Month: October 2007
TF2 Costumes!
Someone made TF2-themed Halloween costumes!
I’m not going to embed, the shots are too big and I would anticipate page breakage. You can view them here.
EDIT: Someone else did the same thing. They actually built the heavy’s gun this time. Yay.
Forum
I took down the forum. It was dead and just being used by link spam bots. I still have the MySQL, I’ll back that up in case resurrecting it ever becomes an attractive option.
Global Drum Project
On Saturday I experienced the most amazing performance of my life. We went to see Global Drum Project, a band of five individuals who use rhythm to tremendous effect. There were many moments when my jaw literally hung open in awe.
The performance started with two of the performers drumming on driftwood – fossilized roots. There were a total of four drummers and one tech guy. The tech guy was on the back of the stage and edited the audio from the drummers in real-time to continue loops they were playing at their request. For example, the drummer in the middle played a riff on his xylophone, and then after nodding at the tech guy, was able to within a few seconds play a duet with himself. This also allowed sound to continue playing when someone walked off the stage or stopped playing for a rest from the two-hour long drumming marathon.
They would use vocals occasionally, and there was a segment where one drummer would look at the others and vocalize, and they would copy it on their drums. One guy had this awesome talking drum, which was very entertaining. Lighting was also used to good effect. We got their CD. This was one of the two times where I’ve sincerely given something a standing ovation. The other time was a performance of Little Shop of Horrors at the Wharton. We bought their CD.
Oh no!
This looks bad. Source.
Orange Box Review
Zero Punctuation has an Orange Box review up!
Valve’s Team Fortress 2 Linux binaries. I can’t run a server natively because for some reason Valve has required an obscure FCMOV processor compatibility on Windows but not on Linux! Argh! I could run it under Wine if I really need to but that’s annoying…
Portal Madness!
It seems the Companion Cube is making quite the impact. The kind on magnitudes of desktop backgrounds and freezers. I should make my own Companion Cube…
Hot!
Up until these past few days, I’ve had only reputable scientists’ verdicts and indisputable scientific data and graphs. Now I have my own experience. Global warming is really happening, people. Is it normal to have to run the AC and sweat while mowing the lawn in OCTOBER?!
Al Gore, you were right, we’re sorry. You got elected, just not inaugurated. Get some position of governmental power and turn the US and the world around before it’s too late!
EDIT: Hehe.
That’s the Gap?!
Check out this graph! (Source) This is what the Comcast-AT&T duopoly is doing the country! We need more options! People say “vote with your dollars” but we can’t: it’s either dial-up (shudder) or Comcast or AT&T, and maybe some other company if you’re very, very lucky. Some of us, such as at my dad’s house, don’t even have the option of AT&T and are forced to either use Comcast (which sucks) or find some other obscure connection.
When you do the math, you’ll find that according to that graph, Japan averages $16.50 for a 61Mb/s connection, and the US averages $16 for a 4.8Mb/s connection. This is bad.
WE NEED AN INTERNET CONNECTION OVERHAUL!