Stay Tuned While I Label Everything Else In The Apt

Just need to clear up a few things around here.

(Yeah I know I’m copying a Far Side cartoon. Kreblog had it taped to our wall for years.)

Is It Nuts To Put Windows On A Mac For Just One Game?

Wow check out this concept art from the new Bionic Commando game.

Bionic Commando Concept art (Set)

I would pay good money to have this one framed on my wall.

If it was just a little bit clearer it would be my wallpaper right now. Oh, and the medic-bots look awesome too.
Thanks Lost @ Capcom, I eat this stuff right up.

Oh, and the trailer for Bionic Commando: Rearmed is on the BC site.

Please release that in the Windows version. (Oh, I whole hearted plan on making up a desktop at work just to play this game.)

(Via io9)

Zip Should Be A Dead File Format By Now

I’ve said it before, but it keeps happening.

Why do people still feel compelled to still compress file downloads?

If it’s a .zip the compression usually only shaves off about a MB or two, so why bother?

There are other compression tools out there, like .rar and .7z, that do a great job of getting file sizes down, but they then once you get the file you go, “What the hell is a .7z?” You then end up spending the next 10 minutes looking for for a program that can open it.

Then of course, when you go to clean up your computer a month later, you decide you don’t need that program anymore. You delete it, only to need to download it again half a year later.

Listen, I know you want your files to be small and quick to download, but when I’m upgrading a computer at work and Dell is giving me a 75 MB file to download (and that’s on the small side for them), then I think it’s OK for your 15 MB file to be downloaded without compression.

If I’m willing to download and install your program, and then install a program to decompress that, then it’s safe to assume I have a high speed connection by now.

Random Tip

Bring a bag with you to those big stores that stop and check you receipt on the way out.

Walking away from the check out, I stash whatever it is into my messenger bag, and I get to walk on out while everyone else is stuck waiting for the one dude to scribble on the receipts.

Saves some time for a pointless practice anyway.

RSS

Hey I just wanted to pint everyone to the new RSS feed.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheyCantAllBeWinners

I know WordPress has a built-in RSS feed, but I’ve always like using FeedBurner feeds better.

Not only do allow me to track my stats better, but if I decide to change the domain around I don’t have to go around tell you guys to update your feeds later. I can change it all in the back end.

So go ahead and stick that in your Google Reader.

A few Notes After Watching TV All Day Sunday

Doctor Who:

• I think last season was my favorite season so far. Rose was good and all, but Agyeman’s “Martha” actually seems like she is as smart as they write her to be. I think it says something when I have all the episodes of a show on DVD, yet I still stop and watch them when the reruns come on. I can’t wait until BCC shows “Blink.” Best episode of the new series.

Comedy Central’s “Stand-up Showdown”:

• I was surprised how easy I got caught up watching stand-up, and how much I missed the early days of Comedy Central when they would play stand-up specials all the time.
• I ended up sitting there for about three hours or so watching them count down past great comedians like Mitch Hedberg, Demetri Martin, and Kyle Cease (my new favorite comic by-the-way). Finally we get to the top 5. I’m sitting there thinking, “Man, we passed a lot of great people. The top 5 has to be the cream of the crop.”
• So we get Lewis Black at number 5. OK, that’s cool. He’s definitely derives to be in the top 5.
• Number 4 we get Frank Caliendo. Alright, he’s funny, but he has the same problem all impressionists have. Getting from one person to another. Still, he does this well, and his show is pretty highly rated so I can see how he got voted here.
• At number 3 we have Lisa Landry. Never saw her before, and she’s alright I guess. Mostly just a bunch of, “I’m fat, dumb, and from the south jokes.” I wouldn’t have put her so high, but she made me chuckle a few times.
• Alright, now we’re at the final 2. Number 2 is Josh Sneed. Another one who I’ve never seen before. Again, funny (the farting on Jessica Simpson thing was good), but I wouldn’t have voted him this high. I’m starting to see where my taste in comedy varies from what most of the people who voted must be.
• So here we are. Number 1. I just sat there for hours actually wondering who the top spot goes to. I’ve seen some of my favorite comedians go by rather early, but I’m still holding out that the top pick is someone good. (At least I know that since he was 11, it’s not Dane Cook.) I’m also wondering that since it’s 9 and they have an hour long Dane Cook special at 10, that they have an hour to fill. I figured that since all the previous spots were half-hour spots that they would just show 2 of the winner’s back-to-back. What happens at 9 o’clock? They play the Jeff Dunham special that they just made and aired at the end of last year. Jeff Dunham? Really? After all that the winner is, “…a woozle and his name is Peanut?” The guy is alright I guess, but don’t have me going along all this time, just for an excuse to air the special you just produced again. If Jeff Dunham actually won in a viewer vote over the likes of Hedberg, Martin, Cease, and Black, then I really have to wonder about just who’s watching Comedy Central.

• Needless to say I turned off Dunham.

Simpsons:

• Actually a decent episode for once. Although (if I may be geeky) it was a level 2 retconning, the story was funny, and it was fun to listen to Homer’s versions of 90’s songs. (I liked “Margarine” myself.)

Law and Order: Criminal Intent:

• Wow, not only was there an episode based on Lonelygirl15 where she gets kidnapped and held for ransom, but there was also an episode based off of a show like Saved By The Bell where the “Screech” character gets killed, and the “Zach” character is involved with the Albanian mob.

       Has Dick Wolf been reading my dream Journal?

Awesome Progressive Rock Band Name

Cleveland Death Ray

Yep, new blog, old blog topics.

(via Boing Boing)

Bowie Song

Because it’s Friday:

At Last, a $20,000 Cup of Coffee – New York Times

At Last, a $20,000 Cup of Coffee – New York Times

Look, I’m a stickler for a good cup of coffee. Hell, I walk 7 blocks every morning just to get cup of Oren’s, but this seems like one of those, “emperor’s new clothes,” situation where the coffee only taste better because for that money it should taste better.

I’ll have to make my way over to Cafe Grumpy and see it it’s actually worth it.

Israel Eyes Thinking Machines to Fight ‘Doomsday’ Missile Strikes (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com

Israel Eyes Thinking Machines to Fight ‘Doomsday’ Missile Strikes (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com

Wow, just wow.

Funny how I had the same, “How do you say “Skynet” in Hebrew, again?” thought in my head when I first read the headline.

Didn’t know Miles Dyson was Israeli, did you?

BTW, does anyone find it kinda creepy that they guy who designed Skynet has the same name as the guy who makes futuristic looking vacuums?

“The vacuums came online on August 29th, 1997. Judgment day.”