Shadow_Underground

Minecraft: Day One

2012-02-02T22:27:00.000-06:00

Daily Dose of WTF: Tennis Ball Up Against The Wall

2012-01-30T17:26:00.000-06:00

Love Minecraft Fanart

2012-01-27T14:07:00.000-06:00

Dreamcast Revival?

2012-01-24T02:16:00.000-06:00

Coolest fucking concept I've run across today. Someone did a little 3D modeling and did a mock up of what they think the Dreamcast console would look like today if it had been continued by Sega. Have a peek for yourself: Dreamcast mockup.

Minecraft Paradise

2012-01-23T02:10:00.000-06:00

Cell Phone Booster

2012-01-20T21:23:00.000-06:00

Looking for a good idea on schematics for how to get this booster system set up and running. So far my idea is to take the home/office booster and get a pair of yagi antennas to help with reception.

Plan to mount one of the antennas outside on a pole so I can break the twenty feet rule when it comes to the installation. Regardless, going to be expensive and my video game fund is going to take a bit of a hit.

Blackout

2012-01-18T16:27:00.000-06:00

Reddit's down, been a fairly productive day because of it. Going without a favorite site for a day is no big deal when it is for a good cause, to raise awareness of the bullshit that SOPA and PIPA are.

Day Two

2012-01-05T03:19:00.001-06:00

This diet is going to be harder than expected. My cheese fries are taunting me.

Welcome to 2012

2012-01-01T06:46:00.000-06:00

A new year, and the beginning of a year long reign of terror. Wait, that's not until 2013. Till then, amuse yourself with cat videos while I bide my time.

Arcade Stick: Layout Chosen

2011-12-30T21:24:00.000-06:00

Finally decided on what layout to pick for the arcade stick. Going to go with one of my original ideas and include pretty much everything that I need on it to play 90% of all arcade games released on the market.

Sure, it jumps the cost up a bit but it will give me the practice I need for when I put pretty much the same pieces on my control panel for my MAME cabinet when I build it at a later date.

New Years Woes

2011-12-29T21:46:00.000-06:00

Sat down to do my finances and realized it really isn't a good idea to go out on Saturday for a night out drinking with friends. If I want to be able to afford bills and the first pieces to my arcade stick for my computer that is.

I can always plan a night out later on, bills and my project come first.

Unity Is In Another Castle

2011-11-22T04:00:00.001-06:00

I wrote awhile back why I was finished with Unity, and I even gave it another shot with the release of Ubuntu 11.10. I ended up going back to KDE very quickly.

Now, I have jumped to another desktop manager and like how lightweight it is. I now run XFCE on my old laptop simply due to the performance I managed to squeeze out of this old thing with it. I think Xubuntu is going to be my flavor of choice for some time.

Well, at least until they pull something stupid like Unity has.

Casino Lucky Streak

2011-11-21T22:24:00.001-06:00

Hit a bit of a lucky streak this weekend, but it dropped off on Sunday so I had to call it quits. Started with $11 on Saturday night to enjoy myself a bit at Downstream Casino, walked out with $13.

Sunday morning I made the trip to Wyandotte Casino, joined the players club then walked out an hour later with $27. Later that Night I repeated my luck by walking out again $10 up from what I started at.

Decided to take a risk and played one more time, ended up losing all $22 I brought in with me to put me at a final count of $15 for the weekend. Not bad, but I should have called it quits just a little sooner. Lessons learned, I suppose.

Kongregate

2011-08-16T04:41:00.000-05:00

Been spending a lot of time on Kongregate recently. Forgot how much fun some of the flash games are, and several of them are updated by the developers on a fairly regular basis. Check it out if you want a good site to waste some time on, look for me in the Ant Hill chatroom where I hang out most of the time.

Kongregate

Moving Time

2011-06-12T11:38:00.001-05:00

Finally time to pack things up and ship them out. Also means I'm gonna have a lot of profiles to update with a new address

Bored Today

2011-06-05T18:39:00.000-05:00

Think I may sit down and start randomly joining Minecraft servers.

It's either that or work on getting Linux Mint set up on this laptop. Hopefully a pain free process, should be if it is based off of Ubuntu. Last distro I tried that wasn't Ubuntu was Arch and I never could get it to install properly. Probably a configuration error somewhere.

Time to load up Virtualbox and do a test run on the install process before I dive in. Oh, and I better not forget to bring my towel.

Android Quick Tip

2011-06-04T22:38:00.000-05:00

For those of you with a rooted Android phone, you should look into getting yourself set with custom MTD partitions. I just finished editing my system and cache partitions to double the amount of space I have available for storing apps and their settings.

Take a look here for the downloads and information.

To prevent yourself from dealing with the headache of the Market not downloading apps, set your cache partition to 18 and make sure you download at least version 1.5.8 of Firerat's tool.

Unity 3D (Why I Am Jumping Ship)

2011-06-02T16:47:00.000-05:00

Ubuntu has been my distro of choice for Linux for many years now, but I may be jumping ship with the prevelence of Unity that has replaced GNOME. Unity 3D creates dead zones on my screen where I can't click in that area, and Unity 2D isn't all that appealing.

For the moment I am just using the "Classic Desktop" login which loads up GNOME, but how many more releases will have this option? I am hoping that a new variant of Ubuntu pops up that ships with GNOME as the default again like Kubuntu ships with KDE or Xubuntu ships with XFCE.

Another viable option is to look at another distro based off of Ubuntu, Linux Mint. Been wanting to try it out anyway and this gives me enough reason to make the jump.

Phone Audio Solved

2011-05-30T18:36:00.000-05:00

This is a problem I had been having with my HTC Hero for some time now. Cyanogenmod 7 introduced a new little glitch that effectively made it impossible to listen to any sort of audio through a headset. Plug one in and the volume gets all distorted and crackly. Even at low volume the audio has annoying clicking noises.

The solution is actually really simple: delete the system app DSP Manager. Seriously. Do that and reboot the phone. Bam, clear audio through the headset jack at full volume again. Thanks XDA Forums for the solution.

HTC Hero Android Phone (Sprint)

Dedicated To

2011-05-28T21:56:00.001-05:00

Sitting outside listening to a dj cycle through this collection of mixes. Earlier in the night he played the song that I dedicate yearly to my friends. At least the ones that were lost. Keep playing the music dj, I know everyone can use right now.

Schedule of Visits

2011-05-25T21:05:00.000-05:00

Word has reached me that the religious zealots of Westboro Baptist Church are planning a protest in Joplin. Lovely, just what I'd like to see amidst the tornado damage. At least I've read on Facebook a bunch of people planning a peaceful counter protest to keep them away from the damaged section of town.

Come Sunday, we will have a visitor. President Obama is showing up to pay his respects to the 125 confirmed dead, a respectable gesture from him. I'll see if I can attend the proceedings and snap a few photos.

Joplin Curfew

2011-05-25T07:05:00.000-05:00

Starting today, a curfew has been imposed on Joplin, MO. It goes from 9 PM to 6 AM so graveyard workers like myself will need to drop in at one of the four locations set up to get a permit. If you are a resident in one of the damaged areas, someone should come around and give you a permit. Make sure to get one, you get caught driving around without one during the curfew and your ass gets fined.

This is another taste of martial law, Joplin, so get used to it while we work on repairing the damage from the tornados.

Oh, and you are better off buying canned/bottled soda than trying to get it as a fountain drink anywhere in Joplin while this "Boil Law" or whatever the hell it is called is in effect. The water has impurities in it and it will be awhile before it is safe to drink straight from the tap.

No New Tornados in Joplin

2011-05-25T03:21:00.001-05:00

Heavy rain and winds for a good portion of the night. All is quiet right now, but more thunder storms heading this way.

Tornado In Joplin

2011-05-24T19:35:00.000-05:00

So May 22nd a tornado ripped through the center of Joplin. I was fortunate enough to not be anywhere near it, but several people I know were. Want to get an idea what it was like? I found this video someone recorded while huddled in the back of a gas station.

LASO: Long Night of Solace

2011-04-05T17:47:00.000-05:00

Use the infinite respawning marines near the beginning of the level to fill up on rocket ammo. That will make the first part of the Covenant carrier part a lot easier.

Also, Needle Rifle is your best friend throughout the mission. At the very end when you are defending the Pelican with Jorge, do not let the gun on the front of it get destroyed. You can actually crouch next to it and wiggle around then move backwards while holding X you can actually control gun and be impervious to damage. Otherwise, have fun with the Ultras that come pouring out.