may be so rude to explain is a solution that doesn't fix the problem so much as work around it.
I don't know if I'm supposed to believe that at this point in computing we still can't figure a way to get a computer that is far less advanced than the average desktop computer not to over heat.
Well at least it'll keep warranties from being cashed in when folks by this new XBOX after the one they have that's overheating doesn't stop it self in the middle of a boss fight and just shut down.
On a scale of one to schweet I rate this LAME.
Siiiiigh.
(Yes, LAME is less than one)
You have this to look forward to!
Are you excited or pissed that the RROD has been "solved" in the new XBOXs by causing them to shut down?
In the programing world we tend to call solutions like this a kludge. Which if I may be so rude to explain is a solution that doesn't fix the problem so much as work around it.
I don't know if I'm supposed to believe that at this point in computing we still can't figure a way to get a computer that is far less advanced than the average desktop computer not to over heat.
Well at least it'll keep warranties from being cashed in when folks by this new XBOX after the one they have that's overheating doesn't stop it self in the middle of a boss fight and just shut down.
On a scale of one to schweet I rate this LAME.
Siiiiigh.
(Yes, LAME is less than one)
You have this to look forward to!
scott - 06/30/10 15:50
I got the RROD last year and M$ did repair my xbox in less than 2 weeks.
I've since moved it to outside of my TV stand thingy, where it gets more air. So far, no signs of overheating.
However, that's one lame-ass workaround. WTF.
I got the RROD last year and M$ did repair my xbox in less than 2 weeks.
I've since moved it to outside of my TV stand thingy, where it gets more air. So far, no signs of overheating.
However, that's one lame-ass workaround. WTF.
06/21/2010 16:44 #51988
Self LikeCategory: unnerd
Ok Peeps,
Who's being selfish when both people love each other as much as any two people could, but one dose or doesn't want something so they part?
I've seen this happen a bunch before. There's…er was, this really cool couple who used to live upstairs from me when I lived in Allentown, that are clearly no longer together. They seemed to be made for one another. He was one of the coolest break dancers I've ever know and she painted everything she ever owned bright pink. I think she still has a few colors in her hair. I've since seen the dude at parties and bars. He often looks rather dejected and kinda alone, but he would always look that way i guess. A bit of a recluse that must have been in heaven to have such an extravert all to him self. So I guess his loneliness is a bit more pronounced of late. When they were dating the girl was faaaat, even if she was stylish. She ran it all off one year and I was like, "Way to go, go for you!" I wondered why anyone could be motivated to get them selves more in shape after they've been in a really long term relationship and got "comfy". Later I saw her with her son and a relatively dis-intersting boyfriend at the Arf Festival and the story just told it self. Made me sad.
Ok there's another account too. A good friend who has what I classify scientifically as a spiny personality. They're good at heart, but you've got to navigate some rather sharp stiff and unyielding aspects before you can enjoy them, found someone who could, but since the girl in the couple wanted a baby eventually (not right away) and he didn't they called it quits and just tried to be friends.
I feel like If you're a man it's in your biology to crave and receive sexual attention that should never cause any further responsibility beyond being the kind of lover your mate expects after having to suffer nocturnal emissions and constant hormonal agitation your whole life since puberty. And if you're a woman your biology entitles you to have something come of all this sex with destructive insensitive brutes and menstrual cycles at some point in your life after having to suffer through it all since you started bleeding weather you were ready or not.
I guess you could view my perspective as a bit jaded or one sided since I have reproduced (albeit not nearly in the most idea situation), but what do you think? I know there are alternatives, but how could anyone watch the love of their lives walk away just because they wanted or didn't want to have a baby, or live in a new town? It's such a cold hard choice, I hope I never have to make it. What choice could cause you to tear your self away from the comfort and security of real love with someone if you ever found it? It's not fun to think of, but if you're brave enough share…
who could say no to a face like this...
Who's being selfish when both people love each other as much as any two people could, but one dose or doesn't want something so they part?
I've seen this happen a bunch before. There's…er was, this really cool couple who used to live upstairs from me when I lived in Allentown, that are clearly no longer together. They seemed to be made for one another. He was one of the coolest break dancers I've ever know and she painted everything she ever owned bright pink. I think she still has a few colors in her hair. I've since seen the dude at parties and bars. He often looks rather dejected and kinda alone, but he would always look that way i guess. A bit of a recluse that must have been in heaven to have such an extravert all to him self. So I guess his loneliness is a bit more pronounced of late. When they were dating the girl was faaaat, even if she was stylish. She ran it all off one year and I was like, "Way to go, go for you!" I wondered why anyone could be motivated to get them selves more in shape after they've been in a really long term relationship and got "comfy". Later I saw her with her son and a relatively dis-intersting boyfriend at the Arf Festival and the story just told it self. Made me sad.
Ok there's another account too. A good friend who has what I classify scientifically as a spiny personality. They're good at heart, but you've got to navigate some rather sharp stiff and unyielding aspects before you can enjoy them, found someone who could, but since the girl in the couple wanted a baby eventually (not right away) and he didn't they called it quits and just tried to be friends.
I feel like If you're a man it's in your biology to crave and receive sexual attention that should never cause any further responsibility beyond being the kind of lover your mate expects after having to suffer nocturnal emissions and constant hormonal agitation your whole life since puberty. And if you're a woman your biology entitles you to have something come of all this sex with destructive insensitive brutes and menstrual cycles at some point in your life after having to suffer through it all since you started bleeding weather you were ready or not.
I guess you could view my perspective as a bit jaded or one sided since I have reproduced (albeit not nearly in the most idea situation), but what do you think? I know there are alternatives, but how could anyone watch the love of their lives walk away just because they wanted or didn't want to have a baby, or live in a new town? It's such a cold hard choice, I hope I never have to make it. What choice could cause you to tear your self away from the comfort and security of real love with someone if you ever found it? It's not fun to think of, but if you're brave enough share…
who could say no to a face like this...
metalpeter - 06/22/10 18:14
I think that love and desire are two different things and they often conflict. If two people are married or in that lifemates type of relationship and one person gets their dream Job, you know that thing they have all ways wanted to do (think the lead in a Broadway play or saving the world or something) Well what if the other person gets their dream Job that thing that they have all ways wanted to be since a kid and one is in NY and one is in LA. How do you pick you can't do you follow love or desire? Oh Yeah and I know nothing about relationships, I'm a bit messed up my self. I wouldn't know how to determine who is the selfish one maybe both people are. I thought that the way a relationship was supposed to work is that you put the happyness /Well being of the other person before your own, or atleast I think that is how it is supposed to be?????????
I think that love and desire are two different things and they often conflict. If two people are married or in that lifemates type of relationship and one person gets their dream Job, you know that thing they have all ways wanted to do (think the lead in a Broadway play or saving the world or something) Well what if the other person gets their dream Job that thing that they have all ways wanted to be since a kid and one is in NY and one is in LA. How do you pick you can't do you follow love or desire? Oh Yeah and I know nothing about relationships, I'm a bit messed up my self. I wouldn't know how to determine who is the selfish one maybe both people are. I thought that the way a relationship was supposed to work is that you put the happyness /Well being of the other person before your own, or atleast I think that is how it is supposed to be?????????
jason - 06/22/10 09:42
Ok, I'll be brave.
What if you know that in order to be with the love of your life you have to remove yourself from your friends and family, your neighborhood, your job, and nearly every good experience that comes with those things? Could you say goodbye to everything you know to do some reverse Beverly Hillbillies shit?
Tough call. Some things really are deal breakers (kid vs. no kid is one very good example) and it is a shame to see a perfectly good relationship swirl down the shitter. If you are "comfy" and she gets skinny, new haircut, new clothes, starts putting herself together better, you know damn well you are in trouble and she has one foot out the door. That's not being cynical, that's trusting the experience of millions of men who've had it happen to them. But things don't happen in an instant - things like that happen in part because romance takes diligent work, like cultivating a home garden. If you do not care for it, it will die.
Ok, I'll be brave.
What if you know that in order to be with the love of your life you have to remove yourself from your friends and family, your neighborhood, your job, and nearly every good experience that comes with those things? Could you say goodbye to everything you know to do some reverse Beverly Hillbillies shit?
Tough call. Some things really are deal breakers (kid vs. no kid is one very good example) and it is a shame to see a perfectly good relationship swirl down the shitter. If you are "comfy" and she gets skinny, new haircut, new clothes, starts putting herself together better, you know damn well you are in trouble and she has one foot out the door. That's not being cynical, that's trusting the experience of millions of men who've had it happen to them. But things don't happen in an instant - things like that happen in part because romance takes diligent work, like cultivating a home garden. If you do not care for it, it will die.
vincent - 06/21/10 23:48
I don't know anything about "romantic" relationships as I'm a total failure; SO take everything I write with a grain of salt.
But from my human cynic in my from your description she was just using the guy as a temporary stop to something better. Especially the whole "self improvement" running to lose a ton of weight thing. To be honest when I was dating an overweight woman I always told her 1/2 jokingly (But in all honestly the truth) that if she ever lost weight that the relationship would be over, as the competition would muscle me out literally. Fast forward a few years, I was kind of quasi dating someone who then got the "surgery" she basically forgot who the F I was as she was chasing cool Ambercrombie and hipster boys. In some ways we are always looking for something better men & women alike, but guys always seem to get caught by making it so obvious, i.e. leaving the wife for the secretary.
Sometimes people just settle for what they can get and deal with in a very controlled environment. There may be some physical attraction, but the glue that keeps things together is a bit of a master/servant type of arraignment i.e. staying with someone because they need a cool place to live or health insurance.
The catch is that us men may see it biologically, which in some way is true. The problem is that women add another layer for which most men can only see with infrared vision assistance. Some guys just have it as they just are lucky stumbling around in the dark ;-)
To be honest it's a good thing people have "dealbreakers." It most likely prevents even more misery in the future. But most people seem to jump into things "blinded by love" and then 5-10 years later things go nuclear when they don't see eye to eye on fundamental things like money.
Yea, I think I topped you in being more "Jaded" but for me I just defeated. I realized that I'm pretty much F'd in the realm of "relationships" whatever that entails. For me I just wish I had a switch to turn off my my head to never seek or crave "it" because I would be so much more productive and not miss when I can't have...
I don't know anything about "romantic" relationships as I'm a total failure; SO take everything I write with a grain of salt.
But from my human cynic in my from your description she was just using the guy as a temporary stop to something better. Especially the whole "self improvement" running to lose a ton of weight thing. To be honest when I was dating an overweight woman I always told her 1/2 jokingly (But in all honestly the truth) that if she ever lost weight that the relationship would be over, as the competition would muscle me out literally. Fast forward a few years, I was kind of quasi dating someone who then got the "surgery" she basically forgot who the F I was as she was chasing cool Ambercrombie and hipster boys. In some ways we are always looking for something better men & women alike, but guys always seem to get caught by making it so obvious, i.e. leaving the wife for the secretary.
Sometimes people just settle for what they can get and deal with in a very controlled environment. There may be some physical attraction, but the glue that keeps things together is a bit of a master/servant type of arraignment i.e. staying with someone because they need a cool place to live or health insurance.
The catch is that us men may see it biologically, which in some way is true. The problem is that women add another layer for which most men can only see with infrared vision assistance. Some guys just have it as they just are lucky stumbling around in the dark ;-)
To be honest it's a good thing people have "dealbreakers." It most likely prevents even more misery in the future. But most people seem to jump into things "blinded by love" and then 5-10 years later things go nuclear when they don't see eye to eye on fundamental things like money.
Yea, I think I topped you in being more "Jaded" but for me I just defeated. I realized that I'm pretty much F'd in the realm of "relationships" whatever that entails. For me I just wish I had a switch to turn off my my head to never seek or crave "it" because I would be so much more productive and not miss when I can't have...
paul - 06/21/10 23:04
She is so freakin' cute.
She is so freakin' cute.
jenks - 06/21/10 16:55
Yuck, I don't know the answer to that, except that it's got to be a heartwrenching situation and I hope I'm never in it. But I think I agree- it seems a little nuts to me to let the love of your life go over one thing. Though kids is a pretty big 'thing'...
But, maybe if you disagree on something that huge, you're not 'soulmates' anyway?
Dunno. Boo.
ps how are you? i miss you!
Yuck, I don't know the answer to that, except that it's got to be a heartwrenching situation and I hope I'm never in it. But I think I agree- it seems a little nuts to me to let the love of your life go over one thing. Though kids is a pretty big 'thing'...
But, maybe if you disagree on something that huge, you're not 'soulmates' anyway?
Dunno. Boo.
ps how are you? i miss you!
06/09/2010 11:55 #51834
Keeping the leaves on the right side.Category: fitness
Hi peep'lz
I've made a lot of strides going to the gym lately. I'm down to 220lbs. which is pretty good for an (e:enknot) but my BMI is still 27.5 which is over weight according to this calculator (http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/). I think that maybe I just have heavy bones, but there's a bone on top of my abs that is kinda flabby that's telling me I might be wrong, so I'm going to pump up the cardio until that goes away. I bought roller blades and my bike is in great working order so if you ever wanna do that kinds stuff shoot me an email (they come to my phone so they're as fast as text messages)
I was going to the gym in the mornings for a while, and it kept me consistent and able to do things at night that were not the gym (I have a social addiction), but I've come to find that saps my ability to do things during the first part of the day which matters a bunch. I can't concentrate at work, and I'm kinda drowsy for the first part of the day no matter how much sleep I got that night. That is just not good. For to many reasons. You people don't pay taxes so state employees can stare sleepily at their computer screens...well not this one at least.
So, I'm moving my work out to night times. I like to work out with people, I feel like you can get more done that way, and I've bumped into more people at night when I go to the gym, so this might actually do us all some good.
Last night I saw my old nerdy co-worker Jake Mabee (pronounced "maybe", yeah I have fun with that) and we did legs and chest and I can still feel a nice dull ache. He taught me how to do dead lifts and my whole self feels chewed on. My other buddy told me that there's a human growth hormone that released when you do your legs that works body wide, and I figured if I'm going to use some growth hormone on anything else I'm going to use it on pecs. I still have the Ren Hoeck dream of having humongus pectoral muscles. I think ladies like em... I do too, make my shirts look better on me and naked time more fun for everyone involved...and I'm trying to get as many people involved as i can at this point in my lame dating life :)
Later peeps.
I've made a lot of strides going to the gym lately. I'm down to 220lbs. which is pretty good for an (e:enknot) but my BMI is still 27.5 which is over weight according to this calculator (http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/). I think that maybe I just have heavy bones, but there's a bone on top of my abs that is kinda flabby that's telling me I might be wrong, so I'm going to pump up the cardio until that goes away. I bought roller blades and my bike is in great working order so if you ever wanna do that kinds stuff shoot me an email (they come to my phone so they're as fast as text messages)
I was going to the gym in the mornings for a while, and it kept me consistent and able to do things at night that were not the gym (I have a social addiction), but I've come to find that saps my ability to do things during the first part of the day which matters a bunch. I can't concentrate at work, and I'm kinda drowsy for the first part of the day no matter how much sleep I got that night. That is just not good. For to many reasons. You people don't pay taxes so state employees can stare sleepily at their computer screens...well not this one at least.
So, I'm moving my work out to night times. I like to work out with people, I feel like you can get more done that way, and I've bumped into more people at night when I go to the gym, so this might actually do us all some good.
Last night I saw my old nerdy co-worker Jake Mabee (pronounced "maybe", yeah I have fun with that) and we did legs and chest and I can still feel a nice dull ache. He taught me how to do dead lifts and my whole self feels chewed on. My other buddy told me that there's a human growth hormone that released when you do your legs that works body wide, and I figured if I'm going to use some growth hormone on anything else I'm going to use it on pecs. I still have the Ren Hoeck dream of having humongus pectoral muscles. I think ladies like em... I do too, make my shirts look better on me and naked time more fun for everyone involved...and I'm trying to get as many people involved as i can at this point in my lame dating life :)
Later peeps.
lilho - 06/09/10 23:40
Too lazy to read the whole post but I would so workout with you if we lived in the same city. Keep up the good work! I need to pump it up too...
Too lazy to read the whole post but I would so workout with you if we lived in the same city. Keep up the good work! I need to pump it up too...
06/08/2010 16:02 #51826
Sprint HTC Hero 2.1 update part IICategory: phone
Ok,
So just came back from the sprint store to help my mom with her Samsung Rant which keeps breaking over and over again and I found out that if you downloaded the software for the HTC Hero 200 within the first 3 days you got hosed.
I redownloaded the file and a. it only took a minute or two this time and b. it had a new version number (it's HTC Sprint Hero MR 2.27.651.6.exe now), so if you got yours around then and noticed anything wonky with your phone (slower, battery eating madness, hinky installs and sluggish everything in general) that's prolly why.
I'll update this posting to tell you what's different about the performance. I think it's fishy that there's a newer firmware update that they didn't let anyone know anything about, but I guess if you're that much of an early adopter you'd know something fishy was going on and check your self. For those of you how haven't I guess this blog entry may suffice.
Ooh, on the way to updating I found MyBackup. It's an android app that lest you back up everything on the phone call logs, sms, and mms where the things I was there for, but you can back up much more like apps and system settings and other stuff so you don't have to go re downloading things, which is nice since your google account only remembers apps you paid for when you bought (but not all of them), and some apps can't be re downloaded (iMusic comes to mind).
Ok that was my good dead for the day.
Talk to you later.
So just came back from the sprint store to help my mom with her Samsung Rant which keeps breaking over and over again and I found out that if you downloaded the software for the HTC Hero 200 within the first 3 days you got hosed.
I redownloaded the file and a. it only took a minute or two this time and b. it had a new version number (it's HTC Sprint Hero MR 2.27.651.6.exe now), so if you got yours around then and noticed anything wonky with your phone (slower, battery eating madness, hinky installs and sluggish everything in general) that's prolly why.
I'll update this posting to tell you what's different about the performance. I think it's fishy that there's a newer firmware update that they didn't let anyone know anything about, but I guess if you're that much of an early adopter you'd know something fishy was going on and check your self. For those of you how haven't I guess this blog entry may suffice.
Ooh, on the way to updating I found MyBackup. It's an android app that lest you back up everything on the phone call logs, sms, and mms where the things I was there for, but you can back up much more like apps and system settings and other stuff so you don't have to go re downloading things, which is nice since your google account only remembers apps you paid for when you bought (but not all of them), and some apps can't be re downloaded (iMusic comes to mind).
Ok that was my good dead for the day.
Talk to you later.
enknot - 06/09/10 11:25
Oh geeez.
Ok, after only a few hours of using this build of the OS I love my phone again, even though it's not an EVO. I think unless this crazy throw down with Sprint about my mom's phone goes better than expected I'm going to wait until other EVO level (and better) devices come to Sprint. I bet Motorola is hot on the trail of that EVO with something better. I think the Moto Sprint Droid is a much sterdier device than mine and I'm curious to see what they're going to do to answer to the EVO.
it's as snappy as it used to be, and its got all the new features and the updated OS so it's exactly what I wanted. It even has a few more bells and whistles that it didn't before that are really fun. Terry and Heidi came over last night and I noticed while we were talking that the bell sounds for the text message are perfect. I haven't quite explored the device just yet but I will and I'll make a real post about it.
Oh geeez.
Ok, after only a few hours of using this build of the OS I love my phone again, even though it's not an EVO. I think unless this crazy throw down with Sprint about my mom's phone goes better than expected I'm going to wait until other EVO level (and better) devices come to Sprint. I bet Motorola is hot on the trail of that EVO with something better. I think the Moto Sprint Droid is a much sterdier device than mine and I'm curious to see what they're going to do to answer to the EVO.
it's as snappy as it used to be, and its got all the new features and the updated OS so it's exactly what I wanted. It even has a few more bells and whistles that it didn't before that are really fun. Terry and Heidi came over last night and I noticed while we were talking that the bell sounds for the text message are perfect. I haven't quite explored the device just yet but I will and I'll make a real post about it.
paul - 06/08/10 21:06
Hope its better. Watching your phone the other day made me tired ;)
Hope its better. Watching your phone the other day made me tired ;)
Tiny... how much did you listen to before you quit?
It sounds like one of those presentation zen things where BIG innovative ideas are presented in 6 minutes and they post everything on the web.