tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68729842025-05-21T05:17:32.112-07:00Phoenix and Corben <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060976241/qid=1094524614/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-2386161-7076020?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846" title="See the reference">fistfight in heaven</a>.Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413309927621977196noreply@blogger.comBlogger861125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6872984.post-82302331561398769182015-10-28T17:52:00.001-07:002015-10-28T17:52:08.742-07:00

These are my observations as I watched it. Terrible CGI. Not a great acting start, but I assume these are all temps anyway. The exposition dump just keeps going. Dean Cain! "Earth didn't need another hero." Because no more crimes or disasters happen? What planet is this? Oh good, the platonic best friend that's in love with the main character. This overused trope shouldn't be a red flag

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Shortly after extolling the virtues of my phone-run life, while updating said phone, it crashed.But not all the way. While restarting Springboard (the interface), _that_ crashed, but the phone itself was still running. Now, the normal thing to do in this rare situation is a hard-restart; that is, hold the power button until the phone cycles power. However, my phone's power button has long since

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Recently, I had my 1TB Fantom external drive go belly up. It was my old storage drive, so it was mostly filled with media and installation files, not critical stuff I need every day. Nevertheless, I figured that it was long past time to set up the barest of redundant systems so that I would stop losing great swathes of stuff every time a drive died (because DRIVES DIE). I elected to go with a

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0th, The Fine Brothers. (Mostly about the flak YouTube earners got [due to jealousy], but also this:) How many people truly want to watch short form television style content inside the web? We’ll tell you how many. TONS. Hundreds of thousands, millions, but you know why they don’t watch your show? Because you have not built a connection to them, because you haven’t built a personal brand and

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So, I have sleep apnea, which means that I stop breathing in my sleep.I went through a sleep study, and got a CPAP. So I won't die in my sleep.But it wouldn't be a blog post if that's all that happened. ^_^My nose is all messed up (partly because of genetics, and partly possibly because of the bike accident three years ago). Recently, one side closed up and I can't really breathe through it.

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I've been working on my thesis again, having slacked off a lot the past few months. But having slacked off for so long, it's only recently that I discovered that I have misplaced one of my notebooks. That's pretty bad. But things get worse.Yesterday, I needed a bookmark from XP. I upgraded to Windows 7 in January and haven't really used XP much since then. But I use Zotero to manage my

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So, recently, Roger Ebert (whom, to be clear, I adore) once again declared that video games are not art, and CAN NEVER BE!Which is absurd. Of COURSE games can be art. Everything about Shadow of the Colossus is art, not just the fantastic visuals, not just the story, but even down to the controller itself! But it's clear that Ebert has never played SotC. (This, despite it being mentioned

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I was on Facebook today, and noticed that I had a friend request from Lauren Hudson (from April 8th, if that gives you an idea of how often I check Facebook. Which is never, actually, I was only on because I noticed a friend request from Ken). So, who is Lauren Hudson?I'm not sure.BUT, I saw that I had 15 mutual friends with her. So, I looked at that list, and they were predominantly people

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I can't believe I'm still awake at nearly midnight, as I got up around 3am. This is what happens when I get in the groove on the computer and lose all track of time. It's also how my sleep schedule gets all out of whack.Choices, choices. Get up early tomorrow (and be groggy all day, but have a normal sleeping schedule), OR sleep in (wake up refreshed, but slide my rhythms around until I'm up

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BECAUSE I keep forgetting what it's called, here's a post I can look for later. This morning I was trying to remember what it's called when someone takes an image, and you see a sequence of zooms, usually to a close-up of someone's face. Apparently, that's a Tenso.The word “tenso” is Portuguese for “tense”. This is a meme that spread through Brazilian blogs and forums in 2009, and consists of

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So, The Passing is still not out for the PC, despite being April 22nd for over 7 hours now. I should be happy that it's going to be free for me, as the XBOX360 version costs cashy money (an edict by Microsoft, because they don't want XBOX customers getting accustomed to getting things for free. Really.), but the XBOX crowd already has theirs. I imagine it can't possibly be more than a few more

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In my recent Magic and Not A Spiral posts, I used mouse rollovers to help illustrate the differences between two images. For anyone else who uses Blogger and wants to know how, here is a handy guide.First, Blogger doesn't (easily) allow Javascript, so this will be pure CSS. Second, I wanted the rollover code in the post to be as small and repeatable as possible. So, I used Tables (gasp!).There

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Good morning, world! I love getting up before the sun, especially that part where I can stalk around my apartment like a cat, seeing everything so clearly in just the ambient light. What I don't like is the fact that I live in Cheney and absolutely no stores are open right now. So I'm going to pass some time on the computer.First up, how do I UNSEE something? Somewhere along the line, I

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Following up on this article, which was shared in Reader.I wondered why it seemed to spiral in counter-clockwise. Dan suspected that it was the orientation of the corner diamonds, so I made a second image with the black and white squares reversed, which you can see below (mouse-over the original). Does it reverse the spiral for you?

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Content-Aware Fill is making the rounds. Here is yet another example video: Show/HideMwahahaAnd stunningly, it turns out that the basic technology (texture synthesis) has been around FOR A DECADE. That's right, nerds in the know were running magic in GIMP ten years before Adobe posted their sneak peak at CS5. The upcoming Photoshop with this magic isn't yet available, but the GIMP version is

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Seven years ago.

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Caught up on a bit of telly this evening, including the latest QI and Psych.On QI, there was the old canard about if you fired a bullet and dropped it simultaneously, which would hit the ground first?  The standard answer is, they would hit at the same time. Except, that&#39;s not strictly true.  They would essentially hit at the same time, but not precisely.  The fired bullet would hit ever so

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Just getting home from job training today. It was long (even though we got out early), but it was a lot of fun. It was mostly women, which was interesting, because they were all swooning over me. One of them even tried to hook me up with her 21-year-old daughter.However, now that I'm home, I've gotten a glimpse of what I look like in the mirror. See, I overslept this morning, and had to rush

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"I've got a story to tell you. It's a good one, too. Imagine, 1962, rural village of Kashasha, Tanzania. Girl's boarding school. Girl is sitting in class. She begins to laugh. The girl next to her, maybe to her left, hears her laugh and she begins to laugh. Across the classroom a third girl joins in, the teacher gets upset, but it's too late. Soon four girls, and eight -- the entire

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So, the latest Joss Whedon project has come to a close with the recent Dollhouse finale. Most of the loose ends were tied up, but one thing really bothered me: It's 10 years later, right? Wherefore does everyone look pretty much exactly the same as before? I mean, even down to HAIRSTYLE?People's looks change a lot in ten years. Here's a picture of me just five years ago:Now, compare that to

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It's Saturday, so of course I'm spending my morning playing video games.I was playing on the computer, and experienced a Blue Screen shutdown. :-(So, taking a break from the computer, I pick up my DS and play Rittai Picross for about an hour, and the battery dies. (The power indicator light supposedly changes color when this is going to happen, but being colorbind renders this warning void).

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I got a parking ticket today, my 2nd in recent memory (the other one was Nov. 4th). And of course, I blame Microsoft for this.See, I had never gotten a parking ticket before November 4th. In fact, I've been parking at meters for YEARS without getting a ticket. What has changed?My phone.Previously, I used a Nokia 6800. This was one of the early semi-smart phones (e-mail, limited web access,

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A small follow-up on my previous post, focusing on a subset.Why is Fleetwood Mac so underrepresented?

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It's the end of December, the end of the year. Let's talk about how fat I am. :-PLast year at this time, I weighed 244 pounds. This morning, I weighed 201 pounds.I have ~17% less mass than I did a year ago.Yay, me? ^_^I still have the rest of the day to lose that pesky last pound to get under 200. Anyone know which appendages can safely be removed from the human body? Preferably something I

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Follow me on this one, it gets twisty.So, Kris Straub (you know Kris, he makes Starslip) retweeted Brian Denham's "Only 364 shopping days until Christmas." tweet. I don't know Brian, but I glanced at his feed and saw that he had retweeted a Richard Dawkins post about "7 Reasons for Atheists to Celebrate the Holidays".Now, in that article, in reason #3 was the line "Axial tilt is the reason for

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