| Achhg! Zombies! |
[May. 6th, 2009|09:53 am] |
Hey any of you who are into XBLA games should check out the new Frozen Codebase game Zombie Wranglers! I did a little music for it. I haven't played it yet but it -looks- fantastic.
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| San Francisco here I come |
[Mar. 22nd, 2009|08:59 pm] |
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I'm gonna be in San Francisco Tues-Fri night for the Game Developer's Conference. My schedule and mobility will both be limited but if any of you San Francsiconians wanna try to grab dinner or something lemme know. |
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| Haha |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|09:47 am] |
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Dick Cheney looks just like Old Man Potter from It's a Wonderful Life in that wheel chair. Ordinarily I wouldn't mock an old man in a wheelchair, but I'll make an exception here. They said he injured himself somehow - I missed it. Did he trip on his evil? |
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| Chuck's first Madison Invasion of 2009 |
[Jan. 2nd, 2009|09:57 am] |
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Hey Madisonians - here I come again. I'll be in town the week of the 12th (through the following weekend). Anything fun going on that week? |
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| Beware the blue pajama ninjas |
[Dec. 24th, 2008|01:45 pm] |
There's a James Bond movie marathon on TV and I just saw "You Only Live Twice".
Astronauts + spies + blue ninjas + russians + foxy japanese chicks + rocket launching cigarettes = this movie. Why Hollywood hasn't properly exercised all of the potential of this formula in more movies is beyond me.
also I'm eating cookies. |
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| Heroes |
[Dec. 16th, 2008|01:00 pm] |
OK once a show has earned my loyalty by being initially awesome I tend to be pretty forgiving if the quality dips a little (for instance I watched Stargate SG1 to the bitter end), so I've been just fine with this season of Heroes. But last night's episode was just too much. Shark. Jumped. Has nobody has made a goddamn photocopy of that goddamn formula? In that lab full of multi-million dollar gear there's not a freaking copier?
Anyway I'm holding out cuz these are still the eps from the writers that got shit-canned. Hopefully by the end of March or so the material from the new writers will get the show back on track.
-- Be warned, the replies have become a bit spoiler-y -- |
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| Join the old |
[Nov. 27th, 2008|11:39 am] |
Happy B-day ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) office_ninja! Try not to put yourself into a diabetic coma with all the food today! |
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| Veteran's Day |
[Nov. 11th, 2008|09:37 am] |
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Though I'm not the biggest fan of war, I've got a ton of respect to anyone who has the balls (or ovaries) to put their lives on the line for their country. So a sincere "Happy Veteran's Day" to all the vets out there. Here's hoping the country's new leadership will treat your fidelity with more gravity, and not think of you as a tool to carry out arbitrary political and economic agendas. |
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| Troika!!!! |
[Nov. 8th, 2008|01:48 pm] |
Gears of War 2 gets many thumbs up from me so far. I ran out to Best Buy Friday morning to grab a copy, worrying that they might run out. While that fear ended up being unfounded, I was rewarded for my early-birdness with a GOW2 hat and shirt. Hooray schwag!
The game has more of a story to it, and some new additions to the gameplay mechanics that are pretty cool - like grabbing a wounded enemy and using them as a shield, and the "rock worms" you can lure onto the battlefield and use as cover. It might actually be -more- fun than the first game, dare I say. And it's pretty - the upgrades they did to the graphics engine pay off.
Also the guy who does the grizzled voice of the main character in the game is John DiMaggio aka Bender.
I would cry tears of joy if he yelled "Bite my shiny metal ass!" during a battle. |
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| Carpet replacement |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|06:40 pm] |
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Can anyone recommend good people to replace some carpet? Anyone have any idea how much it'll cost to get the carpet replaced in like a 200 sq ft room? |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|09:33 am] |
I think I was even more emotionally tied up in this race than I'd let myself realize. It was a really emotional night for thairishkat and I.
The only other time I've felt this much a part of my country was right after 9-11. This time it's for a positive reason, thank god. I'm deeply, deeply happy. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|10:02 pm] |
Best.
Birthday present.
Ever. |
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| Maybe my bias is coloring my perception here but... |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|02:55 pm] |
I lived in an extremely liberal place, surrounded by extremely liberal people for many years. I've heard people (myself included) say some pretty critical stuff of GW Bush and other conservatives over the years, maybe not all of which was entirely fair.
But man. None of that came even close to some of the vitriolic hateful crap I've heard people level at Obama around here. I'm not talking about videos I've seen on the internets or stuff I've heard 3rd hand - I'm talking about people I know personally saying these things right in front of me. Kathleen pointed out to me that the worst stuff we've heard liberals say about conservatives pale in comparison to what we've heard this year.
In fairness, we also know several people in Baton Rouge that are supporting Obama - which takes considerably more huevos to do here than it does in Madison. It's not the entire city, but man there is a fringe right-wing element here the likes of which I've never seen up close. |
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| Can't... take it.... any... more... |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|10:24 am] |
Ggggggggggnnnnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! I want results! Goddamnit I want some irresponsible premature assertions based on shadey incomplete exit polls!
I'm
going
to
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| On voting |
[Nov. 3rd, 2008|11:11 am] |
At the risk of being tagged an elitist, I'll say that I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the people on my lj friends list are pretty intelligent folks. I won't condescend to any of you (nor would I to anyone) by trying to tell you whether or not you should vote or who you should vote for. This being my journal, however, I will share with you why I vote, and why I whole heartedly support Obama. If you don't want to read it, don't.
My days of being a wide-eyed idealist are long over. I harbor no illusions about our political system and our politicians. I find the realities frustrating and disappointing just like many of you do. Still my ideals, however tempered, are not dead.
As (I hope) I've grown, I try to filter my ideals through the lens of the real world. I try to think of ways to translate my beliefs into actions that might have some hope of bringing those ideals closer to reality. This means engaging in compromises - which I recognize is a landscape fraught with moral peril. Lesser evils are chosen. Sacrifices are deemed necessary. Matters of black and white become matters of degree. One never knows where exactly, in that great big gray area, one might completely lose the thread of the ideals they started out with. I cling to those threads as tightly as I can, like a lifeline.
It often stands in unpleasant contrast to the black-and-white fairy-tale view of the world I had in my wide-eyed idealist days. But it is the world, and I believe very strongly that the only way to make a difference is to engage in the realities even if I don't like them. All I can do is try as hard as I can to do so in a way that is the most in keeping with my ideals.
Which brings me to why I'm more excited about Barak Obama than I ever have been about any other political candidate. His campaign is the closest thing to a positive, honest and hopeful campaign I've seen in my lifetime. Oh, he's a politician to be sure. He exaggerates, even lies in some cases, just like every politician since the beginning of time.
He plays the game, no doubt of that. But what I see that I get excited about is that he is -shifting- the game a little bit. He's shifting it slightly away from negative campaigning, he's shifting it away from the fear mongering and the character attacks. He's shifting it slightly towards ideals - towards integrity and hope and intelligence. And he's done so while actually being effective. This is what amazes and excites me. If there is any path to making our political system resemble what it's meant to be, this is the path. It's not the entire trip, mind you, but it is a step. I believe if we recognize and support the steps towards where we really want to go, we have some hope of actually getting there. Or getting closer, at least.
So that, and the myriad of political ideals of mine that he is in line with, is why I already voted. If you decide you don't want to vote I'll respectfully disagree with you. But I hope you will. |
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| Punkins |
[Oct. 29th, 2008|11:32 am] |
Behold our pumpkins! Or don't.
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| Ow my feet |
[Oct. 27th, 2008|10:12 am] |
Last year we went to one night of the Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans to catch MIA and Rage Against the Machine. It was fun - but we learned our lesson about trying to run down and back for an event like that.
This year we decided we'd do it right. We saved up our pennies and booked a hotel room and bought tickets to go for two (of the three) nights of the festival this year.
Details on the weekend below the cut, yo. Sorta long. Abandon all hope ye who blah blah.
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