Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 07, 2007 6:00pm PDTFirst, congrats to themelon for having one of the mostest awesomest kids ever. A lucky father. So... yeah I'm glad the NBA finals are worth watching. I mean most everyone is sure who will win but at least this way there is an outside chance of things being interesting. There is no chance with Pistons vs Spurs. So then:
- Advertisers strike back at TiVo
- 3 million iPhones ready
- A black hole really far away
- Wii elbow getting some play
- 3G patent fight :(
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xON22c7pZ6c
someone finally you tubed it into 11 parts.
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pres589 and I have been cookin' up a plan to get everyone together tomorrow evening in Lawrence. Here's the plan:
Free State Brewery at 6:30pm tomorrow.
http://www.lawrence.com/places/free_state_brewing_company/
NOTE: Please drop me an PM so we know how many to plan for.
Once dinner is finished, we're going to hit a couple bars in the downtown area.
Louise's Downtown:
http://www.lawrence.com/places/louises_downtown/
Henry's On 8th:
http://www.lawrence.com/places/henrys_on_eighth/
The Sandbar:
http://www.lawrence.com/places/the_sandbar/
And *MAYBE* The Jazzhaus:
http://www.lawrence.com/places/the_jazzhaus/
If you can't join us for dinner or would like to just catch up with the group later in the evening, drop me a PM and I'll give you my cell phone number.
I don't know if we'll close the bars down or not.. I have to be up kind of early to meet family the next morning.
Sorry this is coming so late.. we didn't decide to do anything until like Monday and I've been working a stupid number of hours the past several weeks.
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Parallels is incredible.
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Tickets to Rush = Ordered
I feel old :(
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This guy that sits behind me SNORTS HIS SNOT all day long. <snort> <cough> <snort> <snort> <deep throat shuffle>
It is disgusting and makes it hard to concentrate at some points. Would it be wrong to say something to HR?
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/iamlegend/hd/
Sci-fi flick about the last man on Earth (Will Smith). Looks freaking awesome.
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Is it worth getting? I play a bit of it when it was on the xbox, but I don't recall how far I got into it.
Does it run ok, or is it a beast like the last Halo port?
I just installed Vista last night, and I feel like a Mac owner. I want to go get the one game for it and try it out ;)
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No NFS games, again, somewhat realistic. No NASCAR.
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Didn't turn out as ghetto as I thought it would. Over all I'm pretty happy with it. And before you ask, yes I brake with my left foot.
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Which codec pack would you recommend? I've been using K-LITE forever.
For anyone who cares I came into work today expecting to give my boss an ultimatum and my resignation. Well it turns out my new "assistant" isn't liked much around here. He screwed up a few times while I was away and has been talked to 3 times now by my boss.
You should have seen it. People are now kissing my ass and no one wants me to leave. I did give my boss the "I've only got 2 months left and it's not worth my frustration" bit and he understood perfectly.
What it came down to was this - if it escalates HE will be leaving, not me. So what could I do? I agreed with him and now he's going to hand all my grunt work off to him. I'll continue doing what I do - IT support. So that means less of him in my hair and less frustration.
So my day is turning out amazing, as opposed to the depressing unemployment I had expected.
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I am running a cat-5 cable from an old dell switch to an hp printer. When I plug the cat5 cable into the the printer, the jetdirect card light blinks very rapidly (the yellow light on the left side) and I can't ping the printer or anything (i've put on new ends several times but get the same result). After a few seconds, everyone loses connectivity to the outside world, as the new cisco layer 3 switch that we have basically turns off the port where we're bringing in our internet access to the network. wtf.
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One day we will be looking at this, and saying.. IDIOTS! what the fuck were they thinking?!?! Didn't they know how dangerous that is?!
http://www.physorg.com/news100445957.html
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Run the update..and then it reboots and Im stuck at fucking spinning Apple Logo now. Before the update this thing was running like a champ.
I swear to god Apple fucking hates me. I have really good chemistry/luck with PC's, like I can just walk over to them sometimes and problems magically fix themselves. But with Apples its reversed or something.
God damnit why can't this shit just work... My plan was to go home early today and Steve Jobs just took a big dump in my face
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I still can't get over the awesomeness of these TF2 screenshots:
http://www.halflife2.net/news//1181209134_938210_20070606_screen006.jpg
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The teams are named RED and BLU. I think they're acronyms, since I caught two of the words that make up "RED" in a previous video.
I can't fucking wait.
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I know the power of PHP+MYSQL, but i would really love to learn some ajax stuff. Should I start with those 3 or is Ruby on Rails taking over or what.
thx
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I'm not looking forward to another round of my boss telling me his mismanagement is somehow my fault.
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I want to know how this possibly seemed like a good idea in his head.
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The ShackHypeTM better be right about this one. I've never played one of these games before (Trackmania, I mean...I've played racing games, I swear).
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/08/overlord-demo-hits-xbox-live/
Post impressions if you got em!
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Transformers producer Tom DeSanto has secured the film rights to NCsoft and Cryptic Studio's video game City of Heroes, Variety reported.
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Plus: I get sunlight all day due to a low back cube wall and a floor-to-ceiling window.
Minus: People are always walking behind my desk, and I'm right next to one of the two conference rooms on this floor.
All I want is to be left alone :-(
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLUeSf86v1E
Well, two days later he announced that he was back and he's been pushing out diaries ever since. Take these recent gems:
◠Dax loves summer and short shorts, but expressing that may be hazardous to his health and house. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0AxmNwNDEo
◠Dax is in love, and his romantic machinations to unleash her love for him are totally 100% successful so far!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UiILrALDX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKad9acwKDY
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/6166/Events/6166/WillFerre_Kevin_14209804_400.jpg.html?hint=group
His beard is awesome...any shackers have an awesome beard?
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it's a free (with optional paying for more content) mmorpg from france with isometric 2d graphics (anime style but nice) and turn based combat. looks pretty cool, anyone tried it yet?
http://www.dofus.com/
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WOW. She has to be one of the top 5 brunettes I've seen looking the way she does tonight.
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Woo I just scored a Feebas from the GTS! And all it cost me was a level 30 Cranidos. Now to plant some berries to make it evolve. What a great game!
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