May 2010
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April 2010
37 posts
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Invisibility cloaks closer to living up to their... →
Wish they had pictures…
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WatchShiny. With no small amount of inspiration from Las Vegas’ Bellagio and the original Fantasmic. It’s a little gaudy with that overload of colors, but … well, it’s Disney. >_>
Btw Disney, your blog is really quite cluttered…
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“I’m gonna take my hush money and mount the first all white production of...”
– April Rhodes, “Home” (Glee episode 16)
::LOL:: Wicked reference ftw…
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Doctors make game out of learning infection... →
Hell yes.
A table-top card battle game, “The Healing Blade” is built around a fantasy world, complete with sorcerers, villains and heroines that the two doctors created. Characters are divided into The Apothecary Healers, named after real-world antibiotics, and The Lords of Pestilence, named after actual bacterial agents.
Dr. Mathews, a hospitalist and intensivist in New...
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Not a riddle
How is a programmer like a poet?
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““What did you bring me over here for? This is absurd, it’s just a...”
– J.M. Barrie, Finding Neverland (2004)
… which I watched in an attempt to watch Johnny Depp in a more “normal” role, i.e. in a role where he’s not playing such a character. Fat lot of good that did me… his role in this film was just as much a character as any other...
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That Roger Ebert Thing
The story in a nutshell:
Girl gives talk. (Kellee Santiago, of thatgamescompany, of USC IMD no less.)
Boy responds to talk, negatively. (Roger Ebert. You know, the film dude.)
The worlds of video game discussion explode in controversy.
Me, I quite like Penny Arcade’s stance, crude as it is.
But I must admit there must be something deeper going on, especially considering the fact...
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Gainful Employment →
Thanks, Quad.
In the business world, however, we too often stop at that second drive. We organise our enterprises around the belief that the way to improve performance is through an elaborate architecture of carrots and sticks. If we reward the behaviour we seek, and punish the behaviour we dislike, individuals will perform at a high level and their organisations will flourish. Or so the...
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Sin City
Saw this on TV, mostly on a whim. I had heard good things, of course, but never had any interest in seeing it, nor did I do any research when it was recent news… just knew that it was based on a comic.
Kind of wish I hadn’t seen it now. ;x Not that it wasn’t good, but it was pretty gruesome. I did think that the visuals were really striking, but not really...
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Glee's Madonna episode
I was actually completely “meh” after the second season premiere.
… But then this episode totally restored my faith. ;x Here’s to hoping the rest of the season is just as amazing, music-wise.
… Oh, and drama-wise, too. >_>
So it’s been three and a half months since I’ve started using Tumblr reguarly, and I have to say I don’t quite know what to make of it. I do like a lot of its features, but this is balanced out by the sheer instability and unpredictability of the whole thing.
Half the time I try to post something and the whole thing hangs. And there’s no helping it… I have to go...
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Focus: The Anatomy of a World First Kill →
Kind of an interesting article, if you’re into WoW raiding.
I found the information about Paragon’s time commitment to be extremely relevant. They did say that in order to be world first, their members were “skipping school and work” to commit hours, but normally their schedule is very casual.
“In ICC, on normal mode weeks it took us seven to eight hours per...
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Angry laptop is angry
Boy, I don’t know what I did, but all of a sudden my laptop is having all sorts of schizophrenic problems. One moment it blue screens, the next it’s giving me errors I’ve never seen before, something about Vista Authentication. It wouldn’t even go into safe mode.
Eventually I got it to boot into Windows, not through any deliberate action but just by repeatedly trying to...
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26
Twenty-six is when you start to panic, as you realize you’re now closer to 30 than you are to 20, which makes you — not OLD — but most likely “middle aged” by just about any standard.
Urgh.
Well, I guess I have my games to keep me young.
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17 Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat →
I know I’ve seen people link The Oatmeal before… but this is cute. :P
[edit] Alternatively…! How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting To Kill You. XD
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Gold Trading Exposed →
Eurogamer article from last year about gold farming/trading/buying as a market, a topic I was doing some cursory research into after getting my account hacked.
Four parts total.
Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Sellers Part 3: The Players Part 4: The Developers
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The Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements →
amg. :X
“A blog is a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies.”
– Andrew Sullivan
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You Have 0 Friends →
South Park took a shot at Facebook and FarmVille a couple nights ago… link above will take you to the show’s website where you can watch the uncensored version of the episode. (they have a censored version too, lawl).
Ironically, in my thesis defense, I cited World of Warcraft as being the “only video game to invade popular culture” to the degree that it has, and pointed...
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Robbery
Finally resumed some coding today. Not a whole lot, but a significant amount considering how much I have NOT gotten done since turning the paper in. And I have the next steps visualized, so I won’t be as likely to get roadblocked by sheer reluctance to think.
I’ve been high strung for the past few days (7-9) because my WoW account was compromised (i.e. someone hacked my account). For...
The Revolution Won't Be Televised, It'll Be A Game →
Nothing extremely new here, but I really, really like the third game idea…
Make Waves: Users can help create an ocean activism game that promotes sustainability of the seas. Players would own and maintain a 3-by-3-foot plot of the ocean just as they would a virtual plot in FarmVille. A player’s actions could help reduce habitat destruction, overfishing and pollution.
It’s...
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Ace Attorney (1 & 2)
Man. Where do I even begin. I’m so late to trying this series, it’s not even funny. But I’m so glad I’ve finally tried it. I should note that the first video games that ever snagged my attention were point and click adventures, of which I would posit that Ace Attorney is simply an evolution. Exploring, picking up items, attempting to logically solve puzzles by using this...
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Burton's "Alice in Wonderland"
Made the trip to see this last night, in 3D, before it departs theaters forever. 3D wasn’t anything special (which I guess I should have expected, since the film was converted to 3D, not filmed in it), but nevertheless, it was a fairly amazing visual romp.
I don’t have any other experience with Alice other than the Disney film (bleh), so this was really quite refreshing. While the...
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OBJECTION.
I know it’s late… but I am now finally acquainted with the wonderfulness that is Phoenix Wright. XP I bought it for WiiWare and played through the first two episodes last night.
I won’t go into super detail now, but … well, it’s been a long time since I’ve actually played a brand new game, and there’s definitely a lot to like about Phoenix Wright. Some...
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THE PAPER.
IT IS SUBMITTED.
::positive freak out::
Would you care to read it? It’s only … 33 pages total. >_>
(also, a link to my thesis defense slides, for the sake of being complete: slides)